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Did you know that inside the Cabaret du Ciel (Cabaret of Heaven), beer was served, and the entertainment included depictions of angels playing music and Saint Peter sprinkling holy water from the heavens?
Did you know that Tyrannomyrmex alii was named for India's "Ant Man"?
Did you know that Jie Zhitui , who loyally followed Prince Chong'er in exile for almost 20 years, was supposedly burned alive because he did not want to ask for any reward once his lord was restored to power?
Did you know that the Lilac Fire in Southern California grew from a small brush fire to 4,100 acres (17 km 2 ) in one day?
Did you know that the organ virtuoso and teacher Heinz Wunderlich held a Hamburg post that Bach had once wanted?
Did you know that the mushrooms of the Asian fungus Macrocybe crassa can weigh up to 1.25 kilograms (3 lb)?
Did you know that Ramona Go was the first female military pilot, line officer , battalion commander, adjutant general , and regular service general in the Philippine Armed Forces?
Did you know that " Diddle Diddle Dumpling ", an episode of Inside No. 9 , was inspired by a chance encounter with a single shoe?
Did you know that Ghanaian keyboardist Alfred P. Addaquay composed and performed his first oratorio when he was 20 years old?
Did you know that all five of the surviving members of the original cast of the Power Rangers series attended the film adaptation 's Los Angeles premiere in March 2017?
Did you know that Janai Haupapa joined the Canadian national rugby league team while still playing for a rugby union club?
Did you know that in 1927, barnstormer Doug Davis let 12-year-old Paul Tibbets drop Baby Ruth candy bars attached to parachutes from his biplane over Hialeah, Florida , kindling the boy's love of flying?
Did you know that T-tubules allow heart muscle cells to contract more forcefully by synchronising calcium release?
Did you know that Kate Fotso , the richest woman in Cameroon, is known as the "iron lady of the cocoa industry"?
Did you know that in 1934 vitamin C was the first synthetic vitamin to be trademarked (as Redoxon ) and marketed?
Did you know that the Santa Ana Heritage Zone encompasses a declared Heritage House and a local church that contains two National Cultural Treasures?
Did you know that when He Luli was 14, an assassin's bombs killed her younger sister?
Did you know that Google Earth was originally developed for use by various agencies of the United States government, including the CIA ?
Did you know that Canadian Lieutenant-General Chris Whitecross has fostered 33 children?
Did you know that Slovenian actor Jernej Šugman starred in Shakespeare's Hamlet twice, first in the titular role and the second time as King Claudius ?
Did you know that the "Memorial for the War to Resist America and Aid Korea" is no longer one of the national first-grade museums of China ?
Did you know that 16th-century kabbalist Shimon Lavi displayed knowledge of alchemy in his commentary on the Zohar ?
Did you know that the parasitic wasp Ichneumon eumerus has a complex life cycle involving ants and a rare blue butterfly ?
Did you know that the video game The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt was marketed as " Skyrim in a Game of Thrones sauce"?
Did you know that the Roman Emesa helmet appears to be modeled after its wearer's face?
Did you know that in 1939, Peter Du Cane was awarded the Segrave Medal for his part in the design of the world water speed record-breaking boat Blue Bird K4 ?
Did you know that the Heman Marion Sweatt Travis County Courthouse was named in honor of an early trial in the African-American civil rights movement that was heard there in 1946?
Did you know that as paramount chief of the Wulungu traditional area, Ghanaian geographer and academic John S. Nabila is known by the title Wulugu Naba?
Did you know that a parasitic barnacle effectively castrates its hosts, the flattened and the knot-fingered mud crabs ?
Did you know that Margaret W. Burcham was the first female brigadier general in the United States Army Corps of Engineers ?
Did you know that the first Columbus Crew soccer match attended by future owner Anthony Precourt was delayed after the stadium's scoreboard caught fire?
Did you know that the Abatan River estuary in Bohol has one of the Philippines' most diverse mangrove forests?
Did you know that modelling agent Cherry Marshall discovered Ruth Ellis , the last woman to be hanged in Britain?
Did you know that the Record of the Year and Seasons of Jingchu shows how religious, calendrical, culinary, and entertainment changes led to a new canon of major Chinese holidays between the Han and Tang dynasties?
Did you know that Mahani Teave is considered Easter Island 's only classical musician?
Did you know that local residents followed the cries of trapped passengers to find the crash site of West Wind Aviation Flight 280 and aid in rescue efforts?
Did you know that Marcu Cercel , who ruled over Moldavia in 1600, was probably born to a Turkish Muslim apostate ?
Did you know that Facebook's Aquila solar-powered drone is intended to provide internet access to remote regions of Earth using no more electricity than three blow dryers ?
Did you know that Wolfgang Kläsener conducted his Kettwiger Bach-Ensemble in a memorial concert, combining the last work by Thomas Beimel with one Mass by Bach and one by Bruckner ?
Did you know that houseflies have been used in germ warfare to distribute cholera ?
Did you know that at Harvard University, Walter J. Leonard designed "one of the country's earliest and most effective affirmative-action programs, which became a model for other universities around the country"?
Did you know that the initial plan for the renovation of the Metropolitan Theatre in Winnipeg was for a rock and roll museum?
Did you know that in 1992, Camille Robinson-Regis became the youngest senator to be appointed to the cabinet of Trinidad and Tobago ?
Did you know that Yiqu was conquered by Qin after its king was killed either by his mistress Queen Dowager Xuan , or by her son the king of Qin?
Did you know that North-West Mounted Police Corporal William Dempster found the Lost Patrol ?
Did you know that Congolese artist Rhode Makoumbou sculpts figures up to 3 metres (10 ft) tall out of sawdust and woodglue?
Did you know that genetic differences may affect the efficacy of the anti-asthmatic drug zafirlukast ?
Did you know that Japanese singer Yunchi covered the song "Catch You Catch Me" from Cardcaptor Sakura for one of her albums?
Did you know that the Panoz Avezzano , unveiled at the 2016 Petit Le Mans , is named after a town in Italy that was destroyed by an earthquake ?
Did you know that the Exeter Hip , designed by Robin Ling and Clive Lee , improved the lives of millions of people?
Did you know that when the wasp Idiogramma elbakyanae was named in honor of Sci-Hub founder Alexandra Elbakyan , she took this as an insult?
Did you know that Silvia Correale , the first female Postulator in the Vatican, focuses on guiding potential Argentine saints through the beatification process?
Did you know that Vice Admiral Mary M. Jackson was promoted directly from one-star to three-star rank ?
Did you know that while the Three Kings bring gold, incense and myrrh to the manger, the singer of " Ich steh an deiner Krippen hier " offers spirit and mind, heart, soul and courage as gifts?
Did you know that Luke Harper and Erick Rowan call themselves The Bludgeon Brothers?
Did you know that despite being flightless, wood crickets appeared in 2001 at a site in southern England at which they had previously not been present?
Did you know that as a teenager, Vietnamese singer Tóc Tiên exaggerated her age twice at singing competitions , one time winning the grand prize?
Did you know that the common Epiphany hymn " As with Gladness Men of Old " does not describe the Biblical Magi as "magi" or "kings", or even state their number?
Did you know that Carys Bannister drove rally cars and exhibited corgis when not performing brain surgery?
Did you know that after dismissing the basic concept as "outlandish", Edward Teller later supported Brilliant Pebbles as a way to shoot down Soviet ICBMs ?
Did you know that at age 16, Remy Siemsen was the top goalscorer for Sydney FC in the 2016–17 W-League season ?
Did you know that arachnologists think juvenile Chanbria camel spiders locate their prey through a combination of smelling and feeling for them?
Did you know that German sinologist Wolfgang Franke was so at home in Beijing that he felt he had lived there in a previous life?
Did you know that at its completion, Riverton Lock was the highest lift lock in the world with a lift of 26 feet (7.9 m)?
Did you know that Azazet Habtezghi Kidane interviewed more than 1,500 African refugees to document torture in the Sinai Peninsula ?
Did you know that Jolly Roger Records had its bootlegs of RCA Records recordings manufactured at RCA's own vinyl record pressing plant?
Did you know that Rear Admiral Cindy Jaynes was persuaded to join the United States Navy by a high school friend, having originally considered careers as an actuary or a veterinarian ?
Did you know that the art of Uruk includes the 5,000-year-old Mask of Warka , probably one of the earliest known near life-size sculptures?
Did you know that Harold Basil Christian , a self-taught horticulturalist in southern Africa, became a world expert on African aloe species after planting one in his yard to block the view of a large, unsightly rock?
Did you know that Electric Wizard described their album Wizard Bloody Wizard as "43 brain-damaging minutes, six savage hymns to death, drugs, sex and violence, music dragged (and drugged) back from the grave"?
Did you know that the Italian mezzo-soprano Armanda Degli Abbati appeared as Ortrud in Rome and as Amneris in Rio de Janeiro, had an affair with a Russian revolutionary, and trained Estonian singers?
Did you know that a pub on the Acle Straight is now a Hindu temple ?
Did you know that in 1985 Gay Kindersley naively introduced himself and Graham Lord to the Australian cricket team with, "Hallo folks, I'm Gay and this is my friend Graham"?
Did you know that the Radioplane OQ-17 target drone was claimed to be able to match the maneuverability of any fighter aircraft of the mid-1940s?
Did you know that Eugénie Henderson taught Far Eastern languages to the British Armed Forces during World War II?
Did you know that a collaborative practice agreement , which allows a pharmacist to prescribe medications, order drug therapy -related laboratory tests, and design therapy plans, can improve people's health?
Did you know that the dramatic soprano Catherine Foster , a former midwife, appeared as Brünnhilde at the Bayreuth Festival celebrating Wagner's bicentenary?
Did you know that in a legacy game , players may be instructed to destroy physical components?
Did you know that Jordan Murphy was the first basketball player to earn Big Ten Conference Player of the Week three weeks in a row since Evan Turner did so eight seasons earlier?
Did you know that underwater thumps and moans in a West African swamp may indicate the presence of certain air-breathing fish ?
Did you know that the ants Poneropsis affinis , Ponera affinis , and Formica schmidtii are all the single fossil species Liometopum imhoffii ?
Did you know that after serving as Ghana's ambassador to Iran, Cuba, and Denmark, Hassan Ahmed is now director of protocol for the President of Ghana ?
Did you know that while the medieval bergfried of the Boosenburg in Rüdesheim still stands, the castle's moat was made into a wine cellar and other buildings were replaced by a Gothic Revival villa?
Did you know that in 1860, Edric Norfolk Vaux Morisset became the first Inspector General of Police in Queensland ?
Did you know that to ensure the loyalty of Queen Fatuma , a client ruler of Zanzibar, Omani forces kept a cannon trained on her palace?
Did you know that Doo Aphane successfully challenged a law that prevented married women from owning property in their own names in Swaziland ?
Did you know that Gunday (2014) became one of the lowest-rated films on IMDb following a vote brigading social-media campaign by Bangladeshis ?
Did you know that Indian sprinter Amiya Kumar Mallick trained under Usain Bolt 's coach Glen Mills in 2014 and broke the 100 metres national record in 2016?
Did you know that Joseph Stalin asked Franklin D. Roosevelt for aluminium , implying enough of it would bring him victory in World War II ?
Did you know that the wounds of leprosy sufferer Josephine Cafrine were said to have miraculously healed after her death?
Did you know that Herbert Howells composed the Magnificat and Nunc dimittis for Gloucester Cathedral after having organ lessons there with Herbert Brewer as a boy?
Did you know that "feminists must have been horrified to discover" what Sylvie Vartan 's song " Comme un garçon " was about?
Did you know that Salsa Big Band by Panamanian artists Rubén Blades and Roberto Delgado & Orquesta won the 2017 Latin Grammy Award for Album of the Year ?
Did you know that Itunu Hotonu , the first female admiral in Africa, joined the Nigerian Navy only because she was rejected by the army?
Did you know that Lisbeth's brooding anemone and Fernald's brooding anemone both care for their young, but they use different strategies?
Did you know that between 1993 and 2008, Kyrgyz politician Azamat Arapbayev was either the chairman, director or deputy director of seven different companies?
Did you know that Human Nature is Brought Forth by Decree , an ancient Chinese philosophical text, was rediscovered about 2,300 years after it was buried?
Did you know that despite winning his country's Professional Championship by ten strokes that year, golfer Paddy Mahon was excluded from the 1937 Ryder Cup for being Irish?
Did you know that the French Constitutional Council triggered a by-election in a constituency where the winning candidate avoided a second round by 16 votes?
Did you know that harpsichordist Pieter-Jan Belder recorded the complete Fitzwilliam Virginal Book , and Telemann 's complete Tafelmusik with his ensemble Musica Amphion?
Did you know that the anime series C was inspired by the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers ?
Did you know that Henry V. Plummer was a chaplain with the US Army Buffalo Soldiers , while his son H. Vinton Plummer was a leader in Marcus Garvey 's secret service and militia?
Did you know that Warming's lantern fish spends the day at depths and ascends at night to feed on mats of diatoms near the sea surface?
Did you know that Kenneth Cairns won four gold medals and one silver in his first Paralympic Games ?
Did you know that the jazz club Bop City was the site of the only meeting between Louis Armstrong and Charlie Parker ?
Did you know that findings at Laili Cave show that Timor was colonised at least 44,600 years ago, making it the oldest known habitation of modern humans in Wallacea ?
Did you know that after J. Charles Jones led an anti-segregation sit-in with hundreds of activists at a Woolworth counter in Charlotte, North Carolina , the store closed its counter to prevent further integration ?
Did you know that Bach's motet Komm, Jesu, komm , BWV 229 (Come, Jesus, come) sets lyrics by Paul Thymich , scored for a double choir?
Did you know that abolitionist Richard Foster was an officer of the 1st Missouri Regiment of Colored Infantry in the civil war and, with his regiment, established the Lincoln Institute as a school for African Americans?
Did you know that the youngest bell of St. Lubentius, Dietkirchen , a Romanesque church on a rock, was consecrated by Pope John Paul II ?
Did you know that 16-year-old Hailie Deegan is the only female driver in the NASCAR K&N Pro Series West ?
Did you know that nominations for the UK Picture Editors' Guild awards have included photographs of battlefield conflict, German figure skaters, and Theresa May laughing?
Did you know that Arsenal reached today's 2018 EFL Cup Final against Manchester City without playing a game outside London?
Did you know that 40 years ago, Gary Mathias disappeared after leaving a working automobile to walk into California's Plumas National Forest without winter clothing or food, along with four men later found dead?
Did you know that Sudden Rush was the first group to record nā mele paleoleo (Hawaiian hip hop )?
Did you know that in 1955, a white supremacist organization claimed the racial integration of schools in the United States was a plot devised in Moscow to "mongrelize" White Americans ?
Did you know that pianist Christopher White arranged four movements of Mahler's unfinished Tenth Symphony for his instrument and made a recording at Rosslyn Hill Unitarian Chapel , Hampstead?
Did you know that Wat Phra Dhammakaya contains a large monument with a million Buddha statues?
Did you know that in 1977, hostages on board a hijacked airliner escaped when their captors fell asleep?
Did you know that the organizers of FESTIMA , a festival in Burkina Faso celebrating traditional African masks , estimate that 100,000 people attended in 2016?
Did you know that after the shooting of Trayvon Martin , Seattle author Ijeoma Oluo started writing about her social concerns on a blog that she had previously devoted to food?
Did you know that what at first sight appears to be a single Oedera capensis flowerhead, is in fact typically a group of nine densely cropped heads?
Did you know that because she felt she lacked acting experience, Japanese voice actress Tomori Kusunoki initially auditioned as a singer?
Did you know that the killings at the Alem Bekagn prison were visible from the windows of the Organisation of African Unity headquarters, but were never mentioned by the OAU?
Did you know that the deep water squat lobster Eumunida picta is often associated with the coldwater coral Lophelia pertusa ?
Did you know that Satan frequently appeared as a comic relief figure in late medieval mystery plays , in which he "frolicked, fell, and farted in the background"?
Did you know that during the first U.S. government shutdown in 1980 , the Carter administration dispatched U.S. Marshals to Federal Trade Commission facilities to enforce the shutdown?
Did you know that Evelyn Terhune , a member of the U.S. fencing team at the 1960 Summer Olympics , took up the sport on a dare?
Did you know that HMG Heat and Waterproof Adhesive was used to adhere the 100–200 fragments of the Pioneer helmet ?
Did you know that Jaroslav Eminger , an officer in the German Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia during World War II , was acquitted of charges of collaboration and declared a "loyal Bohemian and a brave man"?
Did you know that the Macon Whoopees were named after Doris Day 's rendition of the song " Makin' Whoopee "?
Did you know that in Sumerian mythology , a group of gods known as the Anunnaki put the goddess Inanna on trial for her attempt to conquer the Underworld ?
Did you know that Jean-Jack Queyranne proposed that the regional council of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes , like the European Parliament, hold alternating sessions in two cities?
Did you know that in 1910, Monroe Morton constructed the Morton Theatre in the "Hot Corner", a center of African American business and culture in Athens, Georgia ?
Did you know that the proposed Major Road Network designation would comprise just 4 percent of England's road length but carry 43 percent of its traffic?
Did you know that Indianapolis Colts defensive back D. J. White forced at least one fumble in each of his four years at Georgia Tech ?
Did you know that the Taiwan bush warbler was described in 1917, but was not named as a distinct species until 2000?
Did you know that the marine paradox worm may resemble the common ancestor of humans and mollusks?
Did you know that Susanna Innes-Ker, Duchess of Roxburghe , was one of Queen Victoria 's longest serving ladies-in-waiting?
Did you know that at the 2018 Winter Olympics , Dom Parsons won the first medal for a British male in skeleton in 70 years?
Did you know that a light rail line in Seattle will become the first to use a floating bridge ?
Did you know that Armando Ríos Piter declined his own party's nomination for Governor of Guerrero because it wanted him to sign a pact with the former governor ?
Did you know that Quinta Market in Manila is believed to be the birthplace of the Filipino dessert halo-halo ?
Did you know that in South Dakota v. Wayfair , the U.S. Supreme Court will decide whether to "kill Quill "?
Did you know that bobsleigh duo Mica McNeill and Mica Moore crowdfunded £30,000 to compete at 2017–18 Bobsleigh World Cup events?
Did you know that the island of Ruffle Bar was isolated from the rest of New York City for three months each year due to the surrounding bay being frozen over?
Did you know that Huang Zongying and her husband Zhao Dan were both named among the best 100 actors in the history of Chinese cinema?
Did you know that the shrub Banksia blechnifolia got its name because its leaves resembled those of ferns?
Did you know that superintendent Marcus Ames resigned in protest after plans were announced to introduce workhouses to the Lancaster Industrial School for Girls in Massachusetts?
Did you know that the People's Liberation Army captured Nanjing , the capital of the Republic of China , three days after launching the Yangtze River Crossing Campaign ?
Did you know that Melecstrate, Melchstrate, Melkestrate, Melcstrate, Melkstrete, Milkstrate, Milcstrate, Milkestretende, and Milkstrete are all the same place?
Did you know that British Army researchers developed SLC radar in their spare time after they grew tired of watching how "searchlight beams swung wildly about the sky but rarely found and held a target"?
Did you know that Africa's large population of youths and children makes it the youngest continent, with 60% of residents younger than twenty-five?
Did you know that Joseph Stamler allowed a lawsuit opposing mandatory school sex education to proceed, stating that the U.S. Constitution protects "the one person who is sincere in a conscientious religious conviction"?
Did you know that in 1976, an air traffic controller error caused two aircraft to collide over Anapa in the Soviet Union, killing all 70 people on board both planes?
Did you know that Amazon 's spherical employee lounge in Seattle was opened with an Alexa voice command?
Did you know that the Atlantic batfish uses its pectoral and pelvic fins to "walk" over the seabed?
Did you know that war correspondent Philip Jacobson placed bets on horse races while reporting from the battlefield?
Did you know that Asa Miller , one of only two athletes competing for the Philippines at the 2018 Winter Olympics , was born and raised in Portland, Oregon , and still lives there?
Did you know that the greater thornbird builds a cone-shaped nest, usually over water, while the freckle-breasted thornbird makes a gourd-shaped nest with a long entrance tunnel?
Did you know that 109 years ago today, William Howard Taft was made a Mason at sight ?
Did you know that the French Constitutional Council triggered a by-election in a constituency representing French nationals in Spain, Portugal, Andorra, and Monaco?
Did you know that Australian mathematician Katherine Heinrich was the first female president of the Canadian Mathematical Society ?
Did you know that in July 1918, Jagdgeschwader III faced the problem of self-igniting ammunition?
Did you know that the setting of the film Interstellar was inspired by the Dust Bowl that occurred in 1930s America during the Great Depression ?
Did you know that before a distraught Marilyn Bergeron disappeared ten years ago today , a friend says she told him what was bothering her was worse than witnessing a murder or being raped, but would not say what?
Did you know that long face syndrome may be associated with sleep apnea ?
Did you know that siblings Thomas , Glen , and Eve Muirhead are all competing in curling for Great Britain at the 2018 Winter Olympics ?
Did you know that during the Vietnam War , Pacific Architects and Engineers provided cover for the CIA 's Phoenix Program ?
Did you know that the announcement of the reopening of the Embassy of Poland in Manila coincided with Poland's decision to expand its economic involvement in Asia?
Did you know that Mu-ming Poo led a team of scientists that created the world's first primate clones with the same technique used to create Dolly the sheep ?