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Did you know that the real-life subject of the film The Broken Cord , diagnosed with fetal alcohol syndrome , was struck by a car and died before the film's release?
Did you know that Byattaba , the rebel ruler of Martaban , was paid in gold by King Binnya U so that he would acknowledge the King as his overlord?
Did you know that Tropical Storm Winona , which struck Japan in August 1990, originated from a northerly displaced monsoon trough ?
Did you know that Women Wage Peace held a 50-day hunger strike outside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's formal residence in 2015?
Did you know that 35 years ago today, Tucson, Arizona , radio station KIKX shut down after losing its FCC license over a 1974 kidnapping hoax involving one of the station's DJs?
Did you know that disclosure of White House visitor logs has been the subject of several lawsuits brought by government transparency activists?
Did you know that Ursula K. Le Guin 's 1971 novel The Tombs of Atuan tells the coming-of-age story of a female character, a choice unusual to fantasy of the time?
Did you know that St. Cajetan Church , part of the World Heritage Site Churches and convents of Goa , is modeled on St. Peter's Basilica ?
Did you know that Dutch-Jewish lawyer Abel Herzberg and his wife were moved by train from Bergen-Belsen in April 1945, liberated by the Soviets in May, survived typhoid, and arrived back in Amsterdam in June?
Did you know that Coney Island's Cannon Coaster was designed to shoot its riders out of a giant cannon over a gap in the tracks?
Did you know that Doris Frankel won an Emmy for her work on All My Children ?
Did you know that a rhyming passage from Mihai Eminescu 's novel Poor Dionis proposes "that this world is merely dreamland and a cat's fantastic vision"?
Did you know that Melanie Lewy had to sell some of her clothes to pay for her husband's funeral?
Did you know that the book Time to Get Tough by Donald Trump was written with the assistance of editors from Breitbart News ?
Did you know that the British Government is selling off its embassy in Bangkok in what will be Thailand's priciest real estate deal ever?
Did you know that the development team of Uncharted: The Lost Legacy purchased a lock picking set during development?
Did you know that Marjan Šarec started his career as a comedian, but was later elected Mayor of Kamnik and recently announced his candidacy for President of Slovenia ?
Did you know that during the 1623 papal conclave , the election of Pope Urban VIII was supposedly foretold by a swarm of bees?
Did you know that after Catholic bishop Gaston Marie Jacquier was assassinated in Algiers , Archbishop Duval ordered priests not to wear clerical clothing or display the cross in public?
Did you know that the book Dezinformatsia by Richard H. Shultz and Roy Godson explains Communist propaganda used by the Soviet Union?
Did you know that Pia Miller was drawn to the role of Kat Chapman in Home and Away when she realised the character was not sexualised ?
Did you know that the album Eastwood After Hours: Live at Carnegie Hall features a concert that celebrated Clint Eastwood 's contributions to jazz?
Did you know that the Kent RFU created the second-ever county cup competition for rugby union in Southern England?
Did you know that heavy infestations of white pine sawfly can defoliate a tree or even kill it?
Did you know that Ray Hill has married 12 prisoners' loved ones for them by proxy on his radio show?
Did you know that Dorothy Hazard , a preacher's wife, led a group of women in the defence of Bristol during the English Civil War ?
Did you know that organic farmer Uroš Macerl won the Goldman Environmental Prize for leading a legal challenge against a cement company?
Did you know that Jackie Chan DC Racing , owned by David Cheng , is the first team based in mainland China to race in the FIA World Endurance Championship ?
Did you know that Stephen III of Moldavia stated in 1502 that he had fought 36 battles and only lost two of them?
Did you know that the Eitel Building was nominated for historic landmark status by nearby condominium owners to prevent the construction of a 22-story tower?
Did you know that the upcoming video game The Artful Escape is described as " David Bowie traveling off from London on an interstellar trip to create Ziggy Stardust"?
Did you know that Constance Wood was the first to install a cyclotron in a hospital, but was teased by one of her patients with a rat?
Did you know that Publishers Weekly called Why We Want You to Be Rich authors Donald Trump and Robert Kiyosaki "a strangely winning combination"?
Did you know that Canadian theoretical physicist Helen Freedhoff was doctoral advisor to Schrödinger 's grandson?
Did you know that Tallinn Central Library lends Estonian-language e-books to people in any part of the world?
Did you know that Sam Panopoulos "invented" the Hawaiian pizza ?
Did you know that the city hall of Bellevue, Washington , was previously a Qwest telecommunications office?
Did you know that the BBC medical drama series Casualty received criticism for a series 29 episode which featured a crash that viewers believed resembled the 2014 Glasgow bin lorry crash ?
Did you know that the population of oak pinhole borer beetles in Britain greatly increased after the Great Storm of 1987 brought down large numbers of trees?
Did you know that Science Express , a scientific exhibition for children mounted on a train, is included in the Limca Book of Records for being the largest, the longest running and the most visited mobile exhibition?
Did you know that the book Think Big and Kick Ass , by Donald Trump and Bill Zanker , was the highest selling personal finance work on Amazon.com in 2015?
Did you know that " Wonderous Stories " by the progressive rock band Yes remains their highest charting UK single with a peak at number 7 in 1977?
Did you know that katemeshi was a common peasant food in Japan during the Meiji and Taishō periods?
Did you know that the slave-owner and MP William James received £4,713, equivalent to about £6 million today, as compensation following the British Slavery Abolition Act of 1833 ?
Did you know that during the final hours of operation for the Douglas County Library System , supporters held a wake ?
Did you know that during the reign of Muhammad II , Granada survived simultaneous attacks by Castile and the Marinids , its two larger neighbors?
Did you know that the Rolling Stones' concert in Havana was the first foreign rock concert to take place in Cuba and was attended by an estimated 500,000 people?
Did you know that economist Peter Schmidt 's 1977 work on stochastic frontier models is considered one of the most influential Journal of Econometrics papers of all time?
Did you know that a traditional town fair in Zagreb , Croatia, has its roots in a Mongol invasion ?
Did you know that the Downtown Seattle Transit Tunnel is the only tunnel with stations shared between trains and buses in the United States?
Did you know that Bencie Woll was the first person to hold a professorship in sign language in the United Kingdom?
Did you know that the sea anemone Gonactinia prolifera can both walk and swim?
Did you know that after lobbying to regulate the licensing of nurses in Colorado , Louie Croft Boyd applied for and became the first licensed nurse in the state?
Did you know that living glass anemones can be dissected in the laboratory and then put back in an aquarium, where they will heal ?
Did you know that the Islamic prophet Muhammad was reported to have said that whoever recited the Quranic chapter Al-Waqi'a every night would "never be afflicted by need"?
Did you know that the book Insane Clown President by Matt Taibbi debuted on bestseller lists for both The New York Times and the Los Angeles Times ?
Did you know that Lioba Braun , who became known appearing as Brangäne in Bayreuth in 1994, was the first soloist to record Reger's Die Weihe der Nacht ?
Did you know that the Superliner was the last rail passenger car manufactured by Pullman-Standard ?
Did you know that Typhoon Joe and Typhoon Kim struck the Philippines within a week of each other in July 1980?
Did you know that the first United States vessel to enter the Black Sea was owned by Ezra Weston II , a Massachusetts shipbuilder known as "King Caesar"?
Did you know that MINURCA was established by the UN Security Council to replace another peacekeeping force called MISAB?
Did you know that Kate Devlin is a computer scientist working in the field of sex robots and human-computer interaction?
Did you know that Robert Heinlein 's 1959 novel Starship Troopers is a critique of US society of the 1950s, and advocates for corporal and capital punishment ?
Did you know that award-winning film director Nujoom Al-Ghanem is also a poet?
Did you know that the Irish Fright caused thousands of English people to arm themselves against non-existent Irish marauders believed to be burning and massacring English towns?
Did you know that the Karimata Strait , today in Indonesia, was used by the British fleet in the 1811 invasion of Java ?
Did you know that Matthias von Stegmann made German voice-overs for The Simpsons , staged Wagner's Ring Cycle for children, and directed the first production of Wagner's Rienzi at the Bayreuth Festival ?
Did you know that the documentary Trump: The Kremlin Candidate? presented by John Sweeney was featured at the International Journalism Festival in Perugia , Italy ?
Did you know that Pietro Campori was promoted as a candidate for pope in both 1621 and 1623?
Did you know that the first ice rink in South Africa was created for the 1936 Empire Exhibition ?
Did you know that after surviving a shooting incident, Boakye Agyarko immigrated to the US as a political refugee and rose to become a vice president of the Bank of New York ?
Did you know that colonies of the black coral Leiopathes glaberrima can live for over four thousand years?
Did you know that Indian politician Akhtarul Iman withdrew his candidacy for the 2014 Indian general election ten days before the poll, stating that he did not want to split the Muslim vote?
Did you know that Martin Luther wrote the song of praise " Die beste Zeit im Jahr ist mein " ("The best time of the year is mine") as part of a poem, not as a hymn ?
Did you know that Chris Young was deposed in 1924 by the Governor of American Samoa after he took the Samoan royal title Tui Manu'a , because the idea was incompatible with the US Constitution?
Did you know that Tropical Depression Six of the 1975 Atlantic hurricane season caused the Florida Panhandle to have its rainiest July since 1923?
Did you know that the 34th chapter of the Quran was named after Sheba , but does not talk about the Queen of Sheba ?
Did you know that Dutch politician Annelien Kappeyne van de Coppello was the first person to introduce protection of lesbian rights and anti-discrimination measures at an official UN conference ?
Did you know that the first-round draw for the English 2017–18 EFL Cup was held in Thailand?
Did you know that actress Siobhan Finneran said she wanted her Downton Abbey character "flung off the roof of the Abbey"?
Did you know that red-headed pine sawfly larvae drag pine needles into the silken tubes in which they live?
Did you know that theoretical physicist Deepak Dhar and Ramakrishna Ramaswamy solved the Abelian sandpile model of self-organized criticality with their "Dhar-Ramaswamy model"?
Did you know that Seattle 's passenger-only ferries , blamed for beach erosion, were forced to slow down because of a class-action lawsuit?
Did you know that Juana Bordas says her parents were uncomfortable with the idea of her leaving home to go to college due to the "crab syndrome"?
Did you know that the Soviet Army's 7th Guards Tank Division was part of the Group of Soviet Forces in Germany for 43 years during the Cold War?
Did you know that the call letters of radio stations KFAS and KFAS-FM were adopted to honor minority owner Francis Albert Sinatra ?
Did you know that Oklahoma state legislator Emily Virgin tried to derail a religious freedom bill by proposing that businesses must publicly post a notice declaring whom they would refuse services to?
Did you know that a classically conditioned stimulus can affect operant behavior and motivation through Pavlovian-instrumental transfer ?
Did you know that Hayao Miyazaki aspired to become a manga artist but found he could not draw people, instead drawing primarily planes, tanks, and battleships for several years?
Did you know that Neal McDonough 's appearance in the Marvel One-Shot short Agent Carter was supposed to be filmed in a pool, but could not because of the muscle suit he wore to portray Dum Dum Dugan ?
Did you know that during the Siege of Thessalonica in 1422–1430, the city changed hands from the Byzantine Empire to the Republic of Venice , and finally was captured by the Ottoman Empire ?
Did you know that Scissor Sisters and MNDR conceived the song " Swerlk " to commemorate the anniversary of the 2016 Orlando nightclub shooting ?
Did you know that Yuan dynasty plum-blossom painter Wang Mian lived in a house surrounded by a thousand plum trees?
Did you know that the decline of book review sections in newspapers was the impetus for the founding of the New York Journal of Books ?
Did you know that Joan Birkland won both the Colorado state tennis and golf championships in the same summer ... twice?
Did you know that the Government of Bihar started a bidding process to get an industry partner for the Indian Institute of Information Technology, Bhagalpur , but no bidder emerged?
Did you know that the 59th Ariel Awards will be held despite a 77% cut to the Mexican Academy of Film Arts and Sciences ' budget?
Did you know that Frank Beermann conducted the first recording of Bruno Maderna 's Requiem, and the German premiere of Péter Eötvös 's opera Love and Other Demons at the Chemnitz Opera ?
Did you know that Christopher Hitchens called the book The Terrorists of Iraq by Malcolm Nance "a highly potent analysis" of jihadism ?
Did you know that Richard H. Carmichael was shot down on 20 August 1944 while leading the 462d Bombardment Group in the bombing of Yawata , the first daylight air raid on Japan since the Tokyo Raid in 1942?
Did you know that the Penstemon digitalis cultivar "Husker Red" was named after the Nebraska Cornhuskers ?
Did you know that the 49th chapter of the Quran compares backbiting , a sin in Islam, to "eating the flesh of one's brother"?
Did you know that Dominic Nitiwul has been involved in the fight against galamseyers ?
Did you know that the Chinese have been playing their version of Monopoly and Snakes and Ladders since the ninth century?
Did you know that Scottish engineer Adam Clark spent ten years of his life building the Chain Bridge in Budapest, and has appeared on Hungarian currency?
Did you know that Donald Trump said he read the book Defeating ISIS by Malcolm Nance while a candidate for U.S. president?
Did you know that Rhacotis , the Egyptian predecessor of Alexandria , may have been a thriving city centuries before the birth of Alexander ?
Did you know that due to several accidents, only six cars finished on the lead lap at the 2017 Rainguard Water Sealers 600 ?
Did you know that Dara Hobbs appeared as Wagner's Isolde at many venues, including Theater Bonn , Stadttheater Minden , and Schloss Neuschwanstein ?
Did you know that Yoshiki , star of rockumentary We Are X , must wear a neck brace while drumming and keeps oxygen tanks backstage due to asthma?
Did you know that Marc Kasowitz has represented Donald Trump in bankruptcies, sexual misconduct allegations , and the Russian election interference investigation?
Did you know that when his candidacy was vetoed in the 1669–70 papal conclave , Scipione Pannocchieschi d’Elci became so embarrassed that it was said to be the cause of his death shortly thereafter?
Did you know that Banksia hookeriana plants are larger when they grow on road verges ?
Did you know that Virginia Apuzzo was a nun until shortly after the Stonewall riots , when she left her convent and became a gay rights and AIDS activist?
Did you know that The Beast is the first book written by CPJ International Press Freedom Award -winning journalist Óscar Martínez?
Did you know that Maria Friesenhausen sang soprano solo with the NDR Chor in the 1950s and trained students of the University of Dortmund for an opera performance in 2001?
Did you know that there are many more female than male great spruce bark beetles , and incestuous matings are normal?
Did you know that despite his role as a medic to the Decepticons, the character of Knock Out in Transformers: Prime was created as a foil to Bumblebee ?
Did you know that Fest- und Gedenksprüche are three motets composed by Johannes Brahms for the ceremony in which he was named an honorary citizen of Hamburg ?
Did you know that Luang Pu Sodh Candasaro ordained the British monk who set up the first Theravada monastic community in Britain?
Did you know that young mullets swim through lava tubes into Halulu Lake in the Hawaiian Islands, but have to be brought to Halalii Lake in barrels?
Did you know that Edward H. Phelps was wounded at the Battle of Missionary Ridge , and while still leading his men forward was shot a second time and killed?
Did you know that after its dissolution in 1973, some members of the Labour Party of Scotland left to work for a pirate radio station ?
Did you know that stockbroker Tony Rudd was recruited by the future British Home Secretary to be an extra in the film Four Weddings and a Funeral ?
Did you know that Ernest Addison , the fifteenth Governor of the Bank of Ghana , is a Mfantsipim alumnus?
Did you know that the Taylor Force Act , proposed by US Senator Lindsey Graham, would prevent the Palestinian National Authority from using American economic aid to pay terrorists?
Did you know that the naval architect Robert Logan designed the first steel train ferry ?
Did you know that the season three premiere of Rick and Morty was first aired unannounced as a part of Adult Swim 's annual April Fools' joke?
Did you know that Spanish footballer Nahikari García signed for Real Sociedad when she was 16 years old?
Did you know that white-footed ants protect red scale insects , a major pest of citrus in South Africa?
Did you know that Soviet Air Forces fighter pilot and commander Pyotr Pumpur began his military career as a chauffeur?
Did you know that the Kölner Rundfunkchor , the radio choir of the WDR in Cologne, premiered Karlheinz Stockhausen's Momente in 1962?
Did you know that Janina Goss has been described as the "power behind the throne" in modern Polish politics?
Did you know that the Arkansas Air & Military Museum displays Walmart founder Sam Walton 's first aircraft, an Ercoupe 415C ?
Did you know that Ajige beheaded Shen Shikui for his refusal to surrender Ka Island ?
Did you know that Truth Serum , Tove Lo 's debut EP, is a concept record that describes her most intense love affair, from the happy beginning to trying to move on after the breakup?
Did you know that William A. Dwyer Jr. and Joseph T. Murphy were opponents in a 1960 Philadelphia City Council election but were later colleagues on the Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas ?
Did you know that the Palestinian Authority Martyr's Fund pays monthly stipends to the families of suicide bombers?
Did you know that Puchuldiza in Chile was the site of the first electricity generated from geothermal energy in South America?
Did you know that Governor-elect of the State of Mexico Alfredo del Mazo Maza 's father , grandfather , and cousin all held the office before him?
Did you know that the Vintage Grill & Car Museum in Weatherford, Texas , features President Lyndon B. Johnson's 1964 Lincoln Continental and a 1975 Trabant ?
Did you know that during the civil war of the Ottoman Interregnum , at one time or another Junayd Bey , ruler of the Beylik of Aydın , supported four different Ottoman princes vying for the throne?
Did you know that the upcoming film Velipadinte Pusthakam will be the first collaboration between director Lal Jose and actor Mohanlal ?
Did you know that Claudia Barainsky performed operatic title roles including Daphne , Lulu , Medea , and Melusine ?
Did you know that Full Fact fact-checked the Brexit referendum ?
Did you know that Qing dynasty poet Lin Yining was part of the "Banana Garden Five"?
Did you know that Brideside was launched in Chicago because it was perceived to be the largest bridal market in the United States?
Did you know that at the beginning of his reign, Muhammad III of Granada allied his kingdom with Castile and Aragon against the Marinids , while at the end those three powers were allied against him?
Did you know that the Porco caldera in Bolivia, a major source of silver for the Inca , is now Bolivia's largest zinc mine?
Did you know that chaudfroid sauce can be prepared using a reduction of boiled meat carcasses and other ingredients?
Did you know that Sunil Babu Pant was the first openly gay federal-level legislator in Asia?
Did you know that Kolkata mayor Sovan Chatterjee is the first mayor of any city of India to get Z-plus security cover ?
Did you know that elevated parks are becoming more common, inspired by the success of New York's High Line ?
Did you know that while Maximilian II replaced Alard du Gaucquier as Kapellmeister, he thought highly enough of him to grant a patent of nobility ?
Did you know that the Nugent–RajanBabu reagent can be used to prepare a key intermediate in the synthesis of vinorelbine , a treatment for non-small-cell lung cancer ?
Did you know that former Attorney General Ayikoi Otoo is now Ghana's High Commissioner to Canada?
Did you know that the predatory beetle Rhizophagus grandis was imported to the United States from Belgium in an attempt to control the black turpentine beetle ?
Did you know that in 1972, Colorado engineering technician Janet Bonnema legally challenged the superstition that a woman who went underground into a tunnel or mine brought bad luck?
Did you know that Moufdi Zakaria reportedly wrote the lyrics to the national anthem of Algeria with his own blood on the walls of his jail cell?
Did you know that construction of the Macrolibramiento Palmillas-Apaseo el Grande highway was delayed by difficulties acquiring rights of way, rising material costs, and intermittent funding from the Mexican government?
Did you know that after the death of pediatric neurologist Bronson Crothers , Harvard Medical School established a professorship in his name?
Did you know that the video game Horizon Zero Dawn was considered the most risky out of 40 concepts pitched for development?
Did you know that sailors under Magellan may have guessed that Samborombón Bay was the birthplace of the phantom island of Saint Brendan ?
Did you know that the upcoming film The Darkest Minds is the live-action directorial debut of animation director Jennifer Yuh Nelson ?
Did you know that physician Bodog F. Beck kept a beehive outside his office in New York for his "bee venom therapy"?
Did you know that David Hermann staged a Mozart opera at the Salzburg Festival at age 29, and combined three Krenek operas in Frankfurt ?
Did you know that one of the final Quranic chapters revealed in Mecca , called " The Sundering ", talks about the Day of Judgment ?
Did you know that NASCAR Hall of Famer Bud Moore was a machine gunner who participated in the Normandy landings ?
Did you know that a " food innovation district " and farmers' market are proposed for the immediate vicinity of Rainier Beach station ?
Did you know that the New Zealand cricketer Richard Hadlee was twice the man of the series in the Trans-Tasman Trophy ?
Did you know that Irish director Neasa Hardiman won both an IFTA and a BAFTA award for her work on Happy Valley ?
Did you know that despite years of investigation and a manhunt, the 1939 City of San Francisco derailment remains unsolved?
Did you know that in 1678, Anthonio Hurdt led the forces of the Dutch East India Company for the Kediri campaign in Java, despite his lack of experience in Java or in military command?
Did you know that ecotourism resort Hotelito Desconocido was reportedly a money laundering front for a Mexican drug cartel ?
Did you know that Spanish footballer Álvaro Domínguez was forced to retire at the age of 27 due to persistent back injuries?