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Did you know that one man was the model for three of the figures representing the stages of a Scouting career in Norman Rockwell 's Growth of a Leader , and the man's son was the model for the fourth?
Did you know that the composer Aram Khachaturian was "entirely a creation of the Soviet musical and dance establishment"?
Did you know that the Museum of Death owns the head of Bluebeard and a Kevorkian suicide machine ?
Did you know that Scipio Kennedy was an enslaved African who lived at Culzean Castle in Scotland?
Did you know that Saint Joseph Vaz was tied to a yellow cheesewood tree close by the Church of Our Lady of Presentation and beaten as a punishment?
Did you know that although it is not a shark, the shortfin devil ray is used in shark fin soup ?
Did you know that more than one hundred unidentified bodies , mostly females and children, were found floating in the Ganges in January 2015?
Did you know that a special election will be held to fill the term of U.S. Representative Michael Grimm , who resigned after pleading guilty to tax evasion ?
Did you know that the Mother series is big in Japan , but not in the West , where it only has a resilient and enduring cult following ?
Did you know that in 1961 the Tabernacle Chapel in Cardiff hosted the first-ever programme of the long-running BBC TV series Songs of Praise ?
Did you know that the history of the New York Yankees includes 27 World Series championships, 16 more than any other Major League Baseball team?
Did you know that one person was injured and six died in a killing spree in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania ?
Did you know that following Commodore 's demise, the Toronto PET Users Group revived the successful World of Commodore computer expos , which continue to this day?
Did you know that people objecting to militarism in " Stand Up, Stand Up for Jesus " do not stand to sing it?
Did you know that medieval Gislöv Church in Sweden may have been built for an exiled Norwegian bishop?
Did you know that Balliet Run is Class A Wild Trout Waters even though a facility has a permit to discharge sewage into it?
Did you know that Polish saint Maximilian Kolbe volunteered to die in place of a stranger in the Nazi German death camp of Auschwitz ?
Did you know that the tunicate Molgula citrina may have travelled to Alaska in a sea chest via the Northwest Passage ?
Did you know that Gary Mills became the youngest player to appear in a European Cup final when playing in Nottingham Forest 's 1–0 win over Hamburger SV in the 1980 final ?
Did you know that at $1.95 billion, the Waldorf Astoria New York is the most expensive hotel ever sold?
Did you know that King Narathihapate of Pagan compared his Chief Minister Yazathingyan , who had just put him on the throne, to unnecessary scaffold before exiling him to Dala ?
Did you know that the Tuyamuyun Hydro Complex on the Amu Darya River irrigates land in Kazakhstan , Tajikistan and Uzbekistan ?
Did you know that almost all of the buildings on Labuan island were destroyed by the bombardment which preceded its invasion by Australian forces during the Battle of North Borneo in June 1945?
Did you know that in 1990, Helen Rollason became the first female presenter of the BBC sports programme Grandstand ?
Did you know that Culley Run 's official name has been said to be erroneous?
Did you know that Arsenal won the 2014 FA Community Shield despite resting their three German internationals who had won the World Cup Final earlier that year?
Did you know that the chronicler Roger of Wendover called the 12th-century English nobleman Peter de Maulay one of King John of England 's "evil counsellors"?
Did you know that with Pakistani coordination, the Afghan Army launched the Kunar offensive after militants attacked Afghan outposts in 2014?
Did you know that the tunicate Polycarpa fibrosa lives buried in sand or gravel with just its siphons protruding?
Did you know that during the German bombardment of Scarborough in December 1914, Rev Charles Mackarness continued the Holy Communion service at St Martin's Church , despite the noise and damage to the church?
Did you know that the 1914 silent film St. Elmo was financially successful despite a Variety review calling it less valuable than unexposed film?
Did you know that the Iranian missile architect Hassan Tehrani Moghaddam was known as the father of Iran's missile program?
Did you know that the 1880 Greenback National Convention nominated James B. Weaver for President of the United States and passed a resolution supporting women's suffrage ?
Did you know that the moth lacewing genus Principiala is known for three, possibly four, fossils?
Did you know that the 14th-century Gongchen Tower in China was destroyed by a fire on 3 January 2015?
Did you know that two works by the self-taught 19th-century Ceylonese artist J. L. K. van Dort are housed in the Royal Collection ?
Did you know that controversy arose over dissatisfaction with a Korean airline official's nut bag ?
Did you know that Helen-Ann Hartley is the first woman ordained in the Church of England to become a bishop ?
Did you know that the continental crust below the South China Sea is theorized to have begun splitting apart from the Eurasian Plate around 55 million years ago?
Did you know that before airing in the United States, We Bare Bears won the "Young Amsterdam Audience" award after screening in the Netherlands ?
Did you know that the North Korean military has a cyberwarfare agency named Bureau 121 ?
Did you know that after moving from Canada, Akeel Lynch learned American football and was named New York Gatorade Player of the Year ?
Did you know that the flowers of the parasitic plant Balanophora fungosa smell like mice?
Did you know that the prominent medieval Armenian monastery of Narekavank was demolished and replaced with a mosque?
Did you know that The Undertaker was undefeated at WrestleMania from 1991 to 2013?
Did you know that the song "Kanne Kalaimane" from the 1982 Tamil film Moondram Pirai was the last song Kannadasan wrote before his death?
Did you know that one of John Cunningham 's buildings was featured in the BBC television series Restoration ?
Did you know that after The American Review 's owner expressed admiration for Hitler and Mussolini, a former contributor said he wouldn't write for it again "if it were the last publication left in America"?
Did you know that Dookudu (2011) was the first Telugu film to be released in 21 North Indian cities?
Did you know that L. D. Williams joined Wake Forest 's 1,000-point club in his final college basketball game?
Did you know that the book accompanying Computer Engineer Barbie was withdrawn in 2014 after protests that it depicts Barbie as incompetent with computers?
Did you know that both of São Tomé and Príncipe 's athletes at the 2012 London Games finished last in their heats?
Did you know that Liu Cigui , the acting governor of Hainan in China , worked as a rusticated youth and studied oceanography ?
Did you know that the Cronica Walliae helped popularise a legend that the Welsh discovered America in about 1170, a tale used to justify English encroachments on the early colonies of the Spanish Empire ?
Did you know that silent film actor Frank Erlanger made—and lost—a fortune as a gold prospector ?
Did you know that Manchester United F.C. 's victory in the 2008 UEFA Champions League Final came 40 years after the team's first European Cup title and 50 years after the Munich air disaster ?
Did you know that the Beirut II parliamentary constituency has the highest percentage of Armenian voters in Lebanon?
Did you know that René Echevarria became a screenwriter after selling an unsolicited script to Star Trek: The Next Generation ?
Did you know that Bloody Run is so named due to a legend that a hunter killed seven deer near the stream in one day?
Did you know that the Beirut II parliamentary constituency functioned as a "buffer zone" between the Muslim and Christian parts of the city?
Did you know that magnesium monohydride is a molecule known only as a gas and is found on the sun and other stars?
Did you know that Filipino nanny Xyza Cruz Bacani has been compared to American street photographer Vivian Maier ?
Did you know that the Liberal Party chose to contest the 1887 by-election in Taunton , Somerset, in order to generate debate on the devolution of power to Ireland ?
Did you know that Maximilian Henry of Bavaria was an Elector in the Holy Roman Empire who restricted the power of the Emperor and ultimately wound up opposing the Emperor in war?
Did you know that the Swedish woman Karolina Olsson purportedly stayed in a constant state of sleep for 32 years?
Did you know that the Northern Ireland Women's Football Association is the governing body of women's football in Northern Ireland?
Did you know that Fullbright shared a house while making the 2013 video game Gone Home , which later won "Best Debut" from the 2014 BAFTA and GDC Awards ?
Did you know that former Pittsburgh basketball forward Talib Zanna was fluent in four languages before moving to the United States?
Did you know that a 2009 BBC adaptation of Henry James 's 1898 novella The Turn of the Screw set the story in the 1920s rather than the 1840s?
Did you know that Anna Honzáková was in 1902 the first Czech woman to earn a doctor's certificate at a Czech university?
Did you know that The Bishop's Eye is one of the entrances to Wells St Andrew ?
Did you know that William Beverley spurred settlement west of the Blue Ridge Mountains by settling his patent of 118,941 acres (481.34 km 2 ) in Virginia with Irish and Scotch-Irish families?
Did you know that Alfred Welby lost three elections before being elected as an MP for Taunton in 1895?
Did you know that the USS Delaware vs La Croyable resulted in the first capture of a naval vessel by the United States Navy ?
Did you know that Wimmenau in France was levelled during the Thirty Years' War , then resettled by Swiss immigrants?
Did you know that fighter pilot Theodor Weissenberger was killed in a car racing accident at the Nürburgring ?
Did you know that HMS Emerald was separated from Nelson 's squadron in a storm and thus missed the Battle of the Nile ?
Did you know that Dr. Mary Cannon 's research group found that more than one-fifth of Irish 11- to 13-year-olds have experienced " auditory hallucinations "?
Did you know that the Ives Lake cisco is a freshwater whitefish known to only one lake, in Michigan's Upper Peninsula ?
Did you know that Heinrich Gerhard Kuhn was the first physics fellow at Balliol College, Oxford ?
Did you know that the filmography of director J. Gordon Edwards includes over twenty appearances of silent film vamp Theda Bara ?
Did you know that as much as 80 percent of government spending continued during the 2011 Minnesota state government shutdown ?
Did you know that Shingle Mill Run is the only named tributary of West Branch Fishing Creek to enter it from the right ?
Did you know that brothers Andy and Fränk Schleck were meant to compete for Luxembourg at the 2012 Summer Olympics , but were unable to after Andy suffered an injury and Fränk failed a drug test?
Did you know that Kim Hyung Jun released and promoted the Japanese version of his single " Always Love You " at around the time that both his film and television series were scheduled to premiere?
Did you know that the Telescopic Bridge in Bridgwater , which carried trains over the River Parrett , could be retracted to allow ships to pass?
Did you know that reproduction in the sea wasp Carybdea marsupialis involves a sexual reproduction phase, budding and fragmentation ?
Did you know that the ground floor of the Boljoon Church bell tower was used as a prison cell?
Did you know that the 19th-century forger and swindler Monroe Edwards once used forged letters to get money from Lord Spencer , but later repaid the nobleman with funds obtained from a later fraud?
Did you know that none of the three major professional sports teams owned by Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment have won a championship since 1967 ?
Did you know that Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge (1995), a Yash Raj Films production, is the longest-running film of Indian cinema?
Did you know that Novel Therapeutic Targets for Antiarrhythmic Drugs was described as an "illuminating and far reaching" work on arrhythmia treatment?
Did you know that the Western Australian shrub Lechenaultia biloba is renowned for its vivid blue flowers?
Did you know that Mohammad Beg , the vizier of the Safavid king of Persia , was an ethnic Armenian who once served as a "military slave"?
Did you know that the Ban Naden raid was the only successful rescue of prisoners of war during the Vietnam War ?
Did you know that the Adventure Time episode " Furniture & Meat " was referred to as a throwback episode by The A.V. Club for not dealing with the serial elements of surrounding episodes ?
Did you know that Wasp Branch is designated as a Coldwater Fishery, Migratory Fishery and Class A Wild Trout Waters?
Did you know that The Economist compared Ezra Klein 's aspirations for Vox , his new Vox Media news website, with John Keats 's negative capability ?
Did you know that a flash mob by Commodore PET -wielding members of the Toronto PET Users Group is the subject of a 2014 Starbucks documentary?
Did you know that Hans Krueger was never tried for the massacre of Lviv professors on the grounds that he already received a life sentence?
Did you know that publication of the final edition of the South African Defence Review 2012 was delayed for so long that it was retitled "South African Defence Review 2014"?
Did you know that footballer Evan Dimas scored on his debut for Indonesia ?
Did you know that Swedish journalist Carolina Neurath ventured into acting when she starred as Princess Arianna Ad'lah in the film Star Wars: Threads of Destiny in 2014?
Did you know that after merging with the Theta Xi fraternity at Amherst College , Sigma Delta Rho (ΣΔΡ) moved into its new home, "the Zoo"?
Did you know that cars in Grand Theft Auto V 's re-release feature functional speedometers?
Did you know that Indian film actor and director Aditya Raj Kapoor owns a construction company that developed amusement parks?
Did you know that the Michigan State Spartans field hockey team plays its home games at a venue originally built for the school's track and field team and dedicated in 1937?
Did you know that prior to becoming Kraft Foods ' chief executive officer, Tony Vernon worked for Johnson & Johnson for over two decades?
Did you know that the population of the Yunnan nuthatch is predicted to decrease by between 43.6% and 47.7% by 2040–2069?
Did you know that coins found in the Cuerdale Hoard may indicate that Sichfrith Jarl reigned as King of Jórvík ?
Did you know that the Discovery Channel special Eaten Alive did not actually feature anyone being eaten alive?
Did you know that George A. Zentmyer , professor emeritus at the University of California, Riverside , has an avocado cultivar named after him?
Did you know that female seaweed blennies deposit their eggs in a shared nest where the male fish guards them until they hatch?
Did you know that the novels of Lady Mary Hamilton may have influenced the naming of characters in Jane Austen 's books?
Did you know that before moving to its new location, Pierre Bottineau Library could only hold 40 people?
Did you know that Naomi Grossman shaved her head in preparation for her role in American Horror Story: Asylum ?
Did you know that Wiki, the leader of New York rap group Ratking , took his stage name from an online encyclopedia ?
Did you know that little is known about The Lady's Realm ' s publishing history because many records were destroyed during the Blitz ?
Did you know that football club Dukla Prague achieved their record win, 10–0, under the management of Jiří Lopata ?
Did you know that in the 1984 Indian Tamil film Achamillai Achamillai , a dwarf character named "Suthanthiram" (literally, "Freedom") metaphorically depicts that the freedom of the nation is stunted?
Did you know that Walter de Clare was the founder of Tintern Abbey , whose ruins inspired Wordsworth 's poem " Tintern Abbey "?
Did you know that M.U.L.E. Returns , a licensed remake of the 1983 strategy game M.U.L.E. , was shown at the 2013 World of Commodore in Toronto?
Did you know that Fred Phillips created Spock 's ears for Star Trek by baking them?
Did you know that Queen Pwa Saw , who wielded considerable political power for at least four decades in 13th-century Burma , was the subject of the novel She Was a Queen by Maurice Collis ?
Did you know that the hymn Vatapi Ganapatim – dedicated to the god Ganesha – is sung at the beginning of many Carnatic music concerts?
Did you know that Men of the Docks , by George Bellows , was the first major American painting to be acquired by the National Gallery in London?
Did you know that the Symphonic Prelude was first performed in 1981 as a work by Gustav Mahler and in 1997 as a work by Anton Bruckner ?
Did you know that Lionel Palairet and Herbie Hewett scored 346 runs together while playing for Somerset County Cricket Club in 1892 , setting a record first-wicket partnership in first-class cricket?
Did you know that Marsh Run is only 1 mile (1.6 km) long, but flows through two counties?
Did you know that Mellcene Thurman Smith was the first woman sworn in as a member of the Missouri General Assembly ?
Did you know that in London's Chenies Street is an entrance to a deep-level bomb shelter that was used as a US Army Signal Corps base during D-Day preparations?
Did you know that Lou Ferrigno was reminded of his role in The Incredible Hulk when he appeared in the Star Trek Continues episode " Lolani "?
Did you know that wings of the extinct moth lacewing Allorapisma are most similar to a Cretaceous genus from Brazil?
Did you know that the British Captain William Leslie was buried with military honours after the Battle of Princeton by the American General George Washington ?
Did you know that an early nineteenth-century Native American man refused to ascend Spanish Hill because he feared a spirit that "made holes through Indians' bodies"?
Did you know that Luther's German Te Deum, " Herr Gott, dich loben wir ", was set by Bach in cantatas for New Year's Day and by Mendelssohn to celebrate the millennium of the German Reich?
Did you know that people tend to exhibit a negativity bias , such that negative experiences have a greater impact than positive experiences on psychological states and processes?
Did you know that Albert Franklin Banta served as a member of the 12th Arizona Territorial Legislature under an assumed name?
Did you know that the diterpene Bipinnatin J can be isolated from the bipinnate sea plume ?
Did you know that McCauley Mountain has numerous coal deposits, but all attempts at mining coal on the eastern side of the mountain were disastrous for the corporations that attempted it?
Did you know that the Ariel Ace motorcycle has been called an "adult Lego set" for its many factory customization options?
Did you know that the English missionary James Sibree helped design and build approximately 50 churches in Madagascar in addition to writing books about the island's flora and fauna?
Did you know that AT&T once warned customers that using a privacy device called the Hush-A-Phone could result in termination of their telephone service?
Did you know that the mouths of Rough Run and Peterman Run are only 0.06 miles (0.1 km) from each other?
Did you know that the Belgrade printing house , established in 1552, was the first in Belgrade ?
Did you know that Lou Tepe made the 1955 Pittsburgh Steelers , while future superstar quarterback Johnny Unitas was cut from the team?
Did you know that the right eye of the eyed flounder migrates during the development of the fish?
Did you know that Ann Hopkins successfully sued her employer, accounting giant Price Waterhouse , in a landmark U.S. sex-discrimination case ?
Did you know that the barnacle Megatrema anglicum lives semi-parasitically on such corals as the Devonshire cup coral ?
Did you know that Rahul Sinha is president of the West Bengal unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party , but his brother is a member of the Trinamool Congress party?
Did you know that the upcoming video game Adrift is a metaphor for the controversy caused by developer Adam Orth's comments on the Xbox One 's proposed digital rights management strategy?
Did you know that singer, songwriter, and instrumentalist Ole Børud was a member of Arnold B. Family, a gospel group that achieved second place in Norway's 1995 finals for the Eurovision Song Contest ?
Did you know that university students in particular are at risk for poor sleep hygiene ?
Did you know that the invention of Bard the Bowman could have been inspired by Wiglaf from the Anglo-Saxon poem Beowulf ?
Did you know that Camille Saint-Saëns commented after the premiere of the St. Cecilia Mass by Charles Gounod that "at first one was dazzled, then charmed, then conquered"?
Did you know that James Colliander , Gigliola Staffilani , and Terence Tao are part of a collaborative group of mathematicians called the I-team?
Did you know that in the 1960s, Inuit musician Willie Thrasher formed Inuvik 's first rock 'n' roll band?
Did you know that several other nations also expressed their interest in participating in Combined Task Force 150 in some way when a Pakistani admiral took its command ?
Did you know that approximately 28,000 topographic names were changed from their native names to new Turkified renditions under various government policies?
Did you know that George Billman found that an infusion of omega-3 fatty acids prevented ventricular fibrillation in dogs otherwise susceptible to it?
Did you know that the Western Australian shrub Lechenaultia formosa is renowned for its red, orange, or yellow flowers?
Did you know that Galadriel Stineman is named after the elven queen in The Lord of the Rings ?
Did you know that Wyatt Earp refereed the 1896 Fitzsimmons vs. Sharkey world heavyweight boxing championship match and was rumored to have fixed the result?
Did you know that the fossil maple Acer taurocursum is named for its type locality, the "Bull Run flora"?
Did you know that after the Mrkšina crkva printing house became defunct in 1566, no other printing house existed in Ottoman Serbia until 1831?
Did you know that John Covert Boyd helped found the Kappa Sigma fraternity and incorporate the American Red Cross ?
Did you know that after the end of the Second World War, newly demobilised British soldiers in their demob suits felt that they had swapped one uniform for another?
Did you know that documentary filmmaker Shen Yongping is one of 44 people the Committee to Protect Journalists says were arrested in China in 2014?
Did you know that the cargo ship Cemfjord capsized off the coast of Scotland on 2 or 3 January 2015 with the presumed loss of her entire crew?
Did you know that painter Theora Hamblett was one of the first Mississippi folk artists to achieve national prominence?
Did you know that the fur colorings of Trowbridge's shrew change from brown to gray during certain times of the year?
Did you know that the Lumaha'i Beach , at the mouth of the Lumaha'i River in Hawaii , is remembered as the scenic location for a song sequence in the 1958 film South Pacific ?
Did you know that Walter Augustus de Havilland , father of Olivia de Havilland and Joan Fontaine , published a book about the Japanese game of Go ?
Did you know that during the Armenian Genocide , Dr. Floyd Smith treated victims suffering bullet wounds, severed hands, and attempted decapitations?
Did you know that three classic hip-hop radio stations launched in Atlanta within days of each other, with two launching on the exact same day?
Did you know that in 1989, the colonial coral Astroides calycularis expanded its range to the Adriatic Sea after previously being restricted to an area west of Sicily ?
Did you know that former Oregon State defensive end Bill Swancutt broke school records in sacks and tackles for loss , and went on to become a financial advisor ?
Did you know that experimental work on the production of cylinder glass was carried out at Nailsea Glassworks ?
Did you know that mathematician Linda Preiss Rothschild settled for graduate study at MIT after Princeton rejected her for being female?