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Did you know that the Jain polemic Tamil epic Neelakesi was written as a rebuttal to the Buddhist epic Kundalakesi ?
Did you know that Grete Prytz Kittelsen is known as the "Queen of Scandinavian Design "?
Did you know that Northwestern University's appearance in the 2003 Motor City Bowl marked the first time a Big Ten team played in that bowl game ?
Did you know that the electors of Inuvik Boot Lake have not voted in a Northwest Territories general election since 1999 , as in every election since only one candidate has registered to run?
Did you know that the Star Wars video game Flight of the Falcon lets the player pilot not only the Millennium Falcon , but also an X-wing , a landspeeder , and a speeder bike ?
Did you know that an 1867 Tintara claret became the oldest surviving bottle of Australian wine after the previous record holder was accidentally broken by a Christie's office cleaner?
Did you know that Brad Johnson , the deputy Lofty Craig on the western TV series Annie Oakley , portrayed one of six unnamed students in Ronald Reagan 's 1951 film Bedtime for Bonzo ?
Did you know that the pebble-mound mice of northern Australia construct mounds of stones around their burrows up to 10 m 2 in area?
Did you know that Basil Hayden was not only the University of Kentucky's first All-American basketball player, but probably also its shortest?
Did you know that the schools designed by John Douglas for the 1st Duke of Westminster in Eccleston and Waverton , Cheshire , are considered to be the best of his village schools?
Did you know that in November 1931, American country blues harmonicist Eddie Mapp was found stabbed to death at the age of 20 on an Atlanta , Georgia , street corner?
Did you know that the molecularly distinct Abrotrichini group of South American rodents was not recognized as distinct from the Akodontini until the 1990s?
Did you know that construction innovator Olav Selvaag started Norway 's first music school?
Did you know that the passage of the A.B. 390 by California 's Public Safety Committee marked the first time in United States history that a bill legalizing marijuana passed a legislative committee?
Did you know that Frederick Hobbs , after singing leading roles from 1914 to 1920 with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company , became its stage manager and then business manager for the last two decades of his life?
Did you know that the Cucuteni-Trypillian people experienced a considerable abundance of food , which contributed to why they had no evidence of war throughout their entire existence?
Did you know that Nicolas Andry gave the field of orthopedic surgery its name with his 1741 book Orthopédie ?
Did you know that parts 2 and 3 of the BBC television documentary series Berlin were watched by approximately one million people in the United Kingdom ?
Did you know that Yakubu Mu'azu is one of a group of Nigerian former military administrators who formed the United Nigeria Development Forum, a political pressure group ?
Did you know that upon graduating from Tokyo University of the Arts , Hayato Matsuo went straight to work under Koichi Sugiyama , the composer for the Dragon Quest video game series?
Did you know that the last known specimen of the Styre , a once-famous variety of cider apple , was felled in 1968?
Did you know that Endre Berner , Bjørn Føyn , Carl Jacob Arnholm , Eiliv Skard , Harald K. Schjelderup and Anatol Heintz were among the professors at the University of Oslo who were arrested by Nazis during World War II ?
Did you know that Captain George Eyre narrowly escaped death in 1810, when he was hit in the head by a musket ball and three others passed through his clothes?
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Did you know that when 30 Bridge Street, Chester was rebuilt in 1890, it was unique at that period in the city because it was no higher than the building it replaced?
Did you know that, in Montreal , since a shish taouk is not grilled on a skewer, it would better be called a chicken shawarma ?
Did you know that in 2001, when Nina Frisak became the first female leader of the Norwegian Office of the Prime Minister , she left the position of Supreme Court Justice ?
Did you know that in rodents , the position of the zygomatic plate varies from nearly horizontal to nearly vertical?
Did you know that Ossetian jurist and politician Alan Parastaev has been a member of the governments of both South Ossetia and Georgia ?
Did you know that up to 2 million illegal immigrants are estimated to live in Pakistan 's commercial capital Karachi alone?
Did you know that although he has composed music for over 20 video games and conducts the Video Games Live concert series, Jack Wall has a degree in civil engineering ?
Did you know that embryonic development in the bluntnose stingray does not start until several months after mating ?
Did you know that the Toledo Rockets played the Boston College Eagles in the 2002 Motor City Bowl , the first time that a bowl game was played in then-new Ford Field ?
Did you know that the palm Aiphanes deltoidea , which occurs across a broad area encompassing parts of Colombia , Peru and Brazil , is present at such low densities that it is considered a rare species ?
Did you know that in 2009, Member of the Legislative Assembly of Nunavut Enuk Pauloosie called on the Government of Nunavut to ban all of its employees from flying Air Canada to support Canada's northern airlines?
Did you know that Yale University 's Street Hall (1867), designed by architect Peter Bonnett Wight , was the first collegiate art school in the U.S.?
Did you know that the Italian producer Azienda Agricola Testamatta once had a wine banned in the U.S. because of its label's suggestive imagery that included the Firenze slang term for fellatio ?
Did you know that despite allowing the second most goals in the 2010 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships , Swiss goalie Benjamin Conz was selected an all-star and named the best goaltender of the tournament?
Did you know that during the Great Northern War , the army that relieved the Siege of Stralsund was forced to surrender when trapped in the Siege of Tönning ?
Did you know that musical style of Czech singer Zuzana Navarová was inspired by Latin American music ?
Did you know that the town of Chase, Wisconsin , purchased the Daniel E. Krause Stone Barn and it is planning to create a park to preserve this historic barn?
Did you know that Julius Gehl , the vice president of the Senate of the Free City of Danzig , was a mason by profession?
Did you know that longnose stingrays are born in relatively fresh water , move into saltier water soon after, and then move back into less salty water when they mature ?
Did you know that St Cuthbert , according to the Historia de Sancto Cuthberto , caused a Scottish army preparing to fight King Guthred of Northumbria to be swallowed up by the earth?
Did you know that in response to the growing National Socialist influence, the Social Democratic Party of the Free City of Danzig formed a 4,500-man strong paramilitary force?
Did you know that the 2005 Liberty Bowl was the first time Fresno State played a college football bowl game east of the Mississippi River ?
Did you know that now-Member of the Legislative Assembly of Nunavut Peter Taptuna was a participant in the first and only Inuit drilling crew on the Beaufort Sea ?
Did you know that although Esenbeckia runyonii is common in parts of Mexico 's Sierra Madre Oriental , the type specimen was collected from a disjunct population of trees in the Rio Grande Valley , Texas ?
Did you know that St Symphorian's Church in Durrington, West Sussex , was wrecked during the English Civil War by Parliamentarian villagers, who disliked their rector's Royalist views and unintelligible preaching?
Did you know that Charles Dickens wrote his novels Bleak House , Hard Times , Little Dorrit and A Tale of Two Cities at his Tavistock House home?
Did you know that in response to sightings of Osama bin Laden in the United States , his face was added to facial recognition programs for the 2002 Olympics ?
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Did you know that Castle Green in London was named after a castellated house built from around 1800 that survived until 1938?
Did you know that Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu , the head of the Turkish delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe , is also a member of parliament from Antalya Province ?
Did you know that Nigeria 's Bakolori irrigation project , one of the world's most expensive irrigation schemes , adversely affected downstream farming in the floodplains?
Did you know that there was a Czech section of the Austrian Republikanischer Schutzbund , associated with the Czechoslovak Social Democratic Workers Party in Austria ?
Did you know that British literary critic Clement King Shorter turned his large Brontë -related literary collection into four books on the sisters?
Did you know that landslides from the 1981 Irian Jaya earthquake destroyed 150 homes and cut off transportation for more than 2,000 people?
Did you know that Olympic freestyle skier Patrick Deneen first skied when he was only 11 months old?
Did you know that the cover of The Byrds ' compilation album, History of The Byrds , features the same David Gahr photograph as the band's Greatest Hits, Volume II album, which had been released just six months earlier?
Did you know that comedian Russ Meneve co-founded the "New York Comedians Coalition" in order to negotiate better payment for New York 's comedians?
Did you know that the present-day Honduran island of Roatán was the site of a battle in the American War of Independence on March 16, 1782?
Did you know that professional wrestler Ángel Blanco was killed in a car accident that left his long-time tag team partner Dr. Wagner an invalid ?
Did you know that Hunter-Schreger bands strengthen the enamel of the incisor in rodents ?
Did you know that the American photographer Kenneth Josephson is one of the founding members of the Society for Photographic Education?
Did you know that Prince Rupert 's white poodle Boye was given the rank of Sergeant-Major-General , and was believed by some to be the Devil in disguise?
Did you know that the Byzantine general Justinian plotted twice to overthrow Emperor Tiberius II , but was pardoned both times when the plot was discovered?
Did you know that Nottingham Catchfly is the county flower of Nottingham , even though it is not found anywhere in Nottinghamshire ?
Did you know that New Zealand 's historic Arapuni Suspension Bridge received little mention when under construction as it was part of a much larger project?
Did you know that Rhodesian cricketer Ray Gripper 's score of 279 not out in a 1968 game against Orange Free State was a Currie Cup record?
Did you know that 51 armed mercenaries attempting to overthrow President France-Albert René in 1981 travelled to Seychelles on board a Royal Swazi National Airways flight?
Did you know that Andreas Sigismund Marggraf is widely credited with isolation of zinc though he was not the first to achieve that?
Did you know that in order to play for the All-American Basketball Alliance , one must be a natural-born US citizen "with both parents of Caucasian race "?
Did you know that the American thoroughbred racehorse Meridian won the Kentucky Derby in 1911, establishing a new record time?
Did you know that the first Premier of the Canadian province of Nova Scotia , Hiram Blanchard , served for less than three months before his party was defeated in an election?
Did you know that PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat survived the crash of an Air Bissau aircraft during a sandstorm in the Libyan desert in 1992?
Did you know that Orval Prophet was among the earliest Canadian country music artists who recorded in a Nashville, Tennessee , studio?
Did you know that the type specimen of Kinkonychelys represents the first turtle skull described from the pre- Holocene era in Madagascar ?
Did you know that Andy White replaced Ringo Starr on drums on The Beatles 's first single , " Love Me Do "?
Did you know that the mushroom Clavariadelphus truncatus contains clavaric acid, which slows tumor development in mice ?
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Did you know that former strongman Joe Rollino , who died at the age of 104, earned five medals, including three Purple Hearts , for military service during World War II ?
Did you know that the German chemist Rudolf Christian Böttger synthesised the first organocopper compound, the explosive copper(I) acetylide Cu 2 C 2 , in 1859?
Did you know that Australian government approval of the sale of mining assets including Golden Grove Mine to a Chinese corporation was only given when Prominent Hill Mine was excluded on national security grounds?
Did you know that a 19th-century antiquary considered that a saga character named Ljótólfr was the eponymous ancestor of the Clan MacLeod ?
Did you know that many rice rats have pits at the back of their palates recessed into a deep depression?
Did you know that despite describing county cricket as being "a little over done", Joseph Gibbs made five first-class appearances for Somerset County Cricket Club ?
Did you know that Indians perform the second most Google searches for Ayn Rand after Americans ?
Did you know that the start and finish of the Via Crucis in Seville, Spain , have both changed over the years, as has the number of stations of the cross represented?
Did you know that Michigan halfback Paul Magoffin later coached the George Washington "Hatchetites" on the White House Ellipse ?
Did you know that the yellow nectar of the western Australian wildflower Banksia sphaerocarpa congeals to a thick, olive-green mucus?
Did you know that upon completion in 1151, Anping Bridge in present-day Fujian was the longest bridge in China till 1905?
Did you know that psychiatrist Herbert Spiegel , whose work established hypnosis as a legitimate medical therapy, used " Sybil " as a demonstration case for his hypnosis classes at Columbia University ?
Did you know that thousands of people watched the Action of 31 July 1793 between British and French frigates from the New Jersey shoreline?
Did you know that Roxxxy , described as the world's first sex robot , has an artificial intelligence engine programmed to learn the owner's likes and dislikes?
Did you know that the corporate chambers in interwar Estonia were inspired by the example of Fascist Italy ?
Did you know that while at Leeds University , the late Sunday Mirror defence correspondent Rupert Hamer wrote a satirical column for the student newspaper titled "Rupert Hamer on Friday"?
Did you know that the destroyer HMS Thanet evacuated Hong Kong on 8 December 1941, just hours after the Japanese began their attack ?
Did you know that the daisy and pearl stingrays are characterized by a "pearl spine", an enlarged dermal denticle in the middle of their backs?
Did you know that the Byzantine general Vitalian led a large-scale revolt against Emperor Anastasius I , was pardoned and named consul by his successor, Justin I , and was murdered seven months into his consulship?
Did you know that South Africa beat Hong Kong in the final of the 2009 Hong Kong Cricket Sixes by hitting a six off the last ball of the match?
Did you know that the last execution by firing squad in France took place in 1963 at Fort d'Ivry in Ivry-sur-Seine , Paris ?
Did you know that Norwegian SOE agent Odd Starheim was killed in 1943 when the coastal steamer he and his team had seized off the coast of occupied Norway was sunk by German bombers ?
Did you know that Spanish naval officer Ignacio de Arteaga y Bazán led an expedition in 1779 to Alaska , and performed a formal ceremony of possession at present-day Port Etches ?
Did you know that Cathy Davey "despised" performing the songs from her debut album Something Ilk live?
Did you know that Beccariophoenix alfredii , a newly discovered species of palm tree native to Madagascar , has a similar appearance to the Coconut palm , but is cold hardier ?
Did you know that one of Canada's most prolific mass murderers , Dale Nelson , had been still hiding at the scene of his first killing when police left the scene?
Did you know that the video game Obi-Wan's Adventures chronicles the events of the film Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace , but from the perspective of Obi-Wan Kenobi ?
Did you know that Manchester United Methodist Church in St. Louis, Missouri , originally had separate doors for men and women?
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Did you know that Tim Westoll painted more than ten thousand bird species in watercolour ?
Did you know that tufo is a Mozambican dance said to have originated when the Islamic prophet Mohammed migrated to Medina ?
Did you know that the Byzantine-Sassanid War of 602–628 critically weakened both the Byzantine and Sassanid Empires, allowing the rapid Muslim conquest of Persia , the Middle East, and North Africa ?
Did you know that the medieval English monk Thomas of Marlborough wrote the Chronicon Abbatiae de Evesham to help Evesham Abbey's legal case against Mauger, Bishop of Worcester ?
Did you know that Betsy Warland edited a collection of essays named InVersions: Writing by Dykes, Queers and Lesbians which was published in 1991?
Did you know that animals recorded from Australian Pungalina-Seven Emu Sanctuary and adjacent waters include the Masked Owl , Spectacled Hare-wallaby , Loggerhead Turtle and Shovelnose Shark ?
Did you know that the Lawless Court had only natural light and charcoal to see and write with, could only end its session when a cock crowed, and arose after the local lord discovered a plot to murder him?
Did you know that the books of educator and mayor of Holmestrand, Norway , Fredrik Ording (1870–1929), were still being reissued as late as 1974?
Did you know that during certain points in a grapevine's growing season , irrigation is often withheld in order to put the vine through water stress because it is believed to improve wine grape quality?
Did you know that Ilya Chaiken's film Liberty Kid won Critics' Pick from both The New York Times and New York magazine ?
Did you know that John Ash partially owed his 1865 election to the Legislative Assembly of Vancouver Island to the Hudson's Bay Company , whose employees constituted the majority of the voting population?
Did you know that Minuscule 541 , a fragmentary manuscript of the New Testament, has an unusual number of iotacistic errors?
Did you know that 1090 Vermont Avenue was one of five new structures built in the late 1970s which helped rejuvenate Vermont Avenue NW in Washington, D.C. ?
Did you know that the acronym Vorb contained in Tama Easton 's popular New Zealand internet forum vorb.org.nz stands for "Vaguely Organised – Ride Bikes"?
Did you know that the Vintners Parrot pub in Worthing , West Sussex , occupies a Grade II-listed Greek Revival-style former wine merchants premises and a Grade II-listed former Methodist chapel?
Did you know that Waddell Wilson built the engine used in the first NASCAR car to exceed 200 miles per hour (320 km/h)?
Did you know that although nebulium was discovered spectroscopically in 1864, it took until 1927 to show that it was actually doubly-ionized oxygen ?
Did you know that during the 1880s , businessman Guillaume Bresse joined a syndicate which bought a railway from the Quebec government, and sold it to Canadian Pacific Railway for substantial profits?
Did you know that the eggs of the Oceanic Gecko have a long incubation period and may take up to 115 days to hatch?
Did you know that Rock 'n' Roll Prophet , the only album on which Rick Wakeman sang lead vocals, received criticising reviews that described it as "goofy", "novelty", and like "pressing the self-destruct button"?
Did you know that the defunct Wichita Wind ice hockey team once had their coach and a public relations employee on their roster?
Did you know that the Gaelic Athletic Association 's inter county championships have taken place since 1887?
Did you know that Elton John created the name by which he became famous out of the names of two of the musicians in his previous band Bluesology ?
Did you know that Richard Reid , who in 2001 attempted to detonate a bomb hidden in his shoes aboard an aeroplane , used to attend the Brixton Mosque in London , England ?
Did you know that plans for St Werburgh's Mount, Chester , should have been submitted at the same time as those for St Werburgh Chambers , but were delayed because its architect John Douglas was ill?
Did you know that Israeli chess Grandmaster Ronen Har-Zvi first met his wife playing online chess at the Internet Chess Club ?
Did you know that the Schnütgen Museum of religious art in Cologne was founded with the collection of a priest known for his "zealous and sometimes crafty collection tactics"?
Did you know that disagreements about the appointment of Johannes Ording as theology professor at Royal Frederick University sparked the foundation of a new school of theology ?
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Did you know that King Vasabha (67–111 AD) started a new dynasty and pioneered the construction of large scale irrigation works in Sri Lanka ?
Did you know that in 2007, three specimens of the Caspian whipsnake were found in Galaţi County , the first in Moldavia (eastern Romania ) since 1937?
Did you know that the actor - stuntman Paul Stader broke both heels when he fell from the second floor of a burning building in the filming of the 1949 movie Mighty Joe Young ?
Did you know that the Ekaterina II -class battleship Georgii Pobedonosets was the only ship of her class to use guns in battle when she fired three rounds at the Goeben during her bombardment of Sevastopol in 1914?
Did you know that Togolese painter and sculptor Paul Ahyi , who designed the flag of Togo , was inducted as a UNESCO Artist for Peace in 2009?
Did you know that Meru Betiri National Park in East Java is known as the last habitat of the Javan Tiger which is now considered extinct ?
Did you know that future National Hockey League player Tom Martin was traded by his junior team in exchange for a bus?
Did you know that the actor Tyler MacDuff played Billy the Kid in the 1954 film The Boy from Oklahoma , which inspired the Sugarfoot television series ?
Did you know that Robbins Island is the largest freehold island in the Australian state of Tasmania ?
Did you know that at age 10, fiddler Ruby Jane Smith became the youngest invited player to perform at the Grand Ole Opry ?
Did you know that the Topos de Tlatelolco volunteer professional search and rescue team is in Haiti assisting with relief efforts after the 2010 Haiti earthquake ?
Did you know that the sixteen-year cabinet term of Stephen Kakfwi is the longest in the Northwest Territories ' history?
Did you know that Yukon Eric lost part of his ear after a botched move in a professional wrestling match against Wladek Kowalski ?
Did you know that the Gymnasticon was an eighteenth-century exercise machine claimed by its inventor to effectively treat gout , palsy , and other illnesses?
Did you know that Canadian Prime Minister Mackenzie King rebounded from the 1931 Beauharnois scandal to be elected to another 13 years in office?
Did you know that Mel Brooks credited Sidney Glazier , the producer of the original The Producers , as "the man who made it happen"?
Did you know that the February 1969 nor'easter resulted in the first time in history that the New York Stock Exchange closed for a full day due to the weather?
Did you know that Henry Stafford became 1st Baron Stafford despite his father being executed for treason ?
Did you know that Mickey Cochrane is the only catcher in Major League Baseball history with at least 3,000 plate appearances and a career .400 on-base percentage ?
Did you know that the 1770 Port-au-Prince earthquake destroyed all the buildings of Port-au-Prince , in the French colony of Saint-Domingue (the future Haiti )?
Did you know that despite being fired from his first job, English entrepreneur Ray Ingleby was a millionaire by the age of 21?
Did you know that in the Border Cave of Swaziland a 35,000 years old tally stick was found in the 1970s?
Did you know that Rudyard Kipling 's 1922 poem, The King's Pilgrimage , describes a journey made by King George V to the World War I cemeteries and memorials being built in France and Belgium?