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Did you know that HD 140283 is thought to be the oldest known star, being nearly as old as the universe itself?
Did you know that screenwriter Tom Jankiewicz collapsed after a screening of his film Grosse Pointe Blank , and died soon after?
Did you know that climate change threatens the flora and fauna of the Sacred Himalayan Landscape , including the endangered snow leopard ?
Did you know that the Mission olive was brought to California in the 18th century by Spanish missionaries ?
Did you know that St. Stephen's Cathedral organist Peter Planyavsky has composed parodies under the names of P.P. Bach , J.P. Haydn , and W. A. Plagiavsky Mozart ?
Did you know that Lee Tai-Young was the first woman to study at Seoul National University ?
Did you know that Hocutt v. Wilson , the first attempt to desegregate higher education in the United States , was dismissed for lack of standing because the president of the university implicated refused to release the transcript of the plaintiff?
Did you know that Satō Tadanobu saved his master Minamoto no Yoshitsune by dressing in his armour and impersonating him?
Did you know that Alabama Crimson Tide football under Nick Saban won college football national championships in their 2009 , 2011 , and 2012 seasons ?
Did you know that when Nicholas Brend , the first owner of the Globe Theatre , died in 1601, his heir was his infant son, Matthew , who would not come of age until 6 February 1621?
Did you know that contemporary reports claimed that French President Félix Faure died receiving fellatio and his penis had to be surgically removed from his mistress's locked jaw?
Did you know that Australian trade union organiser William Orr was charged with incitement to murder after advising striking coal miners to arm themselves?
Did you know that Game of Thrones episode " And Now His Watch Is Ended " introduced the fictional tongue of High Valyrian on television, which was created by a linguist?
Did you know that Johann Christian Simon Handt was possibly the first missionary to Queensland ?
Did you know that the type specimen of the extinct nutmeg yew Torreya clarnensis is located in Florida?
Did you know that Ami Priyono was one of four directors who dominated the cinema of Indonesia during the 1970s?
Did you know that the function of safety-valve institutions such as gambling or pornography is to reduce the tensions in the society?
Did you know that Salmo ezenami , a critically endangered species of trout , is endemic to Chechnya 's Lake Kezenoyam and is threatened by the invasive European chub ?
Did you know that American football player Alan Gendreau , the Sun Belt Conference 's all-time leading scorer, was known to be gay by his team ?
Did you know that the mug shot publishing industry has expanded with 60 new sites in the last two years and multiple state legislatures are seeking to regulate it?
Did you know that Leon Boullemier , the son of a French artist, was (under another name) Northamptonshire County Cricket Club 's official scorer for 50 years?
Did you know that R.K.M & Ken-Y received an American Society of Composers and Publishers Award for " Llorarás " and " Igual Que Ayer " at the same ceremony?
Did you know that Joan Leche founded a school in Saffron Walden which Gabriel Harvey attended in the early 1560s, where according to Thomas Nashe he was a "desperate stabber with pen-knives"?
Did you know that the Twelfth Siege of Gibraltar ended in defeat for France and Spain, which lost 10,000 men while the English and Dutch defenders lost only 400?
Did you know that Alex Valencia was named "player of the year" when IK Start won silver in the 2005 Norwegian Premier League ?
Did you know that foundations of a medieval limestone church were found during the building of Haslev Church in 1916?
Did you know that Sir Sigismund Zinzan tilted in the tournament celebrating the creation of King James 's son, Henry , as Prince of Wales in 1610, and led a horse draped in black at Henry's funeral in 1612?
Did you know that the Class 374 is the first high speed train type purchased by a part owned French rail company not to be based on the TGV?
Did you know that a boy's eligibility to lodge in a Zawlbûk in a traditional Mizo community depends on the length of his pubic hair ?
Did you know that some economists question the relevance of involuntary unemployment because "however miserable one's current work options, one can always choose to accept them"?
Did you know that Supernova by Cuban pianist Gonzalo Rubalcaba 's trio was beaten to a Grammy Award by an album produced and performed by Rubalcaba?
Did you know that Samuel Meredith was the first chief constable in Britain ?
Did you know that the Image of Camuliana , said to be a miraculous icon of Christ, was carried into battle by Byzantine armies, but probably destroyed in the Byzantine Iconoclasm ?
Did you know that the Big Blue River Bridge was one of the first of nearly 30 concrete bridges designed by engineer William A. Biba?
Did you know that during the American Revolution Prudence Wright led a militia of pitchfork-bearing women to arrest her brothers?
Did you know that on the northwest shore of Cape Denbigh on Norton Bay , archeological finds in the National Historic Landmark Iyatayet Site attest to the Norton Culture dated between 500 BC and 300 AD?
Did you know that the localization, stability, export, and translation efficiency of a messenger RNA are regulated by its three prime untranslated region ?
Did you know that Phong Nha-Ke Bang National Park , one of the protected areas of Vietnam , has the largest cave in the world?
Did you know that Lefty Driesell Award winner Tommy Brenton guided the 2012–13 Stony Brook Seawolves men's basketball team to their program 's first ever postseason tournament win?
Did you know that Heroes for Sale by Andy Mineo mixes hip-hop with hymns , reggaeton , jazz , R&B , heavy metal , and classical ?
Did you know that during the American Revolution, Martha Bratton stuck her son in a chimney and tried to blow up the British?
Did you know that Church of Saint Mary the Virgin is built on property where Horace Greeley once held a campaign reception in Chappaqua, New York ?
Did you know that the triannual Redi Award given out by the International Society on Toxinology was named after Francesco Redi , the 17th-century Italian scientist who showed that viper venom comes from glands near its fangs ?
Did you know that in 1983, Anita Pratap became the first journalist to interview LTTE chief V. Prabhakaran ?
Did you know that despite its name, the chewing louse Columbicola extinctus , which was originally thought to only use the Passenger Pigeon as a host , is not extinct as it was rediscovered on the Band-tailed Pigeon ?
Did you know that the murder of Helen McCourt was the first case in which a suspect was convicted on DNA evidence in the UK without the victim's body having been discovered?
Did you know that a mixture of bark and crushed leaves of Grevillea heliosperma was used to wash sores by local indigenous people?
Did you know that actor Ian Kirkby once described motor racing as "a waste of petrol"?
Did you know that Faxe Church contains a 1717 painting by Hendrick Krock , Frederik IV 's court painter?
Did you know that Florida A&M Rattlers basketball player Terrence Woods won the 2004 NCAA Division I three-point shooting contest at the conclusion of his senior season?
Did you know that Sir Matthew Brend conveyed the property on which the Globe Theatre was built to his wife, Frances?
Did you know that the list of National Trust properties in Somerset includes sites dating from the Iron Age to the Victorian era ?
Did you know that a cricket match in Hong Kong was once called off because a batsman was hitting so many sixes that he might pose "a danger to passing traffic"?
Did you know that the Australian plant Banksia saxicola has been cultivated outdoors in the Netherlands and United Kingdom?
Did you know that the Bhusawal-Kalyan railway line in western India rises by 970 ft (296 m) within a span of 9.5 mi (15 km) across Thul Ghat?
Did you know that, playing in her fifth successive Women's Cricket World Cup , England's Charlotte Edwards was named in the team of the tournament?
Did you know that slow code is a purposely slow response to a patient in cardiac arrest ?
Did you know that the para-military squads of the Peruvian APRA Party used to be nick-named " Buffaloes "?
Did you know that Johan van Brosterhuysen , a dilettante Dutch botanist, translated a bishop's lunar fiction ?
Did you know that horse racing commentator Lord Oaksey was once captain of Eton College 's boxing team?
Did you know that the Norwegian steamer Kommandøren was torpedoed and sunk by a drunken crewman on a German E-boat ?
Did you know that Blaine Wilson has won the most all-around titles at the USA Gymnastics National Championships ?
Did you know that the album Solo by Cuban pianist Gonzalo Rubalcaba includes songs inspired by John Coltrane 's Giant Steps ?
Did you know that almost all tunicates of the species Pyura pachydermatina house at least one parasitic ribbon worm ?
Did you know that Vester Egede Church displays a relief of "Luxuria", a woman standing on her head, nurturing a winged dragon and a lion?
Did you know that Walter Curran Mendenhall found obscure fossils on Fish River at White Mountain, Alaska ?
Did you know that Fateh Chand Badhwar was the first Indian to become Chairman of the country's Railway Board ?
Did you know that José María Caro Martínez , the first Mayor of Pichilemu , was the father of José María Caro Rodríguez , the first Chilean Cardinal of the Catholic Church ?
Did you know that coated urea fertilizers reduce the risk of fertilizer burn by slowing the rate at which moisture in the soil dissolves the sulfur - or polymer -encapsulated prills of urea ?
Did you know that Sean Manaea was named the Most Outstanding Prospect in the Cape Cod Baseball League for 2012?
Did you know that Ferdinand von Mueller named the rainforest proteaceae genera Buckinghamia , Cardwellia , Carnarvonia , Hicksbeachia and Hollandaea in honour of British Secretaries of State for the Colonies ?
Did you know that both Vice Admiral Matthew Quashie and former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan attended Mfantsipim ?
Did you know that Blackstairmountain from Ireland was the first European-trained racehorse to win the Nakayama Grand Jump , the world's richest steeplechase ?
Did you know that prior to the phylloxera epidemic in the mid-19th century there were almost 17,000 hectares (42,000 acres) of Gouget noir , but by 2008 there were just 10 hectares (25 acres) of the grape left in France?
Did you know that a canopy walkway connects seven tree tops in Ghana 's Kakum National Park ?
Did you know that the silencer on DNA allows repressors to bind, inhibiting transcription ?
Did you know that Brandon Maurer threw a perfect game during a Little League Baseball all-star game ?
Did you know that the Purple-throated Cotinga is considered a naturally rare species across its range?
Did you know that the church of St. Severin in Keitum on the island of Sylt , first mentioned in 1240, is furnished with an early Renaissance pulpit from Denmark?
Did you know that Sukur is Africa 's first cultural landscape to receive World Heritage List inscription?
Did you know that the future of the narrow gauge Shakuntala Railway depends on how Central Railway acts on the option it has to buy it in 2016?
Did you know that John Lightfoot provided the first British records for the chanterelle and the summer truffle ?
Did you know that the world's oldest known harbor and Egypt's oldest known papyrus documents were both discovered at Wadi al-Jarf ?
Did you know that nuclear physicist Katharine Way co-edited a 1946 bestseller which included essays by Niels Bohr , Albert Einstein and Robert Oppenheimer , and sold over 100,000 copies?
Did you know that the 2002 EA Sports 500 featured no cautions despite Talladega Superspeedway being known for "The Big One" ?
Did you know that in 1750 Paul Troger painted the altarpiece Vision of St. Ulrich at the Battle of Lechfeld for the church St. Ulrich in Vienna?
Did you know that there are records of a woman being stoned to death for stepping over the rope used in Juldarigi (Korean tug of war )?
Did you know that tributary creeks of the Koyuk River include Dime and Sweepstakes?
Did you know that visitors to the Ulucanlar Prison Museum who pay extra to be handcuffed and locked in an isolation cell for a limited time may not leave it before the agreed time is up?
Did you know that the Newborn monument in Pristina , Kosovo , was unveiled on the day of the 2008 Kosovo declaration of independence ?
Did you know that the most common sources of added sugar consumption are sweetened beverages ?
Did you know that tariffs will increase for thousands of goods imported to Canada from 72 nations as a result of the 2013 Canadian federal budget ?
Did you know that Jennifer Gove is South Africa 's leading run -scorer in women's Test cricket ?
Did you know that by 1810, the Susquehanna and Tioga Turnpike was the first road in good condition for wagons in its part of Pennsylvania?
Did you know that the Sclerodermatineae include boletes , earthstars , and pretty mouths ?
Did you know that College Baseball Hall of Famer Eddy Furniss had to be convinced to play baseball?
Did you know that less than two weeks after Elis won the 1835 St. Leger Stakes , 21 horses were withdrawn from the colt's next scheduled race?
Did you know that sheng nu is a pejorative term promoted by the Government of China to pressure unwed women into marriage in response to the gender imbalance caused by the one-child policy ?
Did you know that French nobleman Louis Philippe Marie Léopold d'Orléans (1845–1866) was not only the last Prince of Condé but also the first royal visitor to the continent of Australia ?
Did you know that Highnam Court in Gloucestershire was built in 1658 to replace the manor that was damaged in the English Civil War ?
Did you know that one threat to the vulnerable potato chip coral is its collection for the aquarium trade?
Did you know that the UNESCO -inscribed Group of Monuments at Mahabalipuram of the Pallava Period include: Ganesha Ratha ; the Pancha Rathas of Dharmaraja , Arjuna , Bhima , Draupadi , and Nakula Sahadeva ; several cave temples such as Varaha , Krishna , Mahishasuramardini , and Panchapandava ; the structural temples of Olakkannesvara and Shore ; and the Descent of the Ganges , one of the largest open-air bas-reliefs in the world?
Did you know that René Maturana Maldonado was the last Mayor of Pichilemu to be appointed by the military regime of Augusto Pinochet ?
Did you know that in the late 1820s, Cherry Hill was host to both the Marquis de Lafayette and a sensational murder that led to the last public hanging in Albany, New York ?
Did you know that the season three premiere episode of Game of Thrones was dedicated in the memory of its cinematographer, Martin Kenzie ?
Did you know that Tropical Storm Agatha caused a 100-foot (30 m) deep sinkhole to open in 2010 in Guatemala City , killing 15 people?
Did you know that a month after the Palestinian Arab leadership confirmed Abd al-Rahim al-Hajj Muhammad as general commander of the 1936 Palestine revolt , he was killed in a clash with British authorities in March 1939?
Did you know that the Majdanek concentration camp trial was the longest Nazi war crimes trial in history, spanning over 30 years?
Did you know that child actor Jared S. Gilmore was the third person to play Bobby Draper in six years when he was cast in the American television series Mad Men ?
Did you know that the Marechal Joffre and Marechal Foch wine grapes were named after the World War I generals Joseph Joffre and Ferdinand Foch ?
Did you know that the statue of General Casimir Pulaski in Washington was sculpted by Kazimierz Chodziński ?
Did you know that the Armada Service , rumoured to have been made from New World silver captured from the Spanish Armada , was buried during the English Civil War and lay hidden until 1827?
Did you know that the Norwegian king Magnus Barefoot may have shot Hugh of Montgomery dead with an arrow through his eye in the Battle of Anglesey Sound ?
Did you know that sheep grazier Thomas Gibson Sloane was an expert on tiger beetles ?
Did you know that Fir Hill Manor was the subject of a BBC documentary in 1994, which documents the search for absentee landlord John Paget Figg-Hoblyn ?
Did you know that the damage wrought by Typhoon Karen in Guam in 1962 was considered worse than that of the American liberation of the island in 1944?
Did you know that Anthony Musgrave , the son of Anthony Musgrave, was related to Anthony Musgrave ?
Did you know that Brandon Miller scored the game-winning basket in a 2003 NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament game that Sports Illustrated called an "instant tourney classic"?
Did you know that painter Johann Heinrich Baumann was called the " Münchhausen of Courland " for his tales of his hunting adventures?
Did you know that Lilik Sudjio received the first Citra Award for directing his father ?
Did you know that an early version of the Facebook -developed software on the HTC First was code-named " Buffy "?
Did you know that the real life mother and daughter, Jyoti and Amruta Subhash , have played the same relationship in the 2009 Marathi film Gandha ?
Did you know that mento artist Lord Flea helped start the calypso craze, was covered by Harry Belafonte , and wrote a song about a monkey who followed him around?
Did you know that the Whitehorse Ranch in southeast Oregon voluntarily removed its cattle from 50,000 acres (200 km 2 ) of its BLM grazing allotment for three years to allow watershed and riparian areas to recover?
Did you know that the authenticity of the supposedly Maya Grolier Codex is disputed, even though it uses pre-Columbian paper ?
Did you know that Star Trek: The Next Generation: Klingon Honor Guard was the first video game other than Unreal itself to use the Unreal Game engine ?
Did you know that despite the family being of rather humble origin, Thomas Gapes and his father James both served as Mayor of Christchurch ?
Did you know that while some sources believe that Thomas Fitch, V inspired the original Yankee Doodle Dandy in 1755, other sources think the song was written at least 12 years earlier?
Did you know that anyone who entered Emperor Ashoka 's Hell was not allowed to come out alive?
Did you know that while Claude Raguet Hirst 's painting A Gentleman's Table was commissioned by a men's club, it offers a subtle critique of male culture?
Did you know that Abouriou was almost lost to extinction until a local farmer discovered abandoned plantings of the French wine grape growing up the walls of a ruined castle?
Did you know that Norwegian footballer Erik Midtgarden won the Estonian Meistriliiga with Flora Tallinn in 2011 ?
Did you know that Manny Coto compared the Vulcans in the Star Trek: Enterprise episode " Awakening " to the Catholic Church during the Protestant Reformation ?
Did you know that Gene Hobbs , a regular contributor to Wikipedia's scuba articles, was named the 2010 Divers Alert Network / Rolex Diver of the year?
Did you know that according to Jaś Elsner , " style art history" was "the indisputable king of the discipline", but is now "dead"?
Did you know that Sophie Matisse 's reinterpretation of Pablo Picasso ' s Guernica was regarded as a strange idea for an artist whose great-grandfather, Henri Matisse , was known to be an artistic rival of Picasso?
Did you know that the jurists of the ancient Law School of Beirut played a major part in drafting the Justinian body of civil law ?
Did you know that Tiffany Porter was called a " Plastic Brit " by a newspaper for refusing to recite the words of " God Save the Queen "?
Did you know that to finance the completion of the Petit Serail , the Wāli of Syria had to take a loan, mortgage public buildings and impose new taxes?
Did you know that Eric Newby ' s A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush has been described as a "comic masterpiece" and among the "best travel books of all time"?
Did you know that the Aldabra atoll in Seychelles , called "one of the wonders of the world" by David Attenborough , has about 100,000 giant tortoises , the largest concentration in the world?
Did you know that Leona Woods was the only woman present when the world's first nuclear reactor went critical?
Did you know that the upset victory of Ebor in the 1817 St Leger Stakes was ascribed to the overconfidence of Blacklock 's jockey?
Did you know that during its initial run of episodes, Glee fans lobbied for Idina Menzel to be cast as the biological mother of Lea Michele 's character due to the strong resemblance between the two actresses?
Did you know that a colony of Damaraland mole rats have been estimated to excavate as much as three tons of earth over a two week period?
Did you know that Leonard Nimoy 's 1975 autobiography was entitled I Am Not Spock ?
Did you know that Pearlin Jean purportedly haunted her former lover's estate after he tried to buy her silence with the lace of the same name?
Did you know that scholarly estimates for the dates of southeastern Illinois' Hubele archaeological site vary by 1,400 years from earliest to latest?
Did you know that the Negros Fruit Dove is only known from a single female shot from a tree on the slopes of a Philippine volcano in 1953?
Did you know that One Night in Malaysia was enough to make Nico Pelamonia Best Director ?
Did you know that Peter Lauritson 's directorial debut, the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode " The Inner Light ", was awarded the Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation ?
Did you know that the Native American sport snow snake is named for the snake-like wiggling motion of wooden poles sliding down an icy track?
Did you know that with "enormous dramatic impact", Bach inserted a recitative for the voice of Christ in the opening chorus of his cantata Ihr werdet weinen und heulen , BWV 103 ?
Did you know that the medieval manor house of Fiddleford Manor may have been built for William Latimer , sheriff of Dorset and Somerset , in around 1370?
Did you know that First Ladies Eleanor Roosevelt and Jackie Kennedy both lived on East 74th Street on the Upper East Side of New York City?
Did you know that violet root rot can damage crops such as carrots ?
Did you know that one of the leaders of the Kraków Uprising in 1846 was killed while leading a religious procession ?
Did you know that American basketball player Sugar Rodgers scored a record number of points (2,518) at Georgetown University ?
Did you know that Henry Seidu Daanaa is the first blind person to be called to the Ghana Bar ?
Did you know that the wheatbelt shrub Persoonia coriacea can have naturally twisted leaves?
Did you know that baseball announcer Shelby Whitfield wrote a book titled Kiss It Goodbye that helped prompt the Federal Communications Commission to investigate the ethics of sports broadcasting?
Did you know that the Gustav Adolfs Kyrka in Liverpool was W. D. Caroe 's first independent commission to design a church?
Did you know that when Charles O'Rear took a photograph of a green, lush hillside near Napa Valley , he did not expect it to be "the most viewed image of the world"?
Did you know that London-based engraver Peter Mazell bungled an image of the Common Tailorbird ?
Did you know that the Mérens horse was saved from extinction by hippies in the 1970s?
Did you know that when Lieutenant Commander Hugh Haggard returned the Truant to Britain in late 1942, the submarine flew a Jolly Roger with 4 stars and 16 bars?
Did you know that although the species name of the tree Alloxylon brachycarpum means "short fruit", it has the largest fruit of its genus ?
Did you know that former Israeli Ambassador to Russia Anna Azari is married to a rabbi who leads a congregation in Tel Aviv ?
Did you know that the video game Star Trek: Hidden Evil was described by one critic as "2,891 phaser shots connected by some irrelevant puzzles"?
Did you know that Joseph Partridge , a former waggoner , wrote the first history of the Cheshire town of Nantwich ?
Did you know that Korean sedge-weavers, known as wanchojang , can take up to two weeks to complete one box?