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Did you know that baritone Berthold Possemeyer performed songs by John Dowland , Gerald Finzi and Thomas Morley in a parody chamber musical after Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream ?
Did you know that the Condado Vanderbilt Hotel became the first hotel in Puerto Rico to include a casino after gambling was legalized in the 1940s?
Did you know that in 1566, Richard Carmarden funded the printing of an edition of the Great Bible in English at Rouen ?
Did you know that chocoholism is frequently claimed in surveys to be the most common form of food craving ?
Did you know that Marian Cruger Coffin , one of America's first female landscape architects , set up her own highly successful practice because male-dominated firms would not employ her?
Did you know that the Church of St. Margaret of Antioch was the centre of Anglo-Catholicism in 19th-century Liverpool ?
Did you know that Victorian detective Jack Whicher was the inspiration for The Suspicions of Mr Whicher ?
Did you know that the Bank of Chester County , chartered in 1814, was the first bank in the county?
Did you know that in 2012 Jewish Universalist rabbi Steven Blane , who encourages converts to join his online rabbinical school, ordained an ex- Muslim as a rabbi?
Did you know that NASA has plans to tug an asteroid to the Moon ?
Did you know that Saura painting of Odisha has a visual semblance to Warli painting from Maharashtra ?
Did you know that correspondence with Thomas Pennant formed the basis of part of Gilbert White 's Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne ?
Did you know that the Cebongan Prison raid in Indonesia was declared a human rights violation by the National Commission on Human Rights , but not by Defence Minister Purnomo Yusgiantoro ?
Did you know that Daniel Ortúzar Cuevas , a former member of the Chamber of Deputies of Chile , was also a farmer?
Did you know that in 1587 Sir Rowland Hayward entertained Queen Elizabeth I at his home of King's Place, which had once been owned by her father, King Henry VIII ?
Did you know that after being caught at sea trying to defect , Cuban baseball player Andy Morales wasn't asked to participate in the 2000 Summer Olympics ?
Did you know that H. A. Gade , described as a "painters' painter", was one of independent India 's pioneering abstract expressionist painters?
Did you know that Christian rock band Casting Crowns have performed their song " Who Am I " at a Bush-Cheney '04 campaign rally and the 2009 Spring Friendship Art Festival in North Korea ?
Did you know that actor Anthony Wong was drunk when director Herman Yau asked him to portray the title character in Ip Man: The Final Fight ?
Did you know that Queen's Building was called Hong Kong 's "most prestigious commercial building" when it opened in 1899?
Did you know that Alaska 's Candle Creek , a tributary of Kiwalik River , derived its name from the ice-covered willow twigs along its banks resembling candles ?
Did you know that in Fifehead Wood one may find a White Admiral with a Purple Hairstreak among some Five-faced Bishops ?
Did you know that Thomas Savage , Shakespeare 's trustee in the purchase of shares in the Globe Theatre , was a friend of John Jackson, Shakepeare's trustee in the purchase of the Blackfriars Gatehouse ?
Did you know that a parole camp was a place where soldiers were housed by their own army after being granted parole and pledging not to engage in combat?
Did you know that the College of Aesculapius and Hygia was a dining club and burial society in ancient Rome ?
Did you know that Luke Hancock is the first reserve player to be named Most Outstanding Player of the NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament ?
Did you know that Untied.com has logged 25,000 customer complaints and 200 employee complaints about United Airlines ?
Did you know that Binod Bihari Chowdhury , who died on 10 April 2013 at the age of 102, was the last surviving revolutionary from the Chittagong armoury raid ?
Did you know that composer Graham Waterhouse was the cellist in a performance of his string trio Zeichenstaub at his former school , playing the U.K. premiere with two members of the Münchner Philharmoniker ?
Did you know that the 1925 Hama uprising began when Fawzi al-Qawuqji mutinied with his entire Syrian Legion cavalry unit and took control of Hama from the French Mandatory authorities?
Did you know that Léopold Louis Joubert fought for the Pope in Italy and against slave traders in the Congo?
Did you know that the Peloponnese peninsula in southern Greece was ruled as the " Kingdom of the Morea " by the Republic of Venice in 1688–1715?
Did you know that William Markwick 's " Sheep's fescue " was not suitable for sheep?
Did you know that Singaporean politician Abdul Rahim Ishak at different points in time served as ambassador to Ethiopia , Indonesia , Lebanon , the United Arab Republic , and Yugoslavia ?
Did you know that a draftsman may have misinterpreted the notation "? Name" as "C. Nome" ?
Did you know that by the time of his death in 1842, Admiral William Taylor was the last surviving officer from Cook 's third and final voyage of discovery ?
Did you know that for General Hospital ' s 50th anniversary the soap opera 's fictional Nurses' Ball was connected for the first time with a real HIV/AIDS non-profit organization ?
Did you know that the Chakmas welcome their new year with the Bizhu dance ?
Did you know that Italy ranked first in the 2009 Mediterranean Games medal table ?
Did you know that Cossack hetman Ivan Petrizhitsky-Kulaga was executed by other Cossacks after he lost a power struggle?
Did you know that the Swedish newsmagazine Fokus has operated at a loss since its first publication, despite an ever increasing circulation?
Did you know that Amir Garrett was ranked the 68th best college basketball recruit and could throw a 96-mile-per-hour (154 km/h) fastball ?
Did you know that before the Armenian Genocide , the Karin dialect was spoken in two provincial centers in eastern Turkey?
Did you know that Scottish American stone mason Daniel Pennie carved the grout he used on his house to resemble stone?
Did you know that Karlheinz Oswald created sculptures of Cardinal Volk , Pierre de Coubertin , and Hildegard of Bingen ?
Did you know that the Great Eastern Hotel in Kolkata , built in 1840 or 1841, may have been the first hotel in India with electricity?
Did you know that the Great Eastern Hotel , near Liverpool Street station , London, used to have fresh sea water brought in for guests' baths?
Did you know that Syrian veteran officer Sa'id al-'As was killed in action commanding Arab rebels in a confrontation with British forces near Jerusalem during the 1936 Palestine Revolt ?
Did you know that Rihanna 's Good Girl Gone Bad: Reloaded led Good Girl Gone Bad to reach a 930% increase in sales?
Did you know that Arsenal became known as the Bank of England club after gaining the largest amount of income from match days and being cautious with money while also breaking British transfer records?
Did you know that settlers of the American frontier in the 19th century sometimes fell victim to prairie madness , in which social isolation and other hardships of life on the prairie caused them to develop mental illness?
Did you know that in the late 19th century the residents of al-Sahwah , a Syrian village in the Hauran , paid the Druze chiefs of the area to gain access to a water canal south of the village?
Did you know that the position of Chief Justice of Hungary was held mostly by ecclesiastical dignitaries until the 1507 reform?
Did you know that former Marquette University basketball player Tony Miller recorded 956 assists during his career, which is currently the seventh-most in NCAA Division I history?
Did you know that London-based butchers C Lidgate employed five generations of the same family?
Did you know that the Sugababes ' song " Angels with Dirty Faces " was promoted through Cartoon Network 's animated television series The Powerpuff Girls ?
Did you know that the Tête nucléaire océanique is a new French thermonuclear warhead that will replace the currently deployed TN 75 warhead beginning in 2015?
Did you know that Holy Trinity Church, Wavertree , was described by John Betjeman as Liverpool 's best Georgian church?
Did you know that Earl Rose performed autopsies on J. D. Tippit , Lee Harvey Oswald , and Jack Ruby , but was not permitted to examine President John F. Kennedy ?
Did you know that the ten-lined urchin was one of several species used in research to determine the feasibility of using non-invasive MRI technology to study the internal anatomy of echinoids?
Did you know that following the Tay Bridge disaster , a viaduct on the North British, Arbroath and Montrose Railway became so seriously distorted during testing that a new one had to be designed and built?
Did you know that former German secretary Margot Wölk 's background as Adolf Hitler 's personal food taster was revealed on her 95th birthday?
Did you know that during the six months that the 824th Tank Destroyer Battalion served in the European theater of World War II , its officers and men were awarded six Silver Stars and thirty-one Bronze Stars ?
Did you know that the name of the search engine Shodan , which searches devices linked to the Internet, is based on the character of the same name in the System Shock game series?
Did you know that when the 1962 Alabama Crimson Tide football team lost to Georgia Tech , it ended a 19-game winning and 26-game unbeaten streak that dated back to their 1960 season ?
Did you know that the father of silent film actress and supercentenarian Mabel Richardson died when she was seven?
Did you know that the Childers Incident of 1793 was the first action between British and French forces in the French Revolutionary Wars ?
Did you know that Armenian American biologist Greg Hampikian is considered one of the foremost forensic DNA experts in the United States?
Did you know that the food featured in the movie My Big Fat Greek Wedding was provided by the Greek restaurant Papa Cristo's ?
Did you know that the juvenile leaves of Placospermum coriaceum are up to 90 cm (35 in) long?
Did you know that Detroit Titans men's basketball player Ray McCallum, Jr. was "one of the most highly-recruited players in school history"?
Did you know that between the first white settlement in 1856 and the end of the Mendocino War in 1860, the Native American population in Mendocino County, California , decreased by 80%?
Did you know that Akokan , Roberto Fonseca 's sixth studio album, features some "lovely sax work"?
Did you know that baseball pitcher Eric King was credited with three complete games and three saves in his rookie season?
Did you know that during the Great Syrian Revolt , rebel commander Hasan al-Kharrat led the capture of the Azm Palace , aiming for Maurice Sarrail , the High Commissioner of the French Mandate ?
Did you know that actor Andrew Robinson wrote the novel A Stitch in Time , which is about his character from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine ?
Did you know that James Hall ' s 1883 history of Nantwich remains one of the chief sources for the Cheshire town's history?
Did you know that woodcarver Park Chan-su , one of Korea's Important Cultural Assets , drives his chisel with a wooden fish instead of a mallet?
Did you know that the name of the newly defined genus of macadamia -like trees, Lasjia , is derived from the initials of Lawrence Alexander Sidney Johnson ?
Did you know that superior artillery created by Jean Bureau helped France achieve victories in several important battles of the Hundred Years' War ?
Did you know that the Bishop of Cambrai was benefactor of the monastic library at Groenendael Priory ?
Did you know that Annika Zeyen and Maria Kühn were both members of the wheelchair basketball team that was awarded Germany's highest sporting honour, the Silver Laurel Leaf ?
Did you know that Tonia Marketaki 's psychological crime film John the Violent is based on an actual murder which happened in Athens in the 1960s?
Did you know that the Saxon Tithe Barn was a filming location for the TV series Robin of Sherwood , doubling as Nottingham Castle 's great hall?
Did you know that baseball umpire Nelson Díaz gained prominence in Cuba after shoving an American coach ?
Did you know that 20th Century Fox executive Fred Baron worked at a department store and the mailroom of a studio before being given a chance at film producing?
Did you know that neural folds turn into the central nervous system ?
Did you know that Doaksville, Choctaw Nation , was the largest town in the Indian Territory in 1850?
Did you know that Max Reinhart made his National Hockey League debut for the Calgary Flames , the same franchise his father Paul began his career with?
Did you know that the Nandu River Iron Bridge was built by the Imperial Japanese Army in Hainan , China, during the Second Sino-Japanese War as the first bridge to span the Nandu River ?
Did you know that sociologist Ben Aggers has described the trend of selfies as "the male gaze gone viral"?
Did you know that Kenneth Bowra helped to develop the first human rights policy for American special forces soldiers ?
Did you know that Bach composed Der Herr ist mein getreuer Hirt (The Lord Is My Faithful Shepherd) in 1731, to complete his 1724 cycle of chorale cantatas ?
Did you know that the Star Trek: Enterprise episode " Demons " guest starred Peter Weller , who is set to appear in the 2013 film Star Trek Into Darkness ?
Did you know that the moated Baroque Holzhausenschlösschen , completed in 1729 as a summer residence of the Frankfurt Holzhausen family, has served as a cultural venue since 1989?
Did you know that Memphis Tigers basketball player Joe Jackson was the first in league history to win back-to-back Conference USA Tournament MVP awards?
Did you know that Faroese girls would test their boyfriends' readiness for marriage by presenting them with woolly willy warmers ?
Did you know that Mona Lisa replicas and reinterpretations have been created using everything from seaweed to software?
Did you know that the release of Tunisian director Néjia Ben Mabrouk 's debut film Sama was delayed for six years because of a dispute with the production company?
Did you know that the European Underwater and Baromedical Society was formed in 1971 to further education and research in diving and hyperbaric medicine ?
Did you know that in 1925, an assault by Druze rebels against French troops based in al-Musayfirah resulted in the French Mandate 's first victory during the Great Syrian Revolt ?
Did you know that the 2013 boxing -related death of Michael Norgrove was the first in the United Kingdom in 18 years?
Did you know that the Puits d'amour pastry caused scandal in 18th century France because of the erotic connotation of its name?
Did you know that Swabhiman Sanghatana, headed by Nitesh Narayan Rane , set a Guinness World Record by conducting a job fair which gave over 25,000 jobs to unemployed youth?
Did you know that the mayor of Saint-Nicolas-de-Bourgueil wanted his town to have its own AOC separate from Bourgueil despite the two areas having essentially identical terroir and producing similar wines?
Did you know that after Flamur Kastrati was injured in a match between MSV Duisburg and Energie Cottbus , both teams stopped playing football ?
Did you know that Horace Greeley 's daughter donated family land to be used for a new train station in Chappaqua, New York , on the condition that a small public park always be maintained in front of it?
Did you know that when José Fernández defected from Cuba , his mother fell overboard and he jumped in to save her life?
Did you know that cockroach racing started in Australia in 1982, and is also held at the Loyola University Maryland , under the name "Madagascar Madness: The Running of the Roaches"?
Did you know that Julia Pierson is the first female Director of the United States Secret Service ?
Did you know that Inheritance tells of Monika Hertwig's investigation into what her mother never told her?
Did you know that Derick Ashe was appointed British Ambassador to Argentina in March 1975 as tensions mounted between the respective governments, and survived a car bomb blast the following month?
Did you know that chopped pork shoulder barbecue sandwiches served with coleslaw atop them are common in Memphis, Tennessee ?
Did you know that Emeli Sandé has written songs which have peaked at number one on the UK Singles, UK Dance and UK R&B charts?
Did you know that Scott Rice played in minor league baseball for 14 seasons before a 2013 promotion to Major League Baseball ?
Did you know that Gulf Cartel drug lord Miguel Villarreal allegedly ordered kidnappings in South Texas from Mexico in 2011?
Did you know that although Kokis is considered a traditional Sri Lankan dish , its name is believed to be of Dutch origin?
Did you know that Spanish communist resistance member Sixto Agudo was sentenced to death, but released from jail in 1961?
Did you know that the Lulua Mosque in Cairo , built in 1015–16 during Caliph al-Hakim 's reign, partially collapsed in 1919 and was restored in 1998 by the Dawoodi Bohras , a community of Indian Muslims ?
Did you know that football player Ebenezer Assifuah scored in all of Ghana 's 2013 African U-20 Championship group matches en route to the finals?
Did you know that Paleolithic human remains were discovered on Ishigaki Island , Japan , during the construction of New Ishigaki Airport ?
Did you know that Drew Cannon is believed to be the first person hired by a college basketball team to perform statistical analysis ?
Did you know that " Shooting Star ", the eighteenth episode of the fourth season of Glee , has been characterized as "unsettling" and "harrowing" by pre-broadcast reviewers?
Did you know that the Japanese pagoda at the Museums of the Far East in Brussels , Belgium is nearly 50 metres (160 ft) high?
Did you know that in rugby union , Sid Going won the Tom French Cup a record six times between 1967 and 1972?
Did you know that Indian social worker and socialist politician Mama Baleshwar Dayal once led a "cut down the forest" movement?
Did you know that Michael Piller 's original idea for Star Trek: Insurrection was based on the Joseph Conrad novel Heart of Darkness ?
Did you know that in his book In Secret Tibet , author Theodore Illion relates how he twice saw what he called "flying lamas" who could supposedly sit on an ear of barley without bending its stalk?
Did you know that following the crushing of the 1982 Hama revolt , the Syrian Muslim Brotherhood formed a broad alliance with Arab nationalist factions?
Did you know that a hwahyejang (traditional Korean shoemaker ) can take as long as a week to create a pair of shoes?
Did you know that a drought in 1902 at Kynuna Station in Australia meant that 81,000 of a flock of 82,000 sheep had to be sent away?
Did you know that in 2008, a portrait of the 18th-century racehorse Ambrosio was sold in an auction in New York for more than $200,000?
Did you know that Israeli lightweight MMA fighter Ido Pariente lost to American welterweight Jake Shields , after accepting the fight without realizing Shields fought at a heavier weight?
Did you know that in World War II's top-secret Operation Fish , the United Kingdom shipped more than a billion dollars in gold and securities to Canada , and not one ship was lost?
Did you know that the Blanc de Hotot rabbit is completely white, except for black rings around the eyes which present "the appearance of fine spectacles"?
Did you know that to portray battalion commander LtCol Stephen "Godfather" Ferrando in the 2008 miniseries Generation Kill , actor Chance Kelly spent five months filming in Africa?
Did you know that the tunicate Oikopleura cophocerca lives in a disposable house on plankton broth ?
Did you know that the Governor of California Jerry Brown's gubernatorial portrait was described as looking like "spilled ketchup and soy sauce"?
Did you know that former Chicago Bears chairman Ed McCaskey tried out for Harry James ' band, but lost out to Frank Sinatra ?
Did you know that Vidal Blanc is grown just 500 miles (800 km) south of the Arctic Circle and used to make ice wine in Sweden ?
Did you know that Norris Bradbury replaced Robert Oppenheimer as director of the Los Alamos Laboratory ?
Did you know that the film Ikan Doejoeng was advertised as giving viewers "a good perspective on the Eastern mentality"?
Did you know that replacement baseball umpire Joe Padilla once operated a grill-cleaning business?
Did you know that the fossil yew Taxus masonii was described from fifteen fossils collected from 1942 to 1989?
Did you know that Kevin Ware ' s broken leg during the Elite Eight resulted in sympathetic comments from Kobe Bryant , LeBron James , and Kevin Durant ?
Did you know that in 1987 the Revolutionary Palestinian Communist Party and the Palestinian Communist Party switched places as members of the PLO ?
Did you know that the wall panels on the Enterprise were nicknamed "Mees panels" in Star Trek scripts after set decorator Jim Mees ?
Did you know that William of Canterbury , author of a hagiography of the murdered Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Becket , was an eyewitness to the murder?
Did you know that Alec Douglas-Home described himself to portrait artist Juliet Pannett as having "the biggest head in London"?
Did you know that Mutya Buena 's single " Just a Little Bit " contains Motown influences?
Did you know that dozens of baseball players have defected from Cuba during events such as the Mariel boatlift and the 1996 Summer Olympics ?
Did you know that while researching his 1964 book The Mare's Nest , David Irving discovered the existence of the Allied programme to break the Enigma code but agreed to keep it secret?
Did you know that Admiral Sir Vernon Harry Stuart Haggard joined the Royal Navy as a youth?
Did you know that the creators of the Kickstarter -funded Star Trek: Renegades hope to use it as a pilot for a new series on CBS ?
Did you know that Picasso's poetry has lines like "my grandmother's big balls are shining midst the thistles" and that one of his works depicts Franco as a jackbooted phallus ?
Did you know that Norwegian football club Egersunds IK won promotion to the third tier in 2011 because IK Start was relegated from the top flight?
Did you know that creature and concept designer Neville Page portrayed minor roles in soap operas , including General Hospital ?
Did you know that Locko Preceptory is the only recorded Lazarite Preceptory in England?
Did you know that Christian rock band Casting Crowns ' song " American Dream " became the band's first music video?
Did you know that Lesley Yellowlees is the first female president of the Royal Society of Chemistry and is the subject of two portraits in the National Portrait Gallery ?
Did you know that a man described by his neighbours as "the upstart spawn of an Edinburgh strumpet" inherited the large and valuable estate of a former Lieutenant Governor of Tobago?
Did you know that the Star Trek: Enterprise episode " Exile " was seen as a play on the Beauty and the Beast story, and one critic thought that the new sets reminded her of a Disney Castle ?
Did you know that there have been fourteen sieges of Gibraltar , making it one of the most fought-over places in Europe?
Did you know that pastis magnate Paul Ricard created the Paul Ricard Oceanographic Institute on the Île des Embiez , and the Universal Exposition of Wines and Spirits on the Île de Bendor ?
Did you know that the T1 Tramway near Paris marks the return of trams to Paris after their disappearance in 1957?
Did you know that James Nelson Barker 's play The Indian Princess is largely responsible for the modern version of the Pocahontas story?
Did you know that Scott Bakula gave a video interview from the set of the Star Trek: Enterprise episode " The Shipment " on Good Day Live , to promote a different episode of the show?
Did you know that in June 1537 Elizabeth Bourchier 's servant received two shillings as a reward for bringing strawberries and cream to the future Queen Mary ?
Did you know that the whereabouts of the original K'iche' version of the 16th-century Título de Totonicapán was unknown after its translation into Spanish in 1834 until it was shown to American anthropologist Robert Carmack in 1973?