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Did you know that Lascaris Battery , an artillery battery in Malta built in 1854, housed the headquarters for the defence of the island during World War II ?
Did you know that the Giant Schnauzer Jafrak Philippe Olivier won the title of Best in Show at Crufts in 2008?
Did you know that Justin Timberlake 's song " FutureSex/LoveSound " has been seen as heavily influenced by David Bowie 's 1974 album Diamond Dogs ?
Did you know that the Druze village of Kaftin in northwestern Syria was well-known for its pigeon houses ?
Did you know that former UCLA Bruins basketball player Bob Myers was a walk-on , but appeared on the cover of Sports Illustrated , met President Bill Clinton , and was on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno ?
Did you know that Silver Oak Cellars has been cited as one of a dozen California wineries which "have reached cult status" for its Cabernet Sauvignon production?
Did you know that John Blackadder , while a young officer in the Scottish Army , killed a fellow officer in a duel in 1691?
Did you know that after the Greek War of Independence broke out in 1821, Greeks were the targets of mass executions, pogroms, and looting in the Ottoman capital of Constantinople ?
Did you know that in " New York City ", John Lennon responded to U.S. government officials who wanted to deport him, singing that "the Statue of Liberty said come"?
Did you know that the Bruise Brothers helped the San Diego Chargers lead the National Football League (NFL) in sacks in 1980 ?
Did you know that the site of the factory established by Charles Wigg in 1865 is now a nature reserve ?
Did you know that Star Trek: The Next Generation cast members Marina Sirtis and Denise Crosby had their roles switched during casting?
Did you know that wheelchair basketball player Mareike Adermann tore her anterior cruciate ligaments four times in four years between the ages of 14 and 18?
Did you know that the Longmead Stadium was given to Tonbridge Angels by the council as compensation for evicting them from their old ground?
Did you know that University of Idaho president Duane Nellis initially withdrew from consideration for his current position, and has been offered the presidency of Texas Tech University without applying?
Did you know that while one review called Wise Men "whoppingly bland", another review praised its "surprise ending"?
Did you know that Krikor Apikoğlu founded Apikoğlu , the first company to mass produce meat products in Turkey?
Did you know that during the Kościuszko Uprising in 1794, Tadeusz Kościuszko 's army successfully defended the Polish capital of Warsaw from forces under Frederick William II of Prussia ?
Did you know that French Olympian Félix Debax was killed in battle in the first month of the First World War ?
Did you know that ants act as an intermediate host to complete the life cycle of the worm Raillietina tetragona , a parasite that infests in the intestines of birds such as chicken and pigeons?
Did you know that businessman, philanthropist and merchant mariner James S.C. Chao donated $40,000,000 to Harvard Business School in 2012?
Did you know that the Culverden Stadium was the location of the record set for most penalty kicks taken in a football match?
Did you know that in the early days of NightWash , Klaus-Jürgen Deuser performed his comedy show on a platform next to tumble dryers ?
Did you know that former General Hospital star Steve Burton shows more of his "own personality" while portraying his newest role, Dylan McAvoy , on The Young and the Restless ?
Did you know that Dakshayani Velayudhan , the first dalit woman graduate in India and a member of the Cochin Legislative Council , was the only dalit woman member of the Constituent Assembly of India ?
Did you know that Bach's congratulatory cantata Preise dein Glücke, gesegnetes Sachsen , BWV 215 , was first performed for August III with a torch-light procession of 600 students?
Did you know that Marshman Edward Wadsworth served as president of the Michigan Mining School and as State Geologist of Michigan at the same time?
Did you know that after Swami Vivekananda gave a lecture on Vedanta Philosophy at the Graduate Philosophical Society of Harvard University , he was offered a faculty position?
Did you know that Norwegian tennis champion and Olympic doubles quarterfinalist Jack Nielsen was a professional brewmaster and the president of Rotary International ?
Did you know that during her tenure Syeda Bilgrami Imam was the only female member of the National Commission for Minorities in India?
Did you know that Queen Wilhelmina visited the First Church in Albany , the second-oldest congregation in New York, on the occasion of its 300th anniversary?
Did you know that Sameh Fahmi , Egypt's former oil minister , has been sentenced to fifteen years in prison for exporting natural gas to Israel at lower prices than market rates?
Did you know that Madonna makes reference to her 1989 single " Express Yourself " in her 2012 song " Some Girls "?
Did you know that due to Kvik losing 8–2 against Hødd in the decisive match of the 1965 Norwegian Second Division , Kvik's rivals Rosenborg were not promoted on goal difference ?
Did you know that the Budokwai in London is the oldest judo dojo in Europe and that Guy Ritchie , Kylie Minogue , Mick Jagger , and William Hague have all trained there?
Did you know that many protected areas of Cameroon are still in "pristine" condition, mostly because there is less tourism in Cameroon than other regions of Africa ?
Did you know that Eddy Martadinata , one of the founders of the Indonesian Navy , died when his plane crashed into a mountain?
Did you know that the Star Trek: Enterprise episode " North Star " was filmed on the Western sets at Universal Studios , including one used in the 1940 film My Little Chickadee ?
Did you know that the evangelistic training program Evangelism Explosion is used by over 20,000 churches worldwide?
Did you know that college basketball player O. D. Anosike was nicknamed O. D. as a child after his kindergarten classmates struggled to pronounce his given name, Oderah?
Did you know that young Easter Island butterflyfish sometimes act as cleaner fish, picking parasites off the skin of larger fish?
Did you know that MacDonald Pass was part of a Montana toll road known once as "the Frenchwoman's road" because it was operated by the wife of French Canadian Constant Guyot?
Did you know that Ottoman politician Cemal Azmi was known as the "butcher of Trabzon " for his role in the Armenian Genocide ?
Did you know that Morro Solar in Peru, the site of the Battle of Chorrillos , is also the location of an astronomical observatory ?
Did you know that in 2012, UCF wide receiver Quincy McDuffie set a school and Conference USA record by returning two kickoffs for touchdowns in the same game?
Did you know that in the upcoming Bengali film Kangal Malsat , the marginal and downtrodden people of society wage a war against the government?
Did you know that famines have repeatedly led Scandinavians to eat bread made partially out of bark ?
Did you know that Tankiz , the 14th-century Mamluk Viceroy of Syria , commissioned the repair and construction of a number of architectural works including nearly 40 in Damascus alone?
Did you know that Basketball Hall of Fame inductee Chris Mullin called his stint with Run TMC "the most fun I had playing basketball in my whole life"?
Did you know that Major G. S. Jayanath is the only Commando to receive the Parama Weera Vibhushanaya , Sri Lanka 's highest military award for gallantry?
Did you know that Glee 's 500th filmed musical number, " Shout ", is set to be shown in its 81st episode ?
Did you know that Lou Qinjian , governor of China's Shaanxi Province, began his career as a rusticated youth ?
Did you know that Royal Tunbridge Wells has a church dedicated to King Charles I that had no vicar for 33 years, an opera house that became a pub, and a rugby club whose alumni include an RFU regional administrator and aftershave-drinking Colin Smart ?
Did you know that the residence of the French ambassador to Lebanon was originally intended to serve as a casino?
Did you know that although Losang Jamcan is the chairman of Tibet Autonomous Region , he is subordinate to Chen Quanguo , the Communist Party Chief ?
Did you know that Minuscule 888 has an unusual order of Gospels: Matthew , John , Mark , Luke ?
Did you know that para-alpine skier Úrsula Pueyo was the only member of the 2010 Spanish Winter Paralympic team not to compete in the visually impaired class?
Did you know that the protagonist in Ben H. Winters ' The Last Policeman is trying to solve a murder amid the disruptions caused by an impending asteroid impact ?
Did you know that Argentine actor Gastón Soffritti worked in Graduados to leave the teen drama genre?
Did you know that during the eight-year course of making The Decay of Fiction , in which he honors the past of the Ambassador Hotel , director Pat O'Neill collaborated with 45 actors and spent US$250,000?
Did you know that early this year a Somali journalist was arrested for reporting on an alleged rape by government security forces?
Did you know that Abbie Farwell Brown received permission from Lewis Carroll for her school newspaper to be named The Jabberwock ?
Did you know that during the Argentine Decembrist revolution , José María Paz was captured when his horse was entangled with bolas ?
Did you know that faced with high teacher turnover rates, Hertford County Public Schools helped build teacher housing?
Did you know that Lynn D. Stewart , a co-founder of the Hooters restaurant chain, played offensive guard for the University of Illinois' Fighting Illini , which won the 1964 Rose Bowl ?
Did you know that while Betsy Blackwell was editor-in-chief of Mademoiselle , the magazine's circulation rose from 178,000 to nearly a million?
Did you know that the 1961 squad was the first of six Alabama football teams that Bear Bryant led to the national championship as head coach of the Crimson Tide ?
Did you know that Swiss computer science academic Bernhard M. Hämmerli is a specialist in the field of critical infrastructure protection in the European Union ?
Did you know that North Devon's Biosphere Reserve was the first "new style" UNESCO -designated Biosphere Reserve in the United Kingdom?
Did you know that the Facebook page Valor por Tamaulipas received death threats from a Mexican drug trafficking organization?
Did you know that after Brad Pitt complained of his children's "horrible diaper rash ", responders to a People request for advice overwhelmingly recommended Boudreaux's Butt Paste ?
Did you know that Abdullah Pasha al-Azm was the last member of the prominent al-Azm family to serve as the governor of Damascus Province during Ottoman rule?
Did you know that Tayyare Apartments in Istanbul , originally built in 1922 for the victims of a fire disaster, houses a five-star hotel today?
Did you know that in the 1880s, H.W. Crabb 's vine collection was one of the largest in the world?
Did you know that in the BBC Four documentary Treasures of Ancient Rome , Alastair Sooke sets out to debunk the myth that Roman art is unoriginal?
Did you know that Slick Johnson 's best finish in NASCAR competition occurred because he failed to qualify for the Daytona 500 ?
Did you know that during the 1974 Vladivostok Summit with the Soviet Union, the U.S. delegation took its breaks outside in sub-zero temperatures due to fear of being bugged ?
Did you know that Murray Battery in Hong Kong was demolished in the 1950s and replaced with the Central Government Offices ?
Did you know that Karamokho Alfa led the jihad that established the Imamate of Futa Jallon in present-day Guinea ?
Did you know that Guernsey RFC 's ladies team was rejected from joining the RFU leagues on logistical grounds, despite the men's team playing in the RFU's National League ?
Did you know that Shabnam Shakeel was a Pakistani Urdu poet who won the "President's Pride of Performance award" in 2004?
Did you know that the coats of Alaskan hares are white during the winter but grey-brown during the summer?
Did you know that Texas-born singer Roberta Dodd Crawford was both a princess and a prisoner of the Nazis?
Did you know that Hilde Levi helped develop the radiocarbon dating equipment used to date the Grauballe Man ?
Did you know that one owner of the Williams–DuBois House in New Castle, New York , was a sea captain who planted tree specimens from the Far East on the property?
Did you know that the original producers of Offenbach 's The Tales of Hoffmann relocated its second act to Venice to include " Belle nuit, ô nuit d'amour " (the Barcarolle ), the opera's most famous piece?
Did you know that the SEC commissioner denied a request by the 1960 Alabama football team to allow for a " sudden death " overtime period in the event of a tie in their game against Georgia Tech ?
Did you know that in 1990, Michael Beaumont , feudal ruler of Sark , overcame a nuclear physicist's one-man invasion attempt and remains the only inhabitant allowed to keep pigeons and unspayed dogs?
Did you know that 110-year-old Arturo Licata is Italy's and Europe's oldest living man?
Did you know that in 1892 Wellshot Station in Queensland was the world's largest sheep station by number of sheep, with almost half a million head?
Did you know that Norwegian footballer Stian Dyngeland participated in the singing contest Idol ?
Did you know that Usmar Ismail incorrectly labeled Anak Perawan di Sarang Penjamun ( The Virgin in the Robbers' Nest ) as the first film adaptation of an Indonesian novel?
Did you know that the admirers of poet Mary Elizabeth McGrath Blake included Theodore Roosevelt and Oliver Wendell Holmes ?
Did you know that the French army general headquarters moved location five times during the Battle of France to avoid being overrun by the German offensive?
Did you know that the new biopic , The Light: Swami Vivekananda , was released in early 2013 as a tribute for the 150th anniversary of the Swami 's birth?
Did you know that Joe Cambria was the first Major League Baseball scout to concentrate on recruiting players from Latin America?
Did you know that in 2012, an estimated 150,000 to 500,000 children were held in slavery in Haiti as domestic servants?
Did you know that Minuscule 890 once belonged to Cardinal Bessarion ?
Did you know that Sir Christopher More , stepuncle of Saint Thomas More , was one of the first officers in the Exchequer with formal legal training?
Did you know that an uninhabited island in the Bahamas is populated by swimming pigs?
Did you know that First Congregational Church in Salt Lake City was the first non- Mormon church in Utah ?
Did you know that the engraver Jacopo Caraglio fled to Venice from the Sack of Rome in 1527 , before moving to Poland as court goldsmith ?
Did you know that in " Mirrors ", Justin Timberlake sings to a lover about "coming to the realization" that she is his "other half"?
Did you know that former University of Memphis runner, sports agent, and convicted doping enabler Stefan Matschiner stated after his conviction that "only the stupid ones get caught"?
Did you know that the Independent International Commission on Kosovo 's assessment was that NATO bombing of Yugoslavia was illegal but legitimate?
Did you know that Gary Connery is the first skydiver in history to land from a 2,400-foot (730 m) jump without a parachute ?
Did you know that Seth Jones , a projected top pick in the 2013 National Hockey League Entry Draft , is the son of former National Basketball Association player Popeye Jones ?
Did you know that in the square of a graph , all vertices with a distance of no more than two in the original graph are adjacent ?
Did you know that the State of East Indonesia was nicknamed the "state which goes along with the master"?
Did you know that John Eaves designed the USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-E) , first seen in the movie Star Trek: First Contact ?
Did you know that Christian reinterpretation of pagan traditions, sacred sites, and lore was officially sanctioned as a means to facilitate Christianization ?
Did you know that Johnny Ray set a world speed record for tractor-trailers in 1975 at Talladega Superspeedway ?
Did you know that Chen Be-yue 's nomination to Taiwan's constitutional court led to a proposal to bar public servants from holding permanent residency in foreign countries?
Did you know that the megalithic site of Hirebenkal , built over 2000 years ago, is reportedly the largest necropolis in South India?
Did you know that historian and Tufts University professor Christina Maranci conducts research in five languages including classical Armenian ?
Did you know that precarious rock formations were evaluated to estimate the peak ground acceleration of the 1952 Kern County earthquake ?
Did you know that English footballer Chris Joyce rejected a contract-offer from FC Dallas and moved to Norway?
Did you know that the Australian mushroom Amanita ochrophylla has an odour reminiscent of ants ?
Did you know that after surviving the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp and the Munich Massacre , Israeli Shaul Ladany set a world record in race walking?
Did you know that any Roman Catholic baptised male is eligible for election as pope in March 2013 ?
Did you know that Société Parisienne was a French manufacturer of velocipedes , bicycles, tricycles and automobiles?
Did you know that Florida Governor Fred P. Cone passed the bar exam but never received a law degree?
Did you know that the golden sea cucumber is able to reproduce asexually by splitting in half ?
Did you know that at 33, Frank Zullo was the youngest person to be elected mayor in the history of Norwalk, Connecticut ?
Did you know that television executive Lukas Reiter was a mock trial national champion in law school ?
Did you know that Whalsay Parish Church is dedicated to the Holy Rood ?
Did you know that Jason Newsted has recorded songs with Metallica , Voivod and several musical supergroups ?
Did you know that para-alpine B2 classified visually impaired skier Gabriel Gorce was the youngest member of the 2010 Spanish Winter Paralympic team?
Did you know that Knife Edge Two Piece has been described as looking like a "crashed unidentified flying object"?
Did you know that Vice Admiral Shōji Nishimura refused to abandon ship when his flagship , the battleship Yamashiro , was capsizing during the Battle of Surigao Strait in 1944?
Did you know that para-alpine sit skier Nathalie Carpanedo , a member of the first women's adaptive ski team in Spain, was awarded the Real Orden del Mérito Deportivo Español ?
Did you know that Yoko Ono 's song " Born in a Prison " has been credited with anticipating ideas that would be proposed by French philosopher Michel Foucault ?
Did you know that the commander of Marine Corps Forces Special Operations Command , MajGen Mark A. Clark , first got involved in special operations through an officer exchange program with the U.S. Air Force ?
Did you know that Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 282 was used for redating Papyrus 46 , a manuscript of the New Testament ?
Did you know that Kevin Ray 's Boudreaux's Butt Paste Ford had the fifth-scariest paint scheme in NASCAR history, according to ESPN The Magazine ?
Did you know that the political career of John C. Breckinridge included service as Vice President of the United States and Confederate States Secretary of War ?
Did you know that The Poppy Fields never existed as a band, yet they had a hit song that reached number 24 on the UK charts?
Did you know that in 2012, Mike Edwards led all college football players in kickoff return yards?
Did you know that the Blauer Enzian , a German / Austrian express train , was named after a mountain flower , the Blue (or Spring) Gentian ( Gentiana verna )?
Did you know that Sir Philip Magnus began his career as an educational reformer while working as a rabbi at the West London Synagogue ?
Did you know that the names of 3,500 "fans" will appear in the credits of a film promoting a brand of beer ?
Did you know that Charles Stewart lost his right hand in a naval battle at the age of 16, yet still reached the rank of vice-admiral ?
Did you know that the percentage of Latinos among New York City ' s total population increased from 2% to 29% between 1940 and 2010?
Did you know that Ernest Bohr , who played field hockey for Denmark at the 1948 Summer Olympics , was the nephew of Olympic football player Harald Bohr , and the son of physicist Niels Bohr ?
Did you know that the Terai Arc Landscape has one of the highest densities of Bengal tigers in the world?
Did you know that Emily Graslie 's work on "The Brain Scoop" has been described as "articulate and hilarious" by Scientific American ?
Did you know that the tower of the Palace Hotel in Copenhagen is decorated with mosaics symbolizing morning, day, evening and night?
Did you know that according to Mariel Hemingway in the documentary Running from Crazy , seven members of Nobel Prize-winning author Ernest Hemingway 's family have committed suicide ?
Did you know that in 1524, Elisabeth Cruciger 's hymn " Herr Christ, der einig Gotts Sohn " was the only song by a female author published in the Lutheran hymnal Erfurt Enchiridion ?
Did you know that months after whistleblower David Weber reported concerns about ethics violations by SEC Inspector General David Kotz , Weber was terminated for unrelated reasons?
Did you know that the Settebello , a high-speed train between Milan and Rome, used ETR 300 trainsets, which had distinctive observation lounges at front and rear?
Did you know that American aviator Robert Hathaway unknowingly became feudal ruler of Sark by marrying the ruling dame , but was dismayed to learn that the island was too small for a golf course ?
Did you know that more than 2.8 million children were evacuated from major cities in Germany during World War II?
Did you know that little is known of the Ancient Greek painter Peiraikos other than that he painted ordinary people and sold well?
Did you know that Bebo and Chucho Valdés won the Grammy and the Latin Grammy Award for Best Latin Jazz Album for their album Juntos Para Siempre ?
Did you know that Manny McIntyre was a member of the first all-black line in professional hockey history and the first known Black-Canadian to play professionally in organized baseball?
Did you know that three years after a Tremont Group employee wrote an encyclopedia entry on the importance of due diligence , his company paid $1 billion for failing to conduct due diligence in the Madoff scandal ?
Did you know that instead of surrendering to a Montenegrin army, Oso Kuka and his group exploded their positions during an enemy attack?
Did you know that Sjumandjaja 's award-winning Kabut Sutra Ungu ( Mist of the Purple Silk ), about issues faced by widows, was based on a book offered to him on a train?
Did you know that 109-year-old Ralph Tarrant is currently the United Kingdom's oldest living man?
Did you know that professional golfer Bubba Watson was featured in the song "Michael Jackson" by hip hop artist Andy Mineo from his album Formerly Known ?
Did you know that Zhang Qingwei , the Governor of China's Hebei province, is a rocket scientist who was instrumental in launching an American-built satellite and sending the first Chinese astronauts to space?
Did you know that the three leading runners in the first Jerusalem Marathon finished the race at the wrong finish line?
Did you know that 14% of Haitian households reported having at least one member who suffered sexual violence in Haiti between the January 2010 earthquake and January 2012?
Did you know that the title page of the Erfurt Enchiridion , a Lutheran hymnal from 1524 with 26 songs, recommends using the handbook "for continuous practice and contemplation"?
Did you know that Tony Palomo , a Guamanian historian who served in the Legislature of Guam , worked as a copy boy for the Milwaukee Sentinel while attending Marquette University ?
Did you know that Lectionary 311 is a bilingual Greek – Arabic manuscript of the New Testament ?
Did you know that the extinct Gigantoproductus giganteus was the largest known species of brachiopod ?
Did you know that speaking coach Nick Morgan 's interest in body language was sparked in part by the realization that his father was gay?
Did you know that Shavarsh Krissian , the editor of the first sports magazine in Turkey , was killed in the Armenian Genocide ?