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Did you know that a Masonic Temple is located one block away from Jerusalem's downtown district, in the historic Ezrat Yisrael neighborhood?
Did you know that the 1954 BOAC Constellation crash remains Singapore's deadliest aviation accident?
Did you know that Hong Kong's Stone Nullah Lane was named after the street's former water channel where laundry was washed?
Did you know that the Fermanagh Mallards were thrown out of the Women's Premier League after failing to travel to Belfast for an association football match?
Did you know that Queen Saw Omma , when told she was to be killed lest she pass to another man, replied to her would-be killer " Nga Nu , aren't you a man?"
Did you know that the Swanson Coupe Model W-15 has been described as "beautiful"?
Did you know that the sign language interpreter for the state memorial service of Nelson Mandela made meaningless hand gestures that did not reflect established signs?
Did you know that Ching Lau Lauro played at The Theatre, Leeds , England, in 1834?
Did you know that in 1927 the Ben Gold -led Fur Workers Industrial Union was founded by New York locals expelled from the AFL -affiliated union?
Did you know that Julián Ladera was born in a ghost village ?
Did you know that award-winning crossword constructor Bernice Gordon , who turns 100 this month, is the oldest living contributor to The New York Times crossword puzzle and still creates new puzzles every day?
Did you know that Abhilash Tomy , the first Indian to complete a solo, non-stop circumnavigation under sail , used the INSV Mhadei for his voyage?
Did you know that Hadidjah was not partnered with her husband as a supercouple , but rather a footballer?
Did you know that MTV initially refused to broadcast the music video for The Pursuit of Happiness ' song " I'm an Adult Now " because of its references to drugs, alcohol, and sex?
Did you know that American football player Jim Collier scored the New York Giants ' only touchdown in the 1962 NFL Championship Game by recovering a blocked punt in the end zone ?
Did you know that Gandhi was "the best policeman the Britisher had in India", according to Subhas Chandra Bose in The Indian Struggle ?
Did you know that No. 482 Squadron RAAF 's main hangar , upgraded in preparation for the entry into service of the F-111C swing-wing bomber, was nicknamed the " Taj Mahal "?
Did you know that Indian sprinter Milkha Singh set an Asian Games record in the 400 metres when he won gold in the 1958 Games in Tokyo?
Did you know that London's oldest operational fire station, with an extension designed in the 1890s by Robert Pearsall , closed on 9 January 2014?
Did you know that Whisper has been called "the anti- Facebook "?
Did you know that Veganz , Europe's first vegan supermarket chain, opened in Berlin in 2011 and plans to open in London in 2014?
Did you know that Onfim , a 13th-century boy from Novgorod , did his homework on pieces of birch bark , writing psalms and drawing images of himself, animals, and his teacher?
Did you know that Edgar Lee Masters wrote a poem dedicated to Chicago Symphony Orchestra benefactor Bryan Lathrop ?
Did you know that Koeda Sembrani was the last romance which partnered Roekiah and Djoemala ?
Did you know that Washington State lost fumbles twice in the last three minutes, allowing Colorado State to come back from a 15-point deficit to win the 2013 New Mexico Bowl 48–45?
Did you know that Sinaloa Cartel drug lord El Chino Ántrax raffled cars and other gifts to his followers on social media ?
Did you know that the western three-toed skink is sometimes persecuted because it is mistakenly thought to be venomous ?
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Did you know that Hallelujah! The Welcome Table (2004) is author and poet Maya Angelou 's first cookbook ?
Did you know that the bulk of the founders of the Socialist Party of Honduras had been members of the Christian Democratic Party ?
Did you know that Rabbi Ezra Schochet , dean of Yeshiva Ohr Elchonon Chabad , Los Angeles, is also the yeshiva's CEO, curriculum supervisor, and senior professor of Talmud ?
Did you know that in 1942 McKissack & McKissack received $5.7 million to design and build an airfield for the Tuskegee Airmen – the largest contract that the U.S. government had ever awarded to a Black company?
Did you know that the news site Caucasian Knot does not have any editorial offices due to security concerns?
Did you know that Swedish aircraft designer Swen Swanson designed his first home-built airplane when he was 17 years old?
Did you know that the winner of two-player dueling indie game Nidhogg is eaten by the mythological Norse serpent Níðhöggr ?
Did you know that Stephen Rubin turned the Liverpool Shoe Company into Pentland Group , the UK's largest sports apparel company and owner of Berghaus , Mitre , Speedo and several other brands?
Did you know that the African Children's Choir appears on Steven Curtis Chapman 's 2012 Christmas album Joy ?
Did you know that after his defeat by the Scots in 1384, Ralph de Greystoke was taken to Dunbar Castle and ransomed for 3,000 marks?
Did you know that the Elias Kumler House was restored after being condemned as a structural hazard?
Did you know that Benjamin Clementine was discovered by a record company agent while busking on the Paris Métro ?
Did you know that radicals can be stabilized by the captodative effect ?
Did you know that in the early 16th century Andrea Cambini wrote a notable history of the Ottoman Empire , although he had never left Italy?
Did you know that Batool Fatima has played 76 One Day International cricket matches , the most by a Pakistani woman player ?
Did you know that Hezekiah Balch helped found Tusculum College , one of the first American colleges west of the Appalachian Mountains?
Did you know that there are two war memorials in Crewe , one with a statue of a soldier, and the other with a statue of Britannia ?
Did you know that June Newton chose the pseudonym "Alice Springs" for her photography work by blindly stabbing a pin into a map of Australia and landing on the town of the same name ?
Did you know that blind poet María Josefa Mujía was Bolivia's first woman writer after its independence?
Did you know that Kotschy's gecko climbs well despite not having adhesive pads on its toes?
Did you know that Gary Loveman was a Harvard professor before his present occupation as CEO of Caesars Entertainment , and his career became a business case study at Stanford ?
Did you know that video game Dropsy began as an illustrated story for which the plot was guided by commentators on a Something Awful forum post?
Did you know that instead of repairing their damaged ships at the Venetian arsenal in Corfu , many captains chose to sink them?
Did you know that illustrator, hill farmer, and painter Reg Gammon was honoured by a retrospective at the RWA for his 100th birthday?
Did you know that the first Test of India's 2013–14 series against South Africa saw wicket-keepers from both teams bowling in the same match for the first time ever in Test cricket ?
Did you know that Stein Reinertsen is the first bishop of Church of Norway since Reformation who was not appointed by the Norwegian government ?
Did you know that Aeroflot Flight 3519 crashed in 1984, killing 110 people?
Did you know that Addison Cresswell , agent to Jonathan Ross and Michael McIntyre , founded a company with Paul Merton and Julian Clary ?
Did you know that the music video for Tupac Shakur 's song " Temptations " does not feature Shakur because he was incarcerated at the time?
Did you know that at 1,025 route kilometers, Tiruchirappalli forms the second largest division of India's Southern Railway zone ?
Did you know that the current Japanese record for women's high jump was set by Miki Imai in 2001?
Did you know that the asteroid 2014 AA entered Earth's atmosphere on the early morning of January 2, 2014, less than a day after it was discovered?
Did you know that the principal of the Communist Party of Burma Medical School, Yebaw Tun Maung , was killed in an army attack in 1968?
Did you know that one reviewer found Poesaka Terpendam to be the first film in which Djoemala seemed out of place?
Did you know that Adrian Piper , a black, female conceptual artist , has said that she was kicked out of the art world for her race and gender?
Did you know that during the Second World War, the Luftwaffe landed planes on a frozen lake at Trondheim Airport, Jonsvatnet , where the ice was 1 metre (3 ft) thick?
Did you know that Stewart Mell scored Scarborough 's first goal in the Football League ?
Did you know that the Gratiot County Courthouse , a Classical Revival structure, was designated a Michigan State Historic Site in 1957 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976?
Did you know that David Bosco served as deputy director of a joint United Nations – NATO project on refugee repatriation in Sarajevo ?
Did you know that V603 Aquilae was the brightest nova recorded, outshone by only Sirius and Canopus ?
Did you know that after being won by Colombians in its first four years, the Bogotá Women's Race has been won by Africans ever since?
Did you know that Iosif Vulcan changed the name of a young literary debutant to Mihai Eminescu , later Romania 's national poet?
Did you know that the grass Vetiveria nigritana is grown in farms in Nigeria to control soil erosion , provide pest control , and improve the yield of crops such as maize?
Did you know that in the 1972 New Year Honours , Patrick Kay was appointed Companion of the Order of the Bath ?
Did you know that West House, Chelsea , was the London home of Withnail's flamboyantly gay Uncle Monty in the 1987 cult film Withnail and I ?
Did you know that in 882, Ishaq ibn Kundaj arrested the Abbasid Caliph al-Mu'tamid when the latter tried to flee into Tulunid territory?
Did you know that all of the illustrations in upcoming indie puzzle video game Gorogoa are hand drawn by the developer?
Did you know that Chinese athlete Wu Shujiao set an East Asian Games record in 100 metres hurdles when she won gold in the 2013 Games in Tianjin ?
Did you know that the social network Stage 32 is named after the old RKO Soundstage 17 where Orson Welles ' Citizen Kane was filmed; now known as Paramount 's Stage 32?
Did you know that Sinaloa Cartel drug lord Gonzalo Inzunza Inzunza was recently killed in a gunfight, but his body was not recovered by Mexican authorities?
Did you know that the decision of China and the Holy See to establish diplomatic ties in 1918 did not succeed due to France 's objection?
Did you know that Hillsboro, Oregon , politician Katie Eyre Brewer was honored for helping to save a heart attack victim's life by performing CPR ?
Did you know that the song " Lungi Dance " is actually a tribute to Rajinikanth , a leading South-Indian actor?
Did you know that Lucy Deane Streatfeild in 1898 was one of the first to raise concerns about the health risks arising from exposure to asbestos ?
Did you know that the 1979 British Classic St. Leger Stakes was won by a 20/1 long-shot, the French Thoroughbred Son of Love ?
Did you know that the "bad-guy cue" used in hundreds of features and cartoons comes from the 1914 photoplay tune Mysterioso Pizzicato ?
Did you know that an agent liked the sound of Onzy Matthews 's band and music but expressed concern after seeing the band was racially mixed?
Did you know that Spanish rugby union international Matt Cook is the second Jerseyman to play international rugby union?
Did you know that Lilford's wall lizard acts as pollinator for some plants endemic to the Balearic Islands ?
Did you know that Begum Akhtar Riazuddin , the first woman to write modern Urdu travelogues , was one of the 1000 PeaceWomen nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2005?
Did you know that the Spanish Federation of Sports for the Blind hosted the first IBSA World Championships and Games in 1998 in Madrid?
Did you know that Nigerian feminist writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is sampled on Beyoncé Knowles ' new album Beyoncé ?
Did you know that Arzu Karabulut currently plays for both German and Turkish football teams?
Did you know that Frank Macey scored two of the Amateurs' six goals against the Professionals in both the 1925 and 1926 FA Charity Shield s?
Did you know that Severe Tropical Cyclone Hina , which formed in March 1997, was the worst tropical cyclone to affect Tonga since Cyclone Isaac in 1982?
Did you know that Edward Kirk Warren , who invented featherbone as an alternative to whalebone in corsetry , is the namesake of two state parks in Michigan ?
Did you know that the United Kingdom government's Open Government Licence is compatible with the CC-by licence ?
Did you know that American jockey Steve Cauthen rode Tap On Wood in the 2,000 Guineas Stakes in 1979 to win the first of ten British Classic victories in his career?
Did you know that before Tsar Nicholas II of Russia gave his wife a piano, he had Earnest Lipgart paint 100 figures on it?
Did you know that Herbert Thomas Johnson 's grave is near that of William H. Gilmore , one of Johnson's predecessors as adjutant general of the Vermont National Guard ?
Did you know that following the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand , there was an anti-Serb pogrom in Sarajevo ?
Did you know that Raadi Manor land was used by the Estonian National Museum and a secret Soviet airfield?
Did you know that whilst the exact etymology is uncertain, the colour yellow and the Italian mountainous plateau La Sila have been offered as possible etymologies for Silaum , a genus of flowering plants ?
Did you know that Jane Aitken was the first woman to print an English-language Bible in the United States?
Did you know that Jürgen Klinsmann disliked the parody song " Who Do You Think You Are Kidding Jurgen Klinsmann? " because he felt it compared him to Hitler?
Did you know that the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2013 allows extra U.S. federal government spending in 2014 and 2015, but limits it in 2022 and 2023?
Did you know that Skederid Church was built by the father of Saint Bridget of Sweden , who also had some of her first religious visions there?
Did you know that historian John Vincent called the New Social Alliance a "poor man's Young England "?
Did you know that Rachmat Kartolo , son of actors Roekiah and Kartolo , initially did not want to enter the film industry but ultimately completed more than 40 movies?
Did you know that the number 1 sex advertising site in Hong Kong was shut down by police in December 2013?
Did you know that a 240-million-year-old animal latrine was dubbed "the oldest communal toilet"?
Did you know that James P. Hagerstrom is one of seven pilots to be a flying ace in two wars— World War II and the Korean War ?
Did you know that the religious festival "Fiesta del milagro" in the Argentine province of Salta started because of the 1692 Salta earthquake ?
Did you know that schools in New York and Florida have banned Rainbow Loom rubber-band bracelets, claiming they distract students in the classroom and breed animosity in the play yard?
Did you know that at the 2005 Bound for Glory pay-per-view event , Kevin Nash had to be removed from his NWA World Heavyweight Championship match and replaced with Rhino due to a medical emergency?
Did you know that the film Once Upon ay Time in Mumbai Dobaara! had its name changed three times owing to its producer's belief in numerology ?
Did you know that Track 61 , which previously carried freight to the South Boston Army Base and South Boston Naval Annex , is the proposed location of a new passenger train service?
Did you know that of the 29 listed buildings in Crewe , only one dates from before the arrival of the railway in 1837?
Did you know that American singer-songwriter Katy Perry 's " Legendary Lovers " is a worldbeat song that discusses Eastern philosophy ?
Did you know that William de Greystoke was given permission to crenellate "his dwelling place" in October 1353, which would later become known as Greystoke Castle ?
Did you know that the Tumin is an alternative currency used in the municipality of Espinal, Veracruz , Mexico?
Did you know that Estelle Ramey 's name was formalized so that she could go to school?
Did you know that a collection of diaries by sailors and soldiers has been listed on the UNESCO-associated Australian Memory of the World Register ?
Did you know that it took roughly 32,000 sandbags to repair a single flood defense breach caused by Typhoon Vera ?
Did you know that Arne Pedersen , the most successful player in Fredrikstad FK history, won six league titles and three cups with the club?
Did you know that 2014 puzzle game Monument Valley 's visual style took inspiration from M. C. Escher , Japanese prints , minimalist sculpture , Fez , and Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP ?
Did you know that the Tamil Communist Party leader V. Ponnambalam later regretted having contested the 1975 Kankesanthurai by-election ?
Did you know that in the inaugural Sydney Marathon , the women's winner had never run a marathon before?
Did you know that Gorky González Quiñones won the Premio Nacional de Ciencias y Artes for his efforts to revive Mexican maiolica pottery?
Did you know that East Preston tram depot opened at the same time that trams returned to Bourke Street where Melbourne's previous cable tram service closed in 1940?
Did you know that Da Chu , a dynasty formed during the Jin–Song wars , was barely a month old when the Song Dynasty abolished it?
Did you know that surgeons at the St. Joseph Medical Center in Houston were credited with developing early silicone gel implants for breast augmentation ?
Did you know that the Amitabh Bachchan Award for Youth Icon of the Year was instituted in his honour at the recently concluded 11th Chennai International Film Festival ?
Did you know that Christopher Helt represented retired Army colonel Richard J. Thomas in a 1997 lawsuit against his wife, claiming that her smoking was a violation of the Clean Air Act ?
Did you know that the Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) professional wrestling promotion held a memorial tournament to honor a wrestler who had died as a result of an injury sustained at one of their events?
Did you know that during his 64-year career, animator Bob Givens created the first official design for Bugs Bunny ?
Did you know that Peter the Great had outlawed stone buildings in Tartu before the Great Fire of 1775 ?
Did you know that in 1417, heiress Elizabeth Beauchamp, Countess of Warwick , refused to accept her family's entail to her cousin James Berkeley , starting a lawsuit which lasted until 1609?
Did you know that Studio Killers member Chubby Cherry wrote a song based on her crush with a person named "Jenny" ?
Did you know that after SS Umona was torpedoed and sank off the coast of Sierra Leone in 1941, survivors used the reflective surface of a tobacco tin to attract the attention of potential rescuers?
Did you know that the UK series The Taste marks Nigella Lawson 's return to Channel 4 after 10 years?
Did you know that the creation of the Warsaw Gay Movement was a counter-reaction of Polish gays against Operation Hyacinth ?
Did you know that Lancelot de Carle , an eyewitness to the trial and execution of Anne Boleyn , wrote a poem detailing her life and the circumstances surrounding her death?
Did you know that an article in Reader's Digest about the health effects of tobacco led to an advertisement disputing the science?
Did you know that a speech delivered by Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie was sampled and used by American singer Beyoncé Knowles in a song called " Flawless "?
Did you know that footballer Ian Bennyworth paid his own transfer fee to move from Nuneaton Borough to Scarborough ?
Did you know that Hockey Hall of Famer Bun Cook won 636 games and seven Calder Cups as a coach, both American Hockey League records?
Did you know that the contribution of academic accounting research to the accounting profession includes the assessment and development of accounting practices, and the development of university curricula?
Did you know that Joe D'Cruz won the Sahitya Akademi Award for his novel Korkai , which is based on history and the lives of Parathavars ?
Did you know that video game Cart Life , winner of three Independent Games Festival awards including the grand prize in 2013, is the first game that Richard Hofmeier developed?
Did you know that Kim Chol-man pioneered North Korea 's munitions industry, the country's economic base?
Did you know that the IKEA soft toy Lufsig sold out in Hong Kong within hours partially due to a Cantonese pun?
Did you know that goalkeeper Dean Lyness , an unused substitute for his first three league clubs as a teenager, finally made his Football League debut with his fourth?
Did you know that a costume created for Hilary Swank in the 2003 film The Core later appeared in the Star Trek: Enterprise episode " Anomaly "?
Did you know that D.C. Booth Historic National Fish Hatchery is one of the oldest fish hatcheries in the United States?
Did you know that the extinct ant Afromyrma petrosa was found over a diamond mine?
Did you know that the Downton Abbey law allows for equal succession of female heirs to hereditary titles and peerages?
Did you know that sakte-tv (English: slow-TV ) was named word of the year in Norway in 2013?
Did you know that Infante Francisco de Paula of Spain was found playing sexual games with two women while blindfolded?
Did you know that crossover experiments are used to study the mechanisms of chemical reactions ?
Did you know that Anthony Carleton 's son-in-law Hercules Underhill confirmed the sale of New Place to Shakespeare ?
Did you know that after Illinois Secretary of State Paul Powell had died in 1970, $750,000 in cash was found stashed in shoeboxes and various containers in his room at Springfield 's St. Nicholas Hotel ?
Did you know that Kathy Kinney was originally intended to be a one-off guest star in the pilot episode of The Drew Carey Show , but was later promoted to series regular?
Did you know that John Everard was imprisoned in the Tower of London and expelled from the King's Inns as a result of his conduct?
Did you know that China , with over 34,687 species of animals and vascular plants, is the third-most biodiverse country in the world?
Did you know that J. H. Hobbs, Brockunier and Company developed an improved formula for lime glass that enabled American manufacturers to produce high-quality glass at a lower cost?
Did you know that the Philippines grabbed their sixteenth gold medal in men's basketball at the Southeast Asian Games as they went undefeated in the 2013 tournament ?
Did you know that in 1931 at Kimberley Downs , 80 cattle were found to have pleuropneumonia in one muster ?
Did you know that the Wright Opera House Block , a three-story Italianate commercial building constructed of cream-colored brick, was built for $20,000?
Did you know that Luftwaffe aircraft bombed SS Abukir for an hour and a half but failed to hit her?
Did you know that Aquilo caught fire and sank in 1966, and all aboard were rescued by the intervention of USCGC Point Ledge ?
Did you know that Albert Clapp received part of the £132 that Somerset paid to its professional cricketers in 1890?
Did you know that early work on Bell's theorem appeared in an "underground" physics newsletter, Epistemological Letters (1973–1984), because mainstream journals were reluctant to publish it?
Did you know that Charles Wilkins Short owned one of the most valuable private herbariums in the world?
Did you know that one of the international reactions to the Euromaidan was the formation of a human chain on the Polish-Ukrainian border crossing in Medyka as a sign of support for pro-EU protesters in Ukraine?
Did you know that Stefan Vladislav of Serbia founded the Mileševa monastery ?
Did you know that Marie-Hélène Lefaucheux orchestrated her husband's release from a concentration camp after he was captured by the Gestapo ?
Did you know that the Argentine telenovela Mis amigos de siempre features actors Osvaldo Laport and Soledad Silveyra as a couple, as in the older telenovela Campeones de la vida ?
Did you know that octogenarian poet Joyce La Mers donated $500,000 to Light Quarterly , the US's only literary magazine devoted to light verse ?