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Did you know that Henriette Schønberg Erken 's Big Cookbook sold more than 200,000 copies, and her Small Cookbook sold about 100,000 copies?
Did you know that the riches from the capture of the Madre de Deus at the Battle of Flores were nearly half the wealth of England's treasury?
Did you know that screenwriter Olivia Hetreed gained access to Tracy Chevalier 's novel Girl with a Pearl Earring shortly before its publication because they shared the same agent?
Did you know that visitors can walk through Trentham Monkey Forest in Staffordshire without any barriers between them and the 140 Barbary macaques that live there?
Did you know that the 2003 period drama Girl with a Pearl Earring was originally meant to feature Kate Hudson before she was replaced with Scarlett Johansson ?
Did you know that in reviewing Jane Ridley 's biography of " Bertie ", A. N. Wilson wrote that "royal biography will never be the same again"?
Did you know that before it was added to the National Register of Historic Places , Edith Marion Patch 's house nearly went up in flames?
Did you know that the black hole inside RX J1131 was the first black hole to have its spin directly measured?
Did you know that the musical Made in Dagenham is based on the true story of the Ford sewing machinists strike of 1968 ?
Did you know that P-9 Project was the codename for the Manhattan Project 's effort to produce heavy water for nuclear reactors?
Did you know that car-owning Mrs Edward Kennard wrote The Motor Maniac , which was said to be exasperating for readers who did not own an automobile?
Did you know that Karin Rehnqvist composed Puksånger & lockrop for singers Susanne Rosenberg and Lena Willemark , in which a section of kulning (cattle calling) "represents a rebellion"?
Did you know that Miguel Delibes was once the director of El Norte de Castilla ?
Did you know that Paralympian James Whitley has been skiing since he was four years old?
Did you know that Barack Obama addressed the German public, seeking to mend relations described as "worse than ... the low-point in 2003 during the Iraq War" due to mass surveillance charges?
Did you know that Bexhill Museum refused to accept a portrait of its principal founder after she died?
Did you know that Northern Irish ex-MP Bernadette Devlin and Peruvian MP Hugo Blanco took part in the 1980 election campaign of the Catalan Unity for Socialism ?
Did you know that Maria Komissarova was the first-ever woman to win a World Cup medal for Russia in the ski cross ?
Did you know that the Huxley Hoard , discovered near Huxley, Cheshire in 2004 and now on display at the Museum of Liverpool , consists of 21 flattened silver bracelets and one silver ingot?
Did you know that Angela Stent is on the advisory committee of Women in International Security, an organization dedicated to promoting women's careers in the field of national security?
Did you know that the golf course in Gura, Eritrea allowed players to lift their golf balls from bomb craters and trenches without penalty?
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Did you know that Vancouver mayor Alexander Bethune was a founder and member of the local Asiatic Exclusion League ?
Did you know that Tan Tjoei Hock held four roles in the production of the pirate film Singa Laoet ?
Did you know that María Ruanova was the first Argentine international ballet dancer who learnt to dance in Argentina?
Did you know that Vivian Wing-Wah Yam was the youngest member to be elected to the Chinese Academy of Sciences ?
Did you know that during their Welcome to the Universe Tour , Thirty Seconds to Mars developed strategies that minimized fuel consumption of all touring vehicles?
Did you know that infectious disease specialist Mark Crislip has won three Podcast Awards for his show QuackCast ?
Did you know that the Nokia Lumia 505 was originally a Telcel exclusive device in Mexico before being released in Colombia , Chile , and Peru on Claro Americas ?
Did you know that Mendel Peterson was known as the father of underwater archeology and has an island in the Antarctic named after him?
Did you know that the Invictus Games , named after the poem by William Ernest Henley , are a Paralympic -style multi-sports event for wounded service personnel?
Did you know that J. S. Wood published The Fate of Fenella , a novel by twenty-four writers without any collaboration?
Did you know that Alfred Dörffel edited several volumes of the first complete edition of the Works of Johann Sebastian Bach by the Bach Gesellschaft , beginning with cantatas in 1878 and ending in 1898?
Did you know that at least 128 athletes have participated in both the Summer and Winter Olympic games ?
Did you know that gold medal-winning sit-skier Marit Ruth has devised a Segway-based vehicle that can be used by people without legs?
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Did you know that Agnes Abuom is the first woman and the first African to be moderator of the World Council of Churches Central Committee?
Did you know that long after suffering serial forced displacement as a child in Johannesburg, Emma Mashinini became a Commissioner for Restitution of Land Rights?
Did you know that Nalini Anantharaman won a Mathematical Physics prize for her work on quantum chaos , Schrödinger equations and quantum unique ergodicity ?
Did you know that Romantic period writer Sophie Tieck was overshadowed by her brother ?
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Did you know that Cordelia E. Cook , the first woman to receive the Bronze Star Medal , was also awarded the Purple Heart ?
Did you know that before entering into films, Sharada Ramanathan was working as a cultural activist?
Did you know that in 2001, Ewa Ziarek wrote the book An Ethics of Dissensus ?
Did you know that runner Marie Dollinger represented Germany in three Olympic Games, broke Olympic records and set a world record, but never won an Olympic medal?
Did you know that Australian artist Dorrit Black was influenced by the Modernist and Cubist art movements because of her studies in London and Paris?
Did you know that Soerip went from "Miss" to "Grandmother" in between films?
Did you know that Helen Fraser was the first woman to be adopted as an official party candidate for parliament from Scotland?
Did you know that many prominent people, including Albert Einstein , attended meetings at Berta Fanta 's salon ?
Did you know that Shirley Chater was a nurse and university president before becoming U.S. Commissioner of Social Security ?
Did you know that screenwriter Mary Agnes Donoghue was fired from the 1988 film Beaches by the director Garry Marshall and rehired after less than a month?
Did you know that in England, women found guilty of high treason , petty treason and heresy , were burnt at the stake , sometimes alive?
Did you know that cell biologist Rachael Dunlop and her colleagues discovered how an amino acid produced by blue-green algae might trigger the onset of ALS (Lou Gehrig's disease)?
Did you know that Jennie Augusta Brownscombe (1850–1936), painter of the The First Thanksgiving , was a " New Woman " painter and considered "one of America's best artists"?
Did you know that after the last Paralympics , Oleksandra Kononova became the Ukrainian sports personality of the year?
Did you know that Birgit Keil , prima ballerina of the Stuttgart Ballet under John Cranko , inspired international choreographers such as Kenneth MacMillan , John Neumeier and Heinz Spoerli ?
Did you know that Spanish artist Glòria Muñoz uses the chapel of an abandoned convent as her studio?
Did you know that Aaron Burr was caught in the 1804 Antigua–Charleston hurricane while hiding from federal officials?
Did you know that the "Four jewels of Cuban ballet" included Aurora Bosch and Mirta Plá ?
Did you know that Alfreda Markowska , a Polska Roma , was awarded the Order of Polonia Restituta for saving Jewish and Roma children from death in the Holocaust and the Porajmos during World War II?
Did you know that student tradition at Rutgers University says that a bronze statue of William the Silent will whistle if a virgin happens to pass by?
Did you know that on Waldfriedhof Zehlendorf , Berlin celebrities are buried in forest landscape, including chancellor Willy Brandt and ballet dancer Tatjana Gsovsky ?
Did you know that the National Commission for Civic Education , in collaboration with the GILLBT , has translated the Constitution of Ghana into 30 Ghanaian languages?
Did you know that the episode " Fly Away " from the television series The Following received the series' lowest ratings ever?
Did you know that former Macedonian ambassador Ljubica Acevska 's male aide was so often assumed to be the ambassador, she said, "I should wear a sash like Miss America saying, 'I'm the Ambassador ' "?
Did you know that Emery Emery contributed to The Atheist's Guide to Christmas and edited the documentary The Aristocrats ?
Did you know that proneural genes are partially responsible for differentiation of ectodermal cells into neural or epidermal cells during embryonic development?
Did you know that John Medley , the first Bishop of Fredericton , was the first Tractarian bishop in the Church of England ?
Did you know that after the February 2014 suicide bombing of a tourist bus in Taba , Ansar Bait al-Maqdis threatened to attack tourists who did not leave Egypt within four days?
Did you know that Arnau Cadell , sculptor of the Monastery of Sant Cugat , was the first Catalan artist to be known by both first and last name?
Did you know that Admiral Yuriy Ilyin served as the Ukrainian Chief of the General Staff for only ten days before being dismissed by interim President Alexander Turchynov ?
Did you know that in 2012, the Netherlands became the first European country to implement a net neutrality law ?
Did you know that Loipa Araújo , the "Cuban muse of Marseille ", was a ballerina ?
Did you know that Terrance Williams and Felipe Santos went missing months apart after being arrested by the same police officer but never made it to jail?
Did you know that the 1878 FA Cup Final did have a Bastard in the black?
Did you know that Lou is the 229th most common surname in China, while Lou is the 269th?
Did you know that in the video game Blood Knights , players can transfer blood between the two playable characters, healing one at the expense of the other?
Did you know that Pseudophilautus hypomelas , a small shrub frog not seen for more than 130 years and believed to be extinct , was rediscovered in the Peak Wilderness of Sri Lanka ?
Did you know that Lyon Opera Ballet ballerina Susana Agüero returned to Buenos Aires when she had eyesight problems?
Did you know that the story of " Last Gasp ", the fourth episode of British dark comedy series Inside No. 9 , was inspired by a collection of apparently empty jars?
Did you know that the opossum shrimp Neomysis integer inhabits both low salinity estuaries and high salinity pools on the foreshore?
Did you know that Hanpu , who came from the Korean peninsula , married a Jurchen woman, and that their descendants, the emperors of the Jin dynasty , conquered all of north China in the 1120s?
Did you know that Muneer Awad successfully sued the state of Oklahoma to prevent it from forbidding state judges to decide cases using Islamic law ?
Did you know that during the American Civil War , Henry du Pont had future U.S. Senator Thomas F. Bayard placed under arrest on suspicion of pro- Confederate activities?
Did you know that former Florida Speaker of the House H. Lee Moffitt helped found a comprehensive cancer treatment center in Florida, named in his honor?
Did you know that when HMS Cressy was sunk, 560 men were killed?
Did you know that Argentine tango dancer Carmencita Calderón performed the milonga at her 100th birthday celebration?
Did you know that by 2004, counterfeit $20 banknotes of the Birds of Canada series represented nearly 65% of all counterfeit currency in Canada?
Did you know that support for the free association movement in Puerto Rico expanded by a hundredfold in 14 years?
Did you know that Beatrix Miller , the editor of British Vogue from 1964 to 1985, had previously worked for MI6 ?
Did you know that only one pilot from the Czechoslovak Air Force has ever shot down an enemy plane?
Did you know that the inclusion of Basil D'Oliveira in the England cricket team caused the cancellation of its 1968–69 tour of South Africa?
Did you know that the Church of the Madonna dell'Archetto may be the smallest church in Rome ?
Did you know that ballerina Josefina Méndez made her debut performance with the Cuban National Ballet in 1955 in Swan Lake in the role of a man?
Did you know that a white oak tree with a trunk circumference of over 26 feet (7.9 m) grew near Wolf Run until it was cut down in 1852?
Did you know that Jennie Patrick , a woman who was told she did not belong at Berkeley in the 1970s, received the Outstanding Women in Science and Engineering Award in 1980?
Did you know that Gibraltar is not allowed to play Spain at the UEFA Euro 2016 qualifiers due to political reasons?
Did you know that there were actually 40 variants of the " One Ring " designed by Jens Hoyer Hansen for use in shooting The Lord of the Rings films?
Did you know that Canadian mining companies sued author Alain Deneault over his book about Canadian mining activities in Africa?
Did you know that The Saguache Crescent might be the last newspaper in the world to use linotype ?
Did you know that two-time Olympic gold medalist Carli Lloyd is the only player to score the game-winning goal in two consecutive Olympic gold medal soccer matches?
Did you know that the first live episode of the American sitcom The Drew Carey Show was performed three times, once for each of three different time zones?
Did you know that in reply to The Woman Who Did , a novel about a New Woman , Mrs. Lovett Cameron wrote The Man Who Didn't ?
Did you know that the 9/11 Living Memorial Plaza is the only monument outside of the United States which lists the names of the nearly 3,000 victims of the September 11 attacks ?
Did you know that London Irish Wild Geese were founded after London Irish left The Avenue to move to Reading?
Did you know that journalist Sarkis Minassian was arrested, imprisoned, and eventually murdered during the Armenian Genocide ?
Did you know that the Norwegian minesweeper HNoMS Thorodd was best known for her mascot, a St. Bernard called Bamse ?
Did you know that James Cahill believed that a famous painting at the Metropolitan Museum of Art was fake, but the museum insists it is authentic?
Did you know that artist Edith R. Wyle , grandmother of actor Noah Wyle , founded the Craft and Folk Art Museum in Los Angeles?
Did you know that Njoo Cheong Seng 's Pantjawarna has been called the first musical in Indonesia?
Did you know that Chinese journalist Yang Gang committed suicide after being forced to persecute her colleagues, but the details are disputed?
Did you know that " We Dem Boyz " by American rapper Wiz Khalifa was the first song to be premiered by the music identifying app Shazam ?
Did you know that college baseball player Ben Wetzler was suspended by the National Collegiate Athletic Association for "something that reportedly happens all the time"?
Did you know that fragments of veil patches of the mushroom Amanita ananiceps can litter the ground around it?
Did you know that German professor Erich Maschke led the committee that investigated the killing of German prisoners-of-war in World War II?
Did you know that Princeton University 's Center of International Studies was formed in 1951 when six scholars came from Yale University all at once?
Did you know that Barbara Brandon-Croft was the first African-American female cartoonist to get a national syndication , for Where I'm Coming From ?
Did you know that although Atopodentatus had a fearsome set of teeth, it was a filter feeder and not a predator ?
Did you know that one reason South African judge Dunstan Mlambo permitted live broadcasting of the Oscar Pistorius murder trial was to educate the public about criminal proceedings?
Did you know that Ultra Rare Trax was the first significant bootleg set of The Beatles to appear on compact disc ?
Did you know that Prospect Group's purchase of Illinois Central Railroad in 1989 was part of a plan devised by Edward L. Moyers to return the railroad to profitability?
Did you know that the Armatix iP1 pistol cannot be accessed or function without the iW1 Active RFID wrist watch?
Did you know that in 2008, the Romanian ballet mistress Mijaela Tesleoanu was one of only two non-Cubans on the payroll of the Cuban National Ballet ?
Did you know that, in the cases of Klayman v. Obama and ACLU v. Clapper , US district courts issued conflicting rulings on the constitutionality of bulk data collection by the US government?
Did you know that R.S. Owens & Company produces the trophies for the Academy Awards , a job which C.W. Shumway & Sons did from 1928 to 1982?
Did you know that the ant Aphaenogaster avita was described from a fossil found in 1969?
Did you know that Lonnie Warwick worked for the Southern Pacific Railroad in Arizona prior to signing a free agent contract with the Minnesota Vikings ?
Did you know that the owner of the newspaper De Indische Courant escaped a stranglehold from a scourge by buying a radio?
Did you know that the deep sea worm Osedax japonicus relies on the skeleton of a dead whale for sustenance?
Did you know that although physicist Ernest Wollan pioneered neutron diffraction , he did not share in the Nobel Prize that was awarded for the technology?
Did you know that the musical The Last Ship was partially inspired by musician Sting 's childhood experiences?
Did you know that the 1985 BBC Micro video game Castle Quest used a smooth hardware side-scrolling technique termed "Scrollerama"?
Did you know that LeRoy Prinz , who staged dances in dozens of Hollywood movies in the 1930s and 1940s, was more an "idea man" than a choreographer, using simple steps and dance routines?
Did you know that the union of the Italian Sacarello and Bignone families in Gibraltar became known as the " Marriage of Two Mountains "?
Did you know that Sunderland's semi-final penalty shootout win against Manchester United in order to reach the 2014 Football League Cup Final had no English players scoring any of the penalties?
Did you know that Enid Blyton 's books were banned by the BBC for being "second-rate" and without merit?
Did you know that the music video for Bed Peace by American singer Jhené Aiko pays homage to John Lennon and Yoko Ono 's Bed-In for Peace protest?
Did you know that Aasa Helgesen was elected the first female mayor in Norway after an election where she didn't know she was on the ballot?
Did you know that the inscriptions discovered in Mangulam are the earliest Tamil-Brahmi inscriptions?
Did you know that the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board report on mass surveillance recommended against a proposal to mandate data retention by U.S. phone companies?
Did you know that in her song " Glory and Gore ", Lorde compares celebrity culture to gladiatorial combat?
Did you know that the founder of Pensole Footwear Design Academy worked for Nike , but has offered classes in partnership with Adidas ?
Did you know that the Dutch East India Company attempted to eliminate the njai by importing orphaned girls from the Netherlands?
Did you know that Liberia 's first agricultural and vocational school is named after American educator Booker T. Washington ?
Did you know that Thokozile Masipa , the presiding judge assigned to the Oscar Pistorius murder trial , worked as a crime reporter for The Sowetan newspaper before her law career?
Did you know that Toy Story 3 was listed in Time 's 25 All-Time Best Animated Films?
Did you know that Edwin St Hill was called the " Maurice Tate of the West Indies"?
Did you know that Marta Dusseldorp visited the NSW Director of Public Prosecutions Nicholas Cowdery to prepare for her role as Senior Crown Prosecutor Janet King ?
Did you know that the Hare and Billet pub was mistakenly accused in the House of Commons of serving a " blatant copy " of Lea & Perrins Worcester sauce ?
Did you know that a major character in " Who Ya Gonna Call? ", an episode of the comedy-drama TV series Psych , is a man who is unknowingly also a woman and a violent murderer?
Did you know that the Hertha Feist dance school was moved by the Nazis to smaller premises?
Did you know that Kendallina , a genus of trilobite , lived in North America during the Upper Cambrian ?
Did you know that Sutton High Street is the site of the pub where the Rolling Stones were spotted by a music promoter in 1963?
Did you know that the forest shrew can be used as a monitor of environmental contamination ?
Did you know that in 1899, Frederick Buscombe commissioned the Buscombe Building in Gastown , Vancouver?
Did you know that Kansas House Bill 2453 would allow service providers in Kansas to refuse service to same-sex couples under the purview of religious liberty?
Did you know that during the 2011–12 OHL season , Mike Halmo received a 10-game suspension for a hit on Nail Yakupov ?
Did you know that an experimental musical instrument based on Savart's wheel is said to make "the most obtrusive, obnoxious and irritating sound ever known"?
Did you know that Abbi Jacobson plays a fictionalized version of herself on the Comedy Central series Broad City ?
Did you know that despite influencing several Beatles ' songs, Arthur Alexander 's 1962 song " Soldier of Love (Lay Down Your Arms) " was nearly forgotten until a Beatles' bootleg recording surfaced more than a decade later?
Did you know that Kelly Tanner and Chris Raudman were among the championship winners during 1996 in NASCAR ?
Did you know that Yang Bojun , who was taught to read Confucian classics by his grandfather, became an author of several influential commentaries on them?
Did you know that " La Popola " was banned in the Dominican Republic because of its sexual lyrics?
Did you know that former IAS cadre Pancham Lal is one of the candidates of the All India Forward Bloc in the 2014 election ?
Did you know that Meldon Viaduct , on Dartmoor in Devon, is one of only two surviving lattice truss railway bridges in Britain?
Did you know that the box jellyfish Tripedalia cystophora feeds on the copepod Dioithona oculata which swarms in sunlit patches of water among mangrove roots?
Did you know that a symposium on Genghis Khan led to the removal of Daramyn Tömör-Ochir from the Mongolian Politburo for being a "nationalist"?
Did you know that during the 20-event 2014 IPC Powerlifting World Championships , 15 world records were equalled or surpassed?
Did you know that the Bluefin-21 is an underwater drone that is being used in search operations for the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 ?
Did you know that Maryland Delegate Torrey C. Brown , a physician, once assisted in saving the life of a fellow legislator who suffered a heart attack during a debate?
Did you know that the Revolutionary Socialist Party (Bolshevik) leader A.V. Thamarakshan is supported by the BJP in this year's parliamentary poll ?
Did you know that Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band 's title track was once described as a "revolutionary moment in the creative life" of the Beatles ?
Did you know that medieval historian Seta Dadoyan was awarded the David Anhaght medal for her contributions to Armenian philosophical studies?
Did you know that one of Nader Kadhim 's main motivations to write Saving Hope was to defend the hope "revived" by the Arab Spring ?
Did you know that Swedish soprano Malin Byström sang the title role in Thaïs at Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia in 2012?
Did you know that in 1970 the State of Connecticut acquired 198 acres (108 ha) of Haley Farm from A. C. White for a total of $300,000 and declared it a state park ?
Did you know that Bert "Yank" Levy , who taught the British Home Guard and coauthored one of the first books on guerrilla warfare, said a cheese cutter could be used as a weapon?
Did you know that Australian actress Yael Stone 's Boston accent on Orange Is the New Black has been called "the most amazing accent on television"?
Did you know that cellarettes were designed with 3-D optical illusion art to conceal their illegal alcoholic beverages during prohibition in the United States ?