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Did you know that Supreme Leader of Iran Ayatollah Ali Khamenei issued a fatwa banning acquisition, development, and use of nuclear weapons ?
Did you know that the mining industry of Guinea ranks first in the world in bauxite reserves and sixth in the extraction of high-grade bauxite?
Did you know that besieged in the city of Stade , the troops of Sir Charles Morgan survived by eating cats and dogs?
Did you know that mathematician Ed Posner wrote the University of Chicago 's shortest doctoral thesis, only 26 pages long?
Did you know that the Slovak National Council was created to act as the highest representative of the Slovak nation and evolved into the parliament of Slovakia ?
Did you know that the Australian rugby union player Jack Verge took six wickets for 20 runs playing cricket against Melbourne University ?
Did you know that the Sardinian Province of Medio Campidano contains the World Heritage Site of Su Nuraxi ?
Did you know that a calculus textbook by David J. Foulis was used as a prop in The Sure Thing ?
Did you know that Obsidian Entertainment almost developed a Snow White prequel and an Aliens role-playing video game ?
Did you know that in the order Blattodea , termites can be considered "eusocial, juvenilized cockroaches"?
Did you know that Indian cricketer Javagal Srinath was the first to take a five-wicket haul in a One Day International at the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium ?
Did you know that " The Simpsons Guy ", a 2014 crossover between The Simpsons and Family Guy , was described by one critic as a "blight on humanity itself"?
Did you know that the Scottish footballer Omar Kader was signed by Alloa Athletic after playing against them in a play-off game for Forfar ?
Did you know that novelist Nuruddin Farah 's sister died in a terrorist attack, similar to how a character dies in his then newly finished novel Hiding in Plain Sight ?
Did you know that in the three years since Xi Jinping became China's top leader, lieutenant general Yu Zhongfu has been appointed to three leadership positions in the military?
Did you know that cave paintings in Puente Viesgo in northern Spain include a red disc which is believed to be over 40,000 years old?
Did you know that Samuel L. M. Barlow I settled a dispute concerning a $1,600,000 contract to send arms to France?
Did you know that a biography of the much-travelled Professor Josephine Tilden was titled "Algae of Acrimony"?
Did you know that the flail space model models how a passenger will move in a collision with a roadside feature like a guardrail , since crash test dummies are not accurate in such cases?
Did you know that Colla mac Báirid , King of Limerick , may have been a son of Bárid mac Ímair , King of Dublin ?
Did you know that the Chilean rock rat is found in monkey puzzle and southern beech forests in the high Andes?
Did you know that gridiron football player Lemar Durant achieved both the single-game conference record for touchdowns and season conference record for catches in his first year with the Simon Fraser Clan ?
Did you know that the gold rush at Diabougou has made it the largest site of informal mining in Senegal ?
Did you know that more than 50 years after being designated as one of the most unremunerative railway lines in Great Britain , part of the Waverley Route has been rebuilt as the Borders Railway ?
Did you know that Shaquille Murray-Lawrence ran the fastest 40-yard dash in CFL Combine history, but lost the record later that same event?
Did you know that the Roman settlement of Castelseprio in the Province of Varese was destroyed by the House of Visconti in the thirteenth century?
Did you know that television producer Anita Jacoby arranged the final media interview with fugitive Australian businessman Christopher Skase ?
Did you know that Kotaku 's Patrick Klepek was at a loss for words to describe Sonic Dreams Collection ?
Did you know that in the United States, the right to privacy is located in the Constitution 's penumbra ?
Did you know that Hedley Sparks , a Biblical scholar , was awarded a scholarship to Oxford University after he was the only person to show up to the exam?
Did you know that commercial director Gary Shore made his feature film directorial debut with Dracula Untold ?
Did you know that hundreds of thousands of artisanal miners are involved in gold mining in Sudan ?
Did you know that the consecration of the Bosnian Croat prelate Berislav Grgić as the first non-German leader of the world's northernmost Catholic bishopric took place in a Norwegian Protestant cathedral ?
Did you know that Quaker Run was historically "filled with trout", but now lacks fish life of any kind?
Did you know that Bill Harvey was one of many British footballers denied unemployment benefit in the 1930s?
Did you know that only a single stem of the fossil liverwort Notoscyphus balticus was used to describe the species?
Did you know that because many girls at the Beth Rivkah school in Crown Heights, Brooklyn , have the same first name, teachers call on them by their surnames?
Did you know that the long-clawed mole mouse leaves its burrow briefly to forage at night?
Did you know that when Romanian headmaster Alexandru Lambrior was fired for political reasons, all but two of the teachers at his school resigned in protest within two days?
Did you know that only the government of Tunisia is allowed to own the country's mines ?
Did you know that Ralph Townsend was described as "the most adamant and extreme of the voices in America defending Japanese policy"?
Did you know that students at the University of San Diego created a law journal to encourage scholarship about "the world's transition to a climate-safe economy"?
Did you know that plains in the Italian provinces of Pordenone and Udine have water rising through the ground in a zone of springs?
Did you know that at different times in its history , West Chester, Pennsylvania, led the U.S. in production of peach trees and penicillin ?
Did you know that Kévin Malcuit was named by France Football magazine as the best outfield player in Ligue 2 for the 2014–15 season?
Did you know that although the lilac-brown bolete is eaten in the Hengduan Mountains , it has reportedly poisoned people in New England ?
Did you know that Mary Kom won the National Film Award for Best Popular Film Providing Wholesome Entertainment ?
Did you know that Turkish politician Mustafa Arif Deymer once said that certain events turned his country into a "gigantic slaughterhouse"?
Did you know that harper by Harper's Bazaar is a resurrection of Harper's Bazaar 's Junior Bazaar ?
Did you know that some hotels have made a Wi-Fi deauthentication attack on their guests' computers?
Did you know that the mining industry of Togo includes the production of over a million tons of clinker annually?
Did you know that the Kandariya Mahadeva Temple , meaning "the Great God of the Cave", is the largest and most ornate Hindu temple in the medieval temple group at Khajuraho in Madhya Pradesh ?
Did you know that Elizabeth Keawepoʻoʻole Sumner composed the Hawaiian love song Sanoe with Queen Liliuokalani , about a love affair in the Hawaiian royal court ?
Did you know that the Syllabical and Steganographical Table was the first cryptography chart ever made?
Did you know that Holly Blanchard won Miss New Hampshire 2015, in part, with a dance and baton twirling routine?
Did you know that the Brazilian guinea pig makes stacks of grass stems and has areas that it uses as latrines?
Did you know that the footballer Adam Stansfield , who died in 2010, is featured on banknotes local to the English city of Exeter ?
Did you know that General Song Puxuan commanded the elite 54th Group Army during the relief efforts of the 2008 Sichuan earthquake ?
Did you know that " Tracy's Theme " was written for The Philadelphia Story and released under a fictitious name?
Did you know that Abbasid caliph al-Mu'tasim founded the new capital of Samarra to avoid clashes between his foreign troops and the populace of Baghdad ?
Did you know that a species of praying mantis broods its eggs, while another even cares for its young?
Did you know that the Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Award is given out every year on India's Independence Day in honour of the 11th President of India?
Did you know that during the history of the Province of Savona , the capital city and shipping in the port were destroyed several times by Genoa ?
Did you know that Bill Sweek had expected to be kicked off the UCLA basketball team, but Coach John Wooden played him days later when they won their record-setting third straight national championship?
Did you know that the crimson fruitcrow is not a crow nor primarily a fruit-eater?
Did you know that Mary Isenhour contributed to the campaigns of U.S. Senator Bob Casey, Jr. and Pennsylvania Governors Ed Rendell and Tom Wolf , who all won their elections?
Did you know that uses of Trout Run include a hatchery and a water supply for a city and a prison?
Did you know that Grace Eldering , along with Pearl Kendrick , developed the first successful pertussis vaccine and large-scale controlled trial for it?
Did you know that BBC One 's 5-Star Family Reunion involves teams of four alternating between multiple-choice questions and quick-fire questions for four rounds?
Did you know that the first Italian public balloon flight was organized by Count Andreani in Brugherio ?
Did you know that a New Jersey Forest Fire Service firewarden can summon any person aged 18 to 50 to assist in putting out wildfires —and it is against the law to refuse?
Did you know that Salvatore A. Cotillo was the first Italian-American to serve in both houses of the New York State Legislature and as a Justice of the New York Supreme Court ?
Did you know that the Province of Pavia was conquered by the Romans in 220 BCE?
Did you know that Franz Ferdinand 's fourth album Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Action was recorded in studios in Glasgow, London, and Stockholm?
Did you know that Charlotte Hogg is the most senior woman in the Bank of England 's history?
Did you know that Adirondack Railway revived passenger train service between Utica and Lake Placid, New York for the 1980 Winter Olympics ?
Did you know that Derrick Morgan 's " Moon Hop ", later covered by Symarip , was written to commemorate the Apollo Lunar Module ?
Did you know that Miss Oregon Stephenie Steers wore a swimsuit and cap made from recycled bicycle tire inner tubes in the 2011 Miss America Parade?
Did you know that South Carolina Circuit Court judge J.C. Nicholson is the presiding judge for the trial of Dylann Roof , even though he officially retired in 2009?
Did you know that evidence of the first settlement of the Province of Pescara dates to 1500 BCE?
Did you know that the Scottish footballer Colin Hamilton joined Heart of Midlothian as a teenager in 2009, alongside his younger brother Jack ?
Did you know that Freeze Out and Rebound are both summer replacements for The Chase ?
Did you know that in 2000 Ray Marcano became only the second black president of the Society of Professional Journalists in that organization's 91-year history?
Did you know that Lowbridge House on the Lowbridge Estate was built in the cottage orné style?
Did you know that the first edition of Romanian writer Calistrat Hogaș 's collected works was destroyed because it contained too many typos, while nearly all copies of the second burned in a fire?
Did you know that former Saturday Night Live writer Neil Casey has just signed on to play a villainous role in the female-set Ghostbusters ?
Did you know that between 1995 and 1997, revenues from the mining industry of Uganda increased by about 48%?
Did you know that one of goalkeeper Jimmy Whitehouse 's 59 league appearances for Manchester United F.C. (then Newton Heath) was as an inside left ?
Did you know that the partnership between model aircraft company Airtronics and transmitter manufacturer Sanwa helped increase the former's annual profit from less than $1 million in 1983 to $8 million in 1989?
Did you know that the black-chinned siskin is native to the southern tip of South America including Tierra del Fuego and the Falkland Islands ?
Did you know that Jessica Goodman of Entertainment Weekly deemed " High by the Beach " to be Lana Del Rey 's catchiest single yet?
Did you know that Miss Oregon 2014 Rebecca Anderson wore shoes with tiny bicycles atop the laces at the Miss America 2015 "Show Us Your Shoes" parade?
Did you know that radio station WBCM-LP is a working exhibit inside The Birthplace of Country Music Museum?
Did you know that James Robb and Clifford Lingen each scored a horrendous 9 on the 6th hole in the 1906 Amateur Championship at Royal Liverpool Golf Club ?
Did you know that the capital city of the Province of Isernia was destroyed by an earthquake in 874, and its cathedral collapsed in another earthquake in 1805?
Did you know that Yasir Jaswal made his feature film directing debut with 2015's Jalaibee ?
Did you know that the Elisha Atherton Coray Mill on Sutton Creek is listed on the Historic American Buildings Survey ?
Did you know that Sulayman Pasha al-Adil of Acre , who by 1810 was the Ottoman governor of the Sidon and Damascus provinces, presided over the world's last mamluk system?
Did you know that Vine Street has seen erotic asphyxiation , libel charges by Oscar Wilde and a square on the British Monopoly board?
Did you know that Paul Bujor rose from modest beginnings to become a zoology professor, a published fiction author, a member of the Romanian Academy , and president of his country's Senate ?
Did you know that Thomson Plaza is one of the first public buildings in Singapore to be designed with barrier-free features?
Did you know that at age 59, Miao Hua is the youngest full general in the Chinese military?
Did you know that Ed Sheeran composed " One " on a guitar made of a whiskey barrel?
Did you know that the unicoloured , pale-eyed , and chestnut-capped blackbirds are all found in marshy areas of South America?
Did you know that Gerard Shelley defended Rasputin in December 1916 when most people were against him?
Did you know that in one Lady's Magazine article printed in June 1775, a male doctor writes that women with red hair have "generally become the best breeders of the nation"?
Did you know that The Simpsons episode " Treehouse of Horror XXV " features the guest voice of Pixar 's John Ratzenberger as a computer-generated Homer Simpson?
Did you know that the early American minister Francis Doughty had a proclivity for witch-hunting ?
Did you know that a monster was discovered in 1980 in the Great Sandy National Park in Queensland, Australia?
Did you know that Lucio Fulci 's 1979 film Zombi 2 has been released under eleven different titles?
Did you know that The Apparition of Mrs. Veal , attributed to Daniel Defoe , has been called the first modern ghost story ?
Did you know that the demon core killed Manhattan Project scientists Harry Daghlian and Louis Slotin ?
Did you know that when Lawrence Joseph Bader returned from the dead, he ruined his wife's wedding plans?
Did you know that Yusuf al-'Azma 's death confronting the French Army 's push towards Damascus during the Battle of Maysalun made him a national hero in Syria and the Arab world?
Did you know that several varieties of melon soup exist, such as bitter melon soup, cantaloupe soup, and winter melon soup?
Did you know that the English association football referee Scott Duncan officiated a League Two play-off match between Fleetwood Town and York City at Highbury Stadium on 16 May 2014?
Did you know that the lead designer of XCOM: Enemy Unknown called his game "basically a 20-hour tutorial" for the partial conversion mod Long War ?
Did you know that Hebrew University folklore professor Galit Hasan-Rokem claims that Israel street signs exhibit bias against Arabic-speaking residents?
Did you know that there is an oath chapel at the Basque town of Abadiño with twelve stone seats arranged in a semicircle?
Did you know that according to legend, Nathan Waller once killed a bear with just a pine knot?
Did you know that Maikel Kieftenbeld captained FC Groningen to victory in the 2014–15 KNVB Cup Final to win the first major trophy in the club's history?
Did you know that the Llanos long-nosed armadillo typically has quadruplets, all developed from a single zygote ?
Did you know that the supplication of Abu Hamza al-Thumali was recited by Ali ibn Husayn Zayn al-Abidin , the fourth Shia Imam, on every night or dawn of Ramadan ?
Did you know that Ni no Kuni was conceived as a project for Level-5 's tenth anniversary?
Did you know that actress Maria Möller is a classically trained mezzo-soprano and soloist?
Did you know that the Padma Bhushan, India's third highest civilian award, was instituted in 1954, and the "father of the Indian bomb" was one of its first recipients ?
Did you know that during his 2000 campaign for U.S. president , Donald Trump named Oprah Winfrey as his ideal running mate ?
Did you know that Ayrton Senna's victory at the 1986 Spanish Grand Prix was one of the closest ever?
Did you know that contrary to what its interpretive plaque says, the Fireweed Studio log cabin in Yellowknife was never used as a blacksmith 's shop?
Did you know that Montignac is the main centre for visiting Lascaux and other prehistoric sites in the Vézère valley in France?
Did you know that Dutch architect Tonny Zwollo was featured in Life magazine for building 35 schools in Oaxaca , Mexico, and convincing the community members to help build them for free?
Did you know that Rosamind Julius and her husband were the entrepreneurs behind the world's most commercially successful chair?
Did you know that Dana Records switched back from vinyl to shellac for its 78-rpm records because dealers complained their product was too durable?
Did you know that wind turbines in Conca de Barberà help power Catalonia ?
Did you know that Kate Macintosh designed a social housing complex in London that was described as "one of the most remarkable housing developments in the country"?
Did you know that Hettesheimer Run was historically used as an industrial water supply, but is now Class A Wild Trout Waters?
Did you know that the cathedral architect Corinne Bennett 's interest in stone came from her father, a geology professor?
Did you know that the premiere of Aaron Copland 's Connotations , on September 23, 1962, "sent shock waves through the world of music"?
Did you know that although the town clerk, Edward Hart , wrote the Flushing Remonstrance of 1657, no one knows who most inspired its moving appeal for freedom of conscience in colonial New Netherland ?
Did you know that in 1933, accountant and furniture importer Louis Fles wrote an anti-Nazi radio address that was so strident, it was banned by the Dutch government?
Did you know that Ethel Mairet has been called "the mother of English hand-weaving"?
Did you know that the Umaid Bhawan Palace was constructed in 1928 to assist famine-stricken farmers by employing 2,000 to 3,000 people as builders?
Did you know that 95 years after the first documented use of the name " Boile Run " for a tributary of the Susquehanna River , government officials recommended adopting it?
Did you know that Ernst Beyeler , "the greatest art dealer since the war", left a collection worth at least $1.85 billion when he died in 2010?
Did you know that in 1867, United States Army scouts fought a battle with a band of Native Americans on the eastern slope of Crane Mountain in south-central Oregon?
Did you know that although cats have an unprecedented popularity on the internet , no one is entirely sure why?
Did you know that the San Joaquin pocket mouse carries seeds back to its burrow in its cheek pouches?
Did you know that British/Kenyan architect Dorothy Hughes 's most renowned designs include the Cathedral of the Holy Family and a nightclub in the red-light district of Nairobi?
Did you know that the Ukraine–EU Association Agreement will be subjected to a referendum in the Netherlands ?
Did you know that Sigala co-wrote " Good Times " by Ella Eyre ?
Did you know that My Scientology Movie by Louis Theroux re-enacts scenes of alleged abuse in the Church of Scientology's punishment facility, the Hole ?
Did you know that Richard Nixon lived in two houses designed by Eleanore Pettersen ?
Did you know that prior to working on Star Trek , Gene Roddenberry was a combat pilot for the US Army Air Force and an LAPD officer?
Did you know that Haute-Loire was the birthplace of Claude-Jean Allouez , 17th-century missionary and explorer in North America?
Did you know that the music video for Adele 's song " Hello " was the first to be filmed using IMAX cameras?
Did you know that Deborah Saunt was cited as one of "London's top architects" in 2012?
Did you know that an estimated 67,500 South American tern nests containing 112,500 eggs were found on a single 150-yard (140 m) stretch of beach in Argentina?
Did you know that Omar Gonzalez scaled the fence of the White House and was able to intrude into the building , as the doors were unlocked?
Did you know that Henri Gaudier-Brzeska created a portrait bust of his friend Horace Brodzky ?
Did you know that the typical habitat of the Tumbes sparrow is dry scrub, open dry woodland, and semi-desert?
Did you know that Armenian nationalist revolutionary Aram Manukian organized two successful resistances against the Turks in a three-year period?
Did you know that an international jazz festival is held annually in the French town of Souillac ?
Did you know that monks who wanted to live a life of solitude in the 16th-century "desert" hermitages founded by Thomas á Jesu had to apply and meet strict criteria?
Did you know that the counter at the London sushi restaurant The Araki is made from 200-year-old wood donated by musician Ryuichi Sakamoto ?
Did you know that the suspect who was subdued by six men during the train attack heading to Paris was shown on television in handcuffs at trial (prior to conviction), which is illegal in France?
Did you know that after escaping a massacre, painter Vartan Mahokian continued to paint and earned himself a Legion of Honor ?
Did you know that Marathwada did not become part of India until it was liberated on 17 September 1948 , 13 months after Indian independence?
Did you know that Evangelienmotetten – Gospel motets – are settings to music of verses from the New Testament ?
Did you know that Chilly McIntosh , who was nearly assassinated for agreeing to sell Creek tribal lands, later became a respected and influential figure in the Creek Nation?
Did you know that A. R. Rahman worked as a keyboard player under Ilaiyaraaja in Moodu Pani (1980)?
Did you know that the " Dragon Lady " complained that American Architects ran a "gentleman's club"?
Did you know that Hergé was inspired to develop the plot for The Red Sea Sharks after reading a magazine article detailing the continued existence of the slave trade within the Arab world ?
Did you know that Willard Libby was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1960 for his role in the development of radiocarbon dating ?
Did you know that the South American snowy-crowned tern was first described by Audubon from a bird found in New Jersey ?
Did you know that Debra Crew surprised business observers when she became president of the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company only two months after being named president of PepsiCo North America Nutrition?
Did you know that a town councillor in Ermua was kidnapped and murdered by the Basque separatist movement ETA in 1997?
Did you know that María Luisa Dehesa Gómez Farías was the first Latin American woman to graduate with a degree in architecture?
Did you know that Marsh Creek is "tiny", but is one of the major tributaries of Bowman Creek ?
Did you know that Isabelle Eberhardt 's first story, published in 1895, was about a medical student's physical attraction to a woman's corpse?
Did you know that in " Spit & Eggs ", an episode of Veronica Mars , director Rob Thomas used 27 camera angles in a scene that took up to 11 hours to film?
Did you know that Tracy Dahl 's voice has been described as "filled with sunshine, rainbows and laser light"?
Did you know that Villablino in northern Spain has large reserves of bituminous coal ?
Did you know that Georgie Wolton designed the first house in the UK to use CorTen steel as the primary structure?