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Did you know that French engineering firm Colas Group has its origins from patents filed by two British scientists and a Dutch oil company ?
Did you know that Amitabh Bachchan is the most frequent winner since 2000 at the National Film Award for Best Actor ( India ), winning two awards?
Did you know that the Davis Waite House in Aspen was home to the eighth governor of Colorado , a Bauhaus architect and an oil company executive ?
Did you know that the Faial Botanical Garden aims to preserve the endemic plants of Faial Island in the Azores ?
Did you know that art critic and cookbook collector Elizabeth Robins Pennell wrote the first independent biography of proto-feminist Mary Wollstonecraft ?
Did you know that Holy Trinity Church, Northwich , was the largest of the three churches designed by Edmund Sharpe for the Weaver Navigation Trustees?
Did you know that Prince Diponegoro thought that Chinese Indonesians brought bad luck upon his campaign?
Did you know that the Virginia spiraea may have become extinct in Pennsylvania due to damming of the Yough ?
Did you know that Olson House , made famous by its depiction in Christina's World , was designated a National Historic Landmark in June 2011 ?
Did you know that the Cuno strikes on August 11 , 1923, helped force the resignation of the German chancellor and his entire cabinet on August 12 and inspired the Communist Party to plan a coup ?
Did you know that the black sea cucumber releases special chemicals into the water to warn potential predators that it may taste bad?
Did you know that Albert Schweitzer likened the bass line of an aria mentioning Satan in Bach 's cantata Was willst du dich betrüben, BWV 107 , "to the contortions of a huge dragon"?
Did you know that the town of Fakfak has both pro- Indonesian and pro- independent Papua factions?
Did you know that Belle Mina , completed in 1826, is one of the earliest examples of a columned plantation house in Alabama ?
Did you know that despite New South Wales having no political party system at the time, the Third Parkes ministry was a coalition government from 1878 to 1883 between former Premiers Henry Parkes and John Robertson ?
Did you know that the post-hardcore album The Drug in Me Is You by Falling In Reverse contains a hip-hop beat sample created by Dr. Dre and Eminem ?
Did you know that two mummified cats hang from the wall in the Stag Inn at Hastings , England?
Did you know that both the Spitzer and the Hubble Space Telescopes have probed SN 1961V to check Fritz Zwicky 's 1964 claim that it's a supernova impostor ?
Did you know that the Atomic Energy Commission of India concluded that the Tummalapalle uranium mine might have one of the largest reserves of uranium in the world?
Did you know that English stunt performer Jacquie de Creed broke the world record for the long distance car ramp jump in 1983?
Did you know that the family placement for the fossil moth genus Dominickus was not noticed until entomologist Norman Tindale was looking at pictures of modern moths from Australia?
Did you know that Michel Demazure , a mathematician from the pseudonymous Nicolas Bourbaki group, led two French science museums, the Palais de la Découverte and the Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie ?
Did you know that scientists first discovered the biological screw joint in the Papuan weevil Trigonopterus oblongus ?
Did you know that several defunct Roman amphitheatres , including the Arles Amphitheatre , were converted into churches or fortifications?
Did you know that U.S. Congressman Thaddeus McCotter mounted a 2012 campaign for president after being asked to run by Red Eye satirist Greg Gutfeld ?
Did you know that the Alabama variety of the purpleflower pinkroot is found exclusively in Bibb County ?
Did you know that the Nepalese Chamber of Commerce, Lhasa , formed in 1943, was the first chamber of commerce established by Nepalese traders in Tibet ?
Did you know that, while Peniophora quercina typically grows upon dead oak , it has been known to colonise living plants?
Did you know that Morris Meyerfeld, Jr. was called "the Rockefeller of Vaudeville "?
Did you know that the early Eocene maple species Acer douglasense is the second-oldest maple known from Alaska?
Did you know that the 13th Light Bomber Squadron was the first Greek military unit to be formed in exile after the German conquest of Greece in World War II?
Did you know that Patriarch Dionysius I of Constantinople showed his penis to a synod , so that everyone could see that he was not circumcised ?
Did you know that the director of Battlefield Heroes wanted the film to show how countries such as China, Japan and the United States have affected Korea ?
Did you know that, up to 2011, Andrew Brokos has had top-100 finishes in his last three World Series of Poker ?
Did you know that the extinct prehistoric moth species Tortrix? destructus and Tortrix? florissantana are each known from just one fossil found at Florissant, Colorado ?
Did you know that in 2005 Elvis Presley achieved three posthumous number-one hits in the UK Singles Chart as part of a record company campaign to mark his 70th birthday?
Did you know that New York's Potsdam Sandstone was deposited in rising seas and consists of sediments eroded from unvegetated terrestrial landscapes?
Did you know that Ahmad Sarbani Mohamed was the second person in two years to die while in the custody of the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission ?
Did you know that the prototype of the British Type 281 early warning radar was mounted on the light cruiser HMS Dido in October 1940 ?
Did you know that in some places in the video game Beep , players must stack dead enemies in order to advance?
Did you know that when Rodney Blake graduated from Saint Joseph's University in 1988, his 419 career blocks were the most in NCAA Division I men's basketball history?
Did you know that the current Scotland national under-16 football team squad features players from Real Madrid and Liverpool ?
Did you know sportswriter Dick "Scoop" Gordon earned his nickname for reporting at The Daily Princetonian in 1930, and filed his last sports story for the Villager in 2008?
Did you know that the soundtrack of the 2000 film Me You Them is also Gilberto Gil 's tribute to Luiz Gonzaga , "The King of Baião "?
Did you know that the writing of the English play, The First Domino , was inspired by its author's injury in a 1999 nail bomb attack in Soho ?
Did you know that Highland Cottage , the first concrete house in Westchester County, New York , was nicknamed "Mud House" during its construction?
Did you know that as a member of the Desinfektionskommando , one of Adolf Theuer 's responsibilities was to insert the Zyklon B into the gas chamber at Auschwitz concentration camp ?
Did you know that FIFA eligibility rules were changed in 2004, reportedly in response to a growing trend in countries such as Qatar and Togo to naturalise Brazil-born footballers?
Did you know that the rare and threatened Florida skullcap does not bloom unless it burns at least every three years?
Did you know that Leal Garcia v. Texas , a 2011 U.S. Supreme Court case, dealt with the relationship between international law , U.S. state law, and acts of Congress ?
Did you know that due to the urban setting of the Great Forest Park Balloon Race some balloonists have landed in yards, golf courses, street intersections, and a walled convent garden?
Did you know that the cost of the final 20-kilometre (12 mi) segment of the Croatian A2 motorway was twice that of the other two-thirds of the route?
Did you know that after five previous attempts to evangelise the Kavango people in German South-West Africa , Joseph Gotthardt 's journeys eventually led to the establishment of a mission station in 1910?
Did you know that according to the Hindu epic Ramayana , Jaya gave birth to fifty magical divine weapons ?
Did you know that T-Mobile myTouch 4G spokesperson Carly Foulkes has been cast in the FX Network television series Powers ?
Did you know that despite originally being compared to a Kuntilanak (a female vampire in Indonesian mythology ), Berlian Hutauruk 's vocals on " Badai Pasti Berlalu " were well received?
Did you know that " Donde Quiera Que Estés " was recorded by Selena and the Barrio Boyzz to boost each others' fan bases in different parts of America?
Did you know that in the road movie Children of the Stork , which highlights themes of social exclusion and illegal immigration, a stork must obtain a forged passport to cross the Franco-German border?
Did you know that major league baseball rookie Jason Kipnis of the Cleveland Indians also played high school football and was considered "quite simply one of the top receivers in the state" of Illinois?
Did you know that in his Florentine Chronicle , Baldassarre Bonaiuti , tells how during the Black Death of 1348 sick people in Florence were abandoned by their families?
Did you know that the cough suppressant medication pentoxyverine is used in experimental pharmacology as a sigma-1 receptor agonist ?
Did you know that Jim Eastwood became known as "Jedi Jim" because of his powers of persuasion on The Apprentice ?
Did you know that after a boiler explosion aboard the sternwheeler Sarah Dixon , survivors rowed four miles (6 km) to find medical assistance?
Did you know that the title of a 2008 article by German journalist Julia Voss translates as " Jim Button saves the theory of evolution"?
Did you know that Operation Archery was delayed by a full day because HMS Prince Charles was flooded with 14 feet (4.3 m) of seawater?
Did you know that the habitat of the wishbone blue-eyed grass is being seized by "the vine that ate the South" ?
Did you know that the bracken club fungus feeds on dead bracken as a saprotroph ?
Did you know that surgeon George Crile, Jr. was instrumental in changing how breast cancer is treated by doctors?
Did you know that the Selena song Techno Cumbia is believed to be one of the early templates for pop-cumbia-rap fusions?
Did you know that the Arabic translation of Mein Kampf has been a bestseller in parts of the Middle East?
Did you know that in 1944, the baseball team at Beaumont High School in St. Louis, Missouri , included five future Major League Baseball players?
Did you know that, when it was built, the 87-metre (285 ft) high Tsukabaru Dam was the tallest gravity type dam in Japan?
Did you know that Indonesian sociologist Mely G. Tan participated in student protests at the University of California, Berkeley until warned that she could be deported?
Did you know that the only known report of bloodshed during the simulated Nazi invasion of Winnipeg was from a woman who cut her thumb while preparing toast?
Did you know that after returning from the Crimean War and the Siege of Sebastopol , Richard Taylor took command of Fort George in Scotland?
Did you know that Frank Darabont , developer of the television series The Walking Dead , said he went through "four years of frustration" trying to get a network to pick up the pilot episode, " Days Gone Bye "?
Did you know that the Tumblebug Complex Fire burned 14,570 acres (5,900 ha) of Willamette National Forest land in Oregon in 2009?
Did you know that the scheme of stained glass by Shrigley and Hunt in Christ Church, Lancaster , Lancashire, England, has been described as "one of their best and most important ensembles"?
Did you know that the Icelandic Phallological Museum collection of penises includes 55 from whales but only one from Homo sapiens ?
Did you know that in Normandy on 7 June 1944, the surgeons of the 224th (Parachute) Field Ambulance kept on operating, despite being surrounded on three sides by German forces, the nearest being only 300 yards (270 m) away?
Did you know that the sea cucumber Synaptula lamperti feeds on detritus from the elephant ear sponge ?
Did you know that author Babette Rosmond (1921–97) was an important early advocate against traditional treatments for breast cancer?
Did you know that Eynesbury Rovers are the most westerly football club ever to play in the Eastern Counties League ?
Did you know that while Pauline Ashwell was nominated for a Hugo Award for Best New Author in 1958, her first story was actually published in 1942 when she was only fourteen years old?
Did you know that Death in the Afternoon , a cocktail containing absinthe and Champagne , was popularized by Ernest Hemingway in a 1935 recipe book?
Did you know that Samuel Fisk Green was a pioneering American missionary who founded Sri Lanka 's first medical teaching hospital ?
Did you know that the Type 79 radar was the first radar system deployed by the Royal Navy and was developed before World War II ?
Did you know that Guo Jie is the last surviving member of China's delegation to the 1936 Summer Olympics ?
Did you know that Thomas "Amarillo Slim" Preston , champion of the 1972 World Series of Poker , won his title in a fixed match after an under-the-table tournament deal ?
Did you know that Israeli swimwear designer Lea Gottlieb used flowers in her designs because she felt flowers saved her life?
Did you know that the Pilbara Toadlet has recently been identified as a new species using DNA analysis ?
Did you know that journalist Leon Daniel was one of the few reporters to remain in Vietnam after the fall of Saigon ?
Did you know that construction of the Fukuji Dam was begun by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers , but the Japanese government was responsible for its completion?
Did you know that Bryan Cranston was cast as Breaking Bad protagonist Walter White based on his performance in an episode of The X-Files ?
Did you know that wildfires are beneficial to the herb Nelson's checkerbloom ?
Did you know that during a hurricane in November 1861 , a man charged two cents per ride to transport passengers by boat to and from a popular New York City bar surrounded by floodwaters?
Did you know that ERC , included with GNU Emacs since 2007, is one of a handful of IRC clients available for the text editor?
Did you know that Calcinus tubularis is one of only two known species of hermit crab whose males and females inhabit different types of shell?
Did you know that science fiction and horror author Jane Rice had been a professional author for over fifty years before the publication of her first book, The Sixth Dog ?
Did you know that Nelson Story was the first cattleman to drive Texas Longhorns to Montana along the Bozeman Trail in 1866?
Did you know that Russia planted a flag at the North Pole as part of its current arctic policy ?
Did you know that while serving in World War II, future National Labor Relations Board chairman John C. Truesdale helped sink the German submarine U-550 on his first day at sea?
Did you know that when the Tennessee Center for Policy Research , a "free-market think tank," criticized Al Gore ' s energy use, CNN mistakenly called the organization an environmental group?
Did you know that the Mapuche military leader Alejo gave up his attack on Concepción , Chile , after having a military parley with his mother?
Did you know that because of the Great Depression , the members of the Anshei Minsk synagogue offered to pay the builder with a lifetime membership in lieu of full fees for his services?
Did you know that Buddhist temples in Japan are protected by special Shinto shrines called chinjusha ?
Did you know that a first edition of Darwin 's On the Origin of Species is in the collection of the University of California, Santa Barbara Library ?
Did you know that in " Judy's Turn to Cry ", singer Leslie Gore gloats about the return of the boy she cried over in her previous hit song " It's My Party "?
Did you know that SeaLifeBase is an online database, modelled on FishBase , that attempts to provide key information on all marine species apart from finfish ?
Did you know that Praunus flexuosus , the first mysid shrimp ever to be described, may have been transported to North America during World War II?
Did you know that Handel 's Gloria , a setting of the Gloria for soprano and strings, was attributed to the composer in 2001?
Did you know that former Michigan linebacker Mike Keller has played in the NFL and held executive positions in the USFL , XFL and World League of American Football ?
Did you know that the Faroe Islands national football team won its first ever competitive match against Austria in 1990?
Did you know that Haneji Dam in Okinawa Prefecture , Japan, includes an airlift system which enables fish from downstream to go up into the reservoir formed by the dam?
Did you know that NFL halfback Bruce McLenna was killed in 1968 while riding in the rear of a military truck that crashed?
Did you know that Okukubi Dam in Okinawa Prefecture , Japan, will be the world's first trapezoidal cemented, sand and gravel dam?
Did you know that Judge Jerold Krieger was a co-founder of the first lesbian and gay synagogue?
Did you know that " She's a Fool ", the third single recorded by Lesley Gore , charted in the top 5 in the US?
Did you know that the actor Yoshio Harada , noted for playing antihero roles in his youth, won a Medal of Honor from the Japanese government?
Did you know that the Pacific lugworm must turn its esophagus inside-out when feeding?
Did you know that the extinct Hydriomena? protrita was the first geometer moth to be described from the American fossil record ?
Did you know that director Malcolm Venville planned to make a feature film entirely in sign language starring Orlando Bloom ?
Did you know that the Forth Valley Royal Hospital was the first in the UK to use robotic porters?
Did you know that the steam-powered cargo liner Empire Dynasty carried a Supermarine Spitfire from Liverpool to Bombay in 1945?
Did you know that the Simon and Garfunkel song " So Long, Frank Lloyd Wright " has been interpreted both as a tribute to the eponymous architect and as a farewell from writer Paul Simon to partner Art Garfunkel ?
Did you know that the northeastern bulrush has died out of Quebec , but is still found in some sinkholes in the Eastern United States ?
Did you know that geophysical methods have been used to look for the palace of Cleopatra ?
Did you know that the Nantgarw tradition of Morris dancing is based on what one woman remembered of the dances she had seen when she was young?
Did you know that several members of the Hyatt 10 were reappointed by Philippine President Benigno Aquino III because he thought it would be "liberating" for them?
Did you know that tenor Ulrich Cordes was the Evangelist in Bach's St Matthew Passion in St. Martin, Idstein , the Berliner Philharmonie and the Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels ?
Did you know that the northern tamandua eats up to nine thousand ants and termites per day?
Did you know that there were concerns that the statue of Winston Churchill in Parliament Square looked too much like Italian Fascist leader Benito Mussolini ?
Did you know that, despite its name, the freshwater crab Potamon ibericum does not live in Iberia ?
Did you know that this year's World Series of Poker Europe will be the first one not to be held in London?
Did you know that Virginia 's policy of " massive resistance " led to enactment, in September 1956 , of the Stanley plan , laws requiring immediate closure of any public school that integrated racially ?
Did you know that during a feud with the singer and composer Francesca Caccini , Andrea Salvadori wrote a poem entitled "Women musicians speak from Hell"?
Did you know that the myrtle geebung is a food item for native bees, currawongs and possibly kangaroos and possums?
Did you know that the Coles 4038 microphone, used on records by The Beatles and Led Zeppelin , has the appearance of a waffle iron ?
Did you know that the extinct species Agulla mineralensis is the first North American snakefly to be described from Neogene fossils?
Did you know that Harry Lee played his only Test cricket match over 15 years after being declared dead?
Did you know that Hiallt was a Viking warrior who settled in Normandy and whose descendants, the Hauteville family , became rulers of Sicily and were leaders in the First Crusade ?
Did you know that the Tamil film Avana Ivan is an adaptation of the 1951 American film A Place in the Sun ?
Did you know that interior designer Kelly Wearstler has been called "the presiding grande dame of West Coast interior design "?
Did you know that the horticultural varieties of Ptilotus nobilis include 'Passion', 'Poise' and 'Purity'?
Did you know that Norman Kamaru went from being a police officer to "billionaire" singer in less than six months?
Did you know that the extinct snakefly Agulla protomaculata is the only snakefly described from the Green River Formation ?
Did you know that Ewan McGregor was inspired to buy his own pet dog after working with canine actor Cosmo ?
Did you know that Norwegian publisher Ernst G. Mortensen founded Norway's first correspondence school ?
Did you know that a club started by two undergraduates in 1839 was central to the spread of Victorian restoration which determined the character of most English churches and cathedrals today?
Did you know that Indian businessman and builder T. Namberumal Chetty is said to have owned 99 residences in the Chennai neighborhood of Chetpet , but would not purchase a 100th for astrological reasons?
Did you know that the nearest living relatives of Eosacantha , a fossil tortoise beetle from Colorado , are found in Africa, tropical Asia, and Australia?
Did you know that at a total cost of US$264 million , the Trump National Golf Club in Los Angeles is the most expensive golf course ever constructed?
Did you know that film producer Masaichi Nagata was inducted into the Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame ?
Did you know that White House Honey Ale is the only beer known to have been brewed in the White House ?
Did you know that Alice Cooper and Rob Zombie were nominated for a Grammy award for a song in the key of X ?
Did you know that after St Gwenllwyfo's Church in Anglesey, Wales, was abandoned in 1856 in favour of a replacement , its medieval roof took nearly 100 years to collapse?
Did you know that the closed circle of suspects is a common literary device from the Golden Age of Detective Fiction ?
Did you know that England ranked first in the 2011 Commonwealth Youth Games medal table ?
Did you know that Paul Luther , son of theologian Martin Luther , became an alchemist ?
Did you know that only 14 cricketers have represented Japan in Women's One Day Internationals ?
Did you know that the Fredensborg Houses were specifically designed by Jørn Utzon for Danes returning from abroad?
Did you know that Lindsay Pearce had to be sneaked in to film the Glee third season premiere because The Glee Project finale awarding her the role had not yet aired?
Did you know that the James Elliott Farm in Indiana was the home of the brewer for the New Harmony commune of Owenites ?
Did you know that while some prolific authors used pen and paper or typewriters, Philip M. Parker has used a computer to write more than 200,000 books?
Did you know that wheelchair racer Chantal Petitclerc became the first disabled recipient of the Bobbie Rosenfeld Award as Canada's female athlete of the year after she won five Paralympic gold medals in 2008 ?
Did you know that in 1945 a Japanese battalion was rearmed to serve alongside the British 5th Parachute Brigade in the Far East ?
Did you know that the cut flowers of the crinkle bush can attract and kill flies when kept indoors?
Did you know that The Shirelles , described as having a "naive schoolgirl sound", are credited with starting the girl band genre ?
Did you know that John Randolph Neal , chief defense counsel in the Scopes Trial , had once lost a job as part of a "Slaughter of the Ph.D.s"?
Did you know that the Athletics Bridge is an international track and field competition held annually in Slovakia ?
Did you know that when he was a child, African-American songwriter Ted Jarrett was told that "only white boys write songs"?
Did you know that " Praise to the Lord, the Almighty ", the hymn that inspired Bach's cantata BWV 137 , has been published in more than ten English translations?
Did you know that Annæus Schjødt was prosecutor in the trial against Vidkun Quisling ?
Did you know that the velvet horn is fed upon by the sap-sucking slug ?