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Did you know that at the outbreak of World War II, British fashion designer Elspeth Champcommunal and her partner Jane Heap fled from Germany to London via Switzerland?
Did you know that the mountaineer Jean-Antoine Carrel missed being the first to ascend the Matterhorn by only three days?
Did you know that in 2012 there were 83.3 million dogs in the United States , with about 47% of American households owning one?
Did you know that a critic from The Atlantic wrote that " Jealous " was one of the most notable songs in Beyoncé 's music catalog?
Did you know that Sheila was the first non-military dog to be awarded the Dickin Medal , considered the animals' Victoria Cross ?
Did you know that Ashley Tisdale became the first female artist to have two songs debut at the same time on the US Billboard Hot 100 , with " What I've Been Looking For " and "Bop to the Top"?
Did you know that ajaw Itzam K'an Ahk II 's reign of Piedras Negras , from 729 to 757 AD, was one marked by hegemony over neighboring kingdoms?
Did you know that the jawbone of Armenian activist Khetcho was shattered by a bullet during a battle?
Did you know that illegal forms of gambling in Manila included jueteng , masiao, and "last two"?
Did you know that despite being injured by a land mine some 3 feet (1 m) away, war dog Ricky continued to clear the mines from the surrounding area?
Did you know that the Washington State Treasurer must post a $500,000 surety bond before taking office?
Did you know that the German archaeologist Michael Meinecke excavated the ruins of the eighth-century palace complex of Harun al-Rashid at Ar-Raqqah in Syria?
Did you know that many of the women interviewed for Aspergirls were diagnosed with Asperger syndrome only after their children had received that diagnosis?
Did you know that Geoffrey Bles bought his employee's publishing firm and thus acquired the rights to the Narnia series by C. S. Lewis ?
Did you know that Philip Rosenthal was inspired to write " Italy ", the two-part season five premiere of Everybody Loves Raymond , based on a conversation with Ray Romano about their plans for the summer?
Did you know that the baseball player Dick Burns 's "up-shoot" was called "a beauty"?
Did you know that Mine Gap Run is designated as a coldwater fishery even though no fish have been observed in it?
Did you know that Harry Scott Smith coined the term " biological control " in 1919?
Did you know that during World War II , white Southern Rhodesian troops operating behind German lines communicated by radio in an African language ?
Did you know that Van Gogh visited the Musée Réattu upon his arrival in Arles in 1888, describing it as "dreadful and a joke" in a letter to his brother Theo ?
Did you know that the first law prohibiting racial discrimination in Washington state theaters and restaurants was introduced in 1890 by William Owen Bush ?
Did you know that the extinct ant Attopsis was fossilized in what may have been a lagoon?
Did you know that in the year before he became Fort William mayor, Robert Pow was a member of the winning curling team at the 1932 Winter Olympics ?
Did you know that the headwaters of Mehoopany Creek are home to three plant species that are rare or endangered in Pennsylvania?
Did you know that Ghory and Dixit were called the Indian Laurel and Hardy ?
Did you know that the Himalayan pika inhabits rocky places, screes, walls and cliffs at altitudes of up to 4,200 metres (13,800 ft)?
Did you know that the French engineer Joseph Farcot 's design for two coupled horizontal steam engines won the grand prize at the 1867 Universal Exhibition in Paris?
Did you know that the Italian cargo liner SS Bosnia pulled off the French armored cruiser Amiral Charner on 3 March 1915 after the warship had run aground under enemy fire off Dedeagatch , Bulgaria?
Did you know that thousands of St. Louis, Missouri , residents rioted after a bullfight was canceled by governor Alexander Monroe Dockery ?
Did you know that Mosaic by Jeri Taylor is one of two novels to have been considered canon in the Star Trek universe?
Did you know that Yuxian was called the "Butcher of Shanxi", and blamed for ordering the Taiyuan Massacre – execution of Western missionaries in 1900 – but he probably only witnessed it and did not order it?
Did you know that Kelaart's toad is considered endangered because its range totals less than 500 square kilometres (190 sq mi)?
Did you know that Victor Hartman was awarded the Litteris et Artibus medal in 1882?
Did you know that The Raid: Redemption 's "Mad Dog", Yayan Ruhian , is scheduled to act in a Yakuza–vampire film ?
Did you know that the German fighter pilot Joachim Müncheberg shot down the Hurricane of British flying ace James MacLachlan ?
Did you know that the first Belgian postage stamp series depicted Leopold I wearing military uniform, with highly visible epaulettes?
Did you know that Kim Hyun-joong 's fourth EP Timing reflects his past, present, and future endeavors?
Did you know that the choreographer Liam Scarlett is The Royal Ballet 's first Artist in Residence, a post created especially for him?
Did you know that the fulvous harvest mouse may be able to reduce its body temperature while sleeping in winter, possibly doing so on a daily basis?
Did you know that the development of the game Monsters Ate My Birthday Cake was boosted by a Kickstarter campaign?
Did you know that in 1547 Mrauk-U defenses stopped an invasion by the Taungoo Dynasty of Burma by opening the sluices of the Mrauk-U city 's reservoirs, and flooding out the invaders?
Did you know that American singer ILoveMakonnen was named after the royal family of Ethiopia, but is in fact of African, Indian, Irish, Belgian, German and Chinese descent?
Did you know that the narrow-skulled pocket mouse can be distinguished from Goldman's pocket mouse partly by the dimensions of its skull?
Did you know that the social democratic newspaper Volkswacht was placed under preventive censorship during World War I ?
Did you know that the extinct ant species Apterostigma electropilosum was described from a solitary fossil in amber ?
Did you know that the costume historian Anne Hollander claimed that clothes reveal more than they conceal?
Did you know that Fu Shanxiang is known as the first female Zhuangyuan because she took first place in the 1853 imperial civil service exams for women given by the rebel Taiping Heavenly Kingdom ?
Did you know that the distinct fauna of the Kirtlandian includes the dinosaur Pentaceratops sternbergii ?
Did you know that Otto Stadie , a nurse who served at Adolf Hitler 's headquarters with the Nazi euthanasia program , kept the register of stolen gold and diamonds at Treblinka ?
Did you know that the Guthrie Historic District was created to preserve architecturally significant structures built when Guthrie was the capital of Oklahoma Territory and the first capital of the state of Oklahoma ?
Did you know that Glen Rounds , a prolific author and illustrator of children's books, spent a summer touring the Western United States with fellow art student Jackson Pollock ?
Did you know that the founder of Little Athletics once turned away three young boys from an athletics meet, citing their youth as the reason?
Did you know that the discoverers of mendelevium had to seek the permission of the United States government to propose it be named after Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev , father of the periodic table ?
Did you know that a female Afghan pika may have 30 or more offspring in a year?
Did you know that Ron Capps served in five war zones in ten years before founding the Veterans Writing Project?
Did you know that the title of Kim Kyu-jong 's 2012 EP Meet Me Again refers to his promise to meet with his fans again after his two-year mandatory military service in South Korea?
Did you know that Tony Gwynn bypassed the usual two-year wait for the San Diego Padres Hall of Fame in becoming its first unanimous selection?
Did you know that Ecce sacerdos magnus by Anton Bruckner is a sacred work "of almost barbaric intensity"?
Did you know that Sally Hemings was an enslaved woman of mixed race owned by President Thomas Jefferson , and had a long-term relationship and six children with him?
Did you know that Jacobus Anthonie Meessen spent six years photographing the Dutch East Indies in the 1860s, then gave an album of the best images to his king ?
Did you know that although Deng Liqun was instrumental in ousting Zhao Ziyang following the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 , he was one of the few Chinese leaders to lay a wreath at Zhao's funeral in 2005?
Did you know that the first automobile factory in the United States built with reinforced concrete beams and encasements was constructed by Julius Kahn 's Trussed Concrete Steel Company and its Truscon Laboratories , with Albert Kahn Associates as the architects?
Did you know that the fern genus Gaga is named for Lady Gaga ?
Did you know that in 1966, Beijing Daily , the official newspaper of the CPC Beijing Municipal Committee, was forced to cease publication after it refused to publish a paper by one of the Gang of Four ?
Did you know that Aerolot , the predecessor of Poland's flag carrier LOT Polish Airlines , has common roots with Lufthansa , the flag carrier of Germany?
Did you know that the film Dallas Buyers Club is about Ron Woodroof (played by Matthew McConaughey ), a real-life AIDS patient who smuggled unapproved pharmaceutical drugs into Texas?
Did you know that the yellow-cheeked chipmunk is secretive in its habits and is more likely to be heard than seen?
Did you know that Andrew Velazquez set a Minor League Baseball record by reaching base safely in 74 consecutive games played ?
Did you know that the German non-profit organisation GWUP annually tests persons claiming paranormal skills (and seeking a €10,000 reward), but nobody has ever passed the test?
Did you know that the red-tailed chipmunk feeds mainly on seeds and berries but has been caught in traps baited with meat?
Did you know that civil engineer Mike Cottell was an early contributor to computer-aided design , and software he developed in 1970 was still in use thirty years later?
Did you know that mushroom ketchup dates back to the 18th century in the United Kingdom and United States?
Did you know that Craig Borten first sold a script for Dallas Buyers Club in 1996, but the film was not released until 2013?
Did you know that Jaggermeryx naida was named in honor of Mick Jagger due to its large, sensitive lips?
Did you know that In the Room , currently in-production and directed by Eric Khoo , is the first ever Singaporean erotic film ?
Did you know that the Central Intelligence Agency characterized their operative William Young as American on the outside, Lahu on the inside?
Did you know that Malcolm's Ethiopian toad has what is believed to be a unique breeding strategy with many females laying their eggs at a single site on land?
Did you know that the wetlands on Beaver Run are the largest and most biologically diverse wetlands in Columbia County, Pennsylvania ?
Did you know that Brandon Poulson signed a professional baseball contract out of art school after he was recorded throwing 100 miles per hour (160 km/h)?
Did you know that the owner of the restaurant Las Vacas Gordas in Florida claimed Gordon Ramsay 's The Fat Cow in California was using his trademark?
Did you know that the Eijkman Institute was named in honor of Christiaan Eijkman , who discovered that beriberi is not caused by germs, but by a lack of Vitamin B1 ?
Did you know that the excavated cemetery at the Atlantic Trading Estate proved to be a rare find for the Late Roman period in South East Wales ?
Did you know that the newspaper Der Funke published an appeal signed by Albert Einstein , calling for unity against Adolf Hitler in the July 1932 elections in Germany ?
Did you know that the last remaining pair of twin covered bridges in Pennsylvania crossed Huntington Creek until one was destroyed by a flood in 2006?
Did you know that the Byzantine Cistern of Mocius , once the largest open air cistern in Constantinople , has been turned into the educational park of the Fatih district in Istanbul ?
Did you know that Prof and Rahzwell performed a regular "drunk show" in which they would only begin rapping once Rahzwell threw up?
Did you know that Charles Romeyn , an All-American fullback for the Army football team, was sent to Montana in 1902 with the charge of "quieting" the Cheyenne Indians ?
Did you know that the Irish billionaire property developer Sean Mulryan grew up in rural poverty?
Did you know that the olive-backed pocket mouse keeps its cheek pouches clean by rubbing them in the sand?
Did you know that William Byam 's World War I research into trench fever appeared in Lice and their Menace to Man ?
Did you know that St Helen's Church , in St Helens, Merseyside , has been described as "the focal point of the town"?
Did you know that the demoness Trijata is described as the ideal of a true friend by Indologist Camille Bulcke ?
Did you know that 1904 All-American football player Arthur Tipton prompted a rule change when he kicked a loose ball down the field and fell on it for a touchdown after it crossed the goal line?
Did you know that Starr Long , executive producer of the video game Shroud of the Avatar , was also the original director of the pioneering game Ultima Online ?
Did you know that the role of the two Admiral Spiridov -class monitors in Russian war plans during the 1890s was to defend the Gulf of Riga against an anticipated German amphibious landing ?
Did you know that Chicago High School , the first secondary school in Chicago, survived the Great Chicago Fire ?
Did you know that Alton Lemon was surprised to have a leading piece of First Amendment jurisprudence , the " Lemon Test ", bear his name?
Did you know that Shep the Dog was considered to have given a superior performance to that of his child co-star in A Dog's Love ?
Did you know that Sandy Proctor sculpted The Guardians , depicting two War in Afghanistan SEALs who inspired the film Lone Survivor ?
Did you know that the Argentine actor Mike Amigorena refused the role of Andrés Goddzer in the telenovela Graduados ?
Did you know that types of habitats in the watershed of Fallow Hollow include a deciduous seepy forest, a shrub swamp, a forested ravine, a graminoid/forb opening, and a pond?
Did you know that the Association of British Secretaries in America was created in the 1960s to assist a wave of such women coming to the United States to work and live?
Did you know that one song by Die Rhöner Säuwäntzt went viral among anti–wind power activists in Germany?
Did you know that James Randi used his 1980 book Flim-Flam! to launch an annual award for "the psychic who fools the greatest number of people with the least effort"?
Did you know that the daily load of aluminum in Black Creek below the Gowen Discharge is 12 times the load above it?
Did you know that Peter Russell was a horse rancher in Saskatchewan, Canada, a rubber planter in Malaya and a farmer in Norfolk, England, before becoming a fashion designer?
Did you know that every woman who undergoes an abortion in Iceland is required to receive counselling and education about contraception?
Did you know that Margaret Fritsch was the first woman to be licensed as an architect in Oregon?
Did you know that the Kawayan Torogan is the only remaining habitable torogan in the Philippines?
Did you know that the 2001 documentary Mind Meld features Star Trek ' s William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy discussing the effects the show had on their lives?
Did you know that Advanced Computer Techniques , a software company begun in the 1960s, featured language compilers from its developers and showmanship from its founder and leader?
Did you know that the chicks of Cabot's tragopan can fly within a few days of being hatched?
Did you know that Hungarian Archbishop József Grősz was imprisoned in 1951, despite committing the Church to supporting the country's Communist government ?
Did you know that while Fredrik Vogt served as director general of Norway's Water Resources and Energy Agency , that country's total annual hydroelectric production capacity increased from about 2 to nearly 8 TWh ?
Did you know that in the 1872 U.S. presidential election , Arkansas' electoral votes were rejected by a joint session of Congress because the physical document reporting the votes carried the wrong state coat of arms ?
Did you know that Blackberry Run has "very poor" water quality, but is designated as a high-quality coldwater fishery?
Did you know that Basuki Resobowo was a painter and an actor who portrayed a painter?
Did you know that Indang Church in Cavite has eight patrons – St. Gregory the Great and the Seven Archangels ?
Did you know that although Christian Madsen is the son of actor Michael Madsen , it was his grandmother who encouraged him to pursue a career in acting?
Did you know that the Georgian nave of St Peter's Church, Formby , Merseyside , and its Gothic Revival chancel have been described as creating a "jarring contrast"?
Did you know that after being purged , Romanian communist Mișu Dulgheru went from being a leading figure in the Securitate secret police to heading up Bucharest 's waste collectors ?
Did you know that Mexico City's new airport was designed by Sir Norman Foster ?
Did you know that the 1884-built hunting mansion of the Ottoman Crown Prince Yusuf Izzettin Efendi in Zincirlikuyu , Istanbul , was converted later to a vocational high school?
Did you know that Winners & Losers creator Bevan Lee asked actress Virginia Gay not to pursue her career in the US in order to play Frances James ?
Did you know that Bart Bok and his wife Priscilla , who were both astronomers, worked together so closely that it was "difficult and pointless to separate his achievements from hers"?
Did you know that Pope John XXII 's decretal Spondent Pariter banned alchemy , but not chemistry (which John himself had studied)?
Did you know that the Romanian exile Ștefan Baciu lost his executive job at the Congress for Cultural Freedom because the CIA determined he was too anti-communistic?
Did you know that 18 family members were kidnapped by the Gulf Cartel in Matamoros , Mexico in 2011?
Did you know that the Baptist minister James McLemore , founder of the Antioch Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama , owned the wife and child of black preacher Caesar Blackwell , who had been bought for US$ 625 by the Alabama Baptist Association in 1828 to preach to mixed audiences?
Did you know that the Agricultural University of Berlin was founded in 1881, but closed in 1934 and was incorporated as a faculty into the Humboldt University of Berlin ?
Did you know that Rajpal Yadav 's directorial debut Ata Pata Laapata was the last film of the veteran actors Dara Singh and Satyadev Dubey ?
Did you know that the radioactive decay of thorium produces a significant amount of the Earth's internal heat ?
Did you know that in ancient Egypt, dwarfs were assisted by guenons and worked as royal zookeepers and jewellers?
Did you know that Emilie Gourd is credited as one of the most prominent Swiss feminists of the 20th century?
Did you know that Octavio Rojas Hernández was the fifth journalist killed in Mexico in 2014?
Did you know that long before portraying Louise Brown in the 1990 movie Ghost , Gail Boggs portrayed Silvia in a 1971 performance of The Two Gentlemen of Verona ?
Did you know that Pocahontas School , a Tennessee public school for white children, did not have indoor plumbing until 1957?
Did you know that Vladimir Gaćinović , whose campaign for tyrannicide indirectly sparked World War I , was himself assassinated in neutral Switzerland?
Did you know that according to Jesus Freak Hideout , the band Islander , on their album Violence & Destruction , "put together a really solid collection of songs" of nu and rap metal thirteen years after the death of the genre?
Did you know that after seeking funding through Kickstarter , the Star Trek fan film Prelude to Axanar received US$ 101,000 – more than ten times the amount of financing originally sought?
Did you know that world number one golfer Rory McIlroy has chosen to represent Ireland at the 2016 Summer Olympics and not Great Britain ?
Did you know that the spotted houndshark , the speckled smooth-hound and the humpback smooth-hound are known as "tollo" and used for human consumption?
Did you know that ten rappers from Houston make cameo appearances in the music video for Beyoncé 's " No Angel "?
Did you know that the Māori rugby union player Joe Warbrick was killed by an eruption of the Waimangu Geyser ?
Did you know that the 2007 film Adrift in Manhattan was to be initially named 1 / 9 , after the subway lines, but was changed when the Sundance Film Festival demanded a more mainstream title?
Did you know that infection in childcare is a risk when groups of children meet for school or daycare, but hygiene reduces its prevalence?
Did you know that the Indian author Krishnalal Shridharani 's book War Without Violence was studied by Martin Luther King, Jr. during the Montgomery Bus Boycott ?
Did you know that José Carlos Cocarelli studied the piano in New York on a scholarship from the Brazilian government and won important competitions?
Did you know that Riddles of the Sphinx has been called "one of the most important avant-garde films to have emerged from Britain during the 1970s"?
Did you know that Colonel Elliott Fitch Shepard was president of the New York State Bar Association , and a Union recruiter, wealthy landowner, church founder, and newspaper owner?
Did you know that Dylan Penn —daughter of Sean Penn and Robin Wright —declined a US$150,000 offer to pose for a Playboy cover, but later appeared nude behind a $6000 Fendi bag on a treats! cover?
Did you know that in 1932 two German aviators were lost for 39 days in the remote Kimberley region of Western Australia before being rescued?
Did you know that the group that recorded the Band of Gypsys album with Jimi Hendrix had already broken up by the time of the album's release?
Did you know that in 1858 Robert Jefferson Bingham created the first photographic catalogue raisonné , showing the works of painter Paul Delaroche ?
Did you know that the 2nd Dragoon Regiment is the only military unit ever to receive France's Escapees' Medal , because nearly all of its members escaped from the German occupation of southern France in 1942?
Did you know that the experimental filmmaker Tessa Hughes-Freeland 's films include Baby Doll , Dirty and Nymphomania ?
Did you know that Germany used the Half Moon Camp to recruit fighters for a jihad against England and France?
Did you know that Maureen Baker created 250 outfits for Princess Anne , including her 1973 wedding dress?
Did you know that The Revenant , scheduled for a 2015 release, has been in development since 2001?
Did you know that Sir Alex Ferguson in 1992 called the Premier League 's decision to move its live games on satellite television as "the most ludicrous and backward decision football has taken"?
Did you know that The Kennel Club have attributed an increased interest in English Cocker Spaniels to Lupo , owned by the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge ?
Did you know that although the video game Sleeping Dogs sold 1.5 million copies within a year of its release, its publisher Square Enix considered it a commercial failure?
Did you know that the Union Pacific Railroad 's Overland Flyer , which debuted in 1887, was one of the first named passenger trains in the United States?
Did you know that the eponymous character of Mr. Pickles , a Border Collie , is based on one of the creators' Australian Cattle Dogs ?
Did you know that the 2,100-year-old mausoleum of the King of Jiangdu contained a kitchen with food, 100,000 coins, and the only undamaged jade coffin in China?
Did you know that the artist Bryan Nash Gill , who was known for his sculptures and cross-sections of trees, had a son named Forest?
Did you know that the American jihadists Troy Kastigar (died in Somalia, 2009) and Douglas McCain (died in Syria, 2014) both hailed from the Twin Cities area in Minnesota and attended the same high school?
Did you know that Ghassan Alian is the first non-Jewish commander of the Israel Defense Forces ' Golani Brigade ?