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Did you know that while poverty in South Korea , particularly absolute poverty , has significantly declined since mid-20th century, relative poverty has recently risen?
Did you know that French General Jean Théveney was mentioned in dispatches seven times during the First World War and the occupation of Morocco ?
Did you know that The Bay Lights art installation uses 25,000 white LED lights , programmed to create a series of abstract patterns that ascend and descend the cables on the San Francisco Bay Bridge ?
Did you know that the town of Plogonnec in Brittany is twinned with Llandysul in West Wales ?
Did you know that after his map was stolen, Harry Yates navigated by the Leaning Tower and landed his plane in a volcano crater ?
Did you know that in 1961, Zarzaitine was considered to be the largest oil field of the eastern Sahara , with primary reserves of 80 million tons?
Did you know that before the Ba'ath Party took power in Syria , Tell Touqan was a feudal village where most residents worked as laborers for land owned by seven families?
Did you know that Toby Love called his song " Tengo Un Amor " the "door-opener" for all of his future success?
Did you know that the Singaporean film Taxi! Taxi! marks local YouTube star Dr Jia Jia 's film debut?
Did you know that the French racehorse Caracalla was rated the best horse in the world in 1946?
Did you know that the Gibraltar Socialist Labour Party proposed that a main road in Gibraltar should be Devlin's instead of the Devil's ?
Did you know that Kareem Joseph scored a pair of goals in the 2011 First Citizens Cup final to give Caledonia AIA their first league cup in club history with a 2–1 victory over T&TEC ?
Did you know that the Archdiocesan Cathedral of the Holy Trinity is the largest Orthodox Christian church in the Western Hemisphere ?
Did you know that the northern Syrian village of Zarzur has been identified as the Bronze Age town of Zuzzura of the Alalakh kingdom?
Did you know that in his memoir, The Tower of Babble , Richard Stursberg reveals the details of his negotiations with Gary Bettman to extend Hockey Night in Canada 's NHL broadcasting rights?
Did you know that the Austrian tenor Karl Beck became a master baker after his singing career, which included creating the title role in Wagner 's opera Lohengrin , was cut short by a deterioration in his voice?
Did you know that Miran Pastourma has been serving Pastourma in Athens for over 90 years?
Did you know that the characters of Che'r Cycle , a 2009 Bengali drama, included Che Guevara , Aleida March , Fidel Castro , and Raul Castro ?
Did you know that James Hogun , a general in the Continental Army , asked to be held as a POW after the Siege of Charleston in order to prevent the British from recruiting soldiers among the enlisted Patriot POWs?
Did you know that a Roman-era temple in al-Sanamayn , originally dedicated to the Greek goddess Tyche in the 2nd century CE and later converted into a mosque , is one of the best preserved edifices in Syria ?
Did you know that the Star Trek: Enterprise episode " Affliction " explains why Klingons look different in the original series compared to the movies and later series?
Did you know that the Viscount Vane 's offer of a reward in the newspapers for information about his eloped wife was compared to a search for "some favourite spaniel bitch"?
Did you know that volcanologist Harry Glicken was saved from the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens due to a scheduling conflict, only to die in the eruption of Mount Unzen in 1991?
Did you know that Mosconi was the first Italian restaurant in the Benelux nations to receive a Michelin star ?
Did you know that though Balasaraswati was called "a revolutionary Bharata Natyam dancer", she was only filmed at the age of 58 in Bala , a documentary made by Satyajit Ray ?
Did you know that Harry Redford , the cattle duffer and drover upon whom the character Captain Starlight was based, drove the first mob of cattle to and later managed Brunette Downs Station ?
Did you know that the Russian ship of the line Gangut was credited with sinking two Ottoman frigates , a fire ship , and destroying a shore battery during the Battle of Navarino in 1827?
Did you know that although the cream-spot ladybird is sometimes called the "eighteen-spot ladybird", the species name indicates it has fourteen spots?
Did you know that the Lesbian Herstory Archives hold the library of the New York City chapter of the Daughters of Bilitis ?
Did you know that James Gwyn was awarded the rank of Brèvet Major-General by President Abraham Lincoln in 1864?
Did you know that Japanese idol group NEWS became the third group in history to earn their fifteenth consecutive number-one single on the weekly Oricon singles chart with " World Quest/Pokopon Pekōrya "?
Did you know that Patience Latting was not just the first female Mayor of Oklahoma City , but also the first woman to serve as mayor of any U.S. city exceeding 350,000 people?
Did you know that the tale of the Great Flood and the Ark is also told in Hinduism?
Did you know that in the 1889–90 Currie Cup , Charlie Finlason was made to bat last for the Transvaal cricket team because he had criticised the team's captain in the press?
Did you know that Napoleon III , Emperor of France , bought the American ironclad Dunderberg in 1867 over the objections of his own navy, which preferred a home-built ship?
Did you know that Canadian singer Justin Bieber holds the record for the most consecutive weeks at number-one on the Billboard Social 50 with 24?
Did you know that Hurricane Debbie in September 1961 produced record-breaking winds across parts of Ireland , gusting up to 114 mph (183 km/h) off the coast of Arranmore ?
Did you know that journalist Roberto Javier Mora García was stabbed 26 times and killed, allegedly for reporting on the Mexican drug cartels?
Did you know that the former " Nazi proconsul " Rudolf Rahn confirmed there had been a German plot to kidnap Pope Pius XII ?
Did you know that Alfred Jeacocke nearly had to stop playing cricket for Surrey because he lived on the wrong side of the road?
Did you know that the only squad led by Bear Bryant during his tenure as head coach at Alabama that did not participate in a bowl game was the 1958 team ?
Did you know that Gervase de Cornhill , a medieval English royal official and merchant, loaned money to Queen Matilda around 1143, and when the queen did not repay, got the mortgaged lands at Gamlingay instead?
Did you know that the film El Presidente , an official 2012 Metro Manila Film Festival entry, is possibly the most expensive Filipino film of all time?
Did you know that Sister Margaret McKenna and other activists were arrested for participating in a " die-in " on the lawn of The Pentagon ?
Did you know that the release of " Suit & Tie ", Justin Timberlake 's first solo single in six years, was used to tie in with the re-launch of Myspace ?
Did you know that Nello Carrara coined the term " microwave "?
Did you know that Captain America: The Winter Soldier , the upcoming sequel to the 2011 film Captain America: The First Avenger , will feature the Falcon , the first African American superhero?
Did you know that Dennis Tinerino was a four-time Mr. Universe winner, a pimp , and an Evangelist Christian minister?
Did you know that author Elizabeth Jordan edited the first two novels of Nobel Prize winner Sinclair Lewis ?
Did you know that the Krkonose / Karkonosze Biosphere Reserve (MaB) is one of only two successful UNESCO transboundary management structures in existence?
Did you know that the Wong brothers ' film Fatima reportedly earned 200,000 gulden on a 7,000 gulden investment?
Did you know that the Etruscan Regolini-Galassi tomb , which dates to the 7th century BC, was discovered in 1836 in an undisturbed condition?
Did you know that 3 Gourmohan Mukherjee Street, Kolkata , is the birthplace of Indian monk Swami Vivekananda ?
Did you know that Lord William Hamilton , Vice-Chamberlain to Caroline of Ansbach , was so poor that the Queen described him and his wife as "handsome beggars"?
Did you know that Shane Warne 's last competitive game at the Lord's Cricket Ground was the British Asian Cup ?
Did you know that the Upper Twin Falls Bridge was built to replace a previous span that would have been flooded upon completion of a dam downstream?
Did you know that Alessandro Cagno , the winner of the inaugural Targa Florio in 1906, was the third employee recruited by Fiat?
Did you know that during the eighteenth century, guards posted at Middle Hill Battery on Middle Hill, Gibraltar , to prevent desertion sometimes deserted themselves?
Did you know that the Swara Samrat festival was dedicated to Indian sitarist Pandit Ravi Shankar and sarod player Ustad Ali Akbar Khan ?
Did you know that American mammalogist and pathologist Marcus Ward Lyon, Jr. published more than 160 papers during the course of his career?
Did you know that the controversial Argentine governor Juan Manuel de Rosas , who died in Southampton in 1877, was repatriated over a century later?
Did you know that Christian princes, counts and writers flocked to the court of the first Sadigura Rebbe , Avrohom Yaakov Friedman ?
Did you know that the spider genus Predatoroonops received its name after its species' similarities to the creature from Predator ?
Did you know that future Hockey Hall of Famer Billy McGimsie achieved his dream of winning the Stanley Cup with the Kenora Thistles in 1907, then suffered a career-ending injury in his next game?
Did you know that according to The Cleanest Race , a book about North Korean propaganda , the Government of North Korea is guided by a derivation of Japanese fascism ?
Did you know that Henry Archer , an English Fifth Monarchist , predicted in 1642 that Jesus would return in around 1700?
Did you know that Charlotte Higgins compared the depiction of Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge in Paul Emsley 's portrait to a character in The Twilight Saga ?
Did you know that René Cárdenas is the first broadcaster to announce Major League Baseball games in Spanish?
Did you know that Heidi Range portrays a stripper in the music video for " Stronger "?
Did you know that Drexel 4041 , a manuscript in the New York Public Library , is a major source of music for the 17th-century British composer William Lawes ?
Did you know that Gene Dale 's expulsion from baseball for match fixing provided the precedent for banning the Black Sox Scandal conspirators?
Did you know that an estimated 90 per cent of Saudi Arabia's workforce is made up of foreign workers ?
Did you know that Abd al-Malik Abd al-Wahid , the one-eyed son of Moroccan sultan Abu al-Hasan Ali ibn Othman , captured Gibraltar in 1333 but fell victim to a Castilian ambush six years later?
Did you know that South Africa's 1996–97 tour of India marked their first ever Test appearance against India in the subcontinent ?
Did you know that the twin sister of the anti-war activist Lady Parmoor was imprisoned for publishing a leaflet uncensored by the government?
Did you know that freedom fighter Jatindra Mohan Sengupta of India is called Deshapriya (beloved of the country) by people of Bengal?
Did you know that the statue of Sherlock Holmes in London was funded by the Abbey National building society?
Did you know that maps by Nicolas de Fer became Bourbon propaganda when he was official geographer of Louis XIV ?
Did you know that Yoko Ono 's song " Death of Samantha " was inspired by John Lennon 's boorish behavior at a party, and seemed to describe the vigil for Lennon's death ?
Did you know that Ross Broadfoot became part of London Irish 's squad while still a student at the University of Cambridge ?
Did you know that when Lilian Bland built an aircraft in 1910 , she used her aunt's ear-trumpet and a whisky bottle to feed petrol to the engine?
Did you know that Tomahawk 's third album Anonymous was based on Native American compositions researched by guitarist Duane Denison ?
Did you know that Tony Minson developed a new way of disabling viruses for vaccines ?
Did you know that the Dutch warship Koningin Regentes , her sister ship De Ruyter and the protected cruiser Zeeland bombarded the city of Denpasar , Dutch East Indies , on 16 and 17 September 1906?
Did you know that abernathyite is both fluorescent and radioactive and is named for the mine operator who discovered it?
Did you know that the title track of the celtic punk album Toil has been compared to the Bruce Springsteen album Wrecking Ball ?
Did you know that to prevent match-fixing at the 2002 Morocco Cup cricket tournament, CCTV cameras were installed in the dressing rooms?
Did you know that Ankarafantsika National Park in Madagascar is home to the rhinoceros chameleon and the greater big-footed mouse ?
Did you know that when French Colonel Antoine Huré led a column to relieve the French garrison at Aïn Médiouna in 1919, elements of it marched 62 kilometres (39 miles) in a single day?
Did you know that an Israeli military convoy descended the Scorpion Pass at night in Operation Lot of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War , and many drivers refused to go down the path out of fear?
Did you know that baseball player Kentrail Davis credited working in construction with helping him gain the upper body strength to become a power hitter ?
Did you know that Young Women for Change is a women's rights non-profit organization in Afghanistan that has held the first anti-harassment march in Afghan history, in July 2012 ?
Did you know that John Hemmingham was banned from Sheffield United 's Bramall Lane stadium because of concerns that playing music might structurally damage the stands?
Did you know that Hurricane Carla ranks as the most intense U.S. tropical cyclone landfall on the Hurricane Severity Index ?
Did you know that the Battle of Marj Rahit in 684 helped solidify the division of the Arab tribes between "northern" and "southern" , whose rivalry lasted in Palestine until the 19th century?
Did you know that the premise of the Fringe episode " Power Hungry " began with the idea of a computer virus being able to spread to humans?
Did you know that Lieutenant-Colonel René Laverdure , who commanded French forces at the Battle of El Herri , entered the army as a private soldier ?
Did you know that transformation belts were used in the filming of the music video for " Z Legend: Neverending Revolution " by Momoiro Clover Z ?
Did you know that Australian magician Leslie George Cole created the impaling illusion ?
Did you know that Simon Favre was an interpreter of the Muskogean languages for four different governments in West Florida , and with a Choctaw mistress became the ancestor of a well-known NFL quarterback ?
Did you know that the 9.2-inch gun of Spur Battery , one of fourteen once mounted on Gibraltar, was moved to Imperial War Museum Duxford after its role was taken over by Exocet missiles ?
Did you know that Dominican nun Marion Irvine became the then-oldest participant at a U.S. track and field Olympic Trials in 1984, running in the women's marathon trials at the age of 54?
Did you know that the song " Detrás de Mi Ventana " written by Ricardo Arjona has been recorded in banda , mariachi , merengue and pop versions by different performers?
Did you know that the Nikolaj gained prominence after the Fluxus performances of the 1960s?
Did you know that Sir James Hales ' suicide by drowning inspired the gravedigger's speech in Shakespeare 's Hamlet ?
Did you know that temperature and salinity variations produced by ocean tides and freshwater rivers in estuaries make them ideal habitats for studying how these factors affect the growth of shells ?
Did you know that Sudha Varghese established the Prerna schools to educate Musahar girls of Bihar , deemed the "untouchables" in the caste system in India ?
Did you know that novelist Mary Angela Dickens , the oldest grandchild of Charles Dickens , died on the 136th anniversary of his birth?
Did you know that Gary Kirsten 's 275 against England is the second longest innings in the history of Test cricket , lasting for almost 14 hours?
Did you know that John Lennon thought that his song " Nobody Loves You (When You're Down and Out) " would be ideal for Frank Sinatra ?
Did you know that American singer-songwriter Kelis co-wrote the song "Waiting" for Cheryl Cole 's second album Messy Little Raindrops ?
Did you know that the Hagia Triada Greek Orthodox Church in Istanbul was burnt during a riot in 1955 ?
Did you know that Raymond D. Tarbuck , a U.S. Navy captain on General Douglas MacArthur 's staff, predicted the Battle of Leyte Gulf but was ignored?
Did you know that Kepler-47c is a circumbinary planet orbiting in the habitable zone of Kepler-47 , a binary star system?
Did you know that filmmaker René Vautier received thirteen indictments and a year in prison because of his documentary Afrique 50 ?
Did you know that the Fucking mayor objected to Fucking Hell on the grounds that there was no Fucking brewery?
Did you know that the mineral abelsonite probably formed from chlorophyll and is the only known crystalline geoporphyrin ?
Did you know that the medieval royal official Reginald de Warenne (died 1179) was one of the first persons summoned as a Serjeant-at-Law , when he was summoned in 1168 by King Henry II of England ?
Did you know that in 1964 historian Mary C. Wright became the first woman to be named as a full professor in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Yale University ?
Did you know that at the Battle of Dubienka , Tadeusz Kościuszko repulsed an attack from Imperial Russian Army forces five times the size of his own?
Did you know that Roz Howard 's 1958 NASCAR season was cut short by a highway crash that left him in a body cast ?
Did you know that in his memoir Who I Am , Pete Townshend of The Who says that Mick Jagger "is the only man I've ever seriously wanted to" have sex with?
Did you know that although Gabrielle Matthaei did the majority of the work in determining the role of temperature in photosynthesis , the biochemical reactions are named after Frederick Blackman ?
Did you know that Ivy Queen performed the English version of " Papi Te Quiero " on Good Morning America ?
Did you know that Grace Rohrer became the first woman to hold a North Carolina Cabinet position when named Secretary of Cultural Resources in 1973?
Did you know that London 2012 Olympic volunteers criticised the UDAC for not having any mirrors?
Did you know that after Tim Breslin 's death the American Hockey League 's Chicago Wolves created a team award in his honor?
Did you know that crime reporter Dolores Guadalupe García Escamilla was accused of collaborating with the Gulf Cartel , a Mexican drug trafficking organization?
Did you know that the contract for the four ironclad Milwaukee -class monitors was awarded to James Eads , partly due to the influence of Missouri Congressman Frank P. Blair, Jr. ?
Did you know that Paul Michaux became the first president of the Conférence Olivaint , France's oldest student society , in 1897?
Did you know that tantalum pentaethoxide is used in the production of optical , electrochromic , and semiconductor devices?
Did you know that a reviewer called the narrator in the game Defenders of Ardania "booze-obsessed", with a voice that sounds like "a Dalek doing an impression of Sean Connery "?
Did you know that in 1970, the English Court of Appeal found that Scientology does not engage in religious worship ?
Did you know that opera singer Thérésa was "admired" by Napoleon III ?
Did you know that the award-winning Indonesian war film Serangan Fajar and the 1963 Hollywood film PT 109 have been compared for their "mild hagiography" of their countries' leaders?
Did you know that Rhett A. Hernandez took command of the U.S. Second Army upon its reactivation in 2010?
Did you know that in the video game Frog Fractions , the player travels from a lily pad on Earth to Mars, where they must obtain a work visa to continue working on the planet?
Did you know that Tsholofelo Thipe , who represented South Africa in the 400 metres at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing , failed drug tests in 2012 due to her contraceptive?
Did you know that the Gaulden Manor ceiling depicts Judgement Day ?
Did you know that Filipinos in Oman sent back US$66.5 million in remittances to the Philippines in 2011?
Did you know that British High Commissioner Alan Jones had to order an evacuation in his first week in Sierra Leone?
Did you know that ancestors of the fishtail oak of North Queensland diverged from the South American genus Roupala around 30 million years ago?
Did you know that John Gatins , the Academy Award - nominated screenwriter of Flight , got into scriptwriting when a fellow Vassar graduate offered him $1,000 to pen a screenplay?
Did you know that due to a campaign in Turkey , speaking a language other than Turkish was illegal in many parts of the country?
Did you know that Indian filmmaker Satyajit Ray paid tribute to the silent film genre through his short film Two (1964), made without any dialogue, which also makes "a strong anti-war statement"?
Did you know that Israel expressed objections to the newly launched Turkish reconnaissance satellite Göktürk-2 , fearing that high resolution imagery of Israel would eventually fall into the wrong hands?
Did you know that Riza Cerova , an anti-monarchist activist of interwar Albania, became regarded as a hero after the final overthrow of monarchy in the post-WWII era?
Did you know that Yoko Ono 's 1969 song " Don't Worry Kyoko (Mummy's Only Looking for Her Hand in the Snow) " was inspired by a custody battle over her daughter, with whom she didn't reunite for another 25 years?
Did you know that in 1865 Manuel Antonio Caro became the first Chilean student to attend the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris?
Did you know that the upcoming video game Star Trek has had its genre described as "bro-op"?
Did you know that IL Hødd goalkeeper Ørjan Nyland was signed by Tippeligaen champions Molde after being named man of the match in the 2012 Norwegian Football Cup Final ?
Did you know that Sir Robert Constable was a descendant of Richard, Earl of Cambridge , executed for his part in the Southampton Plot against King Henry V ?
Did you know that as part of their May 1975 occupation of Thổ Chu Island , the Khmer Rouge kidnapped over 500 islanders and razed several villages?
Did you know that Mount Cunningham on South Georgia was named after John Crabbe Cunningham who died after being struck by waves off Holyhead ?
Did you know that the rule of mixtures predicts composite material properties ranging from ultimate tensile strength to electrical conductivity ?
Did you know that John Lennon 's " I'm Losing You " and Yoko Ono 's " I'm Moving On ," both from the 1980 Double Fantasy album, reflect the couple's diverse reactions to their marital tensions?
Did you know that lecturer Louise Matthaei was dismissed by the University of Cambridge because her father was German?
Did you know that out of thirty-one international cricket centuries scored by Aravinda de Silva , eleven were made against Pakistan ?
Did you know that the Abbasid grandee Khuzayma ibn Khazim secured the succession of Harun al-Rashid as Caliph by forcing Harun's nephew to publicly renounce his claim on the throne?
Did you know that highly charged HZE ions make up just 1% of galactic cosmic rays , but they cause as much biological damage to astronauts as protons , which make up 85%?
Did you know that A. F. James MacArthur broadcast his standoff with the Baltimore Police Department to 10,000 online listeners?
Did you know that Pengantin Pantai Biru , based on a 1908 novel , was banned as pornographic?
Did you know that the Singapore Constitution that came into force on 9 August 1965 was not drafted as a single document but was made up of provisions from three separate statutes?
Did you know that Gerald Feldman , an American historian, conducted research and published books on the role of business in Nazi Germany ?
Did you know that the video game Scarygirl puts players in control of a young girl with an eye patch , a sewn-shut mouth, and a hook-capped tentacle for one arm?
Did you know that Nahapet Rusinian wrote the lyrics to an Armenian song called " Giligia "?
Did you know that a prehistoric mound is located on the U.S. Air Force ' s Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio?