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Did you know that The Independent named the black dress worn by Rita Hayworth in the 1946 film Gilda as one of the Ten Best Fashion Moments in Film?
Did you know that Stephen Fry was an engineer and aspiring jazz pianist before he captained South Africa's rugby team against the British Lions ?
Did you know that Parks and Recreation character Chris Traeger has been described as "one of the great comedic creations of the past couple years" and one of Rob Lowe 's funniest performances?
Did you know that journalist Ahmad Taufik was acquitted after being taken to court by both the Suharto government and Tomy Winata , one of Indonesia's richest businessmen?
Did you know that Turakhan Beg was commander of one of the Ottoman armies during the Battle of Niš in November 1443 ?
Did you know that Fil and Filippa: Story of Child Life in the Philippines is a 1917 novel written by American writer John Stuart Thomson ?
Did you know that the American neuroscientist Jacqueline Crawley has been President of both the International Behavioral Neuroscience Society and the International Behavioural and Neural Genetics Society ?
Did you know that Asafo Interchange was the first flyover to be built in Kumasi in the Ashanti region of Ghana ?
Did you know that Giammaria Biemmi ' s work on Skanderbeg raised controversy among historians over his sources' authenticity?
Did you know that television writer Dennis Marks not only provided episodes of Batfink and The Beatles , but he was also the voice of the Green Goblin ?
Did you know that Alexios Palaiologos was heir apparent of the Byzantine Empire from 1199 to his death in 1203, and was directly involved in the suppression of no less than four revolts during this time?
Did you know that the Californian commune Black Bear Ranch was founded using money from both entertainment industry executives and from an LSD deal?
Did you know that Bill Foley 's photograph "The Last Smile" shows Anwar Sadat only moments before his assassination ?
Did you know that Siberian -born Noldi Schreck , set decorator for the 1965 drama Love Has Many Faces , was nicknamed "the architect of Zona Rosa "?
Did you know that the London Necropolis Railway was used to relocate the exhumed contents of at least 21 London graveyards to Brookwood Cemetery in Surrey ?
Did you know that Beatrice Mtetwa , " Zimbabwe 's top human rights lawyer", has secured the release of reporters from The New York Times and The Sunday Telegraph ?
Did you know that despite the nation being banned from the 1972 Olympics because of the policy of apartheid , 25 athletes competed for South Africa at the 1972 Summer Paralympics ?
Did you know that Brigadier General Francis C. Marshall had just visited Camp Hearn prior to dying in a plane crash?
Did you know that Norwegian librarian and bibliographer Hjalmar Pettersen registered every work in the 3,300 page-long Bibliotheca Norvegica himself?
Did you know that Mexican-American singer-songwriter Selena was murdered by an employee who (falsely) claimed she was raped and needed the singer's help?
Did you know that one of the first European books to contain Chinese characters was written by an officer of the Spanish Inquisition, and translated into English by an escaped former prisoner of the Inquisition?
Did you know that Fox 2000 Pictures postponed its upcoming film adaptation of Yann Martel 's 2001 novel Life of Pi a week to avoid direct competition with The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey ?
Did you know that Edmund Ser , owner of Malaysian fashion labels Edmund Ser, Spade, and SER, was a guest judge on Project Runway Malaysia ?
Did you know that the Norwegian steamer Vigrid was sunk by a German U-boat while carrying Welsh coal to France in 1917?
Did you know that Tom Kahn organized American unions' $300,000 aid to the Polish labor union Solidarity in 1980–1981 , despite Secretary of State Muskie 's warnings that this aid might provoke a new Soviet invasion ?
Did you know that Indonesian journalist Bambang Harymurti originally wanted to be an astronaut and qualified as a potential candidate?
Did you know that a biologist discovered a population of the rare and endangered Michigan monkeyflower after he found a specimen used as a garnish on his plate at a restaurant?
Did you know that planet WASP-13b , despite a radius 25% larger than Jupiter 's, has less than half the mass?
Did you know that the 2005 Gwangju Prize winner Wardah Hafidz was told to vacate her office after disclosing that numerous groups had used social security funds for "money politics"?
Did you know that the retired association football player Zlatko Zahovič is the all-time top scorer for the Slovenia team?
Did you know that Judith Trim , the first wife of Roger Waters of Pink Floyd , cried the first time she heard The Dark Side of the Moon ?
Did you know that " Donde quiera que estés ", a collaboration with Mexican-American singer-songwriter Selena , became the first number-one hit for the Barrio Boyzz ?
Did you know that cyclist Gerhard Schönbacher stopped and kissed the road before he finished last in the 1979 Tour de France ?
Did you know that Carra Castle was once occupied by Shane O'Neill who held Sorley Boy McDonnell as a prisoner there in 1565, and the McDonnells later got their revenge by beheading O'Neill there?
Did you know that the Holy Ghost ipomopsis , a rare flower found in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains in New Mexico , is predicted to become extinct within 50 years?
Did you know that Reginald Byng Stephens led the British 5th Division to Italy as part of his country's participation in the First World War 's Italian campaign ?
Did you know that Selskabet for Oslo Byes Vel , a non-profit association for the benefit of Norway's capital city, celebrates its 200-year anniversary this year?
Did you know that WGRM-FM founder Clay Ewing had been mayor of Greenwood, Mississippi ?
Did you know that Shiga-like toxin-producing Escherichia coli are responsible for tens of thousands of cases of foodborne illness a year?
Did you know that Irlo Bronson sold the land that is present-day Walt Disney World for about US$ 100 per acre?
Did you know that the Venezuelan port Nueva Cádiz was the first Spanish town to be established in South America ?
Did you know that the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria asked the courts to annul the decree that chartered their rival, the Association of National Accountants of Nigeria ?
Did you know that Nínay , the first Filipino novel, provides a "folkloristic tour" of the distinctive culture of the Philippines ?
Did you know that the Antwerp Diamond Heist was the largest diamond heist in history?
Did you know that visual effects supervisor Jay Worth found inspiration for the "Ash Man" storyline in the Fringe episode " Earthling " from holding his grandmother-in-law's hands at her funeral?
Did you know that the campaign of George Tyler Wood for Governor of Texas was aided by Isaac Van Zandt dying from yellow fever ?
Did you know that transit service in Portland, Oregon , in the 1960s was provided solely by privately owned companies , with Rose City Transit in the city proper and the "Blue Bus" lines in the suburbs?
Did you know that in 2004, 30-year-old rookie Brian Dallimore hit a grand slam for his first hit in Major League Baseball ?
Did you know that tourism is Ghana 's fourth highest foreign exchange earner?
Did you know that a Popular Mechanics article noted it is possible to die from "parasitic asphyxiation", as shown in the Fringe episode " Snakehead "?
Did you know that a major achievement of the Ministry of Women and Children's Affairs of Ghana is the abolishing of child trafficking in the country?
Did you know that after the Nyon Conference , The Times likened the happy delegates to cricketers, "reviewing their innings, over by over"?
Did you know that the Regional Museum of Anthropology and History of Chiapas in Tuxtla Gutiérrez sponsors an annual event for children from low income areas of the city?
Did you know that the loy is an early Irish spade used for manual ploughing prior to and during the Irish Potato Famine ?
Did you know that Native American Taos Pueblo artists Albert Looking Elk , Juan Mirabal , and Albert Lujan were known as the "Three Taos Pueblo" painters?
Did you know that asteroid 16113 Ahmed was named for a high school student from New York?
Did you know that on 20 November 1943, a wounded surgeon from the 16th (Parachute) Field Ambulance carried out over 150 operations?
Did you know that Mitch McDeere , Tom Cruise 's character in Sydney Pollack's 1993 US$ 270 million-grossing film adaptation of John Grisham's The Firm that sold seven million copies, will reappear in a television series ?
Did you know that "father of Indonesian anthropology" Koentjaraningrat joined the student militia as an English and history teacher during the Indonesian National Revolution ?
Did you know that journalist Ricardo Uceda helped locate the mass grave of the La Cantuta massacre victims?
Did you know that although Dizzy Nutter 's professional baseball career lasted eight years, Nutter only played in eighteen Major League games?
Did you know that the 7th-century Law of Wihtred , a law code from Kent , provides that any slave forced to work on Sabbath be given freedom?
Did you know that Samuel Noah Kramer noted the Debate between Winter and Summer "is the closest extant Sumerian parallel to the Biblical Cain and Abel story"?
Did you know that despite tests showing "virtually zero" risk, utility companies still cite islanding concerns to refuse connection of new distributed generation systems?
Did you know that Jamaican sprinter Nickel Ashmeade beat a former Olympic and World champion in the 100 m and set a meet record at the Ponce Grand Prix in May 2011?
Did you know that the Animation Council of the Philippines, Inc. sponsors a yearly festival that features the works of Filipino animators ?
Did you know that Papyrus 49 is one of three early manuscripts with the text of the Epistle to the Ephesians ?
Did you know that African-American Civil Rights activist Gloria Blackwell and her daughter Lurma Rackley missed a court appearance because they were arrested for going to the white-only restroom in the courthouse?
Did you know that Aodh Méith refused to meet with the King of England , because the King was unwilling to give hostages as surety?
Did you know that in 2000 American newspaper executive and conservationist Edward H. Harte established the Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies at the Texas A&M University with a US$ 46M endowment?
Did you know that the Djibouti Francolin is endemic to the Mabla Mountains and the Day Forest National Park ?
Did you know that the opera Die Stadt hinter dem Strom , composed by Hans Vogt and based on Hermann Kasack 's novel of the same name , was first staged at the Internationale Maifestspiele Wiesbaden in 1955?
Did you know that comedian and former Parks and Recreation producer Dana Gould made a cameo appearance in " The Bubble ", a third season episode?
Did you know that in May 2011 members of Lulz Security took responsibility for an attack on the website of PBS that resulted in the posting of a fake news story that claimed Tupac Shakur was still alive and living in New Zealand?
Did you know that millionaire banker Baron Frédéric Alfred d'Erlanger was also a noted composer who wrote an opera based on Thomas Hardy 's novel, Tess of the d'Urbervilles ?
Did you know that the novel The Forty Days of Musa Dagh about the Armenian Genocide played a role in organizing the Jewish resistance under Nazi rule ?
Did you know that electric circuit theorist Vitold Belevitch discovered a mathematical basis for Zipf's law from linguistics ?
Did you know that one reason for establishing the National Sports College of the Ministry of Youth and Sports of Ghana was that Ghanaian sportsmen were under-performing in international competitions?
Did you know that Thomas Jefferson grew Lacinato kale , an heirloom kale also known as Dinosaur kale, in his Monticello garden?
Did you know that during his career, Chrisye released albums that sold like "chicken shit" , were recorded with studio executives locked out , raised controversy for being "against Asian mores" , went double platinum on his birthday , and had to be recalled to replace the cover design ?
Did you know that Nike , Alfa Romeo , Red Bull and Ginsters are all advertised in the first person football video game I Am Playr ?
Did you know that the National Youth Employment Program was created to address youth unemployment in Ghana which increases by 250,000 per year?
Did you know that although baseball player Chuck Ricci never played for the Cleveland Indians , he appeared in the 1994 film Major League II as a member of the team and later worked for the club as a scout ?
Did you know that although the continued attack by the German auxiliary cruiser Michel on Empire Dawn after she had surrendered was considered to be a war crime , Michel ' s captain was acquitted of the charge?
Did you know that King Saud University assistant professor of women's history Hatoon al-Fassi has not been allowed to teach since 2001?
Did you know that Ernest Hemingway wrote The Fifth Column during the siege of the Spanish Civil War at the Hotel Florida in Madrid and on a daily basis he "expected a bomb to land on his typewriter"?
Did you know that the Paperbark Flycatcher never uses the "scissors-grinding" call of the closely related Restless Flycatcher ?
Did you know that a preposition is something that a sentence can end with ?
Did you know that the perp walk of Lee Harvey Oswald ended with his assassination on live television?
Did you know that David Lucas , who produced and sang backup on Blue Öyster Cult 's " Don't Fear the Reaper " also wrote AT&T 's "Reach out and touch someone" jingle?
Did you know that WASP-44b , an extrasolar planet the size of Jupiter, orbits the star WASP-44 every 58 hours?
Did you know that the popularity of Tagalog pocketbooks helps establish the national language in the Philippines , a country with over 100 languages ?
Did you know that during World War II the Polish Teachers' Union was mostly active through the Secret Teaching Organization ?
Did you know that Norwegian botanist Finn Wischmann wrote more than 45,000 herbarium sheets and 21,000 checklists, recording more than half a million plant discoveries?
Did you know that the setting of Nippur in the Sumerian creation myth of Enlil and Ninlil has been noted as "civitas dei", existing before the " axis mundi " and the creation of man?
Did you know that when Warqenah Eshate returned to Ethiopia 32 years after being carried away by British soldiers, his grandmother recognized him by examining scars on his arms and legs?
Did you know that the offspring of the stallion Saxon were the subject of teasing from his owner's brother, resulting in a challenge race that Saxon's daughter won by four lengths?
Did you know that the Finland-Swedish admiral Arvid Stålarm was sentenced to death three times, but never actually executed?
Did you know that Peter Dawson served as Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta for 26 years, the longest in the history of the province?
Did you know that after the science fiction anthology Machine of Death reached No. 1 on the Amazon.com bestseller list instead of his own book, Fox News commentator Glenn Beck denounced it as part of a liberal "culture of death"?
Did you know that the Argentine city of Villa Gesell was built after the afforestation of a dune field ?
Did you know that Hungarian handballer Bojana Radulović has been selected IHF World Player of the Year twice, in 2000 and 2003?
Did you know that William Wordsworth wrote his Guide to the Lakes because he needed money, and first published it anonymously?
Did you know that A. Forward was a forward ?
Did you know that gifted primary school students attend Rose Bay Secondary College for a day a week for the length of a school term to undertake advanced studies?
Did you know that Qatar sent only male athletes to the inaugural Asian Para Games ?
Did you know that Peter Aucoin , a professor emeritus at Dalhousie University , has served as an advisor to all three levels of the government of Canada ?
Did you know that reindeer were introduced to South Georgia by Norwegian whalers ?
Did you know that Franc Fernandez , designer of Lady Gaga 's meat dress and " Bad Romance " "diamond crown" costume, was mostly self-trained?
Did you know that newspaper editor Col. William Thompson won his 1871 shootout with a rival newspaper editor despite sustaining severe gunshot wounds, including a bullet lodged behind his eye, and a beating from a cane?
Did you know that in 1993, the car of Algerian journalist Omar Belhouchet was machine-gunned while he was driving his children to school?
Did you know that Ballylough is home to a ruined castle that was once a stronghold of the MacQuillans and the MacDonnells ?
Did you know that Polish-German "cotton king" Juliusz Karol Kunitzer survived a 1893 assassination attempt, but died during that of 1905?
Did you know that jazz pianist Ahmad Jamal 's first live album At the Pershing: But Not for Me , recorded in 1958, has sold over one million copies?
Did you know that Royal Ulster Constabulary officer John Weir , who was convicted of a sectarian killing, had once considered joining the Irish Garda Síochána ?
Did you know that Burmese journalist Aung Pwint was imprisoned on charges of "sending news" and "illegal ownership of a fax machine"?
Did you know that Russian journalist Nadira Isayeva called her 2010 trial "a test for the institution of press freedom" in Dagestan ?
Did you know that Indiana ' s Epsilon II is a rare example of a well-preserved upland archaeological site from the Archaic period ?
Did you know that Paul Kromer and Tom Harmon formed a backfield duo for the 1938 Michigan Wolverines football team that became known as the "Touchdown Twins"?
Did you know that Thomas Erskine 's speech in the case of R v Baillie earned him a standing ovation?
Did you know that the ideal of the Imitation of Christ goes back to the earliest days of Christianity?
Did you know that earthquake sensitives such as geologist Jim Berkland claim they have the ability to predict earthquakes ?
Did you know that the duet aspect of Sonny & Cher 's first recorded hit single, " Baby Don't Go ", was not originally planned but established the pair's unusual harmonic style?
Did you know that there were two Carlisle Houses in 18th-century London's Soho Square ; one housing Domenico Angelo 's fencing and riding school and another Madame Cornelys ' masquerades and illegal operas?
Did you know that Angel Delgadillo helped inspire the film Cars and has been called the "guardian angel of Route 66 "?
Did you know that Berwick Rangers 1-0 defeat of Rangers in 1967 has been described as "the most astonishing result ever returned in Scottish football"?
Did you know that in 2001, James Hedges of Thompson Township, Fulton County, Pennsylvania , became the first Prohibition Party member elected in a partisan election since 1959?
Did you know that the Tema Motorway , which was commissioned in 1964, is Ghana 's only motorway?
Did you know that Troy Yocum , who is currently hiking 7,000 miles (11,000 km) across the United States , once tried to set a Guinness world record for marathon drumming?
Did you know that the Gita Dhyanam , known as the Invocation to the Bhagavad Gita , compares the Upanishads to cows, and claims that God's grace can make the dumb speak?
Did you know that the Basters under Hermanus van Wyk were ready to pay £ 2,750 for their land around Rehoboth , but got it for free after they signed a protection treaty with Imperial Germany ?
Did you know that both candidates in the 2011 special congressional election in Ilocos Sur 's 1st district claimed they had the endorsement of the Liberal Party of the Philippines ?
Did you know that the skeleton of the last Bosnian king, Stephen Tomašević of Bosnia , currently lies in the Franciscan monastery of Saint Luke, Jajce ?
Did you know that the terrier Beauty is considered to be "the original rescue dog "?
Did you know that Muhammad Al-Saqr won an International Press Freedom Award for his work as a journalist before becoming chairman of the Arab Parliament ?
Did you know that Hamill , an upcoming biographical film about deaf mixed martial artist Matt Hamill , will use sporadic sound and incomplete subtitles ?
Did you know that during his tenure as mayor of Minden , Louisiana , Connell Fort worked to rid his city of mosquitoes , laid natural gas lines, and built the municipal sewerage system?
Did you know that the Royal Australian Air Force 's No. 1 Long Range Flight was formed to compete in the 1953 London to Christchurch air race ?
Did you know that Joseph Wright of Derby 's painting of Miravan 's revulsion as he breaks open a tomb is based on a story retold by John Gilbert Cooper ?
Did you know that a live performance of the French translation of Kafka's Soup included a sung recipe for onion tart?
Did you know that two condemned Swedish prisoners spared in the 1599 Åbo Bloodbath also survived the 1600 Linköping Bloodbath ?
Did you know that the American Thoroughbred racehorse Algerine won the 1876 Belmont Stakes without winning another race beforehand?
Did you know that Tema Harbour in Ghana was named after the Torman fishing village and is Africa's largest man-made harbour?
Did you know that the ninth-century Codex Vindobonensis 751 contains a selection of the correspondence of Saint Boniface , as well as a mysterious palindrome and the oldest English poetic proverb?
Did you know that the 1939–40 NYU Violets men's basketball team, led by Ben Auerbach , finished the regular season with an 18–1 record yet did not play in a postseason tournament ?
Did you know that inspired by a trip to the highly active Mount Yasur volcano in 1999, French video game creator Eric Chahi designed the video game From Dust ?
Did you know that Civil Courage Prize laureate Ali Salem was ostracized by the Egyptian intellectual community following a 1994 book in which he promoted peace with Israel ?
Did you know that US Ambassador to Russia nominee Michael McFaul was denounced by a member of the Russian Parliament days before someone shot a bullet through his Stanford University office window?
Did you know that Walter Egerton , last Governor of Lagos Colony , initiated annual "pacification patrols" in southeast Nigeria which usually achieved submission without using force?
Did you know that La Esmeralda Dam supplies 8% of Colombia 's power demand?
Did you know that Modeste Mutinga won an international prize for his journalism before being elected to the Senate of the Democratic Republic of the Congo ?
Did you know that when workers staged a 1978 wildcat strike for higher wages at Volkswagen 's new Westmoreland Assembly Plant that built the Rabbit model, the picketers shouted "No Money, No Bunny"?
Did you know that at least seventeen elections have occurred in the Chilean city of Pichilemu since the country's transition to democracy in 1989?
Did you know that Albie Grant is the only Long Island Blackbirds men's basketball player to average 20+ points and 10+ rebounds for his career?
Did you know that a live album released by the band Los Tigres del Norte was named "historic" for the Mexican culture?
Did you know that the 1945 Augustów roundup which resulted in the disappearance and likely murder of about 600 Polish citizens by the Soviet Union is considered the largest crime committed in Poland after World War II ?
Did you know that Philip Craven , current President of the International Paralympic Committee , competed in athletics , swimming and wheelchair basketball for Great Britain at the 1972 Summer Paralympics ?
Did you know that the African Owl is actually a pigeon ?
Did you know that Forrest McClendon earned a 2011 Tony Award nomination for his début performance on Broadway ?
Did you know that the powerful teeth and jaws of Heliopithecus may have played a key role in the spread of Hominoids from Africa into Eurasia , 17 million years ago?
Did you know that the 2011 book Among the Truthers argues there is growing popularity in the US for far-fetched, paranoid conspiracy theories ?