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Did you know that Megan Schutt was the leading wicket-taker during the 2013 Women's Cricket World Cup ?
Did you know that Daddy Yankee 's album Barrio Fino was the best-selling Latin album of the 2000s decade in the United States?
Did you know that competitive eater Furious Pete can wolf down seventeen bananas in 45 seconds?
Did you know that although scientist Min Chiu Li was fired from the National Cancer Institute , his work there led to the first chemotherapy cure of cancer in adults?
Did you know that the Ottoman province of Karli-Eli in western Greece was named after the region's last Christian rulers, Carlo I Tocco or his nephew Carlo II Tocco ?
Did you know that while Elizabeth Stafford 's family was in exile in Geneva in 1556, the Protestant reformer, John Calvin , stood godfather to her youngest brother, John Stafford?
Did you know that the Mezquital Valley produces one-quarter of all green chili peppers grown in Mexico?
Did you know that James Ferraro originally intended to release his 2011 album Far Side Virtual as a set of ringtones ?
Did you know that Chris Remo composed the soundtrack for Thirty Flights of Loving , a video game created to support a crowd funded campaign to revive the Idle Thumbs podcast?
Did you know that five species of threatened sharks , such as the scalloped hammerhead , have come under international protection regarding trading of their fins ?
Did you know that Olympic Bronze medalist, Wimbledon quarterfinalist and Dutch champion Hendrik Timmer coached Princess Juliana of the Netherlands in tennis?
Did you know that the Horse Protection Act of 1970 was designed to eliminate soring , but inspectors still find hundreds of violations each year?
Did you know that Greek journalist Helen Vlachos was placed under house arrest in October 1967 for calling the Minister of the Interior of the junta , Brigadier Stylianos Pattakos , a clown?
Did you know that 2002 , 2006 , and 2010 Paralympic skier Jon Santacana won three gold medals at the 2013 IPC Alpine Skiing World Championships?
Did you know that Gocho described his debut single " Dándole " as a combination of mambo and urban music ?
Did you know that Mats Møller Dæhli won Manchester United 's "Young Player of the Year" award in 2012?
Did you know that the famed Arapian pastourma and soutzouki market in Athens , Greece , operates out of a 15 m 2 (160 sq ft) store?
Did you know that actor Robert O'Reilly based his performances as Gowron in the Star Trek franchise on Edmund from the Shakespeare play King Lear ?
Did you know that pearl diver Isokichi Komine is regarded as one of Rabaul 's oldest pioneers?
Did you know that Lie Kim Hok 's Malajoe Batawi was the first grammar of Batavian Malay ?
Did you know that Meena Kandasamy was the youngest person ever to represent India as a writer-in-residence at the University of Iowa's International Writing Program in 2009?
Did you know that if unfavorable water conditions cause the coral species Acropora palifera to become dissociated from its algal symbionts , it will undergo bleaching and be prone to disease and death?
Did you know that National Football League player Geoff Schwartz didn't start playing football until age 13, because his parents wanted him to study for his Bar Mitzvah ?
Did you know that the namesake of the Helen Way Klingler College of Arts and Sciences at Marquette University anonymously donated $33 million to Marquette despite her lack of formal connection to it?
Did you know that Janala (2009), a Bengali film directed by Buddhadeb Dasgupta won best film at the 54th Asia Pacific Film Festival in 2009?
Did you know that Simeon Magruder Levy was in 1802 the first Jewish graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point ?
Did you know that the Russian submarine AG-22 joined Wrangel's fleet during the Russian Civil War as the Whites evacuated the Crimea in late 1920 and was interned in Bizerte , Tunisia in 1921?
Did you know that the pioneering series of self-portraits by Bauhaus artist Gertrud Arndt have been described as "ranging from severe to absurd to playful"?
Did you know that the government of Pakistan signed the Long March Declaration on 17 January 2013, allowing Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri to help decide upon a caretaker Prime Minister?
Did you know that Armenian historian and professor Dickran Kouymjian was awarded the St. Mesrob Mashtots Medal from Karekin II , the Catholicos of All Armenians ?
Did you know that the National Polytechnical Museum in Sofia holds the only Bulgarian-manufactured Hammond organ ?
Did you know that Spanish LW12 classified para-alpine skier Óscar Espallargas moved to Aran for the 2011–12 ski season?
Did you know that Shu-Park Chan , the founder of International Technological University in Silicon Valley, had earlier tried to start a university in China?
Did you know that the Italian battleship Dante Alighieri , named after the medieval Italian poet , was the only battleship ever named for a poet?
Did you know that Soosan Firooz has been described as Afghanistan's first female rapper?
Did you know that in 1992, Zimbabwe played their first Test cricket match , and were the first team to avoid defeat on their debut since 1877?
Did you know that Fanny Murray , a mistress of John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich , once reputedly ate a £20 note between two slices of bread?
Did you know that approval for a Major League Baseball 1969 expansion franchise in Kansas City was contingent on Sick's Stadium in Seattle being renovated?
Did you know that in Greenland , 1 in every 5 people attempt to commit suicide ?
Did you know that William Allen Whitworth was the first mathematician to publish Bertrand's ballot theorem , one of many misnamed mathematical theorems ?
Did you know that U.C. Raman was the first Scheduled Caste candidate nominated by the Indian Union Muslim League for an unreserved constituency?
Did you know that William Arnott , founder of Arnott's Biscuits Holdings , first took up gold mining for a living but quit when he could not find any gold?
Did you know that land from the Fairfield estate in Somerset, England was sold to build a wind farm but is now the site of the proposed Hinkley Point C nuclear power station ?
Did you know that after Eirik Holmen Johansen was invited for a trial with Manchester City , his brother Tobias was offered a contract with the club?
Did you know that the big bud mite is so tiny that it can be transported by wind, rain or flying insects?
Did you know that the Kejache , a Maya people with a former territory straddling the modern border of Mexico and Guatemala, may have been descended from the inhabitants of the great Maya city of Calakmul ?
Did you know that Stephen Jay Gould once called Donald Prothero "the best punctuated equilibrium researcher on the West Coast"?
Did you know that the albums Somewhere There's a Someone , Dean Martin Sings Songs from The Silencers , The Dean Martin Christmas Album , The Dean Martin TV Show and The Hit Sound of Dean Martin were all released by Dean Martin in 1966?
Did you know that in 1560, Nikolaus Herman published his book of hymns which follow the Gospels of the church year and primarily address children?
Did you know that in 2012, a three-day World Congress of Religions conference was organized by the Institute of World Religions to commemorate the 150th birthday of Swami Vivekananda ?
Did you know that the Bloomsburg and Sullivan Railroad was one of five railroads serving Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania , near the turn of the 20th century?
Did you know that marathon runner Yuki Kawauchi shaved his head as an apology to his fans after a poor performance at the Tokyo Marathon meant he missed the London Olympics ?
Did you know that individual patients, doctors, and organizations are questioning waste in health care in the United States through the Choosing Wisely campaign?
Did you know that Sir John Sackville was an uncle of the English queen Anne Boleyn and a great-uncle of Queen Elizabeth I ?
Did you know that Leeds United banned Galatasaray fans from attending the UEFA Cup semi-final at Elland Road because of the 2000 UEFA Cup semi-final violence‎ ?
Did you know that the company Guide uses computer generated news anchors in its app to turn written news stories into video episodes?
Did you know that Cuban baseball player Michel Abreu had a US$425,000 signing bonus voided when it was discovered that he lied about his age?
Did you know that almost 40,000 Bulgarians were listed as Voynuks in the 16th century Ottoman registers?
Did you know that the Dutch 2013 crime movie De wederopstanding van een klootzak is based on a 2004 graphic novel about Saint Boniface ?
Did you know that because he was born with severe cerebral palsy and had problems typing, Emik Avakian invented a typewriter that operated without the use of hands?
Did you know that Kevin Shields was influenced by " a noise generator " while with The Complex ?
Did you know that at its peak, Chinese merchant George Kwok Bew 's fruit firm handled around six thousand bananas every day?
Did you know that Howard Hille Johnson 's campaign for a state school for the blind in West Virginia led to the establishment of the West Virginia Schools for the Deaf and Blind on March 3, 1870?
Did you know that the Jacksonville neighborhood of Riverside and Avondale is the most architecturally diverse neighborhood in Florida ?
Did you know that in taking the role of Irish detective Jack Taylor , actor Iain Glen pays homage to Jack Nicholson 's character, Jake Gittes from the 1970s film Chinatown ?"
Did you know that " La Reyne le veult " was used incorrectly when granting Royal Assent to the Act of Supremacy 1558 ?
Did you know that two of Lecrae 's albums have been called the most important albums in Christian hip hop ?
Did you know that environmentalist critics have argued that Woody Guthrie 's song " Pittsburgh Town " (1941), recorded by Pete Seeger , was a commentary on the city's pollution problem at the time?
Did you know that prominent sculptor and painter Varaz Samuelian sculpted a statue of the Armenian folkloric legend David of Sassoun in front of the Fresno County Courthouse?
Did you know that the largest single manufactured export from Kenya is canned pineapple , which is due to the presence and operations of Del Monte Kenya ?
Did you know that in August 1810, British thoroughbred racehorse Petronius ran in what was described as "one of the finest races ever run"?
Did you know that the Portrait of Olivia Boteler Porter was identified as being by 17th-century painter Anthony van Dyck after a photo of it was discovered on a website?
Did you know that the Star of Caledonia is designed to be lit up by using light emitting diodes ?
Did you know that during the filming of the Star Trek: Enterprise episode " First Flight ", the cast and crew were presented with a flag from the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise (CVN-65) ?
Did you know that Buddy Brown was a member of the College Football All-America Team and won the Jacobs Blocking Trophy as a player for Alabama in 1973 ?
Did you know that Intef I , Intef II and Intef III were all buried in saff (row) tombs in El-Tarif in Egypt ?
Did you know that the engine of the Russian ship of the line Retvizan was removed in 1863 even though it was considered the best ship of its type in the Imperial Russian Navy ?
Did you know that Haseeb Ahsan selected Wasim Akram for the first time against New Zealand in 1984?
Did you know that Nicole Scherzinger 's song " Boomerang " is about "not letting the haters keep you down"?
Did you know that Captain James Carroll brought the first large steamboat to Alaska ?
Did you know that because of the possibility of dead heats , the number of possible outcomes of a horse race is not a factorial , but an ordered Bell number ?
Did you know that the majority of local councils of the Boy Scouts of America have gone through thousands of name changes, merges, splits and re-creations since the establishment of the organization in 1910?
Did you know that Dalen Hotel in Dalen , Telemark , Norway is among the best preserved wooden hotels from the 19th century?
Did you know that " Whatever It Takes " was the first song to be written for Leona Lewis ' debut studio album, Spirit ?
Did you know that James M. Geraghty served as Spokane, Washington 's City Attorney during the first decade of the 20th century, while his grandson, Jack Geraghty , was Mayor of the city during the last decade?
Did you know that in Ontario , most catastrophic injuries in fishing and canoeing involve drowning and are fatal?
Did you know that the Chatter ring has been played with by Tim Shadbolt , the Mayor of Invercargill ?
Did you know that the entire production team of Andrew Davies ' 1995 serial Pride and Prejudice followed him when he began adapting the TV serial Emma for ITV ?
Did you know that a stage adaptation of Kwee Tek Hoay 's novel The Rose of Cikembang was made before he even finished writing it?
Did you know that Nepalese politician and conservationist Harka Gurung was honoured with a memorial football tournament after his death in a helicopter crash?
Did you know that the Russian ship of the line Konstantin was deployed to Denmark during the First Schleswig War of 1848–50 to help preserve Denmark's territorial integrity against Prussia ?
Did you know that Robert Silverberg 's short story " Good News from the Vatican " features the election of a robot to the position of Pope of the Catholic Church ?
Did you know that in 1999, winemaker Daniel Baron persuaded Cabernet Sauvignon producers Silver Oak Cellars to establish Twomey Cellars , to pursue Merlot production?
Did you know that after a common career span of 27 years, Madhuri Dixit and Juhi Chawla are costarring for the first time in the upcoming film Gulaab Gang ?
Did you know that New Zealander Leo McKendry was both the last Mayor of Blenheim and the first Mayor of Marlborough ?
Did you know that in the 1930s, the discoverers of cerevisterol purified 10 grams (0.35 oz) from 4,500 kilograms (9,900 lb) of dry yeast?
Did you know that Australian cricketer Stan Sismey , who was wounded in action as a pilot during World War II , once left the field of play during a game because shrapnel was working its way out of his body?
Did you know that Fingle Bridge , in a deep Dartmoor gorge, is built on the historic crossing point between the hillforts of Prestonbury Castle and Cranbrook Castle ?
Did you know that the Iraqi government issued an arrest warrant for Wathiq al-Battat, the head of a new Shi'a Iraqi militia group called the Mukhtar Army ?
Did you know that the male spiny lobster katydid was described for the first time in 2003?
Did you know that Newry City AFC was launched by the Northern Ireland manager after the winding-up of the former club ?
Did you know that Armenian American inventor Oscar H. Banker is considered the "father of the automatic transmission "?
Did you know that Alacahisar, the Turkish name of Kruševac , means "colorful town"?
Did you know that at the age of 11, footballer Corkie Blow was awarded the bronze medal of the Royal Humane Society for saving the life of a younger child?
Did you know that Giedroyc Doctrine , developed by émigré publicist Jerzy Giedroyc in 1970s, shaped the eastern policy of Poland after 1989?
Did you know that French-born Cuban botanist and priest Brother León completed only two of the five volumes of the Flora of Cuba before failing eyesight forced him to pass the work on to others?
Did you know that the Holocron is a database of the Star Wars Expanded Universe and Star Wars canon , including its characters , creatures , languages , locations, vehicles , and weapons ?
Did you know that Birendra Nath Datta is an Indian folklore researcher, who received Padma Shri , the fourth highest civilian award of the country in 2009?
Did you know that despite his hectic schedule, Chen Hanwei agreed to act in Ghost Child – for a plate of "cheap chicken rice "?
Did you know that after several decades, U.S. Air Force pilot Ray Melikian reunited with the aircraft he flew in World War II ?
Did you know that the destination of the first commercial flight in the Northern Territory by Qantas was Austral Downs ?
Did you know that Sarkese ruler William Frederick Collings made his disabled heiress climb cliffs and hunt, and sent her a consolation telegram to say he was sorry her firstborn was a girl?
Did you know that the centre piece of Battalion Park , at west Calgary , is 16,000 large whitewashed stones, arranged on a hill slope representing the battalions numbered 137, 113, 151, and 51?
Did you know that the Maryland Food Collective , founded in 1975 at the University of Maryland , operates under the motto "Food for people, not for profit"?
Did you know that after a 42-year career documenting the neighborhoods and buildings of Jerusalem , architectural historian and popular author David Kroyanker moved to Tel Aviv ?
Did you know that Miami Hurricanes point guard Shane Larkin , the son of Barry Larkin , quit baseball after a Little League coach told him the tutoring he had received from Tony Pérez and Pete Rose was "all wrong"?
Did you know that in the Bengali film Ami Aadu , a poor Indian village girl writes a letter to US President George W. Bush informing him about the troubles of her life caused by the 2003 invasion of Iraq ?
Did you know that Jon Challinor 's first victory in a Conference play-off final came in 2012 , after he appeared in finals in 2004 , 2007 , and 2009 ?
Did you know that George Gershwin worked as an extra in the Yiddish Theater District , and Walter Matthau worked as a cashier?
Did you know that during the Paris Peace Conference after World War I, Emmanuel de Martonne helped make changes to borders in Romania and the Balkans ?
Did you know that the wreck of the Italian battleship Leonardo da Vinci was salvaged upside down and repaired in drydock that way?
Did you know that the Initiative Council headed by mathematician Eshref Ademaj played a pivotal role in the early restoration of universitarian education in Kosovo in the early 1990s?
Did you know that gold miner Louis Ah Mouy built the very first houses in South Melbourne and Williamstown ?
Did you know that the genus Bactris , believed to have evolved 26 to 36 million years ago in South America , is one of the six palm genera found to show the highest speciation rates?
Did you know that Bhatt Mathuranath Shastri pioneered several new genres in Sanskrit literature by writing radio plays , essays, travelogues, short stories, Ghazals , Thumris , Dadras and Dhrupads in Sanskrit ?
Did you know that Sir Robert Drury was among the first to support Mary Tudor 's claim to the throne in July 1553?
Did you know that Julian Assange did not participate in the filming of Alex Gibney 's 2013 film We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks , and tweeted a denouncement of the film without seeing it?
Did you know that beetles act as an intermediate host to complete the life cycle of the worm Raillietina cesticillus , a parasite that infests the intestines of chickens?
Did you know that Norwegian female academic pioneers from the 19th century included Dagny Bang , Kristine Munch , Louise Isachsen , Helga Eng and Rikke Nissen ?
Did you know that Tultepec , Mexico, the host of the country's National Pyrotechnic Festival , produces around half of the nation's fireworks with sixty percent of the town's population involved in the business?
Did you know that Armenian historian Barlow Der Mugrdechian was instrumental in the establishment of a student exchange program between California State University, Fresno and Yerevan State University ?
Did you know that the first Wimbledon Championship in 1877 was won by Spencer Gore and made a profit of £10?
Did you know that the 1940 cartoon Ants in the Plants , about an ant colony that defends itself against an anteater , was called a war allegory that possibly referred to France's Maginot Line ?
Did you know that the Peach Palm is being tested as a replacement to supply hearts of palm previously harvested from the Fiji Sago Palm , which became a threatened species due to Fiji 's tourist industry?
Did you know that J. W. Bhore , chairman of the Health Survey and Development Committee, better known as the Bhore Committee , was an ICS officer who had served as the Diwan of Cochin ?
Did you know that the 1987 novel The Firebrand , written by American author Marion Zimmer Bradley , depicts the Trojan War from the perspective of the prophet Kassandra , daughter of King Priam ?
Did you know that Armenian composer Krikor Kalfayan is the author of over 150 musical compositions?
Did you know that the Sixth Street Bridge is the longest and oldest metal truss bridge in Michigan?
Did you know that suffragist Carrie Chapman Catt told guests she bought Juniper Ledge , her house near Briarcliff Manor, New York , to keep its berries from being made into gin ?
Did you know that slave Austin Dabney was the only African American granted land by the Southern state of Georgia for his military service in the American Revolutionary War ?
Did you know that due to quicksand , passengers on the new London and Birmingham Railway detrained for over five months at Denbigh Hall station to continue their journey by stagecoach ?
Did you know that Saeed Abedini , an Iranian American Christian pastor, was sentenced to eight years in prison in Iran on charges of undermining national security?
Did you know that in 1976, U.S. President Gerald Ford tried to prevent Major League Baseball from awarding an expansion franchise to Toronto ?
Did you know that there are over 1000 ancient monuments on the Carneddau and Glyderau mountain ranges in North Wales?
Did you know that basketball executive Jim Buss of the Los Angeles Lakers attended jockey school even though he stood 6 feet 2 inches (1.88 m)?
Did you know that Lada St. Edmund , a go-go dancer on the 1960s American television show Hullabaloo , later became the highest-paid stuntwoman in Hollywood history?
Did you know that welfare in Poland is covered by the constitution of Poland , which contains an article dedicated to social security as a right of all citizens?
Did you know that Lytle Park in Cincinnati , Ohio was the first park to be located above a freeway?
Did you know that Joseph Merk , principal cellist at the Vienna Court Opera, helped to bring Beethoven's Triple Concerto out of obscurity?
Did you know that the Michigan Wolverines women's basketball team is currently coached by Kim Barnes Arico , a former two-time Big East Coach of the Year?
Did you know that the accident of a Congolese aircraft in March 2013 involved no fatalities on the ground, despite crashing in the middle of a city?
Did you know that when the British authorities attempted to deport Jewish refugees in Palestine to Mauritius aboard the SS Patria in 1940, the paramilitary organization Haganah sank the ship with a bomb?
Did you know that in Juliet H. Lewis Campbell 's novel Eros and Antieros the hero raises and marries the daughter of his unrequited love?
Did you know that Savi's pipistrelle emits echolocation calls in synchrony with its wing beats?
Did you know that cricketer Matt Prior once accidentally smashed a window in the Lord's Pavilion ?
Did you know that the first location of the Sky Zone chain of trampoline parks was originally intended as an arena for a professional sport involving trampolines and rotating goals?
Did you know that Martha Hackett appeared in thirteen episodes of Star Trek: Voyager as Seska , including two after her character died on screen?
Did you know that Sir William Drury 's name appears in the Ellesmere manuscript of Chaucer 's Canterbury Tales ?
Did you know that the Hope City technology park being built in Ghana is expected to include Africa's tallest building ?
Did you know that Maria Ozawa had to film Kidnapping Miyabi in Japan following protests preventing her from coming to Indonesia?
Did you know that the publication of Daniel Defoe 's political pamphlet The Shortest Way with the Dissenters led to his arrest on the charge of seditious libel ?
Did you know that Kate Nash paid for her 2013 album Girl Talk through crowd funding ?
Did you know that Pope Anastasius II was sent to the sixth circle of hell as a result of mistaken identity?
Did you know that in 2009 , Tiger Woods set the course record at Nova Scotia 's Fox Harb'r ?