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Did you know that the book Inspired Talks (1909) contains a series of lectures delivered by Swami Vivekananda in mid-1895 to a group of selected disciples at the Thousand Island Park , New York?
Did you know that current Colombian Senator Juan Manuel Galán Pachón is the son and political heir of the assassinated political leader Luis Carlos Galán ?
Did you know that Mahoning Creek was in the vicinity of one of the last Native American villages and first European settlers in its part of Pennsylvania ?
Did you know that Garrett Wang 's inclusion in a list of sexiest men saved his character, Harry Kim , from being killed off during season three of Star Trek: Voyager ?
Did you know that Windmill Hill, Gibraltar , is used by Barbary Partridges to raise their chicks and by British Army units to train for deployment to Afghanistan ?
Did you know that the rape of Iryna Krashkova led to the storming and torching of a police station?
Did you know that in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, only gillnetting was employed for commercial fishing on the Egegik River ?
Did you know that Nigel Malim was torpedoed by the Italians and interned by the collaborationist French ?
Did you know that Denmark 's biggest gold hoard from the Migration Period was found at Broholm ?
Did you know that Britney Spears 's son was blessed in a Hindu ceremony at Malibu Hindu Temple in Los Angeles County in 2006?
Did you know that the Lone Signal project sends messages by ordinary citizens to extraterrestrial civilizations using the Jamesburg Earth Station ?
Did you know that Argentine actor Roberto Carnaghi has appeared in 44 films, had major roles in Shakespeare's plays, worked in advertising and TV comedy, and performed in telenovelas?
Did you know that Albert White Hat , translator for the movie Dances With Wolves , taught the Lakota language at Sinte Gleska University ?
Did you know that the Las Vegas Valley had a population of 13,937 in 1940 , increasing to 35,000 in just two years?
Did you know that Iranian dancer Mohammad Khordadian was barred from professional work and from attending wedding ceremonies as part of his sentence?
Did you know that Bruno Möhring was a proponent of high-rise construction in Berlin at a time when most of his fellow German architects opposed skyscrapers?
Did you know that a prisoner of the French at Laghouat told the Red Cross, "Technically we are not prisoners of war but up to the present have not been able to find a difference"?
Did you know that at the Onda Cero Sport Awards in 2009, Manuel Garnica Roldan earned an award for the best athlete with a disability?
Did you know that in 2012 Nimbuzz moved its headquarters from Rotterdam to New Delhi, to be closer to the mobile Internet boom expected to happen in India in the next five years?
Did you know that in 2000–09, approximately 3.1 million acres in the United States were under rice production ?
Did you know that Djoemala was paired with Roekiah for four films despite the latter already being married?
Did you know that the Central City Red Zone cordon established after the February 2011 Christchurch earthquake has only just been lifted?
Did you know that Australian actor Sachin Joab had to put on an Indian accent for his role in a City Homicide episode?
Did you know that the southward expansion of the Han Dynasty brought the empire into direct contact with the kingdoms of Southeast Asia ?
Did you know that Bhupendranath Datta discussed his older brother Swami Vivekananda 's socialist views in his book Swami Vivekananda, Patriot-prophet ?
Did you know that the 1855 Atlantic hurricane season had the lowest Accumulated Cyclone Energy (ACE) total on record until the 1907 season ?
Did you know that after Cal Ripken Jr. waved the green flag at the 2001 MBNA Cal Ripken Jr. 400 , he flew to Baltimore to play his final career baseball game?
Did you know that in 1897 Russian physicist Ivan Borgman first demonstrated that X-rays and radioactive materials induced thermoluminescence ?
Did you know that Nushagak Peninsula had been devoid of caribou for over 100 years until their reintroduction in the late 1980s?
Did you know that Belarusian chess Grandmaster Sergei Azarov is ranked third in his country?
Did you know that the Gothic detailing on the Knickerbocker and Arnink Garages in Albany, New York , might have been inspired by the nearby headquarters of the Delaware and Hudson Railroad ?
Did you know that the colors of the Charlottesville and Albemarle Railway 's streetcars made them "more attractive to the students" of the University of Virginia ?
Did you know that Peter Wickens Fry reputedly experimented with photogenic drawing before Henry Fox Talbot developed the calotype process in 1841?
Did you know that John Rocque's Map of London, 1746 , has been considered "one of the greatest and most handsome plans of any city"?
Did you know that Confederate colonel Angus William McDonald previously served as superintendent of the Northwestern Turnpike and as a commissioner to resolve a Virginia–Maryland boundary dispute?
Did you know that podium girls are employed to present the winners of cycle races with prizes and kisses?
Did you know that Rat, Bat, Mole, and Mouse are Purdy Islands ?
Did you know that a review for Djaoeh Dimata called Ratna Asmara an "unprecedented tragedienne"?
Did you know that the Kamorta is the first stealth corvette being built for the Indian Navy ?
Did you know that a Tang Dynasty garrison, one of the Four Garrisons of Anxi , was installed in the Tarim Basin kingdom of Karasahr after the conquest of Karasahr ?
Did you know that as Chairman of the Department of Physics at Cornell University, Roswell Clifton Gibbs hired Hans Bethe , who later won the Nobel Prize in Physics?
Did you know that Plaza Moriones in Tondo, Manila , is second only to Plaza Miranda in terms of its political significance?
Did you know that Indonesian boy band Coboy Junior are only allowed to tour on weekends, as they have to go to school the rest of the week?
Did you know that between 1944 and 2012 there were 508 high fatality aircraft accidents and incidents , across all seven continents, in which 53,419 people died?
Did you know that Willie "Pappy" Stokes was the only caddie that Jack Burke, Jr. ever asked for advice throughout his entire professional career in golf?
Did you know that rather than celebrate February's Valentine's Day , which often conflicts with Brazilian Carnival , Brazilians celebrate Dia dos Namorados in June?
Did you know that Lord Pretender was hailed as a "master" of extempo , a lyrically improvised form of calypso music considered a forerunner of rap ?
Did you know that the National Theatre of Bahrain is the third largest theatre in the Middle East ?
Did you know that historian Conyers Read issued a call to action against Fascism , Communism , and Thomism ?
Did you know that My Master is an English book combined from two lectures delivered by Swami Vivekananda in New York and England in 1901?
Did you know that according to a report in TUAW , in order to join Apple Inc. 's MFi Program , suppliers must agree to be bound to Apple's Supplier Responsibility Code?
Did you know that Pallagrello bianco was one of the grape varieties included in Luigi Vanvitelli 's Vigna del Ventaglio vineyard created for the royal palace of King Ferdinand I ?
Did you know that L.S. Alexander Gumby complied 300 scrapbooks documenting African-American history , and was known as the "Great God Gumby"?
Did you know that had the Donner Party received the warning from Edwin Bryant , they might have avoided being stranded in the mountains?
Did you know that the Muhafiz Khan Mosque is considered to be an excellent example of Mughal architecture ?
Did you know that the Streaker , a rocket developed by SpaceDev , is designed to operate at a cost of under $5 million per launch?
Did you know that after being released from prison, Diaa al-Din Dawoud successfully appealed to the Supreme Constitutional Court of Egypt to be allowed reentry into political life and subsequently founded the Nasserist Party ?
Did you know that the Pacific transparent sea squirt invaded the contiguous United States via Long Beach Harbor ?
Did you know that you can buy "British Airways" at an ice cream store in Mérida , Venezuela?
Did you know that Amir Hamzah treats God almost as a lover in his collection Nyanyi Sunyi ?
Did you know that Elder Villages are a part of the " aging in place " movement?
Did you know that Damian Lewis and Andrea Riseborough are shooting a film near Pennyghael on the Isle of Mull ?
Did you know that since wasting disease has become established in dwarf eelgrass and common eelgrass beds, populations of overwintering Brent geese have declined in Europe?
Did you know that Cuban actress Danay García turned from dancing to modeling because she wanted a "career for life"?
Did you know that shuttle kissing continued in Lancashire, England , long after it was outlawed in several U.S. states?
Did you know that the Grey Cairns of Camster , built 5,000 years ago to serve as tombs, are among the oldest buildings in Scotland?
Did you know that though Amir Hamzah was a Muslim, analyses of his poem " Padamu Jua " have found Christian influences?
Did you know that touring by boat is the only way to explore a large part of Florida's Lake Woodruff National Wildlife Refuge ?
Did you know that translators of Franz Kafka's works must cope with ambiguous words like Verkehr , which refers both to traffic and sexual intercourse?
Did you know that southern India 's Papagni River is so named for having turned a king's sins to ashes?
Did you know that after being defeated at Gibraltar , the Duke of Crillon wrote to his former adversary, General George Eliott , calling him "my dear and respectable enemy"?
Did you know that the village name of Toreby is derived from the man's name Thôri (Thor) and "by" meaning village?
Did you know that upcoming indie video game Secret Ponchos was inspired by Team Fortress , Street Fighter II , and League of Legends ?
Did you know that the Act of 1948 incorporated Tokelau into New Zealand ?
Did you know that Elsie Spain was one of the last female leads of the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company personally trained by W. S. Gilbert ?
Did you know that most foreign fighters for the opposition during the Syrian civil war were Libyan, following their own Libyan civil war ?
Did you know that John Buttencourt Avila has been called the father of the sweet potato industry?
Did you know that Toftes Gave served as an institution for maladapted children for more than a hundred years?
Did you know that after completing his prison sentence in the U.S., drug lord Javier Torres Félix was deported to Mexico and arrested as he crossed the international border ?
Did you know that Sister Gargi , an American, wrote a highly regarded six-volume book on Swami Vivekananda ?
Did you know that according to oral tradition, the Chachi people originated from the mountains near Ibarra, Ecuador ?
Did you know that No. 2 Operational Conversion Unit staff were responsible for translating training material from French into English prior to delivery of the Dassault Mirage III to the RAAF ?
Did you know that during his stay at the Kolobeng Mission , David Livingstone wrote in his memoir that the soil temperature in the sun at noon reached 134 °F (57 °C)?
Did you know that the rabbit flea is a vector for the virus that causes myxomatosis ?
Did you know that Monty Oum , the creator of Rooster Teeth Productions ' upcoming series RWBY , was concerned that the show focused on female characters but was being developed by a mostly male crew?
Did you know that the first open heart surgery in Nigeria was performed by Fabian Udekwu , Sir Magdi Yacoub and others in 1974?
Did you know that Chamossaire contested all three legs of the Triple Crown in 1945, winning the St. Leger Stakes in front of a crowd of 150,000?
Did you know that Philadelphia Distilling has created a bitters using a recipe from the family of 18th-century botanist John Bartram and bark from a tree in his garden ?
Did you know that as of 2007, New Zealand had nearly 10 times as many sheep as people?
Did you know that Gustava Aigner made the first discovery of graptolites in the northern greywacke zone of the Alps , with her former fellow student, Ida Peltzmann, who named two species for her?
Did you know that leaving Mount Tzouhalem in search of a 15th wife led to the killing of the mountain's namesake?
Did you know that one of the luxurious model 8 mandolins of Italian luthier Luigi Embergher was purchased by Maria Feodorovna , Empress of Russia?
Did you know that Joan Wilkinson was a silkwoman to Anne Boleyn and supplied bonnets and frontlets to Lady Lisle ?
Did you know that Vlambeer 's iOS indie video game Ridiculous Fishing was beaten to market by a clone deemed an "overnight sensation" only to release their own version to "near-universal perfect scores"?
Did you know that General Dwight D. Eisenhower called the tunnels of Gibraltar , his base for the November 1942 Allied invasion of North Africa , "the most dismal setting we occupied during the war"?
Did you know that Oscar S. Heizer reported that many Armenian children were put into boats, taken out to sea and thrown overboard during the Armenian Genocide ?
Did you know that Matar Matar , who represented Bahrain's largest electoral constituency in the parliament, was imprisoned and allegedly tortured due to his role in the Bahraini uprising ?
Did you know that in the UK, actors were employed to speak the words of certain people whose voices were banned from the airwaves because of broadcasting restrictions introduced in 1988?
Did you know that several of Amy Tan 's family members had roles in the film adaptation of her novel The Joy Luck Club , but she did not take part in choosing the cast?
Did you know that the 2013 film Arjun – Kalimpong E Sitaharan , based on the stories Sitaharan Rahasya and Khunkharapi by Samaresh Majumdar , is the first of a series of films to feature Arjun, a young fictional sleuth?
Did you know that the soundtrack from a beer commercial, featuring the Abbey Tavern Singers , became the best-selling Irish record in Canada?
Did you know that in March 1871, Sensuntepeque was raided by Salvadorian Liberals with Honduran army backing after Honduras declared war on El Salvador?
Did you know that Gabriela Rivadeneira , a 29-year old former local beauty queen, has been mentioned as a possible successor for President of Ecuador, Rafael Correa ?
Did you know that " the world's most famous baby " is expected to be born in July 2013 and generate £260 million worldwide?
Did you know that Dean H. Kenyon 's Biochemical Predestination has been cited as "one of the most widely used graduate textbooks" which expounds that life arose through "natural forces within the constituents of matter itself"?
Did you know that upcoming indie video game Below uses tilt–shift photography to emphasize the tiny player-character 's scale?
Did you know that "what Mahadev Desai and Pyarelal did to immortalise Gandhi through their memoirs and biographical writings," Kanu Gandhi is said to have done through his photos?
Did you know that Maribo open-air museum is the third-oldest open-air museum in Denmark ?
Did you know that the 1st Battalion Royal Irish Rifles suffered such heavy casualties in World War I that at one point the battalion was reduced to one officer and 60 other ranks?
Did you know that the slapstick joke of slipping on a banana peel might have originated from the perception of those peels as dangerous garbage in 19th-century America?
Did you know that the Tang Dynasty conquest of Kucha , a kingdom in the northern Tarim Basin in Xinjiang and a Turkic vassal, was led by Ashina She'er, a Turkic Tang general?
Did you know that Winrich Kolbe pushed for a female captain in Star Trek: Voyager , and later dated the actress for about three years?
Did you know that after helping organize the armed struggle against Dutch forces, National Hero of Indonesia Izaak Huru Doko worked mainly as an educator?
Did you know that the letters written by John Husee while he was servant to Lord Lisle in 1533–40 have been described as "a joy and a revelation to read"?
Did you know that in the upcoming Xbox One "game maker" video game Project Spark , the player creates a world with programmed behaviors for specific objects, such as a rock that bounces when a player is nearby?
Did you know that Hinckley Priory in Leicestershire , England, was an alien monastery , dependent on Lyre Abbey in Normandy, France?
Did you know that Dylan Covey turned down $1.6 million to play professional baseball when he was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes ?
Did you know that Profeti della Quinta , a male vocal ensemble from Israel based in Basel , performed Italian madrigals and Hebrew psalms by Salomone Rossi in a documentary of the composer's life?
Did you know that the board game Discworld: Ankh-Morpork lets players take on the roles of different Discworld characters?
Did you know that Xu Ming , formerly China's eighth-richest person, testified at Bo Xilai 's trial that he gave Bo's wife more than $3 million to buy a villa in France?
Did you know that freethinker Harriet Law was the only woman on the general council of the First International , and was praised by Eleanor Marx and Karl Marx ?
Did you know that because taiko group Ondekoza could not replicate the rhythms in the original version of Yatai-bayashi , they actually played it faster?
Did you know that Państwowa Fabryka Karabinów , a major firearms producer in interwar Poland , also designed its own weaponry, including an anti-tank rifle ?
Did you know that Phil Robertson of Duck Dynasty played first string quarterback ahead of NFL hall-of-famer Terry Bradshaw in college at Louisiana Tech University ?
Did you know that in 1992, Mexican singer-songwriter Ana Gabriel set a record for the most Lo Nuestro Award wins at a single ceremony?
Did you know that almost all kings of Hungary after 1046 descended from Michael , the second son of Grand Prince Taksony ?
Did you know that Ann Arbor 's County Farm Park occupies the land that was once home to Washtenaw County 's poor house ?
Did you know that Henry III of England competed in piety with his brother-in-law Saint Louis IX of France , washing the feet of lepers and touching sick people , but was never sainted because his son was sceptical?
Did you know that the large-eared pika lives in high mountains and is listed by the IUCN as " Least Concern " while the Helan Shan pika is restricted to a single mountain and is listed as " Critically Endangered "?
Did you know that Johnny Greene , a converted lineman , was nicknamed the "Cinderella Kid" when he became one of the leading pass receivers in the NFL in the late 1940s?
Did you know that Swahili is the official language in more countries than Mandarin Chinese , the language with the most native speakers?
Did you know that the Jar~with~a~Twist is a peanut butter jar that has a twisting bottom like a deodorant stick to push peanut butter up from the sides and bottom of the jar?
Did you know that Thado Dhamma Yaza I of Prome is identified in Thai history as the Burmese commander who slew Queen Suriyothai on her war elephant in the first Burmese invasion of Siam ?
Did you know that Rugosodon eurasiaticus is the oldest known species of multituberculata , the most successful lineage of mammals in history?
Did you know that the 1983 Luzon earthquake collapsed the church in Sarrat that hosted the wedding of President Ferdinand Marcos ' daughter Irene, crushing its altar?
Did you know that one of the world's hardest crack climbing routes is along Century Crack in Canyonlands National Park ?
Did you know that the Alpine shrew can live at altitudes of up to 2,500 metres (8,200 ft) and above the tree line ?
Did you know that the title of Marquis of Veere and Flushing was so powerful that it was abolished to prevent the abuse of power , but is now one of the titles of the Dutch king ?
Did you know that Destroyer Squadron 60 is one of three U.S. Navy destroyer squadrons permanently based outside the continental United States?
Did you know that in 1994 Partha Pratim Majumder wrote, choreographed and staged The Nightmare which was the first mimodrama focused on child abuse to be staged in South Asia ?
Did you know that Cape Mountain on Cape Prince of Wales is the northern terminus of the Continental Divide of the Americas ?
Did you know that the dialogue for the film Cars 3 was completely improvised by the actors?
Did you know that the mint plant Florida betony was the Florida Department of Agriculture 's "Weed of the Month" for February 2010?
Did you know that architectural historians regard the Church of Holy Trinity and St George in Kendal to be the best of the three churches in the town designed by George Webster ?
Did you know that Mahendra Singh Dhoni has played the greatest number of matches as a captain in the Indian Premier League ?
Did you know that Sue Falsone of the Los Angeles Dodgers is the first and only female head athletic trainer in the major American professional sports leagues ?
Did you know that the " fastest speedway in the world " was destroyed by the 1926 Miami hurricane ?
Did you know that Roderick Cox , the 1933 NCAA Champion in the hammer throw , played college football with Gerald Ford at the University of Michigan ?
Did you know that the two colossal statues of Imyremeshaw were usurped by Aqenenre Apepi and Ramses II ?
Did you know that the book The Age of Miracles chronicles the fictional phenomenon of "slowing", in which one earth day takes longer to complete?
Did you know that the floorplan is marked on the pavement where St John's Anglican Church, Fremantle once stood near a larger church of the same name?
Did you know that Hypatia Bradlaugh Bonner 's biography of her father, Charles Bradlaugh , the first atheist member of the British House of Commons , was considered "preposterously long" at over 800 closely printed pages?
Did you know that William Grefé was paid trading stamps for directing The Psychedelic Priest ?
Did you know that in 2007, three people died in an arson attack on the office of Indian newspaper Dinakaran ?
Did you know that the Christchurch area now known as Victoria Square was formerly part of Puari, a Waitaha settlement, an early Māori iwi ?
Did you know that Tan Tjoei Hock 's "in every way successful" film Matula centres on a disfigured man, a shaman, and a life debt?
Did you know that NGC 6752 , containing 100,000 stars, is the third brightest globular cluster in the sky?
Did you know that Shakespeare at the Tobacco Factory is a Bristol -based theatre company that aims to produce Shakespeare 's plays in an intimate manner, but with large casts?
Did you know that the Singaporean food business Botak Jones sells halal American cuisine ?
Did you know that physicist M. Brian Maple presided over the " Woodstock of physics " in 1987?
Did you know that Banshee at the Kings Island amusement park will become the longest inverted roller coaster in the world when it opens in 2014?
Did you know that The Lone Wolf in Mexico (1947) was the last film to have Gerald Mohr play the title character ?
Did you know that Thio Tjin Boen 's novel Tjerita Oeij Se , with a man who becomes rich after finding a kite made of paper money, has been read as a condemnation of interethnic marriage ?
Did you know that one of the unofficial mottos of Poland , God, Honor and Fatherland , likely originated from the Napoleonic motto of the Legion of Honour order?
Did you know that David Beckham and the Spice Girls were in the Titanic when it launched?
Did you know that Russian victory at the Battle of Warsaw in 1831 ended the Polish November Uprising ?
Did you know that writer Anuradha Ramanan is the granddaughter of Tamil actor R. Balasubramaniam ?
Did you know that in what has been described as a " surrealistic twist", Neil Young 's " Pocahontas " brings Marlon Brando and Pocahontas together in the Astrodome following an Indian massacre ?
Did you know that in 1927, the once proposed Watford Central tube station was planned to be built on tea rooms?
Did you know that Paul Acquah was with the International Monetary Fund prior to his appointment as governor of the Bank of Ghana ?
Did you know that Rufus the Hawk was named "the world's most notable bird" after being stolen in 2012?