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Did you know that the University of Michigan Men's Glee Club is the school's oldest student organization?
Did you know that Bangladeshi nationalism was popularized by President Ziaur Rahman as a substitute for Bengali nationalism ?
Did you know that William H. Herriman donated artworks to the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Brooklyn Museum , and his sister founded the world's first skyscraper hospital ?
Did you know that Lucas Bros. Moving Co. is based on its creators' experiences as cable television installers?
Did you know that Dhaka Racing is the first 3D video game developed in Bangladesh ?
Did you know that Willie Nelson sold " Family Bible " to a guitar instructor for US$50 and the cost of his dinner?
Did you know that The Mighty Kacy was the first woman to reach the finals of American Ninja Warrior ?
Did you know that the documentary film We Were So Beloved asks, in the aftermath of the Holocaust , whether survival is an end in itself?
Did you know that self-taught cartographer Aaron Carapella makes maps of the locations and names of Pre-Columbian indigenous tribes of North America circa 1490?
Did you know that Vantablack , a material made from carbon nanotubes , is the blackest substance known?
Did you know that the Muslim League politician J. M. Imam was awarded the title Mushir ul-Mulk ("Advisor of the Kingdom") by the Maharaja of Mysore in 1945?
Did you know that Halichoeres maculipinna can change its sex, and engages in lek mating ?
Did you know that Alonzo Davis and his brother were inspired to found the Brockman Gallery while driving back to Los Angeles following the Meredith March ?
Did you know that Operation Goodwood was the last in a series of "intensely disap­point­ing" attempts to sink the German battleship Tirpitz ?
Did you know that after Marcel Perez started as a clown, he directed and played the character Robinet in 150 silent films?
Did you know that at the 2013 Boat Race , for the second consecutive year Cambridge had only one British rower in its crew?
Did you know that American military history expert John C. McManus is the author of Grunts ?
Did you know that the European Court of Justice was asked the meaning of parody by the Court of Appeal of Brussels ?
Did you know that the Dota 2 esports tournament The International 2014 has a prize pool of more than US$10 million— ​larger than that of the 2014 Masters Tournament ?
Did you know that in 1952, British MP Eric Bullus proposed the reintroduction of flogging as a criminal punishment?
Did you know that Tansen , directed by Jayant Desai and based on the life of musician Tansen , was the second-highest grossing Indian film of 1943?
Did you know that in 1765, Scottish nabob John Johnstone , aged 31, returned from India with a fortune equivalent to £25 million in 2014?
Did you know that there are 122 erosion sites on East Branch Chillisquaque Creek ?
Did you know that Elvis impersonator James Brown is best known for songs that Elvis never recorded, sung in the style of Elvis?
Did you know that Marvel Studios considered making stand-alone short films‍—‌known as Marvel One-Shots ‍—‌for Loki , Black Panther , and Damage Control ?
Did you know that the human immunodeficiency virus reappeared in the Mississippi baby after she was thought to be cured?
Did you know that the revival of the Sakata Minato-za , the oldest cinema in Sakata, Yamagata , Japan, has been called "like something out of a movie"?
Did you know that Mary Francis Hill Coley , an African-American lay midwife in Georgia , was featured in a 1952 instructional film used in training midwives around the world?
Did you know that although possibly illiterate, Dinah Nuthead was one of the first licensed women printers in the Thirteen Colonies ?
Did you know that Beatles , birds and crickets contributed to " You Never Give Me Your Money "?
Did you know that DashCon offered attendees an "extra hour" in a ball pit to compensate them for a cancelled celebrity panel?
Did you know that Adrian P. Thomas 's videotaped confession regarding the death of his four-month-old son is the center of a documentary film on coerced confessions, Scenes of a Crime ?
Did you know that at the time of its discovery, S Antliae had the shortest period of any known variable star ?
Did you know that performance artist Milo Moiré claims her naked works are inspired by the script theory of cognitive psychology ?
Did you know that when the mayor of Saskatoon , John Hair , said in 1930 that unemployment in his city was "under control", he was "terribly wrong"?
Did you know that Torberry Hill in West Sussex is the site of an Iron Age hill fort and supports a mound known as the Fairy Bed, where fairies are said to dance every Midsummer Eve ?
Did you know that journalists compared the Costa Rican video game Fenix Rage to a cross between Super Meat Boy and Flappy Bird ?
Did you know that Flass , an English country house in Cumbria , was built by opium traders in the nineteenth century and used for cannabis cultivation in the twenty-first?
Did you know that Philippe Capdenat ' s 2001 opera Une Carmen re-imagined Bizet's Carmen in Morocco?
Did you know that the runaway binary star system BL Telescopii is 11,000 light-years off the galactic plane ?
Did you know that Paul G. Risser served as president of Miami University and Oregon State University as well as chancellor of the Oklahoma State System of Higher Education ?
Did you know that Khar Bii , a reality television show consisting of a search for Senegal 's most beautiful ram , was the country's most popular television show in 2012?
Did you know that the 1944 One Million Plan was the first time Jewish immigration from Arab and Muslim countries became official policy of the Zionist leadership ?
Did you know that as a boy, golf course designer Archie Simpson was the favourite caddy of Sir Alexander Grant , Principal of the University of Edinburgh ?
Did you know that the Anna Crusis Women's Choir is the oldest feminist choir in the United States?
Did you know that Su Rong is the highest-ranking Chinese official to come under investigation for corruption during the presidency of Xi Jinping ?
Did you know that flooding in New Market , caused by a tropical depression over Jamaica in 1979, had not fully subsided after six months?
Did you know that Olivia Pope was spoofed by Jennifer Hudson when the Obama administration needed a spokesman for its Affordable Care Act ?
Did you know that the AI Mk. IV , the first air-to-air radar, was developed under conditions that "would have caused a riot in a prison farm"?
Did you know that skeptic Joe Nickell was an advisor on the 2007 horror film The Reaping , in which actress Hilary Swank plays an investigator of the paranormal?
Did you know that Frank Cunningham headed an inquiry into the 1935 "On-to-Ottawa" march, was a war-crimes judge in Singapore , and became speaker of the Northwest Territories Legislative Assembly ?
Did you know that the bus services in Surat are operated by private partners for the Surat Municipal Corporation under a public–private partnership ?
Did you know that with the prosthetic arm he had fitted after an electrical accident, "bionic chef" Eduardo Garcia has "superpowers"?
Did you know that in discussing his film Departures , director Yōjirō Takita drew parallels between cellists and morticians?
Did you know that James Baldwin , Langston Hughes , and Ralph Ellison have depicted the Harlem Riot of 1943 in their writings?
Did you know that the video game Thralled was made to focus on "love and caring" and to humanize the tens of millions in modern slavery ?
Did you know that the Spanish believed that the fierce Chinamita Maya were cannibals ?
Did you know that Josef Masopust was awarded the Ballon d'Or after helping the Czechoslo­vakian national football team reach the 1962 FIFA World Cup Final ?
Did you know that John Crittle 's mother mistook Jimi Hendrix for Jesus ?
Did you know that XELD-TV was the first Mexican television station to affiliate with an American network?
Did you know that Frances McConnell-Mills ' father, a doctor, refused to pay for her medical school tuition because he thought medicine was "too hard a life for a woman"?
Did you know that the University of Chicago exercised its option to buy Harper Court for $98 million in November 2013 and listed it for sale in March 2014?
Did you know that Michel Disdier is the first French driver to race in NASCAR since the 1960s?
Did you know that several Muppets were taken captive after the set of Iftah Ya Simsim was stormed?
Did you know that the Dartford Crossing is the busiest estuarial crossing in the United Kingdom?
Did you know that Paul Revere both engraved and printed Colonial banknotes (1775–79) for the Provinces of New Hampshire and Massachusetts Bay?
Did you know that the Counter-Reformation in Poland concluded successfully with the Repnin Sejm of 1768, which abolished legal discrimination against religious dissidents?
Did you know that the Tantric deity Uchchhishta Ganapati is often depicted with a naked goddess, each touching the other's genitals?
Did you know that The Mrs. Carter Show World Tour , a tour by Beyoncé , was so called after her husband, Shawn "Jay-Z" Carter ?
Did you know that in the 1993 Boat Race , Cambridge used cleavers ?
Did you know that Tim Rogers , originator of New Games Journalism and co-founder of Action Button Entertainment , applied his thoughts on Super Mario Bros. 3 's "sticky friction" to his game design for Ziggurat and Videoball ?
Did you knowthat Peter Sellers , billed as "Britain's answer to Gene Krupa " at the Aldershot Hippodrome in 1948, complained later that the band was four bars behind because they were eating sandwiches?
Did you know that two incommunicado game show contestants can use the 100 prisoners problem to maximize the odds of sticking Monty Hall with the goat ?
Did you know that in 1995, a businessman scaled Quezon City 's Welcome Rotonda and staged a hunger strike to urge disquali­fi­ca­tion of Chinese Filipino candidates from running in that year's election ?
Did you know that art dealer C. T. Loo fell in love with a French milliner , but married her 15-year-old daughter instead?
Did you know that legend has it that a Teutonic Knight built the Leaning Tower of Toruń as punishment for falling in love with a woman, the tower's tilt signifying his deviant conduct?
Did you know that in the 1990 Back Bay rail accident , Amtrak 's Night Owl jumped the track and hit an MBTA commuter train , causing both to jackknife through the tunnel roof to the street above?
Did you know that actress Sarah-Jane Potts filmed her own audition for the role of Eddi McKee in Holby City , after she was approached by the show's casting director?
Did you know that the call of the Malagasy coucal resembles the sound of water being poured from a bottle?
Did you know that after an indictment against him was quashed , John N. Cole received three cheers from the Massachu­setts House of Represen­ta­tives ?
Did you know that in 1944 the Barsala tourist lodge in Azad Kashmir hosted the future founder of Pakistan, Muhammad Ali Jinnah ?
Did you know that Tom Cushing 's 1926 play The Devil in the Cheese features a Greek bandit posing as a priest, an Egyptian god, adventures in the South Seas, and a bit of mummified cheese?
Did you know that the 1991 Argentine quota law , which sets minimum quotas of female candidacies to legislatures , was emulated by eleven other Latin American countries?
Did you know that Weib, was weinest du , the "Easter dialogue" composed by Heinrich Schütz , was performed at the first Schütz festival in Dresden?
Did you know that the Sun-like star HD 41248 may have two super-Earths in a 5:7 orbital resonance ?
Did you know that 19th century baseball player Mike McGeary was suspected of game-fixing and using a yellow umbrella to communicate with gamblers in the stands?
Did you know that the song " Asia Minor " was banned by the BBC because it parodied classical music ?
Did you know that the offices of the Danish magazine Vennen were raided by police in the so-called "Great Porno Affair"?
Did you know that critics called Kylie Minogue 's 2004 single " Red Blooded Woman " similar to the works of American music artists Justin Timberlake and Timbaland ?
Did you know that catcher Sy Sutcliffe , who reportedly "threw like a catapult", died of Bright's disease four months after his final major league game?
Did you know that Pornhub told its users to stop uploading videos of Brazil's loss to Germany at the 2014 FIFA World Cup under sexually suggestive titles?
Did you know that in 1809 the Irish politician Walter Jones resigned his seat in Parliament to make way for his uncle's illegitimate son?
Did you know that Jayanti is said to have asked the god Shukra to create a haze to shield their lovemaking from the world for ten years?
Did you know that no one knows who created " The Lord in Heaven "?
Did you know that Hawaiian legislator Joshua Kekaulahao served as a member of the Board of Land Commissioners, in charge of addressing land claims of the Great Māhele , from 1850 to 1855?
Did you know that Turkey's first ever bird ringing station was established at Lake Kuyucuk , which is an internationally-designated Ramsar site and an European Destinations of Excellence (EDEN)?
Did you know that professional baseball player "Mikado Milt" Scott gained his nickname amid a "Mikado" craze that invaded the sport in 1886?
Did you know that the Acala Maya were hunted by the Spanish after they killed two Dominican friars in 1559, and within 165 years they had disappeared completely?
Did you know that sediment on the East Tasman Plateau records the formation of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current ?
Did you know that the Oxford crew in the 2010 Boat Race included the Winklevoss twins , who had competed at the previous Olympics?
Did you know that LIFE magazine called Veloz and Yolanda "the greatest dance couple in America"?
Did you know that Victoria became the first Australian state to adopt a floral emblem when it adopted the pink heath, a form of Epacris impressa ?
Did you know that Johnny Leach won three World Table Tennis Championships and was described as one of "the sport's most influential ambassadors and promoters"?
Did you know that the white-tufted grebe breeds in freshwater locations but outside the breeding season may be found on the sea?
Did you know that T. Rantula was considered one of the largest professional wrestlers on the independent circuit during the 1990s?
Did you know that the Arsenal–Stoke City rivalry started in earnest as a result of a tackle which broke an Arsenal player's leg?
Did you know that in 1888 baseball player Dasher Troy hit a game-winning home run after his manager fulfilled his request for a beer from the bar beneath the field's grandstand?
Did you know that the viewing area in the Garbage Museum , an operating recycling facility in Stratford, Connecticut , allowed visitors to watch the processing of recyclables?
Did you know that Scatter the Gold was "a big handsome colt with his mother's peel-me-a-grape attitude"?
Did you know that OK Go used around 60 takes to make sure all the optical illusions were filmed correctly during a continuous shot for the video to their song " The Writing's on the Wall "?
Did you know that after the 2006 Boat Race , the Cambridge coach complained that his team had to "row with a boat full of water"?
Did you know that one reviewer dubbed Adult Swim in a Box "the anti-box-set"?
Did you know that The Cockroaches were the precursor of The Wiggles ?
Did you know that the bells of Roma Church , Sweden, originally came from a Swedish-speaking village in Ukraine ?
Did you know that Tory Member of Parliament Admiral Theobald Jones (1790– 1868) laid the foundation of Irish lichenology ?
Did you know that W Serpentis is a binary star system in which one star is transferring large amounts of material to the other?
Did you know that German wheelchair basketball player Laura Fürst helped win the national collegiate championship for the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater Warhawks, and also made the Dean's List ?
Did you know that one reviewer wrote that checking in for a meal at London's Chiltern Firehouse restaurant "feels a bit like arriving at a Scientology meeting"?
Did you know that pitcher Ed Beatin , who had "the most astonishing slow ball that was ever offered up to a batter", was twice a 20-game winner?
Did you know that the popular children's book The Discovery of America (1781) portrayed Christopher Columbus as a hero , and Hernán Cortés and Francisco Pizarro as antiheroes ?
Did you know that the c. 8th-century medical text Al-Risalah al-Dhahabiah , attributed to Ali al-Ridha , is also known as the "Golden Treatise"?
Did you know that Ethan Allen and Philip Skene planned to create a new British colony in the region around Lake Champlain , with Skene as its governor?
Did you know that some employees of Moon Studios, developers of Ori and the Blind Forest , had never met face to face until the game was unveiled at the 2014 Electronic Entertainment Expo ?
Did you know that financier James Goldsmith said he hoped that investigative journalist Barbara Conway would "choke on her own vomit"?
Did you know that Winfield, Kansas , was named in honor of Winfield Scott in return for his promise to build the town a church?
Did you know that a limited edition of the Aquos Phone SH-06D is based on the anime series Neon Genesis Evangelion ?
Did you know that Royal Navy officer Theophilus Jones was captain of HMS Defiance in 1798 when eleven of his crew were hanged for planning a mutiny?
Did you know that the historic U.S. Custom House in San Ysidro, San Diego , lies 50 feet (15 m) north of one of the busiest land border crossings in the world?
Did you know that professional baseball player Jerry Dorgan suffered from an "unconquerable appetite for liquor" and died after being discovered inebriated in a barn with an empty liquor bottle by his side?
Did you know that to support his claim that Java Man was the " missing link ", discoverer Eugène Dubois argued that it looked like a "giant gibbon "?
Did you know that to retrieve a music demo for " Galau ", a representative of Universal Music Group (Malaysia) had to travel more than 2500 kilometres (1600 mi) to East Java ?
Did you know that actress Pom Klementieff trained three hours per day, for two months, to fight Josh Brolin ?
Did you know that a piece of carpet installed at 400 SW Sixth Avenue in Portland, Oregon , in 1959 was said at that time to be the largest ever laid in the Pacific Northwest ?
Did you know that after he and his family escaped Nazi Germany , Manfred Kirchheimer made a documentary film about graffiti on New York subway trains?
Did you know that the Philadelphia Phillies gave Anthony Hewitt a US$1,380,000 signing bonus and money to attend college, where he hoped to study business or economics to learn how to manage his wealth?
Did you know that baseball player Frank Ringo , who was "inordinately fond" of whiskey, married in January 1889 and killed himself in April of that same year?
Did you know that the parathyroids were first discovered in the Indian rhinoceros in 1852 but not identified in humans until 1880?
Did you know that Swedish sport journalist Johanna Frändén had the special task of following Zlatan Ibrahimović 's career for SVT ?
Did you know that eggshell membrane is extracted from many of the two billion dozen eggshells produced annually at US egg-breaking facilities?
Did you know that Bud Osborn , a poet from Vancouver's Downtown Eastside , advocated for supervised injection sites ?
Did you know that quirky dogs and plural wugs helped Jean Berko Gleason show that young children extract linguistic rules from what they hear, rather than just memorizing words?
Did you know that Never Alone is a video game designed to share Alaskan indigenous folklore and revitalize interest in it?
Did you know that Cyclone Bobby broke numerous February rainfall records in parts of Western Australia 's Goldfields-Esperance region?
Did you know that the Center of Alcohol Studies was the first institute dedicated to alcohol research to emerge in the US following its repeal of Prohibition ?
Did you know that Amy Allison ' s debut album The Maudlin Years was included on Elvis Costello 's list of "500 Essential Albums" in Vanity Fair ?
Did you know that the 2014 Korea Queer Culture Festival was disrupted by anti-LGBT, conservative Christian demonstrators?
Did you know that mathematician and author C. Stanley Ogilvy was an avid sailor who frequently competed in the Star World Championships ?
Did you know that Panamanian rapper Flex 's " Te Quiero " won the Latin Grammy and the Lo Nuestro for Urban Song of the Year ?
Did you know that critics questioned Kevin Warwick 's claim that Eugene Goostman was the first chatbot to pass a Turing test ?
Did you know that Fred Hayman was a trainee dentist, a chef, and manager of the Beverly Hilton before becoming "Mr. Beverly Hills"?
Did you know that the 1960 Typhoon Ophelia had devastating impacts on the small atoll of Ulithi in the Caroline Islands ?
Did you know that the Centre Party , active in New South Wales during the 1930s, evolved from what has been called Australia's first fascist movement?
Did you know that Yale neurologist and skeptic Steven Novella has authored Dungeons & Dragons expansions?
Did you know that "No Kohl without Bohl" was used to describe the close working relationship between Friedrich Bohl , former head of the German Chancellery , and Chancellor Helmut Kohl ?
Did you know that officially reported unemployment in Poland rose from near zero in 1989 to over 13% in 2012?
Did you know that American circus pioneer Hachaliah Bailey likened the 22-by- 32 foot (7-by-10 m) West Somers Methodist Episcopal Church in Somers, New York , to a tiger's cage?
Did you know that among sugar candies , translucent, rock-hard boiled sweets such as lollipops are not considered crystalline candies?
Did you know that in 1912 Henry Wilson-Fox , manager of the British South Africa Company , suggested that submarines could avoid collisions by imitating whales?
Did you know that Irish-born Michael Phelan has been described as America's first billiards star?
Did you know that Jan O. Jansson has the nickname "Nude-Janne" because he walked around nude in most episodes of the two seasons he participated in The Farm ?
Did you know that, as a senator , Vice President Joe Biden occasionally overslept on Amtrak 's Night Owl and woke up in Philadelphia instead of Wilmington, Delaware ?
Did you know that Tomáš Rosický won his first trophy in English football in 2014, eight years after joining Arsenal ?
Did you know that at 116 years of age, Gertrude Weaver is the oldest verified living American?
Did you know that a bridge between India and Sri Lanka is said to have been built by a monkey ?
Did you know that Stations of the Elevated is about the graffiti movement in New York City?
Did you know that Charles Gauthier 's statue of Sergent Blandan in Nancy contains Blandan 's ashes in its base?
Did you know that the music video for Enrique Iglesias ' " Héroe " earned a Lo Nuestro Award for Video of the Year and was nominated for four MTV Video Music Awards in 2002 ?
Did you know that as a swimmer, Darda Sales won gold at the 2000 Summer Paralympics in Sydney and silver at the 2004 Summer Paralympics in Athens, then joined Canada's national wheelchair basketball team in 2014?
Did you know that the Skogssame people had intricate ceremonies related to bears ?
Did you know that in over two decades as Tristan da Cunha 's only police officer, Conrad Glass has never had to put anyone in a holding cell?
Did you know that the music video for Kylie Minogue 's 2004 single " Chocolate " features a 40-second ballet routine which took the singer four days to rehearse?
Did you know that Frederic Bonney took photographs of the Paarkantji people , whom he respected for their loyalty and integrity?
Did you know that Simone Kues was a member of the team that won the silver medal at the 2014 Women's World Wheelchair Basketball Championship in Toronto ?
Did you know that Australian actress Zoe Tuckwell-Smith made her major television acting debut playing Bec Gilbert in Winners & Losers ?
Did you know that the MMPL Kanpur was a rare example of an aircraft designed and built by a national air force for its own use?