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Did you know that Patrick Guerrand-Hermès created the Aïn Kassimou in the style of a 19th-century Moroccan house for his passion for the arts and culture of Morocco where he lived for 50 years?
Did you know that Moorish Gibraltar was known as the City of Victory and lasted for over 725 years, far longer than Spanish or British Gibraltar ?
Did you know that Ida Barney was given the 1953 Annie J. Cannon Award in Astronomy for measuring the positions of over 150,000 stars?
Did you know that half-pipe skiing was added as a new event for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia ?
Did you know that the yellow calcareous sponge may be overgrown by other organisms?
Did you know that a 1540 bottle of wine from Würzburger Stein may have been the oldest wine ever tasted and that an unopened bottle of the wine still exists?
Did you know that the Motswana ANC activist Fish Keitseng helped anti-Apartheid leaders including Nelson Mandela and Thabo Mbeki to move through Bechuanaland ?
Did you know that the Tangut translation of the Chinese military text The General's Garden predates the earliest surviving Chinese edition by 200 years?
Did you know that Henryk Chmielewski was the first comic book author to be awarded with the Medal for Merit to Culture , Gold Class, the highest Polish order given for artistic deeds?
Did you know that the Spencer Township Hall in Cincinnati , Ohio, was originally both a government building and an Odd Fellows hall?
Did you know that the use of nature in Asrul Sani 's 1972 film The Misfit has been compared to works by Japanese directors?
Did you know that Adaptive Coloration in Animals was said to be the only zoology book ever to be packed in a soldier's kitbag?
Did you know that Bolton Street Memorial Park , Wellington , New Zealand's oldest cemetery, was bisected by a motorway in the 1960s/70s?
Did you know that bivalve molluscs and brittle stars are often found in beds of Japanese sea lilies ?
Did you know that actress Andrea Pietra suggested the inclusion of Paola Barrientos in the cast of Graduados ?
Did you know that Sedgwick House in Cumbria was built for the owner of a gunpowder factory?
Did you know that Vito Pascucci became friends with Glenn Miller after repairing a smashed trumpet with only a broomstick?
Did you know that two years after Madeleine Taylor 's decision to focus more on basketball than netball , she played in the WNBL on the Australian Institute of Sport team?
Did you know that on Wings ' songs " Cook of the House " and " Love in Song ," ex- Beatle Paul McCartney plays the same double bass that Bill Black played on Elvis Presley hits such as " Heartbreak Hotel "?
Did you know that Irish algologist Anne Elizabeth Ball has two species of seaweed named for her?
Did you know that They Met in Argentina was described in one review as "an American musical at its worst"?
Did you know that Carol Lee Flinders , coauthor of the "renowned countercultural cookbook" Laurel's Kitchen , has also written books on spirituality, mysticism, and feminism?
Did you know that B4 is a classification for people with visual impairments and is used in sports including sailing, bowls, swimming and cycling?
Did you know that one of the largest shoe companies in Germany, Klauser Schuhe , sponsored the painting of the Lego Bridge in the style of Lego bricks ?
Did you know that the Carpet Chameleon can change colour according to its need to warm up or its mood?
Did you know that as Hungarian tennis champion Jenő Zsigmondy 's health faded he had to give up tennis and subsequently took up golf?
Did you know that a landscape architect was a major proponent of the preservation of the area that is now known as the Gibraltar Rock State Natural Area ?
Did you know that the board of directors for Hillsboro, Oregon -based Eid Passport has included Thomas H. Collins , Merrill McPeak , and Tom Ridge ?
Did you know that with Guatemala's Decree 900 , President Jacobo Árbenz Guzmán ordered the expropriation of uncultivated farmland—including 1,700 acres (690 ha) of his own estate?
Did you know that Kulindroplax is the first known mollusk showing an unambiguous combination of exterior shells and a worm-like body?
Did you know that professional baseball player Slade Heathcott lived in his truck during his senior year of high school ?
Did you know that netball in Wales had a national governing organisation by 1945, and between 1949 and 1976 the national team lost 28 times to England while not winning a single match?
Did you know that the Russians are developing an airborne anti-satellite weapon called Sokol Eshelon ?
Did you know that the Trioceros laterispinis can only be found in one mountain range in the Eastern Arc Mountains ?
Did you know that al-Muwaffaq was the effective ruler of the Abbasid Caliphate for twenty-one years, sidelining his brother, the Caliph al-Mu'tamid ?
Did you know that in 1999 the diamond industry in Armenia provided about one third of the country 's exports?
Did you know that Alfred Ransom was twice Acting Prime Minister of New Zealand ?
Did you know that Hindus fast without food or water on Nirjala Ekadashi in the hot Indian summer to propitiate the god Vishnu ?
Did you know that Hawaiian King Kalākaua appointed Samuel Kipi to serve as Royal Governor of the Island of Hawaiʻi in 1874?
Did you know that Sjumandjaja 's 1983 film Budak Nafsu ( Slave to Passion ) was called "little more than a sex exploitation vehicle" yet was nominated for a Citra Award for Best Film?
Did you know that when Phil Cronan moved to play for St Kilda , a requested Supreme Court injunction to prevent his transfer was rejected by the judge who said that football wasn't sufficiently important?
Did you know that Brookesia ambreensis , B. bekolosy , B. bonsi , B. brygooi , B. confidens , B. exarmata , B. griveaudi , B. lambertoni , B. lineata , B. lolontany , B. nasus , B. therezieni , B. thieli and B. valerieae are all species of chameleon endemic to Madagascar ?
Did you know that someone named Cam Newton left the NFL in 2007 after just two seasons?
Did you know that in 1946, orientalist Mikhail Evgenievich Masson organized the South Turkmenistan Complex Archaeological Expedition ?
Did you know that Michael Jackson signed vocal group Men of Vizion to his record label, MJJ Music , in 1993, and released their debut studio album , Personal , three years later?
Did you know that Marrakesh was founded because homesick Saharan warriors did not like living in cities?
Did you know that Praia da Bordeira, near Carrapateira , Portugal, has been cited as one of the best beaches in the Algarve ?
Did you know that 30 Euston Square , London, has been refurbished to be the headquarters of the Royal College of General Practitioners ?
Did you know that Russian satellite Luch 5B will relay data from the International Space Station ?
Did you know that the 2009 British horror film Salvage was filmed on the set formerly used by the soap opera Brookside ?
Did you know that the Hamdanid emir of Mosul , Abu Taghlib , was attacked by the Buyid 'Izz al-Dawla , but later allied himself with him against the latter's cousin 'Adud al-Dawla ?
Did you know that Russian is the most widely spoken foreign language in Armenia ?
Did you know that two students from Gibraltar High School 's Future Farmers of America drowned while taking part in an annual camping trip in 1941?
Did you know that in College Network, Inc. v. Moore Educational Publishers, Inc. , the purchase of trademarked keywords of competitors to display its own advertisement was not counted as trademark infringement ?
Did you know that Maurice Hurley was credited for writing the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode " Hide and Q " under a pseudonym in protest against Gene Roddenberry 's numerous rewrites?
Did you know that an artillery blockhouse was built in 1481 to protect Dartmouth Harbour ?
Did you know that Allan Singleton-Wood hosted the first radio performance in Wales of Dusty Springfield 's early band, The Springfields ?
Did you know that Tom Hedden 's work is featured in both the NFL and NASCAR halls of fame?
Did you know that despite being found over an area of 10,000 square kilometres (3,900 sq mi), Petter's Chameleon is a Vulnerable species ?
Did you know that former American Idol contestant Diana DeGarmo co-wrote a song entitled "Good Goodbye", which she performed as her character Angelina Veneziano on The Young and the Restless ?
Did you know that Lluís Coll scored one goal and set up another as FC Barcelona won the 1960 Inter-Cities Fairs Cup Final ?
Did you know that the Belalanda Chameleon is one of only five Critically Endangered reptiles?
Did you know that Placebo 's discography includes four studio albums that topped the chart in France?
Did you know that the Roman Theatre at Palmyra in Syria was left unfinished with only the ima cavea ?
Did you know that the second Dushinsky Rebbe had to pay a huge sum of money in order to be buried next to his father , the first Dushinsky Rebbe , in the nearly empty Shaare Zedek Cemetery of Jerusalem?
Did you know that in 1903, David Prescott Barrows as general superintendent of education for the Philippine Islands , was instrumental in a total reorganization of the educational system?
Did you know that the South Tibetan Detachment inserted the Greater Himalayan Crystalline complex between the Lesser Himalayan Sequence and the Tethyan Himalayan Sequence?
Did you know that 3 Doors Down 's discography includes five singles that topped the Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks chart?
Did you know that the freshwater snail Filopaludina martensi is a part of the cuisine of Thailand ?
Did you know that members of the relief effort Occupy Sandy created a wedding registry that has raised more than $100,000 in supplies for the victims of Hurricane Sandy ?
Did you know that the song " Te Regalo Amores " by R.K.M & Ken-Y reached No. 1 on both the Billboard Latin Rhythm Airplay and Latin Tropical Airplay charts?
Did you know that Patrick Guerrand-Hermès was president of the Federation of International Polo and was chiefly responsible for organizing the 2004 World Polo Championship ?
Did you know that Bach used a trio of oboes for a Totentanz in his chorale cantata Ach wie flüchtig, ach wie nichtig , BWV 26 (Ah how fleeting, ah how futile)?
Did you know that the Chaim Potok novel The Book of Lights is based on Potok's exposure to non-Jewish religions as a military chaplain in Korea and Japan ?
Did you know that the Transantarctic Mountains are one of the longest ranges formed by continental rifting?
Did you know that an actor who played a dead body in the Dutch television series Q & Q was later found in the same position after being murdered in his apartment?
Did you know that the Museum of Asian Art houses some 20,000 Asian artifacts, making it one of the largest museums of ancient Asian art in the world?
Did you know that Henri Akoka escaped a prison camp by jumping onto a moving train with his clarinet under his arm?
Did you know that, in May 1965 , Josiah Gondo became Rhodesia 's first black Leader of the Opposition ?
Did you know that the Villa dei Misteri project is recreating the wines of Pompeii by replanting vineyards destroyed by the Vesuvius eruption with ancient grape varieties?
Did you know that in Microsoft v. AT&T , copying and installing software abroad onto foreign-manufactured computers were not considered as patent infringement under U.S. Patent Law?
Did you know that 2016: Obama's America , the fourth-highest-grossing U.S. documentary of the past 30 years, was initially released in only one theater?
Did you know that repairs made to the Black Swan dredge in the 1880s included replacing the steel bottom with Jarrah ?
Did you know that 311 's discography includes two singles that topped the Alternative Songs chart?
Did you know that after 25 years of aging in real time, John Constantine is getting younger ?
Did you know that the chimney of Cape Cornwall Mine has a plaque in the shape of a Heinz Baked Beanz label set into its base?
Did you know that the Barack Obama re-election campaign compared the film Dishonorable Disclosures to the "Swift Boat" attacks against John Kerry in 2004 ?
Did you know that the Xiong'er Volcanic Belt formed part of the earliest known supercontinent Columbia ?
Did you know that ITM Power are developing technology to make the Isle of Wight carbon neutral ?
Did you know that to watch an early screening of " The Gathering ", attendees of the Star Wars Celebration VI had to bring their kids with them?
Did you know that British architect H. T. Cadbury-Brown served with the Royal Artillery in World War II but made it all the way from Normandy to Germany without firing a shot?
Did you know that by the 1960s female leaders of women's football in Africa began to emerge?
Did you know that Steve Pestka resigned his judgeship to run the real estate business his father developed after surviving the Holocaust ?
Did you know that pineapple coral growing in the Florida Keys was nearly wiped out by white plague in 1995 and has not fully recovered since?
Did you know that Fred Humphreys attempted to photograph every species of Banksia , but died before the resulting book was published?
Did you know that the Disposition Matrix creates a blueprint for tracking, capturing, rendering or killing suspected terrorists?
Did you know that the design of the Russian first-rate ship of the line Imperator Nikolai I was based on that of the British steam-powered ship of the line HMS Duke of Wellington ?
Did you know that the Michigan Wolverines field hockey team 's 2001 NCAA championship was the first national title for any women's sports team at the University of Michigan ?
Did you know that the Eurythmics have released eight studio albums between 1981 and 1999 and sold over 75 million records?
Did you know that Welsh international footballer David Powell began his career employed as groundsman by Wrexham F.C. ?
Did you know that virtually all Italian-speakers in Albania have learnt the language by watching Italian television and not through reading textbooks?
Did you know that the Oluf Høst Museum dedicated to the Bornholm painter Oluf Høst , is located in his large house known as Norresân?
Did you know that the British racehorse Camarine 's career was compared to that of Eclipse and she also won a trophy made of his tail hairs?
Did you know that Russian general Valery Gerasimov was appointed Chief of Defence Staff following the firing of Defence Minister Anatoly Serdyukov ?
Did you know that the release of Still Jennifer Lopez , the second fragrance to be endorsed by Jennifer Lopez , was not anticipated due to the negative publicity generated from her film Gigli ?
Did you know that the current EastEnders executive producer Lorraine Newman is the first executive producer to have occupied every editorial role on the show?
Did you know that the 16th-century King's Chapel was the first church built in Gibraltar after the city was conquered by Spain?
Did you know that Welsh international footballer Joe Davies was suspended by Sheffield United for "lodging in a public house "?
Did you know that panyarring is the practice of involuntarily seizing people and selling them into slavery to recoup losses or gain repayment of debts?
Did you know that current president of the Institution of Civil Engineers Barry Clarke spent two years working as a volunteer in Montserrat ?
Did you know that Boaz Mahune , who graduated from Lahainaluna , wrote the Declaration of Rights of 1839, the preamble to the first constitution of Hawaii ?
Did you know that Usmar Ismail made his directorial debut with Tjitra while still part of the Indonesian Army ?
Did you know that Boston 's discography includes an album that sold over 17 million copies?
Did you know that the Jaffe reaction is still widely employed as the method of choice for creatinine testing, despite not being specific to creatinine?
Did you know that Academy Award for Makeup winner Michael Westmore created kits for the CIA to enable agents to change their identities?
Did you know that William Calvin Chase took over the Washington Bee in 1882 and turned it into "one of the most influential African American newspapers in the country"?
Did you know that the Norwegian-British crew of MTB 345 were tortured and executed as a result of Adolf Hitler 's Commando Order ?
Did you know that the collections of amateur natural historian Mary Elizabeth Barber may have influenced Charles Darwin 's deliberations on the role of moths in orchid pollination?
Did you know that the concentric circles on the lid of a Zenbook are designed to look like ripples in water?
Did you know that according to Serbian legend, Marko Kraljević alone defeated General Vuča and his thousand horsemen?
Did you know the sucrose gap , first developed by Robert Stämpfli in 1954, is used to measure the effects of drugs on the activity of nerve and muscle membranes?
Did you know that Philip and Son was Dartmouth 's last industrial shipyard ?
Did you know that Mehmet Gürs , a Turkish chef of Scandinavian descent, called his Istanbul restaurant Mikla , which is derived from Miklagard , the Viking name of the city in the 10th century?
Did you know that British astronomer Isis Pogson was probably named after a river , and an asteroid was probably named after her?
Did you know that The Black Crowes ' discography includes six singles that topped the Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks chart?
Did you know that the Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony Collections for Kohl's were originally marketed as "the first celebrity couple to simultaneously design collections for one retailer"?
Did you know that former Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew said that the Non-constituency Member of Parliament scheme should be introduced to show younger voters how destructive an opposition can be?
Did you know that Judith Donath has explored the use of artificial emotions in avatars and their potential use in online advertising ?
Did you know that the mole crab Emerita rathbunae is a proficient surfer ?
Did you know that as requested in his will, the grave of Turkish folk singer Neşet Ertaş was placed at the foot of his father's?
Did you know that company rule in Rhodesia was chartered in 1889 by Queen Victoria ?
Did you know that Swedish doubles amateur champions Harry Ramberg and Curt Östberg defeated two professional tennis duos in a 1932 match, including the American team of Bill Tilden and Bruce Barnes ?
Did you know that Everclear 's discography includes a song that peaked at number one on the Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks chart?
Did you know that David Curson was elected to serve in the United States House of Representatives for six weeks?
Did you know that in 1924, Estonia's Tallinn Power Plant became the world's first power plant to use oil shale as the primary fuel to generate electricity ?
Did you know that Jean-Baptiste Lynch fled to England during the Hundred Days , but returned during the Bourbon Restoration and became a Peer of France ?
Did you know that St Giles' Church, Barrow , is one of the earliest surviving churches in Shropshire , and contains the county's only Saxon chancel ?
Did you know that the endangered Decary's Leaf Chameleon can be found over an area of 1,300 square kilometres (500 sq mi)?
Did you know that the mysterious Glasgow effect refers to the low life expectancy of Glaswegians , which epidemiologists say deprivation alone does not explain?
Did you know that Sjumandjaja considered quitting directing after his debut in Lewat Tengah Malam but went on to direct more than a dozen films?
Did you know that the extraction of rosewood is the major threat to the Naturelle Leaf Chameleon ?
Did you know that congressman-elect Eric Swalwell served on the city council of College Park, Maryland , while a student at the University of Maryland, College Park ?
Did you know that " The Role You Were Born to Play " was part of Blake Jenner 's prize for winning The Glee Project ?
Did you know that the release of Ricardo Arjona 's Simplemente Lo Mejor led to speculation that Sony Music and Warner Music were in a fight to win his fanbase and sales?
Did you know that the United States Supreme Court case Wilkie v. Robbins involved a land dispute over a dude ranch resort?
Did you know that Danielle Harold was the second person to act out a birth in a live episode of a soap opera, in EastEnders ' 4466th episode ?
Did you know that turtle grass is a marine flowering plant with seed that is viviparous ?
Did you know that Arthur Talmage Abernethy was named as the first North Carolina Poet Laureate in 1948 even though he never published a book of poetry?
Did you know that by the end of the Ninth Siege of Gibraltar the defending soldiers had resorted to eating leather from their garments and plants growing on the garrison walls?
Did you know that the seventh-century Jain cave-temple , in the abode of great saints , includes images painted in fresco-secco technique?
Did you know that the original Fremantle Traffic Bridge was built between 1863 and 1867 using convict labour ?
Did you know that after Alexander Nadj had played 13 minutes for Lillestrøm SK , the head coach Henning Berg decided to use the youth goalkeeper instead?
Did you know that Queen Tehauroa outlawed the sale of land and declared that Protestantism was the only authorized religion in the Polynesian Kingdom of Raiatea ?
Did you know that Adam Markovitz of Entertainment Weekly called Maroon 5 's 2012 single " Daylight " "a Coldplay -ish song"?
Did you know that Mark Takano is set to be the first non-White openly gay member of the United States House of Representatives ?
Did you know that the Plated Leaf Chameleon is sometimes kept as a pet ?
Did you know that Patrick White 's The Hanging Garden was published posthumously, despite him leaving orders to have it burned?
Did you know that in 1917, George Westmore set up the first make-up department for a film studio?
Did you know that Akon met, signed and helped launch Lady Gaga 's career after the two co-wrote " Hypnotico ", a song that was later recorded by Jennifer Lopez ?
Did you know that footballer Steve Redmond became Manchester City 's youngest ever captain when appointed to the role in 1988?
Did you know that before directing the award-winning film Keep the Lights On , Ira Sachs shot and directed The Delta in his hometown ?
Did you know that Red Onion State Prison helped to triple the Black population of Wise County, Virginia ?
Did you know that Robin Eriksson played football in Allsvenskan after he was warned by doctors that he might not be able to walk again?
Did you know that some of the breakdowns in the 2011 Singapore MRT disruptions were the worst in its operator SMRT 's 24-year history?
Did you know that geologist Sydney Mary Thompson discovered a glacial erratic that redefined the westernmost extent of the Irish Sea Glacier ?
Did you know that Shoaib Akhtar took 16 five-wicket hauls during his career in international cricket ?
Did you know that art can make people angry ?
Did you know that parts of Russia lie on the same tectonic plate as Japan ?
Did you know that the live telethon Hurricane Sandy: Coming Together , broadcast November 2 on NBCUniversal channels, featured performers and speakers who were from areas suffering after the storm?
Did you know that 2010 Olympic snowboarder Stephanie Hickey studied theater arts and worked for the Seven Network as a Victorian snow reporter?
Did you know that to enhance their performances, a "prescored" soundtrack of violent noises and voices was played during the filming of the 1963 film The Haunting to give the actors something to which to react?
Did you know that Bob Montgomery was the last Major League Baseball player to bat without wearing a batting helmet ?
Did you know that Loring AFB alert crews would scramble from a mole hole , run to awaiting jets on a christmas tree (both within the alert area ), and perform an elephant walk and a MITO , all within fifteen minutes?
Did you know that the Solluba are considered remnants of pre- Semitic peoples that once dominated Arabia ?
Did you know that Colonel John Bevan 's contribution to military deception planning during World War II was kept secret until the 1970s?
Did you know that architect Robert Venturi 's first major work, Guild House , was commissioned by a Quaker organization to house low-income elderly tenants?