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Did you know that influential American wine critic Robert Parker is satirised in the French bande dessinée comic book Robert Parker Les sept pêchés capiteux ( Robert Parker: The Seven Heady Sins )?
Did you know that Parfait-Louis Monteil made an epic land journey between 1890 and 1892 from Senegal in West Africa to Lake Chad and across the Sahara to Tripoli ?
Did you know that in the 1622 Siege of Montpellier , Huguenot troops were able to repel the Catholic troops of Louis XIII repeatedly, until the encounter had to end in negotiations?
Did you know that during the 2002 season , Ateneo de Manila University prevented a 14–0 sweep of De La Salle University-Manila en route to their first men's college basketball championship since 1988?
Did you know that The Hollies had seven number-one singles on Wonderful Radio London 's Fab 40 chart, six of which failed to top the UK Singles Chart in the 1960s ?
Did you know that the 1975 Indian film Jai Santoshi Maa propelled the then little-known "new" goddess Santoshi Mata to the pan-Indian Hindu pantheon?
Did you know that the worst coal mining disaster in Tyldesley occurred at Yew Tree Colliery, which became part of the Tyldesley Coal Company in 1870?
Did you know that the SWAT team was called in to restrain unruly fans during the 2003 UAAP semifinals ?
Did you know that the deck of the Zečeve Drage Viaduct follows both a horizontal and a vertical curve?
Did you know that Rich Iott , a first-time candidate in the 2010 House of Representatives elections in Ohio , came to media prominence due to his past participation in a World War II reenactment group?
Did you know that Al-Musta'in was the only Cairo -based Abbasid caliph to hold both political and spiritual power?
Did you know that the 1629 Siege of Privas was one of the last events of the French Huguenot rebellions , and that it ended in the total plunder and destruction of the city of Privas by the troops of Louis XIII ?
Did you know that Suiyo Seamount , a seamount near Japan , was thought to be extinct until a hydrothermal event in 1991 was brought to light?
Did you know that Harry Thorneycroft was the first British Labour candidate to receive a letter of support from Winston Churchill and other leaders of the coalition government ?
Did you know that in a gesture of appreciation for his service in the Spanish Civil War , International Brigades veteran Sam Lesser was offered honorary Spanish citizenship in 1996?
Did you know that the Swedish river monitor HMS Sköld had a combined hand and steam propulsion system designed by John Ericsson ?
Did you know that Seattle Community Access Network carried a TV show that ran uncensored pornography ?
Did you know that Ching Chong Song topped a poll in The Village Voice as the "Worst Band Name in New York"?
Did you know that English football captain Bobby Moore was accused of stealing a bracelet in Bogotá, Colombia , during the run-up to the 1970 FIFA World Cup ?
Did you know that the dumping of slag into Kilbirnie Loch by the local ironworks unearthed a set of logboats and a crannóg ?
Did you know that, despite the stock market crash of 1929 , construction of the Washington Athletic Club in Seattle went ahead with a groundbreaking ceremony held in December of 1929?
Did you know that the English artist Henry Clarence Whaite was one of the central figures in the formation of the Royal Cambrian Academy of Art , Wales' first art academy?
Did you know that Roy Roundtree was the leading receiver for the 2009 Michigan Wolverines football team even though he only started four games?
Did you know that, according to the Dallas Morning News , William Madison McDonald was "probably Texas ' first black millionaire"?
Did you know that Marshall Flaum , who won two Emmys for The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau , earned an Academy Award nomination for best documentary feature for Let My People Go: The Story of Israel in 1965?
Did you know that modern tribes in the area of the village of Negomano on the Mozambique – Tanzania border can be traced to the southern shores of Lake Malawi , and that their ancestors moved to escape severe drought?
Did you know that King's Carpenter John Abel also designed a wooden tank called the Sow?
Did you know that the Constitution of Bhutan is based on Buddhist philosophy , International Conventions on Human Rights , public opinion, and existing laws, authorities, and precedents?
Did you know that Chris Deschene is the first Native American to run for Secretary of State in Arizona ?
Did you know that the Patron of the Auto-Cycle Union which oversees the British Motocross Championship is HRH the Duke of Edinburgh ?
Did you know that in 1854, Michel Maxwell Philip , the illicit son of a white planter and a slave, wrote Emmanuel Appadocca , the first Trinidadian novel?
Did you know that the demolition of Mount Carmel High School , a historic landmark in Los Angeles , was filmed for the movie Rock 'n' Roll High School ?
Did you know that despite being the largest church in Shrewsbury , Shropshire , St Mary's was declared redundant in 1987?
Did you know that, during Sulla's civil wars , Romans were killed if the consul Gaius Marius did not nod to them in response to a conversation?
Did you know that Lom prisoner of war camp , operated by the 2nd Division during the 1940 Norwegian Campaign , held both German PoWs and Norwegians suspected of collaborationism ?
Did you know that soul singer and songwriter Brenda Lee Eager has written and performed in a musical theatre show based on her own life story?
Did you know that rock blasting during excavation of the second Veliki Gložac Tunnel tube required the original tunnel tube to be closed to traffic more than 220 times?
Did you know that the Italian tanker Gianna M was captured by the British Armed Merchant Cruiser HMS Hilary in 1941?
Did you know that Sakis Rouvas became the first Greek artist to have his own fashion label with the launch of the Sakis Rouvas Collection in October 2010?
Did you know that thawing ice forced four of the ice hockey matches at the 1932 Winter Olympics to move from an outdoor venue to an indoor one?
Did you know that one of the Google driverless cars was able to drive itself down the narrow hairpin turns of San Francisco 's Lombard Street ?
Did you know that the Swedish monitor Folke was designed opposite of her sister ships , with a gun turret at the stern, so that she could protect them during a retreat?
Did you know that thawing of the ice rink venue during the 1928 Winter Olympics led to the cancellation of the 10,000 m speed skating event?
Did you know that the Byzantine general Manuel the Armenian achieved the highest Byzantine military ranks, defected to the Abbasids , escaped back, and saved emperor Theophilos from captivity?
Did you know that Mexican singer Luis Miguel received a Grammy Award and a Platinum certification for his album Segundo Romance in the United States?
Did you know that Hyderabad -born Asher Noria is the only shooter in the world to win the double trap event of the International Shooting Junior World Cup for two consecutive years?
Did you know that architectural historians have described the Norman chancel arch of St James' Church, Stirchley , Shropshire , as "quite incongruously ornate"?
Did you know that Mrs. Thomasina Tittlemouse was depicted on a 1955 Huntley & Palmer biscuit tin ?
Did you know that Oatka Creek disappears from an area north of Le Roy, New York , during the summer months?
Did you know that Tenczyn Castle was captured and pillaged because of a rumor that the Polish Crown Jewels were hidden in its walls?
Did you know that St John the Baptist Church, Inglesham contains wall paintings dating from the 13th to the 19th centuries, painted on top of each other up to seven layers thick?
Did you know that Sofie is the first surgical robot to return tactile information back to the operating surgeon?
Did you know that Dinesh Dhamija went from selling tickets in a London tube station kiosk to a net worth of over £ 100m?
Did you know that Podvugleš Tunnel is separated from neighboring Javorova Kosa Tunnel by a 30-metre (98 ft) section of the Croatian A6 motorway ?
Did you know that Francis M. Fesmire of the University of Tennessee College of Medicine won an Ig Nobel Prize for research on treating hiccups with digital rectal massage?
Did you know that Adam of Kilconquhar , first husband of Robert the Bruce 's mother Marjory of Carrick , died on crusade at Acre in 1271?
Did you know that Philipsburg Manor , one of the four main manors of the Province of New York , was dissolved in 1779 because its owner was a loyalist ?
Did you know that the Top Pops chart , which ran for less than three years, had 15 number-one singles that failed to top the official UK Singles Chart ?
Did you know that the al-'Awasim was the fortified frontier zone established by the Ummayad and Abbasid caliphates along their border with the Byzantine Empire ?
Did you know that the tower of St Bartholomew's Church, Richard's Castle , Herefordshire , is detached from the body of the church, standing about 10 metres (33 ft) to its east?
Did you know that the BSA B50 SS motorcycle proved its credentials by winning the 500 cc class in the Thruxton 500 and the Barcelona 24-hour endurance race?
Did you know that the New Academy , an 18th-century higher learning institute and center of Greek culture, in Moscopole , Albania , was nicknamed "the worthiest jewel of the city"?
Did you know that fetuses of the endangered Giant Panda have been artificially grown in the womb of a cat?
Did you know that plans to restore the derelict Leah's Yard in Sheffield, England , have been put on hold because of government budget cuts ?
Did you know that Ekgmowechashala was the only North American genus of primate during the Late Oligocene ?
Did you know that Michigan Wolverines men's ice hockey won the NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament champions in both 1996 and 1998 , but the 1996–97 team had the best record?
Did you know that Figaro was brought back in 2008 for the Australian and northern sawtail catsharks ?
Did you know that the New Jersey Historical Commission established the Mildred Barry Garvin Prize to recognize educators in the state for outstanding teaching of African-American history ?
Did you know that, earlier this month, Leon Baptiste won England 's first gold medal for sprinting at the Commonwealth Games in over a decade?
Did you know that the first battle of the Crimean War led to an increased usage of the name Alma ?
Did you know that Robert Lee Bobbitt , a prominent Texas politician of the 1920s and 1930s , was a presidential elector in 1944 for the Roosevelt - Truman ticket?
Did you know that a series of novels based on the tale of Sleeping Beauty was removed from the Columbus Metropolitan Library in 1996?
Did you know that the Double-O Ranch Historic District in Harney County , Oregon , was once owned by cattle baron Bill Hanley and is now part of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge ?
Did you know that Gin Pit was the first colliery belonging to Astley and Tyldesley Collieries , and its name suggests it had horse-driven winding gear and was on the site of even older coal workings?
Did you know that Maurice Neligan was described as "the first superstar of Irish medicine"?
Did you know that many newspapers refused to publicize the 1932 Pre-Code film Merrily We Go to Hell because of its racy title?
Did you know that the last two known individuals of the South Island Snipe died on 1 September 1964, two days after they were captured?
Did you know that William W. Norton wrote scripts for films starring John Wayne and Burt Reynolds , but when asked by a nurse if she would know any of his films, he replied, "I don't think your IQ is low enough"?
Did you know that Papua New Guinean Anglican archbishop Sir George Ambo was "the first South Pacific native to be made a bishop", in 1960?
Did you know that Robert Levin reconstructed for the Bach Cantata Pilgrimage missing parts of Ach! ich sehe, itzt, da ich zur Hochzeit gehe, BWV 162 ?
Did you know that the 18,000-square-foot (1,700 m 2 ) wave pool at Hyderabad 's Jalavihar , which is the largest in India , can accommodate about 1,000 people at a time?
Did you know that, during the 2010 Winter Olympics , Stephen Colbert visited Pride House Vancouver, which is located in the LGBT community centre Qmunity ?
Did you know that English photographer Greg Williams used a high-resolution video camera to create a photograph of Megan Fox for the cover of Esquire magazine?
Did you know that Lake Sausacocha in Peru is one of the rare Andean lakes with acidic waters?
Did you know that professional wrestler and Maori Anglican Church member Ike Robin was once said to be "so absorbed in his preaching that he failed to notice that the congregation comprised only his dog"?
Did you know that during the 16th century, St Peter and St Paul's Church, Preston Deanery , Northamptonshire , was used as a dog kennel and a pigeon house?
Did you know that French comedy actor Louis de Funès made his film debut at the age of 31 with a 40-second appearance in The Temptation of Barbizon ?
Did you know that the 2010–11 Princeton Tigers men's basketball team is coming off its first year with a postseason victory since the 1998–99 team won two games in the 1999 National Invitation Tournament ?
Did you know that native Pennsylvanian Alexander Fulton named the Louisiana city that he founded, Alexandria , after himself?
Did you know that the generation of Husák's Children was named after a communist president of Czechoslovakia ?
Did you know that Philadelphia School of Circus Arts teaches static trapeze , corde lisse , lyra , unicycling , tightwire , and Chinese acrobatics ?
Did you know that Prince Abbas Hilmi , a great-grandson of both the last Ottoman sultan and the last Ottoman caliph , was the first foreign member of the London Stock Exchange ?
Did you know that the Grandview Apostolic Church was the second-oldest church in Brown County, Indiana , until it was burned last July?
Did you know that physician Charles de Lorme (1584–1678) prescribed an eye cosmetic concoction to French kings Henry IV and Louis XIII as a medicine?
Did you know that the anonymous 6th-century treatise About the Mystery of the Letters interpreted the three Greek numeral signs Digamma (6), Koppa (90) and Sampi (900) as mystical symbols of the Holy Trinity ?
Did you know that James Kennedy Patterson , the first president of the University of Kentucky , once secured a personal loan to help the institution meet its financial obligations?
Did you know that the deciding game of the 2004 UAAP men's college basketball finals was played a day before the 29th anniversary of the Thrilla in Manila at the same venue ?
Did you know that baritone Georges Baklanoff created the title role in Sergei Rachmaninoff 's The Miserly Knight at the Bolshoi Theatre , Moscow in 1906?
Did you know that St Martin's Church, Preston Gubbals , Shropshire , has been the chancel of a medieval church, the south aisle of a 19th century church, and is now a free-standing structure?
Did you know that when a diabetic passenger needed an emergency stop on a JetBlue flight, David Barger , now the company's CEO , personally apologized to every customer for the delay?
Did you know that after recovering from polio as a 12-year old, Leo Byrd went on to win a gold medal with the United States men's basketball team at the 1959 Pan American Games ?
Did you know that the father Snares Snipe looks after the first chick to leave the nest, while the mother takes care of the second?
Did you know that in 1997, Marko Račič became the only Slovenian to receive the Gold Badge of the European Athletic Association ?
Did you know that cloud gaming developments allow players to access their saved games at multiple locations, using the same game data on platforms ranging from desktop computers to tablet devices ?
Did you know that, after Bobby Godsell had resigned as Chairman of South African company Eskom in 2009, he was accused of racism but defended by both the Mineworkers Union and the ANC ?
Did you know that the 2009–10 Princeton Tigers men's basketball team earned the first postseason college basketball victory for Princeton since the 1999 National Invitation Tournament ?
Did you know that the Early Cretaceous crocodilian relative Susisuchus was one of the first mesoeucrocodylians to have a segmented shield of bony osteoderms over its back, which allowed for greater flexibility while swimming?
Did you know that Tuhobić Tunnel is the longest tunnel on the Croatian A6 motorway route?
Did you know that Super Heavyweight Sean McCorkle has been nicknamed "The Hater", "The Big Angry", "Big Hungry" and "The Alpha Male", and claims he changes his nickname "to keep it interesting"?
Did you know that Edentulina moreleti is the only known herbivorous streptaxid ?
Did you know that Edward Elgar may have played on the organ of the now- redundant Pendock Church ?
Did you know that in 1934, the British industrialist and philanthropist Sir John Jarvis established the Surrey Fund to raise money for the depressed town of Jarrow ?
Did you know that Creation Records , Superdry and Viz magazine were all started with funding from the Enterprise Allowance Scheme ?
Did you know that as a Federal Reserve System governor, Sherman J. Maisel served on a White House task force that suggested that Ginnie Mae and Fannie Mae play a greater role in funding mortgages for homebuyers?
Did you know that at the end of the first game of the 2005 UAAP men's basketball finals , a De La Salle University-Manila assistant team manager ran onto the court and hit opposing player Arwind Santos in the back of the head?
Did you know that English courtier Isabella Markham , the love object and muse of poet John Harington , was the daughter of his former jailer?
Did you know that shots fired by Johnny Edgecombe into the door of the flat where his girlfriend was visiting led to disclosure of the Profumo Affair , a scandal which brought down UK War Secretary John Profumo ?
Did you know that the 1994 College Baseball All-America Team included four future Major League Baseball All-Stars : Nomar Garciaparra , Jason Varitek , Danny Graves and Mike Hampton ?
Did you know that from the widow's walk of the Samuel May Williams House people could watch horse races at the nearby race track?
Did you know that the British businessman and Member of Parliament Sir Edgar Horne owned most of the village of Shackleford in Surrey?
Did you know that the fairy shrimp Branchinecta brushi lives at 5,930 m (19,460 ft) in the Chilean Andes , higher than any other crustacean in the world?
Did you know that from the late 1860s, Danish photographer Kristen Feilberg captured many of the earliest images of the landscapes and peoples of Borneo , Sumatra and Singapore ?
Did you know that a Washington, DC , legend states that a Demon Cat lives in the basement crypts at Capitol Hill ?
Did you know that according to studies published by The Alliance for Safe Children , in Bangladesh every day an estimated 46 children die from drowning ?
Did you know that the parasitic mushroom Pholiota squarrosa may smell like garlic, lemon, radish, onion, or skunk?
Did you know that Lake Amaramba is a shallow lake in Mozambique near the border with Malawi , located in the Nyasa plateau?
Did you know that Herb Wilkinson , a devout Mormon , quit his professional basketball job with the Minneapolis Lakers because they made him play on Sundays?
Did you know that Texas Republican politician Jack Cox lost important races to two better-known candidates, John Connally and George Herbert Walker Bush ?
Did you know that Jim Tuck named his pioneering fusion power system the Perhapsatron , reflecting his skepticism that it would actually work?
Did you know that the animal characters in ABC 's 1986 primetime special, The Kingdom Chums: Little David's Adventure , were based on biblical figures?
Did you know that British Cheney Racing hand-built motorcycles can take over 400 hours to complete?
Did you know that the Emancipation Proclamation was ceremoniously read on the 140th anniversary of its signing under the oak tree where Mary Smith Peake taught children of former slaves in 1861?
Did you know that Ch. Rocky Top's Sundance Kid is the most successful Colored Bull Terrier show dog of all time?
Did you know that Nevada politician Sharron Angle serves as a legislative chairwoman for the National Foundation for Women Legislators ?
Did you know that in a 1988 administrative law judgment, the High Court of Singapore held that an alien allowed to enter the country for a fixed period has no legitimate expectation of staying a day longer?
Did you know that though his work usually appeared to have been painted very quickly, Stephen Pace often made subtle fixes to his art, saying of himself, "You might call me a fake Zen painter"?
Did you know that Ralph A. Loveys left an Assembly seat from the 26th Legislative District to chair the New Jersey Turnpike Authority , but quit after Governor James Florio would not support his toll increase plan?
Did you know that the mushrooms Mycena clariviolacea , M. fonticola , M. fuscoaurantiaca , M. intersecta , M. lanuginosa , M. multiplicata , M. mustea , and M. nidificata , newly described in 2007, are only known from Kanagawa , Japan ?
Did you know that the Gwich'yaa , easternmost of the Gwich’in groups in Alaska , derive income from trapping and from selling handicrafts ?
Did you know that Bailey's Hotel , founded by British politician James Bailey , attracted many wealthy and foreign guests – including Sultan Abu Bakar of Johor , who lived out his last days in the hotel in 1895?
Did you know that five players from the 1969–70 Princeton Tigers men's basketball team were selected in the NBA Draft ?
Did you know that Bird class patrol vessels were so unsuccessful that they were never used in their designed role?
Did you know that the Kebbi Emirate in Nigeria is one of the " seven bastard kingdoms " whose rulers trace their lineage back to a Hausa king's concubine ?
Did you know that there is a 9 ft bronze statue of the founder of the American SPCA , Henry Bergh , petting an injured dog, standing in Milwaukee since 1891?
Did you know that St Nicholas of Myra's Church, Ozleworth , has one of the only two hexagonal towers in Gloucestershire ?
Did you know that folk singers Kathy & Carol released their second album 45 years after their debut?
Did you know that to honour Jaguar Cars ' 75th anniversary, the carmaker developed the Jaguar C-X75 , a plug-in hybrid two-seat concept car which debuted at the 2010 Paris Motor Show ?
Did you know that Brian Rose was Somerset County Cricket Club's most successful captain , leading the side to five one-day trophies in as many years?
Did you know that, in pre-independence Swaziland , French was taught in the colony's three White-only high schools?
Did you know that at the helm of United Artists , Andy Albeck oversaw production of Raging Bull , a film considered one of the greatest ever , and Heaven's Gate , the biggest box office bomb at the time?
Did you know that Len Garrison 's writings about black British identity and history led to formation of the Black Cultural Archives, and plans for the first UK national Black heritage centre in 2011?
Did you know that trumpeter Gracie Cole was the first woman to compete for the Alexander Owen memorial scholarship in 1942—and won by an unprecedented 21-point margin?
Did you know that when Helmut de Boor taught at the University of Bern , his neighbours objected to his many young German visitors, but also to his red and orange car paid for by the German embassy?
Did you know that Jack Parkinson passed up a Major League Baseball contract with the Cincinnati Reds to play for Adolph Rupp and the Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball team ?
Did you know that The CW Television Network plans to develop an adaption of the hit German sitcom Danni Lowinski , marking the first time a German TV series is adapted for American audiences?
Did you know that the National Intellectual Property Rights Coordination Center was created in July 2008 to protect American consumers from potentially harmful trade goods?
Did you know that one of the 15 bridges in Vrnjačka Banja , Serbia , is the Bridge of Love , enclosed by love padlocks ?