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Did you know that upon the release of the 1934 Pre-Code film Hitler's Reign of Terror, Film Daily scoffed at the film's prediction that Hitler's Germany was a future threat to world peace?
Did you know that Anita Martinez was the first Mexican American woman to serve on the city council of Dallas, Texas?
Did you know that EastCare is the critical care mobile air and ground transport of Pitt County Memorial Hospital?
Did you know that Ed Beisser won three consecutive AAU basketball national championships from 1946 to 1948 and was selected as an alternate for the United States men's national basketball team?
Did you know that Edward Hasted dismissed the existence of Mary and Eliza Chulkhurst of Biddenden, Kent as "vulgar tradition"?
Did you know that English former professional footballer Jimmy Fletcher became a successful breeder of racing greyhounds and once led a consortium which won £200,000 on a single race?
Did you know that Evangelical mysticism, a branch of Christianity, dates back to the 18th-century works by John Wesley, founder of the Methodist Episcopal Church?
Did you know that Internet service provider Fasthosts, sold for £61.5 million in 2006, was founded by a 17-year-old for a school project?
Did you know that Prince Max Emanuel of Thurn and Taxis' plans to construct a luxury hotel in view of Neuschwanstein Castle caused an uproar from local Bavarian farmers, who believed it would ruin the rural landscape?
Did you know that Reginald Laurence Scoones was the last British military commander in the Sudan Defence Force?
Did you know that Texas A&M historian Walter L. Buenger wrote articles on Texas entrepreneurs H. L. Hunt and Jesse H. Jones?
Did you know that Texas Tech professor emeritus Alwyn Barr, who is white, wrote Black Texans: A History of African Americans in Texas, 1528-1995, and the introduction for Black Cowboys of Texas?
Did you know that a U.S. appeals court declared the federal government was obliged to bring a lawsuit against the state of Maine, claiming 60% of the state's land on behalf of the Passamaquoddy and Penobscot?
Did you know that after the 1880 general election in the United Kingdom, the election of Macclesfield MP David Chadwick was declared void, and his agent convicted of bribery?
Did you know that after the Ottoman invasion of the Balearic islands in 1558, over 3,000 inhabitants were taken as slaves?
Did you know that an elaborate, three-storey tomb memorializing Sir George Shirley inside the Church of St Mary and St Hardulph at Breedon on the Hill, Leicestershire, was constructed 20 years before his death?
Did you know that approximately 8% of commuters in Portland, Oregon, bike to work, the highest proportion of any major United States city?
Did you know that arranger and conductor Peter Matz won a Grammy and an Emmy Award for his work with Barbra Streisand?
Did you know that country music songwriter Bill Rice has 73 awards from ASCAP, more than any other songwriter?
Did you know that in State of Missouri v. State of Iowa in 1849, the U.S. Supreme Court resolved a border dispute between two states that had caused the "Honey War" of 1839?
Did you know that in the 1945 general election, Harold Roberts was one of only three Conservative MPs elected in the English city of Birmingham?
Did you know that in the 1970s, Sunn Classic Pictures specialized in four wall distribution, a practice in which distributors show their films in rented theaters and keep all of the box office revenue?
Did you know that the 1932 Pre-Code film Laughter in Hell drew praise for its open depiction of the lynching of African Americans?
Did you know that the 2010 album Genuine Negro Jig, by an African American string band called the Carolina Chocolate Drops, reached the No. 1 position on the Billboard Bluegrass chart?
Did you know that the American boogie-woogie pianist and singer, Mose Vinson, recorded two versions of "Forty-Four", one retitled "Worry You Off My Mind", and the other as "My Love Has Gone"?
Did you know that the Cold War led nations to subsidise foreign exchange programs to encourage student migration from developing countries?
Did you know that the Greek television series To Nisi, based on the best-selling novel The Island by Victoria Hislop, is one of the most expensive Greek television productions ever made?
Did you know that the Umayyad general Maslamah ibn Abd al-Malik, who led the second Arab siege of Constantinople, was also ascribed the construction of the city's first mosque in popular legend?
Did you know that the battlecruisers of Japan (Haruna pictured) were destroyed by scrapping, air attack, surface engagements, a submarine, and an earthquake?
Did you know that the blind and oval electric rays can barely swim, instead "walking" along the sea floor?
Did you know that the largest lake of Algeria dries up in summer and is replenished in winter by the Djedi River?
Did you know that the name of the Pyana River reflects the drunkenness of the Russian Army during the associated battle in 1377?
Did you know that the only airstrikes carried out by India in its own civilian territory happened during the March 1966 Mizo National Front uprising?
Did you know that when sailors on board Almirante Latorre mutinied, one of their demands was for more sugar?
Did you know that Alexis Rockman's mural Manifest Destiny, commissioned by the Brooklyn Museum in 2002, depicts Brooklyn in the year 5004 after a catastrophic rise in sea level?
Did you know that American historian Terry H. Anderson co-authored with Charles R. Bond, Jr. the first published diary of the exploits of a pilot assigned to General Claire Chennault's World War II Flying Tigers?
Did you know that Anne Brontë's Agnes Grey discusses both issues of the fair treatment of governesses and the ethical claim of animals to human protection?
Did you know that BPP University College of Professional Studies is the United Kingdom's first for-profit institution of higher education?
Did you know that Bach assigned two opposing voices to one singer in his cantata Ich glaube, lieber Herr, hilf meinem Unglauben, BWV 109, for the 21st Sunday after Trinity?
Did you know that British peer Ted Hill lived in a terraced house in Wivenhoe?
Did you know that Dennis Mackrel, the last jazz drummer to be personally hired by Count Basie, is the new director of the Count Basie Orchestra?
Did you know that English vocalist Sarah Brightman had to beg Italian composer Ennio Morricone to let her add lyrics to his movie theme, "Gabriel's Oboe", to create her own song, "Nella Fantasia"?
Did you know that Grafton and West Virginia National Cemeteries are the only two national cemeteries in West Virginia, and both are located in the small city of Grafton?
Did you know that Herb Wiedoeft, Ad and Gay all played Cinderella, and that their brother Rudy and their sister Erica were both players too?
Did you know that Herman G. Felhoelter was the first US Army chaplain to win a valor award in the Korean War for his actions at the Chaplain-Medic massacre?
Did you know that James Turrell's art installations Stuck Red and Stuck Blue create an optical illusion which seems to collapse the room they occupy into a single plane?
Did you know that Pedro Borrell, the Dominican architect of the National Aquarium, is designing a million square meter coastal reclamation project for the Caribbean Sea?
Did you know that Samuel Hannaford designed the Winton Place Methodist Episcopal Church, where his funeral was eventually held?
Did you know that construction of the Phrontisterion of Trapezous, a former Greek school in Trabzon, Turkey, has been described as the most impressive surviving Pontic Greek monument of the city?
Did you know that in 1970, Texas historian Robert A. Calvert co-authored The Dallas Cowboys and the NFL, an inside study of the financing and organization of the popular football team?
Did you know that in May 1944, Sea Hurricanes from the escort carrier HMS Nairana destroyed 10 percent of Germany's Junkers Ju 290 aircraft?
Did you know that in the Expedition of Mostaganem in 1558, Spain failed to capture the Ottoman-held city of Mostaganem, and lost thousands of men?
Did you know that the Araçuaí River valley in Brazil is famous for the settlements established during the gold rush in the early 18th century in the region of Minas Novas?
Did you know that the British Alpine Hannibal Expedition managed to march the 2.6 t elephant Jumbo over the Alps, but could not make her accept the name Hannibella?
Did you know that the Fort des Ayvelles was the scene of German executions of French civilians in both World War I and World War II?
Did you know that the German battleship SMS Grosser Kurfürst was involved in a series of accidents during her service career, including collisions and several groundings?
Did you know that the Naskapi ceded any rights or interests to the Matimekosh Reserve in northern Quebec, Canada, as a prerequisite to the formation of their own reserve?
Did you know that the Saxony Apartment Building in Cincinnati, Ohio, features two facades?
Did you know that the father, mother, and father-in-law of Muhoozi Kainerugaba, Commander of the Special Forces Group in the Uganda People's Defence Force, are all members of the Cabinet of Uganda?
Did you know that the incomplete structural test airframe of the Avro 720 is often claimed to be the prototype of the cancelled interceptor?
Did you know that when St. Louis city officials blocked the expansion of the company that would become known as Burroughs Corporation, Alvan Macauley packed the entire factory into boxcars and sent it overnight to Detroit?
Did you know that American Detroit and electric blues guitarist Willie D. Warren was once described as "one of the Midwest's true blues treasures"?
Did you know that Australian runner Michael Shelley lost his scholarship funding and suffered a broken leg in 2009, but went on to win a silver medal in the marathon at the 2010 Commonwealth Games?
Did you know that Hasan Pasha was the son of Barbarossa, and was three times ruler of the Algiers Regency?
Did you know that Jean Charles Faget, a New Orleans physician, discovered the Faget sign—an important early diagnostic warning sign of yellow fever?
Did you know that Leroy Wright was the first repeat winner of the NCAA Division I men's basketball rebounds title, achieving the feat in 1959 and 1960?
Did you know that Manila's Jai Alai Building, a building designed by Welton Becket, was demolished in 2000 to give way to a building that was never erected?
Did you know that Oneida I, by allowing aboriginal title claimants into federal court, "overturned one hundred forty-three years of American law"?
Did you know that Petter Nome was relieved of his job as television host after protesting the prospect of an Iraq War?
Did you know that Taylor Swift's song "Speak Now" was inspired by one of Swift's friends, whose high school sweetheart married another person?
Did you know that To‘rtko‘l, the former capital of Karakalpakstan, Uzbekistan, was destroyed overnight in 1942 by the Amu Darya river?
Did you know that after battling over who could use the name "Yes", the musicians involved reconciled and released "Lift Me Up", a number-one mainstream rock song about homelessness?
Did you know that during World War II, the 201 Schutzmannschaft Battalion was engaged in anti-partisan operations in Belarus?
Did you know that even though it was disbanded three times, the Australian 30th Battalion fought in the First and Second World Wars?
Did you know that geneticist Piotr Słonimski joined with colleagues to organize support for scientists repressed during 1982–1983, the time of martial law in Poland?
Did you know that historian Chester Dunning spent 12 years researching and writing his nearly 700-page volume, Russia's First Civil War: The Time of Troubles and the Founding of the Romanov Dynasty?
Did you know that in mid-1863, the Eighteen Mile House near Harrison, Ohio, was attacked by Morgan's Raiders?
Did you know that live coverage of Jökulsárlón in Iceland on the American TV program Good Morning America in 2006 was viewed by an estimated 4 million people?
Did you know that ranked Indian badminton players Saina Nehwal, Parupalli Kashyap, and Gurusai Datt all train at Hyderabad's Gopichand Badminton Academy?
Did you know that scientists have suggested that more penes needed to be studied to assess the affinities of Van Gelder's bat with other Antrozoini?
Did you know that the 1933 film She Had to Say Yes was one of a series of movies that drew inspiration from the "real-life compromises working girls made to get and retain employment" during the Great Depression?
Did you know that the 2001 Boshears Skyfest was canceled because of the September 11 terrorist attacks?
Did you know that the Al Wahda Dam is the largest dam in Morocco and was described as "the second most important dam in Africa after the High Aswan dam"?
Did you know that the American electric blues guitarist and singer-songwriter, Rusty Zinn, also recently worked with Sly Dunbar and Boris Gardiner?
Did you know that the Church of St Michael in the Dartmoor town of Princetown is the only church in England to have been built by prisoners of war?
Did you know that the George B. Cox House in Cincinnati, Ohio, was the home of the city's political boss?
Did you know that the Poor Knights Lily resembles a giant toothbrush?
Did you know that the extinct stingray Heliobatis has been found with up to three stings on its tail?
Did you know that the icebreaker Lenin became trapped in the ice of the Laptev Sea in 1937 and was rescued in 1938 by another icebreaker?
Did you know that the modern given name Randal is ultimately derived from a medieval personal name composed of the Germanic elements meaning "shield" (or "rim") and "wolf"?
Did you know that the mushroom Clitopilus byssisedoides, formally described as new to science in 2010, was discovered growing in a German hothouse?
Did you know that three ancient Maya stone heads, including one of an armadillo, were uncovered at Chojolom in the Guatemalan Highlands after a period of heavy rain?
Did you know that "Make It Easy", a Yes song recorded in 1981, went unreleased for ten years but became a mainstream rock hit in 1991 and was retroactively added to their 1983 album 90125?
Did you know that American historian R.J.Q. Adams details the conflicting views of Neville Chamberlain and Winston Churchill in his work British Politics and Foreign Policy in the Age of Appeasement, 1935–1939?
Did you know that Eleanor Gates, who wrote seven Broadway plays, had to leave her second husband when they found out they were not married?
Did you know that Hebraic studies specialist Harris Lenowitz has translated the works of 18th-century Jewish Messiah claimant Jacob Frank from Polish into English?
Did you know that Irene Kosgei, despite injuring her knee at a drinks station early in the women's marathon at the 2010 Commonwealth Games, edged compatriot Irene Mogaka to become the first Kenyan woman to win a Commonwealth marathon title?
Did you know that Jayma Mays will perform her audition song, "Touch-a, Touch-a, Touch-a, Touch Me", for the Rocky Horror tribute episode of Glee and its accompanying extended play?
Did you know that Jocotenango, Guatemala, has a coffee museum, and coffee grown in Alotenango, also located in Sacatepéquez Department, received an international award?
Did you know that Khandita (illustrated) is an enraged heroine in Indian arts, whose lover cheats on her and spends the night with another woman?
Did you know that Lindy, Nebraska, was named for Lucky Lindy?
Did you know that Max Dupain's 1937 photograph Sunbaker was described as "perhaps the most famous and admired photograph in Australia"?
Did you know that Turkey–Morocco relations started as early as the 16th century, with the expansion of the Ottoman Empire into Northern Africa?
Did you know that cricketer Bernard Bosanquet invented the googly after playing a table top game using a tennis ball?
Did you know that during the 1658 Siege of Badajoz between Portugal and Spain, Spanish forces at the garrison of Badajoz were either dressed in rags or nude?
Did you know that ghost hunter Andrew Green claimed to have only ever seen one ghost, that of a fox terrier, in his 60 years of research; and he wasn't even sure about that?
Did you know that in Virginia v. West Virginia in 1911, the Supreme Court of the United States ordered the state of West Virginia to pay one-third of the state of Virginia's pre-Civil War debt?
Did you know that in the 1930s, Domaine Armand Rousseau was one of the first producers to bottle its own wine in Burgundy?
Did you know that relatives of Nava Applebaum, who traveled to Jerusalem for her wedding, attended her funeral instead?
Did you know that the Bay of Kiel was the venue for sailing events at both the 1936 Summer Olympics and the 1972 Summer Olympics?
Did you know that the Duncan family, of Duncan glass fame, built a 17 room Queen Anne mansion that was later donated to Washington & Jefferson College and is now used as the college's President’s House?
Did you know that the Etruscan shrew (pictured on a human thumb) is the smallest known mammal by weight?
Did you know that the Hamburg Historic District was settled by Germans, mostly from Schleswig-Holstein?
Did you know that the Três Marias Dam's power plant is named after Bernard Mascarenhas, who built Marmelos Zero, South America's first major hydroelectric power plant?
Did you know that the extinct paddlefish Paleopsephurus was first described from the Cretaceous Hell Creek Formation?
Did you know that the last remains of Tonbridge Priory were demolished in 1842 to make way for the building of Tonbridge railway station?
Did you know that the strongest aspect of the Canaanite army – its chariots – proved to be its weakness during the biblical battle of Mount Tabor?
Did you know that 100,000 victims of the 2010 Haiti earthquake were buried at the port town of Lafiteau?
Did you know that Amane Gobena is the first Ethiopian runner to win the Osaka Marathon?
Did you know that American electric blues harmonicist Johnny Dyer, on his Rolling Fork Revisited album, did reworkings of songs by another Rolling Fork native, Muddy Waters?
Did you know that American guitarist Frankie Lee Sims is regarded as "one of the great names in post-war Texas country blues"?
Did you know that Johan Falkberget's satirical story Bør Børson was a feuilleton in the newspaper Nidaros before being released as a book?
Did you know that Mary Malcolm, one of the BBC’s first female announcers, was a granddaughter of Victorian actress Lily Langtry, mistress of King Edward VII of England?
Did you know that New Hampshire-born Charles Coffin Harris, who served as cabinet minister and judge in the Kingdom of Hawaii, also had a business selling fern hair?
Did you know that The New York Times provided plans for constructing the wet-folding origami sculpture of a rat created by Eric Joisel, but warned readers that "no lay person should even contemplate the hedgehog"?
Did you know that William Coleman, the first editor of the New York Post, killed an adversary in a duel in 1804?
Did you know that a fall in bus passenger numbers in Hampshire between 1999 and 2001 was partly attributed to the collapse of the Tillingbourne Bus Company (bus pictured)?
Did you know that cars were brought into the Empire Stadium venue to illuminate the last two decathlon events at the 1948 Summer Olympics?
Did you know that in 1960 Odd Grythe hosted the first show after the official opening of Norwegian television, Startskuddet går?
Did you know that many former Nazi rocket scientists were employed in Egypt's rocket program in the 1960s, and were targeted by Israel in Operation Damocles, a campaign of letter bombs, assassinations and abductions?
Did you know that prototypes of the CityCar, the ultra-small urban electric car designed by MIT Media Lab, are being built in Spain to be field tested by mid 2011 in Boston, Singapore, Taiwan and Florence?
Did you know that sales at Sprinkles Cupcakes increased 50% after the store was featured on The Oprah Winfrey Show?
Did you know that the Church of St Mary the Virgin in Tarrant Crawford, Dorset, England, is all that remains of the medieval Tarrant Abbey?
Did you know that the Earth's shadow can be observed during twilight hours?
Did you know that the Innu and Naskapi of the Lac-John Reserve in northern Quebec, Canada, initially lived in poverty without sanitation, electricity, schools, or a medical facility?
Did you know that the Marivagia stellata, a new genus and species of jellyfish, was identified in the summer of 2010?
Did you know that the Useless Parliament withdrew from London to Oxford because of bubonic plague?
Did you know that the Virginia Street Bridge in Reno, Nevada, is also known as the "Bridge of Sighs", as legend has it that new divorcees would toss their wedding rings from the bridge into the Truckee River?
Did you know that the fairy shrimp Branchinecta gaini is the largest freshwater invertebrate in Antarctica?
Did you know that the idea that Lancaut, on the border between England and Wales, may be the site of a medieval leper colony is supported by the unusual number of medicinal herbs found in the churchyard?
Did you know that the incumbent Mayor of Invercargill, Tim Shadbolt, is currently the longest serving mayor in New Zealand?
Did you know that the longhead catshark is the only known cartilaginous fish that normally has both male and female reproductive systems?
Did you know that the mycelium of the mushroom Mycena maculata glows?
Did you know that the venom of the South African spitting scorpion contains the neurotoxins birtoxin and bestoxin?
Did you know that when the West German Senate of Berlin and the East Berlin Magistrat first met as a joint body during German reunification in 1990, it was dubbed the MagiSenat?
Did you know that Calgary's new mayor Naheed Nenshi used social media extensively in his surprise win in the 2010 municipal election, which made him the first Muslim mayor of a major Canadian city?
Did you know that Chinese military texts have influenced strategists ranging from members of the Communist Party of China to former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld?
Did you know that Kim Williams was the longest-running guest commentator on National Public Radio, appearing on the show All Things Considered for over ten and a half years?
Did you know that Scientology spokesperson Jessica Feshbach's father incorporated Dianetics philosophy into his firm's stock market investing?
Did you know that Sir Arthur Bignold, MP for Wick Burghs, was the proprietor of the Achanalt Inn?
Did you know that St Peter's Church in Deene, Northamptonshire contains a monument to the 7th Earl of Cardigan, who led the Charge of the Light Brigade in 1854?
Did you know that Stanley Gordon Orr was the highest-scoring fighter ace of the Royal Navy during the Second World War?
Did you know that Starr's corollary to the Shapley–Folkman lemma was proved by an undergraduate student of Kenneth Arrow?
Did you know that University of Kentucky running back Derrick Locke set the Oklahoma high-school record in the long jump?
Did you know that a hydro dam was built by a state agency within the borders of the Munzur Valley National Park in Turkey, violating the existing laws for its protection?
Did you know that a local resident donated land for and paid part of the construction cost of the Le Roy, New York, post office?
Did you know that all five venues of the 1928 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz were reused as venues when the Winter Olympics returned to the city twenty years later?
Did you know that during two years in the early 1950s American Jim Fuchs won 88 consecutive meets and set four world records in the shot put?
Did you know that historian Brison D. Gooch, who researched the Crimean War, concludes that Great Britain and France practically ignored their ally, the Ottoman Empire, in the two-year fight against Russia?
Did you know that in 1967 the BSA A65 Star helped BSA win a Queens Award to Industry and by 1969 BSA were responsible for 80% of the British motorcycles exported?
Did you know that the Malta Test Station was the site of the first large test stand for static rocket engine tests in the United States?