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Did you know that despite being a Nevada resident at the time, Octavius D. Gass served as President of the Council ( upper house ) during the 4th Arizona Territorial Legislature ?
Did you know that Relicanthus daphneae , originally thought to be one of the sea anemones , is so distinct from them that it belongs in a new order of its own?
Did you know that Ann Hunt and Elizabeth Hamel hold the Guinness World Record as the longest separated twins to be reunited?
Did you know that, with his first entrant, California Chrome , 77-year-old Art Sherman became the oldest horse trainer to ever win the Kentucky Derby ?
Did you know that the rebuilt Black Rock Harbor Light was predicted to withstand the "storm of the ages"?
Did you know that Ofelia Rodríguez Acosta is one Cuba's most famous social reformers ?
Did you know that Akrotiri and Dhekelia is one of the only two British Overseas Territory without its own unique flag ?
Did you know that the home of David Hudson , founder of Hudson, Ohio , also served as the town's first post office, tavern, and court room?
Did you know that during World War I, Violet Manners, Duchess of Rutland , converted her London house into a hospital?
Did you know that " Good Old Arsenal " was the first FA Cup Final record released?
Did you know that there is a 19th-century German cannon in People's Park , Nanning , China?
Did you know that Emanuel Snowman was famous for dealing in Easter eggs , one of which sold for a world record $9.6 million in 2002?
Did you know that Chase Williamson graduated from USC weeks before being cast in John Dies at the End ?
Did you know that musicians often mimic barnyard animal sounds with voices and instruments in the American blues song " Little Red Rooster "?
Did you know that after originating the role of Lady Sangazure in The Sorcerer , Mrs Howard Paul walked out of the cast of H.M.S. Pinafore when her part was reduced?
Did you know that the Hindu Temple of Dayton in Ohio was consecrated in 1985 and underwent two years of renovations starting in 2011?
Did you know that Turkish-Romani musician Selim Sesler was called "the Coltrane of the clarinet "?
Did you know that Grevillea laurifolia was so named for the resemblance of its leaves to those of laurel?
Did you know that although Emil Tamsen fought for the British in the First Boer War , he became a friend of the Boer leader Paul Kruger ?
Did you know that when two members of alternative rock band Too Much Joy posted 13 songs online under the name Wonderlick , they made $12,000 from online donations alone?
Did you know that Euthymius I became Patriarch of Constantinople because his predecessor, Nicholas Mystikos , refused to sanction Emperor Leo VI 's un- canonical fourth marriage?
Did you know that ecological-evolutionary theory posits that level of technology is the key factor in whether societies flourish or perish?
Did you know that Idhuvum Kadandhu Pogum is India's first studio-backed short film made exclusively for the Internet?
Did you know that footballer František Rajtoral was one of two players sent off in the inaugural Czech Supercup ?
Did you know that PETA's browser games regularly satirize popular franchises like Mario and Pokémon ?
Did you know that aspiring politician Will Straw is the candidate for a constituency next to his father 's?
Did you know that, as a member of the Tennessee legislature after the Civil War , Charles Inman supported measures to deny voting rights to former Confederates ?
Did you know that at full capacity the Cruachan Power Station drains 200 cubic metres (260 cu yd) of water per second from Cruachan Reservoir ?
Did you know that boxing champion Bubi Scholz won his first fight as a professional boxer without previously competing as an amateur?
Did you know that the bell from Oregon City College was given to what is now Linfield College after the former was dissolved?
Did you know that J. J. Abrams cast the unknown Daisy Ridley over Academy Award -winner Lupita Nyong'o in Star Wars Episode VII ?
Did you know that the Piemontese wine grape Baratuciat may be named after cats' testicles?
Did you know that the Valls Cabinet is the first French cabinet with a foreign-born prime minister?
Did you know that the " Billy Boys " was ruled as a tolerated historic song by UEFA despite it being banned in Scottish football grounds due to sectarianism ?
Did you know that at one time Nortel 's Carling Campus in Ottawa , Canada , represented the city's aspirations of becoming a technology hotbed?
Did you know that American journalist and author William Honan helped solve a 1945 heist in Quedlinburg , Germany, in which over US$200 million worth of items were stolen?
Did you know that a GamesRadar writer simply stated "Total bitch" about Amy Rose in an article with several sentences about each of the other Sonic the Hedgehog characters?
Did you know that in the first episode he wrote for Glee , starring actor Chris Colfer cast himself as Peter Pan ?
Did you know that female gregarious slender salamanders often lay their eggs in communal nests?
Did you know that since 1995, the National Weather Service office in Miami, Florida , has been co-located with the National Hurricane Center on the campus of Florida International University ?
Did you know that for Glee 's " Back-up Plan ", Shirley MacLaine sang a Janis Joplin song for the first time?
Did you know that Peder Kolstad 's cabinet supported a private Norwegian occupation of Eastern Greenland ?
Did you know that in field hockey , the penalty shoot-out format no longer involves penalty strokes ?
Did you know that the songs " Wop " (2011) and " Don't Drop That Thun Thun " (2012) were both popularized in 2013 by viral videos involving twerking ?
Did you know that the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee reported a resolution to the full Senate in preparation for the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide ?
Did you know that the Lilpop, Rau i Loewenstein factory was the largest manufacturing company in Poland before being destroyed by the Germans during World War II?
Did you know that the United States Agency for International Development covertly developed ZunZuneo , the "Cuban Twitter ", allegedly as a means of fomenting dissent similar to that of the Arab Spring ?
Did you know that the upcoming television series, Agent Carter , was inspired by a short film, also titled Agent Carter ?
Did you know that Serbian Orthodox monk Jovan Maleševac collaborated in 1561 with the Protestant reformer Primož Trubar to print religious books in Cyrillic ?
Did you know that most cases of fusion of the labia minora do not require treatment since they resolve naturally?
Did you know that actress Camilla Arfwedson attended three auditions to secure the role of Holby City character Zosia March ?
Did you know that in 1869 St Thomas' Church, Preston , contained a curtained pew that was occupied by the local Member of Parliament ?
Did you know that David Leyonhjelm , who will sit in the Australian Senate from July, has been described as a " libertarian purist", and compared to Ron Paul ?
Did you know that the French heavy-lift ship SS Kanguroo had to have her bow dismantled to load the submarines that she was designed to transport?
Did you know that artist Chizuko Judy Sugita de Queiroz was chosen as Nisei Week Queen in 1953?
Did you know that the Pony Express Bible was given only with a signed frontier pledge of loyalty, honesty, and sobriety?
Did you know that despite winning the Baja 1000 four times (twice overall) in off-road competition , Mark Stahl never finished better than 16th in NASCAR Winston Cup Series stock cars ?
Did you know that the natural monument Vápenice in the Czech Republic is a former limestone quarry?
Did you know that Doris Huestis Speirs , after whom an annual prize bestowed by the Society of Canadian Ornithologists is named, exhibited her paintings with the Group of Seven and the Canadian Group of Painters ?
Did you know that Xining 's People's Park was designed by a recent college graduate?
Did you know that the syndicalist Léa Roback opened the first Marxist book store in Montreal ?
Did you know that Umeå Energi set up lamps in bus shelters to avoid people getting SAD ?
Did you know that SpaceX is working on bringing orbital rockets back to the launchpad and landing them on landing legs?
Did you know that Antonín Kinský was part of the Czech Republic squad at UEFA Euro 2004 and the 2006 FIFA World Cup , although he played at neither tournament?
Did you know that the 2014 adaptation of Rosemary's Baby starring Zoe Saldana is set in Paris rather than New York City like the original novel ?
Did you know that two Boeing 747s landed on a 50-foot (15 m) wide runway when they were delivered to the South African Airways Museum Society ?
Did you know that People's Park, Chengdu , has a monument commemorating those who died protecting railways ?
Did you know that Wilfred T. Webb delivered Arizona's official 1912 electoral vote certificate a day late because he stopped en route to Washington D.C. to court his future wife?
Did you know that to avenge the execution of her son, Mother Lü beheaded her son's killer, sacrificed his head on her son's tomb, and became the first female rebel leader in Chinese history?
Did you know that an imperforate hymen is the most common congenital cause of vaginal obstruction ?
Did you know that Mahatma Gandhi founded the Harijan Sevak Sangh to remove untouchability from Indian society?
Did you know that U.S. Marshal William K. Meade organized the liberation of Arizona Territorial Governor C. Meyer Zulick from imprisonment in Mexico?
Did you know that part of The Black Eyed Peas ' song " Boom Boom Pow " was inspired by Bizarre Inc 's " I'm Gonna Get You "?
Did you know that Benedict Cumberbatch has been called the "Thinking Woman's Crumpet"?
Did you know that DNA base flipping is used in DNA replication , DNA methylation and RNA transcription ?
Did you know that Turkish painter İbrahim Balaban 's talent was discovered in prison by fellow inmate and famous Turkish poet Nâzım Hikmet Ran , who called him "my peasant painter"?
Did you know that B. R. Ambedkar published Annihilation of Caste , his speech intended for an anti-caste conference, after his invitation to present it was withdrawn?
Did you know that Nicholas Snowman is the third generation chairman of the jewellers Wartski , who made the ring for the 2011 Wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton ?
Did you know that Teri Gender Bender has incorporated raw meat into her performances and has been compared to both Björk and Siouxsie Sioux ?
Did you know that Exeter Chiefs hosted the New Zealand national rugby union team 's first game in the Northern Hemisphere, where they became known as the All Blacks?
Did you know that a painting by Mallica "Kapo" Reynolds was selected by the Jamaican government as a gift for the wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana ?
Did you know that the first legally recognized strike in Costa Rica was organized by Italian immigrants building railroads?
Did you know that early members of the Ladies' Scottish Climbing Club would often take off their long skirts to climb in knickerbockers ?
Did you know that according to tradition, American spy Anna Strong signalled members of the Culper Ring during the American Revolutionary War with her petticoat?
Did you know that Chicagoland was produced to help CNN be less dependent upon the 24-hour news cycle ?
Did you know that Betty Bone Schiess is one of the Philadelphia Eleven , leaders in the movement to allow the ordination of women in the Episcopal Church ?
Did you know that Maia Makhateli felt it was hard to be paired with her brother David Makhateli while dancing the ballet Romeo and Juliet ?
Did you know that the recreations stated by University of Nottingham Professor Jeremy Lawrance in Who's Who include "searching for stone circles" and "evading capture by elephants"?
Did you know that the Lesbian Tide has been called the United States' first national lesbian newspaper?
Did you know that Purvis Short is the Golden State Warriors ' seventh all-time leading scorer?
Did you know that an investment fund named in honor of Charles R. Blyth was established at Stanford University to allow finance students to make decisions with real money?
Did you know that organist Karl Ludwig Gerok , who studied and taught at the Musikhochschule Stuttgart , composed chorale preludes on " Aus tiefer Not " and " Gelobt sei Gott "?
Did you know that in its earlier years, the soft drink Bludwine was marketed as having health benefits, such as aiding in digestion, and some physicians in Georgia prescribed it to their patients?
Did you know that French printer Denis Janot (fl. 1529–1544) came from families of printers on both sides and married into another family of printers, and after his death his wife married another printer?
Did you know that there are nearly 900 macroinvertebrates per square meter in the lower reaches of West Creek ?
Did you know that Kalman Mann , a seventh-generation Jerusalemite, passed the entrance exam at the London School of Economics though he could barely speak English?
Did you know that Daniel Suárez won the first three races he competed in in 2014, across two different racing series?
Did you know that " Onward, Christian Pilgrims " has replaced " Onward, Christian Soldiers " in some British hymnals ?
Did you know that Nick Principe became a stunt performer so he could portray monsters in films?
Did you know that Yalçın Granit became the first Turkish basketballer to play in a European team when he went to France for his doctoral studies?
Did you know that Thief: Deadly Shadows contains a level designed to be the scariest in any video game?
Did you know that Kenneth Snowman was one of the few people to appear as himself in a James Bond story?
Did you know that the Berkshire No. 7 , Elmer S. Dailey , and Priscilla Dailey , which sank together in 1974, are the only National Register of Historic Places -listed shipwrecks in Connecticut?
Did you know that the life story of actress and television presenter Štěpánka Haničincová was the subject of a 2003 documentary?
Did you know that actress Samira Wiley works on Orange Is the New Black alongside a writer and another cast member with whom she became friends while attending the Juilliard School ?
Did you know that the newest Interstate Highway designation in Michigan is Interstate 73 , but it has never been built?
Did you know that Assam state communist leader Drupad Borgohain was born on the anniversary of the October Revolution ?
Did you know that at age 23, poet Armen Dorian was arrested in the middle of the night and ultimately murdered during the Armenian Genocide ?
Did you know that in the 1972 by-election to the Gird seat in the Madhya Pradesh assembly , Vijaya Raje Scindia 's candidate was defeated by the communist Balkrishna Sharma ?
Did you know that Portuguese Captain André Furtado killed Puvirasa Pandaram , king of the Jaffna Kingdom , in 1591?
Did you know that the first act of the 1893 play Anatol earned playwright Arthur Schnitzler the title of "psychological depth researcher" from Sigmund Freud ?
Did you know that in 2012–13, the Himadri Station , India's first research base in the Arctic, was manned for 185 days, with 25 scientists visiting it to carry out studies?
Did you know that Grammy Award -winning anthropologist Luis Kemnitzer posed naked for a calendar when he was in his mid-seventies?
Did you know that Belgian tennis champion Philippe Washer lent his Ferrari 250 Europa GT Pinin Farina Coupé to his cousin, driver Olivier Gendebien , who then finished third at the 1955 Liège-Rome-Liège rally?
Did you know that Igone de Jongh , principal dancer with the Dutch National Ballet , is featured in Anouk 's music video Birds , the official Netherlands entry to the Eurovision Song Contest 2013 ?
Did you know that readers of Focus: A Journal for Lesbians could pay extra to buy the magazine in a brown wrapper?
Did you know that Tom Hulatt finished third when the barrier of running a mile in under four minutes was broken 60 years ago today?
Did you know that the U.S. Farmers and Ranchers Alliance commissioned a survey which found that 72% of consumers said they knew little or nothing about farming or ranching ?
Did you know that wrestlers Cody Rhodes and Goldust are sons of WWE Hall of Famer "The American Dream" Dusty Rhodes ?
Did you know that the Shriners Hospital for Children in Portland, Oregon underwent a $70 million expansion that reduced the number of beds at the hospital?
Did you know that in 1975, the former general secretary of the Israeli Communist Party , Shmuel Mikunis , joined the dissident Israeli Communist Opposition ?
Did you know that Rocket Fizz , a candy company and franchise chain, produces and markets a ranch dressing -flavored soft drink ?
Did you know that four-eyed harvestmen known as Tetrophthalmi once roamed the Earth?
Did you know that Alma Wagen was the first female guide employed by Mount Rainier National Park ?
Did you know that Howard T. Fisher designed the House at 130 Mohegan Avenue ?
Did you know that Canadian lawyer David Scearce wrote the screenplay for A Single Man in his spare time?
Did you know that Tharanga Goonetilleke is the first Sri Lankan woman to attend the Juilliard School , one of the world's leading music schools?
Did you know that Genetics and the Origin of Species by Theodosius Dobzhansky united genetics with Darwin 's theory of evolution?
Did you know that in 1965 Yvette Vaucher became the first woman to climb the Matterhorn 's north face?
Did you know that the spiralling whitefly , a major agricultural pest, has spread rapidly in tropical and subtropical regions since the mid-20th century?
Did you know that German art photographer Michael Wesely recorded the reconstruction of Berlin's Potsdamer Platz and New York's MoMA using exposures of up to three years?
Did you know that Five Days at Memorial is a non-fiction book by Sheri Fink based on her Pulitzer Prize -winning article about the euthanasia of patients at Memorial Medical Center during Hurricane Katrina ?
Did you know that two Harley-Davidson dealers from New Zealand started the Nairn Transport Company , which ran Buicks and Cadillacs across the desert from Beirut to Baghdad?
Did you know that Johannesburg has two Chinatowns , the first one on Commissioner Street ?
Did you know that the Durtnell family firm , which originally built Poundsbridge Manor in 1593, also repaired the house after it was bombed in World War II?
Did you know that several U.S. companies produce bacon soda , a bacon-flavored soft drink ?
Did you know that after the British National Board for Prices and Incomes was closed, member Hugh Clegg wrote a book entitled How to Run an Incomes Policy , and Why We Made Such a Mess of the Last One ?
Did you know that Pete Hampton is believed to be the first African American to make a harmonica recording?
Did you know that electronic musician Peaches is featured on the remix of Natalia Kills ' song " Trouble "?
Did you know that Qingdao Airlines , a Chinese air carrier that launched operations in April 2014, aims to become a "boutique airline"?
Did you know that football coach Choo Seng Quee was a British agent during World War II ?
Did you know that the music video for " Vida " by Ricky Martin was filmed in Rio de Janeiro , Brazil?
Did you know that former President of the Senate of Jamaica Syringa Marshall-Burnett applied to train as a nurse at age 14?
Did you know that there were only 61 known plants of the endangered shrub Banksia montana in the wild in 2004?
Did you know that although it was banned at the time, the communist newspaper al-Qaidah was probably one of the most read publications in Iraq in 1947?
Did you know that former Massachusetts House Ethics Committee Chairman Stephen W. Doran has been compared to Breaking Bad 's Walter White ?
Did you know that Joseph D. Bryant secretly operated on President Grover Cleveland to remove a cancerous growth from the roof of his mouth?
Did you know that both teams in the 2014 Coppa Italia Final lost the first leg of their semi-finals?
Did you know that Preston Central Methodist Church was one of the first public buildings in England to be lit by gas?
Did you know that G. Nagesh was one of the youngest candidates to be elected to the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly in 1994?
Did you know that A Railway Collision , one of the first British films to use scale models, was thought to be so realistic that audiences were convinced that it showed a genuine rail disaster?
Did you know that the February 4, 2014, debate between Bill Nye and Ken Ham on the viability of Young Earth creationism was watched by about 3 million people live on the Internet, according to one estimate?
Did you know that though Przevalski's Nuthatch has been treated as conspecific with the White-breasted Nuthatch , a 2014 phylogenetic study found them to be only distantly related within their genus?
Did you know that Vika Lusibaea , only the second woman ever to sit in the National Parliament of Solomon Islands , was elected to replace her husband Jimmy "Rasta" , a former warlord convicted of assault?
Did you know that the music video for the song " Adore You " appears to simulate a sex tape?
Did you know that Major Digby Tatham-Warter disabled a Nazi armoured car with an umbrella while wearing a bowler hat?
Did you know that American pioneers following the Oregon and California trails passed over O'Fallons Bluff on their way west during the 19th century?
Did you know that Léon Amédée François Raffenel and Charles Rondony , who were killed in action on 22 August 1914, were the first French generals to die in World War One ?
Did you know that the 2014 Newark mayoral election will be the first since the resignation of Cory Booker ?
Did you know that one reviewer said that the 1991 gay pornographic film Jumper was "modeled somewhat" on the 1978 film Heaven Can Wait ?
Did you know that Home Run Baker only hit 96 home runs , and never more than 12 in a baseball season?
Did you know that Ko Ko Gyi , a Burmese democracy activist who spent over 17 years in prison on multiple occasions between 1989 and 2012, may run for parliament in the next Burmese election ?
Did you know that the mayor of the municipal government of King, Ontario in Canada also automatically becomes a member of York Regional Council as a result of a "double direct" election?
Did you know that rugby union player George Aitken captained New Zealand against South Africa before later playing for Scotland in their first ever Five Nations Grand Slam ?
Did you know that actor Rob Mayes once wanted to be a U.S. Navy SEAL ?
Did you know that the bomb detection dog Sasha is to be posthumously awarded the Dickin Medal , known as the animals' Victoria Cross ?
Did you know that the performance of " Stand and Sing of Zambia, Proud and Free " can be changed and restricted by the President ?
Did you know that Pappa Umanath was not allowed by prison authorities to attend her mother's funeral because she refused to quit the Communist Party of India ?
Did you know that World War II resistance fighter Jerzy Zakulski , who rescued a Jewish mother and child from the Kraków Ghetto , was executed by Poland after the war?
Did you know that United States president Abraham Lincoln learned his ABCs when he attended a blab school which he walked to in his youth?
Did you know that Michael Kessler and Til Schweiger started their film acting career with Manta, Manta ?
Did you know that William T. Carneal was killed on Saipan on July 7, 1944, but his remains were not found until March 2013?
Did you know that Passionate Journey contains only pictures, and was named as Thomas Mann's favourite film—but is a novel?
Did you know that a deceptive 1883 land deal between Josef Frederiks II and Adolf Lüderitz established the colony of German South-West Africa ?
Did you know that upon his being hired by the police, Commander X was hailed in the press as a "mystery supremo", yet journalists have claimed to know his identity?
Did you know that American singer Jenni Rivera earned five posthumous awards in the 2013 Lo Nuestro Awards ?
Did you know that writer-director Sophie Barthes made the film Cold Souls after having a dream about Woody Allen 's soul?