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Did you know that in 1862, along with Bill Cust, Canadian gold prospector, fur trader, and merchant Edward Carey discovered the first gold in Peace River ?
Did you know that the name of the anarchist newspaper Burevestnik , published in Paris in 1906, was inspired by Maxim Gorky 's poem Song of the Stormy Petrel ?
Did you know that Peruvian politician Jorge Torres Vallejo was awarded the San Martín Order by the government of Argentina?
Did you know that John Baines of Team GB , originally set to compete in the four-man bobsleigh at the 2014 Winter Olympics , ended up doing the two-man bobsleigh as well?
Did you know that The FP is a film based around a Dance Dance Revolution style video game in which people die of a " 187 " after losing a dance-off?
Did you know that the anarchist newspaper Burevestnik , published in Petrograd in 1917–18, encouraged the homeless and poor to appropriate homes for themselves?
Did you know that E. Gordon Gee says Mt. Healthy City Sch. Dist. Bd. of Ed. v. Doyle is the first time the U.S. Supreme Court allowed an action to continue despite finding the First Amendment was violated?
Did you know that Russ Pitts, an editor at Polygon , described The Castle Doctrine as the most disturbing video game he'd ever played?
Did you know that the coat of arms of Groningen was formally adopted by Queen Wilhelmina in 1947, more than 350 years after it was designed?
Did you know that Pål Refsdal converted to Islam while he was held hostage by Taliban ?
Did you know that communist legislator Khan Shakir Ali Khan warned of the risks of the Union Carbide plant, years before the 1984 Bhopal disaster ?
Did you know that " A Quiet Night In ", the second episode of British dark comedy anthology series Inside No. 9 , was almost entirely free of dialogue?
Did you know that advertising for the film Air Mata Mengalir di Tjitarum emphasised a person who did not star in it?
Did you know that college basketball coach Jack Hirsch 's family business entered the pornography industry, which he called "infinitely cleaner" than college recruiting ?
Did you know that as of January 2014, Desfado by fado singer Ana Moura had not dropped from the Portuguese Albums Chart top 20 since its release in November 2012?
Did you know that after serving six terms in the Oregon House of Representatives and running for governor in 1978, Roger E. Martin became a lobbyist at the Oregon State Capitol ?
Did you know that the Conchos trout of the Mexican native trout found in the Rio Conchos in the Sierra Madre Occidental is the only rainbow trout subspecies native to an Atlantic Ocean drainage?
Did you know that Cristian Raducanu , a rugby union player who represented Romania until age 22, was described by Bill McLaren as a "world-class lineout exponent"?
Did you know that the word " agnosticism " was coined by biologist Thomas Henry Huxley ?
Did you know that after being destroyed by air strikes in the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 , Bhuj Airport was rebuilt by a group of 300 women in 72 hours?
Did you know that a narrow valley extending across the southern tip of Vancouver Island and past Victoria marks the Leech River Fault , a major geotectonic boundary where the Siletzia terrane dives under Vancouver Island?
Did you know that in five years First Capital Plus has moved from a micro finance company to the headline sponsor of the Ghana Premier League ?
Did you know that the right to gather Pacific wing-oysters in the Gulf of California was once a prerogative of the Spanish crown ?
Did you know that John Cameron travelled to Edmonton from Winnipeg via ox cart carrying 96,000 pounds (44,000 kg) of merchandise for his store?
Did you know that Gadis jang Terdjoeal was The Teng Chun 's first film to take into account the interests of native Indonesians ?
Did you know that Luisa Zissman named one of her businesses, Dixie's Cupcakery, after her daughter?
Did you know that South Korea's proposed highest-denomination 100,000- won banknote was cancelled in 2008, since the 19th-century map Daedongyeojido depicted on the note did not portray the Liancourt Rocks ?
Did you know that neurosurgeon Jean Talairach created a coordinate system for the brain to help standardize stereotaxy procedures?
Did you know that the first phase of SkyCycle , a proposed network of elevated cycle paths in London, is expected to cost £220 million?
Did you know that Polish historian Stanisław Salmonowicz , once repressed by the Polish communist authorities, has published over 1,000 works?
Did you know that Jamaica's Merlene Ottey is the only sprinter to have won more than two medals in the 100 metres at the Olympics ?
Did you know that the core concept behind Horrible Histories is "history with the nasty bits left in"?
Did you know that short track speed skater Jessica Smith qualified for the 2014 Olympics despite not training with the national team?
Did you know that the 1999 video game Pro Pinball: Fantastic Journey featured virtual steam powered machinery as part of the game?
Did you know that Thomas Pilcher , who commanded a British division on the first day of the Somme , was sacked ten days later after it had taken 4,771 casualties?
Did you know that the San Esteban carried cockroaches across the Atlantic in the 1550s?
Did you know that Yoko Kondo was the Japan women's ice hockey team 's oldest player in the 2014 Winter Olympics , and the only one with prior Olympic experience?
Did you know that when describing the new octopus genus Histoctopus , scientists named a species "after the senior author's wonderful wife, Karen Zipkas"?
Did you know that Day-Elder both propelled and pushed their trucks with worm drive ?
Did you know that "Weird Al" Yankovic offered to guest star in an episode of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic after a co-executive producer found him showcasing fan works with his music on Twitter ?
Did you know that Arthur Francis Buddington went to Brown , then Princeton , then Brown, then Princeton, then Brown, then Princeton?
Did you know that Anecdotes de Suède , a polemic against the Swedish regime of the 1680s, appeared in French, German, and English before finally being published in Swedish in 1822?
Did you know that the futuristic imagery in The Juan MacLean 's album The Future Will Come was inspired by science fiction and dystopian works?
Did you know that Hakan Kıran , Turkish architect of the Golden Horn Metro Bridge , chose his profession because he was impressed by the concept of the town constructed by the French, in which he grew up?
Did you know that Tio Tek Djien was so taken with the star of a play he watched that he ran away from home and married her?
Did you know that composer James Horner intended his musical score for the drama film A Beautiful Mind to resemble the effect generated by a kaleidoscope ?
Did you know that in 1935 the segregated Richmond Academy of Arts produced a one-man show of carvings by African-American sculptor Leslie Garland Bolling ?
Did you know that a cash prize Ryan Larkin won at the Melbourne International Film Festival for the animated film Street Musique was used to support young artists in Montreal?
Did you know that Woodrow Wilson convinced Charles Henry Smyth, Jr. , to leave Hamilton College for Princeton University ?
Did you know that Rembangan is best known for its view, but is also famous for its dragonfruit ?
Did you know that more than 200 seaweed species and 150 bird species have been observed on and around the small island of Lihou in the English Channel?
Did you know that UCLA Bruins basketball coach John Wooden described Larry Hollyfield as "probably the greatest physical talent on the team" during their 1971–72 championship season ?
Did you know that Octavian Smigelschi 's depiction of the Three Magi in the Romanian Orthodox cathedral in Sibiu may have been inspired by portraits of actual princes who ruled in the three Romanian provinces?
Did you know that " Tipitina " is a New Orleans music standard that has been added to the National Recording Registry ?
Did you know that George Armstrong scored the last goal in the Original Six era of the National Hockey League , as the Toronto Maple Leafs won the 1967 Stanley Cup Finals ?
Did you know that the Great American Lesbian Art Show was the first time that lesbians of color participated in a major exhibition of lesbian art?
Did you know that in 2001 " A Puro Dolor " by Puerto Rican band Son by Four won Lo Nuestro Awards for both Pop Song of the Year and Tropical Song of the Year ?
Did you know that collections left by naturalists Frederick Lukis and his daughter Louisa , wife of Sark 's feudal ruler William Thomas Collings , are the most significant natural history collections displayed by the museums of Guernsey ?
Did you know that molecular phylogenetics led to six genera of Brassicaceae resolving into the southern Africa genus Heliophila ?
Did you know that the Vatican was asked to step in to prevent the Daughters of the Cross from selling off St. Anthony's Hospital ?
Did you know that "Long" Jones , so nicknamed for his great height, was elected to the legislature in two states, was a U.S. Marshal , and owned a mineral water plant?
Did you know that six ground crew of No. 11 Elementary Flying Training School RAAF were court-martialled for mutiny in October 1941?
Did you know that Peruvian leftist parliamentarian Eriberto Arroyo Mío was assassinated whilst driving his son to school?
Did you know that the first recorded use of the platoon system in baseball dates back to 1887?
Did you know that speed skater Kelly Gunther overcame an accident that nearly severed her foot to make the 2014 Winter Olympics ?
Did you know that the collected works of the first arranger for the U.S. Army Chorus , Joseph Willcox Jenkins , are housed with those of Joe "Handyman" Negri ?
Did you know that the Broadway play Bronx Bombers stars married couple Peter Scolari and Tracy Shayne as Yogi Berra and his wife, Carmen?
Did you know that 2014 Olympic medallist Ståle Sandbech was, in 2010, the youngest Norwegian at the Olympics in 82 years?
Did you know that Johann Erich Thunmann was the first scholar who presented the Illyrian theory of the origin of Albanians ?
Did you know that the Vestingmuseum Oudeschans is a local museum with archaeological findings from the fortified village of Oudeschans in the Netherlands?
Did you know that the 2014 Canadian federal budget redefines the term beer ?
Did you know that the USAF 's 1946 Project Thumper and Project Wizard were the first detailed studies of an anti-ballistic missile system, intended to attack a V-2 -like missile?
Did you know that the first arrest for courtsiding was at the 2014 Australian Open ?
Did you know that The Dream of Jacob , a composition by Krzysztof Penderecki based on the biblical account of Jacob's Ladder , was featured in the American horror movie The Shining ?
Did you know that Broadway actress Joan McCracken was one of the models for Truman Capote 's fictional Holly Golightly in Breakfast at Tiffany's ?
Did you know that at the 30th Paris Motor show in 1936, the Salmson S4-DA was exhibited without any body?
Did you know that Arianna Huffington said she thought journalist Georgina Henry was a "kindred spirit"?
Did you know that Yugoslavian tennis players György Dungyersky‎ , Ivan Balás , Aleksandar Popović ‎‎ , Franjo Šefer , Krešimir Friedrich , Ivan Radović , Franjo Kukuljević , Franjo Punčec‎ , Josip Palada , and Dragutin Mitić were all members of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia Davis Cup team ?
Did you know that the only two passenger trains that regularly go through Cleveland Lakefront Station depart/arrive between 1:00 am and 6:00 am?
Did you know that Spanish singer Álex Ubago sang the opening theme of the Argentine telenovela Somos familia , and toured in Argentina during the premiere?
Did you know that Jose Salvador Alvarenga , an El Salvadorian fisherman, claimed in February 2014 to have survived 13 months at sea?
Did you know that " Somewhere Down the Crazy River " is, according to its producer, "kind of like a guy with a deep voice telling you about steaming nights in Arkansas "?
Did you know that for 24 hours, for every download of the song " Invisible " by U2 , Bank of America was giving $1 to the organisation (RED) , raising $3,138,470 to fight HIV-AIDS?
Did you know that John Mitchell became the first African American to play for the Alabama football team as a member of the 1971 Crimson Tide squad ?
Did you know that Robert H. Liebeck designed the airfoil used in NASCAR 's 2007–2012 Car of Tomorrow ?
Did you know that YinzCam , a Pittsburgh-based company providing official mobile apps for more than 30 professional sports franchises, was created by Carnegie Mellon University Professor Priya Narasimhan ?
Did you know that Esteban Mestivier was appointed interim Argentine military and civil commander of the Falkland Islands but was murdered in a mutiny less than a month after his arrival?
Did you know that much of the filming for " Sardines ", the first episode of Inside No. 9 , took place in a wardrobe?
Did you know that Norwegian cross-country skier Finn Hågen Krogh was promised a spot in the individual sprint in the 2014 Winter Olympics but was controversially dropped 8 days later?
Did you know that Rita Lenihan wrote the Latin motto for the WAVES and would later become their Director?
Did you know that in the years since the Greenback Depot closed in 1954, it has been used for fertilizer storage, an antique shop, and a boat manufacturer's offices?
Did you know that Jamie McDonald ran 5,000 miles across Canada dressed as comic book hero The Flash ?
Did you know that when astronomer Lacaille originally charted the constellation Caelum , it was recognized as an "engraver's chisel"?
Did you know that after Harry C. Foster 's expulsion in 1916, no one was expelled from the Massachusetts House of Representatives until 2014?
Did you know that ballet dancer Sally Gilmour was "acclaimed in the 1940s as second only to Margot Fonteyn among British ballerinas"?
Did you know that the War Revenue Act of 1898 , introduced in the U.S. to raise funds for American military actions against Spain , established a one-cent-per-call tax on telephone use?
Did you know that Reginald Mount and partner designed a renowned anti-venereal disease campaign in 1943–44?
Did you know that the 13th-century Floriańska Street in Kraków is one of the most prestigious streets in Poland?
Did you know that Illinois Secretary of State Ozias M. Hatch once accompanied Abraham Lincoln for an inspection of the Army of the Potomac ?
Did you know that tiger penis soup can command US$300 a bowl, and its key ingredient has been counterfeited?
Did you know that four days after its opening, a train using the Newcastle-Bolgart Railway caused a bushfire?
Did you know that during his childhood, Josh Hutcherson once dyed the tips of his hair to match one of Justin Timberlake 's looks?
Did you know that the position of the Crucifix on the Cross of Mathilde from the Essen Cathedral Treasury has been described as clumsy and awkward?
Did you know that 2014 Olympian Chris Creveling is a former World Champion inline skater ?
Did you know that NASA engineers chose " Send Me On My Way " as "wake-up" music for the Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity , for Sol 21?
Did you know that U.S. President Bill Clinton participated in a jam session at Reduta Jazz Club during a 1994 visit to the Czech Republic ?
Did you know that Armen Dzhigarkhanyan has appeared in more films than any other Russian actor?
Did you know that while pictures of Christopher Columbus , Count Zeppelin and Charles Lindbergh appear on the Glockenspiel House , a carillon plays?
Did you know that Peter Brunt , who would become Camden Professor of Ancient History at Oxford University , was rejected for military service during World War II because he had flat feet ?
Did you know that India's Yanaimalai (Elephant Hill) got its name because it looks like an elephant sitting down?
Did you know that New Malden High Street contains many Korean shops, reflecting the large population of South Koreans in the London suburb ?
Did you know that 2014 Olympian Emily Scott was preparing to apply for food stamps when a USA Today article about her brought in over $48,000 in donations, allowing her to continue training?
Did you know that upon William S. Edmiston 's retirement as Mayor of Edmonton , he feted the occasion by taking his council and press out for an oyster dinner?
Did you know that Katy Perry 's song " Double Rainbow " shares its title with a 2010 viral video ?
Did you know that 2014 Olympic speed skater Eddy Alvarez underwent knee surgery in 2012 that left him too weak to navigate stairs?
Did you know that Sphero was initially prototyped with electronics taken from a smartphone ?
Did you know that Eduardo Arnold wrote an unpublished book about the early life of Argentine president Néstor Kirchner ?
Did you know that Dude Perfect 's basketball trick shots relied more on American football skills?
Did you know that delay of the planned restoration of the ruined Katowice historic train station , which attained monument status in 1975, has led to public protests?
Did you know that Georgetown University is the oldest post-secondary institution in Washington, D.C. ?
Did you know that mass surveillance in East Germany was so extensive that there was one informer per every 6.5 citizens?
Did you know that the 2001–02 Louisville Cardinals men's basketball team won their first game in the National Invitation Tournament after a bank shot by Reece Gaines with 5.3 seconds left in the game?
Did you know that in Patrick Süskind 's play Der Kontrabaß , the double bass in the title role is a "constant handicap" to its player, "humanly, socially, sexually, musically"?
Did you know that the roof of the House of the Seven Lazy Brothers shows how hard-working the brothers had really been?
Did you know that the JBL Paragon , the world's first domestic stereo loudspeaker system, was 106 inches (270 cm) wide and resembled a sideboard?
Did you know that chief of counterintelligence for Russia's FSB , Oleg Syromolotov , is head of security for the 2014 Winter Olympics?
Did you know that the Öküz Mehmed Pasha Caravanserai in Kuşadası , Turkey was built in 1618 in the form of a small citadel with a battlement and merlons on its top?
Did you know that Pseudarmadillo tuberculatus was one of two Pseudarmadillo species described in 1984 from fossils in Dominican amber ?
Did you know that Jim Gregory learned of his firing as general manager of the Toronto Maple Leafs when he was offered the position of director of the NHL Central Scouting Bureau?
Did you know that when they were exhibited in 1978, the sculptures of a Hatstand , Table , and Chair by British pop artist Allen Jones were attacked with stink bombs?
Did you know that many of the historic buildings in Langenstraße in Bremen were seriously damaged during World War II but have been carefully reconstructed since?
Did you know that Miguel Enríquez went from being a shoemaker to being one of the most wealthy and influential figures in the New World?
Did you know that the British seaplane tender Engadine carried a pigeon loft that housed carrier pigeons to be used by her aircraft if their wireless was broken?
Did you know that anthropologist Nina Jablonski was inspired to study science by a National Geographic program on palaeontologist Louis Leakey ?
Did you know that The Elstree Project is an ongoing oral history of the studios of Elstree and Borehamwood , with interviewees including Brian Blessed , Steven Spielberg and Roger Moore ?
Did you know that Titanic survivor Dickinson Bishop was rumored to have gained access to a lifeboat by dressing in women's clothing?
Did you know that Emery Lehman shaved seven seconds off his personal best to qualify for the 10,000-meter speed skating race at the 2014 Winter Olympics ?
Did you know that the Sukorambi Botanical Garden is home to 300 species of herbs, 200 of flowers, and 500 books?
Did you know that the Golden Horn Metro Bridge in Istanbul is a cable-stayed bridge , which has a swing bridge on one side and features a metro station in the middle?
Did you know that Great Central Railway locomotive no. 506, now preserved and restored for display at the Barrow Hill Engine Shed , was named after Eric Butler-Henderson when it entered service in 1919?
Did you know that devotional articles have been produced and sold as far back as the times of ancient Egypt and ancient Mesopotamia ?
Did you know that Senator J. L. Carpenter 's wife gave birth to Frankenstein?
Did you know that Turner 's painting The Fountain of Indolence is probably also The Fountain of Fallacy ?
Did you know that the upcoming video game Sonic Boom is designed specifically for Western audiences as part of a new, Westernized Sonic franchise?
Did you know that the Bluecap Memorial in Cheshire commemorates a foxhound and is a listed building ?
Did you know that the Back to the Future musical is scheduled to première in the West End in 2015—the same year that Marty McFly and Doc Brown travelled to in Back to the Future Part II ?
Did you know that residents of Motspur Park feel that the London Buses route K5 should be more frequent?
Did you know that the nudibranch Okenia zoobotryon may contain the same anti-predator chemicals as its prey, the bryozoan Zoobotryon verticillatum ?
Did you know that the Michelides Tobacco Factory became an ice cream factory after the decline of the Western Australian tobacco industry?
Did you know that the Singapore Government takes the view that separation of powers is less important than choosing leaders that can be trusted and do not need to be fettered?
Did you know that Lyman Hakes Howe was the first person to give full-length phonograph concerts?
Did you know that the 1996–97 South-West Indian Ocean cyclone season was the longest on record, with both unusually early and late activity?
Did you know that Robert Farrar 's Donut , about a couple who eat a donut during sex, stars a straight couple in the film version but a gay couple on the stage?
Did you know that century-old buildings in the historic courtyard neighborhoods of Ohel Shlomo and Sha'arei Yerushalayim were razed to make way for the Jerusalem Light Rail ?
Did you know that 46 Italian paratroopers died in the 1971 RAF Hercules crash ?
Did you know that Robinson Crusoe House in Bremen , Germany, was built by a coffee merchant who admired the fictional Robinson Crusoe for his Hanseatic spirit?
Did you know that during the term of Kwesi Nyantakyi , Ghana has qualified for three successive FIFA World Cups ?
Did you know that Queen is one of five soundtracks simultaneously composed by Amit Trivedi during five months in 2013?
Did you know that the Grand Mosque of Constanța was the first structure in Romania to be constructed with reinforced concrete ?
Did you know that Eva Rydberg has performed at the Paris Olympia ?
Did you know that Oregon Public Broadcasting praised The Oregon Desert for blending scholarly natural science writing with cowboy humor?
Did you know that following the assassination of Diyarbakır police chief Gaffar Okkan in 2001, more than a hundred babies were named after him?
Did you know that the horror movie The Exorcist features Henze 's Fantasia for Strings during its closing credits ?
Did you know that the magnetic termite builds its wedge-shaped mound with its axis in a north-south direction?
Did you know that The Crescent in Birmingham stood unfinished for over 150 years before it was demolished?
Did you know that Mike O'Connor worked for the Committee to Protect Journalists in one of the most dangerous countries for journalists ?
Did you know that mobile payment startup Clinkle raised US$25 million in Silicon Valley 's largest round of seed funding ?
Did you know that the 1981 Iraqi embassy bombing in Beirut is considered by some to be the first modern suicide bombing ?
Did you know that Lorde says her song " Ribs " was inspired by "this big party I had when my parents went away"?
Did you know that ostrich farming in the Philippines was promoted by the Philippines Department of Agriculture during the food crisis of 2008?
Did you know that Polish Jesuit Piotr Skarga 's Lives of the Saints (1579) contained graphic and detailed description of tortures and suffering?