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Did you know that architect Richard Rogers ' house for his parents, 22 Parkside , inspired his work on the Centre Pompidou and the Lloyd's building ?
Did you know that Stephen II Csák unsuccessfully besieged the royal castle of Buda in September 1302?
Did you know that the Kim Mitchell song " Patio Lanterns " was broadcast on Canadian radio stations more than 100,000 times within 10 years of its 1986 release?
Did you know that Philipp Nicolai wrote the hymn " Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme ", the base for Bach's cantata , after the plague hit his hometown?
Did you know that the Nový Smíchov shopping centre in Prague has hosted rock climbing ?
Did you know that Mark Williams-Thomas researched and presented The Other Side of Jimmy Savile , an award-winning ITV Exposure documentary?
Did you know that the Tamil Nadu Fire and Rescue Services was the first fire department in India to have female fire officers ?
Did you know that the extinct ant Anochetus conisquamis is noted for having a nipple-shaped spine?
Did you know that the Black Squirrel Creek Bridge was demolished a little under ten years after it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places ?
Did you know that Cromwell Lee compiled an Italian-English dictionary which, although unfinished, is said to have been "as big as a church bible"?
Did you know that National Hockey League player Reg Sinclair quit the sport in 1953 after only three seasons to take a job with Pepsi that paid less than a quarter of what he would have made in the NHL?
Did you know that nitrovasodilators are drugs that act by releasing nitric oxide in the human body?
Did you know that the 2013 Little India riot , which had about 400 participants, resulted in 25 emergency vehicles being damaged?
Did you know that Shirley Erena Murray 's hymns are published in more than 140 hymnals ?
Did you know that in the aftermath of the Russian Revolution of 1905 , the Arabic weekly al-Tilmiz was the most important journal for North Caucasian intellectuals?
Did you know that China 's Four Seas were metaphorical?
Did you know that John Marshall Hamilton , the 18th Governor of Illinois , first became active in politics when he was thirteen years old?
Did you know that when the Alid Muhammad the Pure Soul launched his abortive uprising against the Abbasids , Caliph al-Mansur is said to have remarked that at last he had "enticed the fox out of his hole"?
Did you know that extracts from leaves of the mahogany tree suren toon are used as antibacterial poultices?
Did you know that Runcorn signal box was one of the earliest operational signal boxes built by the LMS to incorporate Air Raid Precautions specifications?
Did you know that during the 2012–13 Big Ten Conference men's basketball season one school advanced to the Sweet Sixteen round in each region of the 2013 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament ?
Did you know that as President of the American Physical Society , James A. Krumhansl advocated for more visas and immigration opportunities for Chinese scholars following the Tiananmen square massacre ?
Did you know that social inertia discourages chickens from attacking one another after a social order has been established?
Did you know that the NAD 3020 amplifier sold a record 1.1 million units in its lifetime, excluding sales of designs derived from it?
Did you know that 1992 table tennis Paralympian and 2012 Paralympic wheelchair basketballplayer Jaume Llambi Riera was one of seven Spaniards to compete at both the 1992 and 2012 Games?
Did you know that the Wealth Partaking Scheme is a cash disbursement policy by the Macau Government to all the holders of a Macau Resident Identity Card ?
Did you know that although the pear limpet feeds on the coralline alga Spongites yendoi , their relationship could be considered mutually beneficial ?
Did you know that Hermética 's EP Intérpretes includes a thrash metal cover version of the tango " Cambalache "?
Did you know that Jan Metzler got Worms for his party for the first time in 64 years?
Did you know that Sammy Drake and his brother Solly Drake were the first two African-American brothers to play in Major League Baseball ?
Did you know that although the 1962 Sino-Indian War was fought for just a few weeks, the subsequent internment of Chinese Indians lasted for years?
Did you know that when a person's belief is disconfirmed , it can actually lead to stronger conviction?
Did you know that Lilian Bland was the first woman to design and build her own aircraft, in 1910, but gave up flying when offered a motorcar instead?
Did you know that despite some reviewers praising ATV: Quad Frenzy 's graphics and soundtrack, VideoGamer.com 's review said it was "quite disgraceful" that it "even made it onto the store shelves"?
Did you know that the 14th-century John Grandisson Triptych was made from elephant ivory ?
Did you know that King Louis I of Naples had one cousin murdered so he could marry another , and was described by Petrarch as "violent and mendacious, prodigal and avaricious, debauched and cruel"?
Did you know that although the 1996 reunion of the Argentine band V8 was not advertised, it was recorded in the live album Homenaje ?
Did you know that St Tugual's Chapel on Herm is over 1,000 years old?
Did you know that Welsh singer Bessie Jones was the first to record Noël Coward 's earliest stage lyric, "Peter Pan", from the revue Tails Up! ?
Did you know that German firefighters arrived late to the Karlslust dance hall fire in Allied-occupied Berlin partly because of the 40 km/h (25 mph) speed limit?
Did you know that oil extracted from the seeds of false sesame can be used as an insecticide?
Did you know that when Hale Holden became president of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad in 1914, he was the youngest chief executive of any major American rail system?
Did you know that Sholaye-e Inquilab ("Flame of the Revolution") was the first Tajik Persian newspaper founded in Soviet Turkestan ?
Did you know that the extinct ant Anochetus corayi was the first Anochetus species described from a fossil?
Did you know that South African trade union leader Moses Mayekiso was the central figure in the Alexandra township uprising of 1986, subsequently getting arrested and severely beaten?
Did you know that Art Nouveau furniture was criticised by the English Arts and Crafts movement for not being "honestly" constructed?
Did you know that almost 90% of youth in the Czech Republic report never having participated in a religious group of any kind?
Did you know that Augustus Henry Mounsey 's 1879 history contains the most detailed descriptions of the military campaigns of the Satsuma Rebellion ?
Did you know that Kassiopi Castle in Corfu is considered one of the most imposing architectural remains in the Ionian Islands ?
Did you know that Virginia Mae Brown , the "'First Lady of Transportation", was the first woman chairman of the Interstate Commerce Commission since its inception in 1887?
Did you know that the Egyptian Olympic Committee distributed counterfeit Nike gear to its delegation to the 2012 Summer Olympics ?
Did you know that stuffed pelts of lesser grisons have been used to make ritual offerings to Pachamama ?
Did you know that Matthew I Csák was appointed master of the stewards when king Béla IV ascended the Hungarian throne in 1235?
Did you know that It's a Girl: The Three Deadliest Words in the World is a documentary about female infanticide ?
Did you know that New York industrialist and diplomat Arnold A. Saltzman has his name associated with an art museum, a health services center, and an international relations research center?
Did you know that " Sexy Lady " by Jessie J reached #22 on the UK Singles Chart after it was featured in a Boots No. 7 advert, despite not being physically released as a single?
Did you know that Bharatiya Janata Party politician Jai Bhagwan Aggarwal had his house demolished by court order?
Did you know that convolutional neural networks have achieved performance double that of humans on some image recognition problems?
Did you know that in the Exhortation to the Greeks , an anonymous Christian text wrongly ascribed to Justin Martyr , it is claimed that Plato read Moses ?
Did you know that after Ice Box Chamberlain pitched with both hands during an 1888 baseball game, no major league pitcher repeated the feat until 1995?
Did you know that against his lawyer's advice, Nelson Mandela ended his defence speech at the Rivonia Trial with the words " I Am Prepared To Die "?
Did you know that 50,000 people attended the opening of the Grossmont Center shopping mall in La Mesa, California – 20,000 more than the city's population at the time?
Did you know that Mathis Bolly is the fastest football player in the video game FIFA 14 , but in real life is not as fast as Luton Shelton ?
Did you know that the contracts for the two Charodeika -class monitors were transferred to their designer, Charles Mitchell , upon the death of their builder, S. G. Kudriavtsev, in August 1865?
Did you know that the Institute of War and Peace Studies was begun, to "study war as a tragic social phenomenon", by President Dwight D. Eisenhower – President of Columbia University , that is?
Did you know that Catholic priest Carlos Ornelas Puga was recently kidnapped by gunmen in Mexico , and his whereabouts remain unknown?
Did you know that Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell is a seven-part BBC adaptation of Susanna Clarke 's first novel of the same name ?
Did you know that neither of the principal combatants won the bloody Greater Poland Civil War which terminated after the accession of ten-year old Jadwiga of Poland to the Polish throne ?
Did you know that the first car to cross Clackline Bridge carried two politicians and a boy who hitched a ride?
Did you know that the remains of the armoured dinosaur Europelta were uncovered in a coal mine in Spain in 2011?
Did you know that despite the Norwegian torpedo boat Brand having "exceptionally good" chances at scoring a hit against a group of invading German warships , her commander refrained from opening fire?
Did you know that Minneapolis City Council member -elect Abdi Warsame is one of the first Somali Americans to be elected to a U.S. municipal office?
Did you know that while international rankings show corruption in Poland as steadily decreasing, over 80% of the Polish public still sees it as a significant problem for the country?
Did you know that Irene Cuesta , the 2012 Spanish national archery champion, coached the Spanish team at the 2012 Summer Paralympics ?
Did you know that one reviewer described Katy Perry 's 2013 ballad " By the Grace of God " as having a "humming, dark tension in which Perry and melody float like red balloons"?
Did you know that English football presenter Darren Tulett – "the Austin Powers of French television" – is almost unknown in England?
Did you know that it is unknown whether the dinosaur Nankangia was carnivorous or herbivorous?
Did you know that the University of Wisconsin–Madison has a tradition of encouraging "that continual and fearless sifting and winnowing by which alone the truth can be found "?
Did you know that Lord Chunshen , a nobleman who was assassinated in 238 BC, is the source of Shanghai's nickname "Shencheng", the city of Shen?
Did you know that, in 2009, Los Angeles police detectives investigating a 23-year-old murder found that the killer was a fellow detective?
Did you know that the pupae and larvae of the ant Formica pallidefulva may be stolen from the nest during a raid by slave-making ants ?
Did you know that the galaxy pair Arp 147 contains a ring of nine black holes ?
Did you know that a memorial to the victims of Treblinka extermination camp , created by sculptor Franciszek Duszeńko , was unveiled by the Marshal of the Sejm of the Republic of Poland in the presence of 30,000 guests?
Did you know that voice actor Courtnee Draper improvised some of her character Elizabeth 's lines in BioShock Infinite ?
Did you know that Epsom General Hospital has its own radio station, "Epsom Hospital Radio", which is a registered charity and is staffed by volunteers?
Did you know that writer Hu Yepin was betrayed by rival communists, arrested by the British police, and executed by the Kuomintang ?
Did you know that the organ in Christ Church, Port Sunlight , is believed to be the largest extant four- manual Willis II organ still in its original condition and in everyday use?
Did you know that there are an estimated 90,000 Muslims in Angola ?
Did you know that the Anthony House in Adams, Massachusetts , is the birthplace of women's rights advocate Susan B. Anthony ?
Did you know that Abdallah Deng Nhial has served as cabinet minister in both Sudan and South Sudan ?
Did you know that the long-spined limpet cultivates a garden of brown algae ?
Did you know that 15 Cheyne Walk in London was home to Admiral Sir John Balchen , Temple West , artists Cecil Lawson and Henry Ryall , Lord and Lady Courtney , and politicians James and Rupert Allason ?
Did you know that the inner sarcophagus holding the remains of Saint Spyridon inside the Saint Spyridon Church in Corfu has a removable bottom to facilitate the changing of the saint's slippers?
Did you know that the mustard flower known as the fleshy-fruit gladecress is "likely one of the most imperiled plant species in the Southeastern United States "?
Did you know that Bharatiya Janata Party politician and Member of the Delhi Legislative Assembly Mohan Singh Bisht "loves" watching religious soap operas ?
Did you know that Florida politician Eugene S. Matthews sold his newspaper and fled Dunnellon after phosphate mine owners threatened him for reporting on their mistreatment of lease convicts ?
Did you know that the Trevisana nera grape variety was first documented in viticulture in the middle of the 20th century?
Did you know that all train services in Scotland were cancelled because Cyclone Bodil led to trampolines and hay bales on the line?
Did you know that an 1843 painting by English marine artist John Ward was stolen from a museum in 2009 and found later on the thief's dining room wall?
Did you know that in 1567 John Brayne built the Red Lion playhouse , the first professional playhouse in the British Isles specifically built for that purpose since Roman times ?
Did you know that the extinct ant Anochetus brevidentatus was the second Anochetus species described from Dominican amber?
Did you know that the singer for Supercell 's album Zigaexperientia was chosen out of about 2,000 candidates?
Did you know that the favours done by Sir Anthony Lee for the poet Thomas Wyatt were so many that it made Wyatt "weary to think on them"?
Did you know that the hulk of the Russian monitor Edinorog was transferred to the Kronstadt Yacht Club in 1957?
Did you know that the veneration of Judas Thaddaeus in Mexico has been linked to crime?
Did you know that by January 1946 Das Volk , the second working class newspaper to be published in Berlin after World War II , had a circulation of a quarter million?
Did you know that chess champion Alexandra Nicolau had to promise the Romanian secret police that she would return to Romania after playing international tournaments?
Did you know that almost all of the original American free school movement schools were based on the English Summerhill School ?
Did you know that the roof of the Church of St. Nicholas in Kuršumlija , Serbia , was melted down for bullets?
Did you know that early in the history of veterinary medicine in the Philippines , a cattle plague killed 600,000 animals from 1901 to 1902 alone?
Did you know that Hugh Mosman , whose servant found gold at Charters Towers , lost his left forearm from a dynamite explosion?
Did you know that the extinct ant Anochetus ambiguus has a spiny petiole ?
Did you know that Austrian tennis player Adam Baworowski , a Roland Garros semifinalist, fought in WWII first in the Polish Army against Germany and then in the Wehrmacht on the Eastern Front ?
Did you know that the Cook Islands was first to receive a faster Internet connection from the O3b satellite constellation ?
Did you know that after the Prince of Liang got away with murdering ten of his brother's ministers, his son went on to become a serial killer in ancient China?
Did you know that the temple at Kadisoka , discovered in 2000, was never completed?
Did you know that the upper reaches of the Pennsylvania stream South Branch Roaring Creek has been described as the best natural habitat in Columbia County ?
Did you know that Sir William Lok brought French translations of the Gospels and Epistles from the continent for Anne Boleyn ?
Did you know that Cluny Castle , Aberdeenshire, was once owned by the "richest commoner in the northern part of the kingdom"?
Did you know that although cancer researcher Henry T. Lynch has been described as "the father of cancer genetics," he said that distinction should go to pathologist Aldred Scott Warthin ?
Did you know that each female Acropyga epedana ant carries a mealybug on her nuptial flight ?
Did you know that Ottoman Turkey customs officials removed maps from the Bible belonging to American physician Clarence Ussher because they contained the word " Armenia "?
Did you know that Stekenjokk holds the Swedish record for wind speed, with 170 km/h (110 mph) recorded during Cyclone Hilde on 16 November 2013?
Did you know that over 300 journalists were killed during the Guatemalan Civil War ?
Did you know that Polyergus rufescens ants are usually outnumbered in their nests by their slaves by at least five to one?
Did you know that National Football League player Chris Gragg was a water boy until junior high school?
Did you know that Andy Warhol had John F. Kennedy shot with a banana ?
Did you know that the non-fiction book The Siege: The Attack on the Taj is set during the 2008 Mumbai attacks ?
Did you know that Andy Warhol 's Eight Elvises , which sold for $100 million , has not been seen in public since the 1960s and its location is currently unknown?
Did you know that based on the history of medicine in the Philippines , Spanish Philippines was ahead of other European colonies in providing healthcare to the ill and invalid at the start of the 17th century?
Did you know that Chinese Paralympian Genjimisu Meng was abandoned by her mother because she was born with a disability?
Did you know that Upslope Brewing Company , a microbrewery in Boulder, Colorado , packs its beers solely in aluminum cans ?
Did you know that Thomas Athol Joyce 's entry in the Encyclopædia Britannica for "Negro" was said to be ridiculous?
Did you know that the only close modern relative to the fossil ant Eulithomyrmex is Tatuidris ?
Did you know that Gula gubben (the Yellowman) performs in yellow tight fitting tracksuits at different music festivals?
Did you know that the findings of the Katyn Commission concerning the Soviet massacre of 22,000 Polish prisoners of war were denied for seventy years?
Did you know that the sea defences of the New Fortress of Corfu were destroyed by the British when the British protectorate came to an end and the island was united with Greece in 1864?
Did you know that Heinz Kühn ( Minister-President of North Rhine-Westphalia ) had led a socialist paramilitary youth group in the Saar territory in the 1930s?
Did you know that Japanese motorcyclist Kanichi Fujiwara circumnavigated the globe by electric scooter between 2004 and 2008?
Did you know that the Charlotte Checkers ice hockey team went five consecutive away games without a regulation loss, but lost a franchise-worst six straight home games in their 2013–14 season ?
Did you know that Matthew II Csák was the uncle of the Hungarian oligarch Matthew III Csák ?
Did you know that the former owner of Rainthorpe Hall , J Maurice Hastings, was described by Sir Cecil Maurice Bowra as throwing "wild parties" there?
Did you know that Stereophile said that the Nait was "a profoundly anarchistic, almost subversive product"?
Did you know that the Karnataka Fire and Emergency Services department owns a pumper manufactured by Dennis Specialist Vehicles in 1925 that is still functional?
Did you know that according to legend, Swami Vivekananda was first introduced to Indian mystic Ramakrishna in a literature class given by Scottish theologian William Hastie ?
Did you know that as a child, Filipino TV and radio personality Tim Yap sneaked out of school to attend rehearsals of a Repertory Philippines production of Lost in Yonkers ?
Did you know that the 1970 mascot-naming contest for the Canada Fitness Award Program received 131,745 votes in one month despite a rotating strike of postal workers at Canada Post ?
Did you know that a special screening of " Neighbours : The Explosion " marked the first time the Australian soap opera had been aired during prime time in the UK?
Did you know that the infant daughter of Emperor Xiaoming was emperor of Northern Wei for a single day?
Did you know that there is controversy over whether non-religious people can experience the emotion of awe ?
Did you know that artist René Moncada claimed a ventilation grill at the Museum of Modern Art as his own work on permanent display?
Did you know that one critic of the all terrain vehicle racing video game Mad Riders said the game's handling felt "more like socks on a waxed floor than wheels on dirt"?
Did you know that the set of The Whale , a British television film, was visited by Emmanuel Mallia , the Minister for Home Affairs for Malta?
Did you know that after the national colours of Italy were officially specified, opposition member Alfonso Pecoraro Scanio stated that Silvio Berlusconi had achieved a "chromatic coup d'etat"?
Did you know that Rachmawati Soekarnoputri preferred Anjasmara to play her father in the upcoming movie Soekarno: Indonesia Merdeka over Ario Bayu ?
Did you know that according to Franciszek Ząbecki , the SS-Sturmbannführer Theodor van Eupen executed prisoners of the Treblinka Arbeitslager by "taking shots at them, as if they were partridges"?
Did you know that Geoffrey Prime worked for eleven years at GCHQ , and was only discovered to be a Soviet spy after his arrest in 1982 for the indecent assault of young girls?
Did you know that Chris Doohan , son of original Chief Engineer Montgomery Scott portrayer James Doohan , played the role in the Star Trek fan production, Pilgrim of Eternity ?
Did you know that an additional clock face was added at a higher level to the tower of All Saints Church, Thornton Hough because its founder could not see the lower one from his house?
Did you know that 2006 Spanish Paralympic alpine skier Daniel Caverzaschi was ranked 20th in the world in wheelchair tennis in October 2013?
Did you know that the chronicler Robert Fabyan recorded the arrival in England in 1502 of three men from Newfoundland ?
Did you know that a crocodilian can replace each of its teeth up to 50 times during its lifetime?
Did you know that while it was ultimately built as a single U -shaped building, the initial euthenically inspired plans for Cushing House envisioned the dormitory as eight separate houses?
Did you know that in 1555 John Lok brought five Africans from present-day Ghana to England to learn English and act as interpreters on future trading voyages to Guinea ?
Did you know that the Sixty-first Amendment of the Constitution of India lowered the voting age in the country from 21 years to 18 years?
Did you know that socialist Seattle City Council member A. W. Piper was a baker who drew editorial cartoons?
Did you know that Tao Porchon-Lynch , who studied under Sri Aurobindo and Indra Devi , has been recognized as the world's oldest yoga teacher at age 95?
Did you know that the Battle of Baykand , in what is now Uzbekistan , was won after al-Harith ibn Surayj suggested that it was better to die fighting than to die of thirst?
Did you know that in the summer of 1945, Deutsche Volkszeitung accused Siemens of having produced and installed the gas chambers at Auschwitz ?
Did you know that in 1996, Edo Ronchi became the first Green politician to hold a cabinet post in Italy ?
Did you know that set into the porch of Christ Church, Higher Bebington , is a stone with the footprint of an Archosaur ?
Did you know that in 1982, Jerusalem city officials revitalized the Downtown Triangle by paving it over?