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Did you know that Narendra Kumar is the co-developer of the Dorokhov-Mello-Pereyra-Kumar equation , a theory on multi-channel conductivity using the principle of maximum entropy ?
Did you know that in 1979, Somerset deliberately lost a cricket match in 18 minutes?
Did you know that the epicenter of the 2009 Bhutan earthquake was 10 miles (16 km) away from Trashigang Dzong , and caused wide cracks to appear in the 350-year-old structure?
Did you know that the 2017 French presidential election was not fought between left and right , but between open and closed ?
Did you know that Rosalie Keliʻinoi , the first female legislator in the Territory of Hawaii , passed a bill which gave married women the right to sell their property without their husbands' permission?
Did you know that Argentine chef Federico Tobares disappeared while driving in Jalisco , Mexico?
Did you know that Clotilde Bressler-Gianoli played the titular character in Carmen in 1907 with "the allurement of sheer wickedness", and was accidentally stabbed on stage?
Did you know that Quintus Publilius Philo , Rome's first proconsul , was described as a "popular dictator"?
Did you know that Emma Ahuena Taylor , a supporter of women's suffrage, organized knitting units on behalf of Native Hawaiian soldiers fighting in World War I?
Did you know that Jeanette Antolin won three NCAA titles with the UCLA Bruins women's gymnastics team?
Did you know that the manga My Brother's Husband by Gengoroh Tagame tackles issues of homophobia in Japanese society?
Did you know that the May 1605 papal conclave was the only known papal election to result in broken bones?
Did you know that Vidhu Vincent is the first woman to win the Kerala State Film Award for Best Director ?
Did you know that Tapeats Creek in the Grand Canyon National Park is named after the Southern Paiute Indian who claimed ownership of it?
Did you know that Zahava Burack survived the Holocaust by hiding in a crawlspace beneath the home of a sympathetic Polish family for two and a half years?
Did you know that " The W.S. Walcott Medicine Show " was based on old minstrel and medicine shows , but was interpreted as an allegory on the dangers of success in the music business?
Did you know that the UK Local Government (Religious etc. Observances) Act 2015 was created to affirm the right to hold council prayers after the High Court had ruled them unlawful?
Did you know that Hans Peter Blochwitz , who appeared as Mozart's Don Ottavio at the Metropolitan Opera, premiered Hans Zender 's Schubert's "Winterreise" with the Ensemble Modern in 1993?
Did you know that the Twin Bing has been described as "two brown lumps, about the size of golf balls, roughly textured, and stuck to one another like Siamese twins"?
Did you know that Sudhanshu Shekhar Jha was guided in his doctoral studies by Felix Bloch , 1952 Nobel laureate , and in his post-doctoral work by Nicolaas Bloembergen , 1981 Nobel laureate?
Did you know that Jimmy Wales wants WikiTRIBUNE to counter fake news ?
Did you know that the 13th-century English royal justice Elias Beckingham was described as being one of only two honest judges in the kingdom?
Did you know that EuropaChorAkademie , a choir formed by students from two universities, participated in an award-winning recording of Bernd Alois Zimmermann's Requiem für einen jungen Dichter ?
Did you know that Mariano Gagnon was a Franciscan friar who organized airlifts to help refugees escape the Shining Path ?
Did you know that Simon Pagenaud 's victory at the 2017 Desert Diamond West Valley Phoenix Grand Prix was his first-ever IndyCar Series win on an oval track?
Did you know that the Stumptown scud , a crustacean endemic to the Portland metropolitan area , looks like a "cross between a prawn and a potato bug "?
Did you know that Christoph Siebert conducted the Collegium Vocale Gent singing music by Schubert and Annelies Van Parys in a theatrical performance at international festivals?
Did you know that in 2007, some UEFA members voted against allowing Gibraltar membership because Victoria Stadium was built on disputed land?
Did you know that Linda Laubenstein was one of the first physicians in the United States to recognize the AIDS epidemic in the early 1980s?
Did you know that during the Humboldt Park riot 40 years ago, the Chicago police department battled Puerto Rican protesters and rioters?
Did you know that Jepara was the only town on the north coast of Mataram not to be taken by Trunajaya's North Coast offensive , after a successful joint defense by Mataram and the Dutch East India Company ?
Did you know that the Reconstruction Era National Monument includes the place where, on New Year's Day 1863, Union Army General Rufus Saxton publicly read the Emancipation Proclamation to 3,000 slaves?
Did you know that the owner of World Champion bucking bull Bones exercised him in a mechanized circular walker in a deep sand pit?
Did you know that Robert Grace was the first manufacturer of the Pennsylvania fireplace , designed by Benjamin Franklin , which heated rooms more efficiently than an open fireplace?
Did you know that Katy Perry first teased the release of her song " Bon Appétit " with a cherry pie recipe?
Did you know that in 1970, Austrian Post issued a commemorative postage stamp honoring the composer and bass singer Thomas Koschat ?
Did you know that in 1959, an Alabama state senator said a children's book about two fuzzy rabbits, The Rabbits' Wedding , was "propaganda for integration and intermarriage" and tried to get the book banned?
Did you know that Shyam Sunder Kapoor contributed to the establishment of a pelletron accelerator facility at Tata Institute of Fundamental Research ?
Did you know that Electrada Corporation , a 1960s-era conglomerate, ran into difficulties after its management reportedly spent more time on acquisitions and financial markets than on actually running the business?
Did you know that Kong Tai Heong , the first Chinese woman to practice medicine in Hawaii, was credited by Ripley's Believe It or Not! as having delivered over 6,000 babies?
Did you know that Gordian Fulde , the director of one of the busiest emergency departments in Australia, was named Senior Australian of the Year in 2016?
Did you know that when passenger service was resumed on Sweden's Lysekil Line after 33 years, the train driver had to switch on the line's power himself?
Did you know that Günter Jena , for decades a church music director in Hamburg , conducted the NDR Chor in a recording of the complete a cappella works by Johannes Brahms ?
Did you know that fragments of ancient Maya books have been recovered from the ruins of Guaytán in Guatemala?
Did you know that James Dale Ritchie was not suspected to be the Anchorage Serial Killer until after he had been shot dead while attacking a police officer?
Did you know that the newly established Women's Super Rugby league will include Gloucester-Hartpury Women , Harlequins Ladies , Loughborough Students (Lightning) , and Waterloo Ladies , but will exclude a team that has been in the top flight for 15 years?
Did you know that although the lyrics of the Chick Corea song " 500 Miles High " express romantic love, it became a hippie drug anthem?
Did you know that Max Thurn , who founded the NDR Chor in 1946, conducted a series of Bach cantatas and prepared the choir for a live recording of Isang Yun 's Om mani padme hum in 1964?
Did you know that Five Nights at Freddy's appeared in the Guinness World Records: Gamer's Edition , breaking the record for the most sequels released in a year?
Did you know that astronomer Sidney C. Wolff was the first woman to direct a major observatory in the United States?
Did you know that a cryptic crossword central to " The Riddle of the Sphinx ", an episode of Inside No. 9 , was published in The Guardian the same day the episode aired?
Did you know that when the Red Rock Bridge was no longer needed for trains, it was converted to carry the auto traffic of U.S. Route 66 over the Colorado River ?
Did you know that although socialism is one of its four fundamental principles , the Constitution of Bangladesh also allows cooperative and private ownership alongside state ownership?
Did you know that Leon Day pitched a no-hitter on Opening Day after a nearly three-year absence from the Negro leagues ?
Did you know that Democrats Thomas P. McHenry and Maurice S. Osser served together as Philadelphia City Commissioners for 20 years, until McHenry died and Osser went to jail?
Did you know that finds made at the Pocklington Iron Age burial ground include a rare chariot burial complete with horses?
Did you know that Japanese singer-songwriter Anly began playing songs by ear on her guitar when she was in third grade ?
Did you know that hundreds of tourists became stranded when Cyclone Ada ravaged Whitsunday Island resorts in January 1970?
Did you know that Chanchal Kumar Majumdar developed the Kohn-Majumdar theorem with his mentor, Walter Kohn , and the Majumdar–Ghosh model with his student, Dipan Ghosh ?
Did you know that Arlington, Texas , was the largest city in the United States without public transportation until it launched the Metro Arlington Xpress in 2013?
Did you know that classically trained pianist Jon Schmidt augments his live performances by playing the piano with his toes and performing while upside-down?
Did you know that the Rugrats episode " Mother's Day " addressed the absence of Chuckie Finster 's mother by revealing that she had died of a terminal illness?
Did you know that in his 2014 exhibition Using Beauty as a Remedy for Life , Pakistani artist Mahmood Hayat questioned whether objective standards of beauty exist ?
Did you know that during the Balfour Mission 100 years ago, Arthur Balfour became the first Englishman to address both houses of the U.S. Congress ?
Did you know that several buildings by Ellamae Ellis League are listed in the National Register of Historic Places , including the home she built for herself?
Did you know that the Japan Medical Association deployed 6,054 medical and support personnel during the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami ?
Did you know that "' Allein Gott in der Höh sei Ehr " is one of the oldest hymns of the Reformation ?
Did you know that in his song cycles , Graham Waterhouse has used a cello, a string quartet, or a Pierrot ensemble to complement the singer?
Did you know that the Train Track Park , containing 7 kilometres (4.3 mi) of walking and biking trails, was built over the century-old route of the Jaffa–Jerusalem railway ?
Did you know that Krityunjai Prasad Sinha secured a second doctorate from the University of Bristol based on his post-doctoral work at Maurice Pryce 's laboratory?
Did you know that occupational exposure banding can quickly and accurately assign chemicals into specific hazard categories when quantitative exposure limits are not available?
Did you know that the name of Japanese electronic rock band The Sixth Lie is a reference to a quotation from Claude Debussy ?
Did you know that the pendulum car was an experimental forerunner of the tilting train , but was not widely adopted on American railroads?
Did you know that Lukas Lundin had a US$100 million eco-friendly super-yacht built in 2015?
Did you know that proteins from a bacterium toxic to pests have been incorporated into crop plants for biological pest control ?
Did you know that in 2000, Lloyds Bank RFC 's ground was sold by Lloyds TSB, which meant the club had to groundshare with a rival bank?
Did you know that V. S. Sangwan developed a treatment protocol for corneal injuries using cultured limbal stem cells ?
Did you know that Turkish journalist Erol Önderoğlu , a campaigner for freedom of the press , was arrested for spreading "terrorism propaganda" in favor of the Kurdistan Workers' Party ?
Did you know that the German cities of Duisburg , Essen , and Kiel all had their populations increase five-fold or more between 1875 and 1910?
Did you know that conquistador Pedro de Portocarrero founded the first Spanish colonial town within the territory of the modern Mexican state of Chiapas ?
Did you know that Arlington, Washington , was locally known as the " Shingle Capital of the World"?
Did you know that a number of insect species were named in honour of Dutch entomologist Jacobus van der Vecht ?
Did you know that some critics noted that Demi Lovato 's song " Fix a Heart " has references in its lyrics to the singer's past issues with self-harm ?
Did you know that the proposed Mega Manila Subway would be the first subway system in the Philippines?
Did you know that sociologist, feminist, and campaigner for lesbian and gay rights Mary Susan McIntosh was deported from the U.S. in 1960 for speaking out against the House Un-American Activities Committee ?
Did you know that the Cummer Museum of Art and Gardens was selected for the United States' National Register of Historic Places ?
Did you know that Chinmoy Sankar Dey developed an insulin-resistant in-vitro skeletal muscle model for screening anti-diabetic medication , for which he holds a U.S. patent?
Did you know that the Dark Hedges tree tunnel, a popular tourist destination since it was used as the King's Road in Game of Thrones , might not last twenty years?
Did you know that the lascivious lyrics of The Band 's " Jemima Surrender " inspired Naomi Weisstein to form the Chicago Women's Liberation Rock Band ?
Did you know that Anne Penfold Street , one of Australia's leading mathematicians, earned bachelor's and master's degrees in chemistry before switching to mathematics?
Did you know that the Guatemalan labor organization Committee for Peasant Unity once led a strike that forced a minimum wage increase of nearly 200%?
Did you know that French singer-songwriter Indila , who has described herself as a "child of the world", is of Algerian, Cambodian, Egyptian, and Indian descent?
Did you know that the Kurşunlu Mosque and Complex hosts a museum that exhibits handmade meerschaum pipes ?
Did you know that E. S. Raja Gopal held the position of a CSIR emeritus scientist at both the National Physical Laboratory of India and the Indian Institute of Science ?
Did you know that in 2007, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled that a sperm donor was not obligated to pay child support ?
Did you know that Yves Bélanger had been working as a cinematographer for more than twenty years when he made his breakthrough with Dallas Buyers Club ?
Did you know that S. C. Jain , together with Kariamanickam Srinivasa Krishnan , developed a method for the measurement of thermal conductivity at high temperatures in solids?
Did you know that the predatory mite Typhlodromips swirskii is able to control melon thrips on cucumber leaves, but fails to control common blossom thrips on the flowers?
Did you know that mathematician Donald G. Saari advocates deciding elections by the Borda count instead of plurality voting, because it leads less often to paradoxical outcomes?
Did you know that the Whitehorse Trail uses a railroad that was abandoned after major floods in 1990?
Did you know that due to the English North-South divide , Craig, a character in " The Bill ", is unfamiliar with diddlums , piss-mints , and bluecocks ?
Did you know that U.S. citizens are prohibited from engaging in business transactions with Antonio Oseguera Cervantes ?
Did you know that in 1759, when she was ten years old, Fenix carried the new king, Carlos III , from Naples to Barcelona?
Did you know that Gail G. Shapiro was the first democratically elected president of the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology ?
Did you know that Inner Engineering: A Yogi's Guide to Joy by Jaggi Vasudev has been described as recasting Patanjali 's Yoga Sutra in layman's terms?
Did you know that Peter Par Jiek , who had fought alongside Riek Machar for over ten years during the Second Sudanese Civil War , was later killed by rebels loyal to Machar?
Did you know that the speckle-chested piculet is endangered by the ongoing destruction of its forest habitat?
Did you know that professional wrestler Garza Jr. showed his face for the first time on a television dating show?
Did you know that "crawler" cycad scale insects are sometimes carried away by the wind, landing on nearby plants and infesting them?
Did you know that the contralto Anna Erler-Schnaudt performed in the premiere of Mahler's Eighth Symphony in 1910?
Did you know that foreigners who openly call for a boycott of Israel may be banned from entering the country ?
Did you know that Alexander Bonner Latta made the first steam fire engine to be used regularly by a city fire department in the United States?
Did you know that William Barnard Rhodes-Moorhouse , the first airman to receive the Victoria Cross , is buried at Parnham House ?
Did you know that the main characters of Zombie Killers: Elephant's Graveyard fight zombies with paintballs ?
Did you know that in 1950, Hans Grischkat compiled and conducted a concert Vom Reiche Gottes from single Bach cantata movements to celebrate the bicentenary of the composer's death?
Did you know that Frederick Wiseman intended his 1969 documentary Law and Order as "a chance to do in the pigs", but as he made the film he came to understand the "fear that cops live with"?
Did you know that professional wrestler King Kaluha was the hand-picked opponent for Dr. Death 's comeback match after battling throat cancer?
Did you know that over 60,000 pieces of stained glass were used to create the Roots of Knowledge installation at Utah Valley University ?
Did you know that the population of the endangered sea snake Aipysurus fuscus is thought to have declined by at least 70% between 1998 and 2013?
Did you know that African-American mathematics professor Thyrsa Frazier Svager and her physics professor husband Aleksandar Svager lived on one salary to build a scholarship fund?
Did you know that Morrison-Knudsen built four Popsicles for the Southern Pacific Railroad in 1978?
Did you know that the Dutch admiral Cornelis Speelman called the Javanese Muslim nobleman Raden Kajoran a "prophet of the devil"?
Did you know that The Formation World Tour by Beyoncé featured a 60-foot (18 m) tall rotating LED cube as the stage's focal point, nicknamed the "Monolith" by designers?
Did you know that gay Jewish poet Jacob Hiegentlich committed suicide days after the Nazis invaded the Netherlands ?
Did you know that the Indian reservation for the Cowlitz Tribe of Washington state was established for the construction of a casino ?
Did you know that the original draft for the light novel series Re:Zero − Starting Life in Another World was over 1,000 pages and had to be significantly cut?
Did you know that the military historian Clifford Kinvig , whose surname is an anagram of Viking , came from a Manx family?
Did you know that The Big Treehouse covers 5,000 square feet (460 m 2 ) and has 12 levels that reach five and a half stories tall?
Did you know that The Soft Parade is the first Doors album not to credit the members of the band collectively on songs?
Did you know that in late 14th-century England, John of Gaunt built up a massive affinity of supporters which his son Henry later used as an army to depose King Richard II ?
Did you know that James Niehues , who paints ski resort trail maps, has been called "the Michelangelo of snow" and "Monet of the mountain"?
Did you know that part of the Kansas highway K-99 honors the war dead of Frankfort , which lost more men per capita in World War II than any other community in the United States?
Did you know that Annelies Van Parys has composed music for Muziektheater Transparant , including her first opera, Private Views , which premiered in 2015?
Did you know that despite its title, Boogeyman 2 does not actually feature the mythical creature as the main antagonist?
Did you know that Brigadier General Pompey Elliott convinced his men that his horse could spot men who were unshaven or incorrectly dressed?
Did you know that the shooter's sandwich became a minor internet meme after an article in The Guardian declared it to be the best sandwich in the world?
Did you know that Indonesian Constitutional Court Justice Saldi Isra twice failed university entrance exams, but later went on to be awarded summa cum laude ?
Did you know that in order to put the silver Kalākaua coinage into circulation, Claus Spreckels formed the Spreckels & Company Bank in Hawaii?
Did you know that arriving penniless in Oregon in 1903, Harley J. Overturf financed his education at the University of Oregon by filing a timber claim and selling the property for a profit?
Did you know that at a show during the 2nd Global Indian Film Awards , around ₹ 2.2 million (US$26,000) was raised by auctioning off costumes of Bollywood actors?
Did you know that the bismuth phosphate process was used by the Manhattan Project to extract plutonium for use in atomic bombs?
Did you know that after Christian Hamburger oversaw her sex reassignment, Christine Jorgensen chose her new name in his honor?
Did you know that the Javanese prince Pangeran Pekik was killed by order of his son-in-law, Amangkurat I ?
Did you know that a rented flat in Grosvenor Gardens House may have been the birthplace of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother ?
Did you know that substitution of a hazardous chemical can backfire if it turns out to be a "regrettable substitution" that unwittingly introduces a new hazard?
Did you know that Mia Borders has an arm tattoo of a saying which means "Better to die standing than to live on your knees"?
Did you know that the volcanic area of Kula Geopark was mentioned by the Ancient Greek geographer Strabo in the encyclopedia Geographica as Katakekaumene , literally "Burnt Land"?
Did you know that when the Vikings occupied Seville in 844 , they tried unsuccessfully to burn the city's great mosque?
Did you know that Sigurd Slembe is a trilogy of plays by Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson about a worthless bastard who tries to seize the throne of Norway?
Did you know that Barry Ramachandra Rao and his team designed the first multi-frequency HF phase path radar based on a spaced-receiver configuration?
Did you know that de Balzac considered the examining magistrate to be more powerful than the king?
Did you knowthat the privately held Dunn Gardens in Seattle were designed by the Olmsted Brothers , who also designed the city's park system?
Did you know that the Silk Board junction witnesses the slowest-moving traffic in Bangalore and is one of the two most polluted places in the city?
Did you know that the communion hymn " Schmücke dich, o liebe Seele ", with lyrics by Johann Franck and a melody by Johann Crüger , was translated to "Deck thyself, my soul, with gladness"?
Did you know that Indonesian political prisoner Pramoedya Ananta Toer researched his historical novel Footsteps from memory and composed it through oral narration to his fellow inmates?
Did you know that Myrtle Florence Broome and the Canadian epigrapher Amice Calverley traveled together throughout Egypt taking trains and often driving across the desert in a Jowett car they named Joey?
Did you know that the Swedish film The King of Ping Pong won the Grand Jury Prize for world cinema at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival ?
Did you know that Air India saw its bookings to America double after the US banned electronic equipment larger than a mobile phone from the passenger cabin for flights departing certain Middle Eastern airports?
Did you know that Santosh G. Honavar treated more than 2,000 children affected with retinoblastoma , with a reported success rate of over 85 percent?
Did you know that Makassarese warrior Karaeng Galesong helped Trunajaya conquer Surabaya and Gresik as a condition for marrying his niece?
Did you know that Loser.com used to redirect at different times to Kanye West 's and Donald Trump 's Wikipedia entries?
Did you know that American trade unionist George Baldanzi worked out of Greensboro, North Carolina , as part of Operation Dixie because it was close to many textile plants?
Did you know that sopa de fideo , a soup in Mexican and Tex-Mex cuisine, may have originated in Spain?
Did you know that Us Conductors , the debut novel by Sean Michaels depicting a fictionalized account of the relationship between Léon Theremin and Clara Rockmore , won the 2014 Scotiabank Giller Prize ?