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Did you know that Sir Cusack Patrick Roney was knighted for his role as secretary to the Great Industrial Exhibition of 1853 ?
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Did you know that Narmakosh , compiled by Narmad , is the first monolingual dictionary of the Gujarati language?
Did you know that video artist Joan Braderman superimposed herself onto scenes from the television series Dynasty to critique the characters, plots, and themes?
Did you know that if the Green Bay Packers football team, with an estimated value of $2.55 billion, was ever sold, all the profits would go to its charitable foundation rather than its shareholders?
Did you know that opera singer Catherine-Nicole Lemaure was imprisoned overnight for refusing to perform?
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Did you know that Telfair Hodgson was the original financial backer and first managing editor of The Sewanee Review , the oldest continuously published literary quarterly in the United States?
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Did you know that Vicars Bell was the "village chronicler" of Little Gaddesden ?
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Did you know that U.S. Army Hurricane Aircat airboats could ram and sink Viet Cong boats?
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Did you know that John F. Kennedy suggested the State of Washington replace its unofficial motto " Alki " with "For You and Me, a Destiny", a lyric from " Washington, My Home ", the state song?
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Did you know that periodontist John Zamet was awarded a PhD after his death for his research on German and Austrian refugee dentists?
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Did you know that in 1394, John "Eleanor" Rykener was apprehended for committing a "detestable unmentionable and ignominious vice" in Cheapside and later confessed to having had sex with both friars and nuns ?
Did you know that Chopin 's Piano Sonata No. 2 contains as its third movement a Marche funèbre , which was composed earlier than the other music?
Did you know that ethnic Croat journalist Štefica Galić has been called the " Schindler of Ljubuški " for helping save an estimated two-thirds of the town's Bosniaks during the Croat–Bosniak War ?
Did you know that Indian Railways runs loss-making trains on the Patna–Digha Ghat line to prevent encroachment ?
Did you know that South Dakota architect Harold Spitznagel designed the original Mount Rushmore visitor center with Cecil Doty as part of Mission 66 , providing a setting for Alfred Hitchcock 's 1959 film North by Northwest ?
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Did you know that members of the Djajadiningrat family fought on both sides of the Indonesian Revolution ?
Did you know that Mary Fenton , the first Anglo-Indian actress of the Parsi , Gujarati , and Urdu theatre, was introduced to acting by her husband, Kavasji Palanji Khatau ?
Did you know that Helleria brevicornis is the only terrestrial woodlouse that has retained the ancestral aquatic isopod behaviour of mate guarding?
Did you know that American video game producer Ben Judd is fluent in the Japanese Kansai dialect ?
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Did you know that the South African composer Stefans Grové wrote a setting of Psalm 138 for choir, children's choir, African drums, marimba , and string orchestra?
Did you know that the deposed Byzantine emperor Maurice was forced to watch his six sons executed before he was beheaded himself?
Did you know that Atlantis moved from Ireland to Colombia ?
Did you know that Robert Lebel was inducted in the inaugural class of three ice hockey halls of fame?
Did you know that the Wirral Model Engineering Society operates a raised railway track for fine scale models of full-size steam locomotives at Royden Park ?
Did you know that when King Kamehameha III died in 1854, the throne of Hawaii passed to his nephew Kamehameha IV instead of his son Albert Kūnuiākea ?
Did you know that Gheorghe A. Lăzăreanu-Lăzurică , a self-proclaimed " Voivode of the Gypsies ", supported Romania's far-right groups, beginning with the National Agrarian Party ?
Did you know that Old North , built between 1794 and 1797, is the oldest standing academic building on Georgetown University 's campus?
Did you know that Badr Shirvani , a Persian poet from Shirvan in the present-day Republic of Azerbaijan, received patronage from numerous rulers at the same time?
Did you know that the plot of the 1994 comic book Archie Meets the Punisher was modeled after the 1948 film Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein ?
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Did you know that Grace Macurdy shaped the field of classics by pulling together both material and textual evidence as sources in her studies of individual women?
Did you know that the flowers of the Redelinghuys pincushion are pollinated by rodents?
Did you know that Chip Rives was one of the eight people named Sports Illustrated Sportsperson of the Year in 1987?
Did you know that the Church of Saint Jacob in Nisibis in southeastern Turkey was originally the baptistery of a Syriac Orthodox cathedral which no longer exists?
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Did you know that Colombian Supreme Court judge Augusto Ibáñez Guzmán claimed that in 2008, a dozen armed men stormed his house to steal his personal computer?
Did you know that the flatworm Procerodes littoralis is tolerant of wide fluctuations in salinity, being able to survive both in freshwater and in seawater?
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Did you know that the Argentinian mezzo-soprano Alicia Nafé appeared in her signature role as Bizet's Carmen alongside Plácido Domingo in San Francisco , and at the Metropolitan Opera with Domingo as conductor?
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Did you know that the footballer Mark Aizlewood once celebrated scoring a goal by flicking the V at fans of his own team?
Did you know that Erinea Garcia Gallegos , one of the first college-educated Hispanic women in Colorado, was appointed postmistress of the city of San Luis by President Franklin D. Roosevelt?
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Did you know that Farouk Topan described the English language as "the elephant in the room" in relation to the use of Kiswahili in East Africa?
Did you know that when the besieged town of Berwick-upon-Tweed refused to surrender, the governor's son was hanged outside the town gates?
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Did you know that the mezzo-soprano Carla Henius performed in the premiere of Luigi Nono's Intolleranza 1960 at La Fenice , and had a composition by Dieter Schnebel written for her voice?
Did you know that Neocalanus cristatus nauplii feed off their yolks during the 40 days it may take them to ascend to the surface of the sea?
Did you know that chemical engineer Robert Edgeworth-Johnstone invented a flute made from the aluminium brass tubing used in oil refineries?
Did you know that Malala Yousafzai 's 2013 autobiography I Am Malala was banned in 152,000 private schools in Pakistan?
Did you know that followers of the second-century Carpocratian Christian leader Marcellina venerated Greek philosophers alongside Jesus?
Did you know that in 1918, Richard Strauss composed Sechs Lieder , Op. 68 , based on poems by Clemens Brentano , with the voice of Elisabeth Schumann in mind?
Did you know that Carrie Goldberg , who is representing two women accusing Harvey Weinstein of sexual abuse, once served as a case manager for Holocaust victims?
Did you know that US Senate page boys were required to wear knickers when the film Adventure in Washington ‎ was made in 1941?
Did you know that British surgeon Jim Dempster published more than 100 scientific articles on kidney transplantation in dogs?
Did you know that when Gaius Hospes wore his award for valour at public gatherings, it was expected that he be applauded by every person present?
Did you know that verses 2 to 6 of Psalm 97 in Czech were set to music by Antonín Dvořák in his Biblical Songs ?
Did you know that despite being portrayed favorably in a Soviet propaganda film , Konstantin Petrovich Nechaev was later accused by Leon Trotsky of supporting Chinese monarchism?
Did you know that the pharmacist-to-pharmacy technician ratio has generally increased as pharmacy technicians have become less like retail clerks and taken on more responsibilities?
Did you know that Scott Smith 's management and marketing of international events was cited by the Stanford Graduate School of Business as a reason for the growth of Hockey Canada ?
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Did you know that after Isaac Stevens , the governor of Washington Territory , was found guilty of contempt over his conduct during martial law in Pierce County , he pardoned himself?
Did you know that butyrolactol A , a polyketide derived from Streptomyces rochei , demonstrates broad antimicrobial activity against fungi, including Candida albicans ?
Did you know that John Davy Rolleston highlighted the seriousness of otitis media as a complication of scarlet fever ?
Did you know that the video game Detroit: Become Human has three playable characters, each with their own composer and style of cinematography?
Did you know that the mangrove kingfisher , found in Africa, migrates away from mangroves to breed?
Did you know that Kelly M. Quintanilla , the first person in her family to attend a university, became the first female president of Texas A&M University–Corpus Christi ?
Did you know that the World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee created the Solid Project to reclaim the Web from corporations and return control of data to users?
Did you know that Maria and Bogdan Kalinowski were recognized as the most avid filmgoers in Poland , having seen more than 13,000 movies together?
Did you know that the 27-year-old Uzbekistani pianist Behzod Abduraimov has already performed at the BBC Proms twice?
Did you know that an illegal Jewish organization in an Axis puppet state proposed an ambitious scheme to bribe Heinrich Himmler into halting the systematic extermination of European Jews ?
Did you know that despite never completing his university studies, R. H. Wilenski was appointed a special lecturer in the history of art at the University of Manchester?
Did you know that specimens of the fish Palatogobius grandoculus were collected as early as 1976 but not identified as a new species until 2002?
Did you know that Gerd Hatje went from being a typesetter to founding the internationally renowned publishing house which still bears his name?
Did you know that some railway surgeons opposed the introduction of first aid kits on trains, maintaining that only doctors should carry out this work?
Did you know that the developers of Vampyr chose to include only one save slot , so that the player's actions would have "real, meaningful impact"?
Did you know that Chinese-Indonesian businessman Sutanto Djuhar was the last surviving member of the "Gang of Four" of the Suharto era?
Did you know that the trunk of the King Oak is more than 8 metres (26 ft) in girth?
Did you know that Sara Hershkowitz , who usually appears on the opera stage as the Queen of the Night and Zerbinetta , parodied Donald Trump in Ligeti's Mysteries of the Macabre at the Lowlands Festival ?
Did you know that Michael Peter Kaye was the first director of what became the largest registry of heart and lung transplantation data in the world?
Did you know that the purple eagle ray ( Myliobatis hamlyni ) was named after Ronald Hamlyn-Harris , director of the Queensland Museum?
Did you know that the sport of duck netting may be unique to the Imperial House of Japan ?
Did you know that incendiary balloons —made from condoms or party balloons—and incendiary kites have been launched from the Gaza Strip and started hundreds of fires in Israel in 2018?
Did you know that Catherine Gayer , who was a coloratura soprano for four decades at the Deutsche Oper Berlin , premiered Nono's Intolleranza 1960 in Venice, and Reimann's Melusine at the Schwetzingen Festival ?
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Did you know that when biochemist Li Lin was a Ph.D. student, he often went to slaughterhouses and wet markets to buy chicken and pig livers for his experiments?
Did you know that the $4 billion World Trade Center Transportation Hub , built after the September 11 attacks, has been described as the world's most expensive train station?
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Did you know that the Flint Public Library created the Julia A. Moore Poetry Contest to celebrate bad poetry ?
Did you know that when Marcus Bibulus opposed a law proposed by Julius Caesar , he was publicly soaked with excrement?
Did you know that Ninurta , the Mesopotamian god of hunting, is believed by many scholars to be the source of the biblical figure Nimrod ?
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Did you know that Joseph Mohr left Germany when Jesuit institutions were dissolved, and wrote his popular hymn abroad?
Did you know that before she became a star in Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling , Dee Booher 's first professional match was against a 700-pound (320 kg) bear?
Did you know that during the attack on Pearl Harbor , USS Trever left her captain behind when she put to sea?
Did you know that the Queen and Prince Charles each travelled on London Underground trains from Green Park tube station when they carried out the official openings of the Victoria and Jubilee lines?
Did you know that during his long acting career, Walter Renneisen has presented Patrick Süskind's Der Kontrabaß ( The Double Bass ) in his own touring production?
Did you know that Adivasi -organized protests in Plachimada, India , succeeded in removing a Coca-Cola factory that was polluting the groundwater?
Did you know that while mayor of Torreón , Mexico, Miguel Riquelme Solís led the construction of a cable car to the Cristo de las Noas statue which he dedicated as governor of Coahuila ?
Did you know that the venom of the speckled brown snake is 1.6 times more toxic than that of the Indian cobra ?
Did you know that Horatio Seymour did not want to be the 1868 U.S. Democratic presidential nominee, but was given the nomination anyway ?
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Did you know that Manuel Añorve Baños was appointed by his cousin , the interim Governor of Guerrero , Mexico, to serve as the interim mayor of Acapulco ?
Did you know that English rock band XTC hired a 40-piece orchestra for their 1999 album Apple Venus Volume 1 , to get a sound akin to " Vaughan Williams with a hard-on"?
Did you know that the potato stalk borer used to be considered a serious pest of potatoes but modern management practices, such as the burning or removal of crop residues, have reduced its impact?