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Did you know that the 17th-century German hymn " Was Gott tut, das ist wohlgetan " has been described as "one of the most exquisite strains of pious resignation ever written"?
Did you know that Canadian Football League player Randy Ambrosie helped oversee the league's expansion into the United States ?
Did you know that despite the loss of Trunajaya 's rebel court at the Battle of Surabaya , his forces captured and sacked the Mataram royal court one month later?
Did you know that Chris Cate is the first Asian American to serve as a San Diego City Council member in decades?
Did you know that a protostar in the Sh2-297 nebula is driving an outflow of gas more massive than the Sun?
Did you know that suffragist Jane Maria Strachey was born on a ship off the Cape of Good Hope in 1840?
Did you know that the first female British professor of Greek, Dorothy Tarrant , analysed Plato 's style to conclude that he did not write the Socratic dialogue on beauty ?
Did you know that the release of Wipeout HD was delayed for a few months because it had failed epilepsy tests ?
Did you know that Yu Zigao 's expedition against the Dutch on Penghu Island was responsible for their colonization of Taiwan ?
Did you know that the 2015 film Ringan , set against the backdrop of farmers' suicides in India , won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Marathi ?
Did you know that Christian ethicist Henlee Hulix Barnette was investigated by the FBI after meeting Nikita Khrushchev and marching with Martin Luther King ?
Did you know that the Romans built a temple possibly dedicated to a boar cult within the prehistoric Chanctonbury Ring hillfort ?
Did you know that in 2016, footballer Dries Mertens became the first player to score seven goals in two matches in Serie A since Antonio Valentín Angelillo (1958)?
Did you know that Blewburton Hill in Oxfordshire features unusual lynchets of unknown age and function?
Did you know that civil rights activist Theodora Lacey helped lead the campaign which, in 1964, resulted in Teaneck, New Jersey , becoming the first town in the United States to vote for school integration ?
Did you know that the Peñol de Cerquín , a Lenca fortress in southern Honduras, successfully resisted the Spanish conquistadores for months?
Did you know that Peter Van Hoesen , an American Civil War deserter, was paid $300 to enlist by a drafted man, and performed a Medal of Honor -worthy deed at Fort Fisher in 1864 for which he got no credit?
Did you know that when Siegfried Wagner wrote the libretto for his opera An allem ist Hütchen schuld! , he used themes from many fairy tales?
Did you know that Annora Brown was commissioned to paint 200 Albertan wildflowers, some of which are now extinct?
Did you know that the 2014 annexation of Crimea by " little green men " was typical of a long history of Russian military deception dating back to the Battle of Kulikovo in 1380?
Did you know that the planned Toluca–Mexico City commuter rail suffered four construction accidents in a three-month period in 2016?
Did you know that Liza Ferschtman used seven different violins for her "tour de force" performance of the Rosary Sonatas ?
Did you know that Roz Chast 's graphic memoir Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant? , about her parents in their final years, was No. 1 New York Times Bestseller in 2014?
Did you know that Mike Watt chose the Italian band name Il Sogno del Marinaio in honor of his mother's Italian heritage and father's maritime service?
Did you know that Susanna Elm ' s book Virgins of God draws on little-known sources such as the Letter to the Virgins Who Went to Jerusalem ?
Did you know that proper use of engineering controls should prevent contaminants from being excessively deposited on sticky mats at a laboratory's exits?
Did you know that George W. Hooker captured a Confederate troop detachment, consisting of 116 men and their colonel, all by himself?
Did you know that Canadian football player Richard Alston both gained and lost a starting role with the Edmonton Eskimos due to dropped passes?
Did you know that the most effective way to control a hazard is to eliminate it ?
Did you know that Sidney Howe Short produced the first electric motor without gears that operated a streetcar directly from its built-in armature?
Did you know that Karl Kessler 's 1874 description of the Balkhash perch as a new species was based on specimens collected on Alexander von Schrenk 's expedition to Turkestan in 1842?
Did you know that though the onion thrips is tiny, it is the most serious insect pest attacking onion crops in the tropics?
Did you know that Susannah Fox , the U.S. government's former chief health technology executive , cited the maker movement as a promising source of future healthcare innovation?
Did you know that Free Radio presenter Andy Goulding thought that " Scared of the Dark " by Steps should have been the United Kingdom's entry for the Eurovision Song Contest 2017 ?
Did you know that although Thomas Hjalmar Westgård was born and raised in Norway, he competes internationally in cross-country skiing for Ireland?
Did you know that Fulham Refuge was the "most distinctively feminine of the early convict prisons"?
Did you know that the 1991 mayoral election in West Palm Beach was the city's first direct election for mayor since 1919?
Did you know that in 1994, the fantasy novel The Kingdom of Kevin Malone by Suzy McKee Charnas won the Mythopoeic Society Award in the Children's Literature category?
Did you know that Robert Lockhart Hobson compiled catalogues of the British Museum 's English pottery and porcelain?
Did you know that the Mayiladuthurai–Coimbatore Jan Shatabdi Express is the first train in South India to use solar-powered coaches?
Did you know that basketball player LaMelo Ball once scored 92 points in a single game, prompting Charles Barkley to criticize the way he did it?
Did you know that Hans Larwin painted Soldat und Tod in 1917 when he was the official war painter for the Austria-Hungary dual monarchy ?
Did you know that fossils from the Paleocene period have been found near Saunders Creek, Alberta , including an upper molar from a possible pantodont ?
Did you know that the voice of Hawaiian soprano Nani Alapai was compared to the music of the singing snails ?
Did you know that a Taiwanese religious movement teaching feng shui and I Ching since 1984 now has around 300,000 members?
Did you know that the American Leonie Turpeau, the Nicaraguan Maymie de Mena , and the Jamaican Madame Aiken were the same person?
Did you know that in the upcoming film LAbyrinth , Johnny Depp portrays a detective investigating the murders of Tupac Shakur and The Notorious B.I.G. ?
Did you know that Denver , Colorado, philanthropist Helen Bonfils inherited US$14 million from her father and US$10 million from her mother?
Did you know that Lutheran children's educator Magdalena Heymair was the first woman to have her works listed as heretical in the Index Librorum Prohibitorum ?
Did you know that the United States gave nuclear weapons to Britain as part of Project E ?
Did you know that Undurti Narasimha Das provided evidence that gamma-linolenic acid inhibited the progress of human gliomas ?
Did you know that gridiron football player Ronnie Amadi played alongside his brother, Donnie Amadi, in high school and college?
Did you know that Max Reger recorded some of his 52 Chorale Preludes, Op. 67 , on the Welte Philharmonic organ ?
Did you know that Mary Ivy Burks has been called the "mother of Alabama wilderness"?
Did you know that an AT&T Corporation Project Office in North Carolina was built with rubber plumbing?
Did you know that Albert Horne conducted Gershwin's Porgy and Bess for the Internationale Maifestspiele Wiesbaden , with the chorus of the Cape Town Opera and the Wiesbaden orchestra ?
Did you know that Nancy Run in Northampton County, Pennsylvania , is named after an old fortune teller?
Did you know that Japanese voice actress Miyu Tomita was a member of her school's manga research club?
Did you know that the Angolan African dormouse usually dwells in trees, but has been found in the roof of a hut and in an old beehive?
Did you know that in the mid-1800s, French scientist Félix Archimède Pouchet believed air itself was able to generate life?
Did you know that Bob Dylan 's " Nothing Was Delivered " has inspired interpretations ranging from a failed drug deal to Judas Iscariot 's betrayal of Jesus ?
Did you know that Shyam Swarup Agarwal studied the genetic effects of the Bhopal gas tragedy ?
Did you know that a mountain fortress called Orange One was built for use by the President of the United States in emergency situations?
Did you know that the mezzo-soprano Iris Vermillion , who became known for Mozart roles with Harnoncourt in 1988, received a prize for her portrayal of Schoeck's Penthesilea at the Semperoper 20 years later?
Did you know that Mendip Hospital in Somerset was built in 1848 for 350 patients, but became crowded within a few years of opening?
Did you know that the Day of Potsdam was used by the Nazis to symbolize continuity with German history?
Did you know that the Sack of Shamakhi was used as the casus belli by the Russian Empire in order to launch the Russo-Persian War of 1722–1723 ?
Did you know that 50 years after a mural by Fay E. Davis depicting Native Americans in battle was installed in the post office in Oglesby, Illinois , a janitor claimed it was pornographic?
Did you know that the unroofing of hundreds of homes by Cyclone Althea in December 1971 prompted Queensland to overhaul its state-wide building codes?
Did you know that the porch of Clapton Court in Somerset is two centuries older than the rest of the house?
Did you know that in 1938, Georg Thurmair co-published the hymnal Kirchenlied , which had an ecumenical approach and became the germ cell for a common German Catholic hymnal?
Did you know that the Micronesian imperial pigeon barks, moans, and coos?
Did you know that Bonnie Burnard 's 1999 debut novel, A Good House , won the Scotiabank Giller Prize ?
Did you know that the phonograph and gramophone company Edison Bell was required to use Edison 's name?
Did you know that Abraham Lincoln probably named his horse Old Bob to differentiate it from his son, " Young Bob "?
Did you know that in Operation Hurricane , an atomic bomb was exploded in the hull of HMS Plym ?
Did you know that although Parmenian is considered by some historians to be the most important Donatist writer of his day, none of his works survive?
Did you know that Petra Hřebíčková was named Best Actress in a Play at the 2008 Thalia Awards ?
Did you know that the original Nakatsu Castle was destroyed in a fire in 1877, and the current structure was built in 1964?
Did you know that Canadian football player Jeff Almon was drafted by the Calgary Stampeders after leaving a favourable impression on coach Mike Benevides , whom he happened to be seated near on a flight?
Did you know that TLC rapper Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes wrote two verses for the song " Kick Your Game ", recapping a dialogue between herself and someone who was trying to flirt but did not "pass the cleverness test"?
Did you know that after the disappearance of Dora Bloch , Britain cut all diplomatic ties with Uganda?
Did you know that in 17th-century French medicine , hospitals were not staffed by doctors, but mostly by sisters from the Daughters of Charity ?
Did you know that in 1945, Lieutenant James B. Thayer and his platoon liberated the Gunskirchen Lager concentration camp , saving thousands of Jewish and political prisoners from starvation?
Did you know that the Somerset building Wraxall Court was a house for hundreds of years before becoming a convalescent home, then student residences and then a private house again?
Did you know that Canadian football player Jim Ambrose collapsed during a game and later died due to inflammation of the brain ?
Did you know that while exploring whether a person's name affects the job they choose , Don Celender wrote to a dentist named Toothman and a rectal surgeon named Butts?
Did you know that the family of Yue Yi-chin , a Chinese flying ace of the Second Sino-Japanese War , claim to be descended from the Song dynasty general and folk hero Yue Fei ?
Did you know that the top-three finishers in the 2010 Pepsi Max 400 all drove Chevrolets ?
Did you know that Therese Benedek submitted to a five-month training analysis under an associate of Freud before embarking on her own career in psychoanalysis ?
Did you know that the Church of Scientology used espionage, front groups, private detectives, and over 2,500 lawsuits to gain tax exemption in the United States ?
Did you know that Euclidean space can be completely filled without overlaps by copies of any plesiohedron , a type of convex shape whose known examples have up to 38 sides?
Did you know that Richard Nixon and his longtime valet, Manuel "Manolo" Sanchez , sometimes communicated using "words that only the two of them understood"?
Did you know that according to local lore, Texarkana 's Ace of Clubs House was built with US$10,000 won in a game of poker with an ace of clubs ?
Did you know that Charmian Gooch 's investigation into the Cambodian timber trade deprived Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge regime of US$90 million a year?
Did you know that a new electrical substation in Seattle will feature a dog park, a theater, a walking path, and public art?
Did you know that Théophile Schuler illustrated Verne , Hugo , and an alphabet for children?
Did you know that Beacon Hill , on the South Downs in West Sussex , supports the remains of a Bronze Age hillfort, an Anglo-Saxon burial mound, and a late 18th-century telegraph station?
Did you know that a hat-trick was taken during Phillip Gillespie 's first-class debut as a cricket umpire?
Did you know that despite the Reich Ministry of Transport running trains to extermination camps during the Holocaust , the US later ruled some of their personnel only had "lukewarm" connections to the Nazi Party?
Did you know that crossword compiler William Lutwiniak was promoted to sergeant the same day he joined the army?
Did you know that Birdy , the first feature film partially shot with the Skycam camera system, was described by a reviewer as "a heavy adult drama about best friends and the after-effects of war"?
Did you know that gunmen of Mexican drug lord Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes shot down a Mexican Army helicopter using a rocket-propelled grenade ?
Did you know that the 2017 Manchester Gorton by-election was called after the death of the Father of the House ?
Did you know that the Adiyogi Shiva statue is the world's tallest bust of the Hindu god Shiva ?
Did you know that fans of the composer and conductor Robert Farnon attended tapings of the television series Tony Bennett at the Talk of the Town to hear his instrumentals?
Did you know that gas chromatography–mass spectrometry equipment, first developed by Robert E. Finnigan , was fundamental to the EPA 's ability to carry out environmental testing in the 1970s?
Did you know that video game character Chris Redfield was suspected of abusing steroids ?
Did you know that Joe Biden went door-to-door with Stephanie Hansen to help her win a recent special election to the Delaware Senate ?
Did you know that the Rhodesian folk song " The U.D.I. Song " was written by a Northern Rhodesian and first performed by a South African?
Did you know that Rafael Brache was declared a traitor to the Dominican Republic for denouncing the " parsley massacre "?
Did you know that Villa-Lobos State Park in São Paulo , named after composer Heitor Villa-Lobos , was created on the site of a landfill in 1989 and now has around 37,000 trees?
Did you know that Archibald Spencer introduced Benjamin Franklin to the study of electricity, and was his mentor?
Did you know that Lincoln City's win over Burnley meant that they became the first non-league football club to reach the FA Cup quarter-finals in 103 years?
Did you know that Luther Bradley was considered the most prominent political cartoonist opposing America's involvement in World War I?
Did you know that it is unknown if the Dehn invariant of a flexible polyhedron stays invariant as it flexes?
Did you know that John Rutter set Psalm 23 in The Lord is my Shepherd for choir and organ, and later included it in his Requiem ?
Did you know that the salumeria originated in Italy and dates to the Middle Ages ?
Did you know that pharyngeal aspiration is a widely used method for studying the respiratory toxicity of carbon nanotubes ?
Did you know that Edward C. Cardon was given command of the Second United States Army upon its reactivation in 2014 because he was already commander of the United States Army Cyber Command ?
Did you know that a Tofu Curtain divides two neighborhoods in Melbourne and two counties in Massachusetts ?
Did you know that although he left school at the age of 14, Paul D'Ortona later served for two decades on the Philadelphia City Council ?
Did you know that Subramanian Kalyanaraman was the first Indian to receive a PhD in neurosurgery?
Did you know that the hymn " Herr Jesu Christ, wahr Mensch und Gott " ("Lord Jesus Christ, true man and God") by the Lutheran Paul Eber appeared in Catholic hymnals from 1567?
Did you know that a whole cabbage plant can be devoured by the cabbage cluster caterpillars that hatch from a single egg cluster?
Did you know that in 2016, the Parliament of Canada passed a motion condemning Islamophobia in the country ?
Did you know that professional wrestler Sam Adonis has been described as the "most hated man" in Mexico for his pro- Donald Trump character?
Did you know that Nuggehalli Raghuveer Moudgal established a Primate Research Laboratory at the Indian Institute of Science in 1965, the then largest primate house in India?
Did you know that " Better Place " was inspired by the engagement of Rachel Platten 's sister?
Did you know that in the Sasak language , the verb "to eat" differs depending on the social status of the speaker and the addressee?
Did you know that gridiron football player Charles Alston was the first college athlete to play in NCAA football and basketball games on the same day?
Did you know that the original 1620 "L" shape of Urchinwood Manor was made into a "U" by a mid-17th century extension?
Did you know that the fossil elm Ulmus okanaganensis had been tentatively identified as two other plants before it was formally described in 2005?
Did you know that the Seattle City Council approved a street vacation for an Amazon.com office building in 2016, provided that a public " free speech zone " be designated at the site?
Did you know that Fitzsimons station in Aurora, Colorado , was moved away from the Anschutz Medical Campus after concerns that vibrations and electromagnetic interference from trains would affect research equipment?
Did you know that Russian-Jewish banker Avraam Zak received an offer to become deputy finance minister of Russia on condition that he convert to Christianity?
Did you know that planar transmission lines were developed for the US military, but can be found today in household mass-produced items such as mobile phones and satellite television receivers?
Did you know that the leaf beetle Zygogramma suturalis was introduced into Russia in 1978 in an attempt to control the invasive plant common ragweed ?
Did you know that there are approaching one hundred self-portraits by Rembrandt in paintings, etchings, and drawings?
Did you know that men and women from the Sidama people sing radically different songs about Queen Furra ?
Did you know that 2017 is the 100th anniversary of the composition of " Hail, America " by the German-born George Drumm ?
Did you know that the Montreal Alouettes won the 37th Grey Cup in 1949 but did not make the playoffs the following season ?
Did you know that the Renault Trezor features a single-piece canopy roof that opens by hinging forward?
Did you know that Mary Boggs and her first husband won the competition to create the United States post office mural in Newton, Mississippi ?
Did you know that tree debris from Cyclone Tessi in Townsville, Queensland , was processed into 25,000 m 3 (880,000 cu ft) of mulch and used in local botanical gardens?
Did you know that the first recorded owner of Greifenstein Castle joined a crusade as penance for assassinating a bishop?
Did you know that in 1837, nativist rioters in Boston attacked the Montgomery Guards , an Irish-American militia company?
Did you know that Kokichi Sugihara 's illusions make marbles appear to roll uphill and circular pipes look rectangular?
Did you know that Alice Bowman , Mission Operations Manager of the New Horizons Pluto exploration mission, is also a bassist and clarinetist ?
Did you know that Arachne used a crossword puzzle to protest police corruption in the investigation of the murder of Daniel Morgan ?
Did you know that the starfish Diplasterias brucei broods its young until they have developed into juveniles?
Did you know that LDS Relief Society president Belle S. Spafford directed the Singing Mothers at the 1964 World's Fair ?
Did you know that Viaduto do Chá , São Paulo 's first viaduct, was originally constructed from German iron before being replaced by a concrete span?
Did you know that composer Jessica Curry has won a BAFTA award for her video game scores , and has also worked with a Poet Laureate ?
Did you know that Rheidol , a former locomotive on the Vale of Rheidol Railway in Wales, was originally called Treze de Maio , after the date that slavery was abolished in Brazil ?
Did you know that India's third highest civilian award was bestowed upon Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn of Thailand in 2017 ?
Did you know that Marjorie G. Horning demonstrated that drugs and their metabolites can be transferred from a pregnant woman to her developing child?
Did you know that Barbara B. Smith created the Monument to Women Memorial Garden to defend traditional women's values from the perceived threat of the Equal Rights Amendment ?
Did you know that the soprano Erna Ellmenreich appeared in the premieres of Ariadne auf Naxos by Richard Strauss and of Hindemith's Mörder, Hoffnung der Frauen , the latter causing a scandal?
Did you know that Rosemary Vrablic has been called " Trump 's personal banker"?
Did you know that besides reporting on Aimee Semple McPherson 's visit to Denver in 1921, Helen Marie Black arranged publicity stunts to show off the evangelist's preaching and faith healing skills?
Did you know that M2M were going to call themselves M&M until they realised the name was already being used by a type of candy ?
Did you know that Perdur Radhakantha Adiga identified N-oxalyldiaminopropionic acid in grass pea as the cause of neurolathyrism ?
Did you know that Super flumina Babylonis is the first of Jules Van Nuffel 's psalm settings for choir and organ written for Mechelen Cathedral ?
Did you know that Donald L. Cunningham , an original Justice of the Arizona Supreme Court , once lost everything in a fire except for a single office chair?
Did you know that the Cão de Gado Transmontano is a giant livestock guardian dog that is used to defend flocks of sheep from the Iberian wolf ?
Did you know that the Detachment Hotel nuclear bunker on Peanut Island , Florida, was constructed in less than two weeks?
Did you know that a senior British general described Winston Churchill 's proposal to invade Arctic Norway, Operation Jupiter , as "not merely dangerous but useless"?
Did you know that the racing game Wipeout Fusion contains 45 race tracks and 32 ship models?
Did you know that Rudyard Kipling 's first novel, The Light That Failed , was published in at least four different versions over a two-year period?
Did you know that while jailed on charges of violating the Sedition Act , Matthew Lyon was re-elected to Congress ?
Did you know that in his cantata Sécheresses , French composer Francis Poulenc set four poems by the English surrealist Edward James ?
Did you know that Masashi Kishimoto has a five-step process for drawing the characters for the manga Naruto ?
Did you know that the United and Cecil Club , a British dining club, was the single largest donor to Conservative Party candidates in marginal seats in the run-up to the last general election ?