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Did you know that Hans-Dieter Bader performed the title role of Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari's opera Sly , recorded live at the Staatsoper Hannover , "as written", while Plácido Domingo had to cut and change the part?
Did you know that the Welsh Church (Amendment) Act 1938 was passed to give Swansea University the same rights to the Church in Wales' endowments as the University of Wales ?
Did you know that Sir Frederick Ballantyne , a cardiologist and the Governor-General of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines , was the first in his family to attend high school?
Did you know that a memorial was not erected for the 674 bodies at the Hurricane of 1928 African American Mass Burial Site until the 75th anniversary of the hurricane ?
Did you know that the poets Sajida and Zahida Zaidi , professors at the Aligarh Muslim University , were known as the "Zaidi Sisters" in the literary community?
Did you know that the Ram Rath Yatra was a political-religious march led by BJP leader L. K. Advani in an air-conditioned Toyota designed to resemble a chariot?
Did you know that George P. Hammond discovered new details about the desertion of Oñate 's colony in New Mexico ?
Did you know that daily fantasy sports have faced legal scrutiny in the United States over whether they are a game of chance ?
Did you know that in 1892, Venance Payot , a former mayor of Chamonix , France , argued against the building of the Montenvers Railway on the grounds it would take business away from mule drivers and porters?
Did you know that American singer-songwriter Romeo Santos broke the record for the most nominations in a single ceremony at the 2015 Latin Billboard Music Awards ?
Did you know that Elisabeth von Heyking 's debut novel sold out within three weeks of its release?
Did you know that the memorandum of understanding between Argentina and Iran for a joint investigation of the AMIA bombing never came into force?
Did you know that Grace Banker and her team of telephone operators reported for work wearing helmets and gas masks?
Did you know that Marten Gasparini ' s US $1.3 million signing bonus is a Major League Baseball record for players from Europe?
Did you know that, in 1989, Kentucky Supreme Court Justice Robert F. Stephens issued an opinion that the state's entire public school system was unconstitutional?
Did you know that an album recorded at Guitar Center was named after a line from the film Wayne's World ?
Did you know that for the 1954 film Beneath the 12-Mile Reef , seven-time Academy Award nominee Edward Cronjager became the first cinematographer to use CinemaScope underwater?
Did you know that Catatonia had intended to include an anti- Warner Bros. Records song on their triple-platinum selling album International Velvet ?
Did you know that Liverpool F.C. striker Paul Walsh received months of treatment from a broken ultrasound machine?
Did you know that intricate artworks on an Australian prison cell wall that were discovered by accident almost a century later are thought to be the handiwork of convict James Walsh ?
Did you know that the Udokan Plateau experienced volcanic activity from the Miocene until about 2200 years ago?
Did you know that Jozef Raskin , a Belgian Scheutist missionary who was guillotined for spying in World War II, has a statue erected in his honor in the city of Aarschot ?
Did you know that the United States' 191st Army Band has the special unit designation "Band of the Wild West"?
Did you know that the Social Democrats were the only party to win more than 16% of the vote in any national parliamentary election in the First Czechoslovak Republic ?
Did you know that the lead actress of the Mexican film Un Monstruo de Mil Cabezas created her character based on her father's death?
Did you know that a team of refugees is expected to compete at the 2016 Summer Olympics ?
Did you know that rabbi Carole B. Balin rediscovered the existence of 67 Jewish women writers from the late 19th- and early 20th-century Russian Empire ?
Did you know that the rock formation containing Paradictyoolithus , a type of dinosaur egg , was determined to be 91 to 94 million years old using uranium-lead dating ?
Did you know that Swedish diplomat Cossva Anckarsvärd , a witness to the Armenian Genocide , called it an attempt to "exterminate the Armenian nation"?
Did you know that the current Bank of England £10 note features a portrait of Charles Darwin and an illustration of HMS Beagle on the reverse?
Did you know that Paul Browne , a British former European champion Paralympic archer , was born with arthrogryposis ?
Did you know that " We Don't Have To Dance " by Andy Black was written with Fall Out Boy singer Patrick Stump ?
Did you know that 76 people complained when the EastEnders characters Paul Coker and Ben Mitchell were seen topless together in a funeral parlour with a corpse in the room?
Did you know that Vice Admiral Robert Walls was among the last intake of 13 year old cadet midshipmen to be accepted by the Royal Australian Naval College ?
Did you know that after the 1972 hijacking of Pan Am Flight 841 , the pilot received honors at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport as well as death threats and vandalism at his home?
Did you know that American cross-country skiing coach Jon Kreamelmeyer was inducted into the Paralympic Hall of Fame in 2014?
Did you know that the next version of the Bank of England £5 note will feature a portrait of Winston Churchill ?
Did you know that Tony Stewart won the 2006 Banquet 400 despite running out of fuel?
Did you know that in Munin , a puzzle-platformer video game, the goal is to retrieve the main character's wings, stolen by the Norse god Loki ?
Did you know that in one study, a newt was able to regenerate the lens of its eye eighteen times?
Did you know that Lucía Meza Guzmán has represented Cuautla twice in the state congress of Morelos and once at the Chamber of Deputies ?
Did you know that Mamamoo 's Melting was described as "heralding the Korean quartet's rise to the top ranks of the girl group hunger games"?
Did you know that Howard Rusk Long interviewed Chiang Kai-shek while teaching at the National Chengchi University in Taipei ?
Did you know that the İskender Pasha Mosque in Fatih, Istanbul , became the center of an Islamic religious order to which several prominent Turkish politicians belonged?
Did you know that Sharon Barker , director of the Women's Resource Center at the University of Maine , brings 500 middle school girls to campus each year to explore careers in the STEM fields?
Did you know that Usmar Ismail was ashamed of Tiga Dara , his company's greatest commercial success?
Did you know that Kenneth Rayment , the co-pilot during the Munich air disaster , was a decorated World War II flying ace ?
Did you know that Icebar Orlando is claimed to be the world's largest permanent ice bar ?
Did you know that Political Animals and Animal Politics was the first edited collection focused on the political turn in animal ethics ?
Did you know that the narrowtail catshark is thought to be a pedomorphic dwarf ?
Did you know that Mexican federal deputy Fidel Kuri Grajales threatened to move the Tiburones Rojos de Veracruz if the Institutional Revolutionary Party lost the gubernatorial elections?
Did you know that the July 7 opening date for the Ark Encounter theme park was chosen to correspond with Genesis 7:7?
Did you know that the K-25 gaseous diffusion plant was once the largest building under one roof in the world?
Did you know that Wesley P. Lloyd served a mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints under B. H. Roberts in 1929?
Did you know that hard soda is a fast-emerging segment in the craft beer industry that realized over one percent of overall beer category sales in the U.S. in May 2016?
Did you know that Felicity Okpete Ovai was the first female commissioner of the Rivers State Ministry of Works ?
Did you know that Ace of Aces was one of Accolade 's best-selling Commodore 64 video games in 1987?
Did you know that a year after McGruff the Crime Dog asked people to lock their doors, dog ownership in the United States had increased but there was no increase in people locking their doors, possibly due to a plateau effect ?
Did you know that upon his election as Mayor of Southwark in 1983, Sam King was the only black mayor in London?
Did you know that fossilized fungi were found on an Arriagadoolithus shell, the egg of the dinosaur Bonapartenykus ?
Did you know that the 2015 Polish horror film The Lure is a reimagining of The Little Mermaid ?
Did you know that pannenkoek2012 has offered $1,000 to anyone who can replicate a particular warp glitch in Super Mario 64 ?
Did you know that Romania's main exports are related to motor vehicle production ?
Did you know that before he founded Black Angus Steakhouse , Stuart Anderson opened a Seattle restaurant whose clientele was mostly "hookers, seamen, hustlers and wrestlers"?
Did you know that a 1980s slide show of Asian lesbians in history and literature created by June Chan and Katherine Hall has been called "grassroots scholarship"?
Did you know that the Royal Pier , Southampton , used to have a station at the end of it?
Did you know that Merry Walker is the only female Tennessee Walking Horse to produce two World Grand Champions ?
Did you know that the weight of a clump of mushrooms of the tropical genus Macrocybe can exceed 30 kg (66 lb)?
Did you know that Steve Hamilton was a cast member of Wheel of Fortune throughout its 13-year run?
Did you know that upon its February 2016 launch, the Frinkiac website contained almost three million screenshots of The Simpsons ?
Did you know that while Inger Hanmann created enamels for the Copenhagen Airport , her daughter Charlotte made processed photographs of the urban environment?
Did you know that George Harrison played on Harry Nilsson 's infamously profanity-laden song " You're Breakin' My Heart "?
Did you know that Jesús Zambrano Grijalva , a three-time federal deputy and former president of the PRD in Mexico, was jailed for his activities in the Liga Comunista 23 de Septiembre ?
Did you know that diabetic children were sent to visit Loon , a drill at the San Diego Zoo , to help them overcome their aversion to needle injections?
Did you know that Juan Pablo Montoya 's victory in the 2007 Toyota/Save Mart 350 made him the first foreign-born driver to win a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race since 1974?
Did you know that as part of her magic act in Benidorm , Sticky Vicky pulled ping-pong balls, eggs, handkerchiefs, sausages, and razor blades out of her vagina ?
Did you know that motsoalle is the term for socially acceptable, long-term relationships between Basotho women in Lesotho ?
Did you know that Alexander Duckham , founder of Alexander Duckham & Co, was a friend of cross-channel aviator Louis Blériot , and paid for the memorial marking where Blériot landed in 1909?
Did you know that the actress Chitra Dewi has been described as the ideal Indonesian woman?
Did you know that the Archencyrtus type species is named for Russian paleoentomologist Alexandr Rasnitsyn ?
Did you know that Andrea Jenkins plans to collect up to 400 hours of transgender oral history ?
Did you know that the Sydney suburb of Daceyville was named after John Dacey , who in the early 1900s envisioned Australia's first public housing estate?
Did you know that The Bangles ' studio album, Sweetheart of the Sun , was released 30 years after the band's formation?
Did you know that after joining the club in 1947, Tommy Best became the first black player to represent Chester City in the Football League in a match against Oldham Athletic ?
Did you know that the isolated Kimsachata volcano is the northernmost active volcano in Peru, its Oroscocha dome having erupted around 4450 BCE ?
Did you know that architect Howard Backen worked on projects with Sundance Institute , Skywalker Ranch , and the Disney Burbank Sound Studios ?
Did you know that a cubicle room at the Sunshine Hotel cost $10 a night in 1998, measured 4 by 6 by 7 feet (1.2 m × 1.8 m × 2.1 m), and featured a bed, locker, light bulb, and chicken-wire ceiling?
Did you know that Bernard Shapero has been called "London's most successful rare-book dealer and arguably the top dealer in the world today"?
Did you know that the Jarrahids , the ruling family of the Tayy tribe, virtually controlled Palestine in the late 10th century?
Did you know that when he takes office in September, José Rosas Aispuro will be the first governor of Durango to come from a party other than the Institutional Revolutionary Party ?
Did you know that the sixteenth-century Doria Atlas was saved from fire in 2004 by villagers forming a human chain?
Did you know that people in the Cazumbá-Iracema Extractive Reserve want mobile phones, although there is no phone service?
Did you know that the South American rodent genus Necromys includes the hairy-tailed , the Paraguayan , the dark , the spotted , the rufous-bellied , and the pleasant bolo mouse , as well as the northern grass mouse ?
Did you know that when Javare Gowda was reappointed vice chancellor of Mysore University , the governor requested "please try to remember that when you criticize the government, do so mildly"?
Did you know that Ubisoft Annecy consulted professional skiers and extreme sports experts when creating Steep ?
Did you know that during the 1936–39 Palestine revolt , British forces punished men from the rebel village of al-Birwa by making them sit on cactus plants?
Did you know that Getz/Gilberto by Stan Getz and João Gilberto won the Grammy Award for Album of the Year in 1965 and was inducted into the Latin Grammy Hall of Fame in 2001?
Did you know that William Morales ' attorneys claimed the police confiscated his fingers as evidence?
Did you know that one eruption in the Jom-Bolok volcanic field created a 70 kilometre- (43 mile-) long lava flow?
Did you know that although Alejandro Murat Hinojosa was born in the State of Mexico , he was allowed to run for governor of Oaxaca by the SCJN because his parents were natives of that state?
Did you know that the music video for Mamamoo 's " Mr. Ambiguous " includes a hidden camera prank?
Did you know that Daniel Nivel , victim of an assault by German football hooligans in 1998, was the guest of honour at a 2006 match also marred by hooliganism?
Did you know that the secret Korean Patriotic Organization aimed for Korean independence through assassinations of prominent Japanese figures?
Did you know that the Bolivian city of Potosí is located close to, or even inside, the Miocene Kari-Kari caldera ?
Did you know that Mustafa Kemal Atatürk 's stay at Atatürk Museum Mansion in Ankara between 1921 and 1932 was his longest at any place in his life?
Did you know that S.C. Braga 's record in European football includes 6–0 losses to Arsenal and Tottenham Hotspur ?
Did you know that the largest female black-sided hawkfish in a harem changes sex if the male dies?
Did you know that some homes in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Zikhron Tuvya sport blue-painted doors, windows, and gates, as well as horseshoes and hamsas , to guard against the evil eye ?
Did you know that some Bach scholars believe that Nach dir, Herr, verlanget mich , BWV 150 , is his earliest extant church cantata?
Did you know that two Polish nuns harbouring Jewish fugitives who escaped from the Słonim Ghetto were beatified by Pope John Paul II , along with 108 Martyrs of World War II ?
Did you know that Tommy Lawton held the record as the youngest player to score on his England debut for 78 years?
Did you know that the star S Doradus was calculated to have ranged between 100 and 380 times the radius of the Sun?
Did you know that economist and cabinet minister Gheorghe Leon died in a Communist Romanian prison while his government colleagues, surgeon Victor Gomoiu , Iron Guard activists Radu Budișteanu and Vasile Noveanu , and Generals Gheorghe Mihail and Constantin Nicolescu , survived detention?
Did you know that " Ríe y Llora " was the final song recorded by Celia Cruz before her death?
Did you know that stump blossoms can cause butt rot ?
Did you know that Hawaiian King Kamehameha III fell into a state of depression and drunkenness, and attempted to commit suicide, after the death of his fiancée Kamānele ?
Did you know that Doris Yankelewitz Berger was the first Jewish First Lady of Costa Rica ?
Did you know that to develop the 1990 video game Commander Keen in Invasion of the Vorticons , John Carmack and John Romero took their work computers from Softdisk home with them on weekends?
Did you know that the California smoothtongue has a black pigment in its stomach lining that may conceal the presence of bioluminescent prey the fish has swallowed?
Did you know that Philip Egner began composing " On, Brave Old Army Team ", the fight song of the United States Military Academy at West Point , by scribbling notes on his shirt?
Did you know that after retiring as dean of the College of Home Economics at the University of Rhode Island , Elizabeth W. Crandall became an environmental and women's rights activist in Maine ?
Did you know that the red alga Galdieria sulphuraria grows well at pH between 0–4 and temperatures up to 56°C—among the most extreme environments known for a eukaryote ?
Did you know that Governor-elect of Hidalgo Omar Fayad appointed his wife, actress Victoria Ruffo , local director of the DIF in Pachuca ?
Did you know that due to the points system being used, England won the 2013–14 Women's Ashes despite winning fewer matches than Australia ?
Did you know that Burger King withdrew an advert featuring Mary J. Blige singing about a crispy chicken wrap due to the racial stereotype associated with fried chicken ?
Did you know that Liverpool F.C. manager Bill Shankly resigned on the same day he spent a club record £200,000 to sign Ray Kennedy ?
Did you know that there is a shrine on Jotabeche , a volcano last active about five million years ago?
Did you know that when the Memel Convention came into force in 1925, the local branch of the Social Democratic Party of Germany became a separate party ?
Did you know that the footballer Gary Bennett was one of the first players to become involved with the Show Racism the Red Card campaign?
Did you know that the DNA of Sartidia perrieri ' s only known herbarium specimen was successfully sequenced 100 years after its collection?
Did you know that the Windows Push Notification Service allows developers to send push data to Windows desktop and mobile applications?
Did you know that Mr. Darcy's Daughters , Elizabeth Aston 's debut novel, has been classified as fan fiction by several commentators?
Did you know that Maison Bertaux in Soho is London's oldest pâtisserie shop?
Did you know that the 2016–17 rugby season of London 1 South will feature a national RFU cup champion ?
Did you know that Fantasia described her song " No Time for It " as a combination of her childhood singing in church and desire to "tap into that whole rock world"?
Did you know that Moses Toata won the Solomon Islands S-League in his first season as a manager?
Did you know that the rugby player Tommy Thompson played "like one possessed" in South Africa's 38–0 defeat of Ireland in 1912?
Did you know that the 1905 Shoubak Revolt was sparked after Ottoman forces started to put the town's women into forced labor?
Did you know that the 2016 International Gran Prix wrestling tournament will be the first Gran Prix held by Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre since the 2008 International Gran Prix ?
Did you know that Theodore Wassmer supported his family of ten on a $55 monthly income during the Great Depression ?
Did you know that the current Clydesdale Bank £5 note is the first British banknote to be entirely made from polymer ?
Did you know that the filming of What Maisie Knew was complicated by its six-year-old star's early bedtime?
Did you know that William Vitarelli led community and educational projects in Micronesia after winning a U.S. Supreme Court case about his alleged associations with the Communist Party USA ?
Did you know that " Catch Me If You Can " was the first release by Girls' Generation since member Jessica was dismissed from the group?
Did you know that Rita Harradence and her husband synthesised penicillamine ?
Did you know that the first ever FA Women's Premier League Plate was won by Preston North End in 2015?
Did you know that Bamidele Ali became a specialist in 3D printing after his career in the Canadian Football League ?
Did you know that on Super Tuesday , Google Searches for " Donald Drumpf " surpassed those for Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio ?
Did you know a new category in the alcoholic beverage industry , referred to as " hard soda " or "flavored beer", was created due to the prosperity of Small Town Brewery's Not Your Father's Root Beer brand?
Did you know that after South Korean girl group GFriend debuted with Season of Glass , a Billboard columnist said they were "leading a new wave of female acts with a classic innocent look"?
Did you know that WAFL Hall of Fame member and East Fremantle Football Club life member Merv Cowan did not want to play for the team when he returned from the war ?
Did you know that the dark purple Cortinarius kioloensis mushroom turns red when potassium hydroxide is applied to it?
Did you know that Ukrainian-American endocrinologist Ricka Sapiro Finkler began using the name Rita after Saint Vincent's Hospital offered her a job which they later retracted when they discovered she was a woman?
Did you know that Special Requirements led to Unity ?
Did you know that while living in England, American artist Robert Hess learned to paint in the style of John Constable and was influenced by the sculptures of Henry Moore ?
Did you know that Acidilobus saccharovorans was the first thermophilic , acidophilic , and obligately anaerobic archaeon to have its genome sequenced?
Did you know that the D.Gray-man character Yu Kanda was taken from an unpublished manga written by the same author?
Did you know that the Guinness World Records lists the Aqaba Church in Jordan as "oldest known purpose-built Christian church in the world"?
Did you know that David Tod Roy , the son of Presbyterian missionaries to China, produced the first unexpurgated English translation of the Ming dynasty erotic novel Jin Ping Mei ?
Did you know that Ubisoft Montreal intended to take risks when creating Watch Dogs 2 ?
Did you know that the concept of lost sales used by the content industry assumes that if pirated products were not available, people would buy them at market rate ?
Did you know that when growing up in Ireland, Terry Conroy was sentenced to probation for playing football in the street?
Did you know that Yugo Nakamura avoided elements of modern web design to keep the appearance of FFFFOUND! simple?
Did you know that in the music video for Mamamoo 's " Um Oh Ah Yeh ", three members dress as men and wear wigs, beards, and prosthetic makeup ?
Did you know that in preparation for the 2018 Commonwealth Games , three stations will be added to the initial sixteen stations in the G:link , a light rail system serving the Gold Coast in Queensland , Australia?
Did you know that Akashi District existed for another 30 years after the city of Akashi left?
Did you know that the Sekrenyi festival , known locally as Phousnyi , is held by the Angami Nagas as a purification festival ?
Did you know that the video game A Bird Story was released as a link between the award-winning To the Moon and its sequel?
Did you know that Margarete Zuelzer , only the 37th woman to earn a doctorate at the University of Heidelberg , had to get special permission from her professors to attend their classes?
Did you know that the grey-crowned flatbill and orange-eyed flatbill often build their bag-shaped nests near wasp nests?
Did you know that both John Quincy and Andrew Johnson currently serve on the Minneapolis City Council ?
Did you know that the government of Karnataka claims to have eliminated the ancient practice of dedicating girls to the Yellamma Temple ?
Did you know that Mary Hale Woolsey wrote the lyrics to "When It's Springtime in the Rockies", which was used in the 1937 film Springtime in the Rockies starring Gene Autry ?
Did you know that Poland is creating a 35,000-strong military force designed to counter hybrid warfare ?