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Did you know that while at Ross Hall , General George Washington ordered a feu de joie ?
Did you know that in 2014 Martin Ødegaard became the youngest footballer to play in a UEFA European Championship qualifying match?
Did you know that the short story Old Love by Jeffrey Archer is a tale about two undergraduates at Oxford in the 1930s and their bitter rivalry ending up in a tragic love story?
Did you know that during the Iran–Iraq War , an Iraqi major told his prisoner Aboutorabi , "if Khomeini is like you, I will follow him"?
Did you know that women are currently chiefs of the U.S. Navy Civil Engineer , Medical , Chaplain , Nurse , and Judge Advocate General's Corps ‍—‌a majority of the eight Navy staff corps ?
Did you know that a telegram marking a century-old beheading prompted Austrian authorities to charge the leadership of the Arboroasa student society with treason?
Did you know that The Boy Who Fell Out of the Sky , who had outlined a novel about a writer who dies in a plane crash, died in a plane crash ‬?
Did you know that the helium dimer is the largest molecule in the ground state made from two atoms?
Did you know the Atmabodha Upanishad explains "state of knowledge of the inner self"?
Did you know that film editor Melanie Oliver began her career under the tutelage of director Jane Campion ?
Did you know that the Masonic Hall in Taunton was built in the early 19th century as a Catholic chapel?
Did you know that Richard the Lionheart deliberately took church property without its permission ?
Did you know that the Australian cricketer Bill Woodfull was the first to carry the bat twice in Tests ?
Did you know that the fungus Hirticlavula elegans is so named (from the Latin for "elegant") because of the beauty of its fruit bodies ?
Did you know that French cinematographer Eric Gautier has been nominated for six César Awards over ten years, winning one?
Did you know that the 1990 Earth-grazing meteoroid above Czechoslovakia and Poland was observed from two sites, which for the first time enabled geometrical calculations of the orbit of such a body?
Did you know that Kim Hyung-jun 's 2012 Japanese release of Escape includes only two Japanese songs out of seven tracks?
Did you know that over two hundred Bronze Age objects have been found in Heathery Burn Cave ?
Did you know that road cyclist Fernando Gaviria came to global attention after beating Mark Cavendish in two sprints at the 2015 Tour de San Luis ?
Did you know that of all manures , chicken manure has the highest nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium content?
Did you know that Colonel Franklin Matthias , the Manhattan District area engineer at the Hanford site , personally couriered its first production batch of plutonium ?
Did you know that cinematographer Adam Arkapaw 's work on True Detective included a single-take shot that took months to plan and a day and a half to execute?
Did you know that a 1662 brawl between Corsican soldiers and Frenchmen at Rome's Ponte Sisto forced Pope Alexander VII to disband the Corsican Guard ?
Did you know that Ladislaus I of Hungary , who was canonized in 1192, admitted in a letter that he could not "promote the cause of earthly dignities without committing grave sins"?
Did you know that the fasciated tiger heron is named for the black and buff stripes on its neck and back?
Did you know that the director of Five All Night, Live All Night reportedly did not censor the Human Sexual Response song "Butt Fuck" because he was distracted by naked women?
Did you know that novelist George R. R. Martin singled out Tyrion Lannister as his favorite character in his A Song of Ice and Fire series?
Did you know that the Khalidi family opened Palestine's first public library in a Mamluk -era building in the Old City of Jerusalem ?
Did you know that the first scene in Three Weeks With Lady X is an homage to Jane Austen 's Pride and Prejudice ?
Did you know that Polish painter Bronisława Janowska rejected a marriage proposal from the man she loved because he was divorced?
Did you know that the groundnut rosette virus , which causes serious damage to peanut crops in Africa, is spread by the groundnut aphid ?
Did you know that Alfred Hitchcock was an advisor on the official British documentary German Concentration Camps Factual Survey ?
Did you know that the Privy Garden of the Palace of Whitehall had a screen installed to ensure that passersby would not see the King of England in his bathtub?
Did you know that for the Orphan Black episode " Instinct ", the show's own writing offices were used as a filming location?
Did you know that Le Salon de Madame Aron by Édouard Vuillard was stolen from Alfred Lindon by the Nazis in 1940 and not returned to his family until 2006?
Did you know that 40% of Gardens Alive 's revenue comes from non-gardening merchandise?
Did you know that a surveillance video of Elisa Lam acting strangely in an elevator drew three million views in its first ten days on Youku , though many viewers said it disturbed them?
Did you know that the Aruneya Upanishad says that an itinerant monk should practise chastity, nonviolence, truthfulness, and indifference to material possessions?
Did you know that Karl Jenkins derived Palladio , a concerto grosso for string orchestra named after Palladio , from his TV commercial for De Beers diamonds ?
Did you know that Emin Xhinovci was given the nickname "Hitler" because of his uncanny resemblance to Adolf Hitler ?
Did you know that Bruna Papandrea co-founded a film production company with actress Reese Witherspoon ?
Did you know that after his assassination, Laurent Kabila lay in state at the People's Palace of the Democratic Republic of Congo , which had been commissioned by the president he overthrew?
Did you know that a Corroboree frog described in a monograph by John Alexander Moore was featured on an Australian postage stamp?
Did you know that the Italian cruiser Vettor Pisani almost bombarded Prevesa during the Italo-Turkish War of 1911–12 until protests by the Austro-Hungarian Empire forced the Italians to cancel the operation?
Did you know that Methodist preacher Stephen G. Roszel opposed abolition ?
Did you know that Marian Engel's 1976 novel Bear has been called "the most controversial novel ever written in Canada"?
Did you know that Dick Whittington gave London a public toilet with 128 seats, known as Whittington's Longhouse ?
Did you know that Sri Lankan cricketer Rangana Herath conceded the fewest runs while taking a five-wicket haul in Twenty20 Internationals ?
Did you know that according to the Brahma Upanishad , a living being controls all its senses similarly to a spider, which weaves its web with a single thread?
Did you know that the dispute over Hamo 's appointment as treasurer of York was resolved when his opponent gave him a church instead?
Did you know that Dickie Dick Dickens was voted the most popular radio play ever in Norway?
Did you know that George F. Robinson was awarded the 1871 Congressional Gold Medal for saving the life of US Secretary of State William Seward ?
Did you know that a church in Leipzig with many names , destroyed in a bombing in 1943, had served two denominations, and was also used for storage, as a prison, and as a hospital?
Did you know that the glaucous pimplet can be distinguished from the closely related red speckled anemone by the sediment that sticks to its column?
Did you know that Wesley Blake trained in the Funking Conservatory and eventually became its World Champion?
Did you know that the manuscript of Harper Lee 's forthcoming novel, Go Set a Watchman ‍—‌written before To Kill a Mockingbird but featuring its key characters‍—‌was lost until rediscovered by her lawyer in 2014?
Did you know that Venezuelan singer Aneeka cites as musical influences American singers Mariah Carey , Whitney Houston and Aretha Franklin ?
Did you know that the Dattatreya Upanishad describes the god Dattatreya variously as a child, a demon, crazy, and an ocean of knowledge?
Did you know that the Canadian industrialist Alexander "Boss" Gibson named his company town after his wife and daughter?
Did you know that Manot 1 , a skull discovered in the Manot Cave in Israel, provides evidence that modern humans lived side-by-side with Neanderthals ?
Did you know that to combat "shuddering fluorescent jelly" on TV, Jonathan Miller launched A Trip to the Moon ?
Did you know that Romanian sociologist Traian Brăileanu , known to his students as " Socrates ", was tried for "corrupting the youth"?
Did you know that Oak Hill Industrial Academy was a school in Indian Territory for the children of Choctaw freedmen ?
Did you know that the Pine Creek watershed contains the only Approved Trout Waters in the Solomon Creek drainage basin?
Did you know that Ukraine still relies on Soviet-era laws and standards to designate the status of cities of district significance , as it does not have a current law of its own?
Did you know that James P. T. Carter was one of "three brave men" who escorted Andrew Johnson from Greeneville, Tennessee , to Washington, D.C. in June 1861?
Did you know that Georges Méliès 's film The Doctor and the Monkey has been compared to the 1981 video game Donkey Kong ?
Did you know that Ladislaus III of Hungary reigned less than a year and died before his sixth birthday?
Did you know that " Geh aus, mein Herz, und suche Freud ", written by Paul Gerhardt after the Thirty Years War , was translated as "Go Forth, My Heart, and Seek Delight"?
Did you know that Watering Run caused the only recorded flooding due to a major storm in any developed part of Wright Township, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania ?
Did you know that Serbian writer Oskar Davičo received the literary NIN Award a record three times?
Did you know that Education and Democracy: The Meaning of Alexander Meiklejohn argues that at the core of Meiklejohn's efforts is "the paradox of Socratic teaching "?
Did you know that auctioneer Theodor Fischer was described as "the focal point in all looted art transactions" in World War Two–era Switzerland?
Did you know that the album From the Ages is over an hour long and was recorded in just two days?
Did you know that in 2005, Dutch skeptic Rob Nanninga used an Internet spelling error to expose a psychic?
Did you know that Jerry Lester was the host of the first successful network late-night television show, Broadway Open House ?
Did you know that The Lying Student was written in 1914, but not published until most of the manuscript was rediscovered in 1981?
Did you know that before becoming a film actor, Deepak Tijori worked for a magazine and a hotel?
Did you know that Paris Saint-Germain and SC Bastia , the two teams in the 2015 Coupe de la Ligue Final , also played the tournament's first ever final ?
Did you know that a novel virus may be implicated in its parasitic wasp host turning the spotted lady beetle into a "zombie bodyguard"?
Did you know that Ohio derived its state motto , " With God, all things are possible ", from a passage in the Gospel of Matthew , prompting a lawsuit from the American Civil Liberties Union ?
Did you know that the 2015 Scottish League Cup Final will be Celtic 's 30th appearance in the final and Dundee United 's 7th?
Did you know that Taiwanese actress Jade Chou was once compared to her character in What Is Love because they were both in their thirties and still single ?
Did you know that the domestication of wild barley probably took place in the Fertile Crescent about 10,000 years ago?
Did you know that Ocle Pychard was held by Roger de Lacy at the time of the Domesday Book ?
Did you know that the references to Ganesha in the popular devotional song Sukhakarta Dukhaharta are described as "remarkable", considering he was not the patron god of its poet?
Did you know that film producer Anne Rosellini wrote her first screenplay because "I didn't have the money to hire a writer, so I just decided to do it myself"?
Did you know that Fabrice Aragno 's cinematography in Jean-Luc Godard 's 3D film Goodbye to Language introduced a new kind of camera shot?
Did you know that Martin D. Whitaker was the first director of the Clinton Laboratories (now the Oak Ridge National Laboratory )?
Did you know that the International Congress of Chinese Mathematicians established its Chern Prize nine years before the International Mathematical Union established its ?
Did you know that Jean-Baptiste Pastor , an orphan immigrant in 1880, founded Monaco's "second dynasty"?
Did you know that in Poliçan , southern Albania , as well as in the rest of the Pogoni region, polyphonic singing is a local tradition?
Did you know that Ross Taylor 's score of 102 not out against Pakistan was the hundredth One Day International century by a New Zealand batsman?
Did you know that 64% of Utah is federal land , and Utah wants it ?
Did you know that the sea battles of the Echinades and of Amorgos in 322 BC led to the defeat of Athens in the Lamian War , ending Athenian naval power and independence?
Did you know that India is one of the most dangerous places in the world to drive ?
Did you know that in the 1969 Lusaka Manifesto , black-ruled African states offered dialogue with apartheid South Africa?
Did you know that Tripoli Jewish community leader and historian Abraham Khalfon lost two sons in his lifetime – one in a plague and one who was burned at the stake ?
Did you know that in 1886 , the United States Naval Academy football team beat close rival Johns Hopkins with a last-second double lateral ?
Did you know that Masanobu Takayanagi was inspired to move to the U.S. and become a cinematographer after seeing a book about the subject in a Japanese bookstore?
Did you know that Gotlandsdricka is essentially the same everyday brew that the Vikings drank?
Did you know that the 2013 documentary The Prime Ministers: The Pioneers is based on the 2010 book The Prime Ministers: An Intimate Narrative of Israeli Leadership ?
Did you know that Giuseppina Brambilla , one of five opera-singer sisters, was a prima donna in Barcelona and Odessa?
Did you know that as a result of the Super Bowl XLIX halftime show , a dancer known as the "Left Shark" became an internet meme ?
Did you know that Columbia University professor Deborah Mowshowitz teaches introductory biology by having students solve famous historical problems?
Did you know that production has begun on Creed , a spin-off of Rocky and the seventh film in the Rocky series ?
Did you know that Walter Buckley 's venture capital firm Internet Capital Group , once worth over US$50 billion, lost 99% of its value when the dot-com bubble burst in 2001, but continues to operate today?
Did you know that the gum produced by the gum karaya is used as a laxative and an aphrodisiac ?
Did you know that HBO used some 160 lawyers to vet its film Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief because of the notorious litigiousness of the Church of Scientology ?
Did you know that a nineteenth-century author wrote, "there is not a more complete system of fortifications extant, in any part of the world, than the cordon of defensive structures at Malta "?
Did you know that New York Yankees ' prospect Ty Hensley was allegedly assaulted by another athlete because Hensley did not want to discuss his $1.2 million signing bonus ?
Did you know that God's Choice was the fruit of a late-1970s 18-month ethno­graphic study of a 350-student Christian fundamen­talist Baptist K–12 day school in Illinois?
Did you know that John Norton , future United States Army lieutenant general , was college roommates with George Scratchley Brown , future Air Force Chief of Staff ?
Did you know that the theme for World Youth Day 1995 , " Tell the World of His Love ", was performed multiple times during the visit of Pope Francis in the Philippines ?
Did you know that the renovation of the nuclear weapon arsenal of the United States resulted in the setting of the Doomsday Clock two minutes closer to midnight?
Did you know that A-Force , the upcoming ongoing comic book series to be published by Marvel Comics , will feature Marvel's first all-female team of Avengers ?
Did you know that Iran's Supreme Leader, Khamenei , is alleged to be the first senior Islamic cleric directly addressing western youth about his religion?
Did you know that Peter Landesman made his directorial debut with the 2013 film Parkland , based on a non-fiction book 's excerpt titled "Four Days in November"?
Did you know that the 2015 McDonald's All-American Boys Game is the 38th annual McDonald's All-American Game and 5th consecutive at Chicago's United Center ?
Did you know that although only two of Zhang Ruoxu 's poems have survived, one of them was called "the poem of all poems" by Wen Yiduo ?
Did you know that in Compulsory Miseducation , Paul Goodman proposes that school be made non- compulsory ?
Did you know that a bubble caused Sir Abraham Elton, 2nd Baronet to flee England for France?
Did you know that swimmer Mary Wayte won the first of four Olympic medals by defeating former world record-holder Sippy Woodhead in the final of the women's 200-meter freestyle at the 1984 Summer Olympics ?
Did you know that a method to reduce the temperature recovery time for an oven is to keep a baking stone in it?
Did you know that freelance programmer and author Martin Pistorius was believed to be in a persistent vegetative state but was actually suffering from locked-in syndrome ?
Did you know that Argentine president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner 's government is trying to force the impeachment of the judge investigating her in the Hotesur scandal ?
Did you know that John Shannon Munn , one of the few first-class cricketers from Newfoundland , was killed in the wreck of a ship owned by his stepfather 's company?
Did you know that Jennifer Rush 's " Higher Ground " was covered by Mario Pelchat and Celine Dion in French as "Plus haut que moi"?
Did you know that Henry Ford was a "comparative nonentity" who got various jobs because his wife's uncle was a bishop?
Did you know that Tsgabu Grmay was the first Ethiopian to win an international cycling event ?
Did you know that ribonuclease V1 , an enzyme used to study the structure of transfer RNA , is found in the venom of the Caspian cobra ?
Did you know that Arizona Territorial Chief Justice C. G. W. French reunited with and married "the love of his youth" late in life?
Did you know that Grand Theft Auto V caused controversy over a mission that requires players to waterboard and torture a hostage?
Did you know that Louis Edmund Blaze was responsible for introducing rugby to schools in Ceylon ?
Did you know that screenwriter Lucy Alibar raised money through online crowdfunding so she could afford to attend her film's screening at the Cannes Film Festival ?
Did you know that Hoyt Wilhelm was the first relief pitcher elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum ?
Did you know that the Serb Uprising of 1596–97 came to an end due to lack of foreign support and defeat at the field of Gacko?
Did you know that a nun is said to have been miraculously cured at the Franciscan Convent in Taunton in 1809?
Did you know that filmgoers incorrectly believed that Blackrock was a factual account of the murder of Leigh Leigh ?
Did you know that an April 2013 exhibit in the Interference Archive featured homemade cardboard shields that were confiscated by the New York Police Department as weapons?
Did you know that Kapellmeister Mattheus Le Maistre 's request for retirement was denied, yet he was granted a stipend?
Did you know that the Bleu Horses near Three Forks, Montana , are 8 feet (2.4 m) tall?
Did you know that Beyond: Two Souls , despite being a video game, premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival ?
Did you know that American swimmer Nicole Haislett is a three-time Olympic gold medalist who learned to swim at the age of 18 months?
Did you know that Nissan used a commercial during Super Bowl XLIX to debut their GT-R LM Nismo race car ?
Did you know that Columbia mathematics professor Mu-Tao Wang did not consider himself a particularly good student?
Did you know that Govind Nihalani 's Hindi film Tamas (1988) was initially aired as a television series?
Did you know that the family support group The Mariposa Trust has been partly funded by charity sky dives ?
Did you know that the Hoosier cavefish has its anus directly behind its gills?
Did you know that Japanese movie producer Nagamasa Kawakita introduced Kurosawa 's Rashomon at the 1951 Venice Film Festival, where it won the Golden Lion ?
Did you know that the Krishna Upanishad advocates serving God by love and devotion to achieve emancipation?
Did you know that Charles Hailey developed the glass slumping technique on which the optics of the NuSTAR telescope are based?
Did you know that the Capon Lake Whipple Truss Bridge was originally built in 1874 on the South Branch Potomac River , but was moved to its current location on the Cacapon River in 1938?
Did you know that Paganini published the world's first Arabic-language printed edition of the Quran ?
Did you know that the extinct earwig Toxolabis was preserved with two earwig nymphs ?
Did you know that Afro-German advocate Ika Hügel-Marshall , the child of a German woman and an African-American soldier, never met another black person until she was 39?
Did you know that the future poet Yang Jiong was appointed to the prestigious Hongwen College at the age of nine?
Did you know that two men were ambushed while making sugar near the mouth of Hunlock Creek in 1780?
Did you know that Turkish journalist Amberin Zaman recognizes the Armenian Genocide and believes that the Turkish government must reconcile its history?
Did you know that the children's album Pombo Musical is based on the fables of Colombian poet Rafael Pombo ?
Did you know that Arthur Phillips composed a setting of "The Requiem, or, Liberty of an Imprisoned Royalist" by Thomas Pierce ?
Did you know that both mountainous star coral and boulder star coral are susceptible to coral diseases and bleaching ?
Did you know that Kenneth and Sarah Ramsey win horse races with Kittens ?
Did you know that Marija Bursać was the first woman to be proclaimed a People's Hero of Yugoslavia ?
Did you know that the Sahifah of al-Ridha is a collection of 240 hadiths narrated by Ali ibn Musa al-Ridha , the eighth Shia Imam ?
Did you know that a dispute between Nyu Media and PayPal led to a reform of the latter's crowdfunding policies?
Did you know that the Indian politician and senior advocate K. T. S. Tulsi represented the victims of the Uphaar Cinema fire in court?
Did you know that of the eight tied Twenty20 International cricket matches, three were between New Zealand and the West Indies ?
Did you know that General Vang Pao 's dream of enemy troops hidden on the Operation Pigfat landing zone was verified by refugee interrogation?
Did you know that Brother Richard Withers , an American hermit in Philadelphia , does not own a television or car but does own a computer?
Did you know that Robert Smirke painted a series of seven paintings derived from a monologue in As You Like It ?
Did you know that the Sikh politician Darshan Singh Pheruman died after 74 days on hunger strike , demanding inclusion of Chandigarh and other Punjabi-speaking regions into Punjab ?
Did you know that two and a half years before the Tonkin Gulf Incident , the Sigma I-62 war game concluded that American intervention in Vietnam would be unsuccessful?
Did you know that Massachusetts Secretary of Veterans' Affairs Francisco Urena was the state's Veterans Services Director of the Year in 2008?
Did you know that the INTEGER Millennium House incorporates numerous environmental technology features, including a green roof and a geothermal heat pump ?
Did you know that folklorist Jan Harold Brunvand describes urban legends as the "kissing cousins of myths, fairy tales and rumors"?
Did you know that Muddy Waters ' 1951 blues song, " Long Distance Call ," was inspired by Blind Lemon Jefferson 's 1929 song, "Long Distance Moan"?
Did you know that the 2012 London Games was Sierra Leone 's tenth appearance at the Summer Olympics?
Did you know that according to the Atharvashikha Upanishad , Om represents the Hindu Trinity, the Vedic scriptures , Vedic poetic meters and holy fires?
Did you know that a brief conversation with Lawrence of Arabia prompted R. V. C. Bodley to live with a nomadic tribe in the Sahara desert for seven years?