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Did you know that the governor of Shkodra , a member of the Moneta family , sent his wife and children to Venice before the Ottomans besieged his city in 1478?
Did you know that hyperconsumerism , "a consumerism for the sake of consuming", refers to consuming goods for non-functional purposes?
Did you know that Ulf Schirmer , director of the Oper Leipzig , conducted Richard Wagner 's early opera Die Feen as part of the Wagner Year 2013 , to be performed in concert at the Bayreuth Festival ?
Did you know that Welsh rugby union player Alun-Wyn Jones once said he would rather sing "The Power of Love" than " The Power of Four "?
Did you know that Omar Derdour was given the task of travelling to the Arab countries to raise support for the Algerian revolution ?
Did you know that Imperial Call , winner of the 1996 Cheltenham Gold Cup , was trained by one-legged Korean War veteran Fergie Sutherland ?
Did you know that director Gordon Parks chose to shoot the 1984 television film Solomon Northup's Odyssey in the Deep South where the kidnapped black man Solomon Northup worked in slavery?
Did you know that the scientist Neal Evenhuis is known for giving humorous and punny names to insects, such as Carmenelectra , Phthiria relativitae , Pieza kake , Pieza pie , and Pieza deresistans ?
Did you know that when Essex cricketer Dickie Dodds caught a batsman off a long hop , it decided his future marriage plans?
Did you know that Prince Eugen of Sweden , a painter trained in France, was seen as a suitable candidate for the throne of Norway in 1905?
Did you know that the speech So God Made a Farmer was featured in a Super Bowl XLVII commercial entitled "Farmer"?
Did you know that P. Shilu Ao was the first Chief Minister of Nagaland ?
Did you know that Adoptive Couple v. Baby Girl is only the second case on the Indian Child Welfare Act taken on by the United States Supreme Court ?
Did you know that South Korean photographer Ahn Jun is best known for her Self Portrait series of pictures showing herself sitting on the edge of skyscrapers?
Did you know that the tornada is the Occitan equivalent of the Old French envoi , the Galician-Portuguese finda , and the Italian congedo and commiato ?
Did you know that minor league baseball player Ben Guez changed teams five different times during the 2010 season?
Did you know that the 1 kroon coin from 1934 was voted the prettiest coin that has been in circulation in Estonia ?
Did you know that American football player Caleb Sturgis set Florida Gators records for field goals in a season and in a career?
Did you know that the semi-submersible ship Dockwise Vanguard can transport large floating oil rigs , drilling rigs or the world's largest spar platform , the Aasta Hansteen spar?
Did you know that novelist Shirley Barker 's first book of poetry enraged poet Robert Frost ?
Did you know that the Affenpinscher Banana Joe V Tani Kazari was described as having the "perfect body" by the judge who awarded him the title of Best in Show at the Westminster Kennel Club in 2013?
Did you know that Highwic has been a filming location for both Burger King and Hell Pizza ?
Did you know that fewer than 75 Poitevin horses were born in 2011?
Did you know that Tony Stewart led a Pepsi 400 record of 151 laps in the 2005 Pepsi 400 ?
Did you know that the annual Royal Fair of Algeciras , founded in 1850, is regarded as the most important festival in the Spanish city of Algeciras ?
Did you know that children's author Marjorie Hill Allee frequently collaborated with her husband, famed zoologist Warder Clyde Allee ?
Did you know that Governor Liu Weiping studied aircraft design and graduated from the Party School ?
Did you know that there is a Shit Brook in Shropshire ?
Did you know that in 1873, the ironclad river monitor Ozark transported Federal troops and New Orleans police attempting to apprehend the perpetrators of the Colfax Massacre ?
Did you know that from 1601 to 1609 Sir Francis Wolley provided a home at Pyrford for the poet John Donne and Anne More after their clandestine marriage?
Did you know that Saturday Night Live writer Marilyn Suzanne Miller got her start in television by calling James L. Brooks after seeing his name in the credits for The Mary Tyler Moore Show ?
Did you know that in the 1991 case Re Fong Thin Choo the Singapore High Court held that a public authority's decision can be invalidated if based on a misconception or ignorance of a fact?
Did you know that Allan Donald 's five wickets for 29 runs is the fifth best bowling performance by any bowler on debut in One Day Internationals ?
Did you know that the railway station at Paranapiacaba , Brazil, has a clock tower modelled on the tower for Big Ben in London ?
Did you know that more than three-quarters of Alaska 's lode gold was mined from the Juneau gold belt ?
Did you know that in 1896 Émile Mayade won the first city-to-city motor race in which the winner was the fastest finisher?
Did you know that the first McColley's Chapel was the oldest Methodist church in Georgetown Hundred ?
Did you know that the 1984 Simple Minds album Sparkle in the Rain spent 57 weeks in the UK LP charts?
Did you know that the University of North Texas ' Tony Mitchell is a projected lottery pick in June's 2013 NBA Draft ?
Did you know that UN criticism of the exclusion of women from the line of succession to the Liechtensteiner throne was rejected by Hans-Adam II , who noted that the rule was older than the state itself?
Did you know that Infanta Elena, Duchess of Lugo is the Honorary President of the Spanish Paralympic Committee ?
Did you know that cinematographer Gerald Finnerman , who worked on Moonlighting and Star Trek , was the sole survivor of a plane crash in 1969?
Did you know that the Russian ship of the line Oryol was laid down in 1851 as a sailing ship of the line , but was lengthened and fitted with a steam engine while still on the stocks ?
Did you know that when Christian Thomsen Carl was killed in a duel , his murderer was arrested and thus prevented from burning down Anklam ?
Did you know that Slamet Rahardjo garnered three Citra Award nominations for the film Ponirah Terpidana ?
Did you know that author and educator Jane Andrews was the first student to enroll at Antioch College ?
Did you know that during the construction of the Brookville Tunnel in Virginia , repairs to two major cave-ins were prevented by a landslide that blocked the tunnel's western entrance?
Did you know that Spanish visually impaired guides Aleix Suñé , Félix Aznar and Arnau Ferrer all skied with blind para-alpine skier Gabriel Gorce?
Did you know that at the Battle of Newton , Alabama, the commander of the Federal force was a former Confederate officer?
Did you know that John Wolley was sent to King James in June 1586 to assure him that Mary, Queen of Scots was being well treated, and four months later was one of the commissioners who tried and convicted her?
Did you know that Project Lead the Way , a pre-engineering program used in secondary schools, was started in the Shenendehowa Central School District in New York?
Did you know that Sandy Dukat , Paralympic alpine skiing medalist in 2002 and 2006 , was also a Paratriathlon World Champion in 2008?
Did you know that in 1924 the White Lady , known locally as the "Widden Wife", was shipwrecked in the vicinity of Gossabrough in Scotland ?
Did you know that Li Jiheng has been Governor of China's Yunnan Province since 2011?
Did you know that the great West Indian sea lily can break free from its stem in order to evade predators ?
Did you know that the first oil pipeline in the Russian Empire , laid by the Nobel brothers , fed the refineries in Black City , Baku, now in the Republic of Azerbaijan ?
Did you know that " Pobre Corazón ", recorded by Divino , was included on Ivy Queen 's Sentimiento as a part of her evolution in reggaetón ?"
Did you know that despite being developed with female focus groups , and being available in a plum color , the HTC Rhyme smartphone was not explicitly marketed towards women?
Did you know that Bengali actor Gurudas Banerjee was a "specialist" at portraying Sri Ramakrishna , a role he "almost monopolized" on both stage and screen ?
Did you know that Brunei 's Ulu Temburong National Park can only be reached by longboat ?
Did you know that former North Carolina Loyalist militia commander John Hamilton was appointed as the British Consul to Norfolk, Virginia , after the American Revolutionary War ?
Did you know that in the case of Mani v. Niger in 2008, a woman successfully defended herself against charges of bigamy by accusing the government of Niger of treating her like a slave?
Did you know that visually impaired skier Andrés Boira represented Spain at the 2006 and 2010 Winter Paralympics with different ski guides ?
Did you know that The Virginia Argus and Hampshire Advertiser was a Democratic weekly newspaper published in Romney , Virginia (now West Virginia ) prior to the American Civil War ?
Did you know that Gustavo González Castro left the Mexican Army , and later became a drug trafficker for Los Zetas ?
Did you know that Kia Makarechi of The Huffington Post wrote that Usher 's song " Go Missin' " contains "serial killer-esque undertones" in its lyrics?
Did you know that the Distinguished Warfare Medal is the first American combat-related award to be created since the Bronze Star Medal in 1944?
Did you know that the new far right party the British Democratic Party was established by current Member of the European Parliament Andrew Brons ?
Did you know that Kenneth Feder 's teenage interest in the paranormal led to a career in archaeology studying it?
Did you know that Anakalang is a society and a megalithic site in Sumba , Indonesia noted for its quadrangular adzes and numerous megalithic tombs ?
Did you know that until it was destroyed by fire in January 2013, Grimes Mill was the only roller mill museum in North Carolina?
Did you know that Blanche of France was made a nun at the age of seven in order to atone for her aunt Blanche 's adultery?
Did you know that Ali Maow Maalin was the last person in the world to be infected with naturally occurring smallpox ?
Did you know that Princeton , led by 2012 unanimous All-Ivy selection Ian Hummer , entered the 2012–13 season as the Ivy League men's basketball favorite, since a cheating scandal has ensnared Harvard ?
Did you know that in 2011 the Thailand automotive industry was the largest in Southeast Asia and the 15th largest in the World ?
Did you know that Catholic priest T. Lawrason Riggs was forbidden to celebrate mass at Yale University ?
Did you know that the Municipal Museum documents three periods in Algeciras 's history: Roman-Byzantine Algecir, the Andalusian city, and the modern era?
Did you know that a chicken sandwich from Slow's Bar BQ in Detroit, Michigan, made it to the final of Adam Richman's Best Sandwich in America ?
Did you know that the 66th (2nd East Lancashire) Division of the British Army lost almost three-quarters of its strength during the first ten days of the Spring Offensive in March 1918?
Did you know that Sally Jewell , President Barack Obama 's nominee for United States Secretary of the Interior , has climbed Vinson Massif , the tallest peak in Antarctica ?
Did you know that the Fulmar sank off the coast of Kilkee , Co. Clare , exactly 50 years to the day after the Intrinsic did?
Did you know that as a high school senior, Jordan Poyer was named the Oregon player of the year in both baseball and football?
Did you know that a Greek Orthodox Monastery in Cyprus has been turned into a storage house for the Turkish military?
Did you know that Mexican drug lord Óscar Guerrero Silva was nicknamed Winnie Pooh ?
Did you know that dignitaries travelled from as far afield as Yugoslavia to look at Tilgate 's "impressive" shopping parade, one of Crawley 's 58 locally listed buildings ?
Did you know that ETA bombing survivor, author and para-alpine skier Irene Villa was a member of the first Spanish women's disability ski club?
Did you know that Capella Cracoviensis received enthusiastic reviews from the critics by switching to period instruments ?
Did you know that British Royalist Andrew Sprowle founded the United States Navy 's longest continuously operating naval shipyard in 1767?
Did you know that according to Adam Levine of band Maroon 5 , " Sad " is his most personal track on their album Overexposed ?
Did you know that during her underground imprisonment for adultery, Blanche of Burgundy gave birth and became queen of two kingdoms?
Did you know that on May 30, 1969, thousands of oil workers rioted on the small, normally tranquil Caribbean island of Curaçao , causing some $40 million in damage?
Did you know that Ynes Mexia collected 150,000 plant samples during a career that began at the age of 55?
Did you know that the Creole House is an important part of a French colonial settlement in Illinois, although it was built by Americans?
Did you know that Bayanqolu , the governor of China's Jilin Province, is a Mongol ?
Did you know that the Mediterranean feather star is often found clinging to sea whips ?
Did you know that Jack Spigot 's mother killed the mother of one of his racing rivals ?
Did you know that in Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs v Yunus Rahmatullah the UK Supreme Court ruled that the detention of a suspected al-Qaeda fighter, prima facie , breached the Geneva Convention ?
Did you know that Chinese singer Yisa Yu participated three times in the Super Girl singing contest before reaching the top ten in 2009?
Did you know that the truthfulness of many of the facts in U.S. Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas 's best-selling 1974 memoir Go East, Young Man has been questioned?
Did you know that Anna Litvinova , the winner of Miss Universe – Russia 2006 contest, died on 22 January 2013 in a hospital in Germany, after suffering from cancer for one year?
Did you know that the small village of Kirikuküla in Estonia is site of the Kaarma church and remains of the Kaarma ring fort, both originating from the 13th century?
Did you know that Ro Khanna raised US$ 1.2 million to run for the United States House of Representatives in 2012, but did not run?
Did you know that when the cargo ship Sirius was sunk by a German bomber during the 1940 Norwegian Campaign , the 55-year-old steamer broke in two lengthwise and "opened up like a book"?
Did you know that Tim Barrow , the current British ambassador to Russia , was formerly the ambassador to Ukraine ?
Did you know that stagshorn corals such as Acropora pulchra and Acropora aspera are fed on preferentially by the crown-of-thorns starfish ?
Did you know that Alfred Planyavsky "has given his life to the double bass ", playing with the Vienna Philharmonic , writing a history of the instrument, and collecting the Kontrabass-Archiv ?
Did you know that the International Criminal Court is conducting an investigation into alleged war crimes in Mali ?
Did you know that an adalid had to be wise, courageous, loyal, and possess common sense?
Did you know that Giuseppe Verdi 's biographer Mary Jane Phillips-Matz once characterized the modern opera business as "monstropera"?
Did you know that, while filming the 1978 documentary Bears and Man , director Bill Schmalz witnessed a grizzly bear maul a Parks Canada game warden to death?
Did you know that gunmen broke into a cemetery and stole the corpse of drug lord Efraín Teodoro Torres ?
Did you know that Broadway 's 48th Street Theatre was the site of dancer Martha Graham 's professional debut, screenwriter June Mathis 's death, and the premiere of the Pulitzer Prize -winning Harvey ?
Did you know that John Treadwell 's mining complex "put Juneau on the map"?
Did you know that in his 2013 book, Fresh Off the Boat: A Memoir , food personality Eddie Huang relates his past activities, which include practising law, performing stand-up comedy, and dealing marijuana?
Did you know that the only commercial copper deposit in Southeast Alaska situated north of Prince of Wales Island was located in William Henry Bay ?
Did you know that Norwegian footballer Ola Kamara was forced to move home to his mother after signing with Strømsgodset IF ?
Did you know that Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews ' story about Abraham Lincoln may be the most popular book ever published about the 16th President?
Did you know that RNAS Longside at Lenabo, near Longside , Aberdeenshire was the most northerly air ship station in Britain?
Did you know that Richard Hovannisian called the Armenian National Congress "the most comprehensive Eastern Armenian gathering since the Russian conquest of Transcaucasia "?
Did you know that American football player Noel Grigsby set San Jose State records for receptions and receiving yards in a career?
Did you know that the song " Dat Sexy Body " was released in 1998 but didn't gain chart success until five years later?
Did you know that Pope Benedict XIV arranged for Jonathan Sisson 's instruments to be installed in the Bologna Academy ?
Did you know that the Christian town of al-Sawda became a dynamic center in coastal Syria during French Mandate rule largely because its residents did not take part in the 1919 Syrian Revolt ?
Did you know that the CITV Old Skool Weekend aimed to "show the kids what their parents watched when they were very young"?
Did you know that Sooranporu , a folk ritual performance in the Southern Indian states of Tamil Nadu and Kerala , is a reenactment of the killing of Asuras by Murugan ?
Did you know that Miguel Galindo Garces won a gold medal at the 2010 Winter Paralympics , although he does not have a disability?
Did you know that English footballer Ben Everson played for Icelandic Úrvalsdeild team Breiðablik when they qualified for the 2013–14 UEFA Europa League First qualifying round ?
Did you know that Ratha Kalpana is a metaphor used in Hindu scriptures to describe the relationship between the senses , mind , intellect and Self ?
Did you know that some of the elements for the Star Trek: Enterprise episode " The Forge " were based on an episode from Star Trek: The Animated Series ?
Did you know that Sir Walter Buckler was secretary to Queen Katherine Parr and chamberlain to Princess Elizabeth ?
Did you know that " Like You " was Daddy Yankee 's second best performing single in the United States in 2005 behind " Gasolina "?
Did you know that when Bangkok 's power plants were bombed during World War II , two Matchanu -class submarines were used as electric generators to keep city trams running?
Did you know that basketball player Bill Hanson played in Spain and won the 1963–64 FIBA European Champions Cup , after declining to play in the NBA ?
Did you know that Mexico–Venezuela relations were strained in November 2005 by comments Hugo Chavez made on a talk show?
Did you know that after writing a positive review for the film Kedok Ketawa , Saeroen wrote two scripts for its production company?
Did you know that Lieutenant Colonel Roger Fleetwood-Hesketh and his brother, Captain Cuthbert, were WW2 intelligence officers and members of Ops (B) , which was involved in D-Day deception planning?
Did you know that mezzo-soprano singer Jaklin Çarkçı can speak six languages?
Did you know that the Countess of Rutland , mother of 11, had to inform the English queen Anne of Cleves that receiving a goodnight kiss was not enough to conceive a child?
Did you know that the Bandhi community of Karnataka seeks divine approval for marriage from the Ganesha of Idagunji ?
Did you know that Gaddafi was criticized in the Middle East for failing to extract sufficient Western concessions in exchange for relinquishing his WMDs and nuclear weapons program ?
Did you know that according to music critic Cameron Adams of Herald Sun , the Maroon 5 song " Doin' Dirt " is a "disco monster"?
Did you know that the Dutch linguist Lambert ten Kate was an early phonetician ?
Did you know that Huwen op Bevel , advertised as the first talkie in what is now Indonesia, was the director 's last film in that role?
Did you know that YouTube personality Peter Chao was forced to study in Canada by his "prostitute mother"?
Did you know that the Smooth Fox Terrier Warren Remedy is the most successful dog ever at the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show ?
Did you know that the gum from the Australian shrub Hakea gibbosa was investigated as an additive for sustained-release tablets?
Did you know that Dennis To , who played the Wing Chun grandmaster Ip Man in the 2010 film The Legend Is Born – Ip Man , won a gold medal in duilian together with two teammates at the 2005 East Asian Games ?
Did you know that Leona Lewis became a victim of internet hacking when her song " Don't Let Me Down ", a collaboration with Justin Timberlake , was leaked?
Did you know that Labour politician Walter C. Craine was successful in getting the Manx Divorce Act approved in Tynwald in 1938?
Did you know that Wil Wheaton won more awards for Star Trek: The Next Generation than any other cast member?
Did you know that Indians living in Bahrain account for 31% of the country 's total population?
Did you know that U.S. Hockey Hall of Famer Gary Suter won a silver medal at the 2002 Olympic Games , 22 years after his brother Bob won gold?
Did you know that sketches on the television comedy series The Dingo Principle resulted in the expulsion of two Australian diplomats from Iran, and a letter of complaint from the Soviet embassy in Canberra?
Did you know that Alabama in 1959 defeated Tulane for both its football program 's 100th Southeastern Conference victory and head coach Bear Bryant 's 100th career victory?
Did you know that in letterpress printing , composition rollers are used to apply ink to the bed of type?
Did you know that Lionel Richie 's Just for You , released soon after his divorce, was dedicated to himself?
Did you know that civilian government in Gibraltar only emerged in the 20th century because its governors gave priority to its role as a military fortress?
Did you know that American football player Beau Blankenship set an Ohio Bobcats record for rushing yards in a season?
Did you know that Vichna Kaplan , the prize pupil of Sarah Schenirer and founder of the first Bais Yaakov high school in America, was initially rejected from joining Schenirer's teachers seminary in Poland?
Did you know that Namling in Tibet contains a prominent fortress which has been likened to castles along the Rhine ?
Did you know that Chrisye 's album Recession found inspiration in The Police ?
Did you know that the Ako Bicol Political Party , which won the most votes in the 2010 Philippine party-list election , may be disqualified from fielding candidates for the 2013 election?
Did you know that under the management of Alex Ferguson , Aberdeen defeated Real Madrid 2–1 in the 1983 European Cup Winners' Cup Final ?
Did you know that the Type 26 revolver was produced until destruction of the Koishikawa Arsenal by the 1923 Great Kantō Earthquake ?
Did you know that American news anchor and lawyer Jami Floyd was a White House Fellow who served both First Lady Hillary Clinton and Vice President Al Gore ?
Did you know that cultural homogenization in the context of the global spread of Western culture has been described under such names as McDonaldization , coca-colonization , Americanization or Westernization ?
Did you know that protests were organized against and calls were made out to expel writer Ekrem Eylisli‎ from his native Azerbaijan following the publication of his novella ?
Did you know that Birds of the World: Recommended English Names is the result of a 16-year effort to get consensus on standard English names for the world's birds?
Did you know that in centerless grinding , the workpiece is held in place by nothing more than the friction of both grinding wheels ?
Did you know that Noureddine Aba wrote a series of love poems inspired by a young couple dying at the time of Algeria becoming independent from France ?
Did you know that at the age of 79, veteran playback singer Asha Bhosle debuted as an actress in the 2013 Bollywood film Mai playing the title role?
Did you know that in 1833, Carl Friedrich Rungenhagen , director of the Sing-Akademie zu Berlin , conducted the first performance of Bach's St John Passion after the composer's death?
Did you know that aborigines applied leaves of Persoonia falcata to circumcision wounds?