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Did you know that Heinrich Parler and his son Peter Parler were among the most influential Gothic architects of the Middle Ages?
Did you know that LifeRing Secular Recovery provides support and assistance to people trying to beat alcohol and drug addiction without religion?
Did you know that on May 24, 1985, over 100 villagers in Oliveto Citra claimed to have seen an apparition of the Virgin Mary ?
Did you know that to prepare for his role as surgeon Raf di Lucca in Holby City , actor Joe McFadden watched open-heart surgery?
Did you know that German architect August Soller died during construction of his greatest work , and was buried there before it was finished?
Did you know that Catananche lutea produces five types of seed that correspond to a range of different survival and dispersal strategies?
Did you know that William Hoapili Kaʻauwai traveled to Europe with Queen Emma , but made an unauthorized side trip to New Zealand to recruit Māori immigrants for the Kingdom of Hawaii ?
Did you know that Bach composed five organ settings of the hymn " Herr Jesu Christ, dich zu uns wend ", which was translated by Catherine Winkworth for communion as "Lord Jesus Christ, be present now!"?
Did you know that Carolyn B. Shelton became the first female governor in the United States when she spent a weekend as acting governor of Oregon in 1909?
Did you know that the Elsevier publication Explore: The Journal of Science & Healing has been described as a "sham masquerading as a real scientific journal" that publishes "truly ridiculous studies"?
Did you know that the part- Hawaiian Carlos A. Long was unanimously elected captain of the 1899 Georgetown Hoyas football team at Georgetown University ?
Did you know that Gufran-Ullah Beig is the first Indian scientist to receive the Norbert Gerbier-Mumm International Award of the World Meteorological Organization ?
Did you know that Francis Poulenc composed the four motets Quatre motets pour un temps de pénitence at different times, three of them on responsories for the Holy Week ?
Did you know that when the theologian Patrick Dehm was suspended by the Bishop of Limburg , he founded an ecumenical association to continue the work for contemporary church music?
Did you know that there are eight churches on Antarctica ?
Did you know that Lvinaya Past was the site of the largest Holocene volcanic eruption in the Southern Kurils ?
Did you know that the first adult female Pterinoxylus spinulosus was described in 1957, some fifty years after the first male?
Did you know that zoological gardens were added to Sudhir Chandra Das 's ministerial portfolio in 1971?
Did you know that the Mexican Southern Railroad was originally run by executives from the United States, including former President Ulysses S. Grant ?
Did you know that Turkish novelist and journalist Suat Derviş was the granddaughter of a slave?
Did you know that George W. Macfarlane and Robert Hoapili Baker accompanied Hawaiian King Kalākaua on his final trip to California where the king died in 1891?
Did you know that during the bombing of Nagaoka in World War II, 80% of the urban area of the city burned down?
Did you know that the 501(h) election allows many U.S. non-profit organizations to engage in unlimited lobbying as long as they do it cheaply?
Did you know that Bill Roe made the highest score in cricket at the time when he scored 415 runs during an inter-college match at Cambridge University ?
Did you know that the fossil leaves of the maple species Acer whitebirdense had earlier been misattributed to the genera Viburnum , Platanus , and Rubus ?
Did you know that Giovanni Ambrogio Migliavacca wrote the libretto for Solimano , first set by Hasse and produced in Dresden with live elephants and camels?
Did you know that Herschel K. Mitchell , Roger J. Williams , and Esmond E. Snell isolated folic acid from four tons of processed spinach?
Did you know that a Chinese acting troupe was flogged for slander in the 13th century after they portrayed the scholar Wei Liaoweng as a drunkard?
Did you know that writer Ed Brubaker created the murdering vigilante in his comic book Kill or Be Killed because recent news events made him feel there was no justice?
Did you know that the historian who researched early Canadian baseball figure William Shuttleworth believed that "at first people thought I made him up"?
Did you know that the Mazu Temple in Lugang , Taiwan, includes wood carvings of the "Four Best Things in Life": stretching, ear-cleaning, nose-picking, and scratching?
Did you know that in Mongolia, the Tolai hare is hunted for use in traditional medicine?
Did you know that EJay Day , the first finalist ever eliminated from American Idol , also placed in the top 20 on Popstars: USA ?
Did you know that large concave cavetto mouldings feature strongly as cornices in Ancient Egyptian architecture?
Did you know that the Oregon Cultural Heritage Commission selected Listening for Coyote by William L. Sullivan as one of the 100 most significant books in Oregon history?
Did you know that for security purposes, Gaelic games club PSNI GAA players do not have their names published?
Did you know that although the medieval Lord High Treasurer John Crakehall was a clergyman sworn to celibacy, he had a daughter to whom he left part of his estate?
Did you know that Alice Brown , a professor of politics who advised the new Scottish Parliament on governance, went on to become the first Scottish Public Services Ombudsman ?
Did you know that the montane wood mouse is widespread and common in tropical Central Africa, but the closely related Mount Oku hylomyscus is found on a single mountainside and is critically endangered?
Did you know that the painter Caspar Isenmann left a detailed contract signed on 21 June 1462?
Did you know that India's Sangeet Natak Akademi fellowship for the performing arts is usually not conferred on anyone under the age of 50?
Did you know that Tukwila International Boulevard station near Seattle's international airport features an angular roof shaped like the wings of an airplane?
Did you know that Randy Edsall , UConn football 's all-time leader in games coached and wins as a head coach , was re-hired for 2017 after an absence of six seasons?
Did you know that scholars have been puzzled by a motif in Chinese Swatow ware , where a pagoda is split "almost like a volcanic eruption"?
Did you know that Lady Canning , India's first vicereine , has been described as one of the country's most memorable women botanical illustrators?
Did you know that during 1968 revisions to the United States Army Field Manuals , there was an attempt to eliminate the use of bayonets for crowd control ?
Did you know that Spanish association footballer Xiker joined Athletic Bilbao 's academy when he was just ten years old?
Did you know that in 1968, Indian philosopher and statesman Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan was the first recipient of the Sahitya Akademi fellowship ?
Did you know that the walls of the Woodhaven Boulevard subway station in New York City still prominently display the name of a plaza that was demolished in the 1950s?
Did you know that Franklin Seaver Pratt was removed from his post as diplomatic agent for defending the claim of his royal wife Elizabeth Kekaʻaniau Laʻanui to the Crown Lands of Hawaii ?
Did you know that in 1603, more than 1,000 rōnins rebelled at Rokugō in a "final suicidal gesture" for their former lord, Onodera Yoshimichi ?
Did you know that the British neuroscientist John Hughes shared the 1978 Lasker Award for co-discovering opioid peptides in the brain?
Did you know that in The Field of Fight , new US National Security Advisor Michael T. Flynn argues that Bolivia, China, Cuba, Nicaragua, North Korea, Russia and Venezuela are allied with Al-Qaeda and ISIS ?
Did you know that in 1088 the Anglo-Norman nobleman Robert Pantulf was accused of stealing 6 pounds (2.7 kg) of silver from the nuns of Holy Trinity Abbey, Caen ?
Did you know that the Swedish release of M2M 's debut album Shades of Purple was delayed by a legal dispute with another band named M2M?
Did you know that the Church of England Marriage Measure 2008 gave couples the legal right to get married in any parish where their parents or grandparents were married, but not in any cathedral ?
Did you know that the Philadelphia Phillies had four players record a batting average over .400 during the 1894 season?
Did you know that at the end of the Trunajaya rebellion , King Amangkurat II stabbed the defeated rebel leader Trunajaya to death?
Did you know that Edward C. Macfarlane worked for The Wasp and later married its owner's sister?
Did you know that sea slug Chelidonura fulvipunctata is likely an anti-Lessepsian migrant ?
Did you know that " When This Cruel War Is Over " was one of the most popular sentimental ballads of the American Civil War , sung by both Union and Confederate troops?
Did you know that monasteries and public buildings are illuminated during the Galdan Namchot festival marking the beginning of new year celebrations in Ladakh , India?
Did you know that for Givat Brenner 's 25th anniversary, kibbutz theatre director Shulamit Bat-Dori staged an open-air play with a cast and crew of 1,000, before an audience of 10,000?
Did you know that business historian Robert Sobel has described the New York Gold Exchange as "the most informal and certainly the wildest market in American history"?
Did you know that a study by child psychiatrist Stella Chess and her husband, Alexander Thomas, found that children could be divided into three different categories: "easy", "difficult", and "slow to warm up"?
Did you know that Girls' Generation was among the five South Korean acts that best represent K-pop during the past two decades, according to a 2015 poll by Korea Creative Content Agency?
Did you know that the lemon-bellied flyrobin occasionally catches and eats insects that are one-sixth of its length?
Did you know that Chinese Communist leader Mao Zedong divulged the Communist party's previously unknown history to American journalist Helen Foster Snow in 1937 for widespread publication?
Did you know that Sir William Napier wrote part of his History of the Peninsular War sitting at a stone table in the grounds of Freshford Manor ?
Did you know that Caspar Ziegler , who wrote a hymn on which Bach based a Christmas cantata , was professor of law and Rektor of the University of Wittenberg ?
Did you know that " Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown) " helped popularize Indian instrumentation in rock music?
Did you know that Clarence W. Macfarlane initiated the Transpacific Yacht Race in 1906, sailing from Honolulu to the California coast around the time of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake ?
Did you know that Derry City Ladies F.C. play football in the Northern Irish leagues while their men's team play in the Republic of Ireland's?
Did you know that in 2015, Alison Hughes was part of the first ever all-female officiating team in a Fed Cup final?
Did you know that the South Korea Improper Solicitation and Graft Act counts private teachers and journalists among the ranks of public officials?
Did you know that Chinese-Hawaiian lawyer and politician Joseph Apukai Akina became the first Speaker of the House of Representatives in the Territory of Hawaii ?
Did you know that the buffy pipit is often confused with the plain-backed pipit because both birds have plain upperparts?
Did you know that the 14th-century Moroccan scholar Ibn Marzuq wrote a hagiography of the Marinid sultan Abu al-Hasan Ali ibn Othman ?
Did you know that David distributed raisin cake ?
Did you know that the British scientist John Challens received the American Medal of Freedom for his work on the V-1 flying bomb and the V-2 rocket ?
Did you know that "Im April" from Max Reger 's Sechs Lieder , Op. 4 , has been called "one of Reger's sunniest songs"?
Did you know that George Panila Kamauoha served in the legislatures of three Hawaiian regimes?
Did you know that Pinchinthorpe railway station closed 13 years before the rest of the Middlesbrough and Guisborough Railway fell victim to the Beeching Axe ?
Did you know that acorns of the fossil oak Quercus hiholensis have possible insect damage preserved in them?
Did you know that after Agnes Fay Morgan conducted a nutritional study with foxes, she presented her data wearing a stole made from the fur of her subjects?
Did you know that up to 50% of a U.S. Federal Protective Forces detachment could be killed while defending a U.S. Department of Energy facility?
Did you know that the British member of parliament Jacob Rees-Mogg lives at Gournay Court where his great aunt had been a nurse during World War I?
Did you know that Workers Party of India leader Jyotibhushan Bhattacharya was jailed during the Sino-Indian War of 1962?
Did you know that as its natural habitat is converted to cropland, Goldman's pocket mouse is threatened by the increased use of rodenticides ?
Did you know that the 100th Brigade of the United Kingdom attacked High Wood during the Battle of the Somme ?
Did you know that the New Zealand eagle ray can detect prey completely submerged in sand and create a jet of water to expose it?
Did you know that quarterback Sam Darnold 's high school footage submitted to college football coaches consisted of his basketball highlights?
Did you know that Radio Universidad Autónoma de Guerrero has broadcast since 1982 but has never been recognized at the federal level?
Did you know that Kamran Aziz is the first Turkish Cypriot female composer, as well as one of the first Turkish Cypriot female pharmacists?
Did you know that a recent United States Supreme Court case began when insurance adjusters claimed they were instructed to falsely categorize damages after Hurricane Katrina ?
Did you know that in 1999, Rajeev Nayyar set the record for the longest first-class cricket innings, batting for almost 17 hours?
Did you know that Giant Days was published by BOOM! Box after writer John Allison saved a BOOM! editor from falling?
Did you know that David William Pua submitted petitions from the people of the Kingdom of Hawaii asking for the abrogation of the Bayonet Constitution , which had allowed him to be elected to the House of Nobles?
Did you know that the broad-tailed paradise whydah parasitises the orange-winged pytilia and mimics its call?
Did you know that John Dwyer chaired a government "Quackwatch Committee" whose objective was to tighten controls on wonder drugs and miracle cures?
Did you know that a large lake once occupied the Central Valley of California ?
Did you know that the OVC project supports the education of disadvantaged young people in Adigrat , Ethiopia?
Did you know that an Argentine politician was detained while allegedly trying to hide currency worth around US$7 million inside a convent?
Did you know that Augustus Constantine Sinclair conceived the idea for the Jamaica International Exhibition of 1891 but died on the day it opened?
Did you know that the classical pianist Yara Bernette was praised for her interpretation of Variations on a Theme from the Northeast of Brazil by the composer, Camargo Guarnieri ?
Did you know that detrital zircon geochronology uses zirconium silicate to determine the age of sedimentary rock?
Did you know that Akakio Tematereikura succeeded as regent of Mangareva after Queen Dowager Maria Eutokia Toaputeitou retired to the Rouru Convent on Mount Duff?
Did you know that Mercedes-Benz intends to release ten models in the EQ family of battery electric vehicles by 2025?
Did you know that Kjell Eriksson stated he was terrified to answer his telephone for fear that singer Carola would yell at him after an incident at Melodifestivalen 2008 ?
Did you know that Kim Seong-il believed the Japanese invasions of Korea would not take place?
Did you know that America's 60 Families was said to be comparable to Karl Marx 's Capital ?
Did you know that the Salīhids , an Arab Christian tribe, preceded the Ghassanids as the main Arab federates of the Byzantine Empire?
Did you know that test pilot Major General Clarence A. Shoop was court-martialed as a cadet?
Did you know that " The Student ", one of Anton Chekhov 's shortest stories, was also his favorite?
Did you know that Samuel K. Pua , assistant editor of an anti-annexationist Hawaiian newspaper, was severely injured when a goat attacked him at Waikiki ?
Did you know that Gwen Stefani 's unreleased song " Start a War " was compared to Sia Furler 's solo work?
Did you know that there were two special elections for Manila's first district seat to the Philippine Assembly in 1908?
Did you know that Germany's Klein Heidelberg used Great Britain's own Chain Home radar transmitters as the source for their passive radar?
Did you know that Australian cricketer Ian Moran took unpaid leave from his teaching job to play in the 2012 Champions League Twenty20 ?
Did you know that the name of the musical unit Myth & Roid comes from words representing the past and the future?
Did you know that on January 13, 1893, Queen Liliuokalani of the Kingdom of Hawaii appointed four new cabinet ministers – Samuel Parker , William Cornwell , John Colburn , and Arthur Peterson – whose opposition to a new constitution led to her overthrow on January 17?
Did you know that in a 1955 protest, nearly 1000 protesters from the Lok Sewak Sangh marched more than 300 mi (480 km) over 16 days to demand the incorporation of Bengali-speaking areas of Bihar into West Bengal ?
Did you know that Jesé won the Golden Boot Award at the 2012 UEFA European Under-19 Championship ?
Did you know that the Crocker Fan in Borneo has the largest volume of any Paleogene deep marine sediment in a single basin in southeast Asia?
Did you know that after Karl G. Maeser tutored Brigham Young 's 56 children, he went on to help found Brigham Young University?
Did you know that The Red Shoes dance in part to the strains of Citizen Kane ?
Did you know that Guendolen Plestcheeff was known as " Seattle 's Grand, Grand Lady" and "the most elegant woman in Seattle"?
Did you know that Alibabavum 40 Thirudargalum (1956) was the first full-length colour film in Tamil cinema ?
Did you know that M2M appeared on an episode of Dawson's Creek to promote their album The Big Room ?
Did you know that Ernest Ambler , a British-born, Oxford-educated physicist, became the director of the National Bureau of Standards in the United States?
Did you know that the Islamic State claimed responsibility for the 2016 Al-Karak attack against the "apostate Jordanian security forces"?
Did you know that J. J. Abrams consulted Pablo Hidalgo up to three times a day while filming Star Wars: The Force Awakens ?
Did you know that during World War I, HMS Negro sank after two depth charges from HMS Hoste tore open its hull?
Did you know that Mildred Albert , nicknamed the "Mighty Atom", produced thousands of fashion shows during her career?
Did you know that the Rifa-e-Aam Club in Lucknow was open to everybody at a time when British clubs excluded Indians?
Did you know that David Kahalekula Kaʻauwai , his father and brother served in the Kingdom of Hawaii legislature , while his niece became a princess?
Did you know that following the success of the album Barney Bentall and the Legendary Hearts , the eponymous Canadian band received the 1989 Juno Award for Most Promising Group of the Year?
Did you know that BuzzFeed described Pat Loika as "the closest thing comics has to an Oprah "?
Did you know that Nkosi's Haven is a South African care centre created to address HIV-related discrimination, including the separation of infected mothers from their children?
Did you know that creator Terry Moore told writer Joe Hill on Twitter that Rachel Rising might be cancelled if sales continued to fall, prompting a fan campaign to save the comic?
Did you know that a Roman hoard of 11,000 silver pieces was found in the village of Oakhanger in Hampshire ?
Did you know that India's first fully indigenous anti-airfield weapon was tested in 2016?
Did you know that Kim Chŏn-il raised a civilian militia to fight the Japanese invasion during the Imjin War ?
Did you know that the opening number for the 2016 musical film La La Land was shot in a six-minute single take on a 130-foot (40 m)-high freeway ramp in South Los Angeles ?
Did you know that when first established, the architectural firm Liebenberg and Kaplan was met with antisemitism in the Minneapolis business community?
Did you know that, in 1993, one of the first rave parties in Croatia was held in a pedestrian tunnel underneath the historic core of Zagreb ?
Did you know that Faith Spotted Eagle became the first Native American to receive a presidential electoral vote after Robert Satiacum Jr. cast a faithless vote for her during the 2016 United States election ?
Did you know that Kaohsiung's Chi Jin Mazu Temple was first opened in 1673, when Taiwan was still ruled by Ming loyalists at war with mainland China?
Did you know that Ululani Lewai Baker and Lanihau were the last female governors of the Kingdom of Hawaii ?
Did you know that Salinee Tavaranan and her Border Green Energy Team installed solar panels and micro-hydro turbines at the Mae La refugee camp ?
Did you know that Ibrahim ibn al-Ashtar killed Umayyad commander Ubayd Allah ibn Ziyad at the Battle of Khazir ?
Did you know that after the Bolshevik Party of India leader Barada Mukutmoni was named Tourism Minister in the Second United Front Cabinet of West Bengal, there was a split in his party?
Did you know that drag queen Violet Chachki 's EP Gagged was inspired by her time working as an assistant to a dominatrix ?
Did you know that Gui Minhai , whose four bookseller colleagues also disappeared in mysterious circumstances , reappeared three months later on Chinese television confessing to killing a girl in a 2003 DUI accident?
Did you know that the titular character from Bug! was one of three candidates to be the mascot for the Sega Saturn console, due to the lack of a Sonic the Hedgehog video game?
Did you know that epidemiologist Yasmin Altwaijri encourages other Saudi Arabian women to become scientists, arguing that this need not "cross the boundaries of our societal norms and customs"?
Did you know that a cave in the Cliff Cave County Park has been used as a tavern and a wine cellar ?
Did you know that the opium merchant Ezekiel Saleh Manasseh , who died in Changi Prison during the Japanese occupation of Singapore, built Eden Hall and co-owned the Goodwood Park Hotel with his brothers?
Did you know that subduction polarity reversal on either side of Taiwan causes differences in topography?
Did you know that in 1988, judge Gary Little committed suicide in the King County Courthouse some 40 years after his father had killed himself in the same building?
Did you know that an extract of Alchemilla diademata , a plant endemic to Lebanon , shows antimicrobial activity against Staphylococcus aureus ?
Did you know that while competing for Tanzania at the 2016 Summer Olympics , swimmer Hilal Hemed Hilal set a national record winning his 50 m freestyle heat , but did not advance?
Did you know that in June 1940 the SS Broompark brought French scientists, heavy water , and diamonds to Britain?
Did you know that Jose Esteves , the Filipino American mayor of Milpitas, California , was succeeded by the city's first Vietnamese American mayor, Richard Tran?
Did you know that the white-plumed honeyeater has become more common in urban Sydney and Newcastle?
Did you know that Czech actress Simona Stašová was named Best Actress at the 2015 Seoul International Drama Awards ?
Did you know that the Alliance Building Society 's sports club was established in 1935 with "a second-hand table tennis table and dartboard" in the basement of Princes House in Brighton ?
Did you know that US President-elect Donald Trump referred to the Ralph Deleon case in a speech about immigration?
Did you know that Lasith Malinga is the only bowler to take a six-wicket haul in the Big Bash League ?
Did you know that Nils Mönkemeyer was the first to record a viola concerto by Antonio Rosetti , and played Schubert songs and Bach arias on the viola?
Did you know that the Okavango Dyke Swarm formed 180 million years ago during the opening of the Indian Ocean?
Did you know that writer John Dominis Holt inspired the Hawaiian Renaissance cultural revival with his essay "On Being Hawaiian"?