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Did you know that the Chinese translations of the IS (Infinite Stratos) light novels were under indefinite suspension because the publisher had entered into overseas contracts without the writer's consent?
Did you know that in 1952 the pastor L. L. Clover launched Louisiana Missionary Baptist Institute and Seminary with two students studying from his home in Minden , Louisiana ?
Did you know that the planned community of Celebration, Florida , was the 1989 brainchild of Pete Rummell when he was President of Disney Development Company ?
Did you know that until the Spanish Civil War , chocolate was a much more popular drink than coffee in Spain?
Did you know that the 14th century Englishman Thomas Fastolf is the first known to have reported cases in the papal court known as the Rota ?
Did you know that the Bremo Plantation at Bremo Bluff, Virginia , provided refuge to the family of General Robert E. Lee during the American Civil War ?
Did you know that the communist Moni Guha was amongst the first in India to criticize the 1956 line of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union ?
Did you know that Activision founder Larry Kaplan called Street Racer the one game he wished he had done differently?
Did you know that Katy Munger is known for her writing in the Tart Noir genre?
Did you know that the ravens of the Tower of London are enlisted as soldiers of the Kingdom, and can be dismissed for unsatisfactory conduct ?
Did you know that the oriental mole cricket , Gryllotalpa orientalis , can not only dig a burrow a metre deep but can also swim?
Did you know that pastor A. T. Powers , president of the American Baptist Association from 1957 to 1959, once led a blue collar church in Monticello , Arkansas , which paid him only US$ 12.50 per month?
Did you know that silos for the Advanced Intercontinental Ballistic Missile were intended to be 10 times harder than those used by Minutemen ?
Did you know that Thomas R. Potts , the first mayor of Saint Paul, Minnesota , was a physician ?
Did you know that St Mary the Virgin's Church, Little Hormead , Hertfordshire , is particularly noted for its preserved 12th-century ironwork door which depicts a serpentine dragon ?
Did you know that the 1997 production of its passion play caused a controversy when the Park Performing Arts Center cast an African-American actor to play the role of Jesus ?
Did you know that the historian James L. McCorkle, Jr. , has researched heavily on the importance of rural truck farming in feeding the urban population of the American South ?
Did you know that although Massachusetts is located at the 42nd parallel north , some of its rocks originated near the South Pole ?
Did you know that Swedish emigrants brought kalvdans , a dessert made out of colostrum milk, to North America ?
Did you know that although the seeds of Cycas rumphii contain a toxic glucoside , they can be made edible by pounding, washing and cooking?
Did you know that General Lee and the Confederate Army retreated over the Sachs Covered Bridge after being defeated in the Battle of Gettysburg ?
Did you know that the historical novel Night Thoughts of a Classical Physicist , about the rise of modern physics , inspired a lecture by Steven Weinberg called "Night Thoughts of a Quantum Physicist"?
Did you know that 20 Province of Carolina traders and 300 Tallapoosa and Alabama Indians laid siege to Pensacola (then in Spanish Florida ) in November 1707 ?
Did you know that baseball catcher George Yeager had his best statistical season cut short after 19 games due to a knee injury?
Did you know that the Olympic Saddledome venue used for the 1988 Winter Olympics was under construction in 1981 when Calgary was awarded the Games?
Did you know that when the Ottoman Turks controlled Santorini , they still permitted production of the local wine , despite Islamic laws against alcohol , and even its trade to enemies like the Russian Empire ?
Did you know that artist Teodoro Cano García was discovered by Diego Rivera and is known for his works depicting the Totonac culture of his native Papantla ?
Did you know that a pile of junk wooden pallets built up by Daniel Van Meter became a cultural historic monument?
Did you know that many sturgeons of the Sungari River spent the last several months of their lives in Fate Town , Jilin ?
Did you know that nematode Phasmarhabditis hermaphrodita is used to kill slug pests ?
Did you know that Íslendingur , the Icelandic replica of the Gokstad Viking ship that sailed across the Atlantic to L’Anse aux Meadows in 2000, is now displayed in the new Viking World museum in Reykjanesbær ?
Did you know that after he injured Indianapolis Colts linebacker O'Brien Alston , New York Jets running back Freeman McNeil was so distraught that he "committed a flagrant act of compassion"?
Did you know that Kunitz domains , the active protein domains of certain protease inhibitors , are used for the development of new drugs ?
Did you know that in 1935, muralist Gilbert Brown Wilson was paid only US$ 28 in coins collected by schoolchildren for three years of work in Woodrow Wilson Middle School , Terre Haute, Indiana ?
Did you know that the Mashteuiatsh Reserve on Lake Saint-Jean in Quebec , Canada , had an original size of 23,040 acres (93.2 km 2 ) but currently is only 3,600 acres (14.6 km 2 )?
Did you know that the Palestinian Authority has detained Palestinian blogger Walid Husayin for allegedly blaspheming against Islam on Facebook and in his personal blog?
Did you know that under Article 9 of the Singapore Constitution no one may be deprived of life or personal liberty save in accordance with law, which a 1980 case says includes fundamental rules of natural justice ?
Did you know that to this day, Tulane University and Louisiana State University dispute the results of a football game coached by H. T. Summersgill in 1901?
Did you know that the comic series Lips Tullian was selected as the third most significant Czech comic in the history of the genre?
Did you know that in Devon a cream tea includes a scone spread with clotted cream and topped with jam, but in Cornwall it is prepared the other way around?
Did you know that Joseph Levien became Mayor of Nelson, New Zealand , after the City Council had gone bankrupt?
Did you know that a documentary investigating corruption within FIFA was broadcast in the week that the 2018 and 2022 FIFA World Cup hosts were chosen?
Did you know that Louisiana educator and debate coach E. R. Minchew was himself the winner in 1929 of the state collegiate championship in oratory ?
Did you know that a woman's G-Spot can be easily reached in the spoons sex position ?
Did you know that although Persier was due to be scuttled as a blockship during Operation Overlord in June 1944 , she was returned to service, only to be torpedoed and sunk in February 1945 ?
Did you know that John McKechnie , recipient of a 1987 Coach of the Year award, was winless in college football ?
Did you know that in the deepest underwater rescue in history, CURV-III , a US Navy ROV , saved two men stranded in a submersible at a depth of 1,575 ft (480 m) with just minutes of air remaining?
Did you know that Arnold Aronson , a founder of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights , helped inspire the career of his nephew, singer-songwriter and organizer Si Kahn ?
Did you know that Creek Indians assisted by English traders defeated a larger force of Apalachee and Spanish fighters in the October 1702 Battle of Flint River ?
Did you know that research on the acochlidians , a group with 30 species, resulted in the redefinition of the Heterobranchia , the largest clade of gastropods , and has led to the creation of the new clades Euopisthobranchia and Panpulmonata in 2010?
Did you know that Walter T. Bailey was the first licensed African-American architect in Illinois ?
Did you know that despite being a builder of railroad rolling stock , US Railcar has no facilities with which to construct their products?
Did you know that philanthropist Richard Goldman and his wife established a prize in 1990 that has been called "The Green Nobel"?
Did you know that the first iron mine in the Lake Superior region, the Jackson Mine , was established where iron ore was found in the roots of a fallen tree?
Did you know that this year a U.S. Embassy attaché visited the tomb of Samuel Lucas who lived to hear the "tidings of the destruction of the slave power in the United States"?
Did you know that the reality TV programme Bedsitcom featured actors following the producer's instructions, as well as unaware members of the public, leading to it being labelled "morally reprehensible"?
Did you know that M-1 Global 's welterweight ( Shamil Zavurov vs. Abner Lloveras ), middleweight ( Magomed Sultanakhmedov vs. Rafał Moks ), and light heavyweight ( Tomasz Narkun vs. Vyacheslav Vasilevsky ) mixed martial arts champions will be determined at M-1 Challenge XXII today?
Did you know that Bill Wiese claims to have spent 23 Minutes in Hell ?
Did you know that Chase Aircraft lost the contract to produce its C-123 transport aircraft due to a scandal involving Henry J. Kaiser , that also resulted in Chase's CEO starting his own company ?
Did you know that in his last professional baseball season, Bobby Treviño set a Texas League record by hitting safely in 37 consecutive games?
Did you know that Indian politician Harihar Narayan Prabhakar began his political career in the Communist Party of India , but later represented the Bharatiya Janata Party in the legislative assembly of Bihar ?
Did you know that actors Chris Hemsworth and Tom Hiddleston will reprise their Thor movie roles in the video game, Thor: God of Thunder ?
Did you know that in certain organisms sperm stored by females allows for a process called sperm competition ?
Did you know that Australian actress and filmmaker Elsa Chauvel met her future husband Charles when he scouted her for the lead role in Greenhide ?
Did you know that Frantisek Janecek , founder of Jawa motorcycles , was originally famous as the inventor of the Janecek hand grenade ?
Did you know that the second CIA spyplane developed under Project Isinglass was designed to fly at Mach 22 ?
Did you know that William Huskisson MP was killed at the opening of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway by Stephenson's Rocket ?
Did you know that during the creation of the Ottoman Archives in the 19th century, hatt-i humayuns were cut out from their documents without cross-referencing, resulting in great loss of information to historians?
Did you know that during the Great Recoinage of 1816 the design of the portrait of King George III by Benedetto Pistrucci was met with such public hostility that it was withdrawn?
Did you know that the Devil's Highway and the Mother Road are two of the U.S. Routes in the U.S. state of New Mexico ?
Did you know that Eliseo Medina is the first Mexican American to serve on the executive board of the Service Employees International Union ?
Did you know that the Maya city of Ixkun in Guatemala erected one of the tallest stone stelae in the entire Petén Basin ?
Did you know that Thomas Benton Cooley was inducted into the Legion of Honour for his work with the children of France during World War I and later discovered "Cooley's anemia"?
Did you know that in the mid-1940s Temple Beth Israel of Sharon, Pennsylvania, held Reform services on Friday nights and Orthodox ones on Saturday mornings?
Did you know that Gerard Hodgkinson – a Royal Flying Corps pilot, Swahili -speaking former Somerset cricketer and owner of Wookey Hole Caves – sued John Cowper Powys for libel and won, even though the story was fictionalized?
Did you know that despite having only one arm, Arthur Lea played international football for Wales ?
Did you know that Brian Halligan , an executive and author, draws inspiration for marketing from the rock band the Grateful Dead ?
Did you know that the Trilokinath Temple at Tunde in Lahul , Himachal Pradesh , India, is sacred to both Tibetan Buddhists and Hindus ?
Did you know that Daniel O'Brien , senior editor for Cracked.com , was confronted by the FBI and United States Secret Service after writing an article titled "How to Kidnap the President's Daughter?"
Did you know that with regards to black history and ice hockey , Grant Fuhr was the first black player inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame ?
Did you know that the extinct sandfly species Lutzomyia adiketis is host to the Paleoleishmania species P. neotropicum ?
Did you know that Burnham-on-Sea's lifeboat used to be pulled by horses along a railway line from its lifeboat station to the beach where it could be launched?
Did you know that the most recent no-hitter for the Cleveland Indians , pitched by Len Barker in 1981, and that for the Cincinnati Reds , by Tom Browning in 1988, were both perfect games ?
Did you know that Cullen Wines ' chief wine maker, Vanya Cullen, trained and received a degree in zoology prior to joining the family winery?
Did you know that, prior to the 2010–11 Atlantic 10 Conference men's basketball season , the Charlotte 49ers fired coach Bobby Lutz , despite his being the team's all-time wins leader?
Did you know that the jazz history of 1924 included George Gershwin 's Rhapsody in Blue , widely regarded as one of the finest compositions of the 20th century?
Did you know that in preparation for moving to HD broadcasting , the British soap opera EastEnders ' set was lit on fire ?
Did you know that many of the venues of the 1988 Summer Olympics were tested when Seoul , South Korea , hosted the Asian Games two years earlier?
Did you know that when No. 72 Wing of the Royal Australian Air Force deployed in 1943, it was to what was described as "a desolate marshy little port" in Dutch New Guinea ?
Did you know that baseball pitcher Ed Kinsella won 144 games in a 10-year minor league career but had only one major league victory?
Did you know that Russian Prosecutor General Yury Chaika was said to be "keeping a watchful eye" over the investigation into the crash of South East Airlines Flight 372 ?
Did you know that in 1955 the Indonesian film workers union Sarbufis launched a campaign to ban American newsreel film?
Did you know that Gustav Jebsen researched, and later oversaw as chief executive, the mid-1910s innovation in production of titanium white ?
Did you know that the bronze bust of Robert Dale Owen at the Indiana Statehouse was stolen in 1970 and the culprit(s) have never been found?
Did you know that Fort Julien near the mouth of the Nile in Egypt was the place where French soldiers discovered the Rosetta Stone in 1799?
Did you know that the First Presbyterian Church in Jamaica, Queens , is the oldest continuously serving Presbyterian church in the United States ?
Did you know that Joseph Whittaker , who has 2,200 pressed plants in Derby Museum , sold 300 South Australian plants he collected in 1839–40 to Kew Gardens ?
Did you know that after Steven Posner filed suit against his financier father Victor Posner , the amount of the settlement was determined based on the result of a golden coin flipped in front of the judge?
Did you know that, as suggested by Alexander Sergeyevich Stroganov , Alexander I established the Depository of Manuscripts in the National Library of Russia ?
Did you know that the squidworm is a newly discovered genus of deep water worms with physical characteristics of both seabed-dwelling and free-swimming worms?
Did you know that members of the Belize Evangelical Mennonite Church include Creoles , Garifuna , Maya , and Mestizos ?
Did you know that while on location in Alaska shooting the 1933 film Eskimo , Oscar winner Clyde De Vinna was rescued from carbon monoxide poisoning because he was using his short wave radio ?
Did you know that ZALA Aero is the only company in Russia that produces unmanned helicopters ?
Did you know that Enrico Vittori's sculpture Christopher Columbus at the Indiana Statehouse was donated by members of the state's Italian American community as a tribute to America?
Did you know that the Şeyh Süleyman Mosque in Istanbul was almost certainly an annex of Constantinople 's Monastery of Pantokrator in the Byzantine Age ?
Did you know that the composer Olof Åhlström , who had parallel careers in the Swedish war office and as an organist in two Stockholm churches, also founded the first larger-scale musical printing press in Sweden?
Did you know that, when BHP Billiton awarded the contract to manage the Yarrie mine to Ngarda Civil & Mining , it was the largest-ever mining contract awarded to an Australian Aboriginal -owned company?
Did you know that Indonesian Minister of Education Prijono received the Stalin Peace Prize in 1954?
Did you know that Hudson's Bay Company fur trader John Work fell out of a tree during an 1840 expedition and tore open his abdomen, but pushed his intestines back inside, recovered and continued his journey?
Did you know that the 2006 homebrew Medieval Mayhem and the 1984 Starpath Supercharger version of Frogger are the only two Atari 2600 games to receive an "A+" rating from The Video Game Critic ?
Did you know that the 27th Laird of Pitmilly was the joint fastest man in the world in 1892?
Did you know that " 1000 Miles Apart " was written by a British army captain serving in Afghanistan and is a contender for the 2010 UK Christmas number-one single ?
Did you know that the house in which Leon Trotsky was murdered is a museum which hosts yearly exhibits by graffiti artists?
Did you know that the sixth generation descendants of Joseph Dodson , one of the early brewers of Nelson, New Zealand , are still in the brewing business?
Did you know that a 7-foot-8 Japanese basketball player , a future Baseball Hall of Famer and a former college football star were selected in the 1981 NBA Draft , but none of them ever played in the league ?
Did you know that when the Deir ez-Zor Museum in Syria was founded in 1974, its collection consisted of only 140 objects?
Did you know that Adam Houghton , a former Lord Chancellor , helped to negotiate the marriage of King Richard II and Anne of Bohemia ?
Did you know that Sandy Cape on Queensland's Fraser Island is a rookery for the endangered loggerhead and green turtles ?
Did you know that, in his Major League Baseball debut, Bill Harrelson got involved in a pitchers' duel with a future Hall of Famer ?
Did you know that a 2010 study found eleven carcinogenic compounds in third-hand smoke ?
Did you know that Tart Noir , a type of crime fiction , was created by four writers who decided to make the genre while they were drunk at a writer's conference?
Did you know that 18-year-old NASCAR driver Johanna Long became the second woman to win the Snowball Derby ?
Did you know that the black bean aphid is able to reproduce asexually , giving birth to live offspring through a process known as parthenogenesis ?
Did you know that in 2010, Aaron Kelton became Williams College 's first black varsity coach, and its first football coach to go undefeated in his debut season?
Did you know that Bustard Head Light , an 1868 lighthouse near 1770, Queensland , Australia , was the first to be established in Queensland after Queensland's formation in 1859?
Did you know that the British cricketer and politician Sir Arthur Priestley went pig-sticking in Patiala ?
Did you know that in the spring of 1904, Ed Poole was arrested twice for playing a Major League Baseball game on Sunday ?
Did you know that Robert Louis Stevenson wrote his poem " To H. F. Brown " to celebrate Horatio Brown 's book Life on the Lagoons ?
Did you know that a Billboard review called Justin Bieber 's vocals on " Bigger " both "boyish" and "mature"?
Did you know that despite being a friend of Kim Il-sung , a Hero of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea , and a decorated general during the Korean War , Lee Kwon Mu was purged in 1959?
Did you know that Charles Chauvel conceived his Australian historical film Heritage in order to maximise his likelihood of winning a £2,500 Commonwealth Prize?
Did you know that in 1893, T. L. Bayne coached both sides in a college football game, which prompted the Chicago Daily Tribune to note that "Bayne's Tulane team whipped Bayne's L.S.U. team"?
Did you know that screenwriter Shauna Cross is adapting the pregnancy guide What to Expect When You're Expecting into a romantic comedy film ?
Did you know that the most recent no-hitter by Pittsburgh Pirates pitchers went into extra innings and concluded with a pinch-hit walk-off home run ?
Did you know that Andrew Sinclair , second Colonial Secretary of New Zealand , has 16 New Zealand plants named for him?
Did you know that " Down to Earth " is a ballad by Justin Bieber inspired by his parents' divorce?
Did you know that the death in June 1945 of the Labour Party candidate Walter Windsor caused Hull East to be the last constituency to declare a result in the 1945 general election in the United Kingdom ?
Did you know that Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola 's book The Five Orders of Architecture from 1562 is considered to be "one of the most successful architectural textbooks ever written" despite having almost no text?
Did you know that fashion model Ann Ward , who was mocked as a child due to her height, was the only contestant of America's Next Top Model to be named best photo five times in a row?
Did you know that although "relatively little scholarly attention" was paid to William Blackstone 's An Analysis of the Laws of England , its initial success necessitated the printing of four editions in four years?
Did you know that director Andrei Konchalovsky stated that " ballet cannot work in cinema very well," and as such, did not include any in his 2010 film, The Nutcracker in 3D ?
Did you know that William Albrecht of the University of Missouri made a significant contribution to soil ecology with his work on the Base Cation Saturation Ratio ?
Did you know that the namesake peak of the 1950 Battle of Battle Mountain changed hands 20 times in two weeks of fighting?
Did you know that the first no-hitter in the history of the St. Louis Cardinals baseball franchise was pitched on October 4, 1891 , by Ted Breitenstein in his first major league start?
Did you know that when Tiberius was dethroned in 681, he and his brother and Byzantine co-emperor Heraclius were mutilated , but after Tiberius III was deposed in 705, he and his brother Heraclius were executed ?
Did you know that in 1846, Ashbourne Hall and its Derbyshire estate were withdrawn from a sale and sold later in 46 lots by a local solicitor?
Did you know that composer Rudi Spring accompanied Salome Kammer in songs and chansons at the Rheingau Musik Festival ?
Did you know that the Furuset and Grorud Lines of the Oslo Metro each serve one side of the Grorud Valley , and several proposals have been made to connect the two?
Did you know that the upcoming BBC TV series Just William is the latest in a number of BBC-TV adaptations of the Just William books?
Did you know that Syracuse University dean emeritus William Harrison Mace was a Michigan Wolverines football player in 1882?
Did you know that a long-range artillery shell killed General Abel Douay on the first day of the first battle of the Franco-Prussian War ?
Did you know that the 1976 thriller movie Deadly Hero features James Earl Jones as a mugger named Rabbit?
Did you know that Oleg Nikolaenko was arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation , which believes him to be responsible for one-third of the world's electronic spam ?
Did you know that critic Christopher Gray said the U2 song " Yahweh " could be about Jesus or lead singer Bono 's two children?
Did you know that Tainan mayor-elect William Lai was named Taiwan 's "Best Legislator " for four consecutive years?
Did you know that the ancestral home of U.S. Presidents William Henry Harrison and Benjamin Harrison , believed to be the oldest three-story brick mansion in Virginia , was built by Benjamin Harrison IV in 1726?
Did you know that RAAF Base Richmond , one of the largest military airfields in Australia, was established in 1925 on a piece of land known as Ham Common?
Did you know that ABC 's The Pat Boone Chevy Showroom (1957–1960) invited numerous African American singers to perform, including Pearl Bailey , Count Basie , Ella Fitzgerald , Johnny Mathis , and The Mills Brothers ?
Did you know that the U.S. Army's Parachute Rigger Badge first appeared in action during Exercise Swarmer ?