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Did you know that the dwarf shrub Zygophyllum qatarense has adaptations to help it survive the harsh environment of the wildlife of Bahrain ?
Did you know that in 1917, future folk musician and Carnegie Institute of Technology professor emeritus Robert Schmertz was arrested while dressed in "a girl's middy blouse and a small white hat"?
Did you know that as of 2015, India's second highest civilian award has been conferred upon 18 non-citizen recipients including Edmund Hillary , one of the first climbers to reach the summit of Mount Everest ?
Did you know that Iris perrieri was named after Baron Eugène Pierre Perrier de la Bâthie, who ran a speciality plant nursery in Albertville?
Did you know that Vincenzo Bellini 's Oboe Concerto , written while he was a student, was possibly influenced by the wordless songs of his teacher Niccolò Antonio Zingarelli ?
Did you know that when former rugby league player Casey Conway came out , he expressed disappointment that Anthony Mundine had claimed homosexuality was not an acceptable part of Aboriginal culture?
Did you know that some of the fruits used to produce Paper Boat –brand beverages are sourced in the wild ?
Did you know that Thawun Gyi was the founder of the Principality of Toungoo of Myanmar ?
Did you knowthat Wilson's Allen , a Tennessee Walking Horse stallion , was buried three different times?
Did you know that in the 1970s, the Sheraton Skyline Hotel at London Heathrow had a Wild West -themed cabaret show?
Did you know that Hurricane Dennis in 2005 killed 56 people and wrought US$50 million in damage throughout Haiti ?
Did you know that the latest promotion in York City's recent history came in 2012, when they beat Luton Town at Wembley Stadium in the Conference Premier play-off final ?
Did you know that collaboration between botanists Elinor Francis Vallentin and A.D. Cotton resulted in the first comprehensive study of cryptogams from the Falkland Islands ?
Did you know that the Gndevank , a well-preserved church dedicated to St. Stephen , is built in the form of a cross-dome of four apses, with a circular tambour over a cupola ?
Did you know that the New York City neighborhood of Spring Creek was once known as the place where "the city came to an end"?
Did you know that at 101 years old, Esther Somerfeld-Ziskind was still attending patients at Los Angeles Children's Hospital?
Did you know that searchers believed Michael Williams ' body had been eaten by alligators in Lake Seminole after he disappeared 15 years ago today—until they learned alligators don't feed in winter?
Did you know that the foreign direct investment in the mining industry of Laos has made significant contributions to the economic condition of Laos since 2003–04?
Did you know that Ida Dixon , designer of the 18-hole golf course at the Springhaven Club, was the first female golf course architect in the United States?
Did you know that the 113 East Roosevelt development will host the tallest building in the South Side of Chicago ?
Did you know that Graham Waterhouse , who played the solo part in his Cello Concerto in Mexico in 1995, performed it at his university in Cambridge?
Did you know that the address of the official residence of the Philippine ambassador to Japan can be translated literally as "a hill from which one can get a good perspective of Mt. Fuji"?
Did you know that one of Frank Sinatra 's most widely known public insults was leveled against The Washington Post columnist Maxine Cheshire ?
Did you know that Claudette Sorel discovered and premiered two previously unknown Rachmaninoff nocturnes?
Did you know that Lilo Milchsack was one of "the architects of post-war Europe"?
Did you know that Bank Tabungan Negara , established in 1897, was frozen during the Japanese occupation of Indonesia and then nationalized by the Indonesian government after the war?
Did you know that the Gateway Center shopping mall in Brooklyn , New York, is built on a former landfill ?
Did you know that Anne Beloff-Chain founded the Department of Biochemistry at the University of Buckingham ?
Did you know that the American ballad " Cold Rain and Snow " was performed by the Grateful Dead throughout their career?
Did you know that Thomas Gould busked at Westminster Underground Station in an attempt to recreate the Washington Post' s Joshua Bell experiment ?
Did you know that each of the six laps of the 2015 Philadelphia Cycling Classic ended with a climb up the 800-metre-long (2,600 ft) Manayunk Wall ?
Did you know that Folake Solanke is the first female Senior Advocate of Nigeria ?
Did you know that at a 1966 concert , Frank Sinatra joked about the evenings he and others spent carousing at Dean Martin 's Bel Air mansion ?
Did you know that French biochemist André Voisin is considered one of the founding thinkers of the permaculture movement?
Did you know that the Battle of Fukuda Bay in 1565 was the first recorded naval battle between Europeans and the Japanese?
Did you know that Blake Lively will be surviving shark attacks in The Shallows ?
Did you know that Project NOAH Executive Director Mahar Lagmay of the Philippines won the Plinius Medal awarded by the European Geosciences Union in 2015?
Did you know that Queen Elizabeth , Prince Charles and Prince William have all stayed at the Explorer Hotel when visiting Yellowknife ?
Did you know that Jessica Garretson Finch was a suffragette who founded Finch College and advocated for careers for women?
Did you know that 200 acts performed at the final Camden Crawl music festival in 2014?
Did you know that Chinese Vice Premier Fang Yi lost his mother 26 days after he was born, and his father at the age of eight?
Did you know that the wildlife of Saudi Arabia includes species endemic to the region such as the Arabian woodpecker ?
Did you know that Jean-Mathieu-Philibert Sérurier was called the "Virgin of Italy" by his troops?
Did you know that astrophysicist Naomi McClure-Griffiths discovered a new spiral arm in the Milky Way ?
Did you know that butter for consumer use is graded "AA", "A", or "B" in the United States, but in Canada is graded "Canada 1", "Canada 2", or "Canada 3"?
Did you know that Jack Entratter 's "Copa Girls" wore US$12,000 worth of costumes for opening night in the Sands Hotel and Casino 's Copa Room ?
Did you know that the Tusheti National Park , called one of the "12 best places you’ve never heard of" by BudgetTravel, has rich biodiversity with aesthetic terrain, hamlets, old defense towers, and folk culture?
Did you know that Squadron Leader Daniel Everett was decorated three times for gallantry before being killed in action?
Did you know that Johann Ludwig Hasslocher's French teachers in Manhattan couldn't pronounce his name, so they changed it to " Louis Hostlot "?
Did you know that the HTC Desire 200 , a low-end smartphone released in 2013, came with HTC 's "highest quality in-ear headset"?
Did you know that May Owen discovered that the talcum powder used on surgical gloves caused infection and peritoneal scarring?
Did you know that the use of dairy salt that is impure can have adverse effects upon butter , spoiling its flavor, grain and preservation?
Did you know that art dealer Konrad Bernheimer was born in Venezuela after his grandfather made a deal with Hermann Göring to allow the family to flee Germany?
Did you know that the Seven Coloured Earths in Chamarel are the result of the cooling of molten rock from 3.5 to 7 million years ago?
Did you know that in the 2014 edition of Indonesia's Jakarta Marathon , a limited number of African athletes were invited because of the 2014 Ebola outbreak in Africa?
Did you know that Christopher John O'Neill , now a Broadway actor, was discovered by a casting director for The Book of Mormon while performing comedy at Edinburgh Festival Fringe ?
Did you know that the chief of Cambodia's National Police Force, Neth Savoeun , is a member of the ruling party's Central Committee and married to the Prime Minister 's niece?
Did you know that Minnesotan actor Odin Biron moved to Moscow speaking almost no Russian but went on to become a popular character on the top-rated Russian sitcom Interns ?
Did you know that since 1858, all new streets containing terraced houses in the United Kingdom have been at least 36 feet (11 m) wide?
Did you know that in 2000 Midori Suzuki was a soprano in Sigiswald Kuijken's recording of Bach's Mass in B minor which uses one voice per part?
Did you know that Wat Intharawihan was originally called Wat Rai Phrik, meaning "vegetable" in the Thai language , because its location was within a vegetable garden?
Did you know that Lidija Liepiņa worked with a team of other scientists in a mobile laboratory in a train boxcar, testing filters to create Russia's first functional gas mask ?
Did you know that the yachtsman Keith White set out on 25 October 2015 to make a literally single-handed solo global circumnavigation?
Did you know that Catherine Feuillet led a team to successfully map the largest wheat chromosome, 3B?
Did you know that the zinc-iron statues of Court Square Fountain in Montgomery, Alabama (1885) were replaced by aluminum statues in 1984, but these became corroded within twenty years?
Did you know that Mahbub Alam was arrested just after filing his nomination paper for the 2014 Indian general election ?
Did you know that during the early years of 20th century, the silk of Ordubad received 13 gold medals in international exhibitions and fairs?
Did you know that the sealing ship Norsel was nicknamed "the Polar Bus" due to her many voyages to the Antarctic and Arctic?
Did you know that, while working as a spy for MI9 at Colditz , Julius Green wrote coded messages to a fictional lover?
Did you know that Frank Sinatra had a number 1 hit with " Oh! What it Seemed to Be " in 1946, and then recorded it again for 1963's Sinatra's Sinatra ?
Did you know that Las Vegas casino manager Carl Cohen became a local folk hero after he knocked the caps off Frank Sinatra's front teeth?
Did you know that Frank Sinatra Enterprises was founded in 2007 to manage the singer's recordings at Reprise Records ?
Did you know that Frank Sinatra was held at gunpoint at Caesars Palace in 1970?
Did you know that Frank Sinatra, Jr. was first offered the part which was later developed into the Rat Pack -style character Vic Fontaine in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine ?
Did you know that after Frank Sinatra was happy with his recording of the song " That's Life ", producer Jimmy Bowen annoyed him by asking him to do it again?
Did you know that Frank Sinatra was a secret courier for the Haganah ?
Did you know that at his solo nightclub debut at the Riobamba , Frank Sinatra sang two songs "with trembling lips" and brought the house down?
Did you know that Hank Sanicola , a boxer turned music manager, was Frank Sinatra's "song plugger"?
Did you know that Frank Sinatra often visited the barber shop in the basement of the Hollywood Plaza Hotel to play gin rummy with the barber?
Did you know that at age 16, singer Julie Budd was the youngest-ever opening act for Frank Sinatra?
Did you know that Frank Sinatra's 1966 cover of " Summer Wind " was the final top 40 hit for lyricist Johnny Mercer ?
Did you know that Frank Sinatra and the 3 Flashes , newly renamed the Hoboken Four, performed in blackface in a short film aired at Radio City Music Hall ?
Did you know that publicist Jim Byron once got into a fist fight with Frank Sinatra on the Sunset Strip ?
Did you know that a sulfur mine at 5,950 metres (19,520 ft) altitude on the stratovolcano Aucanquilcha is notable for being the highest mine in the world?
Did you know that the distinctive roof shape of a Minangkabau rangkiang (rice granary) symbolizes the horn of a buffalo?
Did you know that the Anatolian diagonal is a significant feature in the distribution of the flora of Turkey ?
Did you know that Chinese opera singer Ao Li has won both the Operalia, The World Opera Competition and the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions ?
Did you know that Chicago 's 1000 South Michigan is a supertall skyscraper planned to rise to over 1,000 feet (300 m), even though it is in a historic district zoned for buildings up to 425 feet (130 m)?
Did you know that John Martin , the first Chief Justice of the Cherokee Supreme Court, had no formal legal training?
Did you know that Japanese physicist Toshiko Yuasa studied in Paris under Frédéric Joliot-Curie and developed her own beta-ray spectrometer in Berlin?
Did you know that although Format:B have had their own vanity label for the past six years, their most recent single was released on Ministry of Sound ?
Did you know that the Lukut Fort and Museum has a display of the traditional culture of the community, and the customs and practice of adat perpatih (rules of life) typical of the state?
Did you know that General Zhang Tingfa commanded the Chinese Air Force during the Sino-Vietnamese War ?
Did you know that while the Huawei Honor 4X was in the same price range as the second generation Moto G and the Sony Xperia M2 , the Honor 4X is a phablet ?
Did you know that the Magellan Shrine memorial tower was erected in 1866 in honor of the explorer Ferdinand Magellan , who was killed in the Battle of Mactan in 1521?
Did you know that Catherine A. Lozupone created the UniFrac algorithm, which has allowed researchers to plot the relationships between microbial communities in the human gut ?
Did you know that Diana Marcela Bolaños Rodriguez studies marine flatworms to learn about their regenerative abilities?
Did you know that American mechanical engineer Alice Agogino won the NSF's Presidential Young Investigator Award in 1985?
Did you know that Andrea Ablasser discovered a molecule that warns nearby cells when it encounters a pathogen?
Did you know that biochemist Kathryn Ferguson Fink developed radiolabeling techniques that were used to study the success of chemotherapy ?
Did you know that Katherine Belov discovered that the contagious cancer decimating the Tasmanian devil spreads due to lack of genetic diversity?
Did you know that Una Ryan and Una Ryan both emigrated from their countries, studied infectious disease, and were honored with the Order of the British Empire and Prime Minister's Prizes for Science , respectively?
Did you know that Marguerite Lehr conducted a televised lecture course on mathematics in the 1950s?
Did you know that ASI Corp., a wholesale distributor of computer components founded by Christine Liang , is one of the largest women-owned businesses in the United States?
Did you know that Singaporean fungi expert Gloria Lim once assisted her country's Ministry of Defence when its storage bunkers developed mold ?
Did you know that Vera Faddeeva 's 1950 book Computational methods of linear algebra was one of the first publications in that field of mathematics ?
Did you know that after Cecilia Bouzat was given a L'Oréal-UNESCO Award for Women in Science she was received by the President of Argentina?
Did you know that Louise Hay was the only woman to direct a math department at a major research university in her era?
Did you know that Charlotte Sahl-Madsen introduced multiple intelligences into the Universe ?
Did you know that more than 1.5 million beer bottles have been used in the construction of the Buddhist temple site at Wat Pa Maha Chedi Kaew in Thailand?
Did you know that Greek screenwriter and director Nikos Foskolos has been called the "Goldfinger of commercial shows"?
Did you know that the Burkhan Khaldun mountain or its locality is believed to be the birthplace of Genghis Khan , as well as the location of his tomb ?
Did you know that on 2 April 1662, the Old Fortress of Livorno was the location of an experiment designed to test Galileo 's principle of the independence of motions?
Did you know that Maaibre Sheshi is the best attested ruler of the Second Intermediate Period of Egypt in terms of the number of artefacts attributed to him?
Did you know that Paul Weller 's first solo UK top ten hit, " The Changingman ", sampled Electric Light Orchestra 's " 10538 Overture ", which in turn sampled The Beatles ' " Dear Prudence "?
Did you know that the British Committee of the Indian National Congress was formed in 1889 because the Government of India was constitutionally responsible to the British electorate?
Did you know that the critically endangered Arabian leopard is among the wildlife found in Yemen ?
Did you know that America's Got Talent 2014 quarterfinalist One Voice Children's Choir had a waiting list of 250 children wanting to join as of January 2015?
Did you know that Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that "my India resides in people like Imran Khan "?
Did you know that the Khongoryn Els in the Mongolian desert is popularly known as the "Singing Sands"?
Did you know that following his death, Norwegian footballer Bjørn Borgen was described by former team-mate Per Kristoffersen as the greatest right winger the country had ever produced?
Did you know that the Cereal Research Centre in Winnipeg produced over two hundred varieties of crop and ornamental plants resistant to pests and blights?
Did you know that the ancient fortifications of Xi'an were used as air raid shelters in World War II ?
Did you know that Vera Fedorovna Gaze , who discovered around 150 emission nebulae , had a minor planet and a crater on Venus named for her?
Did you know that SC Union 06 Berlin was formed in 1950 when players of the East Berlin club SG Oberschöneweide moved to the western half of the city?
Did you know that the victory of Sultan al-Atrash over French forces in the Battle of al-Kafr commenced the Great Syrian Revolt ?
Did you know that J. S. Guleria and his son Randeep Guleria are both doctors at All India Institute of Medical Sciences Delhi and were both awarded the Padma Shri ?
Did you know that the Floriana Lines are considered to be among the most complicated and elaborate of the Hospitaller fortifications of Malta ?
Did you know that the 1996 Andhra Pradesh cyclone resulted in more than 1,000 fatalities, and damaged more than 600,000 houses?
Did you know that the ant species Myrmecia inquilina does not have a worker caste, and is parasitic on M. nigriceps and M. vindex colonies?
Did you know that baritone Liao Changyong won first prize in three different international singing competitions in 1996 and 1997?
Did you know that only the first three volumes of the manga series Princess Lucia have been licensed in English?
Did you know that WSTRN bandmember Akelle Charles is the brother of Angel ?
Did you know that American artist Lily Furedi had an ekphrastic poem called "Eyes Alive" written about her often-reproduced painting The Subway ?
Did you know that the earliest known historical find of cotton in Pakistan is from artifacts in a Neolithic -era burial site in Mehrgarh ?
Did you know that Stephanie Burns , an organosilicon chemist, served as President and CEO of Dow Corning ?
Did you know that the King's Foundery for casting cannon became a Methodist chapel after a steam explosion?
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Did you know that the Okawachi Power Station is one of the largest pumped-storage hydroelectric power plants in Japan?
Did you know that actress Charlize Theron made her debut in an uncredited role in the 1995 horror film Children of the Corn III: Urban Harvest ?
Did you know that the collaborative browser game Broken Picture Telephone was defunct for three years before its 2013 relaunch?
Did you know that Belgian painter Theodoor Verstraete was lauded as the "poet of rural life" due to his empathy with country folk?
Did you know that gastroenterologist S. K. Sama , known for his pioneering research on non-cirrhotic portal fibrosis and hepatitis B , received the Padma Shri award in 2004?
Did you know that the beginning of Cassazione , composed by Jean Sibelius (pictured) in 1904, is similar to the 1962 James Bond Theme ?
Did you know that the Cathedral Basilica of the Holy Family replaced a church that was the first stone building in Nairobi ?
Did you know that during the Hananu Revolt against French rule in Syria , the first rebel band organized by Ibrahim Hananu consisted of seven men from his hometown ?
Did you know that Jaccoud arthropathy is associated with systemic lupus erythematosus ?
Did you know that the video game Life Is Strange was originally going to be called What If but was retitled due to the film of the same name ?
Did you know that Zahir al-Umar was the autonomous Arab ruler of northern Palestine in the mid-18th century?
Did you know that during the Valletta Summit on Migration , President of the European Council Donald Tusk called the European migrant crisis a "race against time" to save the Schengen Agreement ?
Did you know that writer Thomas B. Marquis once drove into the back of another car while conversing with Thomas H. Leforge in Plains Indian Sign Language ?
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Did you know that the Bogd Khan Uul Biosphere Reserve in Mongolia has been a protected area for more than two centuries?
Did you know that Jordan Payton recently set the UCLA Bruins football record for career receptions one week after tying the school's single-game record?
Did you know that when specimens of Platygyra contorta coral were studied in 1977, they were identified as examples of P. rustica ?
Did you know that Renard battled against the HMS Swallow ?
Did you know that Canada's first-ever match between André the Giant and Hulk Hogan took place in Lutte Internationale , preceding their more famous showdown at WrestleMania III by seven years?
Did you know that cortiços , large houses divided into very small rooms for rent, originated in São Paulo , Brazil, and were developed by Italian immigrants?
Did you know that Ming dynasty official Zhao Wenhua is reviled as a "treacherous minister" in the History of Ming despite having been rewarded for his role against the Jiajing wokou raids ?
Did you know that Portuguese tennis coach Frederico Marques was recently reported to be the youngest coach with a player in the ATP top 100?
Did you know that a Cambodian tour bus company takes "hospital tourists" 160 kilometres (100 mi) from Siem Reap to the border crossing at O Smach to see doctors in Thailand?
Did you know that Yueh-Lin Loo invented nanotransfer printing , a technique that allows electrical circuits to be printed onto plastic surfaces?
Did you know that in a recent United States Supreme Court decision , one Justice suggested the Court may soon become "a veritable Supreme Board of Sign Review"?
Did you know that the extinct millipede Parastemmiulus was the first definite genus in the family Stemmiulidae described from a fossil?
Did you know that Operation Eikonal delivered data about European defense projects to the National Security Agency ?
Did you know that tenor Robert White swallowed a bug while singing the best high note of his career?
Did you know that James L. Buie invented transistor-to-transistor logic circuitry (TTL), which led to the development of the integrated circuit industry?
Did you know that the compound butter Beurre Maître d'Hôtel is named according to how it was commonly prepared by a restaurant's maître d'hôtel at diners' tables?
Did you know that the long-tailed dwarf hamster is present in the Ikh Nartiin Chuluu Nature Reserve in Mongolia?
Did you know that Dorothea Leighton is one of the founders of the field of medical anthropology ?
Did you know that even after defeating the Mughals at the Battle of Lahore , Ahmed Shah Abdali retained the Mughal governor Mir Mannu ?
Did you know that German astrophysicist Hanna von Hoerner designed the cosmic dust analyser onboard Rosetta ?
Did you know that Piotr Domaradzki was active in the Polish Solidarity movement before being granted political asylum in the United States?
Did you know that Henning Mankell preferred the African storytelling style used in his novel Chronicler of the Winds to European storytelling because of its ability to "jump between realities"?
Did you know that Jackie Gleason called his orchestra leader Ray Bloch "the flower of the music world"?
Did you know that the Eurasian bittern may visit reedbeds, rice fields, watercress beds, fish farms, gravel pits, sewage works, ditches, flooded areas and marshes?
Did you know that Mexican singer-songwriter Natalia Lafourcade won three Latin Grammy Awards for her song " Hasta la Raíz "?