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Did you know that freedom of religion in Singapore , which is guaranteed by Article 15 of the Constitution of Singapore , may be restricted by a general law relating to public order, public health or morality?
Did you know that the University of Florida 's Lady Gators golf team has won eight SEC team championships, eight SEC individual championships, and sent almost twenty players to the LPGA ?
Did you know that The Indian Stammering Association filed a court petition against the makers of a Bollywood comedy film that portrays people who stammer as objects of ridicule?
Did you know that the pilot episode for South of Nowhere , which is set in a high school , was actually filmed in a prison ?
Did you know that the last Umayyad governor of Khurasan , Nasr ibn Sayyar , hoped to ease resentment among local Muslims by streamlining the province's tax system?
Did you know that the first hybrid electric double-decker to be built was operated in London on route 141 ?
Did you know that Major-General Thomas Marden was knighted for helping to defuse the Chanak Crisis , a confrontation between the British Army and Turkish revolutionaries in 1922?
Did you know that A Jewish Girl in Shanghai , an animated film set in and around the Shanghai Ghetto , has been described as " China ’s first homegrown Jewish film"?
Did you know that Jack Ness had a 49-game baseball hitting streak that stood as a league record until it was broken by Joe DiMaggio ?
Did you know that the United Nations Security Council unanimously adopted Resolution 1574 at the first session held outside its New York City headquarters in 14 years?
Did you know that during one of his campaigns, the troops of Umayyad general Sulayman ibn Hisham suffered so much due to disease and famine that many defected to the Byzantines and converted to Christianity ?
Did you know that the comedic poetry album Tim Key. With a String Quartet. On a Boat. was made available only as a digital download and 1,000 vinyl records ?
Did you know that the Temagami greenstone belt in Ontario was the site of the largest deposit of nearly pure chalcopyrite ever discovered in Canada ?
Did you know that Bill Krieg , Emil Frisk , and Joe Riggert won a combined seven batting titles and are considered to be the best minor league baseball players of their respective eras?
Did you know in January 1944, fighters of No. 73 Wing participated in the two largest raids mounted by the RAAF to that time, attacking targets in New Britain ?
Did you know that with the money his aunt paid him not to attend university, which she considered a den of vice, Thomas Coke travelled to Italy , where the wife of Bonnie Prince Charles fell in love with him?
Did you know that the 19th-century antidisestablishmentarianist politician Sampson Lloyd married the daughter of a general in the Prussian Army ?
Did you know that Queen and Country is an artwork by Steve McQueen which commemorates the deaths of 155 British soldiers as a set of postage stamps?
Did you know that National Labor Relations Board Chief Economist David J. Saposs was accused of being a Communist , and Congress defunded his position and division in October 1940 ?
Did you know that the Commission on Science and Technology for Sustainable Development in the South (COMSATS) began offering Internet access to residents of Gilgit in 1999?
Did you know that Ingeborg Borgerud , former jurist for the Norwegian Confederation of Trade Unions , was lambasted by these unions some years later for a report about working environment?
Did you know that Oscar Wilde liked to stay at the Gilsey House Hotel in New York City ?
Did you know that Christian Steinmetz was the inaugural College Basketball Player of the Year in 1905, despite being only 5 feet 9 inches (1.75 m) tall and weighing 137 pounds (62 kg)?
Did you know that 9th-century Bulgarian first minister Isbul was so rich that he constructed and donated buildings to the monarch Malamir himself?
Did you know that Jake Adelstein was the first American to work as a Japanese language reporter for a Japanese newspaper?
Did you know that before the flight test program of the Sikorsky S-60 flying crane was completed, its successor was already on the drawing board?
Did you know that Harold I. Cammer represented his legal partner, Nathan Witt , before HUAC in 1950 when his former legal partner, Lee Pressman , accused Witt of being a communist ?
Did you know that Pete Cimino once scored 114 points in a high school basketball game and then became a pitcher in Major League Baseball ?
Did you know that the Green Island Light was kept lit day and night during the Peshtigo Fire in a failed attempt to prevent a shipwreck?
Did you know that up until 2010, Vanuatuan passports were still hand-written?
Did you know that Bach wrote in Weimar the opening chorus of his cantata for the First Sunday of Advent Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland, BWV 61 , as a French overture ?
Did you know that for 14 years Moira Hoey played a character on television considered "the quintessential Irish mammy"?
Did you know that physicist Gunnar Nordström 's early death may have been caused by his passion for radioactivity and consequent use of water containing radioactive matter for sauna baths?
Did you know that the Roman Villa Borg in Saarland , Germany, has recently been almost fully reconstructed , a century after its discovery?
Did you know that three crew members were each given 50 "lashes with nine tails " after HMS Whiting was lost on the dangerous Doom Bar ?
Did you know that William Hohri helped fellow Japanese Americans interned during World War II get $20,000 each in compensation from the U.S. government, and then used his share to buy a Japanese-made car?
Did you know that the format of the children's TV show Sesame Street was changed due to the success and popularity of the segment " Elmo's World "?
Did you know that an ancient quarry discovered near Jericho in 2009 by Israeli archaeologists may be depicted on the Byzantine era Madaba Map ?
Did you know that Howard Lester bought Williams-Sonoma in 1976 when it had four stores and sales of US$ 4 million and grew the company to annual sales of US$3.4 billion at 600 stores, including the Pottery Barn chain?
Did you know that when Pennsylvania judge Cathy Bissoon was four years old, her father was stabbed to death near the family's home in Williamsburg, Brooklyn ?
Did you know that Stefano Bernardi composed a Te Deum for 12 choirs for the consecration of the Salzburg Cathedral in 1628?
Did you know that talent agent Martin Baum "packaged" together three of his clients – actor Sidney Poitier , director Ralph Nelson and screenwriter James Poe – who collaborated on the 1963 film Lilies of the Field ?
Did you know that in the 1960s and 1970s, Margrethe Munthe ' s popular children's songs were criticized for being too moralizing?
Did you know that the first woman to serve as a French Cabinet minister was Germaine Poinso-Chapuis in 1947?
Did you know that Dinamo Zagreb footballer Mateo Kovačić became the youngest ever goalscorer in the Prva HNL in November 2010 at the age of 16 years and 198 days?
Did you know that John Mills Houston , a stage actor, was one of 19 men selected to act as President Woodrow Wilson 's honor guard during World War I?
Did you know that French privateer Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville died of yellow fever in Cuba on July 8 , 1706 while organizing an attempt to capture the capital of the Province of Carolina (present-day South Carolina )?
Did you know that because of his birth and marriage to a Russian princess , Duke Alexander Petrovich of Oldenburg was Russia 's candidate to succeed Alexander, Prince of Bulgaria ?
Did you know that members of the segregated US 24th Infantry Regiment claimed that the regiment's achievements at the Battle of Sangju were not recognized due to racism?
Did you know that five of the seven men killed when the St Ives Lifeboat was wrecked in January 1939 were survivors of a previous lifeboat wreck in January 1938 ?
Did you know that although the Black Carts Turret Roman fortification is connected to Hadrian's Wall , it was probably built before the wall itself?
Did you know that No. 71 Wing RAAF was active to the last day of World War II , flying its final mission only hours before news arrived of the Japanese surrender on 15 August 1945?
Did you know that the Balaghat mine operated by MOIL Limited is the deepest underground manganese mine in Asia?
Did you know that Wolfgang Schäfer , who succeeded Helmuth Rilling as professor of choral conducting for the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts , is also part of the musical comedy trio BosArt?
Did you know that the Cambridge Modern History , launched in 1902, went on to cover the history of the world up to 1910?
Did you know that American musician Jennifer Frautschi plays an Antonio Stradivari violin known as the "ex- Cadiz ," dated to 1722?
Did you know that per his request, Ugandan environmentalist Ndyakira Amooti was buried without a coffin, his body wrapped in a palm-leaf mat?
Did you know that Bagyi Aung Soe , now recognized as one of Burma 's most important modern artists , lived in poverty and was considered by some to be mad?
Did you know that The Newsweek Daily Beast Company , a merger of The Daily Beast and Newsweek , plans on redirecting Newsweek.com to The Daily Beast, despite the fact that the former website has higher web traffic?
Did you know that when the former British Member of Parliament Warwick Brookes was declared bankrupt in 1931, he had debts of £50,000 but less than £300 in assets?
Did you know that commando -style forces under Raymond Westerling , a Dutch army captain who led a counter-insurgency offensive in the Indonesian National Revolution , killed at least 5,000 Indonesians?
Did you know that professional baseball player Juan Bernhardt hit the first home run in Seattle Mariners franchise history?
Did you know that, in the late 8th and early 9th centuries, the Maya city of Sacul was one of the few kingdoms in the southeastern Petén region to use its own Emblem Glyph ?
Did you know that Texas State Rep. Edmund Kuempel , while under anesthesia from surgery, hung up on former U.S. President George W. Bush in 2009, not realizing who was on the phone?
Did you know that during World War II , the U.S. Navy planned to equip eighteen squadrons of assault drones with a thousand Interstate TDR and Grumman TBF Avenger aircraft?
Did you know that the openly gay street scene in Mexico City 's Zona Rosa has drawn comparisons with Barrio de Chueca in Madrid and the Castro District in San Francisco ?
Did you know that the Battle of Coral-Balmoral ( 12 May – 6 June 1968) was the largest unit-level action of the Vietnam War fought by the 1st Australian Task Force ?
Did you know that in the aftermath of the unsuccessful January Uprising , Polish insurgent Zygmunt Padlewski was captured and executed by the Russian authorities?
Did you know that the ironclad HNLMS Koning der Nederlanden was the largest ship built for the Royal Netherlands Navy during the 19th century?
Did you know that Guinean socialist politician Barry III was nicknamed "Little Elephant", due to the similarities of his political programme with that of Sékou Touré , whose nickname was "Elephant"?
Did you know that accounts of the maritime history of Orissa say that the ancient ships were driven by steam engines and could travel underwater?
Did you know that Cincinnati 's Nast Trinity United Methodist Church was the first German Methodist Episcopal church in the world?
Did you know that the 2007 home invasion murders in Cheshire, Connecticut , have been called "possibly the most widely publicized crime in the state's history"?
Did you know that Cornell University labor law professor James A. Gross has worked as a labor relations mediator for the National Hockey League and Major League Baseball ?
Did you know that Adenanthos eyrei was formally named after Edward John Eyre , the first explorer known to have visited the only place where this Western Australian shrub has been found?
Did you know that the Harry S. Truman Carrier Strike Group traces its organizational lineage back to Carrier Division Two, which was initially commanded by legendary Fleet Admiral William "Bull" Halsey in 1937?
Did you know that Commonwealth Games boxing gold medallist Simon Vallily was once a football trainee at Middlesbrough Football Club ?
Did you know that episodes of The Jimmy Durante Show ended with Durante's catchphrase, "Good night, Mrs. Calabash, wherever you are!" – a reference to his deceased first wife?
Did you know that pitcher Jouett Meekin threw the first intentional walk in baseball history?
Did you know that Regulus bulgaricus , the only fossil kinglet , is known from a single ulna ?
Did you know that the solo parts of Joseph Haydn 's oratorio Die Schöpfung were performed by Elisabeth Scholl , Daniel Sans and Andreas Pruys in the Basilika of Schloss Johannisberg ?
Did you know that French record producer and executive Michel Esteban , who co-founded ZE Records in New York in 1978, is now the director of a cultural center in Salvador da Bahia , Brazil ?
Did you know that the foundation stones of Armstrong Chapel in Indian Hill, Ohio , are held together by earth rather than mortar ?
Did you know that when Bernard de Nonancourt , a French Resistance member and future head of Laurent-Perrier , uncovered Adolf Hitler 's wine cellar , he found hundreds of cases of 1928 Champagne Salon looted from France ?
Did you know that some counseling sessions of the ex-gay group Homosexuals Anonymous included " desensitizing " naked massages, but led the men being counseled to begin having sexual encounters with each other?
Did you know that in 2007 cashiers at Cencosud 's Santa Isabel supermarkets in Chile were subject to strip searches , and many wore diapers because they had to work nine-hour shifts without bathroom breaks?
Did you know that historian Dan Flores wrote a study of the Red River Expedition , which set out for the American Southwest in 1806 just as Lewis and Clark were returning from the Pacific Northwest ?
Did you know that the Douglas Aircraft Corporation 's Cloudster II , intended for use as an executive transport, was powered by two engines but only had a single propeller ?
Did you know that Tim Smith was named the Atlantic Sun Conference Men's Basketball Player of the Year in his school's first year as a conference member?
Did you know that then-unknown singer Estelle featured on DJ Skitz ' s debut album in 2001?
Did you know that in 1929 the Hudson Motor Car Company ranked third in total U.S. production by targeting budget minded buyers, but introduced the Greater Eight , a premium line of cars, at the height of the Depression ?
Did you know that the creator of Kaboom! 's villainous "Mad Bomber" also programmed a series of Brain Games that have been said to improve memory?
Did you know that Dwayne Schintzius was the oldest player selected in the 2001 NBDL Supplemental Draft at 33 years old?
Did you know that an animation database stores fragments of animations or human movements and can be used to re-assemble new animations?
Did you know that the execution of Witold Pilecki , Polish Righteous among the Nations , was carried out by the Mokotów Prison Staff Sergeant Piotr Śmietański ?
Did you know that the Holyoke Building at the corner of First Avenue and Spring Streets in Downtown Seattle was the first permanent building to be completed after the Great Seattle fire of June 6, 1889?
Did you know that in 1979, the Seattle Mariners team trainer was taking pitcher Byron McLaughlin 's luggage through airport security when he was detained by authorities who discovered a .357 Magnum in his bag?
Did you know that Gabriel Dessauer conducted in Wiesbaden the premiere of Max Reger 's Hebbel Requiem in the organ version of Max Beckschäfer ?
Did you know that Beth Israel Congregation of Chester County , the first American synagogue to hire a woman as senior rabbi , is Conservative ?
Did you know that the Democratic Party of Guinea organ Le Phare de Guinée was closed down in 1949, as no printing press in Guinea dared to print it due to government pressure?
Did you know that British company Wasp Motorcycles produces a special motorcycle sidecar designed for use by paraplegic motorcyclists?
Did you know that among the drawings by Andreas Bloch are caricatures in satirical magazines and illustrations in Fridtjof Nansen 's book on the Fram expedition ?
Did you know that United States lightship WAL 539 was the last lightvessel constructed for the United States Lighthouse Service before it became part of the Coast Guard ?
Did you know that besides the existence of 24 tracks recorded in 1928–29, the life of American classic female blues singer Bessie Tucker remains a mystery?
Did you know that after right-wing , anti-Semite activist Ernst Werner Techow was released from jail he joined the French Foreign Legion and helped save hundreds of Jews during World War II ?
Did you know that actress and chanteuse Raquel Meller attempted to book a deluxe suite for her five Pekingese on a 1926 transatlantic voyage aboard the SS Leviathan ?
Did you know that JFK in Ireland includes an account of a disagreement between John F. Kennedy and Éamon de Valera ?
Did you know that of the four German destroyers of the Type 1934 class, only Z4 Richard Beitzen survived World War II , while Z1 Leberecht Maass and Z3 Max Schulz were sunk in a friendly fire incident and Z2 Georg Thiele was scuttled at Narvik ?
Did you know that the Academy of Dramatic Art in Zagreb celebrates its holiday on 3 May , in memory of the 1995 rocket attack in which its building was hit, killing a student?
Did you know that a Roman road near Pertwood , unusually, was diverted around an ancient tumulus instead of going through it?
Did you know that 500 kilometres (310 mi) separates populations of the shrub Adenanthos oreophilus ?
Did you know that only six of the U.S. Supreme Court 's nine justices participated in a 1950 anti-communist oath case ?
Did you know that John Stanley Booth survived being wounded in the Battle of France and a tour of duty with Bomber Command , only to be killed when the aircraft he was flying struck a landing light ?
Did you know that both the British Royal Navy and German Kriegsmarine were dissatisfied with the results of the Action of 28 January 1945 ?
Did you know that Nomo , Mercker , Milton , Verlander , Lester , Zambrano and Sánchez pitched the latest major league no-hitters for the Dodgers , Braves , Twins , Tigers , Red Sox , Cubs and Giants , respectively?
Did you know that previous winners of Wayne Rooney's Street Striker have won trips to Brazil and South Africa ?
Did you know that unlike all later Winter Olympics , the venues of the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, New York , included separate bobsleigh and luge tracks used for competition?
Did you know that a new fish species of the loach family was caught for the first time in 1993 in the Great Tenasserim River , located near the Burmese town of Tanintharyi ?
Did you know that, by 1900, there were so many Swedes in Omaha, Nebraska , that people started calling the north side of the city "Little Stockholm "?
Did you know that after Armin Maiwald produced an award-winning children's film depicting his own childhood experience in the grim aftermath of WWII in Germany , he said he never wanted to see the film again?
Did you know that after a long career as an educator, David Dwight Baldwin published historic lists of Hawaiian land snails and liverworts ?
Did you know that the Upper Tribunal , which can set precedent and enforce its decisions without intervention from the High Court of England and Wales , is the first UK tribunal with the power of judicial review ?
Did you know that on August 1, 2004, five Christian churches were car-bombed in Iraq within a few minutes of each another?
Did you know that in March 1994, the communist -led Indian People's Front rallied tens of thousands of barefoot, starving workers, some of whom walked more than 100 kilometres (62 mi) to reach the venue ?
Did you know that James II prevented the Loyal Parliament of 1685 from meeting by repeatedly proroguing it between November 1685 and its dissolution in July 1687?
Did you know that Norwegian hardingfele fiddler Arne Bjørndal played in more than 600 weddings and gave more than 1,000 concerts?
Did you know that disputes between rival railway companies during the building of the Cleveland Railway became so intense that they led to a "battle" on the River Tees ?
Did you know that Omar Cook and Will Conroy are the only two players to have been named to the All-NBA Development League Team three times?
Did you know that after suppressing the Albanian Revolt of 1910 , the Ottoman government prohibited publications written in the Albanian alphabet and closed the Albanian schools?
Did you know that previous winners of the Nevada City Classic , the second-oldest bicycle race in the US, include Greg LeMond (1979–81) and Lance Armstrong (2009)?
Did you know that the 1960 congress of the Popular Socialist Youth was the first occasion at which the Cuban motto "Fatherland or Death" was displayed in print?
Did you know that United Nations forces had a decisive logistical advantage in the Battle of Pusan Perimeter in the Korean War , despite having no pre-established plan for fighting there?
Did you know that Bruno Mars will drag a piano through Los Angeles in the music video for " Grenade "?
Did you know that the 1887 Michigan Wolverines football team taught the members of the newly formed Notre Dame team how to play the game of football ?
Did you know that the 2010 Bihar legislative assembly election takes place across six phases and over one month?
Did you know that historian Jean A. Stuntz found that the Spanish legal system in Mexico and Texas gave much greater community property rights to women than were permitted in the original English colonies?
Did you know that in each of the 2001 NBDL and 2006 NBA Development League Expansion drafts , there were four players selected who had previously been chosen in NBA Drafts ?
Did you know that the First-tier Tribunal in the United Kingdom hears cases on such diverse subjects as freedom of information , war pensions and operating licences for gambling companies?
Did you know that the American Livestock Breeds Conservancy was the first United States organization focused on preserving rare breeds of livestock ?
Did you know that St John the Baptist's Church, Avon Dassett , Warwickshire , built in 1868, contains a coffin lid inscribed with the effigy of a 13th-century tonsured deacon ?
Did you know that Film Quarterly called the documentary The Truth According to Wikipedia "a sharp and wide-ranging overview of wiki - pistemology "?
Did you know that Henry Lambert of the Royal Navy fought the 36-gun French privateer Psyché twice in the same year with two different ships, drawing the first battle and winning the second?
Did you know that Master of the Mix is a reality television elimination competition among disk jockeys vying for a US$ 250,000 Smirnoff contract?
Did you know that Brutus Beefcake could not compete at the World Wrestling Federation 's SummerSlam in 1990 after several bones in his face were broken in a parasailing accident?
Did you know that the wings of Icarus in the painting The Lament for Icarus are based on the bird-of-paradise pattern?
Did you know that minister Benjamin Rolfe, his wife and infant child were killed in an August 29 , 1708 raid on Haverhill, Massachusetts , by a French and Indian force during Queen Anne's War ?
Did you know that Bay Rock Light , a lighthouse which originally stood on an islet northwest of Magnetic Island , near Townsville , Queensland , Australia , was relocated in 1992 to the Townsville Maritime Museum?
Did you know that pitcher Fred Klobedanz once led the National League in winning percentage but, according to one analyst, actually deserved to have a losing record ?
Did you know that Charles Ross , who commanded a British Army division during World War I , was the younger brother of a Nobel laureate and the author of five mystery novels ?
Did you know that several peaks of the Andean Cordillera de la Ramada , including the highest, Mercedario , were first climbed by a Polish expedition of 1934?