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Did you know that the architects Maxwell and Tuke designed Blackpool Tower and the even taller (since demolished) New Brighton Tower ?
Did you know that the first African American elected to the Washington State Legislature from King County was Charles Stokes ?
Did you know that in the Battle of Halmyros , the Catalan Company annihilated much of the nobility of Frankish Greece and conquered the Duchy of Athens ?
Did you know that the Detroit Red Wings ' new arena will anchor a $ 650 million redevelopment project in Downtown Detroit ?
Did you know that the Maribojoc Church , with one of the remaining fourteen Spanish-era pipe organs in the Philippines, was destroyed in the 2013 Bohol earthquake ?
Did you know that there are at least 35 sources of acid mine drainage in the Mahanoy Creek watershed?
Did you know that a consultative referendum on whether Ukraine should federalise was held in the Donbass region during the 1994 parliamentary election , twenty years prior to the disputed 2014 status referendums in the same region?
Did you know that after Athena Farrokhzad hosted a show on Sveriges Radio , the Moderate Party 's Gunnar Axén claimed to have thrown out his TV so he could stop paying the license fee (which also supports radio)?
Did you know that The Fifteen Whispered Prayers by Imam Zayn al-Abidin contains different prayers to be recited in accordance with one's present mood?
Did you know that the first European tofu factory was opened outside Paris in 1908 by the Chinese anarchist Li Shizeng ?
Did you know that St George's Church, Southport , has a tall broach spire with two tiers of lucarnes ?
Did you know that the galls of the golden wattle bud-galling wasp can be so heavy that branches break under their weight?
Did you know that Djibouti's flag bearer at the 2008 Summer Olympics was not a competitor?
Did you know that after Gabriel Wells bought a book whose 1,050-jewel binding had required two years to complete, he decided to send it to the U.S. via a passenger on the RMS Titanic ?
Did you know that some users of popular Web sites such as Facebook are being tricked into attacking their own Web browser ?
Did you know that the Swedish film director Anna Odell staged a suicide attempt and psychosis for her film Okänd, kvinna 2009–349701 ?
Did you know that the Indian state of Nagaland 's first member of parliament, S. C. Jamir was elected unopposed?
Did you know that the fashion designer Michael Sherard was employing 40 assistants at the time of the Queen's coronation ?
Did you know that the 18th century merchant Jean Abraham Grill was Sweden's first major drug runner ?
Did you know that communists once had considerable influence in the DMV ?
Did you know that the lizard catshark is considered a " vulnerable species " because trawling is damaging the patches of coral in which it breeds?
Did you know that Wang Ruofei was killed in a plane crash along with three other Chinese Communist Party leaders?
Did you know that Jella Haase won the Bavarian Film Award for Best young actress in 2012 for her roles in Lollipop Monster and Kriegerin ?
Did you know that members of the Demoulas family include a race car driver, a college hockey player, a bar owner, and an Archon Depoutatos ?
Did you know that in his essay The Analytical Language of John Wilkins , Jorge Luis Borges speculated that, "it is not impossible to think of a language where the name of each thing says all the details of its destiny, past and future"?
Did you know that the remains of greater long-tailed shrew tenrecs have been found in a cavern alongside bones of the extinct elephant bird ?
Did you know that in the Bellevue War , Iowa Territory politician Thomas Cox led a posse that killed one of his political rivals?
Did you know that Max Harzof once owned the book that reputedly inspired Herman Melville to write Moby-Dick ?
Did you know that the choir of Holy Trinity Church, Southport , apart from the two cathedrals, is the only choir in the Diocese of Liverpool to regularly sing a full midweek choral evensong ?
Did you know that the development of Mother 3 took place over a decade and spanned four consoles?
Did you know that a scene in the film Azúcar Amarga showing people deliberately infecting themselves with HIV to protest against the Cuban government is based on actual events?
Did you know that " Life Is a Minestrone " was originally released as the lead single from The Original Soundtrack due to 10cc 's reluctance to release " I'm Not in Love "?
Did you know that Martin Scorsese 's first British film, Tomorrow , marks the directorial debut of his long-time script supervisor, Martha Pinson?
Did you know that the Nagcarlan Church was first built from light materials in 1583 under the chaplaincy of Franciscan missionary Tomas de Miranda, who also pioneered the cultivation of wheat in the country?
Did you know that John Calhoun , publisher of the first newspaper in Chicago , was originally apprenticed to be a carpenter in Watertown, New York ?
Did you know that Adolf Ulric Grill of the Swedish Grill family once traded a mounted moose for 60 rare birds?
Did you know that the Carpathian newt sometimes hybridises with the smooth newt ?
Did you know that the tomb of Zu Dashou , a Ming dynasty Chinese general, is in Toronto , Canada?
Did you know that the New England tree frog and the Davies' tree frog are threatened by the introduction of exotic fish, such as trout, into the streams in which they breed?
Did you know that Jean Gordon , the first woman elected to the Yukon Territorial Council , said she decided to run because "I couldn't keep my mouth shut"?
Did you know that parts of Château de Kerjean , damaged during the French Revolution , were dismantled for sale as building material?
Did you know that the Nuwara Eliya Racecourse is the only remaining horse racing track in Sri Lanka ?
Did you know that Vekuii Rukoro "had to fight back tears" when accepting his election as Paramount Chief of the OvaHerero people ?
Did you know that one enters the wine cellar of 5 North St , a Michelin star restaurant, through a trapdoor in the women's bathroom?
Did you know that a pub may have existed at the site of the East India Arms since 1645?
Did you know that some populations of Carbonell's wall lizard inhabit oak woodland, and others sand dunes?
Did you know that Susann Müller was top scorer at the 2013 World Women's Handball Championship , and further elected to the All-Star team of the tournament?
Did you know that the rivalry between Alexander Leith Hay and the Gordon family extended to the British Army , with Leith Hay's 109th Regiment of Foot competing for recruits with the Gordon Highlanders ?
Did you know that Tumalo State Park in central Oregon was created in 1954 to preserve a portion of the Deschutes River where scenic basalt cliffs flank the river?
Did you know that in the 1956 Hindi film Raj Hath (Royal stubbornness) , the prominent actress Madhubala dressed up as a man?
Did you know that Dattatraya Parchure , also called the "second Savarkar ", was initially convicted but later acquitted in the assassination case of Mahatma Gandhi ?
Did you know that the curve-billed thrasher will resort to feeding older fledglings and letting the younger ones starve if food sources are scarce?
Did you know that Rona Fairhead is the preferred candidate for the Chair of the BBC Trust , and if confirmed, would be the first woman to hold that post?
Did you know that an abnormal basal metabolic rate can be caused by both hot and cold environments, or even a fever ?
Did you know that wine sauce may be prepared using a fish velouté base, which is a base for several other sauces as well?
Did you know that the demonic poison frog is critically endangered because its total range is less than 10 square kilometres (4 sq mi) and its habitat is threatened by gold mining?
Did you know that Viktor Pietschmann 's photographs of deportees during the Armenian Genocide of 1915 were unearthed in 2007?
Did you know that the current director of the University of Oklahoma 's Carl Albert Center is also the Mayor of Norman ?
Did you know that September Morn survived the October Revolution , caused widespread controversy in the United States, and was featured on bottle openers, calendars, and candy boxes, but is now in a warehouse?
Did you know that the luxury steam yacht Rover was bought unseen by American business tycoon Howard Hughes in 1933?
Did you know that the 19th-century feminist Henrietta Müller persuaded employers to hire women by "cannily pointing out that this would save money since women were paid less than men"?
Did you know that some retailers did not believe banknotes in the Scenes of Canada series were real money when the series was first circulated?
Did you know that Lieutenant Jenny Lewis, killed in a helicopter crash in 2002 , was believed to be the first female Royal Navy pilot or observer to die on duty?
Did you know that Project Guardian was launched after a survey showed that 90% of incidents of sexual harassment on London's public transport went unreported?
Did you know that in 1899 the eccentric journalist and politician Ture Malmgren started building Tureborg Castle , a faux-medieval castle in Uddevalla , Sweden, inspired by his journeys in the Rhine Valley ?
Did you know that the Spanish town of Almazán was where the lexicographer María Moliner grew up?
Did you know that Tang Yijie , who died in September 2014, spearheaded a project to compile all the known classics about Confucianism ?
Did you know that the small dorcopsis is sometimes preyed on by New Guinea singing dogs ?
Did you know that the Burmese hare is found in traditional rice fields but not in heavily-irrigated intensive rice crops?
Did you know that the Indian filmmaker Balu Mahendra saw the shooting of David Lean 's The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) on a school trip?
Did you know that P. M. Sayeed represented Lakshadweep in the Indian parliament for ten consecutive terms from 1967 to 2004?
Did you know that the Campbell Soup Company devised its cream of broccoli soup to be used both as a soup and as an ingredient in other dishes?
Did you know that Iranian authorities have not disclosed the whereabouts, welfare, or reason for the detention of Washington Post Tehran correspondent Jason Rezaian and his wife?
Did you know that The Finest Hours , currently in production, is a film based on the US Coast Guard 's 1952 rescue of the crews of two oil tankers which had broken apart during a storm?
Did you know that the violinist Mela Tenenbaum recorded in the US works that Dmitri Klebanov had composed for her in Ukraine , including Japanese Silhouettes for soprano, viola d'amore and ensemble?
Did you know that Whychus Creek , a perennial stream that flows through Sisters State Park , has its headwaters in the Three Sisters Wilderness area of Oregon ?
Did you know that the Filipino journalist Betty Go-Belmonte co-founded the newspapers Philippine Daily Inquirer , The Philippine Star , and Pilipino Star Ngayon ?
Did you know that the southern spotted skunk feeds on insects, small mammals and birds, eggs, grain and fruit?
Did you know that the captured British spies Captain Stewart and Captain Trench were pardoned and released by the German Kaiser as a present to the Duke of Brunswick when the duke married the Kaiser's daughter, Victoria Louise ?
Did you know that during rainfall, the desert lizard Phrynocephalus versicolor adopts a bottom-up, head-down stance in order to trickle water towards its mouth?
Did you know that Vincent Hanna, the lead character in both L.A. Takedown and its 1995 remake Heat , was inspired by real-life police officer Chuck Adamson ?
Did you know that Royal Lao Army troops fled 150 km (93 mi) after their defeat at the Battle of Luang Namtha ?
Did you know that baseball player Jacob Hannemann is a cousin of Mufi Hannemann , the former Mayor of Honolulu ?
Did you know that in the book Do You Believe in Magic? The Sense and Nonsense of Alternative Medicine , pediatrician Paul Offit criticizes the use of vitamin C to treat the common cold ?
Did you know that Charles D'Almaine was the first person to make a record using the Stroh violin ?
Did you know that although Dutch Jewish siblings Eva and Abraham Beem tried to hide from the Nazis in the home of a Christian family, Abraham's circumcision gave them away?
Did you know that Romanian Orthodox bishop Nicolae Bălan went from being an Iron Guard supporter to working with his country's new Communist regime in suppressing the Greek-Catholic Church ?
Did you know that the wasp Polistes erythrocephalus acts as a natural pesticide in tobacco plantations in South America?
Did you know that TV Guide referred to Ezri Dax on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine as "Ally McTrill", a reference to the television series Ally McBeal ?
Did you know that Phoumi Nosavan launched the Battle of Lak Sao against United States advice?
Did you know that the ouster of Arthur Demoulas by Arthur Demoulas led to protests by employees and customers of Market Basket ?
Did you know that the only named tributary of Messers Run is called Negro Hollow ?
Did you know that Dareka no Manazashi , the 6-minute 40-second Japanese anime film directed by Makoto Shinkai , was screened alongside his other film, The Garden of Words ?
Did you know that when the Manleluag Spring Protected Landscape was established in 1934, its boundaries were referenced to an alibanbang tree that was 35 cm (14 in) in diameter at the time?
Did you know that Richie Farmer holds records for most points scored in the KHSAA championship game (51), and most ethics violations by a Kentucky executive branch officeholder (42)?
Did you know that the Israel National Council for the Child says that slapping children is neither ethical nor educational, and can be destructive?
Did you know that Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach conducted his Magnificat decades after he composed it, juxtaposed in the concert to his father's Credo ?
Did you know that K'inich Yo'nal Ahk I , ajaw of Piedras Negras , erected many stelae that became prototypes for monuments raised by his successors?
Did you know that the protagonist of Hatred is a mass-killing villain who begins a "genocide crusade" in his hatred of humanity?
Did you know that the Clinton administration abandoned plans to nominate Alicia Munnell to the Federal Reserve Board of Governors following protest by ten Republican Senators ?
Did you know that on the Church of St Teresa of Avila, Birkdale , there is a flèche over the crossing , and a bellcote on the gable of the north transept ?
Did you know that a massive "welcoming ceremony" with fireworks and lion dancers greeted county leader Li Lianyu upon his return from a Communist Party National Congress?
Did you know that after being scorched by wildfires, the blackened branches of the mountain maytenus readily sprout?
Did you know that Fred Wesley Wentworth designed many of the buildings constructed after the devastating 1902 fire in Downtown Paterson, New Jersey ?
Did you know that a dyestuff extracted from the endangered Armenian cochineal was historically used to dye rugs and paint manuscripts and frescoes?
Did you know that Morden station is at one end of a 27.8-kilometre (17.3 mi) long tunnel, the longest on the London Underground ?
Did you know that Confucius said, "I used to judge a person by his appearance and erred in Ziyu "?
Did you know that the English harvest hymn " Come, Ye Thankful People, Come " is also a popular Thanksgiving song in the United States?
Did you know that Gladys Kathleen Parkin obtained a first-class commercial radio operator's license at the age of fifteen?
Did you know that the common click beetle is an agricultural pest and its larvae, known as wireworms, cause damage to crops?
Did you know that Bayume Mohamed Husen served in the German army but died at Sachsenhausen concentration camp ?
Did you know that the John F. Adams House has been described as the "finest late Italianate dwelling still standing in Pawtucket "?
Did you know that Halfdan Ragnarsson was one of the leaders of the Great Heathen Army ?
Did you know that the London Philharmonic Orchestra recorded all of the 205 national anthems used at the medal ceremonies of the 2012 Summer Olympics ?
Did you know that Ming military leader Kong Youde defected to the Manchus , but committed suicide after being outflanked by the Ming army?
Did you know that Camera Obscura 's album Let's Get Out of This Country was recorded in two weeks?
Did you know that the historic Elk Lake Guard Station in Oregon's Deschutes National Forest was converted into a Forest Service information center in 2001?
Did you know that during the beginning of the Italian occupation of Albania , Fashizmi was the sole daily newspaper published in the country?
Did you know that studio potter Carol McNicoll designed costumes for Brian Eno of Roxy Music ?
Did you know that Carl A. Wiley , inventor of synthetic aperture radar , published his concept of solar sails in a pulp mag under a pen name ?
Did you know that endoparasites occupying up to 80% of the abdomen of the social wasp Ropalidia romandi may actually increase their host's life span?
Did you know that Dead Rising: Watchtower , currently in production, is the first digital film to be produced by Legendary Pictures ?
Did you know that Bambolinetta was probably the only duck species to propel itself underwater with its wings, like a penguin ?
Did you know that Christina Stead challenged Finola Moorhead to write a book with no male characters?
Did you know that the plight of the Richmond Sixteen came to the attention of Prime Minister Asquith via a letter thrown out a train window?
Did you know that Keshavlal Dhruv compiled fifteenth century Gujarati poems and published them in 1927?
Did you know that Chinese astronomer Qu Qinyue was sent to work at a coal mine during the Cultural Revolution ?
Did you know that the Eurovision Song Contest 2014 won the International TV Award at the Ondas Awards , in Barcelona?
Did you know that Benguela Province witnessed an influx of many IDPs during the Angolan Civil War ?
Did you know that the Audenried Tunnel , the Catawissa Tunnel , the Green Mountain Tunnel , the Oneida Number One Tunnel , and the Oneida Number Three Tunnel were all built in the Catawissa Creek watershed in the early 1930s?
Did you know that higher-speed rail is actually a lower train speed category than high-speed rail ?
Did you know that Johnny Burnett once had nine hits in a Major League Baseball game ?
Did you know that Francis Arthur Freeth developed ways of purifying TNT during World War I, and came out of retirement to do secret research for British special forces in World War II?
Did you know that Saumarez Homestead contains a thirty-room Edwardian mansion, and has hosted fashion shows and a film festival?
Did you know that in the wasp Metapolybia cingulata , queens and workers look alike and can only be distinguished by dissection?
Did you know that the Castilian raid of Salé resulted in the capture of 3,000 citizens of Salé who were taken as slaves for Seville ?
Did you know that food critic Phyllis Richman was once called "the most feared woman in Washington"?
Did you know that Eystein Olafsson , King of Dublin , was "deceitfully" killed by Halfdan Ragnarsson , King of Jórvík ?
Did you know that the main star of the Theta Coronae Borealis system spins at 393 kilometres (244 mi) per second at its equator?
Did you know that the concrete Robespierre Monument collapsed four days after its erection in Moscow in 1918?
Did you know that Confucius thought so highly of his disciple Nangong Kuo that he gave the student his niece in marriage?
Did you know that reggaeton duo Wisin & Yandel won the Grammy , Latin Grammy , and Lo Nuestro Award for Urban Album of the Year for their album Los Extraterrestres ?
Did you know that the vicinity of Devil Hole Run has been described as "Hell-like" and "sinister"?
Did you know that the American football players inducted into the University of Florida Athletic Hall of Fame as "Gator Greats" include "All-American Waterboy" Tootie Perry , attorney Goldy Goldstein , and halfbacks Red Bethea and Larry Dupree ?
Did you know that acute flaccid myelitis is suspected to be caused by enterovirus 68 , a relative of the polio virus ?
Did you know that the 1861 University Boat Race featured the first non-British competitor in the history of the event?
Did you know that Lem , Poland's first scientific artificial satellite, sees blue stars while Heweliusz , its second, sees red stars ?
Did you know that K'inich Yat Ahk II , the last ruler of Piedras Negras , defeated the rival state of Pomona before his capture by K'inich Tatbu Skull IV of Yaxchilan ?
Did you know that during swarming, Parachartergus fraternus wasps spray venom to mark the new nest site?
Did you know that Connie Dion was the winning goalie during the most lopsided shutout in NHL history?
Did you know that the reverse of the 50,000 Colombian peso note features an image of writer Jorge Isaacs ' house "El Paraiso"?
Did you know that among Confucius ' disciples, Yan Yan was considered the most distinguished in the study of the classics ?
Did you know that Vespula austriaca is an obligate parasite wasp with a large stinger and very curved sting shafts?
Did you know that "the child welfare system failed Phoenix Sinclair "?
Did you know that while a hypothetical coup in South Vietnam was being played in the Sigma II-64 war game , a real coup was staged against General Nguyễn Khánh ?
Did you know that Singaporean swimmer Samantha Yeo was twelve years old when she competed at the 2009 Southeast Asian Games ?
Did you know that after 1832, John Jacob Astor's American Fur Company dominated the fur trade in Montana on the upper Missouri River by using the paddle steamer to transport goods?
Did you know that Candidula spadae , a snail native to Central Italy , is at risk in part because of tourist activities ?
Did you know that every member of the Cambridge crew that won the March 1849 University Boat Race came from Trinity College ?
Did you know that the Sutton Heritage Mosaic , one of the largest examples of wall art in Britain, consists of over 100,000 pieces?
Did you know that asking prices for the poorly received video game Cubic Ninja jumped to as much as $ 500 after it was used for the first Nintendo 3DS homebrew exploit?
Did you know that, when complete, the PandaX dark matter detection experiment will be one hundred times as sensitive as the current most-sensitive detector?
Did you know that the niece of Pat Chan , Singapore's "Golden Girl", is also an international competitive swimmer ?
Did you know that Davis Run is one of two streams in the watershed of Catawissa Creek that has a substantial population of brown trout ?
Did you know that the nests of the South American wasp Protopolybia chartergoides have transparent envelopes?
Did you know that the 1842 University Boat Race was Oxford 's first victory on "London water"?
Did you know that Sakakibara Kenkichi and Yamaoka Tesshū once engaged in a forty-minute sword duel without either striking a single blow?
Did you know that the N1 is Nokia 's first new product since the sale of its mobile phone business to Microsoft ?
Did you know that Mike Conte of the heavy metal band Early Man put "lots of riffage " into the score of Secret Mountain Fort Awesome ?
Did you know that the Maryland Terrapins field hockey team has won a record 56 games in the NCAA tournament ?
Did you know that the extinct ants Azteca alpha carried larvae of the nematode Formicodiplogaster myrmenema ?
Did you know that during the corruption probe into Gu Junshan , investigators located a gold model boat, a gold Mao statue, and crates of luxury liquor in his family compound?
Did you know that although the Seeley G. Mudd Chemistry Building is Vassar College 's youngest completed academic building, it is slated for demolition in 2016?
Did you know that Jack Lumber was the first game published by Sega 's third-party publisher Sega Alliance?
Did you know that following the 2014–15 Big Ten Conference men's basketball season , CBS will broadcast the Big Ten Conference Men's Basketball Tournament for the 18th consecutive year?
Did you know that William E. Bradley, Jr. resigned less than a year after becoming the first President of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics ?