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Did you know that after becoming a local hit in Texas, Gene Thomas ' " Sometime " was reissued on the United Artists label and entered the national top 100?
Did you know that Carmen Souza sings Cape Verdean and jazz fusion compositions in Creole for its adaptability, and also mimics the sounds of musical instruments?
Did you know that Madonna 's musical endeavors include reciting and recording poems?
Did you know that during the 1920 debut of his furniture music at the Galerie Barbazanges in Paris, composer Erik Satie begged the audience not to listen to the music?
Did you know that Eleanor Sophia Smith was one of the founders of Chicago 's Hull House Music School ?
Did you know that Gregg Allman 's album Laid Back was titled as an inside reference to a studio term that Allman coined for when a song needed to be more relaxed?
Did you know that jazz pianist and composer Dodo Marmarosa once got mad at his old piano and chopped it up with an ax?
Did you know that Tina Allen ' s sculpture of Frederick Douglass is featured in the movie Akeelah and the Bee ?
Did you know that the auxiliary nurse midwife is a village-level female health worker in India who acts as the first contact person between the community and the health services?
Did you know that Meridian School alumnus Masa Fukuda , the founder of One Voice Children's Choir , writes and arranges music from 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. in his basement studio, sleeping only three or four hours a day?
Did you know that BMW engineer Paul Rosche continued to design Formula One engines for them after the company withdrew from the tournament?
Did you know that during the period of state control known as State Shinto , Japan lost 80,000 Shinto shrines?
Did you know that Swedish politician Emil Källström came in sixth in Land magazine's annual list of "Hottest hillbillies"?
Did you know that For John is a tribute album to a disc jockey from Buffalo, New York , recorded by indie pop band Library Voices from Regina, Saskatchewan ?
Did you know that the pre-3rd century CE Shandilya Upanishad text describes eight postures of Yoga to cleanse the body and two types of meditation?
Did you know that for the production of Avengers: Infinity War , the films will be the first to be shot entirely using IMAX cameras and its exclusive aspect ratio ?
Did you know that Queen Elizabeth II 's glovemaker, Cornelia James , was accepted by the art college that rejected Adolf Hitler?
Did you know that Alexander Rossi became the first American to drive at a Formula One race at the Circuit of the Americas when he entered the 2015 United States Grand Prix ?
Did you know that Romona Robinson won a television news anchor job in Cleveland , Ohio, with a demo tape that showed her remaining poised and self-confident while "being wiped out by a hurricane-whipped wave"?
Did you know that in 1955, two girls fainted at an election rally in Glasgow for Unionist candidate William Grant ?
Did you know that the husband-and-wife piano duo of Bartlett and Robertson were said to play like "four hands at a double keyboard controlled by a single mind"?
Did you know that during Operation Phoutah , Groupement Mobile 33 carried their gut-shot colonel and 50 other wounded for 13 hours?
Did you know that Rosita Baltazar , co-founder of the Belize National Dance Company, taught language and dance on St. Vincent in a Garifuna cultural reclamation project?
Did you know that software product company DDC-I started three decades ago in Denmark with a focus on the Ada programming language and now focuses on real-time operating systems in the United States?
Did you know that the Hindu text Kathashruti Upanishad , composed before the 3rd-century CE, states a sannyasi should neither rejoice when someone praises him, nor curse when someone abuses him?
Did you know that Evelyn Boscawen, 6th Viscount Falmouth , was also known as Mr Valentine?
Did you know that Ruth Guimarães , the first Afro-Brazilian author to gain a nationwide audience, translated classic literature but also wrote original works about fables , legends, and everyday life?
Did you know that Chris Sailer is the only player in UCLA football history to have been named first-team All-American at two positions in the same season?
Did you know that the ancient Sanskrit text Dhyanabindu Upanishad states there is a soul in every living being just as there is fragrance in flowers and butter in milk?
Did you know that Baldwin , the 11th-century abbot of Bury St Edmunds Abbey in England, was royal doctor to three kings?
Did you know that many of the songs from Conrad Keely 's debut solo album Original Machines were written while traveling around Cambodia ?
Did you know that Silvina Fabars , who won the National Dance Prize of Cuba in 2014, was once a rebel fighter under Fidel Castro in the Cuban Revolution ?
Did you know that no more than twelve people at a time can ascertain what is found and lost at a London hotel?
Did you know that although he was born in the Ivory Coast, Mahama Cho has represented both Great Britain and France at taekwondo competitions?
Did you know that the ancient Indian text Tejobindu Upanishad describes a 15-limbed yoga system, including exercises, meditation and Samadhi ?
Did you know that Swedish singer Towe Jaarnek is the sister of fellow singer Carina Jaarnek ?
Did you know that a 1995 storm caused 63 deaths in Nepal, 33 of them related to avalanches?
Did you know that math professor Henry Adams Thompson ran for office several times, including for Vice President of the United States in 1880 , but never won?
Did you know that although it is possible that the Adriatic sturgeon is extinct in the wild, a large specimen was caught in the River Po in 2015?
Did you know that the composer and improviser Sylvia Hallett bows both the violin and a spinning bicycle wheel?
Did you know that Mami Kawada ' s music career began after she was discovered by her music teacher?
Did you know that the cosmology in the ancient Hindu text Avyakta Upanishad proposes that there was nothing, until light appeared consisting of knowledge and bliss, followed by the universe?
Did you know that actor Johannes Bah Kuhnke is married to the Swedish Minister of Culture, Alice Bah Kuhnke ?
Did you know that Little Pine is a vegan restaurant founded by American singer–songwriter Moby that donates all of its profits to animal welfare organizations?
Did you know that Jeffrey Swanson led a 2015 study that found that 8.9% of American adults reported both angry behavior and easy access to guns?
Did you know that Subhra Guha , a vocal musician in the Indian Hindustani classical tradition, trained in Agra gharana , and has a singing repertoire in khayals , thumri and dadra ?
Did you know that the Battle of Brunanburh , fought in 937, has been described as "the greatest single battle in Anglo-Saxon history before Hastings "?
Did you know that the Hindu text Amritabindu Upanishad , composed before 300 CE, condemns "bookish learning" and emphasizes the practice of a six-limbed Yoga ?
Did you know that Richard Nixon and T. S. Eliot are both descended from Isaac Stearns ?
Did you know that authorities in 17th-century Amsterdam ordered the confiscation and burning of Adriaan Koerbagh 's Een Bloemhof because of its heretical opinions?
Did you know that when No. 4 Elementary Flying Training School RAAF opened in 1940, facilities were so limited that cadets had to pay for their own accommodation at a nearby hotel?
Did you know that George Alexander Gibson was a physician, medical author, and amateur geologist after whom the Gibson Murmur was named?
Did you know that in Glik v. Cunniffe , the First Circuit noted that "we have previously recognized that the videotaping of public officials is an exercise of First Amendment liberties"?
Did you know that Polish athlete Ewa Gryziecka ' s world record in women's javelin throw lasted for 35 minutes?
Did you know that the Brazilian guitarfish may soon become extinct because of overfishing, while across the Atlantic, the common guitarfish and the blackchin guitarfish are also endangered?
Did you know that Lu Jiaxi , president of the Chinese Academy of Sciences , was a student of the American Nobel laureate Linus Pauling ?
Did you know that Port Phillip played Van Diemen's Land in the first first-class cricket match in Australia, on 11 and 12 February 1851?
Did you know that the 1986 video game Theatre Europe required the player to call a dedicated telephone number to request a nuclear strike?
Did you know that Peter Molydeux , a Twitter account which parodies the audacious language of Peter Molyneux 's video game ideas, inspired Molyneux to leave Microsoft and return to his indie game development roots?
Did you know that Ralph Waldo Swetman confronted falling enrollment at Oswego State Teachers College by luring an Air Corps unit to the school?
Did you know that one of the songs recorded by Little Mix , "A.D.I.D.A.S.", is an acronym for "All Day I Dream About Sex"?
Did you know that Velma Scantlebury , the first African American woman transplant surgeon in the United States, estimates she has completed over 2,000 organ transplants ?
Did you know that Mortonhall Crematorium which opened in 1967 is a prominent example of Expressionist architecture in Edinburgh , designed by a team led by Sir Basil Spence ?
Did you know that Casey Mears ' victory in the 2007 Coca-Cola 600 is his first and only win in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series ?
Did you know that the public apology of 16-year-old K-pop star Chou Tzu-yu for waving a Taiwanese flag is believed to have helped Tsai Ing-wen win the Taiwanese presidential election ?
Did you know that after the departure of the previously attached distributor , the upcoming film Bad Moms ' U.S. rights are now being handled by STX Entertainment ?
Did you know that 6 Ballygunge Place , a restaurant chain in Kolkata , has a haath-pakha (hand fans) decor that conveys the elegance of a decorated Durga Puja hall or a setting for a period film ?
Did you know that rebel leader Spiro Crne was forced to leave Serbia after Ottoman diplomatic intervention?
Did you know that the ancient Nyāya Sūtras text of Hindu philosophy is a discourse on knowledge and logic which was studied by scholars of Buddhism in the 2nd century CE?
Did you know that The New York Times described the book Psychic Blues as "a compelling look at the disputed territory where entertainment meets religion"?
Did you know that the Stone Hall in Nashville was once a private house of the Cantrell family but is now listed on the National Register of Historic Places ?
Did you know that the decline of Angkor marked the beginning of the Middle Khmer period, during which the language's number of vowels was doubled in a few centuries?
Did you know that opera singer Virgilio Lazzari was a leading bass with the Chicago Civic Opera from 1918–32 and the Metropolitan Opera from 1933–50?
Did you know that a financial analyst considered Evolve , released one year ago today, to be "too niche to reach a wide audience"?
Did you know that Swedish actress Bahar Pars was born in Shiraz , Iran, and came to Sweden in 1989 after her family fled the war with Iraq?
Did you know that the first post-Reformation Catholic Church in Aberdeen , St Peter's Church , closed in 1860 when the cathedral was built, but was re-opened 20 years later?
Did you know that Murray's abyssal anglerfish was dredged from the deep in the Challenger expedition of 1872 to 1876?
Did you know that former University of Maine at Farmington president Theodora J. Kalikow won a bronze medal in triathlon in the Senior Olympics ?
Did you know that Songs by George Harrison contained three songs previously rejected by Warner Bros. Records ?
Did you know that after he tackled the assassin of William McKinley , former slave James Benjamin Parker said, " Father Abe freed me, and now I saved his successor from death, provided that bullet ... don't kill him"?
Did you know that a Chinese aid project in Laos was defended by 400 anti-aircraft guns and 25,000 troops?
Did you know that software startup company Tartan Laboratories was considered an example of Pittsburgh 's attempt in the 1980s to shift from an industrial-based economy to high technology?
Did you know that in December 1869 an employee of the Alert committed suicide by jumping overboard into the Willamette River after being released from an insane asylum ?
Did you know that Olive Hoskins was the first woman promoted to warrant officer in the United States Army?
Did you know that the male Krabi mouth-brooding betta incubates the fertilized eggs in his mouth until they hatch?
Did you know that China's Dalian Jinzhouwan International Airport , currently being built on 21 square kilometres (8.1 sq mi) of reclaimed land, is set to become the world's largest offshore airport?
Did you know that the 12th-century nobleman Hugh of Chalcombe faced arrest for failing to answer a charge of wrongful possession of cattle ?
Did you know that between 1489 and 1491, the doctor and astronomer Johannes Engel worked as a proofreader for the printer Erhard Ratdolt of Augsburg ?
Did you know that the number of disabled Iranian war veterans related to Iraqi chemical weapons is rising, and estimated to rival that of all the gas casualties in World War I ?
Did you know that Thomas J. Latham , a Memphis judge and businessman after the American Civil War , was a millionaire?
Did you know that one scene in the Veronica Mars episode " Papa's Cabin " contains a blue screen that was used as a tarpaulin due to budgetary concerns?
Did you know that Ford Fry has been described as one of the most prolific chefs and restaurateurs in the United States?
Did you know that the coral Polycyathus muellerae is part of an assemblage of organisms that grow in caves?
Did you know that Al-Shaykh Al-Mufid , a 10th-century Shia jurist and theologian, was said to be so persuasive in debate that he could convince his opponents "that a wooden column was actually gold"?
Did you know that Ilse Gramatzki appeared as a Rhinemaiden in the Jahrhundertring at the Bayreuth Festival , and in Zimmermann's Die Soldaten in Frankfurt and Brussels ?
Did you know that mobile game Strikefleet Omega is a hybrid of the tower defense and real-time strategy genres?
Did you know that Chinese economist Ji Chaoding , while in the United States in 1926, secretly joined the Communist Party of China ?
Did you know that the Yogashikha Upanishad states there is no one greater in the universe than one's guru ?
Did you know that Matt Hobden scored 65 not out in a Sussex County Cricket Club record tenth-wicket partnership of 164 with Ollie Robinson ?
Did you know that a new Marvel Comics character, with the power to predict future events, will be introduced in Civil War II , the sequel to Civil War ?
Did you know that Kandia Crazy Horse taught the course " Roll Over Beethoven : Black Rock and Cultural Revolt" at Princeton University ?
Did you know that Dirk Martens published the first edition of Thomas More 's Utopia in 1516?
Did you know that Emily Ratajkowski plays a "nice Jewish girl" looking for action in Cruise ?
Did you know that five missing people linked to a Hong Kong bookshop are suspected of having been abducted by mainland China's Public Security Bureau ?
Did you know that the floor tiles of the Kerr Cultural Center were made with a now-rare mix of cement and white marble dust?
Did you know that physician Jan Theobald Held published a set of folk songs under the pseudonym Jan Orebský?
Did you know that fossils of the headlight angler and the netdevil were found during construction of a subway station in Los Angeles ?
Did you know that nurse and midwife Rosita Beatrice Missick-Butterfield was the first woman Speaker of the Legislative Council of the Turks and Caicos Islands ?
Did you know that in a recent opinion , United States Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy questioned the propriety of solitary confinement ?
Did you know that Arthur John Matthews , president of the Tempe Normal School , wrote the education section of the Constitution of Arizona ?
Did you know that Meissen porcelain developed three osier patterns of relief decoration for plates in the 18th century?
Did you know that Billie Maxwell was the first woman recorded in country music , and the first recorded musician from Arizona ?
Did you know that the overwater bungalows at Hotel Bora Bora were the first on that island , and set a precedent for future developers?
Did you know that American football player Thomas Duarte was one of the rare high-profile college recruits to be of Asian descent?
Did you know that the 140–160 mm (5.5–6.3 in) long wings of Makarkinia are the longest of any lacewing ?
Did you know that Mary Ingraham was the first woman to receive the United States Medal for Merit award?
Did you know that BMW G310R , the first-ever sub-500cc bike by BMW Motorrad , is the first of the company's bikes to be developed outside of Europe?
Did you know that Pittsburgh Steelers coach Mike Tomlin credited chaplain Kevin Jordan with establishing unity on their Super Bowl -winning team of 2009?
Did you know that the keeper of the Kızılada Lighthouse rushed by boat to help the survivors of an Air France airliner that made an emergency water landing off the coast of Fethiye , Turkey in 1953?
Did you know that the Irish doctor James Murray , who discovered what would become milk of magnesia , is an ancestor of the actor Michael Hordern ?
Did you know that the USA House was a US government program designed to help alleviate the homeless problem in the UK ?
Did you know that the arrest of Basanti Devi during the non-cooperation movement in 1921 proved to be a major impetus for widespread agitation?
Did you know that the kaep is a traditional type of proa sailboat native to Palau that can be sailed forward or backward?
Did you know that the 12th-century canon and prior Robert of Bridlington was buried in the cloister of Bridlington Priory ?
Did you know that Mid-Ulster Ladies F.C. were founded by a future NIWFA chairwoman to stop local football players leaving Cookstown ?
Did you know that Kenyan zoologist David Wasawo was the first East African to be awarded a degree in science?
Did you know that Lecrae released the mixtape Church Clothes 3 without any prior announcement?
Did you know that Operation Phiboonpol caused vultures to become an aviation hazard ?
Did you know that Martin Luther King, Jr. was originally scheduled to speak at Williston High School on the day that he was assassinated?
Did you know that the 1970s dancer/choreographer Penney de Jager was knighted for promoting dance among the elderly?
Did you know that oxen of the Terreña breed of cattle from the Basque Country in northern Spain were used in the traditional Basque rural sport of idi probak , or stone-pulling?
Did you know that the early 20th-century Scottish judge Lord Cullen disliked public speaking?
Did you know that the crater lake of Aguas Calientes has been researched as a possible terrestrial analogue to Mars ?
Did you know that at the age of fifteen, Todd Gilliland became the youngest winner in ARCA Racing Series history when he won in his series debut?
Did you know that the men believed to be the first and last Commonwealth soldiers killed in action during the First World War are buried in St Symphorien Military Cemetery ?
Did you know that the modern format for the Katcheri , conceived by Ariyakudi Ramanuja Iyengar in the 1930s, incorporated traditional Carnatic music rendered by the Trinity of Carnatic music ?
Did you know that Lauw Giok Lan was both a money collector and dramatist, but neither was his main occupation?
Did you know that Desert Rat followed Silver Buckle ?
Did you know that Yvonne Ciannella , who performed the title roles of Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor and Puccini's Suor Angelica , recorded Telemann's cantata Ino with "dramatic colouring"?
Did you know that three new species of frog, Callulina shengena , C. stanleyi and C. laphami , first described from the Eastern Arc Mountains of Tanzania in 2010, are all " critically endangered "?
Did you know that at Total Nonstop Action Wrestling 's Bound for Glory IV pay-per-view event, the wrestler Abyss was forced through a flaming table?
Did you know that Islamic law scholar Ahmad ibn Abi Jum'ah likely did not issue the commonly named Oran fatwa in the city of Oran , but rather in Fez ?
Did you know that in 1994 Gloria Tanner became the first African-American woman state senator in Colorado history?
Did you know that the Ada language compiler that Dansk Datamatik Center developed in the early 1980s has been termed an underappreciated success story in the use of formal methods ?
Did you know that the 17th-century English pirate Henry Every is thought to be a descendant of the Every family ?
Did you know that the MUSE School in Calabasas , California, has been described as the first vegan K-12 school in the U.S.?
Did you know that actor Anton Lundqvist played the part of "Oscar" opposite his real-life mother, Maria Lundqvist in the film En underbar jävla jul ?
Did you know that the first Cafe Barbera coffeehouse was established in 1870 in Southern Italy?
Did you know that Martha Graham 's solo dance Salem Shore depicts a sea-wife "mad with grief"?
Did you know that Lesotho is a monarchy in Africa presently ruled by King Letsie III ?
Did you know that in 1994 the Scottish retired judge Lord Brand became an appeals court judge in Botswana?
Did you know that web-based jewelry retailer Bravelets donates ten dollars of each purchase to the charity of the customer's choice?
Did you know that Tyler Austin overcame a testicular cancer diagnosis at age 17 to become a professional baseball player?
Did you know that Riot Games banned G2A from sponsoring teams during the 2015 League of Legends World Championship ?
Did you know that when the oil tanker MV Imperial Transport broke in half after being torpedoed in 1940, a new front section was built and mated to the surviving stern ?
Did you know that St. Paul's Church, Rusthall , has been viewed as a symbol of the wealth of Tunbridge Wells due to the churchyard being "chockablock with expensive tombstones and memorials"?
Did you know that Brenda Andrews co-led a team of scientists to create the first fully detailed cell protein map?
Did you know that the ancient Sanskrit text Kundika Upanishad states a man should visit sacred places in his retirement, and take his wife with him?
Did you know that Yolanda Marculescu , prima donna of the Romanian National Opera of Bucharest , defected to the U.S. in 1968 and founded the International Festival of the Art Song in Milwaukee, Wisconsin?
Did you know that South Sudan has the world's second largest animal migration, but there are no tourists to see it?
Did you know that the eleventh-century Norman noblewoman Rohese Giffard is listed as a landowner in her own right in the Domesday Book ?
Did you know that the Great Comet of 1819 was the first comet analyzed using polarimetry , by François Arago ?
Did you know that Lauren Oliver 's debut novel Before I Fall is being adapted into a feature film ?
Did you know that " God Is Working His Purpose Out " was written as a tribute to the Archbishop of Canterbury ?
Did you know that Rempo Urip played football for a theatre company ?
Did you know that although For What It's Worth was originally meant to have a different expert each week, the episodes were broadcast such that there was a different expert allocated to each weekday?
Did you know that Girolamo Benivieni twice sought the help of Pope Leo X to return the body of Dante Alighieri to Florence ?
Did you know that in 1930 the National Wrestling Association required professional wrestlers to post a $ 5,000 bond to compete for the World Heavyweight Championship ?
Did you know that DNA walkers have been used as nanorobots to pick up and drop off molecular cargo?
Did you know that in 2001, Cliff Lett broke the official land speed record for radio-controlled cars , exceeding 100 miles per hour (160 km/h) for the first time?
Did you know that about half of the Grade I listed war memorials in England were designed by the same architect?
Did you know that Sandy Cornish , a former slave who had purchased his freedom, deliberately maimed himself when threatened with a return to slavery?