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Did you know that for the production of 47 Ronin , costume designer Penny Rose oversaw the creation of 998 costumes and 400 suits of armour?
Did you know that the binomen of the type species of the bee fly genus Brachyanax can be translated as "little chief nipple twister"?
Did you know that "the errors of many generations" were said to have been "forever buried" in the footnotes of the 1841 travelogue Biblical Researches in Palestine ?
Did you know that Berthe Fraser , a French Resistance agent, helped more than 100 Allied airmen and other agents escape during the Second World War?
Did you know that Chinko Nature Reserve in central Africa provides a habitat with the genetic diversity needed to reestablish animal populations in neighbouring regions?
Did you know that Rodney Legg called the National Trust "an elitist club for art connoisseurs"?
Did you know that on the Ramones ' 1987 Halfway to Sanity tour, the group was banned from playing at Boston College and attended a student anti-censorship protest instead?
Did you know that larvae of the sea urchin Hemicentrotus pulcherrimus are stimulated to settle on the seabed when they detect traces of certain algae in the water?
Did you know that American baseball player Tyler Kinley 's ancestors changed their surname from "McKinley" after the assassination of the 25th President of the United States ?
Did you know that the motion sickness of the manga character Natsu Dragneel was based on one of Fairy Tail author Hiro Mashima 's friends?
Did you know that a proposal was made that the Cauca molly be used in biological pest control of mosquitoes?
Did you know that although New York City's Second Avenue Subway was originally planned in 1920, the first stations did not open for another 97 years?
Did you know that Elizabeth Paston 's first husband died in battle fighting for the House of York , and her second husband was beheaded for treason against it ?
Did you know that more than 400 clay figures of animals, boats, dancers, houses, and warriors line the garden paths of Heiwadai Park ?
Did you know that at the time of his appointment at Stockport County in 1999, footballer Andy Kilner was the youngest manager in the Football League ?
Did you know that the Clydesdale Motor Truck Company was named, in part, after a breed of horse ?
Did you know that Gujarati poet Manilal H. Patel has written poetry touching on his experiences in and around Idar , a town in the Gujarat state of India?
Did you know that Spain abandoned El Piñal , its trading port in China, after encountering hostilities from the Portuguese?
Did you know that in 1851, the German soprano Anna Bochkoltz-Falconi appeared at La Scala in Milan in Pergolesi's Lo frate 'nnamorato ?
Did you know that the former baggage room of Edmonds station is now used by a model railroad club?
Did you know that 18S rDNA analysis has shown that the green algae genus Golenkinia may belong to a previously unknown sister clade of order Sphaeropleales ?
Did you know that Leo Tornikios , a failed claimant to the Byzantine throne , was publicly blinded at Christmas 1047?
Did you know that a Royal Australian Air Force officer is the head of the UN's rear ?
Did you know that when Ulysses S. Grant visited the island of Hachijō-jima in 1877 , he was ceremonially adopted by the village chief and given a name meaning "courageous general" in the local dialect?
Did you know that the revised edition of John Richard Clark Hall 's translation of Beowulf includes a preface by J. R. R. Tolkien ?
Did you know that the 1964 Academy Award-nominated short film Breaking the Habit exposes "the danger and the essential silliness of smoking"?
Did you know that Scott G. Borg is credited with helping develop the drilling technology that retrieved the first pure water samples from half a mile (0.8 km) below the surface of an ice-covered Antarctic lake?
Did you know that a series of British nuclear tests was carried out in the United States to develop warheads for the UK Polaris programme ?
Did you know that when Ukrainian pianist Milana Chernyavska recorded Nikolai Rakov 's violin sonatas with David Frühwirth , a review called her "a full partner in the proceedings, delicate and brutal as required"?
Did you know that the current rivalry between Major League Soccer teams in the Los Angeles area is named El Tráfico ?
Did you know that African singer-songwriter and rapper Sampa the Great has performed as a supporting act for Joey Bada$$ , as well as Kendrick Lamar and Thundercat ?
Did you know that Blackpool were described as the "smallest club to reach the Premier League " after they were promoted by virtue of winning the 2010 Football League Championship play-off Final ?
Did you know that the wasp Aphelinus mali is a parasitoid of the woolly apple aphid , a pest of apple trees?
Did you know that in a 1974 bench trial connected to the Watergate scandal , Judge John H. Pratt found G. Gordon Liddy guilty of contempt of Congress ?
Did you know that St. Lawrence Anglican Cathedral Ambohimanoro , one of the first Anglican churches in Madagascar , was designed by William White ?
Did you know that the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Drama -winning play Cost of Living uses disabled actors to play disabled characters?
Did you know that model worker Sun Jian became China's vice premier during the Cultural Revolution , but was later purged and returned to factory work?
Did you know that in 1979, eight people escaped from East Germany to the West in a homemade hot air balloon ?
Did you know that Christopher Little has been described as "the luckiest agent ever" for his association with Harry Potter author J. K. Rowling ?
Did you know that part of the University of Texas at Arlington campus used to be the site of a home for unwed mothers and orphans ?
Did you know that Neville Southall is the most capped Welsh footballer of all time?
Did you know that the Brazilian marsh rat is often preyed on by barn owls but is seldom caught by researchers in their live traps?
Did you know that Katherine Oppenheimer , the wife of physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer , was a cousin of German Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel ?
Did you know that it has been proposed that there are more than 1,000 examples of humor in the Bible ?
Did you know that The Times of London described Anthony Lejeune as a man for whom the term " young fogey " could have been invented?
Did you know that Junius George Groves was called the "Potato King of the World" in 1902 for producing more potatoes in a single year than anyone else to that point?
Did you know that in the nineteenth century, relics found in India were attributed to Maudgalyayana , a leading disciple of the Buddha?
Did you know that when it opened, the Brooklyn–Battery Tunnel in New York City was the second-longest underwater vehicular tunnel in the world?
Did you know that Godfrid Storms catalogued 86 Anglo-Saxon charms?
Did you know that tail chasing in dogs is a compulsion similar to those seen in humans suffering from OCD ?
Did you know that Amanda Swimmer was one of the first individuals to propose different uses and names for traditional Cherokee pottery?
Did you know that tonight's second leg of the CONCACAF Champions League final is the second occasion on which a Canadian team has featured?
Did you know that 98-year-old midwife Sulagitti Narasamma received the Padma Shri award for performing more than 15,000 traditional deliveries free of charge over 70 years?
Did you know that the wreck of the Ohio was discovered 122 years after her sinking?
Did you know that Villa Albergoni , a 16th-century Italian country mansion, was featured in the 2017 film Call Me by Your Name ?
Did you know that Rachel Brown , professor of baroque flute at the Royal College of Music , recorded Private Passion ?
Did you know that a scale model of the Castle of La Mota in the Mudéjar theme park is built with 2,500,000 miniature bricks—approximately the same number as the original?
Did you know that in 1866, the English missionary Joseph Salter tried to help five Punjabis who were stranded in London with their performing bear?
Did you know that the Irish Landmark Trust renovates historic houses, castles, and lighthouses, and then offers them as holiday rentals?
Did you know that Elisabeth Speiser was the first to record Sandrina in Haydn's opera L'infedeltà delusa , and recorded Debussy's Ariettes oubliées ?
Did you know that Fresno Yosemite International Airport has a replica of a sequoia forest inside the terminal, reflecting the airport's role as a gateway to three national parks ?
Did you know that the actor Jamie Davis asked his former co-star Sunetra Sarker to reprise her role for his departure in Episode 1068 of Casualty ?
Did you know that the earliest recorded recipe for fortified rice wine appears in a 1670 Korean cookbook ?
Did you know that when the first Essex County Executive was elected in New Jersey in 1978, The New York Times described the position as "considered by many to be second in power only to that of the Governor"?
Did you know that former Spanish prime minister Manuel Azaña was arrested after the events of 6 October in Barcelona in 1934, despite having taken no part in them?
Did you know that the Scandinavian-influenced pair-house shows that some level of ethnic diversity was accepted in early Mormon society?
Did you know that Levering Smith , a U.S. Navy officer, was credited with assisting the British Polaris programme to finish "on time and on budget, an unprecedented feat in British naval history"?
Did you know that the Eritrean Dahlak Archipelago once housed a thriving trading kingdom, the Dahlak sultanate ?
Did you know that an overloaded Kiribati ferry, said to be carrying 88 passengers and 35 tonnes of coconuts, broke in half and sank last January?
Did you know that a letter by Maria Perkins , a literate slave, is the only record of her existence?
Did you know that the 2015 Ukrainian decommunization laws mandate removing communist-era monuments, and renaming places named after communist themes?
Did you know that Georgian era physician Isaac Buxton was known for having "no rowdiness" in his clinics?
Did you know that Malta's Greek community once included slaves, as well as the privateers who captured them?
Did you know that Glen Nelson co-founded the Mormon Arts Center Festival, which Terryl Givens called "a seminal event in Mormonism 's coming of age artistically"?
Did you know that Washington Huskies basketball player Matisse Thybulle was the first in the school's history to be named Pac-12 Defensive Player of the Year ?
Did you know that according to Rise and Kill First by Ronen Bergman , Israel has carried out at least 2,700 assassination operations in the 70 years since its founding?
Did you know that for his role in the Doctor Who serial The Aztecs , actor John Ringham was told to "make all the children in the country hate you"?
Did you know that Styling Garage charged luxury car customers almost the cost of the vehicle to convert it to gull-wing doors ?
Did you know that soprano Margarete Luise Schick , who performed roles such as Gluck's Iphigenie and Mozart's Zerlina with noted diction and acting, sang for the coronation of Leopold II ?
Did you know that Luang Pu Sodh Candasaro set up a "meditation workshop" to practice Dhammakaya meditation in shifts?
Did you know that John A. Kenney Jr. was known as the "dean of black dermatology "?
Did you know that the armored wheel loader Tosun was upgraded to remote-control because militants fired on the operator during the removal of barricades in southeastern Turkey?
Did you know that Gavin Lowe went from being at John's to being at Hugh's , but finally ended up at Catherine's ?
Did you know that Yuta Shitara won 100 million yen for breaking the Japanese record at the 2018 Tokyo Marathon ?
Did you know that in 1952, mayor Pedro Zaragoza was threatened with excommunication from the Catholic Church for allowing women to wear bikinis in Benidorm , Spain?
Did you know that young Parvulastra vivipara live inside their mother and eat each other?
Did you know that Princess Minkhaung Medaw of Prome was twice married off by her brothers, becoming queen of Hanthawaddy and later of Mrauk U ?
Did you know that George Town , the capital city of the Malaysian state of Penang , was the first British settlement in Southeast Asia?
Did you know that according to Richard Hamming , Nobel Prize winners often discover they can no longer work on small problems ?
Did you know that the inspiration for the Philippine thriller Neomanila came from a BBC interview with a married couple who worked as hitmen ?
Did you know that on New Year's Day , tens of thousands of Americans take a hike ?
Did you know that a coat designed by Andrea Galer and worn by the character of Withnail in the British cult film Withnail and I was included in a charity auction to raise funds for a school in Swaziland ?
Did you know that the Samathuvapuram (Equality Village) scheme was started to reduce caste discrimination in Tamil Nadu ?
Did you know that Polish Jewish communist activist Eliezer Gruenbaum wrote a memoir about his experiences as a kapo in the Auschwitz concentration camp ?
Did you know that J. Slauerhoff 's 1930 poetry collection Serenade provoked critical responses ranging from "childish" to "pure lyric" with "refined technique"?
Did you know that Romanian singer Corina portrays a female punk burlesque character in the music video for her 2010 single " No Sleepin' "?
Did you know that the 650 km (400 mi) Jordan Trail , where Moses, Jesus, and Mohammad are believed to have walked, was named one of 2018's best tourist destinations in the world by National Geographic ?
Did you know that while Mary E. Woolley Chamberlain was mayor of Kanab, Utah , she passed an ordinance prohibiting the use of slingshots in town?
Did you know that in 2015, the then-20-year-old Hussein , Crown Prince of Jordan , became the youngest person ever to chair a UN Security Council session?
Did you know that the Ayahs' Home in London provided a refuge for Indian and Chinese nannies who had been "ill-treated, dismissed from service or simply abandoned"?
Did you know that the Staten Island Ferry in New York City, used by almost 24 million passengers annually as of 2017, is free to ride?
Did you know that footballer Hugh Lester was the first non-British player to represent Liverpool ?
Did you know that part of Adolf Hitler 's Tannenberg compound was used for fertilizer storage after World War II?
Did you know that journalist Joe Hung was the first to translate the works of Taiwanese poet Lai He into English?
Did you know that a blogpost made by David Frum predicting that Obamacare would never be repealed drew so many hits that it crashed the servers within hours?
Did you know that 98 percent of coffee grown in China comes from one province ?
Did you know that Antonello Manacorda , who made an award-winning recording of Schubert's symphonies with his Kammerakademie Potsdam, conducted Mozart operas at La Fenice and Meyerbeer's grand opera at the Frankfurt Opera?
Did you know that among the first papers heard at the Scottish Society of the History of Medicine was one on quarantine from plague and another on the periodic devastation of Scotland by famines and epidemics?
Did you know that Jeb Bush was the campaign manager for Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen 's first Congressional campaign ?
Did you know that before becoming director of the National Museum of the Royal Navy , Dominic Tweddle helped excavate the Coppergate Helmet , and published a chronology of post- Roman helmet types ?
Did you know that the Southern Rhodesia Act 1965 was designed to affirm British rule in Southern Rhodesia after its Unilateral Declaration of Independence , but it was largely ignored in Rhodesia?
Did you know that Governor John Volpe sought Boston Police Commissioner Leo J. Sullivan 's removal after Biography of a Bookie Joint showed officers visiting an illegal gambling parlor?
Did you know that Colonel Chen Xiaolu publicly confessed and apologized for torturing and persecuting his teachers and school officials, one of whom committed suicide, during the Cultural Revolution ?
Did you know that archaeologists believe the cultural memory of the burial site at the Alepotrypa cave may have become associated with the mythological entrance to Hades ?
Did you know that Jos has been called the "home of country music" in Nigeria ?
Did you know that para-alpine skier Mehmet Çekiç has twice been flag bearer for Turkey at the Paralympics?
Did you know that Psalm 84 about God's lovely dwellings was set to music by Heinrich Schütz , by Brahms in the centre of Ein deutsches Requiem , and as Wilhelm Kempff 's Op . 1?
Did you know that recording a "ghost" helped lead to Peter van Geersdaele 's appointment as an Officer of the Order of the British Empire ?
Did you know that Groom Mine has a view over Area 51 ?
Did you know that John Fraser , a young Scottish surgeon, proved Nobel Prize winner Robert Koch wrong?
Did you know that Russia's Law Against Rehabilitation of Nazism , compared by proponents to laws against Holocaust denial , was used to prosecute a blogger discussing German–Soviet cooperation ?
Did you know that in 1844, Thomas D. Keizur was elected captain of the Oregon Rangers , the first militia unit authorized and formed in the Oregon Country ?
Did you know that Koyunbaba Bridge is the longest stone arch bridge in Anatolia built during the Ottoman Empire ?
Did you know that Canadian association footballer Liam Millar scored a hat-trick in his debut for Liverpool U18s against Blackburn Rovers U18s ?
Did you know that singer Rihanna 's Fenty Beauty cosmetics line was named one of Time magazine's best inventions of 2017?
Did you know that the archaeologist Peter Addyman was awarded the right to drive three beasts across a bridge in York ?
Did you know that the Oak at the Gate of the Dead was the first Welsh entry for the European Tree of the Year awards?
Did you know that after his college football career, Psalm Wooching decided to pursue a professional career in rugby union despite receiving significant interest from NFL teams?
Did you know that the Gujarati poetry collection Kusumamala includes a translation of " The Cloud " by English romantic poet Shelley ?
Did you know that in South Carolina , the flat bullhead is threatened by pollution and sedimentation, as well as by the introduction of non-native catfish?
Did you know that Gregor and the Prophecy of Bane was praised by critics for its portrayal of strong and healthy sibling relationships?
Did you know that Guido Jung was dismissed from the Royal Italian Army after the enactment of the Italian Racial Laws , despite having served as Minister of Finance under Mussolini ?
Did you know that the robot CISBOT once found a baseball under New York City ?
Did you know that the Thai Buddhist temple Wat Phra Dhammakaya broke a Guinness World Record for organizing the longest journey walking over flower petals?
Did you know that Nicholas Muellner was in the Caribbean when he decided to photograph acquaintances in Russia ?
Did you know that Puerto Rican anarchists opposed the consumption of alcohol and as a consequence distanced themselves from the European concept of the anarchist "beer hall"?
Did you know that congressman Duan Yihe was executed for blowing up his mistress, in one of the most shocking crimes involving a Chinese official?
Did you know that Lilongwe University of Agriculture and Natural Resources in Malawi has a filling station to generate income and train students in business management?
Did you know that Colin Robert Chase 's major work on the Anglo-Saxon epic Beowulf was called "one of the most important inconclusions in the study of Old English"?
Did you know that the former QBx1 bus route in New York City had ten route variants depending on the time of day?
Did you know that despite its bright colouring, the firebrick starfish is inconspicuous among the sponges and other organisms in its habitat?
Did you know that Saw Ganesan initiated construction of a temple to the Tamil language ?
Did you know that at the conclusion of the 2018 AFL Women's Grand Final , acting captain Ellie Blackburn called upon her suspended skipper Katie Brennan to help hoist the team's trophy?
Did you know that da share z0ne is a satirical social media account supposedly run by a skeleton character?
Did you know that in 2015, Kjell Lindgren played a plastic set of bagpipes made by McCallum Bagpipes on the International Space Station ?
Did you know that Captain Ruck-Keene 's command of HMS Cochrane ended a few days after Admiral Jellicoe wrote that he had become "lazy, lacks energy & has run to seed"?
Did you know that upon hearing the Confederate song " I'm a Good Ol' Rebel ", the future King Edward VII requested a repeat performance of "that fine American song with the cuss words in it"?
Did you know that the UN Security Council has banned exports of charcoal from the Somali port town of Burgabo ?
Did you know that Florence shows the awkwardness of a first date through a puzzle minigame , which becomes easier as the main character becomes more comfortable?
Did you know that the new Chief Management Officer of the U.S. Department of Defense position outranks the Secretaries of the Army , Navy , and Air Force ?
Did you know that Carolyn McAskie was the first Canadian to lead a United Nations peacekeeping mission, post-Cold War?
Did you know that the Double Concerto for oboe and harp was composed by Hans Werner Henze for Heinz Holliger and his wife Ursula , and performed with 18 string players of Paul Sacher 's orchestra?
Did you know that Brian Santos was described in 1995 as "the dominant blind skier in the world" after winning nine U.S. Championships and six Paralympic gold medals?
Did you know that Macrobiotus shonaicus , a Japanese water bear , was first found in the parking lot of the apartment building where one of the researchers lived?
Did you know that after World War II, filmmaker Miloš Havel , the uncle of Václav Havel , was cleared on charges related to collaboration with Nazi Germany due to lack of evidence?
Did you know that evidence for speciation by reinforcement has been found across a wide range of organisms?
Did you know that the Crawford family were pioneers of tourism in the White Mountains of New Hampshire and have numerous places named after them there?
Did you know that 18-year-old Dominican Street Fighter V player Saul Leonardo Mena "MenaRD" Segundo is investing his winnings from the 2017 Capcom Cup in his local e-sports community?
Did you know that the 1973 Internationales Sachsensymposion included the "theatrical" unveiling of the Sutton Hoo helmet replica?
Did you know that Richard O. Culver, Jr. , one of the founders of the U.S. Marine Corps Sniper School in Quantico, Virginia, was born on Alcatraz Island ?
Did you know that the figure of Jazz from the Transformers toyline Power of the Primes drew controversy because the text on its sticker, when translated from Cybertronian, spelled the acronym MAGA , associated with Donald Trump ?
Did you know that Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist Kevin Siers began his cartooning career while working in the iron ore mines of Minnesota?
Did you know that the 2010 Mount Meager landslide was one of the largest in Canadian history?
Did you know that in 1963, George Dickinson Hadley introduced the gastrocamera to Britain?
Did you know that the islands in Great Egg Harbor Bay , a habitat for migratory birds, are eroding at a rate of 0.28 in (7 mm) per year?
Did you know that Iggy Brazdeikis is a right-handed athlete who shoots basketballs left-handed?
Did you know that actress Carole Ann Ford described her character in the Doctor Who serial The Keys of Marinus as "pathetic"?
Did you know that elevator operators at New York City's 181st Street station are known to play music in an attempt to cheer up commuters?
Did you know that biathlete Jakov Fak won a silver medal for Slovenia at the 2018 Winter Olympics , having previously won a bronze medal for Croatia in Vancouver ?
Did you know that British newspaper editor Ian Stephens may have saved "hundreds of thousands" of lives during the Bengal famine of 1943 by publishing photographs of the victims?