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Did you know that the first known building designed by Romanian architect Cristofi Cerchez , "Stătescu Villa", in Câmpulung , later became a registered historic monument ?
Did you know that many scholars identify the archaeological Yueshi culture‎ with the Eastern Barbarians mentioned in ancient documents, but others disagree?
Did you know that the Indian filmmaker Satyajit Ray was awarded both India's highest civilian award and France's highest decoration ?
Did you know that the larva of Aphidius nigripes , a parasitoid of the potato aphid , can control the behaviour of its host ?
Did you know that Kelley Johnson won the Miss Colorado 2015 pageant with a monologue inspired by her experiences as a nurse?
Did you know that Conrad Black feared that Tom Bower 's biography Conrad and Lady Black: Dancing on the Edge was going to be "a heartwarming story of two sleazy, spivvy, contemptible people"?
Did you know that Lixia Zhang coined the term " middlebox "?
Did you know that Canadian artist Jillian Tamaki , of This One Summer fame, wrote the Adventure Time episodes " Astral Plane " and " The Diary "?
Did you know that Bach's cantata Ich hatte viel Bekümmernis , BWV 21 , probably served for both a memorial service and for job applications, and certainly for the Third Sunday after Trinity in 1714 and 1723?
Did you know that the golfer Bertie Snowball was a professional in all four Home Nations before being killed in action during World War I, aged just 28?
Did you know that most of the flow that Wilson Creek contributes to the Lackawanna River comes from one acid mine drainage discharge?
Did you know that the #NiUnaMenos demonstration against femicide in Argentina was attended by nearly 200,000 people?
Did you know that in 1681, a white woman married an African slave in colonial Maryland, even though she knew that doing so would condemn her to a life of slavery?
Did you know that before he became senior vice president of Disney Television Animation , Eric Coleman helped develop SpongeBob SquarePants ?
Did you know that the right to name Congregation Albert , a synagogue in Albuquerque, New Mexico , was auctioned off for $250?
Did you know that Carl Nielsen composed At the Bier of a Young Artist for the funeral of the promising painter Oluf Hartmann ?
Did you know that the Game of Thrones episode " Mother's Mercy " contains unpublished material from the novel The Winds of Winter ?
Did you know that Shelley Cronau , who suffered serious injuries in a fall, joined the Be the Influence advertising campaign to warn others about the dangers of binge drinking ?
Did you know that after his favourite concubine gave birth to a son, Duke Xuan of Chen killed the crown prince and made the newborn his heir apparent?
Did you know that the small trees and shrubs Myrcianthes coquimbensis , Myrceugenia rufa , Myrceugenia colchaguensis , and Myrceugenia leptospermoides are endemic to the coastal region of Chile and are all endangered ?
Did you know that Tyus Battle won a gold medal in the final of the 2014 FIBA Under-17 World Championship ?
Did you know that the Saverne Tunnel beneath Mont Saint-Michel will allow trains on a new high-speed rail line in France to operate at a maximum speed of 350 km/h (220 mph)?
Did you know that Kyle Gallner did not know that his character in Veronica Mars , Cassidy "Beaver" Casablancas , would be revealed as a murderer in the second season finale, " Not Pictured ", until a costumer told him?
Did you know that at Bobby Chinn 's self-titled restaurant in Hanoi , dishes are influenced by his time in France, including filet mignon in spring rolls ?
Did you know that oncologist Alan Coates was once lowered through the ceiling of St Mary's Cathedral, Sydney ?
Did you know that the mining industry of Swaziland includes what may be the world's oldest iron mine?
Did you know that a reluctant John Wooden was convinced by assistant coach Jerry Norman to use a zone press , which became instrumental in the first two national titles won by the UCLA basketball program?
Did you know that the Flatiron Flyer bus rapid transit line is expected to carry 11,000 riders a day and be 10 to 15 minutes faster than the bus it replaces?
Did you know that Eritha , one of the most significant priestesses in Mycenaean Pylos in c. 1200 BC, was involved in a dispute over the legal status of her religious holdings?
Did you know that Tarik Badwan, the vocalist of LOOM , has been called "the angriest man to stalk a stage in ages"?
Did you know that Munk's devil ray sometimes performs vertical leaps, somersaults and other acrobatic manoeuvres?
Did you know that the 38-year tenure of Bernard "Berny" Stone as Alderman from the 50th Ward in the Chicago City Council spanned seven Chicago Mayors , including two Mayors Daley?
Did you know that the Routhian of analytical mechanics is a hybrid of the Lagrangian and the Hamiltonian ?
Did you know that Shehzad Sheikh , son of Javed Sheikh , has played a lead role in the upcoming film Karachi Se Lahore after debuting in Main Hoon Shahid Afridi ?
Did you know that airborne silica exposure in Tanzanian mines is more than three hundred times the limit set by NIOSH in the United States?
Did you know that gridiron football player Derel Walker was the last wide receiver to catch a college pass from Cleveland Browns quarterback Johnny Manziel ?
Did you know that Paul Wild , who spearheaded the Very Fast Train Joint Venture in the 1980s, traced a preliminary route using dinner plates and numerous topographic maps spread out on his living room floor?
Did you know that 2015 titleholder Daja Dial is the third African American to be crowned Miss South Carolina ?
Did you know that the dwarf sawfish is estimated to live for up to 48 years?
Did you know that commentators believe a recent United States Supreme Court decision "may well leave the Obama climate agenda in tatters"?
Did you know that Jake Olson plays professional Canadian football despite a congenital disorder that caused him to dislocate his left knee once and his right knee twice?
Did you know that the organisation and curriculum of the university in the Province of Bologna , founded in 1088, were emulated in other universities across Italy?
Did you know that the fictional character Elvira Hancock , played by Michelle Pfeiffer , has been described as an "embittered drug addict with the self-esteem of an empty bullet casing"?
Did you know that George William Symes was awarded the Military Cross for single-handedly capturing twenty enemy soldiers?
Did you know that the 30th Legislative District of New Jersey shifted to Burlington , Monmouth , and Ocean counties in 1991 because of declining population in Essex County in the previous decade?
Did you know that the Kashi Vishwanath Temple in Varanasi has been destroyed and rebuilt several times and is one of the 12 Jyotirlingas Shiva temples in India?
Did you know that The Exonerated is a play about death row inmates who have been exonerated?
Did you know that a fellow Romanian critic challenged Mihail Dragomirescu to a duel over his defense of a controversial Jewish-themed play by Ronetti Roman ?
Did you know that DOCK8 deficiency is a rare disease that causes the production of too much immunoglobulin E ?
Did you know that the clergyman Arthur Wagner had such a large collection of valuable books and manuscripts that it took three days to sell them after his death?
Did you know that when asked, Veronica Mars actor Enrico Colantoni immediately suggested former Just Shoot Me! co-star and friend Laura San Giacomo for the role of his love interest in " Charlie Don't Surf "?
Did you know that as well as commanding a view of the countryside, RAAF Eastern Area 's Blue Mountains headquarters incorporated a disused railway tunnel that offered "complete protection from Atom Bomb attack"?
Did you know that the 1983 Tamil film Oru Indhiya Kanavu was based on a play by the director Komal Swaminathan himself?
Did you know that the original script outline for the romantic comedy The Other Woman (2014) was characterised as The First Wives Club (1996) but with a younger cast?
Did you know that the M19 Multiple Gun Motor Carriage turrets were remounted on M41 light tanks to make the M42 Duster ?
Did you know that American actress Irene Purcell acted in the play Dancing Partner (1930) and the 1931 film based on it ?
Did you know that the Minicoy Island Lighthouse is the only lighthouse in India that has a postage stamp and a first day cover issued in its name?
Did you know that artist Enno Hallek and his family fled the Soviet occupation of Estonia to Sweden on his father's fishing trawler ?
Did you know that Dahlgren Chapel of the Sacred Heart is now home to a cross believed to have been used in the first Catholic mass said by an Englishman in North America?
Did you know that Jotnian sedimentary rocks are the oldest known sediments in the Baltic area that have not been subject to the geological process of metamorphism ?
Did you know that Elena Cattaneo "show[ed] the influence that individual scientists can have in fighting anti-science forces"?
Did you know that the Hammond Electric Bridge Table was the first bridge table to automatically shuffle and deal cards using electricity?
Did you know that Viceroy of Prome Thado Dhamma Yaza III revolted against his father King Nanda of Toungoo Burma during the Siamese siege of Pegu (Bago) in 1595?
Did you know that Miss Oregon 2013 Allison Cook wore cow print boots and a dress covered in Tillamook Cheese wrappers at the Miss America 2014 "Show Us Your Shoes" parade?
Did you know that James T. Brady defended Lew Baker , who fatally shot "Bill the Butcher" Poole at a Manhattan bar in 1855?
Did you know that the cuisine of Jharkhand and Bihari cuisine are often similar, in part because these separate states were at one time the single state of Bihar ?
Did you know that Priyanka Chopra attained a muscular physique through three months of extensive training to play the eponymous boxing world champion in the 2014 biopic Mary Kom ?
Did you know that Colonel Miller argued that women were "primeval abolitionists" who should be admitted to the World Anti-Slavery Convention in 1840?
Did you know that the Alamgir Mosque, Varanasi , built in the 17th century over the ruins of a Hindu temple, has been described as "like a fist thrust in the face of Hinduism "?
Did you know that the Home Office whistleblower Steve Moxon was deselected as a UK Independence Party candidate in 2012 local elections because of comments he made about Anders Behring Breivik ?
Did you know that " Donut Run ", an episode of Veronica Mars , was the first professional directing job for series creator Rob Thomas , who was even unsure when to call "action" during filming?
Did you know that during the American Civil War , Union general Samuel C. Armstrong , a native of Maui , met fellow Hawaiians J. R. Kealoha and Kaiwi, who served in the U.S. colored regiments ?
Did you know that a 2006 Singapore case says the test for apparent bias , a type of procedural impropriety , involves asking if a fair-minded person would have a reasonable suspicion that a fair trial is impossible?
Did you know that Karachi, You're Killing Me! , a debut novel by Saba Imtiaz , is described as " Bridget Jones's Diary meets The Diary of a Social Butterfly "?
Did you know that Danijela Krstić is the first Miss Oregon who was born outside of the United States?
Did you know that Gurudongmar Lake , one of the highest in the world, is named after Guru Padmasambhava , founder of Tibetan Buddhism , who visited the lake in the 8th century?
Did you know that Operation Shrouded Horizon was an 18-month international law enforcement investigation into an online forum described as "a cyber hornet's nest of criminal hackers"?
Did you know that the poet Malcolm Guite , who grew up in Nigeria, Canada, and England, decided he belonged in England partly after discovering real ale – something "they don't have properly in Canada at all"?
Did you know that the collared tuco-tuco is rather secretive, emerging only briefly from the entrance to its burrow to forage?
Did you know that Calvin McCarty played for Team Canada in the 2001 Big League World Series before playing over eight seasons in the Canadian Football League ?
Did you know that the amir al-hajj supervised the funding and supply of the annual Hajj pilgrim caravan to Mecca and Medina , and its protection from Bedouin raiders?
Did you know that The Allman Brothers Band was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1995?
Did you know that after the death of Argentine president Raúl Alfonsín , hundreds of people held a candlelight vigil outside of his house?
Did you know that the anime adaptation of the Fushigi na Somera-chan manga was originally announced as an April Fools' Day joke?
Did you know that Banksy described his Dismaland as a "family theme park unsuitable for children"?
Did you know that Miss Virginia 2014 Courtney Garrett won her title by singing " Parla Più Piano ", an Italian-language version of the love theme from The Godfather ?
Did you know that the star 51 Eridani hosts a Jupiter -like planet, the smallest extrasolar planet ever directly imaged?
Did you know that Intenso Project included members from Phats & Small and Double Trouble ?
Did you know that the First Biennium roughly encompasses the first two years of the Second Spanish Republic ?
Did you know that HMS Perseverance took part in the Battle of Tellicherry , and in doing so, nearly caused a diplomatic incident?
Did you know that the Anita Borg Institute gave blind computer scientist Chieko Asakawa their Women of Vision Award ?
Did you know that Romania 's Ioan Alexandru Brătescu-Voinești , after largely steering clear of controversy during his career, became a public and vociferous anti-Semite when he was nearly seventy?
Did you know that 20 different macroinvertebrate taxa have been observed in Cider Run ?
Did you know that British nobleman Lord Charles Beresford proposed marriage to the part- Hawaiian chiefess Nancy Sumner but she refused, likely due to their social and racial differences?
Did you know that Louis H. Fead , Chief Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court , was recognized for common sense opinions devoid of erudition?
Did you know that the longest recycled plastic bench in Italy is said to be at Increa Park in Brugherio ?
Did you know that JoAnn Dean Killingsworth became the first person to play Snow White at Disneyland on July 17, 1955, the theme park's opening day?
Did you know that the Arturia MiniBrute synthesizer includes an overdrive effect based on a hacking technique used on the Minimoog ?
Did you know that the phrase "Manny being Manny" is named after professional baseball player Manny Ramirez because of his frequent quirky behavior?
Did you know that although the Unirea newspaper was published by the Romanian Greek-Catholic Church , its coverage focused on political rather than religious matters?
Did you know that when the Berlin college for kindergarten teachers needed holiday cover in 1883, they sent for Caroline Bishop from England?
Did you know that although 155,000 carats of diamonds were officially mined in Liberia in 2001, far more were smuggled to neighboring countries illegally?
Did you know that Artur Talvik, who was the Estonian Free Party 's prime ministerial candidate in the 2015 elections and received the most votes of all the party's candidates, was not a member of the party himself?
Did you know that Argentine doctor María Teresa Ferrari , the first female university professor in Latin America , invented a prize-winning vaginoscope ?
Did you know that the population of the small Turkish town of Özdere can reach nearly 100,000 in the summer due to its popularity with tourists ?
Did you know that Miss Virginia 2015 Savannah Lane says she is "distantly related" to Elvis Presley ?
Did you know that the Trees Party of Taiwan is committed to "defending trees and Mother Earth from human greed and ignorance"?
Did you know that Kenneth Tempest took part in the RAF Bomber Command 's last operation of the Second World War and was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross not long after?
Did you know that one of the stone ships in Gnisvärd is the largest on Gotland ?
Did you know that in the first edition of the Columbia Journal of Environmental Law , Michael I. Sovern assured readers the journal would not be "recycled" like another "long-gone New York newspaper"?
Did you know that Romanian writer Lucia Mantu kept her real identity a close secret, with even her editor Mihail Sadoveanu only finding out by accident?
Did you know that Rapid Run was involved in a "blatant act of 'stream piracy ' " about one million years ago?
Did you know that West Indies cricketer Lance Gibbs took a pair of five-wicket hauls on two different occasions at the Old Trafford Cricket Ground ?
Did you know that the fossil male Burmacoccus scale insect has a transparent abdomen showing its testes ?
Did you know that the British palaeontologist R. J. G. Savage was described by a colleague as "a raffish gentleman explorer"?
Did you know that 14th-century Moorish Baths are located in the basement of the Gibraltar Museum ?
Did you know that Willy Mitchell bought an electric guitar with money awarded to him after being shot in the head by a police officer?
Did you know that Crown Prince Minye Kyawswa defected from his father King Nanda 's moribund Toungoo Empire in 1599, only to be executed by the enemy a few days later?
Did you know that Nevio Marasović 's 2010 debut The Show Must Go On is only the third science fiction film in the history of Croatian cinema ?
Did you know that Michael Schopper performed as a bass soloist in the first recording of Bach's St Matthew Passion with period instruments conducted by Nikolaus Harnoncourt ?
Did you know that a moratorium on licenses for mining in South Sudan was imposed in 2010?
Did you know that Beatrice Edgell was the first British woman to earn a PhD in Psychology and the first woman president of the British Psychological Society ?
Did you know that according to historian Chris Coulthard-Clark, North-Western Area was "one of the few areas where the RAAF was free to run its own show" in World War II?
Did you know that on hearing of being awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics , Eugene Wigner confessed that he had "never expected to get my name in the newspapers without doing something wicked"?
Did you know that Bach composed the cantata Geist und Seele wird verwirret , BWV 35 , 15 years after its text by Georg Christian Lehms first appeared in print?
Did you know that in 2015, Alissa St Laurent became the first woman to win the Canadian Death Race ?
Did you know that at an Air Products factory in Saint-Quentin-Fallavier , a perpetrator beheaded the manager and then crashed the victim's van into gas cylinders , causing an explosion that injured two people?
Did you know that Nigerian footballer Uchechi Sunday scored five goals for FC Minsk in her debut at the UEFA Women's Champions League in 2015?
Did you know that apart from gold and diamonds, the mining in Mali also includes rock salt, semi-precious stones and phosphates?
Did you know that Qing dynasty philosopher Li Guangdi 's machinations resulted in the exile of his friend Chen Minglei?
Did you know that American entrepreneur Pamela Meyer has been described by Reader's Digest as "the nation's best known expert on lying"?
Did you know that the computer scientist Jean Bacon became the first woman on the faculty of the Computer Laboratory at the University of Cambridge in 1985?
Did you know that mills on North Branch Buffalo Creek used to produce wool, lumber, cider, and grist?
Did you know that Dark Souls III would serve as a turning point for its developer FromSoftware ?
Did you know that the mining industry of Madagascar was struggling in 2013 due to "low metals prices and distrustful companies", attributed to a 2009 coup?
Did you know that Japanese epidemiologist Takeshi Hirayama has been credited with publishing the first study linking passive smoking to lung cancer in nonsmokers?
Did you know that Mariah Carey 's song " Auld Lang Syne (The New Year's Anthem) " is a house music version of the original poem ?
Did you know that Ferdinand Budicki , an early automobile pioneer from Zagreb , Croatia , had to teach his driving examiners how to drive?
Did you know that a blue plaque dedicated to George Livesey describes him as "one of Southwark's greatest industrialists"?
Did you know that the greater guinea pig is semi-aquatic and has webs between its toes?
Did you know that Johannes Wiese was the 45th Luftwaffe pilot to claim 100 aerial victories?
Did you know that the house of Argentine journalist Jorge Lanata was stoned and apparently shot at after he aired interviews about the 2008 triple crime ?
Did you know that after winning three national championships with the UCLA Bruins , John Ecker played basketball overseas and married German Olympic gold medalist Heide Rosendahl ?
Did you know that the Gazetteer of the Persian Gulf, Oman and Central Arabia is considered "the most important single source of historical material on the Gulf States and Saudi Arabia "?
Did you know that Aage Bohr and Niels Bohr are one of four pairs of fathers and sons who have won the Nobel Prize in Physics ?
Did you know that Adelaide Manning helped Florence Nightingale to fund Cornelia Sorabji when she arrived from India in 1889 to obtain a degree?
Did you know that a jet from the star V380 Orionis is thought to have blown a hole in the surrounding nebula NGC 1999 ?
Did you know that Alexei Vinogradov was executed in front of his command, the Soviet 44th Rifle Division , after it was decimated at the Battle of Raate Road ?
Did you know that it has been said that man prefers Noah's wine to Adam's ale ?
Did you know that Wilke te Brummelstroete performed the alto parts in Volume I of the Bach Cantata Pilgrimage which received the 2005 Gramophone Award Record of the Year?
Did you know that Canadian football player Dexter Janke ran the fastest shuttle time among defensive backs at the national CFL Combine despite having torn his ACL three times?
Did you know that there are often an ice cream van and roaming sheep at the summit of the A4061 in South Wales ?
Did you know that the queenship of Blanche of Artois seemed perfect until her only son was dropped from the castle walls by his nurse?
Did you know that a sea monster figurehead has been recovered from the wreckage of Gribshunden , a 15th-century Danish warship ?
Did you know that Palokë Nika , who founded the oldest Albanian football club, KF Vllaznia Shkodër , was the first coach of KF Tirana ?
Did you know that the Benjamin Loxley house is noted in history as the place where a Quakeress overheard secret British plans and passed them on to George Washington , saving the Continental Army ?
Did you know that the feature film Mama was based on Andrés Muschietti 's "scariest" short film?
Did you know that the sacred geography of Varanasi is known as the "microcosm of India"?
Did you know that Howard Wiest , who never finished high school or attended law school, became Chief Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court ?
Did you know that Greek singer Litsa Diamanti has been described as the "child-wonder of the Sixties decade and the absolute diva of metapolitefsi "?
Did you know that a completely automated pancake machine was invented in Portland, Oregon , in 1928?
Did you know that the South Slavic Bible Institute was established to print Protestant religious books for all South Slavs ?
Did you know that Takeshi Murata 's digitally animated kinetic sculpture Melter 3-D uses the principles of a 3D-zoetrope to create the appearance that its surface is fluid and rippling?
Did you know that the type specimen of Albicoccus , a scale insect, is entombed with two types of flies in amber?
Did you know that Carl Nielsen's late piano pieces Tre Klaverstykker have been ascribed a "dual sense of childlike innocence and devilish improvisation"?
Did you know that former New York Yankees utility infielder Phil Linz says people remember him for the Harmonica Incident that happened 51 years ago today, instead of anything he did on the field?
Did you know that the Dutch resistance fighter Hanneke Ippisch brought Jewish children to safety in World War II and later started a bed and breakfast in Montana?