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Did you know that World War II pilot James Muri 's only means of escape, after attacking the Japanese aircraft carrier Akagi , was to fly down along the line of her flight deck?
Did you know that Yoko Ono opens her song " Sisters, O Sisters " by referring to the engineer as a " male chauvinist pig "?
Did you knowthat current Ohio Bobcats men's basketball player D. J. Cooper is "among the best" point guards in college basketball according to analyst Jay Bilas ?
Did you know that " Episode 523 " from the Australian soap opera Neighbours marked the wedding of popular couple Scott and Charlene ?
Did you know that the Purcell Wilderness Conservancy was one of the first parks established in Canada because of public pressure?
Did you know that the accidental discovery of sea daisy species Xyloplax medusiformis in the Pacific inspired the search that found X. turnerae in the Atlantic ?
Did you know that Charles Chaplin, Sr. was a popular entertainer long before his famous son ?
Did you know that Republican David Pendleton was the Hawaiian House Minority Floor Leader from 1998 to 2002, and now sits on the Hawaii Labor and Industrial Relations Appeals Board as an administrative law judge ?
Did you know that the French Army general headquarters during the First World War simply assumed that three German soldiers were killed for every two French soldiers?
Did you know that Baltimore Ravens assistant special teams coach Chris Hewitt was hired by Ravens head coach John Harbaugh , who had coached Hewitt as a 17-year-old freshman with the Cincinnati Bearcats ?
Did you know that Deepika Padukone made her cinematic debut through the Kannada film Aishwarya in 2006?
Did you know that Love Songs is the first album released by Destiny's Child to include new material in eight years?
Did you know that Captain Robert Murray entered future admiral of the fleet Provo Wallis onto the books of his ship, even though Wallis was only four years old?
Did you know that Misbach Yusa Biran 's Sejarah Film 1900–1950 ( History of Film 1900–1950 ) has been called a "sacred text from a film warrior"?
Did you know that planter Thomas Polk was elected by the North Carolina General Assembly to the Congress of the Confederation , but did not attend any of its sessions?
Did you know that cricketer Travis Head was hit by a car shortly after completing a four-day match for South Australia ?
Did you know that Florida has the largest convergence of freshwater springs on the planet, with over 700?
Did you know that the Yukon Hotel in Dawson City , built in 1898 during the Klondike Gold Rush , was sold for $1?
Did you know that in 1950 India and Ethiopia formalised their diplomatic ties, and India's first Ambassador to Ethiopia was appointed?
Did you know that Minnesota Wild prospect Mathew Dumba captained Canada's Under-18 hockey team to a gold medal at the 2011 Ivan Hlinka Memorial Tournament ?
Did you know that American film composer Nathaniel Motte co-wrote the song " Love Somebody " by Maroon 5 ?
Did you know that Elizabeth Colbert-Busch , the sister of Stephen Colbert , is running for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives ?
Did you know that in the upcoming Bengali film Khasi Katha– A Goat Saga , a goat about to be slaughtered narrates the story of a female boxer to a butcher?
Did you know that Meek's Pygmy Parrot is one of seven birds named after Albert Stewart Meek , the English bird collector and naturalist?
Did you know that Spring Street has both New York City's #1-ranked Israeli restaurant ( Taïm ), and #2-ranked French brasserie ( Balthazar )?
Did you know that Canadian manga artist Sara Mayhew uses storytelling to promote science and critical thinking?
Did you know that " One Day I'll Fly Away " is Randy Crawford 's highest-charting single, reaching #1 in Belgium and the Netherlands, and #2 in the United Kingdom?
Did you know that the former Royal Air Force Station near Peterhead , Scotland, is used for flying model planes?
Did you know that in Viggo Stuckenberg 's poetry, men were often depicted as weak and lazy dreamers while women showed will and ability?
Did you know that Alaska 's gold production began with the 1869 discovery of gold placers in Windham and Sumdum Bays ?
Did you know that the grained seastar is the only starfish known to reproduce by parthenogenesis ?
Did you know that country music singer Sheila Andrews ' voice changed following an operation to remove a tumor from her thyroid ?
Did you know that, in the Cheche Disaster , the Portuguese army lost 47 men while crossing the Corubal River in Guinea-Bissau ?
Did you know that the film Fruitvale , which won two major awards at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival , is based on a real-life police shooting ?
Did you know that the anthropologist Herman ten Kate, the junior , son of the artist Herman ten Kate, the senior , wrote about skulls of decapitated criminals?
Did you know that the history of Canadian women has until recent years only accounted for a tiny fraction of the country's historiography?
Did you know that animator Nickson Fong is the first Singaporean to receive an Academy Award ?
Did you know that fossils of the extinct legume Hymenaea mexicana show several types of insect feeding?
Did you know that Boston merchant Augustus Hemenway spent over a decade recuperating from a nervous breakdown after making a fortune in Valparaíso , Chile ?
Did you know that in an attempt to sound different from previous Final Fantasy video games , the music of Final Fantasy XIII-2 includes rap , heavy metal , and electronic pieces?
Did you know that audiences laughed at Astaman for playing a king with matador 's clothes?
Did you know that actor Toby Jones underwent 20 minutes of daily vocal warm up exercises to recreate Alfred Hitchcock 's distinctive accent for the 2012 film The Girl ?
Did you know that in the wreck of the Halsewell there were only 74 survivors out of over 240 passengers and crew?
Did you know that farmer and musician Charlie Albertson is also a former longtime member of the North Carolina Senate and is known as "The Singing Senator"?
Did you know that the nonlinear interactive fiction game Thirty Flights of Loving has been said to "[tell] a better story in 13 minutes than most games do in 13 hours"?
Did you know that Pall Mall 's win at the classic 2000 Guineas in 1958 was a first classic for Cecil Boyd-Rochfort and a second for Queen Elizabeth II , who missed the race through illness?
Did you know that Hillsboro, Oregon -based Omega Morgan used Dawn dishwashing liquid to move the Sellwood Bridge ?
Did you know that a forthcoming encyclopedia by Nrisingha Prasad Bhaduri is said to challenge long-held views on epics such as the Ramayana and Mahabharata ?
Did you know that Way of the Knight , a chess variant invented by Ralph Betza, was an attempt to blend chess with role-playing games ?
Did you know that Hungry Bay Nature Reserve is the most northerly mangrove swamp in the Atlantic Ocean ?
Did you know that Derek Minor was featured in the video game Altered Pro , a take on Sega's Altered Beast , to promote his third studio album?
Did you know that in 1951, the Thai Army, Police and Air Force sank the Navy's flagship HTMS Sri Ayudhya , despite Prime Minister Plaek Pibulsonggram being held hostage on board ?
Did you know that Bill Cosby's approach to advertising is that he wants "to make the program interrupt the commercial"?
Did you know that Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard is said to have told himself in his " Affirmations " that "Men are your slaves"?
Did you know that in 2012, it was estimated that there were 961,000 internet users in Bahrain ?
Did you know than George Ronan was the first West Point graduate to be killed in battle?
Did you know that the Mechanicsburg Baptist Church was built to hold half the population of the village in which it was located?
Did you know that Antonio Andrews led the Football Bowl Subdivision in all-purpose yards in 2012 ?
Did you know that attorney Harriet Pilpel counted Betty Friedan , Mel Brooks , Stalin's daughter and Dr. Spock among her clients?
Did you know that Nina Dobrev 's initial audition for the role of Elena Gilbert on The Vampire Diaries was described as the "worst audition" ever?
Did you know that the United States Government brought 11 1/4 Dozen Packages of Mrs. Moffat's Shoo-Fly Powders for Drunkenness to court?
Did you know that the Little Mix song " Change Your Life " was compared to " Never Ever " by All Saints ?
Did you know that 70 rivers and creeks on the list of longest streams of Idaho are over 50 miles (80 km) long?
Did you know that Frank Newman , the eighth president of the University of Rhode Island , was made a High Officer of the Order of Prince Henry the Navigator in 1977?
Did you know that Joshua Naples, a British grave robber , was unable to sell a corpse deemed putrid ?
Did you know that the awards and nominations received by reggaeton rapper Ivy Queen include five for her song " Dime "?
Did you know that the founder of the Dami Mission church predicted the world would end on October 28, 1992, but used donations from his followers to purchase bonds that did not mature until after that date?
Did you know that two months after Baruch Ben Haim arrived in Brooklyn to serve as Assistant Chief Rabbi of the Syrian Jewish community , he was engaged to the Chief Rabbi's daughter?
Did you know that juvenile cusk-eels are believed to seek protection from predators by hiding among the spines of the sea urchin Phormosoma placenta ?
Did you know that professional baseball player Tony Cingrani did not expect his college team to invite him back for his senior season after he struggled as a junior?
Did you know that the concept for the Canadian neighbourhood of Metrotown originated in Baltimore, Maryland ?
Did you know that Lionel Richie "quit while he was ahead", taking a long hiatus after releasing the chart-topping Dancing on the Ceiling ?
Did you know that even before the Argentine–Chilean naval arms race , the Chilean Navy was stronger than the United States Navy?
Did you know that Simple Minds frontman Jim Kerr recalled thinking they had "completely blown it" with the sound of their album Life in a Day after hearing Unknown Pleasures by Joy Division ?
Did you know that pioneering midwife Marie LaChapelle first delivered a baby when she was 15?
Did you know that the joint Polish / Italian film September Eleven 1683 used over 10,000 extras and 3,000 horses in the battle scenes?
Did you know that Armenian revolutionary Sevkaretsi Sako was sentenced to prison for 101 years?
Did you know that trade globalization is an economic indicator and one of the measures of economic globalization ?
Did you know that the historic Rosecroft mansion in San Diego , California played host at various times to Ronald Reagan , Jimmy and Rosalyn Carter , and Dr. Seuss ?
Did you know that despite his parents' plans for Foon Sien to have a career in Imperial China , he became an activist for the rights of Chinese Canadians and redress for the head tax ?
Did you know that siltstone deposits have allowed three-dimensional fossils of the extinct mushroom crinoid to be excavated from Indiana ?
Did you know that John Brian Christopherson found a cure for bilharzia in 1918?
Did you know that during their honeymoon , Jennifer Lopez wrote the lyrics to " Alive " for the film Enough over a melody that her husband Cris Judd composed?
Did you know that Ivar Rønningen was the first goalscoring goalkeeper at Vålerenga ?
Did you know that Bridget Marquardt provocatively ate a Carl's Jr. burger during an infamous New Year's Eve special that it sponsored?
Did you know that West Virginia State Senator Samuel Lightfoot Flournoy also served three terms as mayor of Romney , West Virginia ?
Did you know that Gimnazija Mostar was built in Moorish Revival style due to Austro-Hungarian wish to create an "Islamic architecture of European fantasy"?
Did you know that Caleb Moore became the first competitor to die as a result of injuries sustained during the X Games ?
Did you know that DNA digital data storage has been called "apocalypse-proof" by one of its creators due to its longevity under certain conditions and its resistance to obsolescence ?
Did you know that Salvatore Dell'Isola conducted some of the famous Rodgers and Hammerstein musicals, winning a Tony Award for his work?
Did you know that the new municipality of Jumbo Glacier, British Columbia has a mayor and two councillors, but no residents?
Did you know that in 2010, minor league baseball shortstop Audy Ciriaco had three separate absences caused by contusions to either his left hand or wrist?
Did you know that it will probably never be known for sure whether the Phoenicians ever sailed to the Americas ?
Did you know that the historic-landmarked Church of Our Saviour in Mechanicsburg, Ohio , was built just one year after the parish was founded?
Did you know that Gabriel Ruhumbika wrote his first novel in English, but all of his subsequent novels in Swahili ?
Did you know that wolves and bears cannot be introduced into Alladale Wilderness Reserve until the owner obtains a zoo licence ?
Did you know that Soviet botanist Nikolai Vavilov tried to lure Margaret Newton to work at Lenin Academy of Agricultural Sciences with an offer that included a camel caravan?
Did you know that King Richard III disinherited his niece, Anne St Leger , whose descendants provided DNA samples necessary for identification of his remains?
Did you know that even though Ved Vejen was written in 1886, the theme regarding the hidden pain of a woman's loneliness in a Danish province still resonates with today's readership?
Did you know that according to music critic Chris Payne, the Maroon 5 song " The Man Who Never Lied " contains one of the most "memorable" choruses on their album Overexposed ?
Did you know that Robert Waldegrave printed the first four Marprelate tracts on a secret press in 1588/9?
Did you know that there is no clear explanation why Coastrange sculpins in Cultus Lake, British Columbia, are smaller than other members of the species?
Did you know that American botanist Mary Katharine Brandegee earned her M.D. but never practiced medicine?
Did you know that on her way to winning Miss America 2013 , Mallory Hagan performed a tap dance routine to James Brown 's " Get Up Offa That Thing "?
Did you know that Spittal Pond Nature Reserve is the largest nature reserve in Bermuda ?
Did you know that Bill Longmore , the Police and Crime Commissioner for West Mercia Police , won the 2011 BBC Midlands Sports Unsung Hero Award for his efforts to improve sporting facilities in Shropshire ?
Did you know that the Fishing Creek confederacy was an alleged military uprising in northern Columbia County, Pennsylvania and southern Sullivan County, Pennsylvania ?
Did you know that with the assassination of Adrián Silva Moreno , nearly 100 journalists, writers and bloggers have been kidnapped or killed in Mexico ?
Did you know that the winner of the first City and Suburban Handicap had to pay £10 to the Licensed Victuallers' Protection Society?
Did you know that Taku Inlet in Alaska widens to a basin where discharge from the Taku River and Taku Glacier emerge?
Did you know that Rhachitomi , a group of temnospondyl amphibians , was established as a clade in 2013?
Did you know that "Flip" Carli , son of a soldier, went from footballer to film director?
Did you know that an Algerian cargo aircraft crashed near a highly populated area of Northern Italy but killed only the three crew members on board?
Did you know that Lieutenant general William G. Webster oversaw the US Third Army move its headquarters from Fort McPherson , where it had resided for over 62 years, to Shaw Air Force Base ?
Did you know that five days after the unopposed German capture of Arendal , local citizens formed occupied Norway 's first organized resistance group ?
Did you know that Carlos López Estrada won a Latin Grammy Award for directing a music video that employs stop motion technique?
Did you know that positive reviews for Karina's Zelfopoffering may have been used to procure advertising revenue?
Did you know that actor Reza Rahadian has "flawlessly" represented the mannerisms of former Indonesian president B. J. Habibie ?
Did you know that the Bespoke Collection 's retail store, Ma(i)sonry, is located in a former farmhouse listed on the National Register of Historic Places ?
Did you know that Andy Dirks gained celebrity status in the Dominican Republic due to his performance in the Dominican Winter League 's postseason?
Did you know that Jack Finch had a pit full of black rat snakes that he used for experiments to protect bluebirds ?
Did you know that a unique sample of a pyrite crystal from the Crystal Mine in Alaska with a large amount of terminated crystals of gold on its surface, is on display in the Smithsonian Institute ?
Did you know that Loyalist militia commander David Fanning was captured by the Patriots 14 times during the American Revolutionary War , and was refused a pardon by the State of North Carolina in 1783?
Did you know that although the Fourth Siege of Gibraltar ended with Muhammed IV of Granada still in control of Gibraltar , he was assassinated by his nobles soon after?
Did you know that visually impaired para-alpine skier Anna Cohí began competing in the World Championships at age fifteen?
Did you know that a viral video of Buttermilk Sky , a Nigerian dwarf goat kid, has been commented on by Maine Congresswoman Chellie Pingree and featured on The Today Show ?
Did you know that a cardboard bicycle has been made that weighs just 20 pounds (9.1 kg) and can support up to 220 kilograms (490 lb)?
Did you know that Ratna Moetoe Manikam , with a love triangle involving goddesses, was inspired by The Thief of Bagdad ?
Did you know that US Army paratrooper Jake McNiece was the leader of the Filthy Thirteen , a unit whose exploits inspired the novel and movie The Dirty Dozen ?
Did you know that the name of the Gooseberry River could either be a translation of its Ojibwe name or a translation of the name of a French explorer?
Did you know that out of eleven presidents of Pakistan , three came into power through one of the successful military coups ?
Did you know that in 2008, Chinese folk musician Yu Zhou died in the custody of Chinese authorities 10 days after being arrested for possessing Falun Gong literature?
Did you know that Yoni Chetboun , who will be entering the Israeli parliament for the Jewish Home party, was awarded the Chief of Staff Citation for his actions as a combat officer in the Second Lebanon War ?
Did you know that Inez McCormack , a Northern Irish trade union leader and human rights campaigner, was the first female president of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions (1999–2001)?
Did you know that one part of the Gorički zbornik , a Serbian medieval manuscript collection, was written by Jelena Balšić between 1441 and 1442?
Did you know that composer and music director August Röckel , who was active in the May Uprising in Dresden along with his friend Richard Wagner , was arrested and was the last prisoner released?
Did you know that Bach scored his cantata Gleichwie der Regen und Schnee vom Himmel fällt , BWV 18 , for four violas and basso continuo , creating a "magically dark-hued sonority"?
Did you know that creator Suda 51 's upcoming video game Killer is Dead maintains the same essence as his previous "assassin" games, Killer7 and No More Heroes ?
Did you know that American World War II flying ace William J. Cullerton had twenty-one kills during the war?
Did you know that the Magnates of Poland and Lithuania often had private armies , and exerted significant political influence on the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth ?
Did you know that John Butler was promoted by Penn State football coach Bill O'Brien to defensive coordinator over two other coaches who had much more coaching experience?
Did you know that the Mathura Kaliamman Temple in Siruvachur is open to devotees only two days a week?
Did you know that John Thompson was called "the most distinguished wood-engraver of his time"?
Did you know that the Portland Breakwater Fort was built between 1868 and 1875 to defend Portland Harbour ?
Did you know that John Ferolito , co-founder of Arizona Beverage Company , was sued after he allegedly took a mulligan and knocked a fellow golfer unconscious with a tee shot taken at "point-blank range"?
Did you know that Bach's solo cantata Ich habe genug , BWV 82 , based on the Canticle of Simeon , has been recorded more than 100 times?
Did you know that the broad-fronted moose was probably the largest species of deer that has ever existed?
Did you know that the 1987 Indiana Hoosiers football team defeated Ohio State for the first time since 1951, Michigan for the first time since 1967 and lost to Tennessee in the Peach Bowl ?
Did you know that Arsenal de la Carraca was the first military establishment of its kind in Spain?
Did you know that the Marathi play Wada Chirebandi , directed by Chandrakant Kulkarni , is an eight-hour-long trilogy ?
Did you know that the 1969 song " It's Too Bad " by Jimi Hendrix was considered newly discovered thirty years later when it was added to The Jimi Hendrix Experience (2000) album?
Did you know that Jay Threatt was the first basketball player to lead the NCAA in steals twice?
Did you know that the Austro-Hungarian coastal defense ship SMS Monarch was converted into an accommodation ship for submarine crews after the Cattaro Mutiny in early February 1918?
Did you know that Walter Smith , chief of staff of the U. S. Army 's "All-American division" in the 1930s, was an actual All-American at West Point in 1900?
Did you know that the pattern of the veins on fossil leaves of the extinct golden-club Orontium wolfei confirm it as a member of the arum family?
Did you know that George Selwyn Marryat , a British gentleman and fly fisherman was known as the "Prince of Fly Fishers"?
Did you know that the warty chameleon may be indistinguishable from the Malagasy giant chameleon in the field?
Did you know that mayor Irving Freese of Norwalk, Connecticut , was re-elected despite his opponent having the endorsement of the Republicans , the Democrats , and even his own Socialist Party ?
Did you know that cultural conflict can lead to ethnic cleansing or wars ?
Did you know that Edward Page Gaston , European manager for Funk & Wagnalls , was a proponent for the repatriation of the remains of Pocahontas ?
Did you know that the U.S. release of the Samsung Ativ Tab was cancelled due to concerns surrounding the marketability of its Windows RT operating system ?
Did you know that, in 2000, Argentinian singer Rodrigo sold out 13 consecutive shows at the Luna Park arena to promote his quadruple-platinum album A 2000 ?
Did you know that Shrewsbury Road in Dublin is the location of the most expensive house ever sold in Ireland , which cost 58 million euros?
Did you know that William Allen was a co-founder of the first bank to be opened in Manchester , and was also the father of a future bishop?
Did you know that the Sheep Creek Hatchery in Juneau, Alaska was established in 1980 for incubating about 40 million pink and/or chum salmon for commercial fisheries ?
Did you know that Satyajit Ray 's documentary, The Inner Eye (1972), features an artist's journey to blindness with his own words, "Blindness is a new feeling, a new experience, a new state of being"?
Did you know that Bruce Cooper was the last surviving member of a six-man team who volunteered to be sealed in a World War II observation post discovered by the Gibraltar Caving Group in 1997?
Did you know that sports writer Jean Giambrone was the first woman to be awarded full press credentials at the Masters Tournament in Augusta, Georgia ?
Did you know that in the Glee episode " Naked ", when Lea Michele 's character Rachel was " Torn " over having to do a topless scene, Michele had to film the song twice so she could duet with herself?
Did you know that the music video of The Cure 's 1988 single " Hot Hot Hot!!! " featured the band made up as "dwarves"?
Did you know that Edward Bowditch was an All- American football player, aide-de-camp to John Pershing , and member of the 1922 commission that concluded that Filipinos were not yet ready for independence?