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Did you know that Victorian physician and discoverer of arsenic in beer , Ernest Reynolds , did not believe in over-reliance on medical technology?
Did you know that the Thai Buddhist temple Wat Paknam Bhasicharoen organizes blood donations every three months?
Did you know that Henry Liebman hates "Henry Liebman's Noodle Soup"?
Did you know that a 4 cm (1.6 in) long fragment of an Anglo-Saxon helmet was bought for £15,000?
Did you know that traffic on the London, Huron and Bruce Railway was so dominated by farm produce that it was nicknamed the "Butter and Egg Special"?
Did you know that among Stanley Gelbier 's writings on pediatric dentistry is a 1962 study of tooth erosion in a boy who drank copious amounts of cola and soft drinks?
Did you know that in its earliest years, New York City's Rainbow Room restaurant was frequented by the social elite and European royalty?
Did you know that The Mount Carmel College of Nursing is still located on the campus of Mount Carmel West hospital?
Did you know that Fragments of Horror was Junji Ito 's first return to the horror genre after eight years of writing "manga about cats or about society"?
Did you know that Doreen Simmons was awarded Japan's Order of the Rising Sun for her sumo television commentaries?
Did you know that a large lake formerly covered California's Death Valley , and occasionally reappears?
Did you know that Allanah Harper was responsible for introducing W. H. Auden , T. S. Eliot , and Virginia Woolf to the French people?
Did you know that the founders of Smashburger sampled 300 kinds of beef before settling on Angus for their restaurant's burgers?
Did you know that during the Second World War, General Ronald Forbes Adam instituted aptitude tests for new recruits to the British Army?
Did you know that to compose the entire score for the video game Heavy Rain , Normand Corbeil was given two months, producing nearly 300 cues ?
Did you know that the 1900 English beer poisoning , in which more than 6,000 drinkers were poisoned by arsenic , was misdiagnosed for months as alcoholic neuritis ?
Did you know that Citicorp chose to build a tower near the Court Square–23rd Street station in Queens because it was one subway stop away from the company's headquarters in Manhattan, across the East River?
Did you know that the performances of Maaya Sakamoto and Sanae Kobayashi inspired Saori Ōnishi to pursue a voice acting career?
Did you know that the Orange College of Breda was founded by Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange ?
Did you know that the inland free-tailed bat can survive the most extreme range of body temperatures of any mammal known?
Did you know that upon her completion in 1885, the French cruiser Milan was considered the fastest warship afloat?
Did you know that in 2016, annual global internet traffic reached 1.2 zettabytes , leading some to label the current period the Zettabyte Era ?
Did you know that Charles Phillips , who excavated the Sutton Hoo ship-burial, was tasked as a schoolboy with digging latrines near Stonehenge ?
Did you know that in 1998, Dottie Lamm , former First Lady of Colorado , ran for a US Senate seat against the same man who had defeated her husband in the Democratic primary for the same seat six years earlier?
Did you know that the Flying Dutchman -related poems in J. Slauerhoff 's 1928 collection Eldorado are more likely inspired by a French romantic spirit than a German Romantic or Dutch Calvinist one?
Did you know that Crimean Tom , a tabby cat, helped save British and French soldiers from starvation after the Siege of Sevastopol by locating hidden food supplies?
Did you know that the groundbreaking for the New York Coliseum was delayed for ten years, and the demolition took another fourteen?
Did you know that footballer Chris Stringer made his professional debut as a substitute after the starting goalkeeper received the fastest red card in English Football League history?
Did you know that the shortbeard codling crushes the molluscs on which it feeds with its beak-like jaws?
Did you know that despite odds estimated at 17 trillion to one, Evelyn Adams won two multi-million-dollar lottery jackpots in the span of four months?
Did you know that Colophina clematis was the first species of aphid to be identified as having a "soldier" caste?
Did you know that oceanographer and former Florida State University dean Nancy Marcus was also a magician and ventriloquist ?
Did you know that Pinewood Hospital was located in a pine wood in Pinewood , as pine trees were thought to be beneficial for tuberculosis patients?
Did you know that Japanese voice actress Lynn was born to a Japanese-American father and a Japanese-Brazilian mother?
Did you know that one of the largest volcanic eruptions on Earth, at La Pacana in Chile, erupted 2,451–3,500 cubic kilometres of rock?
Did you know that Captain Marvel is expected to be Marvel Studios ' first female-led film?
Did you know that the Sutton Hoo helmet weighs 2.5 kg (5.5 lb), but the Sutton Hoo Helmet weighs 900 kg (2,000 lb)?
Did you know that footballer Paul Giles suffered an injury during a match in March 1982 after being fouled by his brother?
Did you know that the Brown County Courthouse in South Dakota is built of Berea sandstone from Ohio?
Did you know that Ali Soozandeh was inspired to film Tehran Taboo , which explores sexual double standards in Iran, by a conversation he overheard on a train?
Did you know that during their winter meetings, members of medical history society the Osler Club drink a punch made of tangerine oranges, Tarragona wine , rum, brandy whisky or gin, water, spices and cream?
Did you know that Arthur and Morley Cowles Ballantine , co-publishers of The Durango Herald , sometimes wrote opposing editorials, as when he endorsed Nixon and she Humphrey for president in 1968?
Did you know that integral bridges do not have movement joints ?
Did you know that among those rescued by the British Army during the attack on the United States embassy in Addis Ababa was a reporter's pet cheetah ?
Did you know that the spider genus Seycellesa and the nematode genus Traklosia were both originally named Robertia , but had to be renamed?
Did you know that architect William Strudwick Arrasmith designed more than 60 Greyhound bus stations?
Did you know that the Australian Air Corps has been described as "Australia's first independent air force, albeit an interim one"?
Did you know that Luo Haocai , who was jailed by the British and deported from Singapore, became Vice President of China's Supreme People's Court ?
Did you know that Tillie Walden 's graphic novel Spinning , a memoir of her adolescent career as a competitive figure skater , was originally her thesis for the Center for Cartoon Studies ?
Did you know that US Court of Appeals Judge Amy Coney Barrett taught constitutional law at Blackstone Legal Fellowship ?
Did you know that the solar eclipse of May 20, 2012 , began on a Monday and ended on the previous Sunday?
Did you know that after arriving penniless in Liverpool in 1920, Indian physician Harbans Lall Gulati walked to London to obtain work?
Did you know that the waterfalls on Catlin Brook are the "holy grail" of Pennsylvania waterfalls?
Did you know that Benty Grange is designated a Site of Special Scientific Interest , but not because of the boar-crested helmet discovered there?
Did you know that Elizabeth Kane wrote a book sympathetic to Mormon polygamists while simultaneously objecting to how polygamy subjugated women?
Did you know that The Daily Telegraph said The Hatton Garden Job "begins to feel like a bizarre, Brechtian joke at the audience's expense"?
Did you know that due to its proximity to a charter school , alcoholic beverages cannot be served at Zions Bank Stadium ?
Did you know that Akane Fujita decided to become a voice actress partly because she "wanted to do something that was fun"?
Did you know that in the United States, children ages 2–17 with milk allergy are shorter on average than their non-allergic peers?
Did you know that Fidel Castro Díaz-Balart led a failed twelve-year effort to build nuclear reactors in Cuba?
Did you know that Lion Forge Comics was founded to provide ethnically diverse creators an outlet to create ethnically diverse characters?
Did you know that the Magill Youth Training Centre was described by a Youth Representative to the United Nations as being "the worst of its kind"?
Did you know that Alaskans in coastal areas evacuated to higher ground where they waited to see if the 2018 Gulf of Alaska earthquake had caused a tsunami ?
Did you know that the 5th Marquess of Donegall married at the age of 80, gained a son and heir nine months later, and died within a year leaving an estate valued at £27?
Did you know that during the American Revolutionary War , George Washington participated in "a pretty little frisk" at the Van Veghten House ?
Did you know that the Pugwashite , Patricia Lindop , worked with Nobel Prize winner Joseph Rotblat on the effects of radiation on living organisms?
Did you know that the historic Church of Santa Maria Primerana in Tuscany was built atop the stylobate of an ancient Roman temple ?
Did you know that blind swimmer John Morgan won 13 gold medals across two Paralympic Games and climbed Mount Kilimanjaro ?
Did you know that Igor Stravinsky ' s Scherzo for piano was composed in 1902 but not published until 1970?
Did you know that Virginia Woolf was conceived despite her mother Julia Stephen and father doing "what they could to prevent me", since "contraception was a very imperfect art" in the 19th century?
Did you know that according to writer Charlie Brooker , the Black Mirror episode " San Junipero " was set in California as a "fuck you" to people complaining that the show would become Americanised?
Did you know that Charles Reynolds , who successfully persuaded the Pope to excommunicate Henry VIII of England , was posthumously attainted for treason?
Did you know that Minol Araki , whose art drew on both Eastern and Western traditions, made a series of five paintings over 70 feet (21 m) long that were partly inspired by his mentor Zhang Daqian 's work?
Did you know that the Stephen Court fire , which killed 43 people, was caused by a short-circuit?
Did you know that the English surgeon Marriott Fawckner Nicholls served in the British Army in both World Wars before ending his career as professor of surgery at the University of Khartoum in Sudan?
Did you know that the Episcopal Seminary of Fiesole , formed after the Council of Trent , was unusually influenced by the Society of Jesus ?
Did you know that in 2006, footballer Steve Flack scored the fastest hat-trick in Exeter City 's history?
Did you know that the appearance of Ash Lynx, the main character in the manga Banana Fish , is based on tennis player Stefan Edberg and actor River Phoenix ?
Did you know that laughter, a signal of amusement , helps us cope with stress?
Did you know that the Diet of Transylvania elected Sigismund Rákóczi prince in 1607, although he had proposed his former son-in-law to the delegates?
Did you know that the landmarked 19th-century Robert and Anne Dickey House , which formerly housed the French consulate in New York City , is being incorporated into a new school building?
Did you know that the Dhammakaya Movement teaches that Nirvana exists as a literal reality within each individual?
Did you know that Rie Takahashi decided to pursue a voice acting career after noticing that many male characters were voiced by females?
Did you know that the American Bank Note Company Printing Plant included an office for a counterfeiter?
Did you know that the Yalu River Broken Bridge , which connected China and North Korea, was built by Japan and destroyed by the United States?
Did you know that Jackie Wallace told the coach of the Los Angeles Rams to "kiss my ass" for failing to field him in Super Bowl XIV , his final NFL game?
Did you know that the deepsea starfish Novodinia antillensis has large eyespots on the tips of its arms, but these may be non-functional?
Did you know that pianist Katharina Sellheim and two other women played piano trios by Beethoven , Waterhouse , and Mendelssohn at the Beethovenfest ?
Did you know that two months after the Candia massacre , the last Ottoman soldiers left Crete , ending 253 years of Ottoman rule?
Did you know that the Church Father Origen drew heavily on the teachings of Plato and tried to harmonize Greek philosophy with Christian teachings?
Did you know that there is an eight-sided barn on Missouri Route 48 ?
Did you know that the founder of Banks Beer , Peter D'Aguiar , was also a prominent Guyanese politician?
Did you know that Chi Pu 's song " Từ hôm nay (Feel Like Ooh) " received an overwhelmingly negative reception, with some reviewers calling it "disastrous"?
Did you know that the Museum of Geometric and MADI Art in Dallas is the only museum in North America dedicated to the Madí art movement?
Did you know that Jai Tirath Dahiya won his seat in the 2014 Haryana Legislative Assembly election by a margin of three votes?
Did you know that between 1992 and 2016, Scottish football club Aberdeen did not win a single match at Ibrox Stadium , home of their rivals Rangers F.C. , in 41 attempts?
Did you know that Hanging Sword Alley was also known as "Blood Bowl Alley" after its infamous night life?
Did you know that David Meade 's prediction of a hidden planet named Nibiru hitting Earth on September 23, 2017, was based on what he says are coded messages hidden in the Giza Pyramids in Egypt?
Did you know that Krishna Kohli is the first Hindu Dalit woman to be elected to the Senate of Pakistan?
Did you know that Heroin(e) , an Academy Award-nominated short film, follows three women fighting the opioid epidemic in Huntington, West Virginia , where the overdose rate is ten times the US average?
Did you know that Catherine Rückwardt , who was Generalmusikdirektorin at the Staatstheater Mainz for a decade and one of only four women in such a position in Germany, conducted a recording of the First Symphony by Hans Rott ?
Did you know that Emma Jane Gay , known for her photographs of the Nez Perce people in the late 19th century, is identified as the first American lesbian photographer?
Did you know that an illiterate Thai nun became a highly revered spiritual leader in her community, and more than 250,000 people attended her funeral?
Did you know that Annalisa Crannell brings chopsticks to art galleries as a tool for finding vanishing points ?
Did you know that Mary Ann Kerwin , co-founder of La Leche League , said that when breastfeeding in the US in the 1950s, "we would practically smother our babies with blankets to avoid showing any breast"?
Did you know that cell isolation techniques can be used to help study individual living cells from tissue normally discarded during open heart surgery ?
Did you know that the British government's Transforming Infrastructure Performance report aims to save the construction industry £15 billion per year?
Did you know that Green Bay Packers running back Devante Mays played for two different community colleges before transferring to Utah State?
Did you know that when the stiff-footed sea cucumber eviscerates , it gets rid of the parasitic sea snail which lives attached to its gut?
Did you know that while his parents wanted him to serve in the church, Albert Methfessel pursued his interest in music, becoming a key figure in German folk and male voice singing in the 19th century?
Did you know that nearly US$700 million was allocated to the process of downgrading Interstate 895 in New York City from a freeway to a boulevard?
Did you know that Prince Edmund Batthyany-Strattmann was a wet bob at Eton ?
Did you know that WestJet Encore , a Canadian airline which began flights in 2013, deactivates water lines in the lavatory sinks to prevent freezing on cold nights?
Did you know that Camilla Gray 's attempts to stage an exhibition of Russian art in Britain were hindered by Soviet antipathy to abstract art ?
Did you know that the 2014 Carlton Complex Fire was the largest wildfire in Washington state history up to that time?
Did you know that when the Boy Scouts of America tried changing their name in 1977 to Scouting/USA , they were accused of chauvinism for not considering the effects on the Girl Scouts?
Did you know that EastEnders filmed three mini episodes in Paris to coincide with the 1998 FIFA World Cup ?
Did you know that Enlil , the chief god of the Sumerian pantheon, was regarded as so glorious that not even the other deities could look upon him?
Did you know that Manhattan vegetarian restaurant Dirt Candy is "waging war on the 'eat your vegetables' mind-set"?
Did you know that Alysia Rissling was the pilot for the first ever all-woman team in an official four-man bobsleigh race after the event became gender neutral ?
Did you know that the Neues Bachisches Collegium Musicum was founded in 1979 by Max Pommer and members of the Gewandhausorchester after Bach 's model?
Did you know that the British dentist Neil Swallow often made night calls to make feeding plates for babies born with cleft palates ?
Did you know that until it closed in 2009, J.E. Rhoads & Sons was the longest continually-operating company in the United States, having been in business for more than three centuries?
Did you know that after failing to get playing time at ABC Futebol Clube , footballer Rodriguinho Marinho considered becoming a futsal player?
Did you know that the 2010 Infrastructure Cost Review led to annual savings of £3 billion in British government expenditure on infrastructure by 2014?
Did you know that the Comet Ping Pong pizzeria's name comes from a sign that one of the founders discovered at a liquor shop?
Did you know that Susan Goldberg was the first woman editor-in-chief of National Geographic magazine?
Did you know that the Gilwell Oak was named the United Kingdom's "Tree of the Year" for 2017?
Did you know that a modern bus station was built to resemble the former Brockton train station , designed by Bradford Gilbert ?
Did you know that a Columbine cup was a masterpiece resembling the shape of a cluster of doves?
Did you know that four-time Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association World Champion Bull Rider J.W. Harris suffered five concussions in 2008?
Did you know that Der Gemischte Chor Zürich sang the premiere of Nänie in 1881, conducted by its composer Johannes Brahms , and the premiere of a commission by Edward Rushton in 2013 for the choir's 150th anniversary?
Did you know that a last-second, game-winning touchdown by the Minnesota Vikings was dubbed the Minneapolis Miracle ?
Did you know that the disappearance of Suzanne Lyall from the SUNY Albany campus 20 years ago led to changes in federal and state laws on how campus police departments handle major investigations?
Did you know that in the mid-3rd century BC, the governor of Zhao's Yanmen Commandery lured 100,000 nomad horsemen over the Great Wall before defeating them?
Did you know that vocalist Juliana Walanika 's updated versions of old meles and chants set the style for the Hawaiian music of her day?
Did you know that in the 1960s, sugarcane cultivars developed in Tiruvadi Sambasiva Venkataraman 's laboratory sustained the sugar industries of 22 countries?
Did you know that Kiyono Yasuno furthered her interest in voice acting at a young age by watching videos of dubs being recorded?
Did you know that in Blueford v. Arkansas , the US Supreme Court allowed a man to be retried on murder charges after a jury unanimously voted to acquit him of those same charges?
Did you know that Paralympian Tommy Taylor won 16 medals across five sports, including 10 gold medals?
Did you know that on Pulpit Freedom Sunday , conservative pastors give "blatantly political" sermons in defiance of the Johnson Amendment ?
Did you know that Huang Xuhua , the "father of China's nuclear submarines", spent two years raising pigs?
Did you know that the Aubervilliers Congress of the French Socialist Party will take place near the Front Populaire Paris Métro station, a symbolic reference to the left-wing Popular Front coalition of 1936?
Did you know that a prow house is named after a ship's prow ?
Did you know that last year, there was a simulated nuclear weapons attack against the New York metropolitan area ?
Did you know that Sankaralinganar died after fasting for 76 days while demanding that the name of Madras State be changed to Tamil Nadu ?
Did you know that Command and Destroy 's password save system was kept when it was ported from the Game Boy Advance to the Nintendo DS , to the annoyance of critics at its 2008 release?
Did you know that the lyric soprano Anny Felbermayer , who performed 54 roles at the Vienna State Opera , created the role of Xanthe in Die Liebe der Danae by Richard Strauss at the 1952 Salzburg Festival ?
Did you know that hundreds of Jewish communities used to celebrate more than one Purim a year ?
Did you know that the 2011 Löfstedt Report proposed to exempt many British self-employed people from health and safety regulations?
Did you know that Polish mountain climber Tomasz Mackiewicz went missing on January 27 during his seventh attempt to reach the summit of the 8,126-metre (26,660 ft) high Nanga Parbat in Pakistan?
Did you know that people have underestimated the role of faith in Buddhism , according to translator and monastic Bhikkhu Bodhi ?
Did you know that the Oriental Basin pocket gopher was designated a species in 1895, demoted to a subspecies of Merriam's pocket gopher in 1968, then restored to species status in 2005?
Did you know that Michael F. Adubato tried to block a bill giving Newark, New Jersey , $18 million in added tax revenue, to protest salary increases for Newark's city council totalling $150,000?
Did you know that the bass Dmitry Belosselskiy appeared internationally in title roles, as Boris Godunov , Macbeth , Simon Boccanegra , and Ivan Susanin ?
Did you know that Yale law professor Stephen L. Carter received one of the largest-ever advances from Knopf to secure the rights to publish his debut novel The Emperor of Ocean Park ?
Did you know that the Clementi rail accident on the Singapore MRT was caused by a 50-litre (11 imp gal; 13 US gal) oil spill?
Did you know that the New York City neighborhood of Canarsie struggled with school integration and conflict over desegregation busing between the 1960s and 1980s?
Did you know that the Memorial of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea has collected the names of 183,108 Chinese soldiers killed in the Korean War ?
Did you know that the AMES Type 82 3D radar got a job with Archie , then tended Bloodhounds , and finally found steady work in air traffic control ?
Did you know that Scott Foster , a 36-year-old accountant, made his professional ice hockey debut as a goaltender for the Chicago Blackhawks in 2018 and saved every shot he faced?
Did you know that a train graveyard in Uyuni , Bolivia, has become a tourist attraction?
Did you know that Astrid Medina farms coffee at over 1,800 metres (5,900 ft)?
Did you know that public art at Convention Place station in Seattle includes neon tubes that emulate New York's Chrysler Building and the nearby Paramount Theatre ?
Did you know that a male grey-chinned minivet was observed approaching a female while carrying a flower?
Did you know that the Western Union Building is the only surviving example of a 19th-century bank building in Aberdeen, South Dakota ?
Did you know that Hungarian mathematician Márta Svéd earned her Ph.D. at age 75?
Did you know that during the Baltimore Orioles – Chicago White Sox crowdless game , announcer Gary Thorne called an Adam Jones at-bat in the hushed tone of golf announcers like Jim Nantz ?
Did you know that Mariya Tsukanova was the only woman in the Soviet–Japanese War to be awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union ?
Did you know that the indie strategy turn-based RPG Halcyon 6 was described as a game that "makes cosmic horror cute"?
Did you know that Henry S. Russell , commander of the 5th Regiment Massachusetts Colored Volunteer Cavalry , later served as the first solo commissioner of the Boston Fire Department ?
Did you know that during the 2015 Mo Pop Festival in Detroit , heavy rainfall overwhelmed the park's drainage capabilities and formed a standing body of water nicknamed "Lake Mo Pop"?