Did you know? Facts from Wikipedia, 2009

text: Did you know that Lorene Rogers was described as the first woman to serve as head of a public university in the United States when she became president of the University of Texas at Austin in 1974?
text: Did you know that Anacletus II is regarded as an antipope although he had received the majority of the votes in the Papal election of 1130 ?
text: Did you know that economist John Kenneth Galbraith called The Go-Go Years , a book by John Brooks about Wall Street 's speculative bubble in the 1960s, "a small classic in the history of financial insanity"?
text: Did you know that during the Angolan Civil War , the surrounding area of Luanda 's Palácio de Ferro , believed to be designed by Gustave Eiffel , was once used as a parking lot ?
text: Did you know that ice hockey referee Marcus Vinnerborg has officiated two Ice Hockey World Championship finals in row?
text: Did you know that historian P. T. Srinivasa Iyengar believed that Kanchipuram was the southernmost outpost of Sanskrit culture during the pre- Pallava period?
text: Did you know that female impersonator T. C. Jones played murderous transvestites in both a 1965 episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents and a 1967 episode of The Wild Wild West ?
text: Did you know that the Imperial Japanese Navy destroyer Kamikaze was one of the few larger Japanese warships to survive the Pacific War without significant damage?
text: Did you know that Robert Dallek researched JFK for five years by tapping National Security Archives , oral histories , White House tapes, and medical records to write An Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy, 1917-1963 ?
text: Did you know that in December 1955, India became the first country outside the Eastern bloc to establish diplomatic relations with Mongolia ?
text: Did you know that results from the JUPITER trial indicated that rosuvastatin may lower the relative risk of heart attacks and stroke in patients with normal cholesterol levels?
text: Did you know that New Zealand Transport Minister Steven Joyce started radio station Energy FM with a group of friends?
text: Did you know that the remnants of 2005's Tropical Depression Ten partially contributed to the formation of Hurricane Katrina ?
text: Did you know that Fred Shaw Mayer was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire for breeding Birds of Paradise ?
text: Did you know that Johann Phillip Fabricius , a German Christian missionary , completed the first translation of the Bible to Tamil ?
text: Did you know that Malay monarchs lost their legal immunity after a series of amendments was made to the Constitution of Malaysia in 1993?
text: Did you know that American writer Howard Norman stated there was a shorter distance between his unconscious life and his conscious life in Nova Scotia than anywhere else?
text: Did you know that the effects of Hurricane Ivan in Jamaica proved among the most severe in the island's history?
text: Did you know that Halle Jørn Hanssen was Norway 's first television correspondent stationed in an African country?
text: Did you know that radio stations WMFC and WMFC-FM originally broadcast from a Quonset hut in the heart of Monroeville, Alabama ?
text: Did you know that Andrew Ritchie named his Brompton folding bicycle company after the Church of the Immaculate Heart of Mary ?
text: Did you know that Itek Corporation was formed to build image retrieval systems, but instead became a reconnaissance camera vendor after winning the contract for the CIA's CORONA satellite?
text: Did you know that British poisoner Frederick Seddon made a secret Masonic signal to his trial judge, prominent Freemason Thomas Townsend Bucknill , in an attempt to overturn the jury's guilty verdict?
text: Did you know that The Hunters of Kentucky , which commemorated the Battle of New Orleans , was used as Andrew Jackson 's 1828 campaign song?
text: Did you know that Russian ski jumper Arthur Khamidulin retired after his violent crash in ski flying in Vikersund in 2000?
text: Did you know that the Bradley Airport Connector , a freeway in the U.S. state of Connecticut , was renamed the "82nd Airborne Memorial Highway" in 1999 to honor the 82nd Airborne Division ?
text: Did you know that Sri Ponna , the classical Kannada language poet of c. 950, is considered one of the "three gems of Kannada literature ?
text: Did you know that the specific name of mushroom Lactarius theiogalus comes from the Greek for " brimstone " and " milk "?
text: Did you know that World Sculling Champion oarsman Joseph Sadler was a chimneysweep by profession?
text: Did you know that Isaac Albéniz 's opera Pepita Jiménez has been adapted several times by numerous people into different constructs and languages?
text: Did you know that Pernessa C. Seele , the founder of the Harlem Week of Prayer for Healing of AIDS, is an immunologist and one of Time magazine's Top 100 Americans in 2006?
text: Did you know that St. Mary's Islands, Karnataka , known for the distinctive geological formation of columnar basaltic lava, are a set of four small islands in the Arabian Sea off the coast of Malpe ?
text: Did you know that Ratchanya Yatreegam , magnum opus of Indian poet Henry Alfred Krishnapillai written in Tamil , was based on John Bunyan 's The Pilgrim's Progress ?
text: Did you know that no one knows the age of the Greaser Petroglyphs located in eastern Lake County , Oregon , USA , but they could be up to 12,000 years old?
text: Did you know that Vilhelm Andreas Wexelsen , who had two tenures as Norwegian Minister of Education and Church Affairs, became a bishop after his political career?
text: Did you know that in Tanta , Egypt , some restaurants sell an "al-Tourbini sandwich", named after a serial child killer ?
text: Did you know that the Kay Moor coal mine near Fayetteville, West Virginia , was first worked with mule-drawn railcars?
text: Did you know that Michael Christian Festing was Thomas Arne 's mentor and it is through his influence that Arne was able to pursue a music career?
text: Did you know that Guyana's sugar production was halved between 1978 and 1988 due to the economic decline of the nation during the 1980s?
text: Did you know that Balanadarajah Iyer was the second Sri Lankan journalist to be assassinated in 2004?
text: Did you know that although composed in late 1812, the popular Canadian War of 1812 song The Bold Canadian was not published until 1907, and not fully until 1927?
text: Did you know that the noted medieval Telugu-language writer and poet Palkuriki Somanatha wrote important classics in Kannada and Sanskrit as well?
text: Did you know that the Beverly Hilton Hotel has hosted the Golden Globe Awards since 1961?
text: Did you know that Trailanga Swami , an Indian yogi , is reputed to have lived nearly 300 years and reportedly "read people’s minds like books"?
text: Did you know that the Hawthorn Farm rail station in Hillsboro, Oregon , has a piece of art that indicates the wind's direction by using lights and sounds?
text: Did you know that both Charles Langbridge Morgan , a civil engineer, and his son Charles Langbridge Morgan , a playwright and novelist, served in the British Armed Forces during the First World War ?
text: Did you know that although Katharine Hepburn wrote most of the filmed script for Travels with My Aunt , she was denied screen credit because she was not a member of the Screen Writers Guild ?
text: Did you know that the village of Worsley is centred around the coal mines that helped kickstart the industrial revolution in nearby Manchester ?
text: Did you know that New York Road Runners CEO Mary Wittenberg was the first female director of a major international marathon?
text: Did you know that Sega changed a dainty, big-eyed female character into a Vallejo -like golden bikini -clad female barbarian, to market the video game Alisia Dragoon to the Western market?
text: Did you know that the first container ship arrived in the Port of Tokyo 's Shinagawa terminal in 1967?
text: Did you know that Haskel Lookstein , who succeeded his father Joseph Lookstein as Rabbi of New York City 's Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun in 1979, was Newsweek magazine's second-ranked U.S. pulpit rabbi in 2008?
text: Did you know that around 80 percent of El Salvador 's forests are associated with shade coffee plantations ?
text: Did you know that after serving as a Union Army general during the American Civil War , Joseph Alexander Cooper was enlisted to suppress Ku Klux Klan disturbances in Tennessee ?
text: Did you know that The Beatles appeared ten times on the BBC Radio programme Saturday Club in the early 1960s?
text: Did you know that University of Pennsylvania track coach Ken Doherty removed Bruce Dern from the track team in 1957 after his Elvis -like sideburns caused a commotion while running the two-mile relay ?
text: Did you know that a split in India 's Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam party in 1988 resulted in a split in the Congress party in Tamil Nadu , leading to the birth of the new party Thamizhaga Munnetra Munnani ?
text: Did you know that the Diamond darter , discovered in 2008, lives only in the Elk River of West Virginia , USA ?
text: Did you know that the invitations to the inauguration of Barack Obama were produced in an environmentally friendly manner by companies certified by the Forest Stewardship Council ?
text: Did you know that George Goschen, 2nd Viscount Goschen was the acting Viceroy of India from June 1929 to April 1931?
text: Did you know that Chicago 's Fountain of Time by Lorado Taft is considered the earliest outdoor concrete sculpture?
text: Did you know that when Jean-Jacques Démafouth , in exile from the Central African Republic , agreed to lead the APRD rebel group in March 2008, he stipulated they must negotiate a peace deal?
text: Did you know that controversy erupted when Virginia Tech was selected to play in the 2002 Gator Bowl college football game instead of Syracuse , which had more wins in the regular season ?
text: Did you know that Corethrellidae , a family of parasitic midges belonging to the same order as the common housefly , have been found to spread the disease -causing protozoan Trypanosoma among their host frog populations?
text: Did you know that designer Shigeo Fukuda 's poster "Victory 1945" of a projectile heading straight at the opening of a cannon barrel was described as a "bitingly satirical commentary on the senselessness of war"?
text: Did you know that President George W. Bush appointed three Cabinet members who had been born outside of the United States , the most of any U.S. president?
text: Did you know that Château de Cayx is a royal residence of the Danish monarch in France ?
text: Did you know that Holly Coors , wife of beer magnate Joseph Coors , stated while planning to run for Governor of Colorado that the way to help women was "not the Equal Rights Amendment but through free enterprise "?
text: Did you know that Typhoon Wayne , which roamed the South China Sea and Formosa Strait for over three weeks in 1986, remains the longest lived tropical cyclone on record in the western Pacific Ocean ?
text: Did you know that in May 1776, the future Chaldean Patriarch Yohannan Hormizd was consecrated metropolitan bishop with right of succession at the age of 16 by his uncle, Patriarch Mar Eliya XII Denkha?
text: Did you know that Star Trek: Countdown , a comic book prequel to the 2009 film Star Trek , is also a sequel to the 2002 film Star Trek Nemesis ?
text: Did you know that Barashnûm is a Zoroastrian purification ritual in which a "defiled" person is confined to a corner of the house called Armêsht-gah for a period of nine nights?
text: Did you know that Count Hans von Schack of South Jutland was given Schackenborg Castle as a token of Frederick III of Denmark 's gratitude for his military achievements in the Northern Wars ?
text: Did you know that Providence Newberg Medical Center in Oregon was the first hospital in the United States to earn a Gold LEED certification ?
text: Did you know that child actor Asa Butterfield appeared on the cover of Patrick Skene Catling's autobiography Better Than Working ?
text: Did you know that after surviving 1945's Battle of Manila , the Avenue Theater along Rizal Avenue was demolished in 2006 in order to turn it into a parking lot?
text: Did you know that rapper T.I. is starring in T.I.'s Road To Redemption , an upcoming reality television show?
text: Did you know that the legend of Sumbha and Nisumbha , demons from Hindu mythology , is used as a warning against the dangers of seduction in Shashi Tharoor 's novel The Great Indian Novel ?
text: Did you know that Major League Baseball manager Billy Martin served five separate terms as manager of the New York Yankees ?
text: Did you know that Captain John Maitland's decisive quashing of an attempted mutiny was termed 'Doctor Maitland's recipe' by Admiral John Jervis ?
text: Did you know that ever since the Griffin v. California case in the U.S. Supreme Court , judges and prosecutors are forbidden from mentioning that a defendant has refused to testify?
text: Did you know that Al-Maquar , which contains the royal residence of Jordan , was built on the camp-site for the armies of the Arab Revolt , who captured Amman in 1918?
text: Did you know that Marcia P. Sward , who created the children's environmental education program GreenKids , started her career as a mathematician ?
text: Did you know that because of differences in the demands for a separate nation called Dravida Nadu , India 's DMK party split in 1962 and a short-lived Tamil National Party was formed?
text: Did you know that Alexander Ross was Engineer-in-Chief of the Breydon Viaduct ?
text: Did you know that there was public outcry when the Sea Alarm —formerly one of Britain's WWII Empire ships —was scrapped after the closure of the Welsh Industrial and Maritime Museum ?
text: Did you know that in the World Wrestling Federation in the 1980s, Frenchy Martin accompanied Dino Bravo to the ring with a sign that read "USA is not OK"?
text: Did you know that in Maya mythology, wayob were the powerful spirit forms of lords, priests and gods?
text: Did you know that during the Battle of Tipton's Island , Colonel Tipton punished a talkative soldier under his command by tying him to a tree ?
text: Did you know that Nijaguna Shivayogi , a petty chieftain in 15th-century Karnataka , India, was a visionary writer and poet in the Kannada language ?
text: Did you know that tab shows —cut-down versions of Broadway and other musicals , with portable scenery—often shared the bill with early 20th-century vaudeville and burlesque shows in the USA?
text: Did you know that Captain Charles Powell Hamilton was present at both the loss of HMS Alexander in the Action of 6 November 1794 , and her recapture at the Battle of Groix ?
text: Did you know that Filipinos are expected to become the second-largest group of foreign workers in Qatar by the end of 2009?
text: Did you know that New York City 's Ramaz School , with 1,100 students in 2007, was named for Rabbi Moses Margolies and founded by his grandson Rabbi Joseph Lookstein , whose son was in the opening class of six in 1937?
text: Did you know that a Liveline phone-in debate on gay adoption staged by Evelyn O'Rourke led to more than half of the total complaints issued against the radio show in a six-month period?
text: Did you know that in 1952, three BSA A7 motorcycles won the Maudes Trophy and the International Six Days Enduro , achieving 4,500 miles (7,200 km) without any problems?
text: Did you know that Maraimalai Adigal , a Saivite and considered the father of the Pure Tamil movement , disagreed with the atheistic beliefs of Periyar 's Self-Respect Movement ?
text: Did you know that in 2005, Gov. Ted Kulongoski signed a bill making Oregon the first U.S. state to require prescriptions for cold medicines containing pseudoephedrine , a key ingredient used to make methamphetamine ?
text: Did you know that, being a descendant of Pliohippus , Astrohippus is not considered to be an ancestor to modern horses ?
text: Did you know that in 1975, Tivi Etok , a Quebec artist, was the first Inuk printmaker to have a collection of his own prints released?
text: Did you know that a 2009 Pennsylvania court case ruled that poker is a game of skill, thus not subject to the state laws related to gambling ?
text: Did you know that the Norwegian Minister of the Interior and President of the Storting , Johan Henrik Paasche Thorne , was a business partner of Theodor Peterson before entering politics?
text: Did you know that Murder on a Sunday Morning , a French film about the 2000 Brenton Butler murder case in Jacksonville, Florida , won the Academy Award for Documentary Feature in 2001?
text: Did you know that Étienne-Émile Baulieu , the "father of the abortion pill ", first described the concept of neurosteroids ?
text: Did you know that NBC 's 2009 reality television program Superstars of Dance is hosted by "Lord of the Dance" Michael Flatley ?
text: Did you know that East Wallabi Island has the highest number of plant species on any island of the Houtman Abrolhos archipelago in the Indian Ocean ?
text: Did you know that many modern legal commentators believe the decision in Stilk v Myrick was made at least partly due to public policy?
text: Did you know that Steven Hoefflin grafted skin to Michael Jackson ’s scalp after the singer was burnt during the filming of a Pepsi commercial in 1984?
text: Did you know that Sedgeley , designed by Benjamin Henry Latrobe in 1799 and built in Philadelphia , was the first Gothic revival -style house in the U.S. ?
text: Did you know that Oslac , the first ealdorman of southern Northumbria , is said to have escorted the Scottish king Cináed mac Maíl Coluim to the court of the English king Edgar the Peaceful ?
text: Did you know that Ron Rothstein was the first head coach of the Miami Heat , an American professional basketball team based in Miami , Florida ?
text: Did you know that remnants of defensive walls and stone shelters on West Wallabi Island , constructed by survivors of the 1629 Batavia shipwreck, are the oldest known European-built structures in Australia ?
text: Did you know that Brett Queener , an American goalkeeper in professional field lacrosse , plays an offensive position in professional indoor lacrosse ?
text: Did you know that the Wolf Popper Synagogue in Kraków , Poland , was founded in 1620 by one of the richest European traders in saltpetre , used for the making of gunpowder ?
text: Did you know that Bob May got the role of the Robot in the 1960s TV series Lost in Space when he met the show's creator Irwin Allen in the studio lot who said "if you can fit in the suit, you've got the job"?
text: Did you know that the Moss, Norway -based corporation Peterson started as a general store in 1801, later expanding into packaging and paper industry via timber trade and shipping ?
text: Did you know that the U.S. Olympic Committee awarded medals to Sam Stoller and Marty Glickman 62 years after the only two Jews on the U.S. track team were pulled from the 400-meter relay team at the 1936 Berlin Olympics ?
text: Did you know that Jagannatha Dasa is one of the widely known 18th-century saint-poets of the Kannada language ?
text: Did you know that the Weberian apparatus , a set of modified bones that link the swim bladder and inner ear of some fishes, is a distinguishing characteristic of the superorder Ostariophysi ?
text: Did you know that the collection of the Prague Aviation Museum, Kbely includes 275 aircraft, of which approximately 110 are on public display?
text: Did you know that college football player Bob Ward is the only player to have been selected by the Associated Press as a first-team All-American in both an offensive and defensive position ?
text: Did you know that the 2005 World Series of Poker Ladies Champion had been nominated for an Academy Award in 1994?
text: Did you know that the Citizen's Briefing Book is a compilation work of citizen recommendations to Barack Obama , to be presented to him after his inauguration as President of the United States ?
text: Did you know that the birth place of Tipu Sultan , also known as the Tiger of Mysore , is located 150 metres (490 ft) south-west of Devanahalli Fort in Karnataka , India ?
text: Did you know that Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger , the captain of US Airways Flight 1549 , also runs an aviation safety consultant company and has worked as an accident investigator for the USAF , NTSB , and FAA ?
text: Did you know that Empire Athelstan was the first merchant ship built by Vickers-Armstrongs at Barrow in Furness after the Second World War ?
text: Did you know that C. Natesa Mudaliar was responsible for bringing bitter rivals Theagaroya Chetty and Dr. T. M. Nair together and is remembered as one of the founders of India's Justice Party ?
text: Did you know that development of the Namsos Line was halted both in 1908, when final plans for the Nordland Line used another route via Snåsa , and in 1927, when the Norwegian Minister of Labour stopped construction?
text: Did you know that following Andrew Jackson 's inauguration in 1829 , a drunken mob inside the White House was only dispersed once bowls of punch and liquor were placed on the front lawn?
text: Did you know that Leonard Andrews created The New York Standard , the largest alternative paper printed during the 114-day 1962 New York City newspaper strike , with a peak circulation over 400,000 in its 67 issues?
text: Did you know that the antimicrobial protein hydramacin-1 was extracted and isolated in 2008 by German scientists from Hydra , a freshwater relative of corals and jellyfish ?
text: Did you know that Russian poetess Anna Akhmatova regarded Osip Mandelstam 's poem on Russian poetess Mariya Petrovykh as the "best love poem of the twentieth century"?
text: Did you know that the Indiana Rangers inspired the creation of the more famous Texas Rangers ?
text: Did you know that the MV Domala was the first ship of the British-India Steam Navigation Company that was powered by diesel engines ?
text: Did you know that, in 2008, college football player Russell Wilson of North Carolina State became the first freshman quarterback to ever be named to the All- Atlantic Coast Conference first team?
text: Did you know that the Little Wattlebird lacks the wattles which characterise the wattlebirds ?
text: Did you know that the Singsaker Line was the first part of the Trondheim Tramway , Norway , to be closed?
text: Did you know that after escaping from German forces in World War II , Peter Lewis hid in a safe house in Modena for almost two months in late 1943?
text: Did you know that the UNIO High School in Satu Mare , Romania , was established only to train and promote skilled workers for the UNIO Company?
text: Did you know that entrepreneur Ralph D. Foster and his partner started Missouri radio station KGBX (now KSGF ) in 1926 to advertise their Firestone Tires dealership?
text: Did you know that Australian forces were deployed as a part of the North Russian Expeditionary Force and North Russia Relief Force during the Russian Civil War ?
text: Did you know that Stephen Etnier , an American realist painter, commanded the United States Navy ship USS Mizpah during World War II ?
text: Did you know that the title for Peter Benchley 's best-selling 1974 novel Jaws was not agreed until 20 minutes before it went into production?
text: Did you know that IBM 's Automatic Language Translator machines used by the US Air Force had optical disks that stored thousands of Russian -to- English translations?
text: Did you know that during the captivity of Mangalorean Catholics at Seringapatam , 30,000 of the captured 60,000 Christians were forcibly converted to Islam by Tipu Sultan ?
text: Did you know that microbiologist Hans Knöll defended the historic center of Jena , which was threatened by the construction of the Jen-Tower ?
text: Did you know that the four-part A&E documentary series The Greatest Pharaohs is being used in many college and university courses on anthropology and archaeology ?
text: Did you know that after being sent to the GULAG , Ukrainian writer Hryhorii Epik continued to write and sent one of his works to the NKVD in Moscow before his execution during the Great Purge in 1937?
text: Did you know that George Webb Restaurants locations each have two clocks that employees claim are set one minute apart to evade a local law banning businesses from being open 24 hours per day?
text: Did you know that Steve Farrell , called "the greatest professional foot-racer" in America, raced against horses for several years in the 1890s and reportedly only lost a half dozen times?
text: Did you know that undercover apartheid agent Fabio Barraclough used a cover identity as an anti-apartheid campaigner ?
text: Did you know that the 1983 song " Everyday I Write the Book " was Elvis Costello 's first hit single in the United States ?
text: Did you know that Malaysian royalty's immunity from legal prosecution was removed after a 1992 assault incident , involving Tunku Majid of Johor , sparked a constitutional crisis ?
text: Did you know that the US Air Force 's cold-weather testing facility was moved from Ladd Field in Fairbanks, Alaska , to a refrigerated hangar, the McKinley Climatic Laboratory , at Eglin Air Force Base , Florida ?
text: Did you know that an electronic opera Raab by the Czech composer Jaroslav Krček was banned by the communist regime in 1972?
text: Did you know that the United States Department of Transportation incorrectly lists the former Interstate 87 bridge on Warren County Route 35 as an old state road?
text: Did you know that professional wrestler George "Two Ton" Harris was promised continued employment with Jim Crockett Promotions when he assured the owner that he would learn to read and write?
text: Did you know that Cheshire landowner Rowland Egerton-Warburton arranged for his house, Arley Hall , to be designed in Tudor style while the chapel was designed in Gothic style?
text: Did you know that after being saved from the scrapyard by a U.S. delegation , two Japanese warships of the Amagi and Tosa classes, Akagi and Kaga , were converted to aircraft carriers and took part in the attack on Pearl Harbor ?
text: Did you know that only 100 Mahatma Gandhi 10 Rs. stamps were overprinted with "Service", making it the world's least printed stamp?
text: Did you know that disputes between Confederate Generals William Hardee and John Creed Moore caused Moore to resign his commission?
text: Did you know that Cosmos 1818 , which has an inactive nuclear reactor , was fractured by either a collision or thermal stresses , generating radioactive debris in a high earth orbit ?
text: Did you know that Elliott Woods , who was Architect of the Capitol from 1902 to 1923, oversaw the construction of the Cannon House Office Building and the Russell Senate Office Building ?
text: Did you know that protozoologist Leonard Goodwin claimed to have started the use of hamsters as pets in the United Kingdom ?
text: Did you know that the Temple of Human Passions , first building of Art Nouveau 's architect Victor Horta , was closed three days after its inauguration under the pressure of the puritanic Belgian public in 1899?
text: Did you know that Joseph P. Williams led the team that created the BankAmericard in 1958, the first national bank credit card in the United States?
text: Did you know that the Candy cap mushroom species Lactarius camphoratus has been used as part of a pipe tobacco mix?
text: Did you know that the "London Cage," a World War II prisoner of war facility commanded by Lt. Col. Alexander Scotland , was beset by allegations of torture ?
text: Did you know that Bryan Trottier , Denis Potvin , Mike Bossy , and Bryan Berard all won the Calder Memorial Trophy while playing for the New York Islanders ?
text: Did you know that sprint champion Charles Hoyt , who lost a chance for an Olympic medal when the 1916 games were cancelled due to World War I , later coached Eddie Tolan to two gold medals in the 1932 Olympics ?
text: Did you know that people have had to be taken to hospital due to drug overdoses at dance parties ?
text: Did you know that instead of abducting people , Francesco Paolo Varsallona , who became an outlaw in 1893, introduced tribute payments for guaranteed safety and was credited with modernizing brigandage in Sicily ?
text: Did you know that in June 1991, a gasoline tanker attempting to exit from Interstate 68 at Cumberland, Maryland , overturned and set eight houses on fire, causing US$250,000 in damages?
text: Did you know that Royal Air Force pilot Robert Leith-Macgregor was twice shot down during World War II and then strafed by German fighters, but survived uninjured both times?
text: Did you know that Kentucky 's Great Saltpetre Cave , which produced saltpetre for the War of 1812 , was later used to film part of the 1997 Steven Seagal film Fire Down Below ?
text: Did you know that composer Egidio Duni was particularly influential in creating a new genre of opera which blended Italian opera elements with traditional French ones?
text: Did you know that the Polhemus Memorial Clinic in Brooklyn, New York , is considered to be the first skyscraper hospital ever built?
text: Did you know that despite its name, the Corsican Hare is not native to Corsica and is rarely found on this Mediterranean island today?
text: Did you know that composer Jonathan Battishill once performed several airs from Samuel Arnold 's oratorio The Prodigal Son without the sheet music , and after not hearing the work for more than 20 years?
text: Did you know that the first Filipinos to settle in the Netherlands arrived in 1947?
text: Did you know that in addition to her academic career, German - Norwegian political scientist Helga Hernes has been a State Secretary as well as an ambassador to several European countries?
text: Did you know that though students spend their entire high school career at Tech Valley High School in New York's Capital District , their diploma comes from their home school district?
text: Did you know that Robert Millar has been credited for establishing modern marketing in Norway ?
text: Did you know that the private railroad car Georgia 300 has been used by United States Presidents George H.W. Bush , Bill Clinton , and Barack Obama , as well as presidential candidate John Kerry ?
text: Did you know that Sam , an army dog who served with the Royal Army Veterinary Corps , posthumously received the Dickin Medal in 2003 for holding off armed rioters in Bosnia and Herzegovina ?
text: Did you know that the Dalsenget fire in 1956 caused the Trondheim Tramway to lose its 26 newest trams?
text: Did you know that Hedda and Ingrid Berntsen became the first siblings in Norway to compete in different events at the same Olympic Games ?
text: Did you know that the avant-garde magazine 291 is credited with first introducing visual poetry to the United States back in 1915?
text: Did you know that according to De primo Saxonum adventu , Osulf of Bamburgh was the first English "earl" of Northumbria ?
text: Did you know that a BSA Lightning fitted with a working missile launching system featured in the 1965 James Bond film Thunderball ?
text: Did you know that Robert Elliott-Cooper lived for 12 more years after the journal Nature described him as "among the oldest of English engineers"?
text: Did you know that Catch My Soul , a rock musical adapation of Othello set in a late 1960s commune in New Mexico , USA , was the only film directed by the late Patrick McGoohan ?
text: Did you know that Australian photographer Olive Cotton captured her childhood friend, photographer Max Dupain , in Fashion shot, Cronulla Sandhills , and married him in 1937?
text: Did you know that Beaver Creek State Park in Ohio , USA , is home to both Little Beaver Creek , a National Scenic River , and a restored 1837 mill ?
text: Did you know that the Pysähdy ajoissa - Stanna i tid ("Stop in time") traffic campaign was the result of the public response to a road death of a nine-year-old girl in Finland ?
text: Did you know that Mark Donaldson became the first recipient of the Victoria Cross for Australia , for his gallant actions under enemy fire in Afghanistan in September 2008?
text: Did you know that the Madhu church shelling affected the Shrine of Our Lady of Madhu , the holiest Roman Catholic shrine in Sri Lanka ?
text: Did you know that poppy seed , harvested from the opium poppy seed head, has had its use dated back to the Sumerians ?
text: Did you know that before John Parker became Archbishop of Tuam and of Dublin , he had been imprisoned by Oliver Cromwell 's forces as a suspected Royalist spy ?
text: Did you know that in its heyday, the historic Mountain Springs Hotel in Ephrata, Pennsylvania , hosted U.S. Presidents Lincoln , Grant , and Buchanan ?
text: Did you know that both parents of the Cryptoheros septemfasciatus fish care for their fry intensively?
text: Did you know that Joseph Yuill and his wife Margaret operated Ontario 's first travelling dairy ?
text: Did you know that the Sunday Magazine Editors Association gives out journalism awards recognizing work in writing, investigative journalism , and design in Sunday newspaper magazines?
text: Did you know that Said al-Shawa was the first mayor of Gaza , appointed in 1906?
text: Did you know that before the chancery records began around 1200, the Pipe rolls were the only continuous records kept by the English government?
text: Did you know that Harlington Wood Jr. is credited with helping to negotiate a truce between federal officers and Native Americans during the Wounded Knee incident in 1973?
text: Did you know that the extinct coral Coelosimilia is the first known example of a scleractinian coral to have a skeleton not composed of the mineral aragonite ?
text: Did you know that Wisconsin Highway 131 crosses nine bridges in 7.3 miles (11.7 km) between the communities of Rockton and Ontario ?
text: Did you know that at different times Phnom Voar (Vine Mountain) in southern Cambodia was a B-52 target, a rebel base, a killing field , a kidnapping site, and finally a peaceful mountain?
text: Did you know that Rose Byrne said that filming the opening scene of Damages episode " Get Me a Lawyer " on a winter's morning in only underwear and a coat was "very traumatic"?
text: Did you know that the earliest Roman glass found in China comes from a 1st-century-BC tomb in Guangzhou , dated to the Han Dynasty ?
text: Did you know that Thomas Robbins , the Connecticut Historical Society 's first librarian , owned the 385 volume Journal des sçavans , the earliest published scholarly periodical ?
text: Did you know that world motorcycle champion Mike Hailwood won the 1965 Hutchinson 100 Production race at Silverstone on a BSA Lightning Clubman ?
text: Did you know that Francis Mallison was elected to the New York State Assembly after being held as a Union prisoner of war during the American Civil War ?
text: Did you know that the private company Gråkallbanen reopened the Trondheim Tramway in 1990, two years after it had been permanently closed by the city council?
text: Did you know that wrestling manager Lou Albano 's part in a Cyndi Lauper music video inspired storylines for World Wrestling Federation shows The Brawl to End it All and The War to Settle the Score ?
text: Did you know that when NBC pulled " Steve Burdick ", an AIDS -themed episode of the medical drama Lifestories , gay and AIDS activists accused the network of fearing advertiser backlash?
text: Did you know that the Port of Piraeus is the largest passenger port in Europe and one of the largest in the world with total traffic of 21,522,917 people in 2007?
text: Did you know that Harold Snyder said that the 1985 New York Stock Exchange listing of Biocraft Laboratories, which he founded, was the first such listing for a generic pharmaceutical company?
text: Did you know that Kalvar is a type of photographic film that can be developed simply by heating it?
text: Did you know that British actor Norman Lumsden , who played J. R. Hartley in the popular 1983 Yellow Pages Fly Fishing advert, was originally an opera singer who created roles for Benjamin Britten ?
text: Did you know that " Girls on Film " by Duran Duran served as the opening theme for the Japanese anime Speed Grapher though FUNimation was unable to obtain its license for US release?
text: Did you know that in 1865, a party led by Captain Franklin B. Sprague of the 1st Oregon Volunteer Infantry descended an 800-foot (240 m) caldera wall to become the first explorers to reach the shore of Crater Lake ?
text: Did you know that Magnolia Park was the first park in Hillsboro, Oregon , to include a recreational water fountain ?
text: Did you know that Justice M. Fathima Beevi was the first woman judge of the Supreme Court of India and also first of any highest judiciary of a nation in Asia?
text: Did you know that radio station WLIQ (now WMOB ) broadcast from the historic Battle House Hotel in Mobile, Alabama , from 1964 to 1971?
text: Did you know that amateur photographer George Caddy 's 70-year-old lost negatives that surfaced in 2007 are the only documents of an historic Bondi beach acrobatic troupe?
text: Did you know that, in his 2000 book The Ingenuity Gap , Thomas Homer-Dixon argues the nature of problems faced by our society are becoming more complex and that our ability to implement solutions is not keeping pace?
text: Did you know that Trondhjems Omnibus Aktieselskab started the first scheduled coach route in Trondheim , Norway , in 1893?
text: Did you know that consuming the elfin saddle mushroom would result in the harmful formation of monomethylhydrazine , a component of rocket fuel , in your body?
text: Did you know that before entering politics, Guro Fjellanger studied to be a goldsmith ?
text: Did you know that the fungus Humaria hemisphaerica is commonly known as the "hairy fairy cup"?
text: Did you know that, upon being hired by the WWF , professional wrestler Lanny Kean was told to base his persona on Jethro Bodine from The Beverly Hillbillies ?
text: Did you know that the Port of Thessaloniki in Greece will double its container terminal capacity after an investment of US$600 million made by the Hutchison Port Holdings company based in Hong Kong ?
text: Did you know that the interactive fiction Lost Pig won four XYZZY awards and took first place in the 2007 Interactive Fiction Competition ?
text: Did you know that The New York Times credited the success of promoter Gary Kurfirst 's 1968 New York Rock Festival featuring Jimi Hendrix , Janis Joplin , and The Doors as inspiring the 1969 Woodstock Festival ?
text: Did you know that Shire Brook in Sheffield , England , was part of the boundary between Yorkshire and Derbyshire for 900 years?
text: Did you know that Frank Vandiver received his high school diploma while serving as Acting President of Rice University ?
text: Did you know that the 13th-century French romance Palamedes describes the adventures of the fathers of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table?
text: Did you know that a 42–3 win by the North Carolina Tar Heels in the 1998 Gator Bowl was the worst loss for the Virginia Tech Hokies college football team since a 45–0 shutout in 1983?
text: Did you know that the popular Calypso Carol was written by an Englishman, Michael Perry , while still a student, and only became famous by accident?
text: Did you know that the proposed Rampart Dam on the Yukon River in Alaska would have created a man-made reservoir larger than Lake Erie ?
text: Did you know that the Bank of Issue in Poland , created by the Nazis to support the Nazi economy , was penetrated by the Polish resistance which used it as a source of falsified documents?
text: Did you know that Edmund W. Wells , a delegate to Arizona 's constitutional convention , refused to sign the final document due to its radical features?
text: Did you know that the Meråker Line railway of Norway branches off from the Nordland Line at Hell ?
text: Did you know that Scuderia Ferrari factory driver Peter Sutcliffe was also a textile manufacturer?
text: Did you know that in July 1905, during the Theriso revolt , three insurgent leaders met the consuls of the European Great Powers at a monastery surrounded by rebels, and that martial law was declared after the talks failed?
text: Did you know that college football cornerback Kevin Barnes of Maryland delivered a tackle hard enough to cause Heisman Trophy prospect Jahvid Best to vomit on the field, footage of which became a viral video ?
text: Did you know that the Jastrzębie-Zdrój 1980 strikes forced the government of the People's Republic of Poland to sign the last of three agreements establishing the Solidarity trade union?
text: Did you know that after Kent Williams was elected speaker of the Tennessee House of Representatives , his party expelled him from its caucus ?
text: Did you know that the extinct fish Santanichthys is the oldest known member of Order Characiformes , which includes the tetras and the piranha ?
text: Did you know that Oklahoma historian Angie Debo won numerous honors for her books on Native American history, but never found a permanent position in an academic history department?
text: Did you know that the first World Series of Poker Champion did not win by defeating his opponents?
text: Did you know that a Soviet P-19 radar (Flat Face B) was captured in the 1987 Chadian–Libyan conflict and reviewed by French experts?
text: Did you know that child actor Laura Ann Kesling , who made her film debut in Adam Sandler 's 2008 film Bedtime Stories , is the daughter of LPGA golfer Danielle Ammaccapane ?
text: Did you know that according to legend, Anandibai led to the assassination of the 13-year-old king Narayanrao Peshwa by changing one letter dha to ma , thus changing the order "capture him" to "kill him"?
text: Did you know that the NSB Class 66 was the first Norwegian train capable of 120 km/h (75 mph)?
text: Did you know that Melissa Anelli and Emerson Spartz , webmasters for Harry Potter fansites , were the only Americans invited to Edinburgh to interview J.K. Rowling the day after the Half-Blood Prince was released?
text: Did you know that Teedyuscung , known as the King of the Delawares , lost much of his territory to colonial Pennsylvania in the Walking Purchase and later sought retribution for the massive land loss?
text: Did you know that The Visitors is the only opera Mexican composer Carlos Chávez ever scored?
text: Did you know that ACLU director Aryeh Neier , a refugee from Nazi Germany , supported the Neo-Nazi National Socialist Party of America in its efforts to march in Skokie, Illinois , an area with many Holocaust survivors?
text: Did you know that, according to theories by Dennis MacDonald , the earliest books of the New Testament are responses to the Homeric Epics , thus "nearly everything written on early Christian narrative is flawed"?
text: Did you know that a pipeline exploded in Nigeria on October 18, 1998, killing a total of 1,082 people and injuring hundreds more?
text: Did you know that college football tailback Mikell Simpson of Virginia ran for a 96-yard touchdown in the 2008 Gator Bowl , which is the longest rush by a running back in an NCAA bowl game ?
text: Did you know that the 1904 Advance 2 3/4hp motorcycle displayed at the National Motorcycle Museum (UK) is thought to be the only complete Advance motorcycle in existence?
text: Did you know that Thomas D. Brock discovered Thermus aquaticus , an extremophile living at greater than 70 °C in hot springs at Yellowstone which became the source of the enzyme used in PCR ?
text: Did you know that the film All About Eve (1950) gained Barbara McLean a record seventh nomination for the Academy Award for Film Editing , and that this record remains unbroken?
text: Did you know that the 450 aircraft that conducted the opening aerial bombardment during the Battle of Aachen failed to hit a single German pillbox ?
text: Did you know that Group Officer Clare Stevenson was the first Director of the Women's Auxiliary Australian Air Force (WAAAF)?
text: Did you know that in the 1894 case Schillinger v. United States , the Supreme Court ruled that a patent infringement suit can't be pursued against the U.S. because it held sovereign immunity for intentional torts ?
text: Did you know that Sir Abdur Rahim KCSI was President of the Central Legislative Assembly of India for ten years?
text: Did you know that Air and Simple Gifts , performed at the inauguration of Barack Obama on 20 January 2009, was the first classical music quartet ever performed at a United States presidential inauguration?
text: Did you know that Jerome Murphy-O'Connor , the Dominican priest and Bible scholar , is a cousin of Cormac Murphy-O'Connor , the Archbishop of Westminster ?
text: Did you know that thanks to its fluorescence , α-parinaric acid has been used to analyze the stability of beer foam ?
text: Did you know that in light of the Nazi Germany attempt to destroy Polish culture , the Secret Teaching Organization created an underground education system with over a million students?
text: Did you know that Brian Hill is the only head coach for the Orlando Magic to serve during two non-consecutive periods?
text: Did you know that while in the service of the Austro-Hungarian Army during World War I , Polish Legionnaires decided to mutiny, fighting their former master at the Battle of Rarańcza ?
text: Did you know that post-black artist Rashid Johnson had multiple works in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago before the age of 25?
text: Did you know that Kanthirava Narasaraja I was the first ruler in the Kingdom of Mysore to create symbols associated with Mysore royalty, such as the coins (Kanthiraya) that he named after himself?
text: Did you know that Philip De Witt Ginder won the Distinguished Service Cross for actions in Germany during World War II and became the youngest American general to command a combat division in the Korean War ?
text: Did you know that there are 115,200 solutions to the ménage problem of permuting six couples at a twelve-person table so that men and women alternate and are seated away from their partners?
text: Did you know that, shortly after breaking Donn Lewin 's nose during a professional wrestling match, Danny McShain was introduced to Lewin's sister, who he later married?
text: Did you know that because the Indo-Pacific sea urchin Diadema setosum has been found in Turkish waters, it is the first invasive echinoid in the Mediterranean ?
text: Did you know that Marcus Schrenker , after committing pseudocide , may face charges from the Coast Guard , the Federal Aviation Administration , as well as Indiana , Alabama , and Florida law enforcement?
text: Did you know that German rugby club SC 1880 Frankfurt adopted a red and black strip after a set of friendlies in 1894 against the English club Blackheath F.C. , who also played in those colours?
text: Did you know that William K. Jones , awarded the Navy Cross and the Silver Star for valor at Tarawa and Saipan , was the youngest commander of a U.S. Marine Corps battalion during World War II ?
text: Did you know that a "lively controversy " occurred at the 1902 International Congress of Americanists over the word " Amerind "?
text: Did you know that Charles Morgan, Jr. resigned from his ACLU position after the group's head criticized Morgan for calling a New Yorker a bigot for his refusal to consider voting for Jimmy Carter as President?
text: Did you know that the Carnegie Library in Runcorn , Cheshire , England, was designed in 1906 by the local council's surveyor and water engineer and is now a listed building ?
text: Did you know that at 5 feet 5 inches tall and 165 pounds, Howard Stevens was one of the smallest players ever in the National Football League ?
text: Did you know that between 20,000 and 80,000 Filipinos live illegally in Italy ?
text: Did you know that the Ames-Florida House is one of a few houses in Minnesota built with timber framing before balloon framing and dimensional lumber were well-known in that U.S. state ?
text: Did you know that following TV3 's axing of Night Shift the presenter, model Michelle Doherty , was said to have been left feeling "completely bewildered, and absolutely gutted"?
text: Did you know that the Lipari Landfill in New Jersey , where nearly 3 million gallons and 12 thousand tons of hazardous waste were dumped, was called the worst toxic dump in the United States?
text: Did you know that Hans Jørgen and Worm Hirsch Darre-Jenssen , sons of industrialist Lauritz Jenssen , both served as Norwegian Minister of Labour ?
text: Did you know that Marra Farm is one of only two historic agricultural parcels inside Seattle , Washington , city limits that retains an agricultural use today?
text: Did you know that, in 2008, college football quarterback Rodney Landers of James Madison became the first player from an FCS school to win the Dudley Award for most outstanding player in Virginia since 1998?
text: Did you know that until recent XMM-Newton images, the supernova remnant G350.1-0.3 was mistakenly thought to be a distant galaxy ?
text: Did you know that Nigel Hamilton 's biography of the young John F. Kennedy , JFK: Reckless Youth , was turned into a television miniseries of the same name starring Patrick Dempsey as JFK?
text: Did you know that the whorl snail Nesopupa turtoni , previously known only as a fossil , was discovered alive in 2003 in the Prosperous Bay Plain area of Saint Helena ?
text: Did you know that Bob Francis is the only Phoenix Coyotes head coach to have won the Jack Adams Award , having won it in the 2001–02 NHL season ?
text: Did you know that the T2000 stock of the Oslo T-bane , Norway , is equipped with both a pantograph and a third rail shoe so they can operate both east and west of the city center?
text: Did you know that in 1923, Charles Scott Haley conducted California 's first statewide comprehensive study of tertiary fluvial placers , dredge fields, and dry placers?
text: Did you know that relations between Japan and The Netherlands date back 400 years when the first formal trade relations were established in 1609?
text: Did you know that Noella Marcellino , a Benedictine nun and modern connoisseur of cheese , was named the official cheesemaker of Connecticut 's Abbey of Regina Laudis ?
text: Did you know that "pig's ears", fungal species Gomphus clavatus , are the only Gomphus species in North America?
text: Did you know that as a junior officer Rear Admiral Teddy Gueritz served as beachmaster on Sword Beach from D-Day until he was severely wounded 19 days later, and was awarded a bar to his Distinguished Service Cross ?
text: Did you know that the Chennai Book Fair is an annual event in Chennai , India , which takes place between the last week of December and the third week of January?
text: Did you know that composer Michael Arne 's obsession for alchemy and the search for the philosopher's stone led him into serious financial problems resulting in his arrest and confinement in a Dublin sponging-house ?
text: Did you know that the War of 1812 battle Spur's Defeat was so named due to the survivors having to spur their horses in order to escape?
text: Did you know that due to the Arab League boycott of Israel , McDonald's did not open in Israel until 1993 when they opened their first branch in Ramat Gan ?
text: Did you know that professional wrestler Susan Green legally changed her name to Susan Tex Green to differentiate herself from another woman named Susan Green who was writing bad checks ?
text: Did you know that Norwegian footballer Jostein Grindhaug scored the first league goal for the club FK Haugesund ?
text: Did you know that during the Battle of New Haven , the fort the Confederate howitzer aimed at was not damaged, but the town's only hotel and bar were?
text: Did you know that intercepted by a larger French force on 6 November 1794 , Captain Richard Bligh of HMS Alexander chose to stay and fight, allowing his companion ship, HMS Canada , to safely retreat?
text: Did you know that glucuronidation of hyodeoxycholic acid by the UGT2B4 and UGT2B7 isoforms is an example of redundancy in the natural protection against harmful endogenous compounds?
text: Did you know that college football coach Don Brown led the UMass Minutemen to their best five-year record in school history?
text: Did you know that the mushroom Lactarius glyciosmus smells strongly of coconuts ?
text: Did you know that in a 1967 television interview, David Frost compared Welsh nationalist activist Dennis Coslett to Israeli general Moshe Dayan , because both wore eyepatches ?
text: Did you know that a 25-foot (7.6 m) tall, traditionally-dressed Ukrainian woman offers bread and salt to Saskatchewan Highway 5 travelers at Canora , a town in Saskatchewan , Canada ?
text: Did you know that the first steamship in the Mediterranean Sea basin, Real Ferdiando I , was launched on September 27, 1818, from the Port of Naples ?
text: Did you know that the Barack Obama "HOPE" poster designed by artist Shepard Fairey was based on a photograph from before Obama officially launched his presidential campaign ?
text: Did you know that the olive cultivar Bosana makes up more than half the olive production of Sardinia ?
text: Did you know that Norwegian historian Tore Linné Eriksen has published several books about Namibia , including one on what was described as the first genocide in the twentieth century ?
text: Did you know that the day when Exxon canceled its Colony Shale Oil Project in Colorado is known by locals as " Black Sunday "?
text: Did you know that Anthony , Charles , Cecilia , Isabella, Sr. , Isabella, Jr. , Esther , Elizabeth , and Polly Young were part of an English family of musicians that included several professional singers and organists in the 17th and 18th centuries?
text: Did you know that Chōji Suitengu , a character from the anime Speed Grapher , rolls his cigarettes with 10,000 yen bills?
text: Did you know that soon after understudy Eric Lewis left the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company in frustration that George Grossmith rarely took a day off, Grossmith fell gravely ill?
text: Did you know that venture capitalists committed US$ 25,000 to the Next Big Sound after a group of Northwestern University students presented it as their entrepreneur class assignment?
text: Did you know that George Miller Bligh was present at Nelson's death at Trafalgar , and was subsequently incorporated into Arthur William Devis 's painting of the event ?
text: Did you know that Kentucky 's Cherokee State Park , now part of Kenlake State Resort Park , was the first blacks-only state park in the Southern United States ?
text: Did you know that Jon Tvedt took up competitive mountain running in his late thirties, his career in orienteering having peaked several years earlier?
text: Did you know that B.Day, Bakery Music ' s tenth-anniversary and parting concert, was performed at Rajamangala Stadium to an audience of 50,000 and was the largest concert ever held in Thailand at the time?
text: Did you know that the poor grade sandstone used in the original U.S. Capitol Gatehouses and Gateposts required them to undergo a complete restoration in 1938?
text: Did you know that rabbits that were introduced as food for arctic foxes still populate Anangula Island in the Aleutian Islands , although the foxes were removed in the 1940s?
text: Did you know that Bhausaheb Kolte was the first to edit Leela Charitra , the first written biography in the Marathi language?
text: Did you know that Harry Endo had been filmed in a commercial for the bank in Hawaii where he worked when he was asked to play the role of "Che Fong", an original cast member of the television series Hawaii Five-O ?
text: Did you know that Istanbul Hezarfen Airfield hosts around 30,000 music fans every September for the annual Rock'n Coke open air music festival ?
text: Did you know that anthropologist Donat Savoie was the first director of Canada's Inuit Relations Secretariat?
text: Did you know that the book Outliers , written by Malcolm Gladwell , claims that the key to success in any field is practicing a specific task for 10,000 hours?
text: Did you know that college football coach Jim Tatum secured a national championship without a single losing season in his nine years at Maryland , but was called a "parasitic monster" by one student newspaper?
text: Did you know that Appollo received the Dickin Medal on behalf of all search and rescue dogs who participated in rescue operations after the September 11 attacks ?
text: Did you know that radio station WMSP in Montgomery, Alabama , broadcasts the college football games of both the Alabama Crimson Tide and arch-rival Auburn Tigers ?
text: Did you know that when Charles, Prince of Wales was attacked for calling his friend Kuldip Singh Dhillon "Sooty", Dhillon defended the Prince as a man of "zero prejudice"?
text: Did you know that when a young Mozart toured Italy , Pope Clement XIV awarded the composer a knighthood, but Empress Maria Theresa dismissed Mozart and his father as "useless people"?
text: Did you know that J. K. Gill started a bookstore in Portland, Oregon , in 1870 that grew to a chain of 63 stores before the company folded in 1999?
text: Did you know that despite its fishy smell, Lactarius volemus is considered a choice mushroom for eating?
text: Did you know that the 1895 deaths of Richard Corney Grain and Alfred German Reed ended the German Reed Entertainments , which had been presented since 1855?
text: Did you know that according to Hindu mythology, the devotee Pundalik kept the god Krishna waiting because he was busy serving his parents?
text: Did you know that Evelyn Lauder , who co-created and popularized the pink ribbon as a symbol for breast cancer awareness, helped create Estée Lauder 's Pink Ribbon lipstick and blusher as a breast cancer fundraiser?
text: Did you know that the BSA M20 was one of the longest serving British military motorcycles and the most numerous with 126,000 produced?
text: Did you know that the Mahalia Jackson Theater of the Performing Arts is the first of three major theaters in New Orleans , USA , to reopen since Hurricane Katrina struck the city in August 2005?
text: Did you know that Australian Second World War flying ace Adrian Goldsmith was credited with shooting down 12¼ Axis aircraft over Malta between the months of February and July 1942?
text: Did you know that Michael Jackson was only 10 years old when he recorded " Big Boy ", the first single by The Jackson 5 ?
text: Did you know that Father Émile Petitot was the first European to reach the Tuktut Nogait National Park area in northern Canada ?
text: Did you know that professional wrestler Mighty Igor Vodic used to bring kielbasa to his matches and share it with the fans?
text: Did you know that To My Surprise was the only album ever released by the alternative rock band To My Surprise before they disbanded in 2006?
text: Did you know that while Captain Horatio Nelson was initially enthusiastic about his new command HMS Albemarle , his more experienced uncle, Maurice Suckling , expressed doubts?
text: Did you know that the 4,400-acre (1,800 ha) McLean Game Refuge was privately created by George P. McLean , a Senator and Governor of Connecticut ?
text: Did you know that Liverpool -based singer-songwriter Eugene McGuinness once performed for Sir Paul McCartney ?
text: Did you know that the filming of Dexter was forced to move from Miami to Los Angeles , beginning with the episode " It's Alive! ", because of the overlap between the show's production window and Miami's hurricane season?
text: Did you know that the shooting of a sparrow , during the preparations for the Domino Day World record attempt, was investigated by the Dutch Society for the Protection of Animals in 2005?
text: Did you know that Frank Layden is the only Utah Jazz head coach to have a number retired by the Jazz?
text: Did you know that Leon Keyserling was the head of the Council of Economic Advisers advising U.S. President Truman , yet never finished his own graduate dissertation in economics?
text: Did you know that the post office in Coxs Creek, Kentucky , had to be moved because it created many accidents along U.S. 31E ?
text: Did you know that, due to racial segregation , African American wrestlers like Tiger Conway, Sr. competed on the " chitterling circuit", named after pig innards that were fed to slaves?
text: Did you know that on the outbreak of the First World War Bat sold all their remaining stock of Bat No. 2 Light Roadster motorcycles to the Russian military but were never paid?
text: Did you know that baseball pitcher Nick Carter was the Philadelphia Athletics ' Opening Day starting pitcher in 1908, his only season on the Major Leagues ?
text: Did you know that a November 2008 appearance by a dance troupe called Satanic Sluts, featuring the granddaughter of actor Andrew Sachs , on The Late Late Show led to a significant number of complaints?
text: Did you know that the U.S. Biological Weapons Anti-Terrorism Act of 1989 provided penalties ranging from a life sentence to a term of any number of years for violators?
text: Did you know that Sir Norman Denning anticipated an attack on Singapore by the Japanese as early as the mid-1930s, but his report was dismissed as him "over-exercising his imagination"?
text: Did you know that Harry Kinnard was the inspiration for General Anthony McAuliffe 's one-word reply "Nuts!" in response to a German demand for surrender at the Siege of Bastogne ?
text: Did you know that two perpetrators of the 1977 Moscow bombings were caught after attempting to bomb the city's Kursky Rail Terminal later that year?
text: Did you know that in 1966, Donald Gleason developed the Gleason score , still used as the standard to measure the aggressiveness of prostate cancer despite millions spent in attempts to displace it?
text: Did you know that though the Vigo Ordnance Plant never produced any biological agents it did produce 8,000 pounds (3,600 kg) of the anthrax simulant Bacillus globigii ?
text: Did you know that Swedish painter and pop artist Sven Inge changed his name twice?
text: Did you know that a Chardonnay from the Robert Young Vineyard in the Alexander Valley AVA was one of the first premium vineyard designated wines in California history ?
text: Did you know that Leon Kruczkowski , a major figure in post- WWII Polish theater , was also involved in introducing the socrealism doctrine in Poland ?
text: Did you know that Hamilton Clarke , a prolific composer of the Victorian era , is remembered today chiefly for his compilation of the overture to Gilbert and Sullivan 's The Mikado ?
text: Did you know that church music composer Geoffrey Shaw was the father of Sebastian Shaw , who played Anakin Skywalker in Return of the Jedi ?
text: Did you know that the Bernard Daly Educational Fund , established in 1922, has provided over 2,000 college scholarships to students from communities in Lake County, Oregon ?
text: Did you know that Théodore Vienne , who founded the Paris-Roubaix cycle race , was described by the New York Times as "the leading fight promoter of France"?
text: Did you know that the East African plant Commelina lukei has been informally recognised as a separate species since 1969, but was only formally described in 2008?
text: Did you know that industrialist S. Anantharamakrishnan became the first Indian director of the British-owned Simpson's group of companies of Madras in 1938?
text: Did you know that during her husband's presidential campaign , Michelle Obama met with Mormon officials in their Church Administration Building ?
text: Did you know that Harvey , Barnes , Brown , Johnson , Loxton and Hassett were members of Bradman's Invincibles who won the First , Second and Fourth Ashes series Test matches of 1948 and drew the Third ?
text: Did you know that the Australian government hopes to use the Australia-Chile Free Trade Agreement as a model for future free trade agreements with other countries?
text: Did you know that in 1636, Phineas Hodson , Chancellor of York Minster , lost his 38-year-old wife Jane during the birth of the couple's 24th child?
text: Did you know that the character of Biff Tannen in the Back to the Future films was named after studio executive Ned Tanen , who had reacted aggressively towards writers Bob Gale and Robert Zemeckis at a meeting?
text: Did you know that TT racer Harold Daniell tested the new Norton motorcycle frame in 1950 and declared that it was like "riding on a featherbed" – and it has been called the " Featherbed frame " ever since?
text: Did you know that William Thomas Pecora , who headed the United States Geological Survey from 1965 to 1971, was a member of the U.S. fencing team at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin ?
text: Did you know that on 22 October 2008, 15,000 members of the "grey army" descended on Ireland 's government buildings to protest the proposed abolition of their previously guaranteed free health treatment?
text: Did you know that the Great Divide Brewery won a prestigious Great American Beer Festival award less than three months after opening?
text: Did you know that Sahu Mewalal scored the only goal in the final of the first Asian Games football competition held at Delhi , India , in 1951?
text: Did you know that during the Puna de Atacama dispute the U.S. minister in Buenos Aires and two delegates from Chile and Argentina drew the northern portion of the border between Chile and Argentina?
text: Did you know that Arthur Dodd , a British prisoner of war during World War II , was an eye-witness to the horrors of Auschwitz ?
text: Did you know that Philip Leget Edwards , the first teacher in what became the U.S. state of Oregon , later served in the legislatures of Missouri and California ?
text: Did you know that from 1936 to 1998, the Germany national football team had just five managers , each of whom won a major trophy, with Helmut Schön (1964–1978) winning two?
text: Did you know that John Clarke Hawkshaw was a member of the Royal Commission set up by King Edward VII to decide the British representation at the 1904 St Louis World's Fair ?
text: Did you know that professional wrestler Rufus R. Jones used to tell opponents that his middle initial stood for "guts"?
text: Did you know that a helicopter once crashed on Interstate 84 in New York , stopping traffic and causing a power outage ?
text: Did you know that the 1871 election of Father Eduard Müller to the new Reichstag was considered "an astonishing victory of a nobody" over an aristocratic landowner?
text: Did you know that professional wrestler Gene Petit was hired by the World Wrestling Federation because of a picture he took as a joke?
text: Did you know that prior to the fall of Mazar-i-Sharif , all American military flights into Afghanistan had to be launched from Uzbekistan or aircraft carriers in the Arabian Sea ?
text: Did you know that "I'll be a bridge over deep water if you trust in my name", from Claude Jeter 's 1961 song "Mary Don't You Weep", was the inspiration for Paul Simon 's 1970 song " Bridge over Troubled Water "?
text: Did you know that the Alternanthera mosaic virus , a type of Potexvirus , has been misdiagnosed as the closely-related Papaya mosaic virus ?
text: Did you know that U.S. Route 20 in Massachusetts used to be part of the Boston Post Road , one of the earliest roads established in the United States ?
text: Did you know that Sin Chang-won , a South Korean fugitive criminal famous for his close escapes, was first arrested at the age of 15 after being turned in by his father for stealing a watermelon ?
text: Did you know that the historic McGehee-Stringfellow House in Greensboro, Alabama , collapsed in the 1980s when the MacMillan Bloedel company tried to move it?
text: Did you know that while Kevin Thomas played for Edinburgh Athletic in the East of Scotland Football League he also worked for a hotel booking agency run by his mother?
text: Did you know that Prairieville, Alabama 's Italianate Browder Place was inspired by an 1852 Samuel Sloan publication?
text: Did you know that archivist Margaret Storrs Grierson was founder and first director of the Sophia Smith Collection at Smith College ?
text: Did you know that the proposed Suchindram Theroor Birds Sanctuary would be the southernmost protected area on the Central Asian Flyway , a bird migration route covering 30 countries and used by 279 migratory waterbird populations?
text: Did you know that Lucien Heath , the first Oregon Secretary of State , later served in the California State Assembly ?
text: Did you know that in 1991, Manufacturers Hanover CEO John McGillicuddy was the chief architect of a merger with the Chemical Banking Corporation that was the largest US bank merger to that time?
text: Did you know that winemakers in the Carmignano region of Tuscany have been blending Cabernet Sauvignon with Sangiovese since the 18th century, long before the emergence of " Super Tuscans "?
text: Did you know that, despite competing for over 20 years, Alberto Madril now reportedly refuses to acknowledge that he was once a professional wrestler ?
text: Did you know that goalkeeper Jack Wheeler and his five defenders set a Football League record in the 1952–53 season by all playing in every league game for Huddersfield Town ?
text: Did you know that Mount Hamiguitan in the Philippines has a protected area with a 2,000-hectare (4,900-acre) pygmy forest of century-old trees growing in ultramafic soil ?
text: Did you know that professional wrestlers Jos LeDuc and Paul LeDuc played the role of brothers so well that news that they were not related created a sensation on talk shows?
text: Did you know that Kanhopatra is venerated as a saint in the Varkari sect of Hinduism , despite spending most of her life as a courtesan ?
text: Did you know that Cialis , the erectile dysfunction drug developed by Icos , was originally researched in the hopes of a treatment for cardiovascular diseases such as hypertension and angina ?
text: Did you know that when Norwegian alpine skier Ole Kristian Furuseth won a silver medal in slalom at the 1998 Winter Olympics , he had not placed this high in a major race since March 1995?
text: Did you know that pathologist Kenneth Walton conducted a 1973 study into the causes of heart disease in which he got participants to eat greasy fry-ups ?
text: Did you know that shale oil was used to light the streets of Modena , Italy , at the turn of the 17th century?
text: Did you know that in his later years, Union Army general Thomas Alfred Davies published a number of books supporting the divine inspiration of the Bible , and refuting the materialistic philosophy ?
text: Did you know that The Softwire is PJ Haarsma 's young adult science fiction series about a thirteen-year-old Johnny T, and his struggles with "the Knudniks, the Nagools, and his indentured slavery "?
text: Did you know that professional wrestler Ray Gunkel won his final match despite suffering a heart injury in that match that killed him later that day?
text: Did you know that the Phnom Penh Commercial Bank was Cambodia 's 23rd bank and the first Japanese-financed bank in the country?
text: Did you know that in addition to his academic works, Norwegian mycologist Leif Ryvarden is known as a conveyer of popular science and a former board member of Greenpeace ?
text: Did you know that in 2006, a prisoner escaped from HM Prison Ranby , England , by hiding in a rubbish lorry ?
text: Did you know that Khmer numerals were the first material evidence of the figure zero as a numerical figure ?
text: Did you know that before starring in This is Nightlive , John Ryan was co-creator with Derek O'Connor of blogorrah.com , and a former co-owner of the unsuccessful New York Dog and Stars on Sunday publications in partnership with Kiss and Stellar founder Michael O'Doherty ?
text: Did you know that Bishop Auckland F.C. was the only football club to win the FA Amateur Cup in three consecutive seasons?
text: Did you know that historic Glencairn in Greensboro, Alabama , was built in 1835 by Alabama legislator John Erwin?
text: Did you know that Lucy Kennedy has described The Lucy Kennedy Show as " Livin' with Lucy in a studio" and "a bit like The Charlotte Church Show gone wrong"?
text: Did you know that professional wrestler Dan Kroffat created the ladder match during a feud with Tor Kamata in Stampede Wrestling ?
text: Did you know that the Spanish–American War -era Fort Terry on Plum Island was used as a U.S. biological weapons research facility from 1952 to 1969?
text: Did you know that former Beninese army Chief of Staff Alphonse Alley was known as "the wine, women and song officer"?
text: Did you know that British plant physiologist Daphne Osborne showed that the gas ethylene is a natural plant hormone which regulates ageing and the shedding of leaves and fruits?
text: Did you know that 1944 was proclaimed the "Year of naturalization and the Hebrew name " by the Zionist leadership?
text: Did you know that Anatoly Koryagin was imprisoned for conducting psychiatric interviews with Soviet dissidents confined to mental institutions and smuggling a paper about his findings to the Lancet ?
text: Did you know that the Seashell Trust is the oldest charity for deaf children in North West England ?
text: Did you know that Okinawan folk singer Rinshō Kadekaru was gravely wounded during World War II , and reported dead, only to survive and enjoy a lengthy career, living until 1999?
text: Did you know that We Were Dancing , The Astonished Heart , Red Peppers , Hands Across the Sea , Fumed Oak , Shadow Play , Ways and Means and Star Chamber were presented in rotation, in groups of threes, as part of Noël Coward 's 1935 play cycle Tonight at 8:30 ?
text: Did you know that, due to a government-imposed curfew , professional wrestler Mario Milano had to wrestle under a mask at the beginning of his career because he was underage and not allowed out after 9 o'clock?
text: Did you know that the 30 June 1961 wrestling match between Pat O'Connor and Buddy Rogers had ticket sales of US$148,000, which was a North American professional wrestling record for almost 20 years?
text: Did you know that the Empire Arnold was torpedoed and sunk less than five months after her launch?
text: Did you know that in 1914, railway official Lucius Seymour Storrs became president of the Connecticut Company ?
text: Did you know that Relative Values , a satire of postwar snobbery, marked the return of Noël Coward to playwriting after World War II ?
text: Did you know that Tangton Gyelpo , a 15th-century Nyingma yogi , physician, treasure finder, and founder of Tibetan opera, is known for building numerous iron chain suspension bridges in Tibet ?
text: Did you know that Mohammad Usman was the first Indian to act as the Governor of Madras Presidency in British India ?
text: Did you know that one draft of the 1982 Spanish film Labyrinth of Passion had Salvador Dalí and the Pope meeting and falling passionately in love?
text: Did you know that Karim el-Mejjati was implicated in the bombing of targets in Casablanca , the American barracks in Riyadh , the 2004 Madrid train bombings and the 2005 London bombings ?
text: Did you know that Joseph Losey directed both the first U.S. theatrical version of Bertolt Brecht 's Galileo in 1947 and the 1975 film version ?
text: Did you know that after three years as a back-up, college football quarterback David Johnson threw for 46 touchdowns in 2008 and led Tulsa to an 11–3 record?
text: Did you know that ships built by the Grangemouth Dockyard Company during World War II included the SS Empire Arthur and the SS Empire Clansman ?
text: Did you know that despite her illiteracy , Catherine Ferguson founded the first Sunday school in New York City which later became known as Murray Street Sabbath School?
text: Did you know that the RTÉ series Five Women Go Back to Work follows five women as they attempt to compile a glossy magazine aimed at working women?
text: Did you know that pitchers Bill Wilkinson and Jim Bluejacket are the only great-grandfather and great-grandson pair to both play in Major League Baseball ?
text: Did you know that many soldiers in the Wehrmacht forces deployed for the Ardennes Offensive could not speak German ?
text: Did you know that Teiji Honma became one of the first goaltenders in ice hockey to wear a mask when he used one that resembled a baseball catcher 's mask at the 1936 Winter Olympics ?
text: Did you know that the Revolutionary Communist candidate at the 1945 Neath by-election was the first Trotskyist to stand in a British parliamentary election?
text: Did you know that the NAACP forced the cancellation of some wrestling events in Mississippi to protest a tar-and-feather match featuring Melvin Nelson wrestling as "Burrhead Jones"?
text: Did you know that the Edmund Barton Building , named after the first Prime Minister of Australia , is the largest example of the late 20th-century International Style of Australian architecture in Canberra ?
text: Did you know that more than 3,000 containers of the chemical agent lewisite were dumped off the Florida coast during Operation Geranium ?
text: Did you know that after acquiring Movado in 1983, Gedalio Grinberg heavily promoted the modernistic "Museum Watch", based on a design by Nathan George Horwitt included in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art ?
text: Did you know that during a blowout , fans often chant to request that players who only play in garbage time be put in the game?
text: Did you know that Maria Kinnaird , who was adopted by the politician Richard "Conversation" Sharp , married the surveyor who first used the Drummond Light ?
text: Did you know that Conolophus rosada , a newly described species of iguana , diverged some 5.7 million years ago, making it among the oldest incidents of evolutionary divergence recorded in the Galápagos archipelago ?
text: Did you know that in 1820, the missionary William Jowett bought the 9,539-page manuscript of Abu Rumi 's first-ever translation of the Bible into Amharic "on terms which appeared... equitable to all parties"?
text: Did you know that the 2005 Operation Iron Hammer , aimed to clear Al-Qaeda in Iraq from the Hai Al Becker region in western Iraq , resulted in no reported casualties and no use of deadly force?
text: Did you know that twin brothers Robert and Ross Hume became known as the "Dead Heat Kids" after finishing nine straight mile races, including the Big Ten and NCAA championships, holding hands in dead heat victories?
text: Did you know that the studio band of radio station WRAG (now WREN ) in Carrollton, Alabama , is credited with popularizing bluegrass music in central Alabama and eastern Mississippi ?
text: Did you know that Scottish footballer Jim Baxter once taunted opponents in an international match by playing keepie uppie during the game, and that he described his style as "treating the ball like a woman"?
text: Did you know that when Robert de Bethune was nominated Bishop of Hereford in 1130, King Henry I of England did so because he felt he needed one "godly bishop" around?
text: Did you know that concerns were raised in 2001 that anthrax research done by the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency as part of Project Jefferson violated the Biological Weapons Convention ?
text: Did you know that at great risk, Squadron Leader Phil Lamason of the RNZAF negotiated the transfer of 166 allied airmen from Buchenwald concentration camp , a week before their scheduled execution ?
text: Did you know that James Bennet was set to become Beijing correspondent for The New York Times when he instead was appointed the fourteenth editor-in-chief of The Atlantic Monthly in March 2006?
text: Did you know that in Blood of the Irish , presenter Diarmuid Gavin examined the claim that 20% of men in the north-west of Ireland are descended from Niall of the Nine Hostages , an ancient High King of Ireland ?
text: Did you know that Edward D. Hamilton was appointed as the Secretary of the Oregon Territory after later U.S. President Abraham Lincoln declined the position?
text: Did you know that the Brazilian team at the 1958 World Cup had not assigned squad numbers in advance, and a 17-year old Pelé was randomly assigned the number 10, which he wore for the rest of his career?
text: Did you know that after Pope Alexander III absolved Gilbert Foliot 's excommunication , Thomas Becket exclaimed that " Satan is unloosed for the destruction of the Church"?
text: Did you know that recommendations from the U.S. War Bureau of Consultants in 1942 led to the founding of the War Research Service and a bio-weapons program?
text: Did you know that handballer Tonje Larsen was a part of the All-Star Team at the 2008 European Championship , sixteen years after debuting on the Norwegian national team ?
text: Did you know that the first 8- real banknotes were printed in Puerto Rico in 1766?
text: Did you know that internal division caused when three sympathizers of the Democratic Agrarian Party of Moldova competed in the 1996 presidential election was one factor that led to the party losing all parliamentary seats two years later?
text: Did you know that the owner of Twin Oaks Plantation organized Company B of the 36th Regiment Alabama Infantry in the Confederate Army on the lawn in front of his house?
text: Did you know that Benoît Sinzogan , described as "too timid to mount a coup" during the 1960s and 1970s, was "one of Dahomey 's few senior officers not to attempt to"?
text: Did you know that the lyrics " suicide, it's a suicide ", first used by rapper KRS-One in 1987, have since been re-used by artists such as Ice-T , Redman and Jay-Z ?
text: Did you know that Leonid Plyushch , who sought to apply mathematical modeling to mental illness , was later diagnosed with sluggish schizophrenia for his dissident activities?
text: Did you know that Operation Barga helped improve the social status of bargadars ( sharecroppers ) in West Bengal , India ?
text: Did you know that 1941 NCAA backstroke champion and University of Michigan Athletic Hall of Honor inductee Francis Heydt later owned a business that sold camouflage clothing to the U.S. military ?
text: Did you know that the hip hop magazine Rap-Up was founded by Devin Lazerine as a website when he was 15 years old?
text: Did you know that having witnessed the effects of a market attack in the 2008–2009 Israel–Gaza conflict during a ban of international press, Norwegian doctor Mads Gilbert started a global SMS campaign?
text: Did you know that Robert Redford made one of his last guest-starring appearances in a television series in a 1963 episode of the ABC psychiatric drama Breaking Point ?
text: Did you know that Jackson Lake State Park in Ohio , USA , is now the location of a thriving second growth forest , but was once home to the iron, coal and salt industries?
text: Did you know that Jim McColl , the son of a butcher, reportedly became Scotland 's richest man in 2008?
text: Did you know that an area of more than 60,000 square miles (160,000 km 2 ) in the U.S. states of Georgia , North and South Carolina was exposed to airborne clouds of zinc cadmium sulfide during Operation Dew ?
text: Did you know that Satenik was the Alanian wife of Artaxias I , the king of Armenia and the founder of the Artaxiad Dynasty ?
text: Did you know that the 12"/50 caliber Mark 8 gun , an American naval gun mounted on the Alaska -class cruisers , "was by far the most powerful weapon of its caliber ever placed in service"?
text: Did you know that while the British indie rock band Bombay Bicycle Club were recording their debut EP , The Boy I Used to Be , they were in the same school year as Cajun Dance Party ?
text: Did you know that tropical botanist Paul H. Allen assembled one of the most important collections of banana germplasm ?
text: Did you know that the Christmas carol Personent hodie , first published in the 1582 Finnish song book Piae Cantiones , is thought to be a parody of a 12th-century carol?
text: Did you know that as a means to challenge the Microsoft / Intel PC architecture, IBM executive Jack Kuehler formed the AIM alliance that created the PowerPC microprocessor used in Apple 's computers from 1994 to 2006?
text: Did you know that despite being roughly only a square mile (2.6 km 2 ) in area, the tiny atoll of Kaben in the Republic of the Marshall Islands actually has a functional airstrip ?
text: Did you know that pitcher Jesse Barnes made the Opening Day start for the Boston Braves against the New York Giants in the 1925 baseball season , after making the Opening Day start for the Giants against the Braves in 1920?
text: Did you know that labourers paving Saskatchewan Highway 641 in 1942 earned 35 cents an hour and a labourer with a tractor -drawn drag earned 50 cents an hour?
text: Did you know that the American Iron and Steel Institute formed the Steelmark in 1960 to promote American steel , with the logo put on the helmets of the Pittsburgh Steelers in 1962 to further publicize the program?
text: Did you know that during the Song Dynasty , the people of Sichuan worshipped Tang Dynasty general Wei Gao as a local deity?
text: Did you know that Jeffrey Lockwood provides historical examples of assassin bugs , buckets of scorpions , and catapulted " bee bombs" as entomological warfare in his book, Six-legged Soldiers: Using Insects as Weapons of War ?
text: Did you know that the German rock group Tokio Hotel has released six singles and an album in English ?
text: Did you know that Archbishop Edward Joseph Hanna was the chairman of the U.S. National Longshoremen 's Board during the 1934 West Coast waterfront strike ?
text: Did you know that the peridium of the bird's-nest fungus forms its "nest"?
text: Did you know that Tang Dynasty official Pei Yanling was "so careless in his frivolousness and falsehood, as well as his jealousy of the talented and harmfulness to the good" that two centuries later it made historian Liu Xu weep?
text: Did you know that the opening of State Fair Community College was delayed for more than two years because of a legal dispute over college districts in Missouri ?
text: Did you know that German football manager Horst Buhtz led both Dortmund and Nuremberg to the Bundesliga promotion playoffs, but was dismissed each time before the matches took place?
text: Did you know that as early as 1968, criminologist Lloyd Ohlin noted that the routine incarceration of youthful offenders does "more to develop than to stop career criminals"?
text: Did you know that thousands of people at Deekshabhoomi , a pilgrimage center in Nagpur , India , embraced Buddhism on October 14, 1956?
text: Did you know that music critic Herman Klein wrote in New York City from 1901 to 1909 and advised Columbia Records , but he acquired an unfavorable view of American musical life and returned to Britain?
text: Did you know that Prince Charles , who in 2004 opened the village shop at Hewelsfield in Gloucestershire , England , described it as "a triumph of community spirit"?
text: Did you know that American football tackle J.D. Maarleveld survived Hodgkin's lymphoma but was cut from the Notre Dame team anyway, transferred to Maryland , and became a consensus first-team All-American ?
text: Did you know that the Lublin 1980 strikes marked the beginning of important socio-political changes in Poland , such as the creation of Solidarity and democratization of the country?
text: Did you know that the name of Shelldrake , a ghost town in the U.S. state of Michigan , was translated from the Ojibwa word for a kind of duck ?
text: Did you know that former guerrilla James Tanis undertook a trip through some twenty fast-flowing rivers and creeks before being inaugurated as the second President of Bougainville ?
text: Did you know that, despite being suspended for half the game, college football running back Da'Rel Scott set a school bowl record for rushing for the Maryland Terrapins in their 2008 Humanitarian Bowl victory?
text: Did you know that author Beryl Bainbridge wrote a novel based on clergyman and translator John Selby Watson 's 1871 murder of his wife?
text: Did you know that after being closed in 1978, Sandefjord Airport Station reopened in 2008 with a new name to serve Sandefjord Airport, Torp , Norway ?
text: Did you know that Gigantic , a film about a single man deciding to adopt a baby, was inspired by writer – director Matt Aselton's childhood wish for his parents to adopt a baby from China ?
text: Did you know that Nick Scandone was named 2005 Rolex Yachtsman of the Year, the first Paralympian to earn the honor, after winning the 2.4 meter world championship against 60 able-bodied and 27 disabled sailors?
text: Did you know that sugar cream pie is being considered to become the official state pie of Indiana , USA?
text: Did you know that the mass finishing manufacturing processes, tumble finishing and vibratory finishing , are often employed to deburr machined parts and clean up castings ?
text: Did you know that Captain Woodes Rogers rescued Alexander Selkirk , the model for Robinson Crusoe , and later defeated the pirates of the Caribbean ?
text: Did you know that Koradi Thermal Power Station , near Nagpur , India , was commissioned in 1974 and currently operates seven units with a total capacity of 1,080 MW ?
text: Did you know that Paschal Eze resigned as editor-in-chief of The Daily Observer , a newspaper in The Gambia , after being pressured by management not to publish stories about a certain politician?
text: Did you know that the Bat Motor Manufacturing Co. Ltd was named after founder Samuel Robert Batson but was nicknamed "Best After Tests"?
text: Did you know that William Murphy won two Big Ten doubles tennis championships with his twin brother, and later coached Michigan tennis teams to 11 Big Ten and one NCAA team championships?
text: Did you know that Delaware State Park is not in the U.S. state of Delaware but rather in Ohio ?
text: Did you know that one form of the general image filters invented by Otto Zobel is a particularly simple band-pass filter consisting of just resonators coupled by capacitors ?
text: Did you know that the body of Eadulf Rus , a man accused of killing Walcher , Bishop of Durham , was removed from the church of Jedburgh some years after it had been buried there on the orders of Turgot , Prior of Durham ?
text: Did you know that A. P. Patro inaugurated the Loyola College in Chennai , India , in 1925?
text: Did you know that while the Brooklyn Theatre burned in 1876, the actors urged calm in the face of rising panic, and though nearest to the flames, they were among the last to leave the theater alive?
text: Did you know that the Cape Verde Shearwater is threatened by the harvesting of its chicks by local fishermen ?
text: Did you know that in 1912, a Singer motorcycle became the first 350cc motorcycle to cover more than 60 miles (97 km) in one hour?
text: Did you know that college football quarterback Brian Johnson led the Utah Utes to become the only undefeated team in the 2008 season , including an upset of fourth-ranked Alabama in the 2009 Sugar Bowl ?
text: Did you know that the "orange tooth" fungus , Hydnellum aurantiacum , is considered critically endangered in the United Kingdom ?
text: Did you know that American boxer Muhammad Ali and Swiss tennis player Roger Federer have each won the BBC Overseas Sports Personality of the Year award three times?
text: Did you know that the translation of Sangiovese as the "blood of Jove " led to early theories that the grape's origins dated back to Roman times ?
text: Did you know that Joseph Leavitt , nicknamed "Quaker Joe", was a conscientious objector during the American Revolutionary War , having laid down his weapon after three months of fighting for the Continental Army ?
text: Did you know that the practice of agriculture in India had started by 9000 BCE?
text: Did you know that Link TV partnered with several world artists to write " The Price of Silence " to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the signing of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights ?
text: Did you know that in Harold Nichols ' 32 years as Iowa State wrestling coach, his wrestlers placed among the top three teams in the United States 25 times and won 38 individual and six team NCAA championships ?
text: Did you know that Perth is the first city to operate a reverse osmosis seawater desalination plant to provide drinking water in Australia ?
text: Did you know that Dave Porter won the NCAA heavyweight collegiate wrestling championship twice and was subsequently drafted by the Cleveland Browns to play in the NFL ?
text: Did you know that the 17th-century antiquarian Johan Hadorph performed Sweden's first archaeological excavation?
text: Did you know that at least 20 children were abducted during the 2008 Christmas massacres in the Democratic Republic of the Congo ?
text: Did you know that Anssi Koivuranta is leading the 2008-09 Nordic Combined World Cup right now?
text: Did you know that William Glendon argued successfully before the U.S. Supreme Court that the Nixon Administration could not use prior restraint to prevent printing of the Pentagon Papers ?
text: Did you know that Susanna Clarke 's novel Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell has 185 footnotes, which contain a meticulous false history of English magic and an entire fictional corpus of magical scholarship ?
text: Did you know that college football wide receiver Torrey Smith of the Maryland Terrapins set the Atlantic Coast Conference record for single-season kick return yards, including a 99-yard return in a bowl game ?
text: Did you know that the Norfolk, Connecticut -based performing arts venue Infinity Hall was built in 1883 as a combination opera house, barber shop and saloon?
text: Did you know that Matt Smith , who will portray the Eleventh Doctor in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who , is the youngest person to be cast in the title role ?
text: Did you know that Edward Schalon , inducted into the University of Michigan Athletic Hall of Honor as a golfer, later became the president of a Fortune 500 company, SPX Corporation ?
text: Did you know that the King Mojo Club in Sheffield , run by Peter Stringfellow , hosted the Small Faces ' first gig outside London?
text: Did you know that after becoming the first basketball player to lead the Big Ten in both scoring and rebounds, Michigan 's M.C. Burton turned down a contract to play in the NBA to attend medical school?
text: Did you know that Morrissey was billed as the headliner of Saturday Night Fiber 2008, even though he was not the final act to play?
text: Did you know that Eliza Flower was a 19th-century English musician and composer with whom a young Robert Browning fell in love?
text: Did you know that George "Crybaby" Cannon got his nickname from being able to wipe sweat from his face to make it appear as though he was crying?
text: Did you know that the East German company Jenapharm synthesized steroids from hog bile because they lacked access to a source of the precursor diosgenin ?
text: Did you know that Alice May starred as a soprano in comic opera in the 1870s but toured as a contralto in the 1880s?
text: Did you know that the house at Borden Oaks in Greensboro, Alabama , features sidelights and transoms derived from an 1833 Asher Benjamin design?
text: Did you know that Tang Dynasty chancellor Du Huangshang was credited with setting in motion Emperor Xianzong 's reassertion of imperial authority over warlords?
text: Did you know that George Goldman put Book Soup , a "cultural fixture" of the Sunset Strip , up for sale on January 2, 2009, and died a day later?
text: Did you know that Indian historian V. R. Ramachandra Dikshitar believed that ancient South Indians may have known of Australia and Polynesia before their discovery by Europeans ?
text: Did you know that Tommy James ' 1971 single " Draggin' the Line " has appeared on 41 albums and in many media works, from Austin Powers 2 to a documentary on the pornographic film Deep Throat ?
text: Did you know that Tang Dynasty official Yuan Zi wrote a five-volume work about his diplomatic mission to Nanzhao ?
text: Did you know that Wallace Beery won the Academy Award for Best Actor and Frances Marion the Oscar for Original Screenplay for The Champ ?
text: Did you know that species in the fungal genus Cyathus produce bioactive compounds with antibacterial , antifungal , and antioxidative properties?
text: Did you know that in June 2008, Pat Fleming and Allen Hopkins became the 51st and 52nd pocket billiards players to be inducted into the BCA Hall of Fame ?
text: Did you know that widespread economic crisis and food shortages resulted in several hunger demonstrations in Poland during the summer of 1981 , with the biggest one taking place in Łódź ?
text: Did you know that Nino Martini appeared in numerous Hollywood films during the 1930s and 1940s while simultaneously starring regularly in leading tenor roles at the Metropolitan Opera ?
text: Did you know that a tropical greenhouse and sturgeon farm in the Swiss Alps , powered by geothermal energy from the world's longest land tunnel , is intended to produce two tonnes of caviar annually?
text: Did you know that African American civil rights activist Mel Boozer was the first openly gay person nominated for the office of Vice President of the United States ?
text: Did you know that the Sion Causeway connected the island of Bombay with Salsette ?
text: Did you know that The Pittsburgh Courier crusaded against the blue discharge , calling it "a vicious instrument that should not be perpetrated against the American Soldier"?
text: Did you know that for the recent Philippine film Iskul Bukol 20 Years After , stars Tito , Vic and Joey paid a sum of PHP 120,000 to bail actor Ritchie D'Horsie out of jail so that he could appear in the film?
text: Did you know that in 2008, college football running back Vai Taua and quarterback Colin Kaepernick became the first pair of Nevada players to both rush for more than 1,000 yards (910 m) in the same season?
text: Did you know that in the 1950s, the Iraqi Communist Party accused the dissident communist group Rayat ash-Shaghilah of being "royalists", "deviationists", and police agents?
text: Did you know that Randal Kleiser saved money shooting his student film Peege by using the studio offices of a Steven Spielberg television movie which had wrapped ahead of schedule?
text: Did you know that 85 percent of the tobacco grown in Cuba is produced by members of the National Association of Small Farmers ?
text: Did you know that 180-pound (82 kg) guard Dominic Tomasi was selected as both captain and Most Valuable Player of the undefeated National Champion 1948 Michigan Wolverines football team ?
text: Did you know that Interim Self Governing Authority was a power-sharing proposal made by the rebel Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam to the government of Sri Lanka to resolve the Sri Lankan civil war ?
text: Did you know that disc jockeys at WLWI-FM in Montgomery , Alabama , USA, have been nominated for Country Music Association Awards six times since 1981?
text: Did you know that the presence of the metal ion in metalloprotein enzymes allows them to perform functions, such as catalyzing redox reactions, that other polypeptide enzymes cannot achieve?
text: Did you know that Charles Hawksley was elected President of the Institution of Civil Engineers in 1901, nearly 30 years after his father, Thomas Hawksley , was elected to the position?
text: Did you know that Tropical Storm Kay of the 2004 Pacific hurricane season reached its peak intensity just six hours after being named?
text: Did you know that while the anime adaptation of the Japanese visual novel White Album began its broadcast in 2009, it was actually first considered in 1998?
text: Did you know that Diane Geppi-Aikens , despite being paralyzed by a terminal brain tumor and confined to a wheelchair, coached the women's lacrosse team of Loyola College to the 2003 NCAA Final Four ?
text: Did you know that the French government database Joconde has over 220,000 online images of objects from nearly 300 French museums ?
text: Did you know that Rev. Wyatt Tee Walker , pastor of Gillfield Baptist Church in Petersburg , Virginia , USA, was a co-founder of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in 1957?
text: Did you know that bush ballads are a folk music and poetry tradition in the Australian Outback ?
text: Did you know that after the 1862 trial of poisoner Catherine Wilson , the judge, John Barnard Byles , described her as "the greatest criminal that ever lived"?
text: Did you know that the Skyscraper Index has shown that the world's tallest buildings have risen on the eve of economic downturns ?
text: Did you know that Cape Wolstenholme of Ungava Peninsula is the northern-most tip of the Canadian province of Quebec ?
text: Did you know that professional wrestler John Hill was forced to change his ring name from Guy Hill to Guy Mitchell due to a news reporter's error?
text: Did you know that Royal Australian Navy commissioned the bulk carrier Jeparit in 1969 to overcome union protests against Australia's involvement in the Vietnam War ?
text: Did you know that the Boulder Beer Company , the first microbrewery in the U.S. state of Colorado , was founded by two college professors who enjoyed homebrewing ?
text: Did you know that a 1927 Wolseley motor car used in the 2008 BBC television adaptation The 39 Steps was previously used in the 1960s BBC television series Dr. Finlay's Casebook ?
text: Did you know that University of Michigan track team captain Bob Osgood set a world record in the 120-yard (110 m) high hurdles in a "driving rain" that turned the track at Ferry Field into "a miniature lake"?
text: Did you know that chee kufta is an Armenian raw meat dish similar to steak tartare ?
text: Did you know that the 1981 warning strike in Poland was the biggest strike in the history of the Soviet Bloc , with 12 to 14 million participants?
text: Did you know that Charles Leigh played six seasons as a running back in the National Football League despite never playing college football ?
text: Did you know that the fluorotelomer alcohol 8:2 FTOH can biodegrade into the environmental contaminants PFOA and PFNA ?
text: Did you know that the Nintendo DS video game Texas Hold 'Em Poker allows players to mimic certain nuances such as a card player's tell ?
text: Did you know that Namibian politician Jesaya Nyamu , who was expelled from SWAPO for writing a private note on how to undermine President Sam Nujoma , formed the Rally for Democracy and Progress in 2007?
text: Did you know that Washington Park Court District is named after the Chicago Park District 's Washington Park although it is neither in the park nor in the Washington Park community area ?
text: Did you know that no rhinoceros is ever seen on camera in the 1974 film Rhinoceros ?
text: Did you know that the word palengke , a type of public market in the Philippines , was actually derived from a Spanish word for palisades ?
text: Did you know that Major League Baseball player Barry Foote batted in eight runs , including a game-winning grand slam , in a single game against the St. Louis Cardinals ?
text: Did you know that the riots which led to the 1963 Dahomeyan coup d'état began with the murder of an official by his deputy?
text: Did you know that Rev. Frederick B. Williams at the Church of the Intercession in New York City created the first program of any religious community in the United States to respond to the AIDS epidemic?
text: Did you know that the gokenin , Japanese feudal lords at the top of the power pyramid, were named after a semi- slave caste ?
text: Did you know that operatic soprano Maria Zamboni was the first person to record the title role of Puccini 's Manon Lescaut in its entirety?
text: Did you know that Vanderbilt University's win in the 2008 Music City Bowl came 53 years to the day after the Commodores' last bowl game victory and gave them their first winning football season since 1982?
text: Did you know that the Hershey Creamery Company , founded in 1894 by five brothers from the Hershey family, has actually been owned and operated by the Holder family since the 1920s?
text: Did you know that Norwegian ski jumper Johan Remen Evensen finished among the top three already in his fourth proper World Cup start?
text: Did you know that educational games from Playnormous were designed with assistance from medical researchers at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston and Baylor College of Medicine ?
text: Did you know that the Tang Dynasty chancellor Zheng Xunyu quit his responsibilities over an incident in which his colleague Wei Zhiyi left a chancellors' lunch to dine with Emperor Shunzong 's close associate Wang Shuwen?
text: Did you know that Heinrich Greinacher invented his voltage doubler circuit in 1913 because the 110 volt power supply in Zürich was insufficient for his newly invented ionometer which required 200 volts?
text: Did you know that Jeff Moronko is one of two Major League Baseball players to have attended Texas Wesleyan University , the other being Hall of Famer Tris Speaker ?
text: Did you know that the Italian sparkling wine Franciacorta was first produced in 1961?
text: Did you know that Paul Hofmann , who served as an interpreter for the Germans in WWII , passed information to the anti-fascist resistance in Rome ?
text: Did you know that, when writing about a homicide case in the Dexter episode " The Dark Defender ", Timothy Schlattmann was inspired by a snow globe on his desk which he believed "could easily be a murder weapon"?
text: Did you know that David Logan , onetime mayor of Portland, Oregon , studied law under later U.S. President Abraham Lincoln ?
text: Did you know that Operation Uranus led to the encirclement of the German Sixth Army and portions of the Fourth Panzer Army , as well as surviving remnants of two Romanian armies, totaling over 200,000 soldiers?
text: Did you know that the village of Kodinji in Kerala , India , where multiple birth is a regular phenomenon, is home to over 204 pairs of twins ?
text: Did you know that George Brough used a Brough Superior SS80 motorcycle nicknamed "Spit and Polish" to become the first sidevalver to lap Brooklands at over 100 miles per hour (160 km/h)?
text: Did you know that actor, writer and poet Stephen Haggard was the model for the character of Aidan Sheridan in Olivia Manning 's novel sequence, the Fortunes of War ?
text: Did you know that in 1998, the Khmer Rouge attacked a casino in the city of Koh Kong with rifles, rocket-propelled grenades and mortars?
text: Did you know that Indianapolis claims Charles H. Black as the inventor of the first internal combustion engine automobile , although his vehicle's ignition called for a kerosene torch?
text: Did you know that the imposition of an all-women shortlist caused the Labour Party to lose one of its safest UK Parliamentary seats in 2005 ?
text: Did you know that Rob MacCachren 's victory at the 2007 Baja 1000 marked the first time that a Trophy Truck won the event's overall title?
text: Did you know that Washington Park Subdivision land owners signed 20-year restrictive covenants excluding renting to African Americans , leading to the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case of Hansberry v. Lee ?
text: Did you know that sprint canoer Thomas Zereske 's life was commemorated by the dedication of his former teammate Christian Gille 's gold medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics in the C-2 1000 m event ?
text: Did you know that the 1933 Treasure Coast hurricane blew 16 percent of the total fruit crop from Florida trees?
text: Did you know that the Kappe Residence , described as "a virtual tree house poised over a steep hillside", was named one of the top ten houses in Los Angeles by an expert panel selected by the Los Angeles Times ?
text: Did you know that Nizar Rayan , a top Hamas commander, sent his own son on a suicide attack mission?
text: Did you know that according to Iroquois tradition, Onondaga Lake was the site of a meeting of peace between Native American leaders Tadodaho , Hiawatha and Deganawidah ?
text: Did you know that during his Victoria Cross -winning action, Percy Statton rushed four machine gun posts before returning to his battalion lines where he was cheered by his fellow Australians?
text: Did you know that Carl Fredriksens Transport , an operation that saved 1,000 Norwegians during the Nazi occupation of Norway , was code-named after King Haakon VII 's original name?
text: Did you know that radio station WLWI in Montgomery, Alabama , founded in 1930 as WSFA, gave country music legend Hank Williams his start as a professional musician?
text: Did you know that the world's first mono - motorcycle , the Uno , was invented by Canadian teenager Ben Gulak?
text: Did you know that after the murder of Robert Eric Wone , his widow was represented pro bono by prospective United States Attorney General Eric Holder ?
text: Did you know that the Jola , the majority ethnic group in Carabane , are distinct from other major ethnic groups in Senegal by their lack of social hierarchy and their languages ?
text: Did you know that the Sierra Highway was described in a promotional book to recruit teachers to California as "a highway with a hundred by-ways, each by-way with a hundred wonders"?
text: Did you know that the popular Israeli singer Aya Korem works part-time as a bartender in Tel Aviv in between recording and performing?
text: Did you know that Pocahontas Island , where evidence of prehistoric Native American artifacts were found, would later become the first free black settlement in the U.S. state of Virginia ?
text: Did you know that Roystonea regia , also known as the Cuban royal palm, was the first monocotyledon found to have root nodules capable of nitrogen fixation ?
text: Did you know that professional wrestler Stan Frazier was also known for selling fake Rolex watches?
text: Did you know that the MC-1 bomb was the first non-clustered U.S. chemical weapon ?
text: Did you know that first-class cricketer Bryan Lobb was such a poor judge of a run that he was once run out by a fielder who overtook him as he strolled down the wicket?
text: Did you know that after the Mexican War of Independence , the influence of positivists led to a renaissance of scientific activity in Mexico ?
text: Did you know that Gillfield Baptist Church, Virginia , the second oldest black congregation in Petersburg , USA , resisted a consolidation with the white congregation at Market Street Church in 1829?
text: Did you know that the Slavic Silesian Duke and monastic patron Bolko I encouraged German settlement in his region and patronised German poetry ?
text: Did you know that the 1916 Early Modern Dodge House in West Hollywood, California , called one of the fifteen most significant houses in the United States, was demolished in 1970 to make way for apartments?
text: Did you know that Fritz Otto Bernert , World War I flying ace , scored five victories in a twenty-minute timespan, earning the one-armed pilot the Pour le Merite in 1917?
text: Did you know that Darleen Ortega became the first Latina judge on the Oregon Court of Appeals in 2003?
text: Did you know that the 1819 odes of English poet John Keats , including On Melancholy , To a Nightingale , To Psyche , and To Autumn , created "a new tone for the English lyric" according to critic W. Jackson Bate ?
text: Did you know that Petelo Vikena , one of the three reigning traditional monarchs within Wallis and Futuna , previously served in the French Army ?
text: Did you know that First Baptist Church in Petersburg, Virginia , the first African-American Baptist congregation in the United States , had only black pastors until 1832?
text: Did you know that the Russian fishing industry operates on the second longest coastline in the world, which gives it access to twelve seas in three oceans ?
text: Did you know that Kelly Paris ' three career home runs were all hit in 1988 in 44 at bats with the Chicago White Sox of Major League Baseball ?
text: Did you know that the Grade I listed Franks Hall , in Horton Kirby , Kent , England , was used as a barn in the 1850s?
text: Did you know that theologian and preacher Carl Fredrik Wisløff 's 1946 book I Know in Whom I Believe was recognized in 2008 as one of Norway 's most influential books of prose ?
text: Did you know that after the American E86 cluster bomb was canceled, its E14 sub-munition was altered to deliver yellow fever mosquitoes and rat fleas ?
text: Did you know that Richard Martin , Lord Mayor of London in 1589 and 1594, is not the Richard Martin who was "thrashed" by the poet John Davies in the Hall of the Middle Temple in 1598?
text: Did you know that the 1992 Atlantic hurricane season produced the first recorded subtropical storm in April since tracking began in 1968?
text: Did you know that Tang Dynasty official Gao Ying , in his youth, offered to die in his father's stead when his father was captured by rebel Yan forces, causing Yan officers to release them both?
text: Did you know that Lesser Whistling Ducks are the most prominent species among the migratory birds that visit the lake in the Santragachhi area of Howrah , India , during winter?
text: Did you know that World Wrestling Federation referee Danny Davis also competed as "Mr. X" while wearing a mask?
text: Did you know that African American actor Lorenzo Tucker , the star of the 1932 race film Veiled Aristocrats , was dubbed the "black Valentino " because of his striking good looks?
text: Did you know that Bugle Rock in Bangalore , India , is a peninsular gneiss formation from which warning bugle calls were made to alert citizens of intruders?
text: Did you know that WLVV , the oldest radio station in Mobile, Alabama , was once known as WMML (for "M-M-Mel") as a play on then-owner Mel Tillis ' famous stutter ?
text: Did you know that Ismo Alanko Säätiö 's accordionist Kimmo Pohjonen has been dubbed the " Jimi Hendrix of the accordion" by the Finnish music press?
text: Did you know that Operation Winter Storm was an attempt by German Army Group Don to relieve the trapped Sixth Army in Stalingrad , during World War II ?
text: Did you know that M. C. Rajah was the first member of the Dalit community to be elected to the Madras Legislative Council in India ?
text: Did you know that Dick's Last Resort , an American bar and restaurant chain , encourages the staff to act obnoxiously towards their customers?
text: Did you know that the Silesian Duke Henry V the Fat spent some of his youth at the court of Ottokar II of Bohemia in Prague ?
text: Did you know that students from Tualatin Valley Junior Academy 's Ring of Fire handbell choir performed at both inaugurations of U.S. President George W. Bush in 2001 and 2005?
text: Did you know that Polish resistance member Zofia Baniecka and her mother hid over fifty Jews in their Warsaw apartment during the Holocaust between 1941 and 1944?
text: Did you know that the Thimpu principles were put forward by Sri Lankan Tamil delegates at Thimpu , Bhutan ?
text: Did you know that architect Bennie Gonzales designed most of the major municipal buildings in Scottsdale, Arizona , USA , including Scottsdale City Hall, which features a kiva for meetings?
text: Did you know that as well as the Nativity of Jesus , Olivier Messiaen 's organ composition La Nativité du Seigneur was inspired by birdsong , the French Alps , and medieval stained glass ?
text: Did you know that the American E23 munition failed in 1954 field trials causing the crew of an aircraft to be bitten by rat fleas ?
text: Did you know that the FN-6 , a third generation Chinese MANPAD , was specifically designed to be used against targets flying at low and very low altitudes ?
text: Did you know that Paul Robeson 's contract for the 1925 race film Body and Soul included a US$100 per week salary plus three percent of the gross after the first US$40,000 in receipts?
text: Did you know that Willie McCartney was listed by the Sunday Herald newspaper as the 22nd greatest Scottish football manager of all time, even though he never won a major trophy?
text: Did you know that some members of the fungal family Orbiliaceae can lasso nematodes using outgrowths of their hyphae ?
text: Did you know that the crime television series Heist detailed the 1974 Irish Republican Army 's seizure of nineteen well-known paintings estimated to be worth £8 million at Russborough House ?
text: Did you know that, during the Anshi Rebellion , the future Tang Dynasty chancellor Qi Kang took his mother and fled to Shaoxing ?
text: Did you know that in the middle of the 1995–96 National Hockey League season , the head coach of the Dallas Stars , Bob Gainey , fired himself?
text: Did you know that World War I flying ace Friedrich Ritter von Röth was posthumously granted a lifetime pension by the Kingdom of Bavaria ?
text: Did you know that IR-40 , an Iranian heavy water reactor , could produce 10 kilograms (22 lb) to 12 kilograms (26 lb) of plutonium , enough to build two nuclear weapons , each year?
text: Did you know that Jean-Baptiste Hachème supervised the government of Maurice Kouandete , being the de facto head of state of Benin ?
text: Did you know that according to Just Detention International , 67 percent of all LGBT people in prison report being assaulted?
text: Did you know that actress Yanna McIntosh has been nominated for six Dora Awards , winning twice?
text: Did you know that the last Silk motorcycle ever built was a 500cc model based on a prototype that was never produced and was used as a competition prize?
text: Did you know that Juan Davis Bradburn , commander of the Mexican fort at Anahuac , was described as "incompetent to such a command and ... half crazy part of his time"?
text: Did you know that the U.S. E61 anthrax bomblet was perceived as superior to another, earlier anthrax weapon, the M114 bomb ?
text: Did you know that one of the few criticisms against Tang Dynasty chancellor Du You was that, after the death of his wife, he married a concubine ?
text: Did you know that despite producing 123 mph (198 km/h) winds, rainfall from the 1941 Florida hurricane reached only 0.35 in (8.9 mm) in Miami, Florida , USA ?
text: Did you know that music critic Claude Rostand described Olivier Messiaen 's Trois petites Liturgies de la Présence Divine as a "work of tinsel, false magnificence and pseudo-mysticism"?
text: Did you know that the Tampa Bay Rays , a Major League Baseball team located in St. Petersburg, Florida , has had a losing record under each of its four managers ?
text: Did you know that no member of the Indian National Congress political party has been elected as Chief Minister of Madras state since M. Bhaktavatsalam served from 1963 to 1967?
text: Did you know that Hal Fryar received a number of complaints from English teachers because he appeared in a film with the grammatically incorrect title The Outlaws Is Coming ?
text: Did you know that the Marble Mountain Wilderness has one of only two stands of subalpine fir tree in California , and both are more than 50 miles (80 km) from the next closest stand in southern Oregon ?
text: Did you know that English primary school Watercliffe Meadow 's decision to call itself "a place of learning" rather than a "school" was attacked as being too politically correct ?
text: Did you know that the 20-storey Gillender Building , built in 1897, was demolished only thirteen years later to make way for 14 Wall Street ?
text: Did you know that in a May 1983 attack on communist partisans , forces of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan killed 150 communist cadres in northern Iraq ?
text: Did you know that abolitionist Charles Bennett Ray was the first black student enrolled at Wesleyan University in 1832, only to have his enrollment subsequently revoked after complaints from white students?
text: Did you know that the Swedish culture magazine Artes often featured future Nobel Prize in Literature laureates when edited by Östen Sjöstrand , a member of the Swedish Academy ?
text: Did you know that the talent of Norwegian ski jumper Jon Aaraas was first discovered in kindergarten ?
text: Did you know that John II, Bishop of Jerusalem , consecrated the Church of the Holy Zion on the day of Yom Kippur 394 CE?
text: Did you know that the American M47 bomb had a steel cover just 1/32 of an inch thick, causing it to leak when it carried sulfur mustard ?
text: Did you know that 12-year-old actress Caitlin Sanchez , selected to perform the voice of the title character in Nickelodeon 's Dora the Explorer , grew up as a fan of the show with a Dora-themed bedroom and backpack?
text: Did you know that the Canadian Parliamentary deadlock due to the " In and Out " political scandal was one of reasons for the snap election of 2008 ?
text: Did you know that the characteristics of iminoglycinuria include the presence of glycine and imino acids in the urine, and aside from that it is considered to be a relatively benign disorder?
text: Did you know that Dorothy Sarnoff taught presentation skills to U.S. President Jimmy Carter that included having him tone down his smile?
text: Did you know that the power station that powered the Terminal Arcade 's interurbans from 1907 to 1940 had a 999-year lease ?
text: Did you know that Edward Stirling Dickson , who would eventually rise to the rank of Vice-Admiral , joined the Royal Navy in 1772, at the age of seven?
text: Did you know that the original screenplay for A Life of Her Own was deemed "shocking and highly offensive" for its portrayal of "adultery and commercialized prostitution" and rejected by the Breen Office ?
text: Did you know that in the Battle of Sio , Papuan Corporal Bengari and his five companions ambushed 29 Japanese soldiers and killed them all before they could fire a shot?
text: Did you know that ABC 's Howard K. Smith: News and Comment was cancelled after Smith aired a controversial and, as it proved, premature program in 1962 titled "The Political Obituary of Richard M. Nixon "?
text: Did you know that François Charles Archile Jeanneret was a student, chairman, and principal at the University of Toronto before becoming its 22nd Chancellor in 1959?
text: Did you know that Operations Parthenon , Boris , Finery , Shed and Plan Giralda were all British plans for military intervention in Zanzibar following the 1964 revolution ?
text: Did you know that the educational Nintendo DS video game futureU helps students prepare for the SATs ?
text: Did you know that Paul Verner fled Germany's nationalists and fought as a volunteer in the International Brigades during the Spanish Civil War ?
text: Did you know that a trading post was set up in Kangirsuk, Quebec , in 1921 but the Inuit did not settle there permanently until the 1960s?
text: Did you know that the Battle of Suez was the last major battle of the Yom Kippur War ?
text: Did you know that Averill Park Central School District encompasses an area of approximately 120 square miles (310 km 2 )?
text: Did you know that Tang Dynasty official Zhao Zongru served under six emperors— Emperors Dezong , Shunzong , Xianzong , Muzong , Jingzong , and Wenzong ?
text: Did you know that polyamino carboxylic acid compounds have extensive applications in chemical , biomedical and environmental sciences ?
text: Did you know that in 1978, American football fullback Roland Harper rushed for 992 yards for the Chicago Bears , falling just 8 yards short of 1,000 in the same season teammate Walter Payton rushed for 1,395 yards?
text: Did you know that one of Russia's most famous writers, Fyodor Dostoyevsky , was a proponent of the Russian autocracy ?
text: Did you know that the Cape Grim massacre , in which four shepherds killed up to thirty Tasmanian aborigines , was an escalation of a previous fight over women?
text: Did you know that the Southworth House has been a retirement home , a fraternity house , and an office building in Cleveland, Ohio ?
text: Did you know that players in the video game I Love Katamari control a highly adhesive ball which is used to run over and collect objects of increasing size to make the ball bigger?
text: Did you know that the Irish Independent noted the "scattergun screech" of Dirty Epics vocalist Sarah Jane Wai O'Flynn?
text: Did you know that baseball player Esix Snead stole 507 bases in the minor-leagues but had just four stolen bases in the major leagues ?
text: Did you know that Simon Cowell signed the Teletubbies to his record label for their hit single " Teletubbies say Eh-oh! "?
text: Did you know that the East Ghor Main Canal diverts nearly all the annual flow of the Yarmouk River for irrigation in Jordan ?
text: Did you know that Joseph Dennie was one of the foremost men of letters in the United States during the Federalist Era ?
text: Did you know that the prelude to Operation Pleshet saw Israel use its first ever fighter plane, the Avia S-199 ?
text: Did you know that Alvah Chapman, Jr. helped orchestrate the 1974 merger of Knight Newspapers and Ridder Publications to form Knight Ridder , the largest such transaction as of that time?
text: Did you know that a member of the Montana National Guard ended a riot at the Montana State Prison by firing a WWII bazooka at the southwest tower of Cellblock 1?
text: Did you know that the Scottish Six Days Trial has been running since 1909 making it the oldest motorcycle trials event in the world?
text: Did you know that the Virginia Board of Censors found the 1927 race film The House Behind the Cedars "so objectionable, in fact, as to necessitate its total rejection"?
text: Did you know that Paul Boucherot and his partner Georges Claude built an ocean thermal energy conversion plant in Cuba as long ago as 1926?
text: Did you know that Kelly Point , where the Willamette River meets the Columbia River in Oregon, was part of the former Pearcy Island?
text: Did you know that Jerzy Putrament , a Polish communist writer and politician, in his youth flirted with the right-wing endecja movement?
text: Did you know that HarperCollins published the Green Bible with passages mentioning the environment printed in green ink?
text: Did you know that "The Flying Parson" Gil Dodds , record holder in the mile run in the 1940s, suffered a hernia in high school and ran with a truss to protect himself?
text: Did you know that quantitative precipitation forecasts are issued up to five days into the future within the United States by the Hydrometeorological Prediction Center ?
text: Did you know that a messenger pigeon named Commando received the Dickin Medal in 1945 for carrying crucial intelligence from agents in occupied France to Britain during World War II ?
text: Did you know that Rabbi Joshua L. Liebman ’s self-help book Peace of Mind spent more than a year at #1 on the New York Times Best Seller list ?
text: Did you know that the Djibouti Francolin , a critically endangered species of bird , is only known from two isolated locations in Djibouti ?
text: Did you know that Zaprešić is the most densely populated city in Zagreb County , Croatia ?
text: Did you know that June Buchanan , co-founder of Alice Lloyd College , was mayor of Pippa Passes, Kentucky ?
text: Did you know that the crash of Turkish Airlines Flight 634 on 8 January 2003 was the worst crash involving a BAe 146 ?
text: Did you know that longtime Albert Speer associate Rudolf Wolters briefly worked with future West German president Heinrich Lübke in 1945 in an architectural office in Höxter ?
text: Did you know that the 2008 New York Giants became the fifth National Football League team to have two players rush for at least 1,000 yards , Brandon Jacobs and Derrick Ward ?
text: Did you know that the Nintendo DS video game, Cradle of Rome , requires that players match jewels of the same type to build the Roman Empire ?
text: Did you know that the former Youngstown and Southern Railway , Ohio 's last interurban , was out of service for five years after being illegally sold to a scrap dealer?
text: Did you know that Choa Chu Kang Community Library was the first library in Singapore to install self-check machines for borrowing and returning of books?
text: Did you know that Terrence Oglesby , a United States citizen, was the leading scorer for Norway's basketball team in the FIBA Europe Under-20 Championship ?
text: Did you know that the final screen role of BAFTA Award winning actor Sir Norman Wisdom was that of a vicar in the 2007 British short film Expresso ?
text: Did you know that Rabbi Arnold Jacob Wolf supported Barack Obama 's 1996 Illinois Senate bid, telling him "someday you will be Vice President of the United States ", to which Obama replied "Why vice president?"
text: Did you know that Leaving Springfield is a non-fiction anthology of essays analyzing the impact of the television program The Simpsons on society?
text: Did you know that " Barack the Magic Negro " is a controversial satirical song by Paul Shanklin which refers to Barack Obama as a magical Negro ?
text: Did you know that East German Olympic bronze medalist Wilfried Hartung was once married to two-time Olympic silver medalist Gabriele Wetzko ?
text: Did you know that the fishing industry in the United States operates the largest exclusive economic zone in the world?
text: Did you know that authentic Picón Bejes-Tresviso cheese must be matured in traditional limestone caves until covered in Brevibacterium linens , the bacterium responsible for human foot odour ?
text: Did you know that Cisero Murphy was the first African American professional pocket billiards player to ever win a World or U.S. National billiard title?
text: Did you know that the City of Clarence , Tasmania , was established in the traditional hunting grounds of the Moomairemener , eventually leading to the Black War ?
text: Did you know that Arthur Ransome 's fictional pirate Nancy Blackett , captain of the Amazon , does not use her real name Ruth because "Amazons are ruthless"?
text: Did you know that Invincibles members Colin McCool , Doug Ring and Ron Hamence referred to themselves as "ground staff" because they were rarely given an opportunity to play cricket ?
text: Did you know that Independence Dam State Park in Defiance County , Ohio , is named for a dam built for the Miami and Erie Canal and features some of the canal's ruins?
text: Did you know that Alec Bennett , riding the CS1 on its first race, won the Isle of Man Senior TT in 1927?
text: Did you know that news of Rufus T. Bush 's victory in a transatlantic yacht race took up the whole front page of the New York Times on March 28, 1887?
text: Did you know that although done in spurts, it took until the mid-20th century to finish paving Pennsylvania Route 664 ?
text: Did you know that the piriform shape of the uterus is given as the reason for the predominance of cephalic presentations at term ?
text: Did you know that the chorus melody of "Be Alright", a track from DecembeRadio 's 2008 album Satisfied , was written by bassist / vocalist Josh Reedy while showering?
text: Did you know that in Scotland , anybody who tries to prevent a mother from breastfeeding in a legally permitted public place can be fined up to £ 2,500?
text: Did you know that in 1965, East German politician Albert Norden accused 1,900 politicians and other prominent personalities in West Germany of having worked for the Nazi regime ?
text: Did you know that the 1774 Schiehallion experiment to calculate the density of the Earth also made the first use of contour lines to represent height?
text: Did you know that Time magazine predicted "Big Bill" Watson , the first African-American to win the U.S. decathlon championship, would be America's No. 1 hero at the 1940 Olympics , later cancelled due to World War II ?
text: Did you know that the specific epithet of the mushroom species Crepidotus versutus is derived from the Latin word meaning "clever"?
text: Did you know that the song " The Red Poppies on Monte Cassino ", one of the best-known Polish war songs, was written during the Battle of Monte Cassino in May 1944?
text: Did you know that in 1926, Albert Einstein solved the tea leaf paradox , which states that if the tea in a teacup is stirred, the tea leaves will collect in the middle rather than at the edges?
text: Did you know that Lieutenant General Stanley A. McChrystal commanded the Joint Special Operations Command forces responsible for the death of Al-Qaeda in Iraq leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi ?
text: Did you know that the Cretaceous terrestrial crocodilian Araripesuchus is known from five distinct species, two from Africa and the other three from South America ?
text: Did you know that, in 1935, Jimmie Guthrie set five world speed records on a Norton International at the concrete bowl track in Montlhéry , France?
text: Did you know that the early Chola naval ships from the 1st century had a rudimentary flame thrower and a catapult-type weapon?
text: Did you know that Winlock W. Steiwer founded the first bank in Wheeler County, Oregon , after he had pled guilty during the Oregon land fraud scandal ?
text: Did you know that Emil Løvlien was the last member of the Norwegian Parliament to be elected from the Communist Party ticket?
text: Did you know that Larry Dierker is the only Houston Astros manager to have had his uniform number retired by the Houston Astros franchise of Major League Baseball ?
text: Did you know that Super Mario Kart sold eight million copies, making it the third highest-selling Super Nintendo Entertainment System game of all time?
text: Did you know that William Phelps was foreman of the first grand jury in colonial America and played a key role in establishing the first written democratic town government at Windsor, Connecticut , in 1657?
text: Did you know that Chris Robinson invited Buffalo Killers to open for The Black Crowes on a 2007 tour after hearing their 2006 album Buffalo Killers ?
text: Did you know that, after returning to his native England , New York composer Manuel Klein suffered a trauma during the Zeppelin attacks in London during WWI that reportedly contributed to his early death?
text: Did you know that the al-Muallaq Mosque , also known as the Mosque of Dhaher al-Omar in Acre , Israel , is located on the site of the town's ancient synagogue ?
text: Did you know that the Tang Dynasty official Zheng Yuqing restored the use of drums in palace music, after drums had been abolished in light of rebellions to avoid alarming the populace?
text: Did you know that the German-language socialist newspaper Volkswille in Katowice , Poland , went from daily to weekly publication after the 1933 Nazi takeover stopped the newspaper's financial subsidies from Germany ?
text: Did you know that footballer Abe Hartley used to place a rolled-up cigarette behind his ear prior to kick-off and then smoke it in the changing room at half-time ?
text: Did you know that Owain Gwynedd led Welsh forces to victory against King Henry II of England at the Battle of Crogen in 1165?
text: Did you know that in 1872, Western University in Kansas , USA , selected Charles Henry Langston , abolitionist , politician and future grandfather of poet Langston Hughes , as principal of its new normal school ?
text: Did you know that genopolitics studies the genetic basis of political behavior and attitude?
text: Did you know that Noel Dossou-Yovo is presently President of the Professors World Peace Academy in the Republic of Benin ?
text: Did you know that after Nazi Germany 's annexation of Austria in 1938, the parliamentarians of the German Christian Social People's Party in Czechoslovakia joined the Sudeten German Party ?
text: Did you know that the Liberty ship SS Timothy Bloodworth was the first ship to be hit by a V-2 rocket ?
text: Did you know that Robert McKechnie was the University of British Columbia 's longest-serving chancellor ?
text: Did you know that Turkish female aviator Nezihe Viranyalı was educated in civil aviation at the University of Tennessee following an invitation by the renowned American pilot Jacqueline Cochran ?
text: Did you know that the boga , an improvised plastic cannon used in New Year 's celebrations in the Philippines , has been banned by the government since 2006?
text: Did you know that Mario Menéndez , who was the governor of the Falkland Islands , surrendered Argentine forces to the United Kingdom during the 1982 Falklands War ?
text: Did you know that the history of Switzerland in the Roman era includes about 300 years of peace and prosperity?
text: Did you know that Roderigue Hortalez and Company was a fictitious front organization set up by France to help American revolutionaries fight England ?
text: Did you know that kibbutz Re'im has started a project to become the first community in Israel with its domestic power consumption provided entirely by solar energy ?
text: Did you know that Dave Fanning described 2TV as "not rocket science, it's moron television"?
text: Did you know that DeShawn Sims is the first Michigan Wolverines men's basketball player to have at least 20 points and 20 rebounds in a single game since Phil Hubbard did so in the 1977 NCAA Tournament ?
text: Did you know that the engine block of the Scott Flying Squirrel motorcycle was painted either green or red for racing or road, respectively?
text: Did you know that the owner of Fairhope Plantation near Uniontown, Alabama , organized his own artillery unit during the American Civil War ?
text: Did you know that Australian cricketer Ernie Toshack , tired of signing autographs , had a friend sign for him, who incorrectly signed Toshak ?
text: Did you know that the Cobb and Frost -designed Chicago Opera House , built 1884–85, was one of the first buildings constructed using general contracting ?
text: Did you know that the monastery of Champmol was founded in 1383 as the dynastic burial-place of the Valois Dukes of Burgundy , but only ever contained two monumental tombs?
text: Did you know that Peter Benchley wanted to write about pirates, but editor Thomas Congdon preferred his idea for a novel about sharks that became the bestseller Jaws ?
text: Did you know that Iolani Luahine , considered the high priestess of the ancient hula , was said to be able to "call up the wind and the rain" and to "make animals do her bidding"?
text: Did you know that Grower Champagnes have been described as " artisanal winemaking " for their focus on terroir rather than on producing a consistent "house style" that is associated with larger Champagne houses ?
text: Did you know that Francis S. Hoyt , the first President of Willamette University in Oregon , USA , graduated from Wesleyan University , a school his father helped to found?
text: Did you know that the Sri Lankan Army 's LRRP , a covert special operations unit, has assassinated several top level Tamil Tigers commanders during the Sri Lankan civil war ?
text: Did you know that Walter Galbraith selected an Accrington Stanley team of eleven Scots for an English Football League match?
text: Did you know that Israel has the highest solar energy use per capita in the world?
text: Did you know that at the 41st International Eucharistic Congress , Lutheran Church in America President Robert J. Marshall received a lengthy standing ovation after opening with the two words "Fellow Christians"?
text: Did you know that the extent of rainbands around a tropical cyclone can be used to determine its intensity?
text: Did you know that filmmaker Daniel St. Pierre led the team that developed the Deep Canvas system for the animated film Tarzan for enhancing the apparent depth of backgrounds?
text: Did you know that when Brackley railway station was visited by the Royal Train in 1950, the King and Queen had to step on a box when leaving the train because its door was far above the platform ?
text: Did you know that the Situationist pamphlet On the Poverty of Student Life accused French students of taking refuge from their ideological subservience in miserabilism and bohemianism ?
text: Did you know that Alfred Stieglitz 's Equivalents series of cloud photographs are regarded as the earliest examples of abstract photographic art ?
text: Did you know that the Colombo Cricket Club Ground , a small multi-use stadium in Sri Lanka , has hosted three Test matches ?
text: Did you know that after Lavrentiy Beria was arrested in June 1953, Sergei Kruglov succeeded him as the Soviet Union's Minister of Internal Affairs ?
text: Did you know that The Beggar's Benison was a Scottish gentlemen's club devoted to "the convivial celebration of male sexuality"?
text: Did you know that McIDAS software has been used to process meteorological data and images from space probes ?
text: Did you know that illustrated medieval chronicles are among the first works of Swiss historiography ?
text: Did you know that a schoolteacher from the U.S. state of Ohio donated the first 14 acres (5.7 ha) of Mary Jane Thurston State Park , named in her honor?
text: Did you know that the Zarqa River , which is Jordan's third largest, is so polluted that it is considered an "environmental blackspot"?
text: Did you know that the sarin -filled M125 bomblet was a sub-munition in the M34 cluster bomb and four American missile systems?
text: Did you know that the Alberta Taciuk Process , an above-ground dry thermal retorting technology, is named after its inventor William Taciuk and the Alberta Oil Sands Technology and Research Authority ?
text: Did you know that the isolation of antibodies and flu viruses from birds on Tryon Island , a coral cay off the coast of Queensland , Australia , led to the development of antiviral drugs , such as Tamiflu ?
text: Did you know that Brett Sutter became the eighth member of the Sutter family to play in the National Hockey League when he made his debut for the Calgary Flames on December 23, 2008?
text: Did you know that Royal Parker , who played a children's television show character on Baltimore's WBAL-TV , also broadcast the news bulletin of U.S. President John F. Kennedy's assassination on November 22, 1963?
text: Did you know that today Rare Disease Day , coordinated by the National Organization for Rare Disorders , is being observed in the United States for the first time ever?
text: Did you know that Walter A. McDougall received the 1986 Pulitzer Prize for History for his book The Heavens and the Earth: A Political History of the Space Age ?
text: Did you know that though it never made it on the air, Faze TV was planned as the first television channel in the United Kingdom specifically targeted towards gay men?
text: Did you know that while a professor at the University of Wisconsin , future I.C.C. commissioner Balthasar H. Meyer taught what was said to be the first course in insurance in the U.S.?
text: Did you know that Kandurata province cricket team entered the finals of 2007/08 Sri Lankan Inter-Provincial limited over tournament unbeaten, but the game was rained out and they had to share the trophy ?
text: Did you know that the Yellow-throated Honeyeater is known for collecting  hair from live animals such as horses, dogs and humans for lining its nest?
text: Did you know that the Arpechim Refinery owned by Petrom produces around sixty percent of all the bitumen used in Romania ?
text: Did you know that the Massacre of the Latins occurred in Constantinople , the capital of the Byzantine Empire , in 1182?
text: Did you know that sexual activism group Sex Panic! criticized the efficacy of 1990s US anti-HIV campaigns that, they argued, demonized public sexual culture?
text: Did you know that the Thika River supplies eighty percent of the water for Nairobi , Kenya ?
text: Did you know that more American astronauts have graduated from the United States Naval Academy than any other institution of higher learning?
text: Did you know that the winner of the 2005 Djiboutian presidential election , Ismail Omar Guelleh , said that he regretted having no opponent in the election?
text: Did you know that George Washington gave Martha Parke Custis a miniature of himself as a wedding gift , and later left her 1/32 of his estate in his will ?
text: Did you know that Polish caricaturist Eryk Lipiński worked for the Polish resistance during World War II , forging documents, and was imprisoned in Auschwitz ?
text: Did you know that the 1886 Michigan football team had a "goalkeeper" and played games measured in "innings"?
text: Did you know that Svein Døvle Larssen , a newspaper editor by occupation, also served in three different municipal councils for the Conservative Party of Norway ?
text: Did you know that Boxhill , a mansion near Louisville, Kentucky , sat vacant for years after it was the site of a double homicide, and was restored by the wife of a former Kentucky governor ?
text: Did you know that Peter Schutz saved the Porsche 911 from extinction when he took over the CEO position at Porsche in 1981?
text: Did you know that the Middle Colonies were the most ethnically diverse British colonies in North America ?
text: Did you know that the plot of the " 4-D " episode of The X-Files was inspired by French journalist Jean-Dominique Bauby , who could only communicate by blinking his left eyelid?
text: Did you know that NATO pilots flew more than 100,000 sorties over Bosnia during Operation Deny Flight ?
text: Did you know that Knut Korsæth , former mayor of Lillehammer and County Governor of Oppland , is also an honorary member of the Norwegian Olympic Committee and Confederation of Sports ?
text: Did you know that MBM , a Barcelona based architecture firm, showed 32 designs that were never built in a 2003 show titled Lost Architectures ?
text: Did you know that Norwegian speed skater Randi Thorvaldsen won nine national allround championships in a row from 1946 to 1954, and finished first in 34 distances out of 36 possible?
text: Did you know that the Alaska Conservation Society was the first grassroots environmental conservation organization created in the U.S. state of Alaska ?
text: Did you know that the Petrobrazi Refinery owned by Petrom is the most efficient refinery in Romania having a Nelson complexity index of 11.4?
text: Did you know that in February 2008, David Mendell received an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work for Obama: From Promise to Power ?
text: Did you know that the heads of some East Indian harvesting ant workers are ten times larger than other worker ants of the same species ?
text: Did you know that an 1847 New York state law led to bodies buried in Manhattan graveyards being dug up for reburial in Brooklyn and Queens ?
text: Did you know that Tang Dynasty warlord Li Shidao , hoping to save his ally Wu Yuanji, assassinated the chancellor Wu Yuanheng, who was in charge of the campaign against Wu Yuanji?
text: Did you know that the open access , peer reviewed journal Trials encourages publication of protocols , which the journal's editor Doug Altman has suggested may reduce data dredging and publication bias ?
text: Did you know that Edmund Chojecki co-founded Le Temps ,  predecessor to France's most popular modern newspaper, Le Monde ?
text: Did you know that Hebron , now a ghost town in Utah , was destroyed by an earthquake in 1902?
text: Did you know that child actor Robbie Kay made his acting debut in the 2006 film The Illusionist , but was eventually cut from the film?
text: Did you know that when Typhoon Olive struck Wake Island in 1952, World War II bunkers provided shelters for 700 people, resulting in zero fatalities despite the destruction of 85% of the island's structures?
text: Did you know that Czech – Bulgarian architect Josef Schnitter , chief architect of Plovdiv from 1878 to 1914, is credited with shaping that city's modern appearance?
text: Did you know that the Indiana County Courthouse was featured with Indiana, Pennsylvania -native Jimmy Stewart on the cover of LIFE in 1945?
text: Did you know that a cow once got stuck in Boot's Folly at Strines Reservoir , South Yorkshire , England , after climbing its staircase?
text: Did you know that Reedville Creek Park had the first skatepark in a Hillsboro, Oregon , park when it opened in 2003?
text: Did you know that at the Expert Committee on Questions of Population and Racial Policy , Nazi eugenicist Wilhelm Frick claimed that up to 20% of the German population had genetic disorders ?
text: Did you know that Confederate forces won the last battle at the end of the American Civil War ?
text: Did you know that Brigadier General Mark Perrin Lowrey , the founder of Blue Mountain College , died at age 56 while buying a train ticket?
text: Did you know that archaeologists have discovered in Sagardighi , West Bengal , small Stone Age weapons not normally found in the Gangetic alluvial plains ?
text: Did you know that Olympic Rower Steven Coppola was the first athlete from Western New York 's West Side Rowing Club to medal at the Olympic Games ?
text: Did you know that Harald Strøm 's speed skating World Record in 5,000 metres set at Oslo 's Frogner Stadion in 1922 lasted seven years?
text: Did you know that it took 66 years for an arrowhead found near the Boaz mastodon to be positively identified?
text: Did you know that in spite of years of development no one was able to get a Chromatron color television set to work properly, prompting Sony to develop the famed Trinitron ?
text: Did you know that publicist Joe Goldstein generated media buzz for the first International Trot harness racing event at Roosevelt Raceway by placing ads that read "French Trotter Needs Artichokes. Can You Help?"
text: Did you know that Battle of Britain pilot Paul Egger was later awarded the Knight's Cross as a Tiger tank commander in the Waffen-SS ?
text: Did you know that Cambodia 's Mongkol Borei District was part of Thailand until the French demanded it back in 1907?
text: Did you know that Paul Kodish , best known as the current drummer for drum and bass band Pendulum , performed in 1986 with Brooklyn hip hop act Whodini ?
text: Did you know that nearly half the area of Estonia 's 342 km 2 (132 sq mi) Alam-Pedja Nature Reserve was once a Soviet Air Force bombing range and its surrounding buffer zone?
text: Did you know that the John Cassavetes film Husbands , praised by Time magazine as Cassavetes' finest work, was condemned by Pauline Kael and other prominent critics?
text: Did you know that Joseph Stalin personally rewrote Falsifiers of History to respond to U.S.-released information about the German–Soviet Axis talks ?
text: Did you know that the Heian period Japanese story Torikaebaya Monogatari is the tale of a man who lives as a woman and his sister who lives as a man, who eventually swap places in order to lead happy lives?
text: Did you know that Gordon McMillan from Saskatchewan , Wally Grant from Minnesota's Iron Range , and Wally Gacek from Manitoba led the Michigan Wolverines to the first ever Frozen Four NCAA hockey championship in 1948?
text: Did you know that there were almost 50,000 women serving in the Australian military in 1944?
text: Did you know that the Tang Dynasty warlord Wu Shaoyang often pillaged the tea -growing hills of neighboring Shou Prefecture ?
text: Did you know that Stanford Financial Group , whose assets were frozen in 2009 due to charges of investment fraud , was the lead financier of the 2007 film The Ultimate Gift ?
text: Did you know that Althea Byfield played collegiate basketball in the United States, is signed to play semi-professional netball in New Zealand, and has represented Jamaica internationally in both sports?
text: Did you know that paleolithic implements and a variety of speleothems have been found in the Borra Caves located in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh ?
text: Did you know that Leif Tronstad , who helped establish the Norsk Hydro heavy water plant at Vemork , organized a sabotage mission against it later?
text: Did you know that two members of the $100,000 infield have been inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame ?
text: Did you know that the tanker ship CHANT 26 ended up discharging her cargo in a French field during the Second World War ?
text: Did you know that Sir Roger Hetherington was elected president of the Institution of Civil Engineers in 1944 after the death of the president-elect, the second successive year this had happened?
text: Did you know that in the 2001 Somaliland constitutional referendum , 97.1% of those who voted approved the constitution of Somaliland ?
text: Did you know that William Prowse joined the Royal Navy as an able seaman , saw action at the Glorious First of June , Cape St Vincent , Cape Finisterre and Trafalgar , and died a Rear-Admiral ?
text: Did you know that AAA 's first Triplemanía event in 1993 attracted 48,000 people, setting the all-time attendance record for a Mexican professional wrestling event?
text: Did you know that Kjell Magne Yri , a linguist at the University of Oslo , began his career as a Bible translator and priest in Ethiopia ?
text: Did you know that despite support from Margaret Thatcher , the 1988 National Health Service Lottery was cancelled for contravening gaming regulations?
text: Did you know that Mel Wakabayashi , born in a wartime Japanese-Canadian internment camp , was called "perhaps the most unlikely star in the long history of Michigan sports, and surely one of the most inspirational"?
text: Did you know that the skating club Christiania Skøiteklub had more than 5,000 members in 1870, when the city Christiania had fewer than 70,000 inhabitants?
text: Did you know that Avadhanum Paupiah , Indian dubash of the British East India Company was convicted in 1792 of forging evidence against David Haliburton on behalf of the Holland brothers?
text: Did you know that the syndicated TV series Sheriff of Cochise was created by co-star Stan Jones , best known for the Western song " Ghost Riders in the Sky "?
text: Did you know that Mayotte situated in the Indian Ocean , Kosovo and Montenegro in the Balkans , and Saint Pierre and Miquelon , off the coast of Newfoundland, Canada , have adopted the euro as their national currency?
text: Did you know that welterweight mixed martial arts fighter Satoru Kitaoka cut down to lightweight in 2008 and captured the Sengoku Lightweight Championship ?
text: Did you know that the Walter Hand House , in Cornwall, New York , was built in 1870 to serve as both a farmhouse and a tourist boarding house ?
text: Did you know that the largest shale oil plant in the world uses the Fushun process technology?
text: Did you know that pop entertainer Cathy Wayne was the first Australian woman killed in the Vietnam War , when a US Marine shot her on stage while she was performing?
text: Did you know that Romania 's Daewoo Mangalia shipyard has built over 127 new ships and repaired another 300 since its founding in 1997?
text: Did you know that John Bell , New Hampshire 's 18th governor , was both the brother of 14th governor Samuel Bell and the father of 46th governor Charles Henry Bell ?
text: Did you know that the Crusader was the largest ship commissioned into service with the Australian Army during World War II ?
text: Did you know that the Bay Area Puma Project is the first major study of mountain lions living in the San Francisco Bay Area ?
text: Did you know that though trained as a nuclear physicist , Peer Portner created the ventricular assist device , a pump that assists a patient's heart until a heart transplant can be performed?
text: Did you know that Wales Triple Crown winner Norman Biggs was killed after being struck by a poison arrow while on military duty in Northern Nigeria ?
text: Did you know that prior to the 1962 Bou'in-Zahra earthquake , earthquake lights were sighted?
text: Did you know that Flying Officer (later Air Commodore ) Frank Lukis was one of the original twenty-one officers in the RAAF when it was formed in 1921?
text: Did you know that though fruiting as a typical " little brown mushroom ", Inocybe lacera is easily identifiable microscopically due to its extremely long, distinctive spores ?
text: Did you know that Hungarian István Major held the high jump record at the European Indoor Championships from 1972 to 1977?
text: Did you know that five UH-1 Iroquois helicopters of the Experimental Military Unit were shot down by a single Viet Cong soldier armed with an AK-47 rifle?
text: Did you know that Humphrey Stafford was only Earl of Devon for three months before being killed by a mob?
text: Did you know that the pre-Columbian Zapotec storm god Cocijo was said to have created the world from his breath?
text: Did you know that, although it is traditionally classified as a transition metal ,  in forming compounds the element zinc has similarities to the alkaline earth metals ?
text: Did you know that John Biehl , a Chilean government minister in the 1990s, led the successful campaign for Costa Rican president Óscar Arias to win the 1987 Nobel Peace Prize ?
text: Did you know that the Grenville Canal on the Ottawa River in Grenville, Quebec , Canada, was built as an alternative military supply route after the War of 1812 ?
text: Did you know that Jens-Anton Poulsson was awarded the War Cross with Sword for his actions in the Norwegian heavy water sabotage ?
text: Did you know that following a number of recent banking controversies , Irish ruling party Fianna Fáil was overtaken in opinion polls by the country's Labour Party for the first time in history?
text: Did you know that when Gordon Wilkie and his Michigan Wolverines teammates scored 21 points in a single ice hockey game against Ohio State University , their coach threatened to bench anyone else who scored ?
text: Did you know that some living people claim to have traced their genealogy back to Adam and Eve ?
text: Did you know that United States Senator Jim Bunning threw the only perfect game out of the nine no-hitters in Philadelphia Phillies history ?
text: Did you know that Corcovado National Park is the only national park in which all of Costa Rica 's four native monkey species can be found?
text: Did you know that Kenelm Hubert Digby was the proposer of the notorious 1933 "King and Country" debate in the Oxford Union ?
text: Did you know that the pilot of Showtime's Dexter was filmed through three hurricanes in 2005 ?
text: Did you know that writer Paul Georgescu helped enforce Socialist Realism in Communist Romania while concealing his sympathy for Trotskyism ?
text: Did you know that an oleum leak at Chevron Richmond Refinery sent 25,000 people to the hospital in 1993?
text: Did you know that Kenyan long distance athlete Evans Cheruiyot and his teammates were stranded in France by their manager without food, money, or shelter?
text: Did you know that Gospel music station WNUZ in Talladega, Alabama , has been off-the-air since its transmitter was destroyed by lightning ?
text: Did you know that the Heard Shag is a bird with a black crest, pink feet, orange caruncles and blue eye-rings?
text: Did you know that Hugh Foliot took custody of Hereford Castle in 1223 as part of Hubert de Burgh 's takeover of power from Peter des Roches ?
text: Did you know that in his 1999 book The Trouble With Normal , gay author Michael Warner argued that same-sex marriage is an undesirable goal for the gay rights movement ?
text: Did you know that Yehoshua Cohen , the assassin of diplomat Folke Bernadotte , later became a close friend of David Ben-Gurion ?
text: Did you know that John Sutton Hall at Indiana University of Pennsylvania was set for demolition until its listing on the National Register of Historic Places ?
text: Did you know that five members of the Philadelphia Phillies ' 2008 world championship team , including Pat Burrell , were also first-round draft picks of the franchise ?
text: Did you know that Margo Sappington received a Lifetime Achievement Award for choreography from the Joffrey Ballet ?
text: Did you know that the Equus Survival Trust is the only conservation organization in the world that specializes in equines ?
text: Did you know that the Trondheim newspaper Ny Tid switched allegiance from Labour to Communist when Knut Olai Thornæs was its editor?
text: Did you know that the Northern Woods and Water Route is a 2,400 km (1,490 mi ) highway route through northern Canada , from Dawson Creek, British Columbia , to Winnipeg, Manitoba ?
text: Did you know that Ralph Carpenter ' s restoration of Hunter House , a historic building in Newport, Rhode Island that had been scheduled for demolition , was called "a brilliant restoration that gets better with age"?
text: Did you know that Norman Marjoribanks , later acting Governor of Madras , headed a commission to investigate the plight of indentured Tamil labourers on plantations in Ceylon ?
text: Did you know that the title of the 1960–61 TV series COronado 9 refers to the telephone exchange for the home town of fictional detective Dan Adams?
text: Did you know that the first discovery of the remains of Dorset culture , Paleo-Eskimo people circa 1000 BC to 1100 CE, was made on Dorset Island in Nunavut , Canada?
text: Did you know that Moorhuhn , a series of German computer games that has spawned much merchandise , a comic book series, and a TV series, began in 1999 as a whisky advertisement ?
text: Did you know that a song about Bulgarian rebel leader Delyo was sent into space in 1977 as part of the Voyager Golden Record ?
text: Did you know that in 1971, half the houses in Noel Park , London , were still lacking basic facilities such as baths , internal toilets and hot water ?
text: Did you know that Italian architect Ercole Manfredi took up Thai citizenship to overcome nationalist policies pursued by the Thai government?
text: Did you know that The French Democracy is an ironically titled political film about the 2005 civil unrest in France ?
text: Did you know that during the Korean Joseon period, royal physicians squeezed milk from cows to make tarakjuk , a milk porridge , which was served only for the king and royalty?
text: Did you know that 18th-century bookseller Thomas Cadell refused to publish Charlotte Turner Smith 's novel Desmond because it was too radical ?
text: Did you know that the 1862 opening of the second Causeway in Perth , Western Australia , was disrupted by a young man on horseback who raced across after announcing that he would be first to do so?
text: Did you know that suffragette Norah Elam campaigned in 1918 for the internment of enemy aliens but in 1940 was interned herself as an 18B detainee due to her membership in the British Union of Fascists ?
text: Did you know that Jennifer Granholm became the first female governor of Michigan after winning the 2002 Michigan gubernatorial election ?
text: Did you know that, with an oil-processing capacity of 4.8 million tonnes per year, the Petromidia Constanţa Refinery is the largest Romanian refinery ?
text: Did you know that it took William Edwards four attempts to build the Old Bridge at Pontypridd in Wales ?
text: Did you know that Quake III Arena's fast inverse square root code uses a "magic number" to generate a quick first approximation to Newton's method of computing roots ?
text: Did you know that the 1955–56 NBC series Frontier was only the second western anthology program on television , preceded by Death Valley Days ?
text: Did you know that tree-ring dating has linked the building of the Bishop's Palace at Hereford to 1179, during the episcopate of Robert Foliot ?
text: Did you know that the Hare Indian dog , now extinct , was not known to bark , but puppies learned to imitate the barking of other dogs when the breed was introduced to Europe ?
text: Did you know that LaVelle Smith Jnr has won the MTV Video Music Award for Best Choreography five times, including one for Michael and Janet Jackson 's " Scream "?
text: Did you know that Rod Cameron 's syndicated crime drama City Detective was sold in 1955 for distribution to a then record 171 television stations?
text: Did you know that former Rwandan Interior Minister and political dissident Seth Sendashonga recognized one of his assailants in a failed assassination attempt as his old government bodyguard?
text: Did you know that the hexagonal-pored polypore mushroom produces the antifungal polypeptide alveolarin?
text: Did you know that dental student Robert Kavanaugh was awarded the Albert Medal following his rescue of a fourteen-year-old boy during a shark attack?
text: Did you know that as part of the Canterbury-York dispute in medieval England , Gerard , an Archbishop of York , once kicked over chairs and refused to sit until his chair was as high as the Archbishop of Canterbury 's?
text: Did you know that the career of association football player Mark Maley was ended after he was accidentally shot in the eye by teammate John Oster with an air gun ?
text: Did you know that 18th-century English historian William Rider ' s 50-volume A New History of England was later described by William Thomas Lowndes as one of the vilest Grub Street compilations ever published?
text: Did you know that the death of Libby Zion resulted in an eponymous law that regulates working hours during medical residency in New York State ?
text: Did you know that at an expected cost of US$1 billion, a 3.15-kilometre (1.96 mi) long suspension bridge linking Vladivostok with Russky Island is due to be built in time for APEC Russia 2012 ?
text: Did you know that from 14th to 17th century, the Tęczyński family from Lesser Poland had a major influence in the Kingdom of Poland ?
text: Did you know that Tang Dynasty warlord Wang Chengzong , fearing reprisals after the defeat of his ally Wu Yuanji, offered his sons as hostages and two of his six prefectures to Emperor Xianzong ?
text: Did you know that the Florida State Fair , which includes the Cracker Country living history museum, offers food oddities like chocolate covered bacon ?
text: Did you know that the Tilted Kilt is a bar and restaurant chain in the United States described as " Hooters with a Scottish twist"?
text: Did you know that Erna Hanfstaengl was claimed both to be romantically involved with Hitler and involved in a plot to overthrow him?
text: Did you know that Willow Prairie Cabin in Oregon 's Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest , built by a Forest Service crew in 1924, is a popular horse camp?
text: Did you know that the Imperial Japanese Navy 's Haruna was one of the first vessels in the world to be equipped with 14-inch naval guns?
text: Did you know that the Leges Henrici Primi (written c. 1115) sets out a list of royal pleas or pleas of the crown, crimes that could only be tried in front of the king or his officials?
text: Did you know that besides delivering electric shocks , the characteristic defensive behaviour of a giant electric ray when threatened by a predator includes performing a " somersault " in the water?
text: Did you know that Rufus Does Judy at Carnegie Hall is a live album recorded from Rufus Wainwright 's June 2006 tribute concerts to legendary singer Judy Garland ?
text: Did you know that India's government launched a programme in 2001 to provide employment for poor people living in rural areas?
text: Did you know that John Windet published composer Tobias Hume 's First Part of Ayres , which contains what may be the earliest examples of pizzicato and col legno ?
text: Did you know that the Emu Brewery in Perth , Western Australia , traced its history to the town's first standalone brewery , which was founded less than a decade after settlement ?
text: Did you know that, although she was born in South Africa , Kate Dennison now holds the indoor British record for the pole vault ?
text: Did you know that thousands of illegal Filipino immigrants are deported from Malaysia every year?
text: Did you know that Babe Ruth reportedly signed one of his most lucrative New York Yankees ' contracts at Jacob Ruppert 's Eagles' Rest estate in Garrison, New York , now Saint Basil Academy ?
text: Did you know that taxidermist Walter Potter 's diorama , "The Death and Burial of Cock Robin ", created when he was 19, features 98 stuffed British birds?
text: Did you know that when the Tang Dynasty general Tian Hongzheng was young, his brother Tian Rong battered him after he won an archery contest, believing that he was drawing unnecessary attention to himself?
text: Did you know that the Versailles Cuban restaurant is part of actress Helen Mirren 's ideal weekend in Los Angeles ?
text: Did you know that despite claims that Pakistan made the Anza locally, it is believed the MANPAD was created with Chinese assistance via technology transfers ?
text: Did you know that University of Michigan Hall of Honor inductee Dave Debol , known in the 1970s as "the Guy LaFleur of college hockey", set an NCAA record by scoring three goals in less than one minute?
text: Did you know that the fine rolls record offers of money to the Kings of England for concessions and favours?
text: Did you know that Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games is the second video game based on the Olympics to star Nintendo 's and Sega 's once-rival mascots, Mario and Sonic the Hedgehog ?
text: Did you know that although Robert of Melun disagreed with some of Peter Abelard 's teachings, he still defended Abelard against heresy charges?
text: Did you know that the woodlouse Trichoniscus pusillus has some populations that reproduce sexually and others that reproduce clonally ?
text: Did you know that internet hunting is the practice of hunting via remotely controlled firearms that can be aimed and shot using online webcams ?
text: Did you know that Cambodia 's " Romeo and Juliet " story, Tum Teav , is set in Tbong Khmom District ?
text: Did you know that Martin Kolberg will retire as party secretary for the Norwegian Labour Party to run in the 2009 parliamentary elections ?
text: Did you know that Josh Gibson Field in Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania , is named for Negro League star Josh Gibson , who has been called the "black Babe Ruth ?"
text: Did you know that Clothes-Line , aired in 1937, was the first television programme on fashion history and also probably the first to feature a heavily pregnant female presenter ?
text: Did you know that the Plymouth and Dartmoor Railway linking Plymouth and Princetown was almost twice as long as the distance between the two cities?
text: Did you know that the Democratic Movement for National Liberation was the sole communist faction in Egypt that supported the 1952 Revolution ?
text: Did you know that the pill bug Armadillidium vulgare can reach population densities of 10,000 per square metre?
text: Did you know that Ed Schock earned an annual salary of just $7,000 as mayor of Elgin, Illinois ?
text: Did you know that the Church of the Assumption in Uzundzhovo , Bulgaria , was initially built as a mosque and was probably commissioned to famous architect Sinan ?
text: Did you know that Anders Buen was removed as editor of the Norwegian Labour Party organ Social-Demokraten in 1903, but continued as a prominent party member until 1921?
text: Did you know that the Family Guy episode " Ocean's Three and a Half " includes the actual audio  of Christian Bale 's outburst on the set of Terminator Salvation , making it appear to be directed at Peter Griffin ?
text: Did you know that tornadoes have passed through Washington, D.C. , on at least seven occasions , and have damaged such landmarks as the United States Botanic Garden , the Smithsonian Institution , and the National Arboretum ?
text: Did you know that the Luxembourg Palace , the meeting place of the French Senate , used to be the residence of Princess Élisabeth Marguerite of Orléans , who gave it to the King of France in 1694?
text: Did you know that after ceasing operations in New Jersey , the West Jersey Railroad operated in Michigan for several months before being renamed West Michigan Railroad ?
text: Did you know that Tang Dynasty general Liu Pi , who rebelled against the authority of Emperor Xianzong , was described by the chancellor Du Huangshang as an "insane civilian" as Du urged military action?
text: Did you know that some of the 12"/45 caliber Mark 5 naval guns , which were first deployed on the 1906 pre-dreadnought USS Connecticut , may still be in service in Brazil today?
text: Did you know that Hugh de Mapenor was elected Bishop of Hereford in 1216 even though he was not on King John of England 's list of candidates?
text: Did you know that the Holiday Bowl in Los Angeles was a popular gathering place for the Nikkei community and African Americans , with the coffee shop serving grits , udon , chow mein , and hamburgers ?
text: Did you know that after long-standing racketeering allegations, the FBI raided Chicago 's Pui Tak Center , then known as the On Leong Merchants Association Building, in 1988?
text: Did you know that Sir Charles Knowles successfully sued Tobias Smollett for libelling him in Smollett's magazine The Critical Review ?
text: Did you know that the Carnegie Library of Homestead in Munhall, Pennsylvania , trained four Olympic swimmers and sponsored both one of the 1890s' best football clubs and a baseball team with Hall of Famer Rube Waddell ?
text: Did you know that French Roman Catholic archbishop Marcel Lefebvre 's father René Lefebvre died in a Nazi concentration camp ?
text: Did you know that Armet & Davis was an architectural firm in California that designed buildings in the so-called Googie architecture style popular during the 1950s?
text: Did you know that Tang Dynasty eunuch Tutu Chengcui was killed after Emperor Xianzong 's death over his refusal to support the crown prince Li Heng as the emperor's successor?
text: Did you know that Prairie Bluff, Alabama , is a ghost town whose only remaining physical feature is a cemetery with marked graves dating from the 1830s to the 1860s?
text: Did you know that when Henry McCardie was a barrister , he often worked so late that his chambers were nicknamed "the lighthouse", as there was light coming from the windows?
text: Did you know that the Elm City Resident Card was the first municipal identification card in the United States ?
text: Did you know that the population of Filipinos in the United Arab Emirates declined by 20% in 2008?
text: Did you know that the largest Hindu temple in South East England is being built in Crawley , where 3.4% of residents are Hindu compared to 1.1% in England as a whole?
text: Did you know that the 1881 Michigan Wolverines football team is credited with playing the first intersectional football games against Harvard , Yale and Princeton ?
text: Did you know that Salvia pentstemonoides ("Big red sage") was thought to be extinct until a botanist rediscovered it while taking photos for a book on Texas wildflowers?
text: Did you know that Jaime Fonalledas is the President and CEO of Empresas Fonalledas, which owns the largest shopping mall in the Caribbean ?
text: Did you know that heavy metal band Lamb of God was banned from performing in Los Angeles , for The Subliminal Verses World Tour because their former name was Burn the Priest?
text: Did you know that the Orange Mycena mushroom is bioluminescent ?
text: Did you know that the World Netball Series is a new international netball competition, with modified rules inspired from Twenty20 cricket designed to make matches faster and more television-friendly?
text: Did you know that Humphrey Toy financed the publication of the first Welsh translation of the Book of Common Prayer ?
text: Did you know that in 1863, the U.S. gave Russia plans to build ten Passaic class monitors , partly because of the fear that the American Civil War would escalate into war between Britain and Russia?
text: Did you know that Australian Stanley Frederick Gibbs was awarded the Albert Medal in 1927 for his rescue of a boy during a shark attack , during which he punched and kicked the shark until it released the youth?
text: Did you know that Kansas City Barbeque is a restaurant and bar in San Diego , California , made famous after scenes in Top Gun were filmed there?
text: Did you know that Wendy Henry , one of the first female newspaper editors on Fleet Street , later became a full-time dog re-socialiser for the Battersea Dogs' Home ?
text: Did you know that Henry Weinhard , a brewer in Portland, Oregon , offered to pump free beer into the Skidmore Fountain when it was dedicated?
text: Did you know that six World War I German Type UB II U-boats — UB-42 , UB-43 , UB-44 , UB-45 , UB-46 , and UB-47 —were built in Bremen but cut apart and shipped by rail for reassembly at the Austro-Hungarian port of Pola ?
text: Did you know that the dedication of St Cosmas and St Damian Church, Keymer , England—commemorating twin Christian martyrs from Syria —occurs on only two other extant churches in England?
text: Did you know that Sam the koala rose to fame when a video of her rescue from the 2009 Victorian bushfires was distributed across the internet?
text: Did you know that members of metal band Slipknot found the masks that they wear on stage to be particularly uncomfortable during their Tattoo the Earth concert tour ?
text: Did you know that Kenneth Gandar-Dower introduced cheetah racing to England ?
text: Did you know that the Super Mario Bros. theme has been listed as one of the top ten most downloaded ringtones in the United States for 226 consecutive weeks?
text: Did you know that the Sideling Hill Tunnel is one of the two tunnels that make up the Abandoned Pennsylvania Turnpike ?
text: Did you know that Norwegian long jumper Nils Uhlin Hansen was killed as a saboteur in World War II ?
text: Did you know that the Morison equation , an equation in fluid dynamics introduced in 1950, is used in the design of oil platforms and other offshore structures ?
text: Did you know that Marshall Loeb , managing editor of Fortune , called his colleague Daniel Seligman , author of 400 of the magazine's Keeping Up columns, "an acerbic slayer of (mostly liberal) prig-headedness"?
text: Did you know that children's novel Nordy Bank by Sheena Porter , set in Nordy Bank on Brown Clee Hill , Shropshire , was awarded the 1964 Carnegie Medal in Literature ?
text: Did you know that in 1114, a combined fleet spearheaded by the Republic of Pisa launched a crusade against the Muslim Balearic Islands ?
text: Did you know that Mark Shepherd , who served as CEO of Texas Instruments where he spearheaded development of the firms' integrated circuits , constructed a vacuum tube at the age of six and a radio a year later?
text: Did you know that when Elton Wieman moved east to play football for the University of Michigan in 1915, the Los Angeles Times called it "a calamity of almost national importance"?
text: Did you know that Lactarius pallidus is typically found half-buried in leaf litter at the base of beech or birch trees?
text: Did you know that the National Review called David Mendell 's biography Obama: From Promise to Power "the single best source of background information on our new president"?
text: Did you know that the original mission of the Cini Foundation included the rehabilitation of its homebase, the island of San Giorgio Maggiore of Venice ?
text: Did you know that José Francisco de Peralta was elected to represent Costa Rica to the Constituent Congress of the Mexican Empire , but it was dissolved before he was able to participate?
text: Did you know that the architecture firm of Sauerbruch Hutton designed the Museum Brandhorst in Munich ?
text: Did you know that matador Diego Mazquiarán once used his overcoat as a cape to fight a bull that was running wild on the Gran Via of Madrid ?
text: Did you know that the Tang Dynasty general Tian Huaijian was, at age 10, briefly the ruler of Weibo Circuit before he was overthrown?
text: Did you know that the uncommon benign lesion verruciform xanthoma is usually found on the oral mucosa of middle-aged people, but has also been reported on the external genitalia in some recent cases?
text: Did you know that Albert Bassermann , bearer of the Iffland-Ring , considered the ring cursed after all three of the successors he named died shortly after he named them?
text: Did you know that the comedy film Skills Like This , created by a first-time director, won the award for Best Narrative Feature at the 2007 South by Southwest film festival?
text: Did you know that Fennemore Craig , founded in 1885, is the oldest law firm in Arizona ?
text: Did you know that the Rylands Papyri held by Manchester University in the UK contain P52 , believed by many scholars to be the oldest extant fragment from the Gospel of John ?
text: Did you know that Christian Holtermann Knudsen was a founder of the Norwegian Labour Party and the newspaper Dagsavisen ?
text: Did you know that William Sudell coined the name " Football League "?
text: Did you know that while serving as Governor of New Hampshire from 1842 to 1844, Henry Hubbard argued for reduced taxes for female property owners?
text: Did you know that thousands of grooves have been found carved into rock in Northern Europe , but no one knows how or why they were made?
text: Did you know that attorney Bill MacFarland had a dislocated knee and six broken teeth after playing 11 seasons of professional ice hockey ?
text: Did you know that the never-completed Design 1047 battlecruisers were intended to be the first line of defense for the Dutch East Indies ?
text: Did you know that economist Charles Hall claimed that the poor retained less than one-eighth of what they produced due to capitalist exploitation?
text: Did you know that Pinkie Road , a part of the Global Transportation Hub intermodal port authority facility, will link the Trans Canada Highway 1 and Highway 11 as a part of the Asia-Pacific Gateway and Corridor Initiative ?
text: Did you know that Air Vice Marshal Joe Hewitt began his military career as a thirteen-year-old cadet in the Royal Australian Navy ?
text: Did you know that so far there have been more than 20 arsons in the Coatesville, Pennsylvania, area since January 1, 2009, and 15 reported arsons there in 2008?
text: Did you know that Histria Perla was the 500th ship to receive Emergency Response Service classification from the German company Germanischer Lloyd ?
text: Did you know that Clussexx Three D Grinchy Glee , a Sussex Spaniel also known as "Stump", is the oldest dog to win Best in Show at the Westminster Dog Show ?
text: Did you know that the Red Bull RB5 is among the first generation of Formula One cars to feature a Kinetic Energy Recovery System , which traps energy expelled while braking for later use?
text: Did you know that French botanist Jacques Labillardière 's Novae Hollandiae plantarum specimen , published in 1804–1806, was the first major scientific study of Australia flora?
text: Did you know that under Pigford v. Glickman , the United States government paid nearly US$1 billion to African American farmers to compensate for 1980s and 1990s racial discrimination ?
text: Did you know that 2009 Michigan Hall of Honor inductee Mindy Gehrs was called "the best swimmer to ever part the waters of the Atomic City"?
text: Did you know that the Fire Nation , from the Universe of Avatar: The Last Airbender , was inspired by photos of volcanic islands of Iceland and the Pacific Ocean ?
text: Did you know that Welcome to Macintosh , a documentary focusing on Apple Inc. and its Macintosh line of computers, was praised by Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak for being the most accurate film about the company?
text: Did you know that in 1993, an officer in New Zealand 's Diplomatic Protection Squad accidentally discharged a pistol on a VIP aircraft while in flight?
text: Did you know that the first discovery of oil off the Texas coast came in 1941?
text: Did you know that William McAloney was awarded the Albert Medal for his attempted rescue of a pilot trapped in a burning aircraft?
text: Did you know that Craig Stevens 's CBS series , Mr. Broadway , featured Liza Minnelli in her first television dramatic role in the episode "Nightingale for Sale"?
text: Did you know that Sir Alan Muir Wood worked on the 80 km (50 mi) Orange–Fish River Tunnel , the second-longest water supply tunnel in the world?
text: Did you know that half the pioneers who settled in northwestern Indiana used the Michigan Road ?
text: Did you know that in 1945, footballer Doug McGibbon scored six goals in one match, one of which was timed at under five seconds from the second half kick-off?
text: Did you know that actor and broadcaster Dean Miller , who played the son-in-law on CBS 's December Bride , later bought what became WMVR-FM radio in his native Ohio ?
text: Did you know that communities of the Dagaaba people of Ghana in the 1990s still used cowrie shells as an alternate currency, long after they had been replaced elsewhere by the Ghanaian cedi ?
text: Did you know that on January 22 Barack Obama issued an executive order requiring interrogations by any U.S. agency to comply with the Army 's Human Intelligence Collector Operations field manual ?
text: Did you know that Alexandru Callimachi was Dragoman of the Sublime Porte before becoming Prince of Moldavia in 1795?
text: Did you know that Rascal Flatts ' 2009 single " Here Comes Goodbye " was co-written by American Idol season 6 finalist Chris Sligh ?
text: Did you know that unlike the queens of other eusocial species, a queen of the paper wasp Ropalidia marginata is docile and maintains her reproductive monopoly in her colony without physical aggression?
text: Did you know that former fashion model Gail O'Neill refused to appear in advertisements for cigarettes or for sponsors with substantial investments in South Africa ?
text: Did you know that the Dayton Triangles , a traveling team , folded after their 1929 season , losing their final seventeen games as a National Football League franchise by a combined score of 301–22?
text: Did you know that Australian Frederick Hamilton March was awarded the Empire Gallantry Medal for his conduct during the assassination of the Governor-General of Sudan , Sir Lee Stack ?
text: Did you know that detection of fungal infection by the wood-decay fungus Fuscoporia torulosa can be performed in six hours using the polymerase chain reaction ?
text: Did you know that Joe Dini , the owner of Dini's Lucky Club , a casino in Yerington , Nevada , was the longest serving member of the Nevada State Assembly ?
text: Did you know that Apartment Building 63 located in Bucharest is the largest single residential building in Romania with a total of 950 apartments and over 1,600 residents?
text: Did you know that Luke Smith left video game journalism to work for game developer Bungie , after he had called their game Halo 2 "broken"?
text: Did you know that, unusually for an eighteenth-century novel , the heroine of Charlotte Turner Smith 's Emmeline does not meet the man she marries until half-way through the story?
text: Did you know that English barrister Joseph Keble went to the Court of King's Bench every day from 1661 to 1710, but was never known to have a brief for a client?
text: Did you know that Jack Kramer was the St. Louis Browns' Opening Day starting pitcher in 1944, the only season the Browns played in the World Series ?
text: Did you know that the new Prime Minister of Somalia , Omar Abdirashid Ali Sharmarke , has Canadian citizenship and his family is based in Virginia , USA ?
text: Did you know that the top of the Chapel of Saint-Michel at Parc naturel régional d'Armorique is the highest point in Brittany , France ?
text: Did you know that musician and Presbyterian minister Isaiah Jones, Jr. was named "best songwriter of the year" in 1973 by the Gospel Music Academy?
text: Did you know that the Permanent University Fund ' s US$8.8 billion and 2.1 million-acre (840,000 ha) land assets help fund public higher education in Texas ?
text: Did you know that rolling meth labs used for the illegal production of methamphetamine have been known to explode , endangering motorists and police officers ?
text: Did you know that refugee mathematician Emil Grosswald 's first three scientific papers were published under a pseudonym ?
text: Did you know that the Rice Northwest Museum of Rocks and Minerals in Hillsboro, Oregon , is the biggest of its kind in the Pacific Northwest ?
text: Did you know that Tang Dynasty general Li Qi paid his best archers and soldiers of Xiongnu and Xi ancestry ten times as much as other soldiers, to garner their loyalty?
text: Did you know that William Close , the physician father of actress Glenn Close , played a pivotal role in stemming the outbreak of the Ebola virus in Zaire in 1976?
text: Did you know that Cambodia 's Prime Minister Hun Sen was born in a small village on the banks of the Mekong in Stueng Trang District ?
text: Did you know that after scoring six touchdowns for Michigan against Ohio State in 1902, Albert Herrnstein became the winningest coach in Ohio State football history up to the time he retired?
text: Did you know that acqua pazza , an Italian herbed broth used to cook seafood , is literally translated as "crazy water"?
text: Did you know that upon entering the Stadio Olympica at the opening ceremonies of the 1956 Winter Olympics in Cortina d'Ampezzo , the torch bearer tripped over a cable and fell, nearly extinguishing the Olympic flame ?
text: Did you know that Phoebe Omlie , the first licensed female transport pilot , was considered by First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt to be one of "eleven women whose achievements make it safe to say the world is progressing"?
text: Did you know that while most beers are vegetarian , some—like British cask ales which use fish parts to clear the finished product—are not?
text: Did you know that Monroe Sweetland was the first Democrat elected to represent Clackamas County, Oregon , in the Oregon House of Representatives in 20 years?
text: Did you know that in 114 years of existence the Constanţa Shipyard in Romania constructed 432 ships with a total of over four million metric tons deadweight (DWT)?
text: Did you know that in January 2009, Mark Pollock became the first blind person to reach the South Pole ?
text: Did you know that applying potassium hydroxide to the blue and yellow Australian mushroom Cortinarius rotundisporus will turn it pinkish-purple?
text: Did you know that most buildings damaged in the 1848 Marlborough earthquake in Wellington, New Zealand were rebuilt with wood, reducing the damage and loss of life in the more powerful Wairarapa earthquake of 1855?
text: Did you know that in 1920, Henrik Ameln became the first Conservative Party politician to serve as mayor of Bergen since Christian Michelsen in 1893?
text: Did you know that despite the fact that self-described alligator farms have existed since the 1890s, true commercial farming of crocodilians did not begin until the mid-20th century?
text: Did you know that the Tang Dynasty 's Princess Taihe , who became the Kedun (empress) of its ally Huigu , suffered through Huigu's collapse before she was able to return to the Tang?
text: Did you know that the German newspaper Illinois Staats-Zeitung , published in Chicago , played an important role in building the Republican Party in Illinois in the 1850s?
text: Did you know that Bobby Atherton was the last Hibernian captain to win the Scottish Cup , in 1902 ?
text: Did you know that Timetoget bought diesel trains to operate on the Bratsberg Line , despite it being electrified ?
text: Did you know that Polish historian, army officer, and independence activist Wacław Lipiński joined the anti-communist resistance , was arrested by communist secret police in 1947 and died in prison two years later?
text: Did you know that an outburst by Christian Bale on the set of Terminator Salvation inspired the band The Mae Shi to write the song " R U Professional "?
text: Did you know that 800 metres runner Andrew Hart was the fastest non- African in his event at the 1998 Commonwealth Games ?
text: Did you know that Sanggung was an official title of the senior fifth rank, the highest attainable for gungnyeo , a lady-in-waiting during the Joseon Dynasty of Korea ?
text: Did you know that following his rescue of a swimmer during a shark attack in 1922, Jack Chalmers was awarded the Albert Medal and gifted £3000?
text: Did you know that the discography of Lisa Hannigan includes collaborations with Mic Christopher , Mick Flannery , Cathy Davey and members of Snow Patrol and Bell X1 , plus her well-known work with Damien Rice ?
text: Did you know that Rinku Singh and Dinesh Patel became the first Indians to sign Major League Baseball contracts after throwing a baseball for the first time a year earlier?
text: Did you know that the extreme points of Norway include Rossøya , at 80° North, and arguably the South Pole ?
text: Did you know that Allama Prabhu , the mystic-saint of 12th century Karnataka , India , was also an accomplished Vachana poet?
text: Did you know that in 2008 a Vincent Black Lightning sold for £221,500 becoming  the most expensive motorcycle sold at auction in the UK ?
text: Did you know that former newspaper editor John W. Grace became the first Privacy Commissioner of Canada in 1983?
text: Did you know that Grassroots , an organization formed by block club leaders, has had members elected to the Buffalo Common Council , New York State Senate and New York State Assembly ?
text: Did you know that while long jumper László Szalma won six medals in total at the European Indoor Championships , his best result at both the Summer Olympics and the World Championships was fourth place?
text: Did you know that Mule Bone , a play by Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston , had its world premiere in 1991, more than 60 years after it was written?
text: Did you know that Eslanda Goode Robeson , wife of Paul Robeson , was the first black to head the Surgical Pathology Department at New York-Presbyterian Hospital ?
text: Did you know that Surtshellir , named for the fire giant Surtr , is the longest lava cave in Iceland ?
text: Did you know that Isaac D. Barnard fought at the Battle of Plattsburg in the War of 1812 , and later became Secretary of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania ?
text: Did you know that Prey Chhor District , Cambodia , is home to an ancient temple built more than a thousand years ago?
text: Did you know that Wictor Esbensen , a manager of the Compañía Argentina de Pesca , is the namesake of Esbensen Bay off South Georgia island?
text: Did you know that the Philippine Overseas Labor Office estimates that 80% of Filipinos in Palau are undocumented immigrants ?
text: Did you know that Mira Rostova , Montgomery Clift 's acting coach, was sent off the set of the 1960 film Wild River by director Elia Kazan after a single day of filming?
text: Did you know that American football star Albie Booth became famous after he scored all of Yale ’s points in a 1929 upset win over Army ?
text: Did you know that catastrophic flooding in 2000 destroyed 95% of the annual rice crop in Srey Santhor District , Cambodia ?
text: Did you know that film art director Jeannine Oppewall was so heavily influenced by designers and filmmakers Charles and Ray Eames , she had her house built based completely around her Eames-designed furniture?
text: Did you know that early favorites in the 2009 Kentucky Derby include the filly Stardom Bound ?
text: Did you know that Hans Kristian Seip , the father of Jens Arup Seip , also had a career of his own in engineering and politics, until removed by the Nazi occupants in Norway in 1941?
text: Did you know that a radio station in Evergreen, Alabama , made national headlines in 1992 when the Supreme Court of Alabama ruled that state law allowed a disc jockey to be fired just because she is a woman ?
text: Did you know that Dr Charles White , co-founder of the Manchester Royal Infirmary , kept the mummified body of one of his patients in a room of his house for 55 years?
text: Did you know that the Great Mosque of Al-Zaytuna , the oldest mosque in Tunis , Tunisia , was partly built using materials from the ruins of the ancient city of Carthage ?
text: Did you know that Ralph Regenvanu has been described as Vanuatu 's first anthropologist ?
text: Did you know that the Hashomer Hatzair Workers Party was the sole Zionist party in Mandate Palestine to advocate national rights for Palestinian Arabs ?
text: Did you know that NASCAR described its 2008 Crew Chief of the Year Steve Addington as the "complementary ice to driver Kyle Busch 's fire"?
text: Did you know that the Special Boarding Unit was created by the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Forces in response to the alleged presence of North Korean spy ships in Japanese waters in 1999?
text: Did you know that Tom Brumley ' s performance on " Together Again " for Buck Owens was called "one of the finest steel guitar solos in the history of country music "?
text: Did you know that the Maasai common name for the plant Salvia merjamie is Naingungundeu , which means "smells of rats"?
text: Did you know that although Hungarian hammer thrower Balázs Kiss won the 1996 Olympic gold medal , his best result at the World Championships was two fourth places?
text: Did you know that the limestone quarries near Ein Yabrud in the Judean Mountains have produced the only fossils for the extinct snakes Pachyrhachis and Haasiophis ?
text: Did you know that actor and environmentalist Ron Hayes worked to establish the first Earth Day in 1970 and to preserve the Grand Canyon National Park ?
text: Did you know that Ponhea Kraek District was the home of Sek Yi, who died aged 120 years, claiming the title of Cambodia ’s oldest man?
text: Did you know that Joan Baez had a #8 hit single with " There but for Fortune " the same week her album Joan Baez in Concert, Part 2 reached #8?
text: Did you know that ice hockey coach Janne Karlsson has won two Swedish Championships , one World Championship , and one Olympic gold medal?
text: Did you know that the Peterson-Dumesnil House in Louisville, Kentucky , was once the only club in the United States open exclusively to teachers?
text: Did you know that merchants from ancient India brought Roman goods of styrax and frankincense to Han Dynasty China ?
text: Did you know that during World War II , Kasper Idland was one of the four saboteurs who entered the Vemork heavy water facility to conduct heavy water sabotage ?
text: Did you know that as Governor of Madras , John Sinclair, 1st Baron Pentland , had Annie Besant arrested in 1917 for advocating home rule for India ?
text: Did you know that John McFarland was taken first overall in the 2008 Ontario Hockey League Priority Selection?
text: Did you know that Kerry Kohansky Roberts attended New York University 's film school at the same time as Peter Sollett , but did not meet him until they collaborated on Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist ?
text: Did you know that the RTÉ television series The Great Escape follows families as they relocate to countries such as South Africa , Australia , Austria , Italy , France and Spain ?
text: Did you know that Bo Molenda played professional football , baseball and basketball and was the "workhorse" for the Green Bay Packers teams that won three consecutive NFL championships from 1929 to 1931?
text: Did you know that the first reported sighting of the bird's nest fungus Cyathus helenae was on mountain scree in the Canadian Rockies ?
text: Did you know that Bonnie Newman , a former chief of staff to Judd Gregg , had been named to replace him in the United States Senate until Gregg withdrew his nomination for Secretary of Commerce ?
text: Did you know that Jangipara , a block in the Indian state of West Bengal , includes a mosque built in 1375?
text: Did you know that American composer Danny Elfman was nominated for an Emmy Award in 1990 for creating " The Simpsons Theme " and in 2005 for the Desperate Housewives theme?
text: Did you know that Walter of Albano , a papal legate to England in 1095, helped secure the recognition of Pope Urban II by King William II of England ?
text: Did you know that the Irish student group Free Education for Everyone has blockaded prominent politicians in protests over tuition ?
text: Did you know that after their 1951 marital breakup, popular Old Mother Riley actor Kitty McShane filmed her last scenes with husband Arthur Lucan on separate days?
text: Did you know that Ou Reang Ov District , Cambodia , was one of the 2008 sites for Operation Pacific Angel , a humanitarian mission of the U.S. Navy , Air Force , and Marines ?
text: Did you know that model Jessica Hart , who was selected to appear in the 2009 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue , is known for her gap tooth smile?
text: Did you know that the British band Echo & the Bunnymen 's eighth studio album , What Are You Going to Do with Your Life? , was the first not to make it into the top 20 of the UK Albums Chart ?
text: Did you know that Yohannan Sulaqa , to oppose the hereditary patriarchal succession, took a step unprecedented in the Church of the East : traveled to Rome and was there consecrated patriarch in 1553?
text: Did you know that the Zen rock garden in the grounds of Zuisen-ji temple, near Kamakura , Japan , is a nationally designated Place of Scenic Beauty?
text: Did you know that Sir Donald Luddington was the last person in history to be appointed High Commissioner for the Western Pacific ?
text: Did you know that an anomalocaridid , a bizarre Cambrian organism, has been found 100 million years later, in the Devonian era?
text: Did you know that Christ Bongo was one of only three Congolese footballers to score in final qualifying for the 2002 FIFA World Cup ?
text: Did you know that Akanthosuchus , an extinct crocodilian from the Paleocene , is the only known crocodilian with both spiked and bladed armor ?
text: Did you know that after King Edward the Confessor ordered the death of Rhys ap Rhydderch , Rhys was killed and his head brought to Edward in January 1053?
text: Did you know that Ernie Vick was an All-American football center while enrolled at the University of Michigan medical school even though his schoolwork did not allow him to practice with the team?
text: Did you know that Irish musicians Lisa Hannigan and Damien Rice dueted on " Unplayed Piano ", a Burmese protest song that charted in the UK and was praised by The Independent as "a twinkly and beautiful thing"?
text: Did you know that Li Ning was made a crown prince of the Tang Dynasty , but his mother, a consort , had to settle for a much lesser honour?
text: Did you know that Nancy Cartwright wrote an autobiography , later adapted into a one-woman play , called My Life as a 10-Year-Old Boy ?
text: Did you know that Charles Darwin suspected some saxifrages to be protocarnivorous plants ?
text: Did you know that when called by the opposition to quit after the Kauhajoki school shooting , Finnish politician Anne Holmlund refused and compared resigning her post as Interior Minister to " desertion "?
text: Did you know that the World War Memorial , built in 1928 in Kimball, West Virginia , was the first memorial to African-American veterans of World War I in the United States?
text: Did you know that Ionel Fernic made the first parachute jump in Romania on May 31, 1936, at an aviation meeting held on the Băneasa Airport in Bucharest ?
text: Did you know that Elizabeth Hamilton originally published Memoirs of Modern Philosophers in 1800 under a pseudonym because "even the sex of a writer may unwittingly bias the reader’s mind"?
text: Did you know that the architect Maxwell Ayrton co-designed the old Wembley Stadium of 1923 with his partner John William Simpson ?
text: Did you know that, in the Faroe Islands , one way of preparing puffins as food is to stuff them with sweet cake dough , raisins, and spices?
text: Did you know that although Abbot Æthelwig of Evesham Abbey was known for his loyalty to William the Conqueror , he had an uncle who died fighting for King Harold , the man William deposed?
text: Did you know that the short-lived Republic of Biak-na-Bato ended after a pact was signed by Emilio Aguinaldo and Fernando Primo de Rivera ?
text: Did you know that Charles Darwin 's final scientific book discussed the formation of mould through the action of earthworms ?
text: Did you know that Orlando Antigua survived a bullet wound to the head before becoming the first Hispanic and first non-black to play for the Harlem Globetrotters in 52 years?
text: Did you know that in 2005 UNESCO proclaimed the Moravian male recruit dance verbuňk as part of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Mankind?
text: Did you know that, according to architectural historian Neil Levine, Frank Lloyd Wright agreed to hold the 1930 Kahn Lectures for the "prestige of the venue and the bully pulpit it would afford him"?
text: Did you know that fishing for giant clams in the Maldives was banned by the island's government in 1991, just one year after the fishery was established?
text: Did you know that the idea that molecular evolution is dominated by genetic drift originally took its name from the 1969 paper " Non-Darwinian Evolution "?
text: Did you know that Tim Cole was the first person in Texas history to have his conviction posthumously overturned based on DNA evidence ?
text: Did you know that Herbert Spencer , secretary of the Derby Philosophical Society , first suggested the term " survival of the fittest " after reading Charles Darwin 's idea of evolution ?
text: Did you know that the Hechal Yehuda Synagogue in Tel Aviv is often referred to as the Seashell Synagogue due to its unusal shape, inspired by the seashells on the shores of Thessaloniki ?
text: Did you know that Consort Zheng , concubine of Emperor Xianzong of Tang , was originally a servant girl for his wife Consort Guo ?
text: Did you know that two species of bird's nest fungi , Cyathus olla and Cyathus stercoreus , have been researched for use in agriculture ?
text: Did you know that Paul Galloway and Bob Greene co-wrote Bagtime , a serial published in the Chicago Sun-Times about a fictional supermarket bagger , which was made into a stage musical and a pilot for a TV series ?
text: Did you know that Charles Darwin conducted a psychological study of his son William Erasmus Darwin where he compared the child to orangutan babies?
text: Did you know that the T4 rII experimental system enabled biologist Seymour Benzer to map a gene down to the level of one or two base pairs before the invention of DNA sequencing ?
text: Did you know that Emperor Xuānzong of Tang , the son of Emperor Xianzong by a concubine , suspected Xianzong's wife Consort Guo of being complicit in Xianzong's murder?
text: Did you know that the Chronicon Abbatiae de Evesham covers the history of Evesham Abbey from 714 to 1539?
text: Did you know that Joe M. Rodgers , who spent six hours a day for four months learning French after being named U.S. Ambassador to France , later became CEO of language school operator Berlitz International ?
text: Did you know that to help promote their single " Showdown ", drum and bass band Pendulum released a Space Invaders themed video game ?
text: Did you know that during the Frankfort and Cincinnati Railroad ' s last week of passenger service, the superintendent transported the train's passengers in his own private vehicle ?
text: Did you know that India 's imports fell by 47% and exports by 49% between 1929 and 1932 due to the Great Depression ?
text: Did you know that on its first day of open beta testing , 20,000 players created 100,000 player characters in the free online video game Runes of Magic ?
text: Did you know that because of the strict sex segregation of the era based on Confucianism , Korea 's Joseon Dynasty created a class of specialist female physicians known  as Uinyeo ?
text: Did you know that Tsarong Dzasa was regarded by officials in British India as "the most powerful friend of His Majesty's Government in Tibet "?
text: Did you know that the concept of "molecular disease" from the 1949 paper " Sickle Cell Anemia, a Molecular Disease " became the basis for Linus Pauling 's later views on molecular evolution and eugenics ?
text: Did you know that coaches of the Great Western Railway were built up to 13 feet (4 m) longer than most other British railway carriages of the time?
text: Did you know that Lucian Piane created a satirical techno remix , " Bale Out ", utilizing a verbal rant actor Christian Bale made on the set of Terminator Salvation ?
text: Did you know that Charles Darwin joined the Plinian Society student naturalists' club at Edinburgh University ?
text: Did you know that the one gene-one enzyme hypothesis is often considered the first significant result in what came to be called molecular biology ?
text: Did you know that in 1915, T. V. Seshagiri Iyer founded the Indian Boat Club at Kodaikanal in response to discrimination against Indians at the English Boat Club?
text: Did you know that Annunciation Melkite Catholic Cathedral in Boston is the principal church of the Melkite Greek Catholic Eparchy of Newton which encompasses the entire United States ?
text: Did you know that some historians argue that Urse d'Abetot (d. 1108) was one of the first barons of the Exchequer ?
text: Did you know that the Soviet Union provided a site in northern Russia for the secret Nazi German naval base Basis Nord as a part of a broader bilateral relation which included strategic and commercial agreements ?
text: Did you know that The Great Snow of 1717 lasted nine days and caused snowdrifts more than 20 feet (6 m) high in New England , USA ?
text: Did you know that Lincoln Homestead State Park contains the house in which Abraham Lincoln 's father Thomas proposed to his mother Nancy ?
text: Did you know that William A. F. Browne , a radical student who proposed Charles Darwin for the Plinian Society , became a psychiatrist and pioneered art therapy ?
text: Did you know that hikers can take a commuter train from Grand Central Terminal in New York City to two request stops near trailheads in Hudson Highlands State Park ?
text: Did you know that Indian film actors M. K. Thyagaraja Bhagavathar and N. S. Krishnan spent 30 months in jail in connection with the Lakshmikanthan Murder Case before being acquitted?
text: Did you know that Takalik Abaj , an archaeological site in lowland Guatemala , has one of the greatest concentrations of Olmec -style sculpture outside of the Gulf of Mexico coast?
text: Did you know that Shane Hurlbut became the youngest cinematographer ever to have been nominated for an American Society of Cinematographers award for a debut film, for his work on The Rat Pack ?
text: Did you know that Irish singer Lisa Hannigan did the needlework for the cover of her debut album, Sea Sew ?
text: Did you know that the Orb Aqueduct in Béziers , France, was opened in 1858 and carries the Canal du Midi over the Orb River at a height of 12 metres (39 ft)?
text: Did you know that during the Darwin Centennial Celebration of 1959, religious humanist Julian Huxley delivered a controversial "secular sermon" arguing that traditional religion was no longer needed?
text: Did you know that Mordecai Lincoln House in Washington County is the only home of a member of Abraham Lincoln 's family that still stands in Kentucky ?
text: Did you know that illustrator Blair Lent and author Arlene Mosel collaborated on Tikki Tikki Tembo , called one of the 50 best children's books of the preceding 50 years by The New York Times in 1997?
text: Did you know that three years before the Battle of the Little Bighorn , George Armstrong Custer faced the forces of Sitting Bull in battle at Honsinger Bluff ?
text: Did you know that Nagavarma II , a Kannada language grammarian of the 11th century, authored important writings in prosody , rhetoric , poetics and vocabulary?
text: Did you know that the Belletable House, now located at the Fort Rock Valley Historical Homestead Museum , is thought to be the largest home built in the Fort Rock Valley during the area's homestead era?
text: Did you know that in his 1970 book Vitamin C and the Common Cold , Linus Pauling explains primates ' inability to synthesize vitamin C as a result of evolution ?
text: Did you know that the Petersen House , where Abraham Lincoln died after being shot, contains the bloodstained pillow that Lincoln laid on?
text: Did you know that the title of Rao Bahadur was bestowed upon Indian historian S. Krishnaswami Aiyangar ?
text: Did you know that because it is difficult to approach, the nymphalid butterfly Euptoieta claudia was given a genus name which means "easily scared" in Greek ?
text: Did you know that Mykhailo Krychevsky , a respected military commander, switched sides during the Khmelnytsky Uprising , joining the Cossacks , and died soon afterwards in the Battle of Loyew ?
text: Did you know that sources indicate that Cedric "Pat" Smith , who later worked at Ford 's Rouge plant , was either the second or third leading scorer in the NFL during its first season in 1920?
text: Did you know that the Nancy Lincoln Inn was once deemed an "unacceptable adjacent commercialization" to the Abraham Lincoln Birthplace N.H.S. ?
text: Did you know that the 1988–1992 Irish television comedy Nighthawks was documented in the first episode of the 2008 Irish television show Boom! Boom! The Explosion of Irish Comedy ?
text: Did you know that Butch Hartman , the first rookie to lead a Daytona 500 , later won five championships in a rival stock car racing series?
text: Did you know that A Cat in the Brain is based on the reactions of its writer and director, Lucio Fulci , to real-life murders in Rome ?
text: Did you know that when Romanian diplomat Mihail Fărcăşanu published in the newspaper a translation of Ernest Hemingway 's For Whom the Bell Tolls , the communist press called Fărcăşanu a fascist ?
text: Did you know that Palaemon serratus is the British Isles ' largest native shrimp ?
text: Did you know that All-American football player Art Walker played in 479 of 540 minutes in the Michigan Wolverines ' 1954 season and later played seven years for the Edmonton Eskimos ?
text: Did you know that the Portuguese destroyed Korlai Fort only 73 years after building it because they did not have enough men to guard the fort?
text: Did you know that between 1903 and 1924 Rover produced more than 10,000 motorcycles ?
text: Did you know that prominent Beninese merchant and politician Paul Darboux went missing from 1963 to 1970?
text: Did you know that the Visna virus , a retrovirus that causes encephalitis and chronic pneumonitis in sheep , is used as a model system for HIV infection?
text: Did you know that King Yeongjo of the Korean Joseon Dynasty was said to have been born of a concubine from the musuri slave class?
text: Did you know that Michael Homer created Netscape 's business plan and developed marketing campaigns for its web browser at a time when few had heard of the Internet ?
text: Did you know that as of 2007, Romania has an installed wind power capacity of only seven megawatts ?
text: Did you know that comedian Freddie Roman eulogized Milton Parker , who bought the famed New York City deli with Leo Steiner , saying that " Carnegie Deli caused more heartburn to the Jewish world than anything I've ever heard of"?
text: Did you know that the cobalt crust fungus was selected as the German Mycological Society 's fungus of the year in 2009?
text: Did you know that Hungarian long jumper and triple jumper Gyula Pálóczi has been called "the most successful jumper Hungary has ever produced" by the European Athletic Association ?
text: Did you know that Boss Weeks was quarterback of Fielding H. Yost 's "Point-a-Minute" University of Michigan football teams in 1901–1902 that outscored opponents 1,211 to 12?
text: Did you know that Tamil devotional song " Kurai Onrum Illai " was composed by Indian statesman and Governor-General , C. Rajagopalachari ?
text: Did you know that Hall of Famer Steve Carlton started 14 Opening Day games for the Philadelphia Phillies ?
text: Did you know that British singer Adele was nominated for four 2009 Grammy Awards for " Chasing Pavements ", winning in the Best New Artist and Best Female Pop Vocal Performance categories?
text: Did you know that inmates at the Eastern Oregon Correctional Institution in Pendleton, Oregon , manufacture Prison Blues brand jeans and other denim garments that are sold throughout the United States ?
text: Did you know that Knightsville, Utah , a company town owned and operated by Mormon entrepreneur Jesse Knight , was known as "the only mining camp in the United States without a saloon "?
text: Did you know that in his later years, Indian journalist C. Karunakara Menon was detested by the extremists of the Indian independence movement as well as the Government of British India ?
text: Did you know that Michael Jackson narrated E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial , the soundtrack of Steven Spielberg 's 1982 film ?
text: Did you know that after an alpine skiing career with modest results, Tomáš Kraus switched to competing in skicross , and became a double world champion ?
text: Did you know that singer Ray LaMontagne was nominated for five 2005 Boston Music Awards , including Best Act, Best Male Vocalist, Best Male Singer/Songwriter, Best Song for " Trouble ", and Best Album for his debut CD ?
text: Did you know that Hamam al-Sammara is the only remaining Turkish bathhouse in Gaza of the original five that continues to function?
text: Did you know that college mathematics professor David Bressoud chose to major in mathematics because that was the quickest way to complete his degree and get away from college and academia ?
text: Did you know that headache is a symptom commonly described by patients suffering from lupus , but the existence of lupus headache as a specific disorder is contested?
text: Did you know that a sermon by St Asterius , a 4th-century Bishop of Amasia , was cited twice at the Second Council of Nicaea , an ecumenical council in 787, as evidence supporting the veneration of religious icons ?
text: Did you know that Buck Creek State Park in Ohio contains a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers dam and reservoir, an early 19th-century homestead , and patches of original prairie ?
text: Did you know that Vicente González Lizondo , then President of the Valencian regional parliament , died a few days after collapsing from a fatal heart attack during a parliamentary session in 1996?
text: Did you know that besides causing anemia and reducing weight gains in sheep , the blood-feeding fly Melophagus ovinus can also stain the wool and devalue it?
text: Did you know that the fifth album by Missouri -based reggae band Jah Roots featured former Bob Marley & The Wailers lead guitarist Junior Marvin ?
text: Did you know that students hoping to increase their brainpower before exams made offerings of incense to the body of a two-headed calf in Koh Sotin District , Cambodia ?
text: Did you know that Memot District in eastern Cambodia is home to several huge prehistoric villages that date to the first millennium BCE ?
text: Did you know that Beninese politician Sourou-Migan Apithy was said to have ended slavery in Benin, although in fact he was not involved with the abolition bill?
text: Did you know that one episode of Ireland 's Project Ha Ha was criticised for featuring mainly Australian and American accents?
text: Did you know that opera singers Johann Nepomuk Beck , Marie Wilt , and Hans von Rokitansky all performed in the world premiere of Karl Goldmark 's Die Königin von Saba on 10 March 1875?
text: Did you know that the Church of St Porphyrius , a Greek Orthodox church at the site where St Porphyrius of Gaza was buried, is the oldest active church in Gaza City ?
text: Did you know that John Adams served as a member of the Executive Council of Nova Scotia for 20 years, making him one of the council's longest-serving members?
text: Did you know that gungnyeo is a generic Korean term referring to court ladies who waited on the king and royalty during the Goryeo and Joseon dynasties of Korea ?
text: Did you know that a park in Seattle is named after Terry Pettus , a onetime Communist whose conviction for conspiracy to overthrow the U.S. government was overturned by the Supreme Court ?
text: Did you know that male field crickets of the species Gryllus veletis attract sexually receptive mates by acoustic signals , and one changes his "courtship song" when a female enters his territory?
text: Did you know that Emperor Shunzong of Tang 's close associate Wang Pi was described by historians as ugly, lacking ambition, and speaking in Wu Chinese ?
text: Did you know that Los Angeles -based hip hop group Black Eyed Peas have released two number one albums in both Australia and Switzerland , but have yet to achieve the same on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 ?
text: Did you know that in the Wii video game Neighborhood Games , when playing with more than one person, player characters can taunt opposing players to break their concentration?
text: Did you know that " The Peanut Vendor ", composed by Cuban orchestra leader Moisés Simons , has been recorded by over 160 bands?
text: Did you know that in the 15th century, cutting down a Nebbiolo grapevine in the Piedmont region of La Morra was punishable by a heavy fine , hanging , or having your right hand cut off ?
text: Did you know that cycling world champion Wilhelm Henie was his daughter Sonja Henie 's guide and manager in her figure skating career?
text: Did you know that the price war started by Color Air in 1998 led to its bankruptcy after 14 months?
text: Did you know that the restoration of Ifield Water Mill in West Sussex , England, was carried out almost entirely by volunteers?
text: Did you know that Naomi Klein 's second book, Fences and Windows , is a collection of newspaper articles about the anti-globalization movement which she wrote while promoting her first book, No Logo ?
text: Did you know that San Francisco 49ers wide receiver Billy Wilson has been described as "probably one of the most underrated players in NFL history"?
text: Did you know that Cambodia ’s current First Lady, Bun Rany , was once in charge of a Khmer Rouge hospital in Krouch Chhmar District ?
text: Did you know that when Prince Philip first saw the stumpery at Highgrove House he asked his son, Charles , "when are you going to set fire to this lot?"?
text: Did you know that the schooner and research vessel Vema was initially a luxury yacht built for E.F. Hutton ?
text: Did you know that Wang Yongmin , developer of the Wubi method , brought the first case for protection of intellectual property rights in the People's Republic of China ?
text: Did you know that chocolataires , popular around the late 19th century, were thrown as a novel alternative to tea parties —once even for a kindergarten fundraiser in Indiana , USA?
text: Did you know that to ensure his 1948 reelection, Republican Congressman Richard Nixon cross-filed in the Democratic primary, beating Stephen Zetterberg who ran after Nixon's 1946 foe, Jerry Voorhis declined to run?
text: Did you know that 467 mass graves containing 32,690 victims were found in the grounds of a pagoda in Kang Meas District in Cambodia ?
text: Did you know that Bert Shelley made 448 appearances for Southampton Football Club between 17 January 1920 and 16 April 1932, a club record that was broken by Tommy Traynor in 1966?
text: Did you know that after John Rich of Big & Rich released his single " Shuttin' Detroit Down ", Detroit radio station WDTW began playing the song hourly?
text: Did you know that the American band Scissor Sisters won all three international categories at the 2005 BRIT Awards for their debut album ?
text: Did you know that in the aftermath of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact , the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany signed three economic agreements: in 1939 , in 1940 and in 1941 ?
text: Did you know that the white Piedmont wine grape Arneis is known as "white Barolo " because it was traditionally blended with Nebbiolo to soften that grape's harsh tannins ?
text: Did you know that 22 Australians have been decorated with the George Cross , the highest civil decoration for heroism in the British Empire ?
text: Did you know that the grandfather of Barack Obama 's new Cabinet Secretary , Chris Lu , was attorney general for the Republic of China ?
text: Did you know that Teddy Air was the first airline to win a public service obligation in Norway ?
text: Did you know that one critic described the Arliss Howard film Big Bad Love about an alcoholic Vietnam veteran as "a self-indulgent celebration of self-indulgence"?
text: Did you know that before his inauguration , President Barack Obama read The Defining Moment , planning to apply some of Franklin D. Roosevelt 's strategies outlined in the book into his own administration?
text: Did you know that Fredrik Kayser volunteered for the Winter War , served in the Norwegian Campaign , and helped sabotage the Nazi nuclear programme ?
text: Did you know that St. Andrew's Episcopal Church in Walden, New York , was not consecrated for nine years as it took that long to pay off the construction debt?
text: Did you know that the slipper lobster Scyllarus arctus is less common around Great Britain than the giant squid Architeuthis dux ?
text: Did you know that before he flew the Spirit of St. Louis on his historic transatlantic flight, Charles Lindbergh 's first choice of aircraft was the Ryan M-2 ?
text: Did you know that the United Kingdom political party the Liberal Democrats received £456,000 in state political funding in 2006?
text: Did you know that stand-up comedian Tommy Johnagin achieved two personal career goals within one year: to appear on the Late Show with David Letterman and to host his own Comedy Central Presents special?
text: Did you know that the first dinosaur to be discovered in Antarctica was unearthed in 1986 from the Santa Marta Formation ?
text: Did you know that the Rudge Ulster racing motorcycle was named after Graham Walker 's 1928 race win in the Ulster Grand Prix , the first time a road race had been won at over 80 mph?
text: Did you know that the zamindar of the estate of Ramnad held the title "Sethupathi" or "protector of the bridge"?
text: Did you know that the operation of the Adria oil pipeline was stopped in 1991 because of the conflict in Croatia ?
text: Did you knowcher Dave Wainhouse became the first Canadian -born player to be selected in the first round of the Major League Baseball Draft ?
text: Did you know that Bridgemere Garden World in Bridgemere , Cheshire , now one of the largest garden centres in Europe, started as "a little garden shed in a small field" in 1961?
text: Did you know that Johnny Kitagawa has held a virtual monopoly on the creation of boy bands in Japan for more than 40 years?
text: Did you know that the Hudson's Bay Company 's Joseph Adams oversaw the creation of a trading post from which Ontario 's first English settlement originated?
text: Did you know that British marque AJW built high-end 1000cc motorcycles in the 1920s but were producing 50cc "Fox Cubs" by the 1960s?
text: Did you know that former Romanian boxer Gogea Mitu is listed by the Guiness Book of World Records as the world's tallest professional boxer ?
text: Did you know that the Nintendo DS video game, Elebits: The Adventures of Kai and Zero , requires that players catch "elebits", which are small beings that pulse with electricity ?
text: Did you know that in the middle of building Fagernes Airport, Leirin , the authorities changed their minds and gave the airport more than twice the runway length?
text: Did you know that in c. 990, Nagavarma I authored the earliest available work on the science of prosody in the Kannada language ?
text: Did you know that Academy Award winner Glen Hansard was a regular visitor to Dublin 's Road Records store before its closure in January 2009?
text: Did you know that former West Indian cricketer John Maynard gained his nickname The Dentist after knocking out an opponent's teeth with one of his fast deliveries ?
text: Did you know that Joan Bright Astley is believed to be one of the women on whom novelist Ian Fleming based the James Bond series character Miss Moneypenny ?
text: Did you know that although it is now endemic to Fiji , fossils attributed to the Fiji Goshawk have been found in ʻEua , Tonga ?
text: Did you know that Rabbi Leon Klenicki called the We Remember: A Reflection on the Shoah significant in establishing that "the deniers of the Holocaust in Europe now have to deal with the Vatican "?
text: Did you know that the 2007 French science fiction film Eden Log , created by first-time director Franck Vestiel, was shot using only hand-held cameras ?
text: Did you know that about 600 ships have been wrecked on the Doom Bar at the estuary of the River Camel on Cornwall 's north coast in the past 200 years?
text: Did you know that Grady Nutt , known as "The Prime Minister of Humor" for his humorous sketches of Protestant culture in the Southern United States , was a licensed Baptist minister at age thirteen?
text: Did you know that Beer Day in Iceland celebrates the end of prohibition of beer on 1 March 1989, though wine and other spirits had been legal since 1935?
text: Did you know that Rideau was the first Canadian company to be granted its own coat of arms by The Heraldic Authority ?
text: Did you know that according to indigenous chronicles, the Chajomá kingdom was one of the three principal kingdoms in highland Guatemala before the Spanish Conquest ?
text: Did you know that Arthur Bagot was awarded the Albert Medal in 1918 for removing depth charges from a motor launch whilst the launch was ablaze?
text: Did you know that on 28 May 1931, a Bellanca CH-300 , fitted with a Packard DR-980 diesel engine , set a 55-year record for staying aloft for 84 hours and 32 minutes without being refueled?
text: Did you know that Steve Carson , the producer/director husband of RTÉ host Miriam O'Callaghan , has been named as the channel's Director of Television?
text: Did you know that in medieval England the regalian right was an important, if irregular, source of income for the kings ?
text: Did you know that Roger Neilson was made the head coach of the Ottawa Senators for the last two games of the 2001–02 season to become the ninth head coach in National Hockey League history to coach 1,000 games?
text: Did you know that Sydney Dickens , the son of novelist Charles Dickens , accumulated so much debt that his father refused to see him?
text: Did you know that informed consent for Icos 's experimental drug rovelizumab (LeukArrest) was waived during clinical trials if the patient was unconscious and had a high chance of dying?
text: Did you know that Conrad Wilhelm Eger was an associate of Norwegian industrialist Sam Eyde , serving as CEO of Elkem from 1912 to 1950?
text: Did you know that the Mechanics Bank based in Richmond, California , declined a 60 million dollar government bailout ?
text: Did you know that two court orders sought to force the Philippine Basketball Association to allow Filipino basketball player Asi Taulava to play in the 2004–05 PBA Philippine Cup despite him being suspended?
text: Did you know the first bridge over the Mekong in Cambodia was built in Kampong Cham District ?
text: Did you know that  actor Peter Falk , the affable detective in the long-running TV series Columbo , was propelled to stardom by portraying a vicious killer in the 1960 film Murder, Inc. ?
text: Did you know that in 1938, Time magazine stated that Carleton Beals is "now the best informed and the most awkward living writer on Latin America "?
text: Did you know that Albania expects to accede to NATO this April after individual NATO member states ratify its accession protocol?
text: Did you know that Ray Edwin Powell was the president of Alcan , a Canadian aluminum company, before becoming the 10th Chancellor of McGill University in 1957?
text: Did you know that dessert bars are considered one of two essentials for potlucks in Minnesota , the other being hotdish ?
text: Did you know that Dag Berggrav , whose father and grandfather both were bishops, served as the vice president of the International Ski Federation from 1979 to 1983?
text: Did you know that during clinical trials of the experimental drug erlizumab (rhuMAb), four patients suddenly started coughing up blood and later died?
text: Did you know that American wine writer Matt Kramer coined the definition of terroir as a wine's "somewhereness"?
text: Did you know that Major League Baseball catcher Nelson Santovenia caught Vince Coleman stealing on July 28, 1989, ending Coleman's streak of 50 consecutive stolen bases ?
text: Did you know that the Gulag ship Indigirka was shipwrecked trying to enter the La Perouse Strait with a loss of 741 lives ?
text: Did you know that William Agar Adamson , who was the personal chaplain to Lord Sydenham , the first Governor of the Province of Canada , also wrote a book on salmon fishing?
text: Did you know that Coast Aero Center and Norving were the first airlines with scheduled services at Geilo Airport, Dagali located in Hol , Norway ?
text: Did you know that University of Michigan gymnast Beth Wymer won three consecutive NCAA championships in the uneven bars and was a first-team All-American in the all-around and balance beam ?
text: Did you know that the 500-year-old title Yeonguijeong was created in 1400 CE during the Joseon Dynasty of Korea , and given to the Chief State Councilor as the highest government position of " Uijeongbu "?
text: Did you know that the Giannini sextuplets , the second set of sextuplets in the world to live past infancy, were born in Italy six years to the date after the first set of surviving sextuplets?
text: Did you know that in the second season of Burn Notice , the main character offers asides on topics such as how to burglar -proof a house or break out of prison ?
text: Did you know that the King's Police Medal was created to reward the gallantry of three police officers involved in the Tottenham Outrage in 1909?
text: Did you know that the Perek Shirah , an ancient Jewish text, contains 84 songs of various elements of creation , ranging from the heavens to dogs, based upon Biblical and Talmudic verses?
text: Did you know that according to Second World War general "Jumbo" Wilson , Hermione, Countess of Ranfurly "outmanoeuvred every general in the Middle East " in her efforts to remain in the theatre of war?
text: Did you know that the Tony Jannus Award for distinguished achievement in commercial aviation is named for the pilot of the first scheduled commercial airline flight?
text: Did you know that Tuva or Bust! , a book about Nobel Prize -winning physicist Richard Feynman 's efforts to visit Tannu Tuva , was inspired by Feynman's childhood memories of seeing postage stamps from Tannu Tuva ?
text: Did you know that Cinderella , as broadcast on CBS in March 1957, is the only Rodgers and Hammerstein musical written for television ?
text: Did you know that Ignatz Urban 's type collections of Caribbean plants were largely destroyed in the 1943 bombing of the Berlin Herbarium ?
text: Did you know that more than 900 different Great Western Railway telegraphic codes were in use to make the GWR 's telegraph messages more efficient?
text: Did you know that Lu Chen 's magic show was the second-most popular performance in China's 2009 CCTV Spring Festival special ?
text: Did you know that The Go-Getter ' s theatrical run in the U.S. lasted only three days in June 2008?
text: Did you know that Gáspár Békés organized two unsuccessful rebellions against Stephen Báthory of Poland but later became Báthory's close advisor despite differences in their religions?
text: Did you know that in Gretchen , a play by W. S. Gilbert based on Goethe's Faust , Faustus hopes to be purified by loving Gretchen, but instead his influence corrupts and eventually kills her?
text: Did you know that while Auguste Achintre was traveling to New York City as Haiti 's ambassador to the United States, the Haitian government was overthrown, revoking his role as ambassador ?
text: Did you know that American author Malcolm MacPherson was inspired to become a journalist after interviewing Prime Minister of India Jawaharlal Nehru while attending a high school summer program in New Delhi ?
text: Did you know that only 33 Portuguese soldiers survived the 1638 Battle of Gannoruwa , fought between the occupying Portuguese forces and the Sinhalese army?
text: Did you know that Louisiana journalist Robert Angers in 1977 established the International Relations Association of Acadiana to foster goodwill and commerce with French and Spanish -speaking nations?
text: Did you know that the Port of Lázaro Cárdenas is the largest seaport in Mexico , handling 20,860,647 tonnes of cargo in 2008?
text: Did you know that the Western Australian Drosera stolonifera species complex was split into six related species in 2005?
text: Did you know that John Duncan Watson was responsible for the construction of the first large-scale percolating filter sewage treatment plant?
text: Did you know that after the cult comedy show Mystery Science Theater 3000 was cancelled, the writing staff created an animated comedy / fantasy miniseries for the Sci Fi Channel website called Edward the Less ?
text: Did you know that the didactic Jain literature, Vaddaradhane , written by Shivakotiacharya in c. 900, is the earliest available prose work in the Kannada language ?
text: Did you know that during the inauguration of Barack Obama , Macon Phillips , the White House Director of New Media , posted the first official Obama Administration blog entry from Whitehouse.gov ?
text: Did you know that Sgurr nan Spainteach , a mountain in Glen Shiel , was named after the Spanish soldiers who retreated up it during the Battle of Glen Shiel ?
text: Did you know that the plant genus Tricarpelema contains seven Asian species from moist tropical forests and one African species found on dry inselbergs ?
text: Did you know that the Dubois-Sarles Octagon in Marlboro, New York , has a recessed entrance and sidehall interior plan, both unusual in mid-19th century octagon houses ?
text: Did you know that Ugandan 800 metres runner Abraham Chepkirwok missed out on the 2007 World Championships bronze medal by only 0.02 seconds?
text: Did you know that when Hayden Edwards asked fellow empresario Stephen F. Austin to support the Fredonian Rebellion , Austin replied "You are deluding yourselves and this delusion will ruin you"?
text: Did you know that the recently announced Marianna Fault in Arkansas was discovered due to the stretches of fine sand in otherwise fertile soil ?
text: Did you know that efforts taken by Roman Catholic missionary Henrique Henriques to publish religious books in local languages led him to be called The Father of Tamil press ?
text: Did you know that the English village of Gresham, Norfolk , once had a 14th-century castle with four round towers and a moat , now ruined and overgrown by trees?
text: Did you know that gymnastics coach Bev Plocki led Michigan to 15 Big Ten championships and 18 NCAA championship tournaments after taking over a last-place program in 1990?
text: Did you know that Egypt 's Fahd Armored Personnel Carrier has specialized variants ranging from an infantry fighting vehicle to a command post vehicle to deal with different threats?
text: Did you know that advertising executive turned vintner Robert Palmer was one of the first to export overseas wines produced in the North Fork of New York 's Long Island ?
text: Did you know that the decking for the pier at the Sihanoukville Autonomous Port in Cambodia was so heavy that a railway had to be constructed to move it?
text: Did you know that worldwide there are four million commercial fishing vessels , including 1.8 million undecked traditional craft still powered by oars or sail ?
text: Did you know that Michael Jackson 's autobiography, Moon Walk , was given the code name " Neil Armstrong ", that of the first "moonwalker"?
text: Did you know that in a festival at the Norse Temple at Uppsala , men and male animals were sacrificed by hanging?
text: Did you know that the Milton-Madison Bridge , which carries U.S. Route 421 across the Ohio River , is considered structurally poor and unable to handle modern truck traffic?
text: Did you know that the Kh-31 was the first supersonic anti-ship missile that could be launched by tactical aircraft?
text: Did you know that former Los Angeles Clippers coach Larry Brown is the only one of the 22 head coaches in franchise history with a winning NBA regular season record?
text: Did you know that K-Space 's third album, Infinity , was a new type of CD that is different every time it is played?
text: Did you know that Alexis Belonio , for his innovations on the rice husk stove, becomes the first Filipino to receive a Rolex Award for Enterprise ?
text: Did you know that the old stone jail in Bardstown, Kentucky , an active prison from 1819 to 1987, is the last stone jail in operation in Kentucky , USA ?
text: Did you know that the English architectural historian Edward Hubbard wrote the definitive biography of the Cheshire architect John Douglas , but died before it could be published?
text: Did you know that various species in the fungal genus Antrodia , used in Taiwan as traditional medicines , have been shown to have antioxidant and anticancer properties?
text: Did you know that the first ever mission of the U.S. Peace Corps to Cambodia began in the Kampong Siem District ?
text: Did you know that developmental biologist Aron Moscona 's research on growth of embryos into complex tissues and organs led to the discovery of cadherins , which help cells recognize each other and cluster together?
text: Did you know that in some countries, digital DJ licensing is required before DJs can legally perform with a laptop ?
text: Did you know that New York City 's Stock Exchange Luncheon Club closed in 2006 after more than a century on Wall Street ?
text: Did you know that former Six band member Sinéad Shepherd returned to Irish television on The All Ireland Talent Show in February 2009?
text: Did you know that Haung Falls in the Cambodian district of Dambae have carved out a 1,425 square metre stone crater under the cascade?
text: Did you know that mountaineer Otto Meiling kept in such good physical shape, he made a one-day ascent of Argentina's Mount Tronador in his mid 80s?
text: Did you know that a subspecies of the carnivorous plant Drosera stolonifera has only been collected from the summits of two mountains, Bluff Knoll and Toolbrunup in Western Australia ?
text: Did you know that firefighters had to shut off a fire hydrant in Hawaii after it was struck by a rockslide as a result of heavy rainfall from Hurricane Darby in 2004?
text: Did you know that Francois-Gabriel D'Angeac , the first French governor of Saint Pierre and Miquelon , began his military career at age eight?
text: Did you know that Adolphe Colrat , the High Commissioner of the Republic in French Polynesia , previously worked as the chief of staff for the police commissioner of Réunion ?
text: Did you know that Sammy Davis Jr. 's 1933 role in Rufus Jones for President is considered to be the first portrayal of an African American president of the United States in popular culture ?
text: Did you know that in 1953, Jessurun Cardozo became the first rabbi to conduct Jewish High Holidays services in Madrid since the Alhambra Decree of 1492 expelled Jews from Spain ?
text: Did you know that in 1995–96 , fans of the NHL 's Florida Panthers celebrated goals by throwing plastic rats on the ice as their team reached its first Stanley Cup final?
text: Did you know that in late 2008, Norwegian novelist Johan Harstad won the Brage Prize and was hired as the first in-house playwright at the National Theatre of Norway ?
text: Did you know that after the New York Central Railroad ended service to it, the Milton Railroad Station in Milton, New York , was used by a local winery for tastings ?
text: Did you know that a relative of the culinary herb sage , Salvia involucrata , has been found to contain compounds that can help prevent memory loss?
text: Did you know that of all head coaches of what are now the New Orleans Hornets , Basketball Hall of Famer Dave Cowens has had the best record, winning more than 60% of games in his three seasons coaching the team?
text: Did you know that British novelist Mary Shelley was blackmailed by the Italian exile for whom she wrote the travel narrative Rambles in Germany and Italy ?
text: Did you know that before a shogunate tribunal in 1787, the temples Myōhō–ji , Ankokuron-ji and Chōshō-ji in Kamakura all claimed to be the site where Nichiren , founder of Nichiren Buddhism in Japan , had his hermitage in a hut in the 13th century?
text: Did you know that 19th-century English portrait painter Henry William Pickersgill was a member of the Royal Academy for almost 50 years, and showed a total of 384 works there?
text: Did you know that Keith Smith was a leading Australian rules footballer of the 1930s and '40s?
text: Did you know that 19th-century French newspaper Le Constitutionnel established the reputation of critics such as Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve ?
text: Did you know that despite what its scientific name implies, the perennial garden plant Salvia indica is not naturally found in India ?
text: Did you know that film producers Keith Calder , Felipe Marino and Joe Neurauter acquired their first script within a week of forming their production company , Occupant Films?
text: Did you know that art and architecture collective Fashion Architecture Taste designed a bicycle shelter in the shape of a castle in Scheveningen that appeared on the 69c Dutch postage stamp ?
text: Did you know that Jack Brennan 's accidental interruption of the Frost/Nixon interviews allowed Richard Nixon 's staff to convince Nixon to offer a mea culpa ?
text: Did you know that the medieval Old Punch Bowl in Crawley , England, has been a house, a dairy farm, a tearoom , an officers' mess , a YMCA and a bank, and is now a pub ?
text: Did you know that Carol Hutchins , coach of the first eastern team to win the Women's College World Series , is the winningest coach in the history of the University of Michigan in any sport?
text: Did you know that taranakite , a mineral formed from the reaction of clays or aluminous rocks with materials derived from bat or bird guano , was first found in New Zealand 's Sugar Loaf Islands in 1865?
text: Did you know that, according to the Book of Tang , the Tang Dynasty official Wang Shuwen first became a staff member of then- Crown Prince Li Song because of his Go abilities?
text: Did you know that Ira Eaker and Allen Zwerdling established Back Stage in 1960, considered the "casting bible" for theater performers ?
text: Did you know that despite being a widely-used garden plant on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean , Salvia interrupta can only be found in nature in the Atlas Mountains in the African country of Morocco ?
text: Did you know that Shirley Chisholm was the first African American candidate for president of the United States for a major political party when she campaigned during the 1972 election ?
text: Did you know that in 1018, Byzantine general Eustathios Daphnomeles entered the stronghold of Ibatzes of Bulgaria and blinded and captured him, thereby ending Bulgarian resistance to the Byzantine conquest ?
text: Did you know that although it was founded in 1924, Congregation Beth Israel in Berkeley, California , did not hire its first rabbi until 1963?
text: Did you know that the monuments of the ancient Maya city of Seibal in Guatemala display an unusual mix of Maya and foreign elements?
text: Did you know that unlike most other lemurs , the Collared Brown Lemurs do not demonstrate female dominance?
text: Did you know that Peter Tsiamalili , the first chief administrator of the Autonomous Region of Bougainville , also served as Papua New Guinea 's ambassador to Belgium ?
text: Did you know that in 2008, Unionsexpressen started a luxury intercity train service between Oslo and Stockholm , in competition with the state-owned SJ ?
text: Did you know that operatic tenor Gustav Walter portrayed the role of Assad in the world premiere of Karl Goldmark 's Die Königin von Saba ?
text: Did you know that after Noel Coward 's play cycle Tonight at 8.30 premiered, he added four more plays, including Family Album and Still Life ?
text: Did you know that Bateay District in Kampong Cham Province, Cambodia , was the site of an outbreak of the deadly H5N1 virus in 2006?
text: Did you know that Flip Saunders is the only Minnesota Timberwolves head coach to have been to the playoffs with the Timberwolves ?
text: Did you know that during the reign of Emperor Shunzong of Tang , who was debilitated by a stroke , his concubine Consort Niu was one of the key decision-makers?
text: Did you know that William Henry Ellis 's tenure as Master Cutler of the Company of Cutlers in Hallamshire lasted for four years instead of just one because of the First World War ?
text: Did you know that to survive during Prohibition , some winemaking families in what is now California 's Russian River Valley AVA converted to bootlegging operations that sold a water-based wine known as "jackass brandy "?
text: Did you know that Karl Graul , former director of Leipzig Lutheran mission and a Tamil scholar , believed that Christian missionaries in India should not interfere with the local traditions including the caste system ?
text: Did you know that within the Source Seine commune in France is the source of the Seine ?
text: Did you know that American football player Buddy Burris was the first Oklahoma Sooner to be named an All-American three times?
text: Did you know that Deutsche Evangelische Oberschule , Cairo 's oldest German school, has been running since 1873?
text: Did you know that Sammy Stephens , an internet sensation for his "It's just like a mini-mall" rap advertisements for Flea Market Montgomery , got his start in broadcasting at WMGY in Montgomery, Alabama , USA ?
text: Did you know that television chef Ingrid Espelid Hovig is considered the " culinary mother" of Norway ?
text: Did you know that Isidore de Lara 's Messaline was the first opera by an English composer to be produced at La Scala ?
text: Did you know that the prolific author Maxwell Gray , whose real name was Mary Gleed Tuttiett, was a permanent invalid who seldom left her home in Newport , Isle of Wight ?
text: Did you know that, when the München RFC played the Bad Tölz US Army in June 1978, it was the first game of rugby union played in Munich in almost 50 years?
text: Did you know that the film Dark Habits was rejected by the Cannes Film Festival because the organizing committee considered it sacrilegious, blasphemous and anti-Catholic?
text: Did you know that S. Muthiah Mudaliar spent Rs. 4 lakhs on a propaganda campaign against consumption of liquor in the late 1920s?
text: Did you know that although it has not been formally assessed by the IUCN , the plant Justicia flaviflora is considered critically endangered because it can only be naturally found on one mountain in Trinidad and Tobago ?
text: Did you know that Derek Forster became the youngest Sunderland footballer to have made a first team appearance when he was 15 years 185 days old?
text: Did you know that 11th-century "minister of war and peace" Durgasimha wrote the Kannada language version of the Panchatantra , the first Indian vernacular adaptation of these fables ?
text: Did you know that the Apalachia Dam in North Carolina has an underground conduit carrying water from the dam's reservoir to its hydroelectric powerhouse 12 miles (19 km) away in the neighboring state of Tennessee ?
text: Did you know that Empress Dowager Wang , the mother of Tang Chinese Emperor Xianzong , was to be a concubine of his great-grandfather Daizong , but as she was young, was instead given to Xianzong's father, Shunzong ?
text: Did you know that most of U.S. Route 2 in Vermont was originally part of the Theodore Roosevelt International Highway , an early transcontinental North American auto trail ?
text: Did you know that in 1946 , Welsh international footballer Bert Turner became the first player to score for both sides in an FA Cup Final ?
text: Did you know that Chamkar Leu District in eastern Cambodia is home to a 6,000-hectare (15,000-acre) rubber plantation ?
text: Did you know that David Yuile and his brother William attempted to control the Canadian glass manufacturing sector by founding the Diamond Glass Company, which did not make any glass?
text: Did you know that Lucien Galtier , the first Roman Catholic priest in Minnesota , was responsible for renaming the city of Saint Paul, Minnesota , from its previous name of Pig's Eye ?
text: Did you know that NSB Gjøvikbanen won the first, and so far only, rail transport public service obligation tender in Norway in 2005?
text: Did you know that Angus Goetz played for Buffalo in the National Football League on the weekends while attending medical school at the University of Michigan ?
text: Did you know that the commune of Gory in south-western Mali is the subject of a $950,000 UNESCO – Mali educational project, funded by the Norwegian government ?
text: Did you know that singer Phil Ochs wrote " The War Is Over " in 1967 to declare that the Vietnam War was over, eight years before the war actually ended?
text: Did you know that the World Wide Fund for Nature rates the Mizoram-Manipur-Kachin rain forests bordering India , Bangladesh , and Myanmar (Burma) as "Globally Outstanding" in biological distinctiveness ?
text: Did you know that in 1785, men between 16 and 50, who were not ministers, were required to help build Bardstown, Kentucky 's Cobblestone Path or be subject to a fine?
text: Did you know that Sinuessa , the last town of Latium on the Appian Way , was famous for its springs whose visitors included Horace , Virgil , and Julius Caesar ?
text: Did you know that John Calvin's works include some 1,300 letters, making him "the great letter-writer of the Reformation age" according to B. B. Warfield ?
text: Did you know that during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War , the Palmach referred to the Palestinian Arab village of Burayr as "the village of the killers"?
text: Did you know that Victor Vacquier escaped Russia by sleigh across the frozen Gulf of Finland and went on to pioneer the use of submarine detectors for investigating plate tectonics ?
text: Did you know that Norwegian railway company Ofotbanen went bankrupt due to the minority owner Autolink starting the competitor Cargolink ?
text: Did you know that Joan Snyder , a MacArthur Fellow and a Guggenheim Fellow , has had her paintings exhibited at Jewish Museum in New York ?
text: Did you know that every household in the Dhaniakhali bloc of West Bengal , India , has at least one loom , where handloom saris are made?
text: Did you know that John Isaacs , signed out of high school by the all- Black New York Renaissance team, led the Rens over the Oshkosh All-Stars to win the first World Professional Basketball Tournament , held in 1939?
text: Did you know that the critically endangered Philippine eagle is the namesake of the Agila 2 communications satellite ?
text: Did you know that a civil rights lawsuit brought by Andrew W. Cooper led to the election of Shirley Chisholm , the first black woman elected to the U.S. Congress?
text: Did you know that sex workers across the world have organised since the mid-1970s to demand sex workers’ rights , including the decriminalisation of prostitution and equal protection under the law?
text: Did you know that Senegalese long jumper and triple jumper Ndiss Kaba Badji was the only person from his country to reach a final at the 2008 Summer Olympics ?
text: Did you know that the Irish romantic comedy Little White Lie followed the attempts of an actor to attract the attention of a television presenter by pretending he was a psychiatrist ?
text: Did you know that prior to becoming a chocolatier , Louis Barnett trained birds of prey at a falconry centre to gain permission to keep a pet eagle owl ?
text: Did you know that an episode of the documentary series Hostage detailed Saddam Hussein 's placing of two Irish civilians as "human shields" at sites of strategic importance during the Gulf War ?
text: Did you know that the Parc de Belleville is the highest park in Paris and also contains the city's longest cascading water fountain?
text: Did you know that Michael Watson took six days to complete the London Marathon in 2003, an achievement that won him the BBC Sports Personality of the Year Helen Rollason Award that year?
text: Did you know that Russian historian and scientist Vladimir N. Beneshevich was arrested on charges of spying for Germany and executed because one of his books was translated into German in 1937?
text: Did you know that Chatuge Dam and Nottely Dam in the Tennessee Valley were originally constructed in 1942 solely for flood control to maximize hydroelectric production at Hiwassee Dam , but were only outfitted with power generators later in the 1950s?
text: Did you know that operatic tenor Andreas Dippel portrayed the title role in Alberto Franchetti Asrael in its United States premiere at the Metropolitan Opera ?
text: Did you know that DSV 78/08 Ricklingen , the oldest rugby union club in Germany , was formed under the leadership of 15 year old Ferdinand-Wilhelm Fricke in 1878?
text: Did you know that Romanian professional armwrestler Ion Oncescu is the current world champion for both the left and the right arms?
text: Did you know that the endemic flora of Trinidad and Tobago consists of 59 plant species, including one that was last collected between 1786 and 1791?
text: Did you know that Laurie D. Cox performed the first comprehensive tree census in New York City in 1915, finding that most street trees in Manhattan were in bad condition?
text: Did you know that the first Filipinos to settle in Saudi Arabia arrived in 1973?
text: Did you know that Jim Crockett Promotions hosted an unusual series of pro wrestling tag team matches in the 1970s, as heel (villain) teams such as the Blond Bombers ( Rip Hawk and Swede Hanson ) faced fellow heels Brute Bernard and Skull Murphy ?
text: Did you know that a predominance diagram purports to show the conditions of concentration and pH where a chemical species has the highest concentration in solutions in which there are multiple acid-base equilibria ?
text: Did you know that the largest ship sunk by the Austro-Hungarian U-boat SM U-32 during World War I was carrying onions from Karachi , Pakistan ?
text: Did you know that Bardstown, Kentucky 's Wickland , namesake of Shelbyville, Kentucky 's Wickland , was the home of three different U.S. state governors?
text: Did you know that Thriller – Live is a new West End musical, directed by the creator of a Michael Jackson fansite ?
text: Did you know that the recently defunct Pacific Magazine , a current affairs publication focusing on the Pacific Islands of Oceania , was the region's longest continuously published magazine ?
text: Did you know that Adolph C. Miller served as United States Assistant Secretary of the Interior before being appointed as an original Governor of the Federal Reserve System ?
text: Did you know that the account of the death of 12,000 prisoners aboard the Gulag ship Dzhurma has been disproven?
text: Did you know that the Japanese band Daisy × Daisy provided the song "Brave your truth" as the opening theme song of the episodes of the Chrome Shelled Regios anime ?
text: Did you know that Maurice Catarcio , at age 69, pulled an 80-foot (24 m) boat filled with 125 passengers while swimming 300 feet (91 m) in a lake, which earned him a place in The Guinness Book of World Records ?
text: Did you know that Premier of Alberta John Edward Brownlee was forced to resign in 1934 due to a sex scandal ?
text: Did you know that the Jamaican Gun Court Act of 1974 mandated a sentence of indefinite imprisonment with hard labor for all firearms offenses, including possession of unlicensed guns?
text: Did you know that only after the end of World War II was it publicly revealed that the Norwegian ships SS Irma and SS Henry had been sunk by the Royal Norwegian Navy ?
text: Did you know that then-President Bill Clinton 's selection to give the 2000 Jefferson Lecture , the U.S.'s highest humanities honor, was criticized as a politicization of the National Endowment for the Humanities ?
text: Did you know that Indonesia 's largest container terminal , handling more than 3.5 million TEU 's of freight in 2007, is in the Port of Jakarta ?
text: Did you know that Dutch architect Kees Christiaanse , a proponent of mixed communities, has described his buildings as "socializing machines"?
text: Did you know that the television series Use It or Lose It documented the return of former association footballers Niall Quinn and Ronnie Whelan to their respective youth teams?
text: Did you know that the first head coach of the NBA club now known as the Atlanta Hawks was Roger Potter , whose tenure only lasted seven games into the team's inaugural season in 1949?
text: Did you know that six prehistoric meteorite impacts have created large astroblemes affecting the geology of Saskatchewan ?
text: Did you know that the New York Assembly passed a 1970 abortion rights law sponsored by Constance Cook and Franz Leichter after George Michaels broke a 74–74 deadlock by switching his vote?
text: Did you know that of the ten Brough Superior Austin Four motorcycles built—eight in 1932 plus one each in 1933 and 1934—a total of eight have survived to this day?
text: Did you know that according to US and Turkish officials, the MV Kısmetim-1 was deliberately sunk in December 1992 by its crew in order to prevent the capture of the illicit drug load?
text: Did you know that James Brady , who wrote a celebrity profile for nearly 25 years in Parade magazine, won the Bronze Star Medal for his Korean War service and wrote a Pulitzer Prize -finalist book about his war experiences?
text: Did you know that landscape architecture firm West 8 designed the so-called "Reptile Bridge" between Leidsche Rijn and Utrecht in the Netherlands ?
text: Did you know that two members of the Boston Red Sox 's Golden Outfield have been elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame ?
text: Did you know that ruins from Bradenstoke Abbey in Wiltshire , England , were bought by William Randolph Hearst and used in alterations to St Donat's Castle in Wales ?
text: Did you know that the GDP of the Ming Dynasty was 31 percent of the world's GDP , a percentage which is relatively higher than the GDP of the United States in 1997?
text: Did you know that the Old L & N Station in Bardstown, Kentucky , was the state's only dry stone railroad station ?
text: Did you know that British economist Gilbert Slater suggested in the Madras Legislative Council that a committee be appointed to investigate the introduction of a common script for the Madras Presidency ?
text: Did you know that in Cheney v. United States District Court , Supreme Court Justice Scalia was alleged to have had a conflict of interest because he had recently hunted ducks with Dick Cheney , a party to the case?
text: Did you know that Stephen Neill , former bishop of Tirunelveli in Tamil Nadu , suffered from insomnia which helped him to author his magnum opus , History of Christianity in India ?
text: Did you know that Eddie Tolan , the first African-American to be the "world's fastest human" after winning double gold at the 1932 Olympics , returned home jobless and appeared in vaudeville with Bill "Bojangles" Robinson ?
text: Did you know that General Motors 's pioneering CAD system, DAC-1 , could digitize hand-drawn diagrams , turn them into 3D models , and then build models of them on milling machines ?
text: Did you know that Hungarian ballerina Nora Kovach 's 1953 defection to the West was the first highly publicized Cold War -era defection of individuals in the field of dance?
text: Did you know that the controversial 1982 anti-racism film White Dog was director Samuel Fuller 's last American film due to his disgust with Paramount Pictures ' refusal to release the film?
text: Did you know that the small Croatian town of Jastrebarsko was home to two cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church , who were also both archbishops of the country's capital Zagreb ?
text: Did you know that the St. Louis Wrestling Hall of Fame is the only professional wrestling hall of fame that lets fans select the inductees?
text: Did you know that in addition to his academic work, Norwegian history professor Øystein Sørensen is considered an expert on the Donald Duck universe ?
text: Did you know that Callianassa subterranea is a burrowing shrimp that ingests sediment particles and digests their organic coating ?
text: Did you know that Maurice Maeterlinck threatened legal action and physical violence against Claude Debussy after he did not cast  Maeterlinck's lover, Georgette Leblanc , in the title role of their opera Pelléas et Mélisande ?
text: Did you know that the Willow Creek Transit Center in Oregon has artwork with a reading theme for a planned library branch nearby that was never built?
text: Did you know that celebrated Azerbaijani activist of the French Resistance Ahmadiyya Jabrayilov was persecuted by the NKVD upon his return to the USSR ?
text: Did you know that Bob Foster ’s win on a New Imperial in the 1936 Isle of Man TT was the last time that Great Britain won a Lightweight TT?
text: Did you know that despite its acrid taste, Lactarius vietus is edible after boiling?
text: Did you know that during World War I , President Woodrow Wilson reportedly stopped discussing important matters at Cabinet meetings because of the indiscretions of Interior Secretary Franklin Knight Lane ?
text: Did you know that the Ricky Hatton vs. Manny Pacquiao boxing match was confirmed only because Manny Pacquiao 's friend drank three bottles of beer?
text: Did you know that the roughtail stingray is the largest stingray in the Atlantic Ocean , at up to 2.2 metres (7.2 ft) across and weighing 300 kilograms (660 lb)?
text: Did you know that Ebba Haslund 's adolescence novel Nothing Happened was virtually ignored by the press when it was first issued in Norwegian in 1948, but was later regarded as one of her most important books?
text: Did you know that the community of Weed Heights , Nevada , was built to support the open pit mining operation at the Anaconda Copper Mine ?
text: Did you know that Ælfhelm , ealdorman of York , was the grandfather of Harold Harefoot , king of England ?
text: Did you know that the NBC anthology series The Joseph Cotten Show (1956–1957) featured Virginia Gregg as Mary Surratt , the woman hanged for conspiracy stemming from the Lincoln assassination ?
text: Did you know that Tang Dynasty official Wei Chun changed his name to Wei Guanzhi to observe a naming taboo for Emperor Xianzong , whose personal name was Li Chun?
text: Did you know that ballerina Jocelyn Vollmar danced as the Snow Queen in the first American production of The Nutcracker ?
text: Did you know that the original Sinhalese Sports Club Ground was situated on land of Victoria Park with sandy soil and covered with cinnamon trees?
text: Did you know that future A.B.A. president Loyd Wright represented Mary Pickford in her divorce of Douglas Fairbanks and Jane Wyman against Ronald Reagan ?
text: Did you know that the property  of Sjøholmen in Bærum , Norway , started out as a farm, was suburbanized and is now, in part, an alternative school where children are taught to be mariners ?
text: Did you know that during his study of the palm family , Harold E. Moore collected all but 18 of the approximately 200 genera of palms, and earned membership in The Explorers Club ?
text: Did you know that the Galápagos hotspot , located in the east Pacific Ocean , is responsible for the creation of the Galápagos Islands ?
text: Did you know that association footballer Mikkel Diskerud played both for and against the United States national youth team in the spring of 2008?
text: Did you know that phylogenetic relationships between the mushroom Bovista nigrescens and species of Lycoperdaceae were established based on ITS and LSU sequence data from north European taxa ?
text: Did you know that Andrey Kirillovich Razumovsky , at the time Ambassador of the Russian Empire to the Austrian Empire , commissioned three string quartets from Beethoven ?
text: Did you know that in 1709, Ninguta , an important center of commerce , provided government-sponsored ginseng -harvesting expeditions?
text: Did you know  that Native American sculptor Willard Stone became a master wood carver despite an accidental explosion that cost him his right thumb and two fingers when he was 13 years old?
text: Did you know that the Ludowy Theatre in Kraków gained countrywide notability in the People's Republic of Poland by staging performances evoking death camp experiences of Auschwitz ?
text: Did you know that Grammy -nominated CCM musician Ayiesha Woods was the first female to receive a "Producer of the Year" award at the Gospel Music Marlin Awards?
text: Did you know that footballer Chic Brodie ' s professional career ended when he collided with a dog on the playing field ?
text: Did you know that of the 55 miles (89 km) of railways on the Isle of Wight inherited by British Railways in 1948, only 14 miles (23 km) are in use today?
text: Did you know that The New York Times said that trumpeter Stephen Burns "uses his instrument with the lightness and flexibility of a singer in operatic arias "?
text: Did you know that the willow-leaved cotoneaster, Cotoneaster salicifolius , is a woody plant which is native to Western China , with over 30 cultivars which range from tiny groundcovers to large shrubs ?
text: Did you know that in 1953, Christen Gran Bøgh administered the inaugural Bergen International Festival ?
text: Did you know that the PlayStation Portable video game Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem had a shorter development cycle than the film it was based on ?
text: Did you know that footballer Bob Wilson was the last player to captain the original Accrington Stanley club in a professional match?
text: Did you know that each city council in the Philippines has a sectoral representative for women?
text: Did you know that Oregon radio station KBZY is the flagship station for the Salem-Keizer Volcanoes of the Northwest League of Professional Baseball ?
text: Did you know that Sir Ronald Holmes , the acting Colonial Secretary of Hong Kong , made no compromise with the Communists during the 1967 Leftist Riots in that city?
text: Did you know that video game Bloody Fun Day 's theme of slaying cute creatures was inspired by the short story Everything Can Be Beaten by Jhonen Vasquez ?
text: Did you know that Debbie Kruger based her 2005 book Songwriters Speak on interviews with songwriters when publicising the 2001 Top 30 Australian songs list for the at the APRA Awards ?
text: Did you know that the McClellan Committee served 8,000 subpoenas , took testimony from 1,526 witnesses (343 of whom invoked the Fifth Amendment ), and compiled almost 150,000 pages of evidence?
text: Did you know that Gerhard Gran was appointed professor in the history of literature at the University of Kristiania in 1899, despite there being remarks about "the holes present in his knowledge"?
text: Did you know that the 1933 film Design for Living is about three Americans in Paris and their risqué ménage à trois ?
text: Did you know that the Ruby Cycle Co Ltd was bankrupted when a large motorcycle order from the Imperial Russian Army was stopped by the Russian Revolution ?
text: Did you know that former Houston Astro Craig Biggio won his first Silver Slugger Award as a catcher before winning four at second base ?
text: Did you know that young escapees from a military police boot camp in Serei Saophoan District , Cambodia , are beaten by other residents when they are recaptured?
text: Did you know that while commonly found in central California , Agaricus lilaceps can sometimes be found at the campus of Stanford University under the eucalyptus located there?
text: Did you know that despite being a professor of Finno-Ugric languages , Knut Bergsland spent his final years studying the unrelated language Aleut ?
text: Did you know that the Russian anarcho-syndicalist newspaper Golos Truda relocated from New York to Petrograd when its entire editorial staff decided to move to Russia following the February Revolution ?
text: Did you know that the development of Darkness over Daggerford , an expansion for the computer game Neverwinter Nights , was coordinated mostly over Skype ?
text: Did you know that after the Tang Dynasty general Li Jiang died in a mutiny , his successor Wen Zao slaughtered the mutineers and offered their heads to Li Jiang as a sacrifice?
text: Did you know that Laura Wilson 's 2004 novel The Lover is a fictionalized account of Gordon Cummins , a British airman turned serial killer who began murdering prostitutes in London during World War II ?
text: Did you know that while Northman and Waltheof were ealdormen in northern Northumbria , Bamburgh was sacked by the Viking king Óláfr Tryggvason ?
text: Did you know that paper locals , which can be used to extort money from employers or secure sweetheart contracts , are denounced by the AFL-CIO Code of Ethical Practices?
text: Did you know that the Tang Dynasty general Zhang Hongjing exhumed the bodies of the Anshi Rebellion leaders An Lushan and Shi Siming and destroyed their caskets?
text: Did you know that " New Boss " is the first of six episodes of the U.S. version of The Office with appearances by The Wire actor Idris Elba ?
text: Did you know that the rules of the 1993 World Conference on Human Rights in Vienna forbade mentioning any country or conflict by name, and instead human rights had to be discussed in the abstract?
text: Did you know that pianist Mona Golabek wrote a book about her mother's experience as part of the Kindertransport , a mission to rescue children threatened by the Nazis ?
text: Did you know that only two of the seven non- Soviet ruling Communist political parties in the Eastern Bloc used the word " Communist " in their names when they were first established?
text: Did you know that Leslie George Katz founded the Eakins Press , which printed a number of books by his wife Jane Mayhall , using funds from the sale of several Thomas Eakins paintings that Katz's father had secretly collected?
text: Did you know that Entertainment Weekly reported comedian Ellie Kemper is set to take on the role of Dunder Mifflin receptionist in NBC 's U.S. version of The Office ?
text: Did you know that in 2007, internet users in Slovenia had the highest Firefox use rate among European countries?
text: Did you know that Robert Tills was the first American naval officer killed during the Battle of the Philippines , and had a ship named in his honor?
text: Did you know that if the beak-like rostrum on Caridina gracilirostris is broken off, it will regrow itself?
text: Did you know that the 1948 All-America team was the first to include separate offensive and defensive college football teams?
text: Did you know that Alberto Cavos designed and rebuilt two Bolshoi Theatres— one in Saint Petersburg and one in Moscow ?
text: Did you know that Grace Kelly made her screen debut in Fourteen Hours , a 1951 film about a man contemplating suicide?
text: Did you know that the postponement of the 2000 PBA All-Filipino Cup series between Purefoods TJ Giants and Tanduay Rhum Masters was the first one that was not for a typhoon , earthquake or bomb threat ?
text: Did you know that the Command & Conquer series has three main factions : The Global Defence Initiative , the Brotherhood of Nod and the Scrin ?
text: Did you know that London 's Great Northern, Piccadilly and Brompton Railway was built at the start of the 20th century, from parts of three other railways' routes?
text: Did you know that even though he had inherited a fortune, the "millionaire hobo " James Eads How chose to live as a homeless vagrant ?
text: Did you know that Arthur W. Ryder taught the Bhagavad Gita in Sanskrit to J. Robert Oppenheimer , who said it shaped his philosophy of life and famously quoted it at the Trinity nuclear test explosion?
text: Did you know that the first SS class blimp entered service on 18 March 1915, fewer than three weeks after work began on it?
text: Did you know that the Fifth Avenue Theatre became the first air-conditioned theatre in the world in 1877?
text: Did you know that Sir Walter Scott of Branxholme and Buccleuch , chief of Clan Scott , survived the Battles of Flodden and Pinkie Cleugh only to be murdered in the High Street of Edinburgh in 1552?
text: Did you know that the Christian Science Monitor once described radio station KSLM (now KVXX ) in Salem, Oregon , as "a barricade holding questionable advertising material from the ears of listeners"?
text: Did you know that Captain George Murray led Nelson's fleet at the attack on Copenhagen using knowledge he had gained from surveying the area a decade earlier?
text: Did you know that the founders of the Pipeline , an early internet service provider , got together because of a shared interest in bridge ?
text: Did you know that the return value optimization is one of the very few compiler optimizations that are allowed to change the observable behaviour of a C++ program?
text: Did you know that professional wrestler Johnny Valentine needed a clamp to hold his back together after a 1975 plane crash?
text: Did you know that operatic tenor Chad Shelton has sung in numerous world premieres, including leading roles in Mark Adamo 's Little Women and Philip Glass 's Appomattox ?
text: Did you know that the Whisky Creek Cabin , built about 1880, is the oldest remaining mining cabin along the wild and scenic section of the Rogue River in southwest Oregon ?
text: Did you know that after his release from prison in 1087, the English rebel Siward Barn is thought by some historians to have founded a colony on the Black Sea with other refugees from the Norman Conquest of England ?
text: Did you know that Real Change was the first street newspaper in the United States to be published weekly?
text: Did you know that Camp Gilwell is a Scouts Canada camp which features the haunted home of Maurice Macdonald Seymour ?
text: Did you know that two of cellist Jeffrey Solow 's recordings were nominated for a Grammy Award ?
text: Did you know that Operation Bringing Home the Goods was launched by Israel to capture Palestinian prisoners in Jericho to make sure they were not released?
text: Did you know that the Charnockite in St. Thomas Mount , Chennai got its name from Job Charnock , the founder of Kolkata , whose tomb was made of rocks quarried from St. Thomas Mount?
text: Did you know that Glenn Sundby , a co-founder of what is now USA Gymnastics , appeared in Ripley's Believe It Or Not! after walking down all 898 steps of the Washington Monument on his hands?
text: Did you know that the collectivization of agriculture in the Eastern Bloc economies was less violent and disruptive than it had been in the Soviet Union ?
text: Did you know that golfer Jane Park reached the final of the U.S. Women's Amateur Championship in 2003 and 2004, and won the latter event?
text: Did you know that post-anarchism theorist Saul Newman saw the publication of volume one of Anarchism: A Documentary History of Libertarian Ideas as a sign of a resurgent interest in anarchist philosophy ?
text: Did you know that baritone William Dooley performed the title role in the world premiere of Marcel Mihalovici 's one character opera Krapp, ou, La dernière bande in 1961?
text: Did you know that the 500-million-year-old Cambrian predator Hurdia was thought to be a number of separate organisms for 100 years, until the complete animal was reconstructed in March 2009?
text: Did you know that Dr. Maurice Macdonald Seymour established the Saskatchewan Medical Association and the Saskatchewan Anti- Tuberculosis League?
text: Did you know that one year after a fire damaged Lausanne Hall at Willamette University , the dormitory had to be evacuated due to a suspicious package?
text: Did you know that there were two unrelated Jewish anarchists named Alexander Schapiro active in Russia during the civil war , one in the Bolshevik government and the other leading a cadre of anarchist revolutionaries against it?
text: Did you know that Asad Ali Khan , one of a few remaining rudra veena players, was awarded the Indian civilian honor Padma Bhushan in 2008?
text: Did you know that Blender magazine called the Huey Lewis and the News hit song " The Heart of Rock & Roll "  one of the "50 Worst Songs Ever"?
text: Did you know that although the name "Joni" was retired after the 1992–93 South Pacific cyclone season by the WMO , it remained on the naming lists to be used again for Cyclone Joni (2009) ?
text: Did you know that Carter Brey was appointed the principal cellist of the New York Philharmonic in 1996?
text: Did you know that the Southern White-cheeked Gibbon may be a hybrid species of the Northern White-cheeked Gibbon and the Yellow-cheeked Gibbon ?
text: Did you know that former American football linebacker Craig Sauer has three brothers who have played professional ice hockey ?
text: Did you know that murri , an Arabic condiment akin to soy sauce , is made from barley dough allowed to ferment for 40 days?
text: Did you know that the long jumper Fred Salle originally represented England in international competitions, then changed allegiance to Cameroon before returning to England some years later?
text: Did you know that original Who Wants to be a Millionaire? host Chris Tarrant got his start in television as a news reporter for ATV Today ?
text: Did you know that the son of Sultan Ali of Johor , Tengku Alam Shah , inspired the Jementah Civil War in 1879 after he failed to claim inheritance of his father's territory at  Kessang?
text: Did you know that KNOE-FM , founded in 1967 by former Governor of Louisiana James A. Noe , was one of five stations in Louisiana that Noe named for himself?
text: Did you know that when Bobby Folds joined Gillingham F.C. in 1966, he became the club's first ever apprentice -professional footballer ?
text: Did you know that with the winning Audi R15 TDI averaging a speed of 117.986 mph (189.880 km/h), the 2009 running was the fastest 12 Hours of Sebring in its history?
text: Did you know that Indian independence activist and Managing-Director of The Hindu from 1905 to 1923, Kasturi Ranga Iyengar , was a brother of Anglophile Indian civil servant S. Srinivasa Raghavaiyangar?
text: Did you know that the 1957–1958 CBS sitcom Mr. Adams and Eve featured Howard Duff and Ida Lupino , then married to each other in real life, as a fictitious husband/wife acting duo living in Beverly Hills ?
text: Did you know that after the foundation of the German Democratic Republic , Nazi General Arno von Lenski was formally acknowledged as a "Victim of Fascism " in  1949?
text: Did you know that the 16-volume series of theatre history books , The London Stage , by J. P. Wearing has been called "invaluable, thoroughly accurate" and "a proverbial mine of useful information"?
text: Did you know that the Miami Hurricanes won 26 Big East Conference football awards in the 14 years  they belonged to the conference (1991–2004)?
text: Did you know that Indian social worker and 2009 Padma Bhushan awardee , Sarojini Varadappan is a daughter of former Chief Minister of Madras , M. Bhaktavatsalam ?
text: Did you know that the American Bar Association Journal is allegedly read every month by half of the 1 million lawyers in the United States ?
text: Did you know that Polish writer Henryk Rzewuski fought for Poland's independence in 1809 but later collaborated with the Russian Imperial Viceroy of the Kingdom of Poland , Ivan Paskevich ?
text: Did you know that in 1960, the CBS anthology series The DuPont Show with June Allyson featured Harpo Marx in the role of a deaf mute who witnesses a gangland murder?
text: Did you know that Tang Dynasty chancellor Quan Deyu was said to be able to write poetry at age three?
text: Did you know that American architect Edward Brickell White contributed designs for buildings for five National Historic Landmarks and three on the National Register of Historic Places in South Carolina ?
text: Did you know that Romain Gary 's 1970 fictional memoir White Dog , originally released as Chien Blanc , attacks Marlon Brando and Jean Seberg for their activist activities in the 1960s?
text: Did you know that when Dorothea Holt Redmond was hired in 1938 in the "heretofore exclusively male field" of film production design , male co-workers demanded that she work in an area separated from them?
text: Did you know that French submarine Doris was sunk by German submarine U-9 in May 1940, after being ordered to sortie with significant damage, rendering it unable to dive?
text: Did you know that crew chief Drew Blickensderfer helped driver Matt Kenseth become the fifth driver to start a NASCAR season with back-to-back wins?
text: Did you know that the building of the Festning Tunnel made it possible to turn Rådhusplassen , Oslo into a car-free square?
text: Did you know that George Hedges , a lawyer who represented Hollywood stars and studios , was part of an archaeological team that discovered the remains of the ancient frankincense trading city of Ubar ?
text: Did you know that flautist Eugenia Zukerman has been the Classical Music Correspondent for CBS News Sunday Morning since 1980?
text: Did you know that the original Liberty ship was designed by the owners of J.L. Thompson and Sons shipyard in Sunderland?
text: Did you know that Charles Scribner II 's country house in Cornwall, New York , combined a Shingle Style exterior with a Colonial Revival interior?
text: Did you know that after being imprisoned for allegedly leading Islamic militants in Azerbaijan , Ahmad Salama Mabruk began leading a new militant group within prison?
text: Did you know that when the Vika Line opened in 1995, it was the first new street line of the Oslo Tramway since 1939?
text: Did you know that politician Warren Tolman ran a campaign for governor of Massachusetts while suing to implement the state's Clean Elections law?
text: Did you know that Street Fighter IV character Rufus has been listed as 12th on GameDaily 's "Top 25 Most Bizarre Fighting Characters" list?
text: Did you know that the future of newspapers in the United States is in doubt: as of 2005, an estimated 70 percent of older Americans read a newspaper daily, while fewer than 20 percent of younger Americans did?
text: Did you know that Kristian Kristiansen ' s main literary work is a trilogy about a boy growing up in an orphanage in the late 1600s?
text: Did you know that the Batavier II and Batavier V , of the Dutch Batavier Line , were captured, released, and later sunk by four different submarines ?
text: Did you know that, fourteen years after the release of their debut album, heavy metal band Iced Earth charted on the Billboard 200 for the first time?
text: Did you know that the 1908 Annual Bulletin of the Comparative Law Bureau was the first journal of comparative law in the United States ?
text: Did you know that British anthropologist Kathleen Gough and her husband were believed to be on the FBI 's watchlist due to their alleged Marxist leanings?
text: Did you know that the mockumentary Male Restroom Etiquette is the most viewed Sims video on YouTube ?
text: Did you know that the father and son combination Cecil Fielder and Prince Fielder each won a Silver Slugger Award at first base ?
text: Did you know that a Fairey Swordfish from HMS Archer was the first aircraft ever to land on Ascension Island ?
text: Did you know that Sultan Ali of Johor signed a treaty on 10 March 1855 with the Temenggong which formally ceded his sovereignty claims over Johor ?
text: Did you know that, according to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle , the eldest son of Earl Siward of Northumbria , Osbeorn , died in battle against King Macbeth of Scotland in 1054?
text: Did you know that in 1890, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Davis v. Beason that it was acceptable to prohibit religious polygamists from voting?
text: Did you know that a sub-marine eruption near the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Haʻapai volcano in Tonga began spewing steam, smoke, pumice , and ash thousands of feet into the sky on March 16, 2009?
text: Did you know that the Borromeo String Quartet uses laptops instead of paper sheet music when they perform?
text: Did you know that in the early 20th century there were two American newspapers called Hobo News , one published by the IBWA , a mutual aid society for migratory workers ?
text: Did you know that Kyryl Studynsky was among the first academics to protest against the Holodomor ?
text: Did you know that writer - director Joel Hopkins made Last Chance Harvey to recreate the chemistry he had seen between actors Emma Thompson and Dustin Hoffman in a theatre production?
text: Did you know that the history of the Oslo Tramway started with the construction of a horsecar line to Homansbyen in 1875?
text: Did you know that Trinity Episcopal Church in Columbia, South Carolina , is a Gothic revival church designed to resemble York Minster ?
text: Did you know that the discovery of feather-like structures on the primitive dinosaur Tianyulong raises the possibility that ancestral dinosaurs were feathered?
text: Did you know that the South Park episode " The Coon " spoofs such dark comic book movies as The Dark Knight , The Spirit and Watchmen ?
text: Did you know that the U2 song " Magnificent " was originally titled "French Disco"?
text: Did you know that Adolf Pilch , Polish resistance fighter trained by SOE during WWII , fought against both Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union ?
text: Did you know that after the September 11 attacks , Korean Air Lines Flight 85 accidentally sent out a hijack signal?
text: Did you know that Indian historian V. Kanakasabhai , who was the first to attempt a systematic chronology of Tamils , was of Sri Lankan Tamil ancestry?
text: Did you know that the PSP video game Monster Kingdom: Jewel Summoner uses the PSP's internal clock to continually train the player's monsters, even when the console is not in use?
text: Did you know that child actor Johnny Washbrook , though educated at two London art academies, spent his later adult years as a banker in Massachusetts ?
text: Did you know that Le Journal de Mickey , a French comics magazine first published in 1934, is credited with "the birth of the modern bande dessinée "?
text: Did you know that Chinese American sculptor Hai Ying Wu 's work includes the Fallen Fire Fighters Memorial in Seattle and the Auto-Lite Strike Memorial in Toledo, Ohio ?
text: Did you know that the Straits Lumber mill at the ghost town of Red Gap, British Columbia was once the largest in the Pacific Northwest ?
text: Did you know that the Tang Dynasty chancellor Li Fan sought to dissuade Emperor Xianzong from seeking immortality by citing the failed examples of Qin Shi Huang , Emperor Wu of Han , and Emperor Taizong of Tang ?
text: Did you know that the Database Console Commands are a set of Transact-SQL statements used to check the consistency of a Microsoft SQL Server database ?
text: Did you know that mezzo-soprano Stephanie Novacek created roles in the premieres of two important operas , the role of Maria Callas in Daugherty 's Jackie O and the role of heroine Jo March in Adamo 's Little Women ?
text: Did you know that Sandomierz Voivodeship (1939) , a proposed administrative unit of the Second Polish Republic , was projected to be 24,500 km² and to incorporate 20 or 21 powiats ?
text: Did you know that when only given enough money to paint half his ship , John Phillimore protested by asking the Navy Board which half they wished him to paint?
text: Did you know that one episode of the western TV series My Friend Flicka depicts 26th U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt , played by Frank Albertson , trying to halt a range war ?
text: Did you know that sentences with reduced relative clauses , such as the horse raced past the barn fell , can lead you down a garden path ?
text: Did you know that Sweden could have been represented in the Eurovision Song Contest 2009 with the Greek song " Alla "?
text: Did you know that the Fountain of the Great Lakes , with semi- nude figures, was not dedicated until after Chicago changed its obscenity laws for public art in 1913?
text: Did you know that Martin Knowlton conceived the Elderhostel concept, in which senior citizens take college-level courses in the summer, to overcome "the disturbing concept that people are all used up after age 65"?
text: Did you know that Banksia lindleyana goes by the common name of "Porcupine Banksia"?
text: Did you know that in the first eight years after Harvard Girl was published in mainland China , the number of Chinese applicants to Harvard increased tenfold?
text: Did you know that Davy Crockett (1954–1955) was the first miniseries in the history of television , although the term "miniseries" had not yet been coined?
text: Did you know that according to the Zizhi Tongjian , the Tang Dynasty chancellor Pei Ji raised the assessed value of goods to avoid undue tax burden on people who paid taxes with goods?
text: Did you know that St Bernard's Hospital is the only civilian general hospital in the British overseas territory of Gibraltar ?
text: Did you know that the first textbook in Hungarian , an encyclopedia by János Apáczai Csere , was written and published in The Netherlands ?
text: Did you know that the jilted bride Eliza Emily Donnithorne, who is buried in Camperdown Cemetery , may have been the model for Charles Dickens ' reclusive Miss Havisham ?
text: Did you know that Chilkat weaving ,  a traditional technique of indigenous peoples of Alaska and British Columbia , is so complex that it may take a year to  weave a blanket?
text: Did you know that Trooper Patrick Fowler spent most of World War One hiding in a wardrobe in German-occupied France?
text: Did you know that the peninsula Kadettangen got its name as a site of cadet training, conducted by the Norwegian Military Academy and discontinued from 1896?
text: Did you know that the 1962 ABC sitcom Mr. Smith Goes to Washington featured a television appearance by mime artist Harpo Marx ?
text: Did you know that Tang Dynasty chancellor Yu Di lost his chancellorship in a scandal where he tried to use bribes to obtain a Jiedushi (military governor) position?
text: Did you know that an edition of BBC radio programme Any Questions? , featuring former Prime Minister Edward Heath , was broadcast live from St Philip's Church, Hove in 1995?
text: Did you know that after realizing the blogosphere was similar to a stock market , Seyed Razavi created BlogShares to allow people to buy shares of blogs with virtual currency ?
text: Did you know that Sloat's Dam is the only remaining intact dam on the Rockland County stretch of the Ramapo River ?
text: Did you know that at Against All Odds , Jeff Jarrett was not allowed to use a guitar as a weapon, so he used a cello instead?
text: Did you know that during the 2008–09 Big Ten Conference men's basketball season , Wooden , Naismith , and Robertson Award committees all selected different Big Ten players for their midseason top candidates lists?
text: Did you know that the Antelope Ground , Southampton was the first home of both Hampshire County Cricket Club and of Southampton Football Club ?
text: Did you know that in 1905, Edmund Harbitz declined to join the cabinet of his former law firm partner Christian Michelsen ?
text: Did you know that the edibility of the small woodland mushroom Agaricus semotus is disputed, with some sources claiming edibility and others warning of gastrointestinal discomfort ?
text: Did you know that the main house at Brykill Farms in Gardiner, New York , was expanded in a similar style and material 200 years after the first section was built?
text: Did you know that Gears of War failed to win any prize at the 4th British Academy Video Games Awards , even though it was nominated for six?
text: Did you know that, despite wrestling alongside each other for years and holding a tag team championship together, brothers Mark Starr and Chris Champion used different last names?
text: Did you know that when Per Øisang hosted the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation 's election debates in the early 1960s, the questioning of politicians was conducted by other politicians?
text: Did you know that Faith Lutheran College, Redlands was the first independent Christian school opened in the Redlands Shire, South East Queensland ?
text: Did you know that college basketball player Evan Turner was the only unanimous first-team All- Big Ten Conference choice by both the coaches and the media for the 2008–09 Big Ten Conference men's basketball season ?
text: Did you know that the porch of Macclesfield Castle in Macclesfield , dating from the reign of English King Henry II and the only standing part of the castle, was replaced by cottages and shops in 1932?
text: Did you know that judge and law school dean George G. Bingham was once the coroner for Yamhill County, Oregon ?
text: Did you know that Australian Made , a 1987 concert tour promoting " Good Times " and the mateship of nine local acts, was headlined by INXS and ended with two band managers coming to blows?
text: Did you know that James Beach was selected to run for the Camden County, New Jersey Board of Chosen Freeholders after appearing at a candidate recruitment interview complaining and waving his tax bill ?
text: Did you know that Armenian Byzantinist Hrach Bartikyan wrote the introductions and translated select writings of Procopius , Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus , and John Scylitzes from Greek into Armenian ?
text: Did you know that the " Golden Ticket " episode of the U.S. version of The Office was watched by 7.7 million viewers, tying with Grey's Anatomy for number one among the broadcast networks in adults 18–34?
text: Did you know that when King Edward VII opened Medway Maritime Hospital in Kent , England, in 1905, that the main corridor was almost 1,000 feet (300 m) long?
text: Did you know that Tin Pan Alley song " On the Banks of the Wabash, Far Away " by Paul Dresser , Indiana 's state song , became its first official state symbol in 1913?
text: Did you know that Henry Cronin won the Military Cross in the First World War for assaulting enemy positions and taking prisoners of war , despite being assigned to build field defences ?
text: Did you know that during the filming of Dexter episode " The Damage a Man Can Do ", actor Jimmy Smits accidentally stabbed a stunt man with a real knife?
text: Did you know that Janet Beaton , Lady of Branxholme and Buccleugh, had five husbands and was immortalized as Sir Walter Scott 's Wizard Lady of Branxholm in his poem " The Lay of the Last Minstrel "?
text: Did you know that the blind cave beetle Leptodirus hochenwartii , originally discovered  in 1831 in the Postojna cave system, was the first animal to be recognized as a true cave dweller ?
text: Did you know that excavations at Locust Grove in Dillwyn, Virginia , revealed the grave of an infant in the kitchen garden ?
text: Did you know that Hulda Garborg was co-founder of Det Norske Teatret in Oslo , which was established in 1912?
text: Did you know that Hudson Stuck , who was one of the first people to climb Mount McKinley 's South Peak, thought Eagle Summit was one of the most difficult summits in Alaska ?
text: Did you know that India's S. Srinivasa Iyengar resigned as Advocate-General of Madras Presidency and returned his Order of the Indian Empire in protest against the Jallianwala Bagh massacre ?
text: Did you know that Laurelwood Academy moved to Eugene, Oregon , after 103 years in Laurelwood, Oregon , but did not change its name?
text: Did you know that 17th-century baronet Sir Thomas Peniston received £50 per year as a member of the retinue of Richard Sackville, 3rd Earl of Dorset , and that his wife, Martha, was the Earl's mistress?
text: Did you know that in 1029, the ransom of the Hiberno-Norse prince Amlaíb mac Sitriuc included over 1,200 cows, 60 ounces of gold and of silver, "the sword of Carlus", and a large number of Irish hostages ?
text: Did you know that the Fromm Institute for Lifelong Learning was an inspiration for Bernard Osher 's funding Osher Lifelong Learning Institutes for adults over age 50 at over 120 universities and colleges?
text: Did you know that it was at the urging of Tang Dynasty chancellor Li Jifu that Emperor Xianzong ordered that husbands be found for imperial princes' daughters?
text: Did you know that the 2007 video game My Spanish Coach contains nearly 10,000 words in the game's dictionary that the player can learn?
text: Did you know that Canadian actress Cara Duff-MacCormick won a Theatre World Award for her role in Moonchildren , a play about coming of age during the Vietnam War era?
text: Did you know that the Association of Polish Artists and Designers was disbanded by the Polish military authorities for opposing the 1981 imposition of martial law in communist Poland ?
text: Did you know that American Summit in Alaska is the location of what has been called one of the most remote liquor stores in the world?
text: Did you know that the 1916 children's novel Just David was the second in a series of four consecutive bestsellers in the United States for Eleanor H. Porter ?
text: Did you know that in the Battle of Lalakaon in 863 AD, three Byzantine armies, marching from different directions, converged on time to surround an Arab army?
text: Did you know that Darby Hinton , who played Fess Parker 's son on NBC 's Daniel Boone , as an infant lost his father in a plane crash but remains close to Parker nearly 40 years after the series ended?
text: Did you know that during the Senate confirmation hearing for Secretary of Energy Steven Chu , Republican Senator John Barrasso read a passage from The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression ?
text: Did you know that the Kikuchi samurai clan was descended from the royal family of the Korean kingdom of Baekje ?
text: Did you know that Nolan Bushnell , founder of both Atari, Inc and Chuck E. Cheese's Pizza-Time Theaters , was made a fellow of BAFTA at the 5th British Academy Video Games Awards ?
text: Did you know that Norwegian surrealist poet Triztán Vindtorn changed his first name into the name of his favorite pub?
text: Did you know that, in the 1999 NCAA Division I men's lacrosse tournament , the Loyola Greyhounds under head coach Dave Cottle became the only first- seeded team ever to be eliminated before the semifinals?
text: Did you know that Allah Bux Soomro , Premier of Sindh , renounced his OBE and the title of Khan Bahadur and resigned his membership in the National Defence Council of India during the Quit India Movement ?
text: Did you know that the Gable Mansion is one of the last Victorian Italianate mansions of its style, size, and proportion in California ?
text: Did you know that Lawrence Herkimer invented the cheerleading jump known as the herkie by accident while a cheerleader at Southern Methodist University in the 1940s?
text: Did you know that Swedish writer, photographer, film maker, and artist Jan Lindblad kept two Bengal tigers as pets?
text: Did you know that Mongolian Ninja miners are so named because the green bowls they carry on their backs for gold panning resemble the shells of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles ?
text: Did you know that during World War II , the Joshua Hendy Iron Works under the management of Charles E. Moore built one 137-ton Liberty ship engine every 40.8 hours?
text: Did you know that the first and so far the only mathematics paper by Bill Gates was published in Discrete Mathematics in 1979?
text: Did you know that the little skate pushes itself along the sea floor using a pair of leg-like fin lobes, a mode of locomotion known as "punting"?
text: Did you know that record label manager TobyMac pulled his car over to the side of the road when he first heard Christian hip hop artist B. Reith 's music?
text: Did you know that Dadabhai Naoroji Road in South Mumbai , starting in Crawford Market and leading to Flora Fountain at its south end, is studded with neoclassical - and Gothic -style buildings of the 19th century?
text: Did you know that the indie video game Gang Garrison 2 adapts the FPS Team Fortress 2 into a 2D shooter game with 8-bit graphics?
text: Did you know that salsa music promoter Ralph Mercado got his start with "waistline parties", live music events where women paid based on their waist size (thinner women paid less) and Mercado measuring at the door?
text: Did you know that Lou Reed said "I knew I was in the presence of an angel" after hearing the Antony and the Johnsons song " Cripple and the Starfish "?
text: Did you know that Ancistrochilus rothschildianus is a species of semi-terrestrial orchid endemic to the African tropics ?
text: Did you know that John Dyneley Prince , who later served as U.S. Ambassador to Denmark and Yugoslavia , learned the Romani language as a 12-year-old, which helped him when he ran away for three days to a gypsy camp?
text: Did you know that Tang Dynasty official Zheng Yin opposed issuance of commissions for eunuch commandants on hemp paper, saying it was reserved for commissions of imperial princes and chancellors ?
text: Did you know that the 395th Infantry Regiment was the only unit during the Battle of the Bulge that did not retreat, earning the nickname Butler's Blue Battlin' Bastards ?
text: Did you know that Doris Abrahams started producing on Broadway as a teenager and  co-produced the Tony Award -winning Equus with Kermit Bloomgarden ?
text: Did you know that the recently discovered dracula fish lost its teeth then re-evolved a set of bony fangs from its jawbone?
text: Did you know that British lawyer and activist of the Indian independence movement Eardley Norton was instrumental in establishing an UK-chapter of the Indian National Congress ?
text: Did you know that in the Philippines , double-dead meat refers to meat from pigs that died of disease, which is sold for human consumption ?
text: Did you know that Tom Coughlin , head coach of the New York Giants , founded the Jay Fund charity to honor Jay McGillis, a player Coughlin coached at Boston College who died of leukemia ?
text: Did you know that after Tang Dynasty general Wu Chongyin died, his officers cut off and burned the flesh from their thighs as a sacrifice to him?
text: Did you know that Nelson Eddy and Jeanette MacDonald 's 1936 recording of " Indian Love Call " was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame 72 years later?
text: Did you know that Charles S. Lieber 's baboon testing showed that cirrhosis is caused by alcohol , not malnutrition ?
text: Did you know that a date stone beetle virgin will have sex with her first son to reach maturity before eating him and all of his brothers?
text: Did you know that the Inuvialuit Settlement Region's only deepwater port is located in Tuktoyaktuk , Northwest Territories , Canada ?
text: Did you know that the 2009 book Unfriendly Fire argues that bans on gays in the military were based on prejudices and fears, not empirical data?
text: Did you know that during their first football game against Yale in 1884, the Dartmouth Big Green were routed, 113–0?
text: Did you know that Indian National Congress politician and member of Indian parliament P. Thanulinga Nadar was a leader of Hindu nationalist organisation Hindu Munnani in his later years?
text: Did you know that George Frideric Handel 's cantata Ero e Leandro was first published in 1999, 292 years after it was composed?
text: Did you know that the assassins of the Tang Dynasty chancellor Wu Yuanheng decapitated him and took his head with them?
text: Did you know that the Stone Harbor Bird Sanctuary , known for annually returning egrets and herons , has not had any return since 2000?
text: Did you know that Jim Cramer's appearance on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart led to The Daily Show website's highest day of traffic in 2009?
text: Did you know that the First Jassy-Kishinev Offensive is part of a series of "forgotten operations", almost completely ignored by Soviet archives and historiography ?
text: Did you know that because a car crashed through his store's window, Steve Bernard's Cape Cod Potato Chips company survived a difficult winter, after which business boomed?
text: Did you know that the term Rock of Israel was the subject of controversy just hours before the promulgation of the Israeli Declaration of Independence ?
text: Did you know that Roy Rogers and Gene Autry called the western entertainer Eddie Dean the best cowboy singer of all time?
text: Did you know that in the Battle of Barnet , Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick was fighting for Henry VI , whom he formerly deposed, and against Edward IV , whom he had helped to gain the throne?
text: Did you know that Julien's Auctions sold Star Trek star William Shatner 's kidney stone for US$ 25,000?
text: Did you know that Danish mass murderer Peter Lundin got married twice while in prison ?
text: Did you know that the German Grossdeutschland division, located 50 miles (80 km) east of Târgu Frumos , repelled three Soviet divisions and recaptured the town 48 hours after receiving its initial order?
text: Did you know that Robert E. A. Lee was executive producer of A Time for Burning , a cinéma vérité documentary about efforts to bridge race relations among Lutherans in Omaha, Nebraska ?
text: Did you know that R29 , an R23X class airship , recorded the only success by any British wartime rigid airship when she took part in the sinking of German submarine UB-115 in 1918?
text: Did you know that New York City rapper Coke La Rock is often credited as being the first MC in the history of hip-hop ?
text: Did you know that due to widespread censorship and control of media in the Eastern Bloc , underground distribution of clandestine information became common ?
text: Did you know that in 1934 State Representative Rupert Peyton of Shreveport ridiculed Huey P. Long by proposing a bill to grant the title "Your Majesty" to every adult in Louisiana ?
text: Did you know that when footballer Morten Knutsen left Odd Grenland due to persistent injury problems, he joined FK Arendal , only to immediately sustain another injury?
text: Did you know that most of the 156 episodes of the 1950s series The Cisco Kid were filmed in color, more than a decade before color television became common?
text: Did you know that having suffered a stroke in 1972, neuroanatomist Alf Brodal published the article Self-Observations and Neuro-Anatomical Considerations After a Stroke in the journal Brain in 1973?
text: Did you know that in the last 50 years, 17 championships have been retired by current professional wrestling company World Wrestling Entertainment ?
text: Did you know that Australian Second World War flying ace Virgil Brennan shot down 10 Axis aircraft over Malta in a five month period during 1942?
text: Did you know that New Jersey 's Pigeon Swamp State Park , named for 18th-century landowner Ann Pidgeon,  was a nesting place for passenger pigeons before they became extinct in the early 20th century?
text: Did you know that according to Sextius Niger the salamander was an aphrodisiac if served in honey , but its power to extinguish fires was a myth?
text: Did you know that six idols from the Sivagurunathaswamy temple in Sivapuram , India ,  were secretly smuggled out of the country in the 1950s?
text: Did you know that from 1963 to 1991, only four nations— Canada , Czechoslovakia , Sweden and the Soviet Union —won medals at the Ice Hockey World Championships ?
text: Did you know that Frederick Stokes captained the England rugby team in the first ever international rugby match in 1871?
text: Did you know that Prince George Winyah Episcopal Church in South Carolina has one of the oldest congregations in continuous service?
text: Did you know that when cut, the poisonous mushroom Lactarius chrysorrheus bleeds white milk which quickly turns sulphur-yellow?
text: Did you know that in 1892, future I.C.C. commissioner Henry C. Hall was journeying to California for his health, but stopped off in Colorado and liked it so much he settled there?
text: Did you know that the cult of Kukulkan , the Yucatec Maya feathered serpent deity , was the first Mesoamerican religion to transcend earlier linguistic and ethnic divisions?
text: Did you know that Australian thriller Incident at Raven's Gate was an early film by director Rolf de Heer , who would go on to make the AFI Award-winning Ten Canoes ?
text: Did you know that the twenty-four Liebherr T282B trucks at Barrick Gold 's Cortez Gold Mine account for 10% of that model's sales worldwide?
text: Did you know that the brownsnout spookfish is the only vertebrate known to use a mirror to focus an image in its eye?
text: Did you know that the Saginaw Trail 's name comes from the Ojibwe word for "where the Sauk were"?
text: Did you know that in 1697 French Huguenot refugee Élie Bouhéreau brought church records from La Rochelle to Ireland to save them from destruction, and they remained there for nearly 200 years?
text: Did you know that Barry Bonds has won 12 Silver Slugger Awards in his career as an outfielder in Major League Baseball ?
text: Did you know that over time, comets expel most of the volatile material from their nuclei and become extinct comets , small asteroid -like lumps of rubble?
text: Did you know that the Wild Rugby Academy , formed in 2007, aims to enable Germany to participate in the 2015 Rugby World Cup ?
text: Did you know that Brendan Benson of The Raconteurs covered the Jape song " Floating " , from the album The Monkeys in the Zoo Have More Fun Than Me , without the band's permission?
text: Did you know that the three drunken Wierix brothers of Antwerp influenced Ethiopian iconography ?
text: Did you know that for the first four decades of its existence, the altar of the Reformed Dutch Church in Bloomingburg, New York , was on the same end as the main entrance?
text: Did you know that Groucho Marx wanted to play the title role of an embittered Holocaust survivor in the 1964 film The Pawnbroker ?
text: Did you know that Sara Christian had the highest female finish in the history of NASCAR 's top series at the 1949 Heidelberg Raceway event?
text: Did you know that the Performing Garage , an off-Broadway theater, was never actually a garage ?
text: Did you know that Major General George F. Hopkinson was the only British airborne general to be killed during the Second World War ?
text: Did you know that Junkie XL 's Booming Back at You was released by a joint venture between game developer EA and music company Nettwerk ?
text: Did you know that in 1996, the Kinjo family sued Lori Padilla for ¥ 62 million (US$580,000) blood money after a car Padilla was driving killed three of their family members in Okinawa ?
text: Did you know that the Lighthouse Archaeological Maritime Program searched Florida 's Lake Crescent for the wreckage of Alligator , a paddle steamer used by archeologist Clarence Bloomfield Moore ?
text: Did you know that Hew Pike was awarded the Distinguished Service Order for his "cool example and inspiring leadership" during a fierce battle in the 1982 Falklands War ?
text: Did you know that the Centre College Praying Colonels participated in the first game of American football played south of the Ohio River in 1880?
text: Did you know that when refused leave to go to London with the order that he could only travel as far on land as he could get in his barge , Captain Henry Paulet put the barge on a cart and went anyway?
text: Did you know that Adolph Diesterweg , a German educationist, is sometimes credited as originating the maxim "learn to do by doing"?
text: Did you know that the viral video Saturday Morning Watchmen portrays Watchmen character Rorschach as a friend to the animals?
text: Did you know that Desiderius Erasmus knew three unrelated people called Jacob Faber ?
text: Did you know that Bengaluru Pete , established by Kempegowda I in 1537 with roads laid in cardinal directions with entrance gates at the end of each road, is an integral part of the present-day Bangalore , India ?
text: Did you know that Chris Mullin was named the Big East Conference Men's Basketball Player of the Year three consecutive times from 1983 to 1985?
text: Did you know that the Oslo Tramway reached its greatest length with the opening of the Sinsen Line in 1939?
text: Did you know that when the German U-boat UB-13 sank the neutral Dutch ocean liner Tubantia in March 1916, one of the German excuses was that the torpedo had been fired ten days before and just happened to hit the ship?
text: Did you know that the New York Philharmonic featured cellist Lorne Munroe as a soloist more than 150 times?
text: Did you know that L-form bacteria are regarded either as insignificant laboratory curiosities, or important but unappreciated causes of disease?
text: Did you know that triple quartets from Finland 's oldest choir Akademiska Sångföreningen helped raise funds to build the Old Student House in Helsinki ?
text: Did you know that the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering awarded Raymond Damadian the 2009 Honorary Fellow Award for discovering the concept of MRI ?
text: Did you know that the Secretary of State of Texas from 1870 to 1874, James Newcomb , was a scout for the longest desert trek by U.S. military ?
text: Did you know that the album Ritual by Jape recently won the Choice Music Prize ?
text: Did you know that Moggy Hollow Natural Area was where Glacial Lake Passaic overflowed as the Wisconsin Glacier expanded in New Jersey ?
text: Did you know that the primarily western television actor Chris Alcaide came out of retirement in 1987 to appear as the Chief Justice in Charles Bronson 's film Assassination ?
text: Did you know that the British Council sponsored a "Rock the Referendum" concert for the 2005 Armenian constitutional referendum ?
text: Did you know that the "dancing doctor", pediatric toxicologist Michael Shannon , starred in a 2008 production of the Urban Nutcracker , his eighth year appearing in the annual performance?
text: Did you know that the Boulton and Watt steam engine preserved in the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney, Australia , is the oldest surviving rotative steam engine ?
text: Did you know that American historian Constance McLaughlin Green won the 1963 Pulitzer Prize for History for her book Washington, Village and Capital, 1800-1878 ?
text: Did you know that British heavy metal band Iron Maiden was nominated in the Best Live Return category at the 2008 Vodafone Awards , but disagreed with their nomination and asked to be withdrawn?
text: Did you know that university founder Andrew White prevented the Cornell Big Red football team from playing Michigan , saying "I refuse to let 40 of our boys travel 400 miles merely to agitate a bag of wind "?
text: Did you know that Russian politician Vladimir Nikolayev became mayor of Vladivostok , Russia , after his opponent  was killed by a grenade left outside his office?
text: Did you know that the science fiction novel Typewriter in the Sky by Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard is set in the Caribbean during the 17th century?
text: Did you know that Galen T. Porter was a New York City police captain who led the defense of the NY Draft Office when it was attacked by angry firefighters and mobs during the 1863 New York Draft Riots ?
text: Did you know that in Advanced Banter , the QI book of quotations , Alan Davies wrote the following proverb: "A small pie is soon eaten"?
text: Did you know that medievalist Knut Helle led the editorial committee of the ten-volume encyclopedia Norsk biografisk leksikon ?
text: Did you know that Operation Cockade , a series of Allied deceptive operations during World War II , was so unsuccessful that it was later described as being “at best a piece of harmless play acting”?
text: Did you know that Siward , the earl of Northumbria who defeated Macbeth in battle, was said to have been descended from a polar bear ?
text: Did you know that Einar Sverdrup , CEO of a Svalbard -based coal mining company , died during World War II during an attempt to secure Svalbard?
text: Did you know that Wilmette , Illinois 's Chicago and Northwestern Depot has been described as the most historic building in the village?
text: Did you know that Romanus , the second Bishop of Rochester , drowned in the Mediterranean Sea ?
text: Did you know that Kathryn Erbe , who had previously played a murderer in Oz , was cast as Det . Alex Eames in the first season of Law & Order: Criminal Intent because producers thought she "just looked like a real cop"?
text: Did you know that 17th-century Hungarian painter Jakob Bogdani highlighted his paintings with exotic red-coloured birds such as the Scarlet Ibis , Red Avadavat and Northern Cardinal ?
text: Did you know that the Royal Australian Navy 's Kanimbla class ships can carry two Australian Army LCM2000 Landing Craft Mechanised on their bow ?
text: Did you know that in 1952, after giving the Checkers Speech , Richard Nixon dictated a telegram resigning as Eisenhower 's running mate, but his campaign manager Murray Chotiner ripped it up unsent?
text: Did you know that the black swallower can swallow fishes over twice its length and ten times its weight?
text: Did you know that the U.S. Senate confirmed Winthrop M. Daniels as an I.C.C. commissioner by 36–27 after some opposing Democrats voted in favor so as not to offend President Woodrow Wilson by rejecting his friend?
text: Did you know that the operation of malthouses in the UK were once strictly regulated to comply with the malt tax ?
text: Did you know that American art historian Charles Rufus Morey published a pamphlet on library planning called "Laboratory-Library"?
text: Did you know that the founder of the artists' group Les Nabis , Paul Sérusier , spent long visits painting in the Breton village of Châteauneuf-du-Faou ?
text: Did you know that traditional performers, the Mulkerrin Brothers from the Aran Islands , won The All Ireland Talent Show two days ago?
text: Did you know that Australian flying ace Russell Foskett was credited with 6½ aerial victories during the Second World War , before he was killed over the Aegean Sea in October 1944?
text: Did you know that Damien Dempsey 's critically-acclaimed 2005 album, Shots , contains a track called "Saint Patrick's Day"?
text: Did you know that Slovenian graphic designer Miljenko Licul designed two national currencies, the tolar and (with others) the Slovenian euro coins ?
text: Did you know that the 1780 Atlantic hurricane season is the only season to date that had three hurricanes that caused at least 1,000 deaths each?
text: Did you know that John Penn , the engineer famed for introducing wood bearings for screw-propeller shafts in steam-powered ships, was also president of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers on two occasions?
text: Did you know that Fat Cupid died on St. Patrick's Day ?
text: Did you know that the small farming community of Laurelwood, Oregon , was the site of four execution-style murders in the 1970s ordered by the Hells Angels ?
text: Did you know that the Irish TV series Garda ar Lár focused on an incident which preceded Minister for Defence Paddy Donegan 's "thundering disgrace" remarks and President Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh 's resignation?
text: Did you know that Yuki Kataoka , a character from the Japanese manga Saki , seems to play better at mahjong if she eats tacos ?
text: Did you know that Brodir and Ospak of Man were two 11th-century Danish brothers who fought on opposite sides at the Battle of Clontarf in 1014?
text: Did you know that despite attracting the highest ratings ever for a comedy show debut on BBC Three , Horne & Corden was described by one critic as, "about as funny as credit default swaps "?
text: Did you know that " Tomorrow Never Dies ", Sheryl Crow 's theme song to the James Bond film of the same name , received a Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Original Song ?
text: Did you know that archaeologist Luigi Pernier , who found the Phaistos Disc , has been accused of having forged it?
text: Did you know that the TV documentary series On the Street Where You Live featured contributions from locals, historians and the Grand Marshall of the 2008 Saint Patrick's Day parade in Kilkenny , Ireland ?
text: Did you know that the Butler's frogfish can hold onto objects with its finger-like pectoral fin rays ?
text: Did you know that though actors James Whitmore and Audra Lindley were divorced in 1979, the two starred in Tom Cole's 1990 production of About Time , as an elderly couple identified only as Old Man and Old Woman?
text: Did you know that The Simpsons episode " In the Name of the Grandfather ", scheduled to debut on Sky One , will be the first episode of the show to air in Ireland before airing in the United States?
text: Did you know that research by Mark H. Beers on drug interactions in the elderly led to creating the eponymous Beers Criteria , listing prescription medications that may have negative side effects in older patients?
text: Did you know that during the campaign for the 2007 Bermudan general election a bullet was mailed to the Premier of Bermuda , Ewart Brown ?
text: Did you know that in 1453, John Norman was the first Lord Mayor of London to travel by water to swear his oath at Westminster , a tradition that continued until 1856?
text: Did you know that Street News , sold by homeless individuals in New York beginning in 1989,  became the prototype for street newspapers worldwide?
text: Did you know that Alfred Madsen , a high-ranking politician in the Norwegian Labour Party , started his career as a lithographer ?
text: Did you know that Arthur Miller threatened to sue Columbia Pictures over a short clip they placed in front of Death of a Salesman , a film based off of his play of the same name ?
text: Did you know that in the indie video game Clean Asia! ,  the eyes of all humans leave their bodies, fly to the moon , develop weapons , and attack the human race, taking over several countries?
text: Did you know that the South Park episode The Ring parodies the Jonas Brothers and the marketing tactics of Walt Disney Company in using the band to pledge abstinence ?
text: Did you know that Jules De Martino of The Ting Tings was once in an indie band called "Babakoto" who played as a backing group for Bros ?
text: Did you know that logarithmic differentiation is a technique used in differential calculus to differentiate complicated functions by taking the natural logarithm of both sides of the equation y = f ( x ) {\displaystyle y=f(x)} ?
text: Did you know that the medieval citizens of the English town of Oxford called William de Chesney their alderman before such honorific was in common use?
text: Did you know that at least 212 drawings by Douglas Hamilton illustrate his big game hunting experiences, forestry operations and Army surveys of new hill stations in Tamil Nadu , South India , in the mid 1800s?
text: Did you know that Odd Langholm , who started out as a researcher of business administration , later won recognition for his studies of mediaeval economic thought ?
text: Did you know that the whitefin dogfish has light-producing organs on its upper eyelids?
text: Did you know that singer Katie White named her group The Ting Tings after a Chinese girl who worked with her in a boutique ?
text: Did you know that the Haldane Reforms of 1906–1912 included the creation of the British Expeditionary Force and the Territorial Force ?
text: Did you know that George Keverian won election as a 21-year-old to the Common Council of Everett, Massachusetts , in 1954 using a new MIT high-speed camera to create individualized fliers for each voter?
text: Did you know that voters in the 2005 Egyptian constitutional referendum could get free public transport in Cairo ?
text: Did you know that Prussian general Friedrich August Peter von Colomb commanded the Prussian forces throughout the Greater Poland Uprising of 1848 ?
text: Did you know that Northern Canada ’s Rivière La Roncière had its existence disputed since its discovery in 1868 by Émile Petitot until J. Keith Fraser determined in the 1950s that it was actually the Hornaday River ?
text: Did you know that the first Victoria's Secret Fashion Show featured models Stephanie Seymour , Beverly Peele and Frederique van der Wal ?
text: Did you know that Richard Pankhurst , founder of the Institute of Ethiopian Studies, is the son of suffragette Sylvia Pankhurst ?
text: Did you know that a 175-year-old shagbark hickory tree next to the Masten-Quinn House in Wurtsboro, New York , has helped to date its construction?
text: Did you know that Robert Gentilis graduated from the University of Oxford aged 12 and became a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford , aged 17, below the minimum fellowship age of 18?
text: Did you know that Plasmatron television screens combined rows formed from liquid crystals with columns formed from plasma cells ?
text: Did you know that in the 1770s, Thaddeus Dod became the second minister to settle west of the Monongahela River and the first to establish a presbytery west of the Allegheny Mountains ?
text: Did you know that the flesh of the mushroom Russula fragilis tastes hot, while its smell is fruity?
text: Did you know that Ernest Trova was best known for Falling Man , a series of works "about man at his most imperfect" depicting an armless human figure that appeared in sculptures, paintings, prints and wristwatches?
text: Did you know the Golden banded goby was originally differentiated from similar species by the structure of its anal fin ?
text: Did you know that Major League Baseball pitcher Jaime Cocanower set an unofficial record in 1985 by throwing a wild pitch in eight straight appearances?
text: Did you know that with the financial crisis of 2008–2009 the small house movement has attracted more attention?
text: Did you know that Gabriel Goldney , M.P. for Chippenham , is commemorated in a stained glass window of The Foundling Hospital ?
text: Did you know that Leptotrombidium is a genus of harvest mites that are able to infect humans with scrub typhus ( Orientia tsutsugamushi infection) through their bite?
text: Did you know that John D. Boon 's former store and former home in Salem, Oregon , are both on the National Register of Historic Places ?
text: Did you know that Operation Sundevil , a seizure of boards by the United States Secret Service , was named after the football stadium of Arizona State University ?
text: Did you know that Barack Obama met his future speechwriter Jon Favreau while rehearsing his keynote address at the 2004 Democratic National Convention ?
text: Did you know that according to the Zizhi Tongjian , the Tang Dynasty general Li Su launched a surprise attack to defeat the warlord Wu Yuanji in a heavy snowstorm?
text: Did you know that the Bay Street Emeryville mall was built on a Native American burial ground and a former toxic waste contaminated site?
text: Did you know that editor Hedley Donovan was responsible for redirecting TIME from a conservative magazine to one "more toward the middle"?
text: Did you know that Pitomnik Airfield was the primary German airfield within the city during the Battle of Stalingrad in World War II ?
text: Did you know that Eline Berings won the 60 metre hurdles event at the 2009 European Indoor Championships ahead of Lucie Škrobáková ?
text: Did you know that the stoplight loosejaw is the only known animal that uses chlorophyll to see?
text: Did you know that the Prussian general Karl Wilhelm von Willisen was forced out of the Grand Duchy of Posen only two weeks after his arrival?
text: Did you know that Rabbi Isaac Mayer Wise 's 1857 Minhag America , an effort at a prayer book for American Reform Jews , was supplanted by the Union Prayer Book in the 1890s, which in turn was replaced by Gates of Prayer in the 1975 and then Mishkan T'filah in 2007?
text: Did you know that according to the Zizhi Tongjian , Tang Dynasty warlord Wu Yuanji painted an archery range with the blood of a family he had executed ?
text: Did you know that Jawaharlal Nehru wrote The Discovery of India – a book on Indian history – while he was imprisoned at Ahmednagar Fort during the Quit India Movement ?
text: Did you know that Oregon politician Medorem Crawford 's son was the first white American male born on the west side of the Willamette River ?
text: Did you know that adult and juvenile snake mackerels both make daily vertical migrations , but in opposite directions?
text: Did you know that Dan & Dave both won Olympic medals , but lost their endorsement deal?
text: Did you know that Clement O. Miniger , founder of the Electric Auto-Lite Company , lost $5 million in 1931 due to the economic effects of the Great Depression ?
text: Did you know that the Toronto Women's Bookstore is the largest nonprofit , feminist bookstore in Canada ?
text: Did you know that T. S. Avinashilingam Chettiar was responsible for the creation of the first encyclopedia in Tamil ?
text: Did you know that revenue from trading cards was one of the key issues, and among the last to be resolved, during the 1992 NHL players' strike , the first such labor stoppage in National Hockey League history?
text: Did you know that Isabella Gilmore reestablished the female diaconate in the Anglican Communion ?
text: Did you know that the relationship between two gay men at the beginning of the AIDS epidemic in Robert Chesley 's erotic and emotional play Jerker takes place entirely over the telephone?
text: Did you know that despite being Member of Parliament for Chippenham , Wiltshire , for nearly 24 years, Joseph Neeld never spoke in the House of Commons ?
text: Did you know that Anthony Deane-Drummond , a British Army officer, made two parachute drops , was taken prisoner after both, and escaped each time?
text: Did you know that the 1935 Disney cartoon Three Orphan Kittens was later censored for having negative portrayals of African Americans ?
text: Did you know that James Allan scored 12 goals in one match, when Sunderland beat Castletown 23–0 in an exhibition football game?
text: Did you know that the expression of HMGA2 in cancer cells is linked to poor prognosis in cancer patients , but also with these cells' sensitivity to some forms of treatment ?
text: Did you know that when Barbara Parker left a law career to take a master's, her thesis went on to be short listed for an Edgar Award as a best first mystery novel?
text: Did you know that the University of Cambridge 's West Cambridge site includes the site of an ancient Roman settlement?
text: Did you know that the film The Cloud Door , by Indian director Mani Kaul , features a parrot telling erotic stories ?
text: Did you know that English printer John Wolfe 's business practices so incensed his contemporaries, they accused him of Machiavellianism ?
text: Did you know that It's Just a Plant , a children's book, was heavily criticized by Republican Congressman Mark Souder , who argued that it supported marijuana use by children?
text: Did you know that sports agent and author Colleen Howe , known as "Mrs. Hockey", passed away from Pick's disease ?
text: Did you know that German U-boat UB-4 was sunk in August 1915 by a fishing smack ?
text: Did you know that Charlie Biederman was the last surviving dog sled mail carrier in the United States when he died in 1995?
text: Did you know that In Case of Fire were the opening act for the 2009 Kerrang! awards tour supporting Bring Me the Horizon , Black Tide , Dir en Grey and Mindless Self Indulgence ?
text: Did you know that a modeling agency once demanded that swimsuit model Ariel Meredith have breast reduction surgery, but she refused and was dropped from the agency?
text: Did you know that high jumper Bohdan Bondarenko won the World Junior Championships bronze medal in 2006 and the gold medal in 2008 , both times with a 2.26 metres (7.4 ft) jump?
text: Did you know that the non-profit SAME Cafe in Denver, Colorado , serves food for either an hour of work or whatever you can pay ?
text: Did you know that Henry Seymour King , Member of Parliament for Kingston upon Hull Central for 25 years, was the first climber to reach the summits of Mont Maudit and Aiguille Blanche de Peuterey ?
text: Did you know that country music singer Ty Herndon 's grandmother Myrtle hosted a Gospel music radio show on WPRN and WPRN-FM in Alabama for more than 40 years?
text: Did you know that American historian Roy Franklin Nichols won the 1949 Pulitzer Prize for History for his book The Disruption of American Democracy ?
text: Did you know that the Pepper Pot tower in Brighton , England, has been used as a public toilet , printworks , Scout headquarters , wartime observation tower and artist's studio , but its original function is unknown?
text: Did you know that Mexican wrestler Octagón took his name from the 1980 film The Octagon starring Chuck Norris ?
text: Did you know that the sharptail mola has become an important commercial fish in Taiwan , since the promotion of an ocean sunfish festival in Hualien County ?
text: Did you know that the Canadian Mohawk chief, the Flemish Bastard , was considered the primary spokesman for the pro- French faction of Canada in the 17th century?
text: Did you know that the DVD boxsets of the first three seasons of Law & Order: Criminal Intent were released out of order to encourage viewers to watch season 4?
text: Did you know that according to the Book of Tang , Tang Dynasty general Li Guangyan , while in mourning over the death of  his mother for three years, did not return to his wife's  bedchambers?
text: Did you know that Clare Potter was one of the first fashion designers in the United States to be known by name and is credited with inventing American sportswear ?
text: Did you know that after the Australian light destroyer project was canceled, the Australian Government ordered frigates which the Royal Australian Navy had previously assessed as being "second rate escorts"?
text: Did you know that the equipment designed by the physicist Gwyn Jones to liquefy small amounts of helium for work at temperatures near absolute zero was made from parts of a motorcycle engine ?
text: Did you know that Pavel Lednyov has won seven Olympic medals in modern pentathlon , more than anybody else in this sport?
text: Did you know that in the English plural , the letter -s is pronounced differently in words like "cats", "cabs", and "buses", because of a phonological rule ?
text: Did you know that human rights activist Ayse Nur Zarakolu , an Amnesty International " prisoner of conscience ", was arrested 30 times and jailed four for violating censorship laws in Turkey ?
text: Did you know that the fish king-of-the-salmon is so named because, according to Makah legend, it is responsible for leading salmon to their spawning grounds?
text: Did you know that the British rigid airship No. 9r , completed in 1916, featured an early example of thrust vectoring ?
text: Did you know that George Washington Hill was the American businessman who introduced women to cigarettes ?
text: Did you know that the opposition in Nagorno-Karabakh ironically described the 2005 Nagorno-Karabakh parliamentary election as having "fair and transparent irregularities"?
text: Did you know that Wilfried Dietrich won five Olympic medals during his career, more than any other Olympic wrestler ?
text: Did you know that the 1809 Treaty of Fort Wayne led to the outbreak of Tecumseh's War and the subsequent Battle of Tippecanoe ?
text: Did you know that no matter how biased a coin one uses, flipping a coin to determine whether each edge is present or absent in a countably infinite graph will always produce the same graph , the Rado graph ?
text: Did you know that Gary O'Donnell is the first person in 26 years to be awarded a second George Medal , the last one posthumously for  "immense bravery" in Afghanistan ?
text: Did you know that in the June 2005 Swiss referendum , Switzerland became the first country in Europe to hold a referendum on increased rights for same-sex couples ?
text: Did you know that osteoblast milk protein added to Mengniu Deluxe milk in China is supposed to promote bone growth , but its safety has been questioned?
text: Did you know that psychologist John Neulinger envisioned a future society based on leisure ?
text: Did you know that Henry Wilde melted iron bars to demonstrate the power of his self-energizing dynamo , a machine based on his paper presented to the Royal Society in 1866?
text: Did you know that the upcoming U2 360° Tour is named for a new kind of stage design that will permit all-round viewing in football stadiums ?
text: Did you know that author Guillaume Prévost created The Book of Time series to help children understand that history can be fascinating?
text: Did you know that in 2008, chronic bee paralysis virus was discovered in the carpenter ant Camponotus vagus ?
text: Did you know that early sources suggested that Moses had taken an Ethiopian wife named Tharbis after laying siege to her city, prior to his ascendancy to prophethood in the Jewish faith?
text: Did you know that while the history of rugby union matches between Argentina and France dates back to 1949, Argentina did not win a match until their 16th clash in 1985?
text: Did you know that in October 1965, Assistant Commandant of the Marine Corps LtGen Richard C. Mangrum , Navy Cross recipient at Guadalcanal , became the first Marine to be the "Gray Eagle" of Naval aviation?
text: Did you know that the new Polish party called Forward Poland rejected an alliance with Declan Ganley 's Libertas ?
text: Did you know that Tony Bennett literally threw up before recording his 1970 album Tony Sings the Great Hits of Today! , a misguided collection of Beatles and other current songs done under record company pressure?
text: Did you know that the 1993 fundraiser Friends of Gilda featured Martin Short , Eugene Levy , Andrea Martin , Paul Shaffer and others who knew Gilda Radner from a Toronto production of Godspell ?
text: Did you know that Richard Swinefield , a medieval Bishop of Hereford , tried during his episcopate to secure the canonization of his predecessor Thomas de Cantilupe , but it did not happen until after Swinfield's death?
text: Did you know that Benjamin Franklin Burch , a teacher at the first school in Polk County, Oregon , was a member of the Oregon Constitutional Convention and President of the Oregon State Senate ?
text: Did you know that the World War I German U-boat UB-2 was the only one of the Type UB I submarines in the Flanders Flotilla not to be shipped by rail to Antwerp ?
text: Did you know that in early 2001, three teenagers in Anchorage , Alaska , conducted and videotaped a series of racially motivated drive-by shootings with a paintball gun ?
text: Did you know that members of the Kasakela chimpanzee community were the first non-human animals observed making tools?
text: Did you know that a U.S. Forest Service district ranger lived in a tent for eight years while waiting for a residence to be built at the Rand Ranger Station ?
text: Did you know that after seeing a performance by child pianist Joseph Alfidi of Yonkers, New York , Pope John XXIII said he may turn out to be "the next Mozart "?
text: Did you know that the MV Belgian Airman was carrying a cargo of sorghum when she was torpedoed and sunk on 14 April 1945?
text: Did you know that Thomas Forester , the only American stock mutual fund manager to make a profit in 2008, had previously been one of only two mutual fund managers to make a profit in the second quarter of 2002?
text: Did you know that the Nigeria women's national basketball team became the first African team ever to win an Olympic game in women's basketball at the 2004 Summer Olympics ?
text: Did you know that William Joseph Rainbow ' s work, A Census of Australian Araneidae , was the first catalogue of Australian spiders ?
text: Did you know that American rock band Disturbed has released three consecutive number-one debuts on the Billboard 200 chart since 2002?
text: Did you know that Buffalo Bills punter John Nies and younger brother Eric Nies (later of MTV 's The Real World fame) posed nude for photographer Bruce Weber ?
text: Did you know that Itoro Umoh-Coleman was one of two Hephzibah High School graduates to play on the Nigerian women's national basketball team in the 2004 Summer Olympics ?
text: Did you know that listed buildings in Minshull Vernon , Cheshire , include five canal bridges, two aqueducts and a former privy ?
text: Did you know that Interstate Commerce Commissioner Walter L. Bragg died after suffering from the effects of Civil War wounds, a quarter century after the war ended?
text: Did you know that Gilling Abbey , located in present-day Yorkshire , was founded shortly after 651 AD on an estate granted as weregild ?
text: Did you know that the CEO of toonlet has also worked on The Sims , SimCity and Spore ?
text: Did you know that the Moon of Pejeng in Bali is the largest single-cast bronze kettle drum in the world?
text: Did you know that Dr Delano Meriwether won the 100 yard event at the 1971 Amateur Athletics Union championships wearing a hospital shirt, swimming trunks and gold suspenders (braces)?
text: Did you know that when torpedoed in May 1915 by German submarine UB-8 , SS Merion was disguised as the Royal Navy battlecruiser HMS Tiger ?
text: Did you know that the only countries to medal at all three Nordic skiing disciplines ( cross-country skiing , Nordic combined , ski jumping ) at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2009 were Germany , Norway , and the United States ?
text: Did you know that a woodcut by the German Renaissance block-cutter Hans Lützelburger showed himself and the artist nearly naked?
text: Did you know that it was said of Interstate Commerce Commissioner Judson C. Clements that no opinion ever written by him had been overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court ?
text: Did you know that the U2 song " White as Snow " was written from the perspective of a dying soldier in Afghanistan ?
text: Did you know that Charlie Chaplin Studios , founded in 1917 and now home to Jim Henson Productions , has a 12-foot (3.7 m) color statue of Kermit the Frog dressed as the "Little Tramp" above the main gate?
text: Did you know that Doug Hele designed the three-cylinder Triumph Trident and developed it into the most successful race bike of the time?
text: Did you know that engineer William Mylne fled to America following the collapse of his North Bridge in Edinburgh in 1772, but later returned to run the Dublin Water Works?
text: Did you know that Irish , Scottish Gaelic , and Manx have separate dependent and independent verb forms ?
text: Did you know that television writer Steve Higgins was nominated for two Emmy Awards for his work on Saturday Night Live before becoming the announcer for NBC 's Late Night with Jimmy Fallon ?
text: Did you know that the Dacia Duster is the first concept car entirely made by the Romanian automaker Automobile Dacia ?
text: Did you know that Welsh military pilot and journalist , Wing Commander Patrick Gibbs ,  published  two volumes of wartime memoirs 49 years apart: Not Peace, But a Sword (1943) and Torpedo Leader (1992)?
text: Did you know that Michael Jackson 's official concert tour website could not deal with the traffic—16,000 applications a second—for pre-sale ticket registration?
text: Did you know that visits to the workshop of Hieronymus Andreae by Maximilian I gave rise to a Nuremberg saying "The Emperor has gone to the women's alley again"?
text: Did you know that motorcycle racer Percy Tait was estimated to have driven over a million miles road-testing Triumph motorcycles ?
text: Did you know that Jane Sterk joined the Green Party of British Columbia after witnessing environmental degradation in Mexico and became its leader six years later?
text: Did you know that when German U-boat UB-3 disappeared on her first patrol in May 1915, she was the first of her class to be lost?
text: Did you know that the plot of Abel Gance 's 1931 science fiction film , End of the World , features a comet hurling toward Earth as the world prays for help?
text: Did you know that the percentage of Sudanese -born persons living in the Australian electoral district of Yeerongpilly is twelve times the national average ?
text: Did you know that the medieval bishop John de Breton was credited with having written a legal treatise regarding statutes created after his death?
text: Did you know that Thomas Sangster had to learn how to play the guitar left-handed to portray Paul McCartney in the upcoming John Lennon biopic Nowhere Boy ?
text: Did you know that Indian freedom fighter T. S. S. Rajan practised as a doctor in Burma and England before being appointed as the Minister for Health and Religious Endowments of the Madras Presidency ?
text: Did you know that the 1959 NBC series Five Fingers features David Hedison as an American counterintelligence officer in the Cold War who poses as a theatrical agent to investigate communist activities in Europe?
text: Did you know that Jost de Negker cut a chiaroscuro woodcut with seven different colour-blocks, a record number for a German Renaissance print?
text: Did you know that Martin Luther King 's speech at  the 1957 Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom , a non-violent demonstration in Washington, DC , established him as a national leader for the Civil Rights Movement ?
text: Did you know that in a bid to get his name in the Guinness Book of World Records , child bullfighter Michelito Lagravere killed six bulls in a single fight in a bullring in Mérida , Mexico ?
text: Did you know that Smith Clove Meetinghouse in Highland Mills, New York , is the oldest religious building in the town and village of Woodbury ?
text: Did you know that Rhena Schweitzer , Albert Schweitzer 's only child, married David C. Miller , a doctor who cared for her father, and the couple traveled around the world offering aid to victims of famine and war?
text: Did you know that KCET Studios , where Invasion of the Body Snatchers was filmed, is the longest continuously-producing studio in Hollywood ?
text: Did you know that Josh Billings was the Tigers Opening Day starting pitcher in 1928, despite being only 20 years old and having only won five Major League baseball games prior to the season?
text: Did you know that Pixiv is a Japanese online community for artists , which as of February 2009 consists of over 600,000 members, and 3 million submissions?
text: Did you know that in the late 1800s, Charles Patrick Daly , president of the American Geographical Society , was also Chief Justice of the New York Court of Common Pleas ?
text: Did you know that the No Parking Whitebeam , a rare tree, was named after a road sign nailed to the type specimen ?
text: Did you know that the spiny butterfly ray stuns its prey with blows from its wing-like pectoral fins ?
text: Did you know that the Tang Dynasty general Gao Chongwen asked to be moved from his post at Chengdu as he was illiterate and disliked the paperwork?
text: Did you know that the now-defunct Arbogast & Bastian abbatoir in Allentown , Pennsylvania , could process most of the 850,000 hogs raised annually in Pennsylvania ?
text: Did you know that the architectural designs of Mannerist painter and printmaker Wendel Dietterlin (d. 1599) have been characterized as a "bizarre ornamental fantasy"?
text: Did you know that a decasyllabic quatrain is a poetic form in which each stanza consists of four lines of ten syllables , usually with a rhyme scheme of AABB or ABAB?
text: Did you know that the biologist Lourens Bass Becking was imprisoned by the Germans and spent his time studying typhoid fever as it spread amongst the inmates?
text: Did you know that the classical "boy band" Blake formed via the social networking website Facebook and replaced a member by using Twitter ?
text: Did you know that although La princesse jaune is the third opera that Saint-Saëns ’ composed, it was his first opera to actually be mounted on the stage?
text: Did you know that author Jonathan Krohn gave a two-minute speech at the 2009 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) at age thirteen?
text: Did you know that Sheldon Manor , a Grade I listed building , is Wiltshire 's longest continuously inhabited manor house ?
text: Did you know that Yakub Hasan Sait , who served as the Minister of Public Works for the Madras Presidency from 1937 to 1939, was a native of Nagpur and a former member of the All India Muslim League ?
text: Did you know that Tropical Storm Faxai of the 2007 Pacific typhoon season injured six people when a plane encountered severe turbulence produced by the storm?
text: Did you know that Alan Landers , who was featured in Winston cigarette ads, became an anti-smoking advocate calling himself the "Winston Man" and died of laryngeal cancer after a longtime 2½-pack-per-day habit?
text: Did you know that the librettists for Saint-Saëns 's Le timbre d’argent , Jules Barbier and Michel Carré , also wrote the librettos for Gounod ’s Faust and Offenbach ’s Les contes d'Hoffmann ?
text: Did you know that Interstate Commerce Commissioner John H. Marble died in 1913 following an attack of acute indigestion after only eight months in office?
text: Did you know that the 900,000-year-old hand axes found at Olorgesailie in southern Kenya were probably used for butchering animals?
text: Did you know that American baritone James Billings has portrayed more than 175 opera roles on stage during his long career?
text: Did you know that election monitors described the behaviour of the people of Suriname during the 2005 Surinamese legislative election as a good example to the Caribbean ?
text: Did you know that Samuel Brand , a survivor of the Buchenwald concentration camp in Nazi Germany , was officially the first immigrant to enter Israel after its creation?
text: Did you know that two psychedelic frogfish were recognized as "something different" in 1992, but were not declared a new species until this year?
text: Did you know that the Showtime television series Dexter has won two Primetime Emmy Awards ?
text: Did you know that bishop David of Basra was one of the first Christian missionaries to India , circa 300 CE ?
text: Did you know that although the summit of underwater volcano Loihi is 969 metres (3,180 ft) below sea level, it is still twice as tall, measured from the base of its southern flank, as Mount St. Helens ever was?
text: Did you know that Boris Eikhenbaum was a key member of the Society for the Study of Poetic Language ( OPOJAZ )?
text: Did you know that after being kidnapped by Shawnees and adopted by a Mingo chief, Jonathan Alder became the first white settler of Madison County, Ohio ?
text: Did you know that the Peninsular Gneiss rock exposure in the Lalbagh botanical gardens in Bangalore , India , is a National Geological Monument?
text: Did you know that Robert Bruce , a former wrestler , played a small role in the 1971 science fiction film A Clockwork Orange ?
text: Did you know that doctor and politician Orlando Plummer had the first telephone in Portland, Oregon , installed at his drug store?
text: Did you know that film director Arie Posin ' s father did not allow him to watch television as a child despite being a professional filmmaker himself?
text: Did you know that after the Glorious Revolution Scottish troops who deserted couldn't be punished until the passage of the first Mutiny Act in 1689?
text: Did you know that Jean Desbouvrie persuaded the government of France to test swallows as an alternative to carrier pigeons ?
text: Did you know that slaves comprised roughly one percent of the population of China during the Han Dynasty (202 BCE – 220 CE)?
text: Did you know that in 1999, Somalian Mahmood Hussein Mattan was the first person to have his case overturned by the UK 's Criminal Cases Review Commission , 45 years after his execution?
text: Did you know that King Edward the Confessor (d. 1066) granted Regenbald , a royal clerk, the status of a bishop without the actual office?
text: Did you know that Mantis in Lace is a 1968 sexploitation film about a topless go-go dancer who becomes a serial killer after ingesting LSD ?
text: Did you know that William G. Hare , his father William D. Hare , and his son John all served in the Oregon State Senate ?
text: Did you know that many voters in the 2005 Mongolian presidential election voted in traditional Mongolian dress ?
text: Did you know that the city of East Layton, Utah , now a part of Layton , was incorporated in 1936 to qualify for funding from the Works Progress Administration for a municipal water system ?
text: Did you know that Peter of Aigueblanche , a medieval Bishop of Hereford , was once besieged in the city of Hereford ?
text: Did you know that large swells produced by Hurricane Howard resulted in about 1,000 lifeguard rescues in southern California during the Labor Day weekend in 2004?
text: Did you know that Pliny the Elder claimed that the toxic spine of the Common stingray could kill trees and corrode iron?
text: Did you know that writer - director Bruce A. Evans described directing his first film in 15 years, Mr. Brooks , as "like riding a bicycle"?
text: Did you know that the Overland Trail was the first road to reach  the Klondike gold fields in Canada's Yukon ?
text: Did you know that syndicalist trade unionist Frank Hodges once played a game of golf with George VI of the United Kingdom ?
text: Did you know that although it is considered a gamefish , the flat needlefish is seldom eaten because of its green-colored flesh?
text: Did you know that former FedEx Office CEO Ken May was elected the March of Dimes ' board of trustees chairman in 2007?
text: Did you know that the Belt of Orion Award, for organizations that have advanced aviation in Canada, was bestowed upon the Air Cadet League of Canada in 1989?
text: Did you know that before becoming Governor of Pennsylvania , John K. Tener was a Major League Baseball player who once explained the game to the future King Edward VII ?
text: Did you know that, due to a pressing error, the first shipment of Faryl Smith 's debut album Faryl instead contained the music from The Fall's album Imperial Wax Solvent ?
text: Did you know that Swedish singer Sofia Berntson entered Sweden's Melodifestivalen with the Greek song "Alla" and won the international jury vote?
text: Did you know that before it was merged into the Department for Constitutional Affairs in 2003 the Lord Chancellor's Department was the oldest existing Government Department in the United Kingdom?
text: Did you know that the Jurassic crocodile relative Phyllodontosuchus had two types of teeth; one type resembled those of some herbivorous dinosaurs , indicating it may not have been a strict carnivore ?
text: Did you know that until U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt named him to the Interstate Commerce Commission , Edgar E. Clark had served for 16 years as Grand Chief Conductor of the Order of Railway Conductors ?
text: Did you know that Hurricane Fausto of the 2008 Pacific hurricane season reportedly produced hurricane-force winds on Socorro Island despite being 115 mi (185 km) away from the island?
text: Did you know that Sir Allan Quartermaine , a former member of the British Royal Fine Art Commission , was awarded the Military Cross for gallantry in the First World War ?
text: Did you know that the western yellowjacket , an invasive species in Hawaii , can be baited with poisoned catfood ?
text: Did you know that the 17th-century Knights of the Royal Oak received silver medals that displayed the Royal Oak where Charles II of England hid after the Battle of Worcester ?
text: Did you know that at the Tiananmen Square protests , Cui Jian gained notoriety for performing " Nothing To My Name " while wearing a red blindfold ?
text: Did you know that Guy de Beauchamp, 10th Earl of Warwick , is best remembered for his role in the execution of a favourite of Edward II ?
text: Did you know that in a Spanish language scene of the Dexter episode " Return to Sender ", actor David Zayas learned all of his dialogue in English and translated each line mentally during each take?
text: Did you know that the Alpirod , a defunct 1,000-kilometre (620 mi) European sled dog race, was the longest competition of its kind outside of North America ?
text: Did you know that American film director Keith Gordon decided to adapt the novel of obsessive passion, Waking the Dead , into a movie before he finished reading it?
text: Did you know that French Pass has the fastest tidal flows in New Zealand , reaching nearly nine knots and capable of stunning fish?
text: Did you know that former Union Army Brigadier-General Patrick Henry Jones acted as a negotiator in the Alexander Stewart body snatching case?
text: Did you know that the highest circulation newspaper in the United Kingdom at the start of the 19th century sold only 4,000 copies a day?
text: Did you know that  " You Are Everything ", 2008's most-played song on contemporary Christian radio,  was recorded after singer Matthew West 's surgery for vocal fold hemorrhaging?
text: Did you know that monastic historian David Knowles wrote that Dominic of Evesham (who died before 1145)  authored the deathbed account of the Abbot Æthelwig of Evesham in the Chronicon Abbatiae de Evesham ?
text: Did you know that Viper's Creed , a Mecha action anime series, takes place after the Earth's cities are underwater due to global warming and a third world war has caused calamity and turmoil?
text: Did you know that Utah Governor Stephen S. Harding used his home in Milan, Indiana , to help slaves escape through the Underground Railroad in Indiana ?
text: Did you know that film critic Stephen Holden of The New York Times called the 2004 documentary film The 3 Rooms of Melancholia "one of the saddest films ever made"?
text: Did you know that Pulitzer Prize -winning historian Paul Herman Buck was the first Provost of Harvard University ?
text: Did you know that a Jones reductor can be used to prepare solutions of ions , such as chromium (II), Cr 2+ , which are immediately oxidized on contact with air?
text: Did you know that the brick walls in the historic Balch Hotel in Dufur , Oregon , are 18 inches (460 mm) thick and keep the hotel's interior rooms cool during the hot summer months?
text: Did you know that when Will Sessoms ran for mayor of Virginia Beach, Virginia , in 2008 he had a US$ 321,000–$5,600 fundraising edge over the incumbent mayor, Meyera E. Oberndorf ?
text: Did you know that 1972 is seen as a pivotal year for Christian music due to the Explo '72 Christian music festival ?
text: Did you know that CBS 's Harts of the West featured Beau Bridges and his father, Lloyd Bridges , in a comedy / western set at the fictitious Flying Tumbleweed Dude Ranch in Nevada ?
text: Did you know that Rome needed eight years to confirm the election of Peter Jarweh as Patriarch of the Syrian Catholic Church because he had received funds from Protestant missionaries to buy a printing press?
text: Did you know that Eric Blau , co-creator of the Off Broadway show Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris , looked so much like Groucho Marx that he would be approached by fans of the comedian?
text: Did you know that Chilean Líder supermarkets sold Cuban rum at half price to eliminate it from stock in anticipation of becoming a Wal-Mart subsidiary, causing a controversy in Chile?
text: Did you know that the original cast of Star Trek: The Next Generation will appear in " Not All Dogs Go to Heaven ", a seventh season episode of Family Guy ?
text: Did you know that Muir's Corella is listed in Western Australia both as a ‘declared pest of agriculture’ and as ‘rare or likely to become extinct’?
text: Did you know that answering service operator Mary Printz , who served New York's theater and business elite, was the inspiration for the 1956 Broadway musical Bells Are Ringing and the 1960 film of the same name ?
text: Did you know that GRB 970508 was the first gamma-ray burst to have its redshift measured?
text: Did you know that the Western Australian carnivorous plant Drosera zonaria was first witnessed flowering in 1954, 106 years after it was described as a new species?
text: Did you know that baritone Hans von Milde sang for nearly forty years at the Staatskapelle Weimar where he performed the role of the High Priest in the world premiere of Saint-Saëns 's Samson et Dalila in 1877?
text: Did you know that in 1969, building work in the Southgate area of Crawley , England, uncovered evidence that northern Sussex was a pre- Roman industrial area?
text: Did you know that NBC 's The Road West featured Andrew Prine and Brenda Scott in 1966 as brother and sister though the actors had been married to each other?
text: Did you know that fashion model Frankie Rayder has posed with her sisters Molly and Missy for Gap holiday ads?
text: Did you know that the extinct Pliocene dolphin Australodelphis from the Vestfold Hills of Antarctica has been described as an example of convergent evolution with whales ?
text: Did you know that Captain Thomas Dundas 's ship, HMS Naiad ,   towed  the crippled HMS Belleisle through a  gale to safety after the Battle of Trafalgar ?
text: Did you know that Ross Memorial Park and Alexandre Stadium , Washington & Jefferson College's combined lacrosse , baseball , and soccer facility, is the largest continuous artificial playing surface in the world?
text: Did you know that big-game hunters , Douglas Hamilton and Victor Brooke , shot the largest elephant ever killed in South India ?
text: Did you know that the United Nations General Assembly has endorsed the ASEAN Treaty of Amity and Cooperation for its provisions on regional cooperation?
text: Did you know that before his political career, future Interstate Commerce Commissioner Charles A. Prouty worked at an observatory until he returned home to Vermont due to ill health?
text: Did you know that " Care ", the first episode of Law & Order: UK , is a remake of an original Law & Order episode from 1992?
text: Did you know that after being destroyed by the Confederate Army , the Potomac Creek Bridge was rebuilt in just nine days?
text: Did you know that the Dominica Freedom Party of former Prime Minister Eugenia Charles failed to win any seats in the 2005 Dominican general election for the first time in 35 years?
text: Did you know that Nonnie Moore , a woman who had been fashion editor at Mademoiselle and Harper's Bazaar , was hired by GQ in 1984 in a move that was called an "an odd choice, but... was actually the perfect choice"?
text: Did you know that in 1940 the unarmed Norwegian steamship Dronning Maud was sunk by German aircraft while she was flying Red Cross flags and carrying a company of medical personnel?
text: Did you know that the Tualatin River National Wildlife Refuge in Oregon is one of only ten urban National Wildlife Refuges in the United States?
text: Did you know that despite the office existing for 118 years, only nine individuals ever served as Permanent Secretary to the Lord Chancellor's Office ?
text: Did you know that Don Chafin , the sheriff of Logan County, West Virginia , received bribes of at least $32,700 annually for preventing the unionization of coal miners ?
text: Did you know that Ranga Ediriwickrama could become the first Australian Football League player of Sri Lankan descent?
text: Did you know that the 2.5-litre, 68-bhp diesel Land Rover engine was also used in the Austin FX4 London Black Cabs and the Freight Rover 300 commercial vans?
text: Did you know that Canadian Elmer Lach retired as the National Hockey League 's leading scorer in 1954?
text: Did you know that Al-Firdaws Madrasa , established in 1236 under the patronage of Malik az-Zahir 's wife, Dayfa Khatun, is the largest and best known of the Ayyubid madrasas in Aleppo ?
text: Did you know that German bass Hans Herbert Fiedler sang the role of Moses in the original 1954 production of Arnold Schoenberg 's Moses und Aron ?
text: Did you know that the American militia group known as the Yellow Jackets gained their name by having dyed bright yellow cuffs and fringes on their buckskins and wool coats?
text: Did you know that Gail Trimble , captain of the team which won BBC TV 's University Challenge before being disqualified, has been called the "human Google " and the " Usain Bolt of general knowledge"?
text: Did you know that Japanese video game designer Makoto Kanoh worked on the first three Metroid games, as well as 17 other games for Nintendo ?
text: Did you know that the Rothschild Prayerbook has been since 1999 the most expensive illuminated manuscript ever sold at auction?
text: Did you know that Camille Saint-Saëns 's 1911 opera Déjanire was originally a 1898 play accompanied by symphonic music , choruses and a ballet ?
text: Did you know that Irishman Henry Nugent was created Count Valdesoto before he was appointed Governor of Gibraltar ?
text: Did you know that the Rushmore Memorial Library in Highland Mills, New York , takes its name from Charles E. Rushmore , the same man Mount Rushmore is named for?
text: Did you know that Nordahl Rolfsen ' s readers for elementary school , Læsebog for folkeskolen (published 1892–1895), became the most widely used schoolbook in Norway?
text: Did you know that the Nassau -class battleships laid down in 1907 were the first class of German dreadnoughts built in response to the British HMS Dreadnought ?
text: Did you know that the Navarrese prince Ramiro Garcés was betrayed and murdered at Rueda in 1083?
text: Did you know that Jane Austen 's novel Sense and Sensibility is a critique of Charlotte Turner Smith 's novel of sensibility Celestina ?
text: Did you know that Bangladesh 's first Citizenship Order after it gained independence was issued by the President of Bangladesh in 1972?
text: Did you know that Canada 's first paper mill was built in Saint-André-d'Argenteuil, Quebec , in 1803?
text: Did you know that the 1983 translation of the Gospel into Azerbaijani by Mirza Khazar has been republished five times in subsequent years?
text: Did you know that Claud Schuster served as Permanent Secretary to the Lord Chancellor's Department for a record 29 years under 10 different Lord Chancellors ?
text: Did you know that solar power in Romania has, as of 2007, an installed capacity of 0.81 megawatts?
text: Did you know that Rwandan film-maker Eric Kabera was inspired to start a career in film after losing 32 family members in the Rwandan Genocide ?
text: Did you know that the non-ferrous smelter built for the Phoenix Mine in 1900 by the Granby Consolidated Mining, Smelting and Power Company was the largest in the British Empire ?
text: Did you know that the Yukon Quest is considered the toughest sled dog race in the world?
text: Did you know that Wilbert Tatum , editor of the New York Amsterdam News , ran front-page editorials from 1986 to 1989 critical of Mayor of New York Ed Koch with the title "Why Koch Should Resign"?
text: Did you know that the stegosaurid Miragaia had more neck vertebrae than almost all of the sauropod dinosaurs, known for their long necks?
text: Did you know that the 2001 best seller Germs: Biological Weapons and America's Secret War includes the case in which followers of Osho sprayed salmonella onto salad bars in The Dalles, Oregon ?
text: Did you know that the engineers of the Triumph Bonneville 790 motorcycle deliberately built in some vibration to give it "character"?
text: Did you know that the aquaculture industry in New Zealand aims to be a sustainable NZ$ 1 billion industry by 2025?
text: Did you know that Kjell Heggelund has translated poems by Mao Zedong , as well as the French surrealists Paul Éluard and Robert Desnos into the Norwegian language ?
text: Did you know that the " Hilo Massacre " resulted in 50 casualties after Hawaiian police fired on 200 union protesters?
text: Did you know that operatic tenor Franz Ferenczy portrayed the role of Samson in the world premiere of Saint-Saëns 's Samson et Dalila on 2 December 1877?
text: Did you know that according to the U.S. Supreme Court 's Will v. Michigan Dept. of State Police ruling, state officials are not always people for legal purposes ?
text: Did you know that in 1887, Norwegian Labour Party politician and physician Oscar Nissen claimed that only 10% of women had libido ?
text: Did you know that Camille Saint-Saëns 's opera Hélène was recorded in 2008 after not being heard since 1919?
text: Did you know that at #425 on the ATP Singles Rankings , Ivaylo Traykov is the second-highest ranked Bulgarian tennis player?
text: Did you know that Sony sold 280 million Trinitron televisions and monitors during the 40 years they were being produced?
text: Did you know that according to a local legend, shoemaker Hans von Sagan heroically took the initiative and led the Teutonic Knights to victory in the Battle of Rudau ?
text: Did you know that American historian Fred Albert Shannon won the 1929 Pulitzer Prize for History for his two-volume book The Organization and Administration of the Union Army, 1861-1865 ?
text: Did you know that the author of the "' Gersony Report ", the controversial conclusion by UN contractors that the new government in post-genocide Rwanda had carried out systematic killings of civilians, was instructed never to discuss his findings?
text: Did you know that when NCAA Division I basketball head coach John Beilein 's son was a high school recruit, Beilein was restricted by NCAA rules from talking to him at a basketball camp?
text: Did you know that the oldest bell in St Michael's Church , East Peckham was cast in 1747?
text: Did you know that the Gloster Gannet aircraft, which was originally built solely to compete in the Lympne Trials , never flew at the event due to engine troubles?
text: Did you know that Modern School activist Harry Kelly founded the most successful and longest lasting anarchist colony in America?
text: Did you know that the Moravian Duets was the starting point for subsequent works which propelled Antonín Dvořák to international fame?
text: Did you know that Marcus Adam , who competed in three sprint events at the 1992 Summer Olympics , later shifted to bobsleigh and competed at the 2002 Winter Olympics ?
text: Did you know that the British Indian passport was seen as a symbol of colonialism and was only valid for travel in the British Empire and seven other countries?
text: Did you know that, during a television interview, Romanian politician Elena Udrea made reference to the "President of Norway ", apparently unaware that the country is a monarchy ?
text: Did you know that the former Checkerboard Inn in Monroe, New York , got its name because an early owner supposedly painted it in a checkerboard pattern to attract travelers?
text: Did you know that Sir Nevill Maskelyne Smyth was awarded the Victoria Cross during the Battle of Omdurman for saving the lives of two war correspondents ?
text: Did you know that the Haudenosaunee women's lacrosse team will be the first team of women to represent the indigenous peoples of the Americas when they play in the 2009 World Cup ?
text: Did you know that Barbara Tuge-Erecińska , the Republic of Poland Ambassador to the United Kingdom , became Poland 's first female Deputy Foreign Minister in 1999?
text: Did you know that the front cover of Rufus Wainwright 's album Release the Stars is from the gigantomachy frieze at the Pergamon Altar ?
text: Did you know that Peter N. Myhre was the first leader of the Youth of the Progress Party in Norway , from 1978 to 1984?
text: Did you know that in 1920 the publishers of the White Pine Series of Architectural Monographs invented the fictional town of Stotham, Massachusetts , as the purported home for several early New England structures?
text: Did you know that Emperor Frederick II exempted the hospitaller Order of Saint James of Altopascio from taxes?
text: Did you know that Mexican professional wrestler Charly Manson was injured so badly that a surgical steel plate on his femur bent more than 20 degrees and had to be replaced?
text: Did you know that 35 species of woodlice are native to the British Isles ?
text: Did you know that former professional footballer Charlie Sillett was one of two Royal Navy gunners killed when the Norwegian steamship SS Corvus was sunk by a torpedo launched from the German U-boat U-1018 ?
text: Did you know that Thai students pay respect to their teachers in the wai khru ceremony near the beginning of every school year ?
text: Did you know that Robin Buckston , High Sheriff of Derbyshire in 1960, was previously the captain of Derbyshire County Cricket Club ?
text: Did you know that male Western Bowerbirds attract potential mates with bowers decorated with fruits, shells , and bones , as well as man-made objects like bullet casings and glass?
text: Did you know that if its congestion pricing proposal is approved, San Francisco will be the first U.S. city to implement this method of reducing traffic congestion ?
text: Did you know that Preah Netr Preah District in Cambodia is home to the “Dam of Widows”?
text: Did you know that Mosby Tavern , a private residence, has served as the courthouse and jail for both Cumberland County and Powhatan County, Virginia ?
text: Did you know that with eight world titles, the UAE's Victory Team is one of the most successful in the sport of offshore powerboat racing ?
text: Did you know that the Augustine Band of Cahuilla Indians is the smallest Indian tribe in the U.S., with only eight members?
text: Did you know that although John Thompson Productions ' pornographic films have won several awards, they have been banned in several countries, including Canada and Switzerland ?
text: Did you know that a portrait of Tadeusz Kościuszko in the uniform of a Brigadier General of the American Revolutionary Army is featured at the Polish American Museum in Port Washington , New York ?
text: Did you know that Indigenous Australian actor Steve Dodd worked as a stockman before going on to appear in twenty Australian films spanning more than fifty years?
text: Did you know that although the Jersey Act of 1913 limited the registration of American-bred Thoroughbreds in the British General Stud Book , it wasn't actually a law?
text: Did you know that in the first Gulf Art Fair in 2007, the Pékin Fine Arts gallery exhibited a Mini Cooper car painted with coloured spots by Damien Hirst ?
text: Did you know that the Gloster Survey , a 1920s British photo-survey biplane ,  had only two prototype models made before production was discontinued?
text: Did you know that the deaths of Phillip Esposito and Louis Allen were one instance of only two publicly known cases of alleged fraggings involving United States military forces during the Iraq War ?
text: Did you know that the Inner Hebridean crannóg of Dùn Anlaimh may be the remains of a fortified island dating back to the late Middle Ages ?
text: Did you know that St.GIGA was a satellite radio company that used to broadcast gaiden -versions of Nintendo 's most popular franchises?
text: Did you know that John Ordronaux , an American Civil War army surgeon, went on to become a professor at Columbia Law School and an expert on medical jurisprudence and U.S. constitutional law ?
text: Did you know that Stan Smyl was the longest-tenured Vancouver Canucks captain ?
text: Did you know that German socialist politician Siegmund Glücksmann initiated the first socialist protests against the Piłsudski government in Poland ?
text: Did you know that American Airlines Flight 6780 crashed on approach to Newark Airport in 1952, killing everyone onboard including pilot Thomas J. Reid, with the plane crashing just blocks from his home?
text: Did you know that Syrian Orthodox bishop Michael Jarweh with a large number of his faithfuls revitalized the Syrian Catholic Church ?
text: Did you know that the White-capped Albatross breeds in New Zealand 's subantarctic possessions but nonbreeding birds may range to the southwestern South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands ?
text: Did you know that twin brothers Yuen and Yong Poovorawan from Thailand are both Outstanding Researcher Award-winning scientists, although in the different fields of computer science and medicine ?
text: Did you know that the Pirate Party of the United States was formed after a 2006 raid by the Swedish police on the servers of The Pirate Bay , a popular file sharing website?
text: Did you know that earliest mention of the Slavs occurs in the 6th century, in De Bellis of Procopius ?
text: Did you know that the ABC children's TV series The Marshal of Gunsight Pass , considered primitive even for 1950, was telecast live to stations on the West Coast and seen elsewhere by kinescope ?
text: Did you know that the Secret Military Printing Works of the WWII Polish resistance Home Army was probably the largest underground publisher in the world?
text: Did you know that Hawaii House Bill 444 would allow civil unions in the state of Hawaii ?
text: Did you know that the Japanese manga Kannagi: Crazy Shrine Maidens went on a hiatus because the mangaka fell ill, though there was speculation that the hiatus was caused by a fan controversy over Nagi's virginity ?
text: Did you know that Ludvig Meyer , the defender of writer Hans Jæger during the high-profile censorship case in 1886, later became the leader of the Norwegian Labour Party ?
text: Did you know that Jupiter is the only planet capable of pulling an interstellar comet into a Sun-centered orbit?
text: Did you know that New Zealand journalist Bill Ralston was shot at a Soweto school in South Africa in 1986?
text: Did you know that even though the Iowa Tribe of Oklahoma only has 519 members, they created the first and only eagle rehabilitation center in Oklahoma ?
text: Did you know that Typhoon Conson of the 2004 Pacific typhoon season was the first of the record ten typhoons to impact Japan that season?
text: Did you know that New York City Police Commissioner Douglas I. McKay was so successful in reviving the use of the police lineup that the police department kept it on a permanent basis?
text: Did you know that a foreshock before the 1930 Salmas earthquake caused residents of Dilman to sleep outside, probably saving thousands of lives from the actual earthquake ?
text: Did you know that Derrell Palmer , winner of both AAFC and NFL championships with the Cleveland Browns , was called one of the two best defensive tackles he ever coached by Paul Brown ?
text: Did you know that, upon hearing they were to be laid off , 100 Waterford Crystal workers occupied the plant , accompanied by a Sinn Féin politician?
text: Did you know that Ted Pickett has been called "probably the greatest all-round sportsman Tasmania has produced"?
text: Did you know that the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond Baltimore Branch Office is located in a historic building designed in 1926 in the Second Renaissance Revival style?
text: Did you know that archaeologist Eigil Knuth was co-leader of the first Danish Greenland expedition to make use of an airplane, a Tiger Moth ?
text: Did you know that the winner of the first Coupe Charles Drago, predecessor of the Coupe de la Ligue , was decided by a coin-toss , after the scores finished equal after extra time ?
text: Did you know that English playwright David Edgar was the first pupil in Oundle School 's 300-year history to be permitted to direct a school play?
text: Did you know that the fishing trawler Bugaled Breizh is considered to have been pulled under by a submarine that got caught in its lines?
text: Did you know that Native American activist Robert Robideau was acquitted in the 1975 shooting deaths of two FBI agents, for which his cousin Leonard Peltier was later convicted and is serving two life sentences?
text: Did you know that although it was prohibited by a 1951 law , Pakistan now officially allows its citizens to hold dual citizenship with 16 other countries?
text: Did you know that New Writings in SF is the earliest of the notable science fiction anthology series published in the 1960s and 1970s?
text: Did you know that Russian poet Alexander Pushkin stopped at Wolf and Beranget Confectionery located at historic Kotomin House before heading off to a duel where he was mortally wounded?
text: Did you know that the TV series Pony Express (1959–1960)  roughly coincided with the centennial of the real Pony Express that operated from 1860 to 1861?
text: Did you know that a record 25 candidates stood in the 2005 Anguillan general election ?
text: Did you know that J. Max Bond, Jr. ignored a Harvard professor's advice not to pursue a career in architecture due to his race and went on to oversee the museum at the National 9/11 Memorial ?
text: Did you know that the Mount Zion Temple organized the first synagogue and was led by the first rabbi in Minnesota ?
text: Did you know that the character of Lady Thisbe Crowborough in Max Beerbohm 's 1919 satire Seven Men was probably drawn from real-life socialite Helen Vincent, Viscountess D'Abernon ?
text: Did you know that Triumph Bonneville T120s achieved the first three places in the Thruxton 500 endurance race in 1969?
text: Did you know that conservation reliant species , which require continuing wildlife management interventions for their survival, comprise 80% of endangered species in the US ?
text: Did you know that the sports club Idrottslaget i Bondeungdomslaget i Oslo has co-organized the Bislett Games , an IAAF track and field event event,  since 1966?
text: Did you know that Alfred J. Kahn spent 57 years on the faculty of the Columbia University School of Social Work , where he wrote multiple reports regarding child welfare in New York City for the Citizens' Committee for Children ?
text: Did you know that Mario Duschenes was the widely admired conductor of young people's orchestra concerts across Canada ?
text: Did you know that University of Pittsburgh basketball player DeJuan Blair grew up 600 yards (550 m) * from the university's campus?
text: Did you know that the Old Icelandic Homily Book is a collection of Norse sermons dating from the 13th century?
text: Did you know that the Stand in the Schoolhouse Door was reenacted in the film Forrest Gump ?
text: Did you know that Kōmyō-ji , a Jōdo temple in Japan dedicated to the training of Buddhist priests and scholarly research, has a pet cemetery on its premises?
text: Did you know that trainer/driver Stanley Dancer drove the Harness Horse of the Year seven times, with trotters Su Mac Lad in 1962 and Nevele Pride in 1967 through 1969, and with pacers Albatross in 1971 and 1972 and Keystone Ore in 1976?
text: Did you know that Paul Gauguin described the Tahitian goddess he sculpted in 1894, Oviri , as "monstrous and majestic, drunk with pride, rage and sorrow"?
text: Did you know that the towers of the Cymbalista Synagogue and Jewish Heritage Center at Tel Aviv University are an architectural squaring of the circle ?
text: Did you know that Phnom Srok District of Cambodia is home to the rare Eastern Sarus Crane ?
text: Did you know that the historic district in the Village of Monroe includes the factory where Velveeta was first made and the oldest Masonic lodge in New York state ?
text: Did you know that in 132 CE, Zhang Heng , a Chinese court astronomer during the Han Dynasty , produced a seismometer with an inverted pendulum that indicated the direction of earthquakes that occurred hundreds of kilometers away?
text: Did you know that the World's Largest Cedar Bucket was burned by arsonists in 2005?
text: Did you know that Nikolaus Pevsner , writing in 1965, described the recently built Crawley Hospital in the town's West Green neighbourhood as "easily the best building in Crawley up to date"?
text: Did you know that The Salt Box , one of the first Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monuments , was razed by fire seven months after being relocated to make room for a $500 million skyscraper development?
text: Did you know  that Norwegian poet Gunnar Reiss-Andersen is grandfather to mystery author Berit Reiss-Andersen , a former Norwegian Secretary of State ?
text: Did you know that Rogatien Vachon , who was the head coach of the Los Angeles Kings for three non-consecutive stints, coached the fewest games of any of the Kings ' head coaches?
text: Did you know that in 1917, a fleet of 47 naval drifters , used by the British to blockade the Otranto Straits , was attacked by the Austro-Hungarian Navy ?
text: Did you know that the death of the chimpanzee Travis inspired a New York Post cartoon that was later called racist ?
text: Did you know that Cyclone Arthur of the 2006–07 South Pacific cyclone season reached its peak intensity just 18 hours after being named?
text: Did you know that Charles Hoff was the first Norwegian to set a world record in a track and field event?
text: Did you know that a series of innovative computers , including the first transistor computer and the world's fastest computer, were produced by a small team working at Manchester University between 1947 and 1977?
text: Did you know that during World War II , the Tunnel Railway in Ramsgate , England , became part of an air-raid shelter capable of housing more than 60,000 people?
text: Did you know that when 2001 Chicago Marathon winner Catherine Ndereba set the world record, she joined four-time winner Khalid Khannouchi with a current world record time set at the Chicago Marathon ?
text: Did you know that the A. R. Bowman Memorial Museum in Prineville , Oregon , was opened in 1971 and is housed in the historic Crook County Bank Building ?
text: Did you know that Joseph Ferguson Peacocke , Archbishop of Dublin , was painted by Philip de László ?
text: Did you know that haejangguk is a kind of Korean guk (soup) consumed as a remedy for hangovers ?
text: Did you know that the band Animo is said to derive its name from Spanish slang for "get going"?
text: Did you know that the 1803 Treaty of Fort Wayne dictated that the Native Americans were given up to 150 bushels of salt ?
text: Did you know that despite being an object of ridicule in popular culture, over 8 million British Rail sandwiches were sold in 1993?
text: Did you know that the tunnel on the Busan-Geoje Fixed Link , under construction in South Korea , is slated to become the deepest immersed roadway tunnel ?
text: Did you know that Peter of Canterbury , who drowned near Boulogne , was the first abbot of what became St Augustine's Abbey in Canterbury ?
text: Did you know that during the filming of The Linguists in the Andes , the cast coped with altitude sickness by drinking coca leaf tea?
text: Did you know that the Western Australian carnivorous plant Drosera erythrorhiza was split into four related subspecies in 1992?
text: Did you know that Christ Church in Greenville, South Carolina , has a window depicting the Last Supper dedicated to Confederate general and bishop Ellison Capers ?
text: Did you know that the highly-regarded edible mushroom Cortinarius caperatus is known as the granny's nightcap in Finland ?
text: Did you know that Cornwall Friends Meeting House is the oldest religious building in Cornwall, New York ?
text: Did you know that over 400,000 people consulted over 4 million documents during the Central Case Examination Group 's investigation of President Liu Shaoqi of the People's Republic of China in 1968?
text: Did you know that Muzzammil Hassan is the CEO of Bridges TV , the first American Muslim television network to broadcast in English ?
text: Did you know that during the Brazilian Tenente revolts the Prestes Column of guerrillas marched more than 25,000 kilometers (16,000 mi)?
text: Did you know that the Palm Court , called "the most beautiful room in Los Angeles ," has been the site of speeches by Presidents Taft and Wilson and balls where Rudolph Valentino danced with starlets?
text: Did you know that according to Ernst Lohmeyer , "the Christian faith is only Christian as long as it retains in its heart the Jewish faith "?
text: Did you know that Kentucky Jones featured Dennis Weaver , in his first TV series since Gunsmoke , as a widowed veterinarian and guardian of a 10-year-old Chinese orphan?
text: Did you know that the planned International Finance Complex in Phnom Penh , Cambodia , will be the tallest man-made structure in the country?
text: Did you know that 1 SS Infantry Brigade took part in numerous anti-partisan operations and the Holocaust ?
text: Did you know that the Buckner homestead and farm is used by the National Park Service as an interpretive center to show visitors what pioneer life was like in Washington ?
text: Did you know that novelist Charles Dickens received news of the death in India of his son Walter Landor Dickens on his own birthday on February 7, 1864?
text: Did you know that in the 1898 case Smyth v. Ames , the United States Supreme Court unanimously declared a Nebraska railroad tariff law unconstitutional?
text: Did you know that the Dexter episode " Our Father ", aired September 2008, was Showtime 's highest-rated drama season premiere since 2004?
text: Did you know that Polkagris is a Swedish candy stick invented in 1859 by a widow in Gränna ?
text: Did you know that as chairman of advertising agency Bozell & Jacobs , Charles Peebler oversaw the " Got Milk? " milk mustache advertising campaign, and " Pork. The Other White Meat " created for the National Pork Board ?
text: Did you know that the cross in the coat of arms of Colchester represents the True Cross , as discovered by Saint Helena , the patron saint ?
text: Did you know that the musical style of Ayiesha Woods ' album Love Like This has been said to "rival the likes of Corinne Bailey Rae for her pop - soul throne"?
text: Did you know that track cyclist Aksel Gresvig started a bicycle shop in 1901, which later developed into the largest chain of sports shops in Scandinavia ?
text: Did you know that the Southern Baptist Convention was formed at the First Baptist Church of Augusta in May 1845?
text: Did you know that comedic actor Ed Helms performs an a cappella version of Paul Simon 's " You Can Call Me Al " in the fifth season The Office episode, " Heavy Competition "?
text: Did you know that a former ingredient in 3M 's Scotchgard , perfluorooctanesulfonamide , can uncouple oxidative phosphorylation and has been detected in slimy sculpin , dolphin , and people?
text: Did you know that Christian Schibsted established the publishing house Schibsted and the newspaper Aftenposten ?
text: Did you know that radio stations KSUH and KWYZ simulcast a mix of K-pop and Korean language news and talk to the Seattle metropolitan area ?
text: Did you know that the Liberator that crashed in 1943 in New Zealand during World War II was transferring Japanese men, women and children from the consular corps to exchange for Allied POWs ?
text: Did you know that Daniel Gault worked as a teacher, newspaper editor, and postmaster, and served in the Oregon House of Representatives ?
text: Did you know that the War of Laws was a major reason for the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991?
text: Did you know that the 2008 Bandar Abbas earthquake leveled walls in the village of Zeynabi, Iran ?
text: Did you know that the Stone Creek Jamboree holds the world record for the largest potluck , with 882 dishes?
text: Did you know that Czech writer and sports reporter Ota Pavel was diagnosed with bipolar disorder following the 1964 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck ?
text: Did you know that the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner is the farthest north daily newspaper in North America ?
text: Did you know that Kampong Tralach District was home to Cambodia ’s ancient capital of Lovek ?
text: Did you know that American historian Marcus Lee Hansen was posthumously awarded the 1941 Pulitzer Prize for History for The Atlantic Migration, 1607-1860 ?
text: Did you know that The Georgian Chronicles are a series of medieval texts outlining the history of the Kingdom of Georgia dating from the 9th to the 14th century?
text: Did you know that Torstein Eckhoff , an authority on European Community law in Norway , opposed Norwegian membership in that institution ?
text: Did you know that in April 1920, Texas Rangers expelled some 125 prostitutes from the oil boomtown of Desdemona in Eastland County east of Abilene , Texas ?
text: Did you know that architect Henrik Bull designed several churches, but his most widespread works were coins designed for Norges Bank ?
text: Did you know that the film Defendor was under its financial requirements after director Peter Stebbings donated his savings?
text: Did you know that Mark Simpson tore his lateral meniscus thirteen games into the 1996–1997 indoor soccer season while playing for the Buffalo Blizzard ?
text: Did you know that the giant leucopax mushroom has bioactive compounds with antioxidative , antibiotic , and anti-cancer properties?
text: Did you know that under the authority granted by the Reorganization Act of 1939 , President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued Reorganization Plan No. 1, which created the Executive Office of the President ?
text: Did you know that despite being a valuable table fish and gamefish , the brassy trevally is almost never targeted by anglers because larger relatives occur within its range ?
text: Did you know that the quarterback for the first College Football All-America Team in 1889 was Edgar Allan Poe ?
text: Did you know that William Rich Hutton accompanied Edward Ord on an expedition to the Pueblo of Los Angeles in 1849 before returning east to work as a civil engineer on projects including the Washington Bridge ?
text: Did you know that the new Shia Family Law of Afghanistan has attracted criticism for including clauses that some analysts believe encourage spousal rape ?
text: Did you know that the first high-altitude balloon flight from Stratobowl attracted 30,000 spectators?
text: Did you know that British journalist and Liberal politician Colin Coote was an editor of the The Daily Telegraph for 14 years?
text: Did you know that Medway Plantation in South Carolina was owned by a former Office of Strategic Services spy Gertrude Sanford Legendre ?
text: Did you know that the world's only museum dedicated to Lawn Bowls is in Brooklands, Taranaki ?
text: Did you know that some music scholars have claimed that Chopin 's Nocturnes Op. 37 and related pieces act as an " aphrodisiac " and were used by women to "comfort their repressed libido [s]"?
text: Did you know that Donald Richberg helped co-author the Railway Labor Act , Norris-LaGuardia Act , National Industrial Recovery Act , and Taft-Hartley Act ?
text: Did you know that T. S. Eliot 's Paradiso -like poems of the Four Quartets ( Burnt Norton , East Coker , The Dry Salvages , and Little Gidding ) are modeled on the structure of his Inferno -like poem The Waste Land ?
text: Did you know that Jamaican ambassador Anthony Johnson appealed at a Reggae Fest in Washington D.C. to gain support for Jamaica's National Disaster Recovery Fund following Hurricane Gustav ?
text: Did you know that the Spring Creek Dam collects acid mine drainage from one of the most acidic streams in the world?
text: Did you know that Jonas Kubilius is one of the principal contributors to the Turán–Kubilius inequality theorem and organizer of the first mathematical olympiad in Lithuania ?
text: Did you know that the name recognition for international varieties of grapes like Cabernet Sauvignon and Chardonnay is so high that many consumers believe they are either wine regions or brand names themselves?
text: Did you know that reporter Leo Katcher became a newspaper's office boy at age 10 when he promised not to bounce balls against the building, and later got an exclusive with Lindbergh kidnapper Bruno Hauptmann ?
text: Did you know that Alexa Thatcher decided to become a professional wrestler after meeting her boyfriend, wrestler Corvis Fear, when she was sixteen?
text: Did you know that the 1915 Avezzano earthquake killed over 30,000 people and flattened the town of Avezzano , Italy ?
text: Did you know that although Jim Brandstatter is best known as a color commentator for the Michigan Wolverines , his father and brother both played for the rival Michigan State Spartans ?
text: Did you know that some Nazi German anti-partisan operations later became the basis for counterinsurgency policies developed by countries such as France and the United States ?
text: Did you know that Carl Oscar Munthe , a Commander of Fredrikstad Fortress and Bergenhus Fortress , wrote several books on military history ?
text: Did you know that during the Cold War , Canada permitted the United States to practice photo reconnaissance over Grey Goose Island with the RB-52C Stratofortress ?
text: Did you know that professional wrestler Eddie Edwards won the NECW Iron 8 Championship Tournament final in a match where another competitor suffered a broken ankle?
text: Did you know that wake lows and their associated heat bursts can cause high winds as well as large temperature spikes, even overnight?
text: Did you know that after graduating from high school, baseball pitcher Ed Blake pitched batting practice for the St. Louis Cardinals during their 1943 World Series appearance?
text: Did you know that Poundisford Park was set up as a medieval deer park by the Bishop of Winchester ?
text: Did you know that Fredrik Georg Gade was behind the moving and reconstruction of Fantoft stave church ?
text: Did you know that at the 2009 Chinese Grand Prix the Ferrari and Toro Rosso cars displayed messages of support for the victims of the 2009 L'Aquila earthquake ?
text: Did you know that mahi-mahi fishing in Hawaii has been done from kites flown from cliff tops?
text: Did you know that Melissa Rosenberg finished the script for the Dexter episode " Love American Style " quickly due to her experience writing for broadcast TV ?
text: Did you know that wildfires have occurred on the Earth for over 420 million years ?
text: Did you know that by the end of the 18th century , Native American women were decorating cloth with intricate ribbon work appliqué using French silk ribbon ?
text: Did you know that Øvre Richter Frich , creator of the action hero Jonas Fjeld , sold more than two million copies of his books?
text: Did you know that George the lobster was estimated to be 140 years old?
text: Did you know that Love Patrol is a ni-Vanuatu edutainment soap opera designed to educate viewers about HIV AIDS ?
text: Did you know that a boycott of Molson beer led to the successful merger of the National Hockey League and World Hockey Association in 1979?
text: Did you know that Vietnam War veteran Christine Griffin was the first female member of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission with a physical disability ?
text: Did you know that DNA analysis techniques are used to prevent fraudulent marketing of the false scad fish as a horse mackerel ?
text: Did you know that John Fetterman , the mayor of Braddock, Pennsylvania , lives in a warehouse he purchased for US$ 2,000?
text: Did you know that the new 100-meter (330 ft) observation tower with a 66-meter (217 ft) slide planned to be built on the Pyramidenkogel , a mountain in Austria , will be the tallest wooden tower in the world?
text: Did you know that the Battle of Big Dry Wash was the last battle fought between the Apache and the US Army and four Medals of Honor resulted from the battle?
text: Did you know that Gustav A. L. Heiberg was a defender in the last impeachment case in Norway ?
text: Did you know that " Flip Decision " , a 1952 Donald Duck comic book story, introduced the term flipism ?
text: Did you know that Miguel Durán is the head of the Libertas Spain list for the 2009 Euroelections in Spain ?
text: Did you know that the Economy Act of 1933 repealed all federal laws in the U.S. regarding veterans' benefits but permitted the President to re-establish them via executive order ?
text: Did you know that baseball pitcher Antonio Bastardo had an average of 21.6 strikeouts per game after one start in 2007?
text: Did you know that the existence of Aitvaras , now a squadron of the Lithuanian Special Operations Force , was revealed after the capture of Lithuanian sailors in Guinea in 2000?
text: Did you know that the Texas saddlemaker Tooter Cannon 's work is so prized by ranchers and rodeo performers that it is held mostly in private collections and unavailable on the open market?
text: Did you know that Pet Airways is claimed to be the first American airline to fly pets exclusively?
text: Did you know that William Preble Hall was a Medal of Honor winner from the American Indian Wars and champion marksman from 1879 to 1892?
text: Did you know that 1978's Hurricane Cora played a part in the historic Double Eagle II hot air balloon transatlantic voyage?
text: Did you know that the bear kept in Camperdown Country Park , the largest park in Dundee , bit the arm off a 10-year-old boy?
text: Did you know that Andreas Claussen , best known as State Conciliator of Norway , survived a 1948 seaplane crash that also involved Bertrand Russell ?
text: Did you know that the National Bible Bee has the largest cash prize of any Bible Quiz ?
text: Did you know that the Nameless Book is the oldest existing Japanese work of literary criticism ?
text: Did you know that Archidermapteron martynovi is an extinct species of earwig named for Andrey Vasilyevich Martynov , who conducted extensive studies of fossil insects in the Soviet Union ?
text: Did you know that Barakhamba is the name prefixed to the fourteenth century Lodi period  “Barakhamba Monument” in Nizamuddin complex  and to “Barakhamba road"  in Connaught Place in New Delhi ?
text: Did you know that Whitelaw Reid served as editor, president and chairman of the New York Herald Tribune , later winning a national singles tennis title in his age group at age 85 and a national doubles title at 90?
text: Did you know that the underworld kingpin Keyser Söze from the 1995 film The Usual Suspects was an inspiration for the Doctor Who campfire trailer ?
text: Did you know that professional wrestler Christie Ricci first became a fan of professional wrestling after attending a Sunday school class with Ted DiBiase, Jr. ?
text: Did you know that deforestation rates of primary forest in Sri Lanka have decreased by 35% since the end of the 1990s?
text: Did you know that Oregon politician Edward Schulmerich ' s former home is listed on the National Register of Historic Places ?
text: Did you know that the presence of the rare bigeye sand tiger in the Pacific Ocean was first suspected based on teeth recovered from the ocean floor ?
text: Did you know that in the 1930s Lady Olive Baillie held house parties at Leeds Castle , Kent , England, and her guests included the film stars Charlie Chaplin , Errol Flynn , and Gertrude Lawrence ?
text: Did you know that the Azure-hooded Jay , though not threatened with extinction , is uncommon in some parts of its Central American range?
text: Did you know that Carl Platou was dismissed from the Ministry of Justice and the Police for listening to a Norwegian resistance radio broadcast in his office?
text: Did you know that the word "terminator" had not been used in the series Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles until the second season finale, " Born to Run "?
text: Did you know that Filipino Major General Jovito Palparan is credited with reducing communist insurgencies on the island of Samar by 80 percent?
text: Did you know that lateralized readiness potentials (LRPs) from the brain can show how quickly you prepare to make a motor response?
text: Did you know that Congressman Greg Walden , former owner of radio station KIHR in Hood River, Oregon , began his career in broadcasting as the station's janitor ?
text: Did you know that Polar 3 , the first German airplane to reach the South Pole in December 1984, was shot down by Polisario Front rebels over Western Sahara on its way home in February 1985?
text: Did you know that UCLA Bruins end Dick Wallen won the 1957 Voit Trophy as the outstanding football player on the Pacific Coast?
text: Did you know that most of the land area of Tuek Phos District , Cambodia , is currently listed for lease on the internet as a potential bio-diesel plantation?
text: Did you know that Isaac Zamora ' s family attempted to commit him to an asylum before he killed five people in September 2008?
text: Did you know that thanks to its well-preserved medieval fortifications, the town of Paczków is called the Polish Carcassone ?
text: Did you know that Jermaine Mays was named All-State in high school as a senior despite breaking his collarbone ?
text: Did you know that Alexander, Lord of the Isles stripped down to his underwear for his surrender in the royal church to King James I of Scotland after the Battle of Lochaber ?
text: Did you know that Spirit of the Marathon , a documentary film about marathon runners, won Best Picture at the Mammoth Film Festival ?
text: Did you know that  the linguist Amund B. Larsen made the first dialect map in the Nordic countries ?
text: Did you know that Bookpeople was an employee-owned book distributor that helped revolutionize independent publishing and bookselling ?
text: Did you know that on 19 April 2009, cricketers from Afghanistan played Scotland in their first ever one-day international match?
text: Did you know that Zen Pinball is the first pinball game designed for the PlayStation 3 ?
text: Did you know that 80-year-old actor Bernard Cribbins will be the companion in David Tennant's final Doctor Who story ?
text: Did you know that biologist Thomas Henry Manning , known as Lone Wolf of the Arctic , honeymooned with his wife for a year and a half while mapping Baffin Island ?
text: Did you know that the Select Committee of the House of Lords on the Women's Royal Air Force was created after a request for a judicial inquiry was turned down?
text: Did you know that Douglas Clark , known as one of the "Sunset Strip Killers", was sentenced to death in 1983 yet still sits on California's Death Row ?
text: Did you know that the Oslo neighborhood Linderud developed from a manor of the same name?
text: Did you know that the 1957 Triumph Twenty One was the first of the Triumph unit construction twin cylinder motorcycles?
text: Did you know that Chuck Cannon , husband of singer Lari White , co-wrote several hits for Toby Keith , including " How Do You Like Me Now?! "
text: Did you know that the most successful of Nazi Germany 's anti-partisan operations of the Second World War was Operation Hannover ?
text: Did you know that Private Eye said the reason Margaret Thatcher dropped Patrick Cosgrave as her advisor was that he had vomited on her?
text: Did you know that Stephen Elliott , a South Carolina politician and bank president, was considered by the journal Science to be "the father of Southern botany"?
text: Did you know that Kazumasa Oda is the oldest artist to have a number-one album in Japan ?
text: Did you know that Yellowstone's annual Christmas in July celebration may have become Christmas in August because of Warren Ost ' s ministry A Christian Ministry in the National Parks ?
text: Did you know that cnoidal wave solutions can be used to describe ion acoustic waves in plasma physics ?
text: Did you know that six Prussians served as generals for the Union army in the American Civil War ?
text: Did you know that former theatre directors for Radioteatret include Jens Gunderssen , Hans Heiberg , and Merete Skavlan ?
text: Did you know that the Zhonghua Zihai is the largest Chinese character dictionary available for print, consisting of over 85,568 different characters?
text: Did you know that Peggy Stuart Coolidge was the first American composer to have a concert devoted entirely to her works presented in the Soviet Union ?
text: Did you know that the Honduran romance novel Blanca Olmedo is a rare early female criticism of the establishment and corruption in Honduras?
text: Did you know that Eric Wilbur is the only punter in Florida Gators football history to be named a semifinalist for the Ray Guy Award ?
text: Did you know that Jonas Lie , Nazi Minister of the Police in Norway, died while entrenched at Skallum a few days after the Nazi capitulation of 8 May ?
text: Did you know that Mexican writer Juan José Arreola 's short story The Switchman can be interpreted as a satire of the Mexican train system?
text: Did you know that Fredrik Meltzer Wallem was among the founders of the Norwegian Directorate of Fisheries ?
text: Did you know that Ritter Pásmán was the only opera composed by Johann Strauss II ?
text: Did you know that the converted destroyer escort USS Diachenko served in three wars as a high speed transport ?
text: Did you know that Czech scientist Antonín Holý cooperated on the development of important antiretroviral drugs used in the treatment of HIV and hepatitis B ?
text: Did you know that to create an authentic fantasy setting in the Kröd Mändoon pilot episode " Wench Trouble ", costumes were built without zippers or velcro and weapons were built by an ancient weapon replica specialist?
text: Did you know that George Heriot was a Scottish goldsmith who represented the City of Edinburgh in Parliament eight times?
text: Did you know that the ROH World Tag Team Championship was first represented by a trophy, instead of a normal professional wrestling tag team championship belt(s) ?
text: Did you know that Gregers Winther Wulfsberg ´s proposition at the Norwegian Constituent Assembly in 1814, that Government Ministers should be appointed by the Parliament , received only a single vote (his own)?
text: Did you know that the Santa Rosa Island endemic lichen Caloplaca obamae is the first species to be named in honor of United States President Barack Obama ?
text: Did you know that light-cavalrymen of the Polish 1st Light Cavalry Regiment of the Imperial Guard saved Napoleon 's life at least three times?
text: Did you know that Carol Jean Vigil was the first Native American woman to be elected as a state district judge in the United States ?
text: Did you know that a diarrhea epidemic in 2008 sickened 113 people in Kampong Leaeng District in central Cambodia ?
text: Did you know that the U.S. Supreme Court held Title I of the National Industrial Recovery Act unconstitutional on May 27, 1935, in Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States ?
text: Did you know that the Kronos Quartet 's recording of Terry Riley 's Requiem for Adam contains a Riley improvisation inspired by Pandit Pran Nath 's soft hand?
text: Did you know that Harald Beyer ' s textbook on literary history was the most used textbook in its field at Norwegian universities from the 1950s to the mid 1990s?
text: Did you know that in the 1700s and 1800s, Tocowa, Mississippi , was home to a natural spring that Native Americans visited for its reputed healing powers?
text: Did you know that American journalist William Tobin was the first correspondent for the Associated Press to be based in Juneau, Alaska ?
text: Did you know that Ordbogen.com , the most popular online dictionary in Denmark , was relaunched after a predecessor was taken offline for over a year due to a lack of funding?
text: Did you know that the Hebrew Congregation of Mountaindale Synagogue is the only one in Sullivan County, New York , with its own mikvah ?
text: Did you know that Violet Douglas-Pennant claimed she had been dismissed from the Women's Royal Air Force to cover up "rife immorality"?
text: Did you know that the comic-book mini-series '76 draws heavily on 1970s "street" culture?
text: Did you know that Belgian avant-garde singer Catherine Jauniaux has been described as a "one-woman orchestra " and a "human sampler "?
text: Did you know that so many world leaders were hosted at the Annenberg Estate Sunnylands that it earned restricted airspace status?
text: Did you know that the football club Drammen FK makes its debut in the 2009 season, aiming to become the best club in Drammen after Strømsgodset IF ?
text: Did you know that reading garden path sentences can trigger a spike in brain activity called the P600 ?
text: Did you know that the Greenbird holds the record for the fastest speed attained in a wind-powered land vehicle ?
text: Did you know that the Charles H. Bigelow House , in Findlay, Ohio , appeared on David Copperfield 's The Magic of David Copperfield XVI: Unexplained Forces as the Barclay House?
text: Did you know that German writer Bernhard Fisch , while a student in 1970s Moscow, flew to Kaliningrad in an attempt to visit his former East Prussian home, and got arrested there?
text: Did you know that the damage inflicted to a bus bought for the Doctor Who episode " Planet of the Dead " was written into the storyline at the last minute?
text: Did you know that U.S. singer-songwriter Phil Ochs described nearly every way to evade the draft in " Draft Dodger Rag "?
text: Did you know that no federal law ever banned stem cell research in the United States , but under Congress 's power to spend, only placed restrictions on funding and use?
text: Did you know that Powhatan Henry Clarke , an officer with the Buffalo Soldiers , received a Medal of Honor for rescuing a wounded soldier and died while rescuing another?
text: Did you know that the Qedarites , a prominent Arab tribal confederation between the 8th and 4th centuries BC, were named after the second son of Ishmael named Qedar?
text: Did you know that after U.S. Attorney Charles Turner investigated illegal activities in the 1980s at Rajneeshpuram , Oregon , high-ranking followers of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh plotted to assassinate him ?
text: Did you know that the original name of the 2000 film Tully was The Truth About Tully , but was changed to avoid confusion with Jonathan Demme 's The Truth About Charlie ?
text: Did you know that historian Jacob S. Worm-Müller was a delegate to the San Francisco Conference that resulted in the foundation of the United Nations in 1945?
text: Did you know that all four of the Royal Navy 's Bulldog class survey vessels were built by Brooke Marine ?
text: Did you know that before he became president of the United States Chamber of Commerce , Henry I. Harriman had received several patents for automatic looms ?
text: Did you know that low-lying Chol Kiri District in Cambodia suffers flooding for six months of the year which then contaminates safe water sources?
text: Did you know that Jørgen Mathiesen was the first Norwegian member of the Académie Internationale d'Héraldique ?
text: Did you know that Fernando Valenzuela won the Cy Young Award , the Rookie of the Year Award , and the Silver Slugger in his first full major league season?
text: Did you know that former Disney animator Jack Dunham created the official rooster mascot for St-Hubert , a Canadian BBQ restaurant chain ?
text: Did you know that the Otłoczyn railway accident on August 19, 1980, was the biggest railway crash in the post- World War Two history of Poland ?
text: Did you know that in 1997 one campus of Gadsden State Community College was designated a historically black college by the U.S. Department of Education ?
text: Did you know that the Russian historian B. P. Polevoy called for a reassessment of Yerofei Khabarov 's role in the abortive Russian colonization of the Amur in the 17th century?
text: Did you know that Paul Molitor , Edgar Martinez and David Ortiz are tied for the most Silver Slugger Awards among designated hitters ?
text: Did you know that Charles X Gustav of Sweden waged war with the intent to vanquish Denmark and raze Copenhagen in 1658?
text: Did you know that three- term member of the Oregon House of Representatives Paul E. Walden worked at radio station KODL for 27 years?
text: Did you know that Haagen Mathiesen campaigned for a Norwegian union with Sweden in 1814 , inviting King Charles XIV John of Sweden to his manor?
text: Did you know that Nicolas Sarkozy , Angela Merkel and Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva are among the world leaders mocked in the South Park episode " Pinewood Derby "?
text: Did you know that the Essex derby football match did not take place for 15 years?
text: Did you know that Jacob Liv Borch Sverdrup established the first agricultural school in Scandinavia ?
text: Did you know that Howard A. Chinn , while working as chief audio engineer at CBS in 1943, wrote a classified report about enemy radar ?
text: Did you know that La Merced Cloister , a monastery complex in Mexico City , is known for its Baroque and Moorish architectural elements?
text: Did you know that the first Catholic priest to be appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire , Father Dalton , presented the King with a Catholic religious medal?
text: Did you know that the Huey Lewis and the News song " Walking on a Thin Line " is about Vietnam War soldiers and veterans?
text: Did you know that Kjetil Bang-Hansen has headed the Norwegian National Academy of Theatre , and been theatre director at Rogaland Teater , Den Nationale Scene , the National Theatre in Oslo, and Oslo Nye Teater ?
text: Did you know that Texas author Lou Halsell Rodenberger focused most of her literary works on biographies of her fellow female writers?
text: Did you know that the family of Ian Tomlinson thanked The Guardian for posting footage of an alleged assault on him?
text: Did you know that eight times since 1980 , pairs of major league baseball teammates have won Silver Slugger Awards for outfielders ?
text: Did you know that despite being a close friend of Sweden's Crown Prince , Haaken L. Mathiesen supported the dissolution of the union between Norway and Sweden in 1905 ?
text: Did you know that three entrances to residential subdivisions in Snyder, New York ( Roycroft Boulevard , Lamarck Drive and Smallwood Drive ) are listed on the National Register of Historic Places ?
text: Did you know that the westerlies steer warm water currents, such as the Gulf Stream , from west to east across the oceans of Earth ?
text: Did you know  that during 2008 U.S. servicemen offered humanitarian assistance in Cambodia 's Kampong Chhnang District as part of Operation Pacific Angel ?
text: Did you know that actor Idris Elba guest starred in The Office episode " Michael Scott Paper Company ", but did not watch it on television because he is very critical of his own work?
text: Did you know that Britain's Got Talent contestant Susan Boyle 's performance of  " I Dreamed a Dream " gained her worldwide attention?
text: Did you know that Lê Chiêu Thống , last king of the Vietnamese Lê Dynasty , died in China ?
text: Did you know that several abolitionist come-outers put on trial in Barnstable, Massachusetts in 1851 were called "poor deluded beings" in The Barnstable Patriot ?
text: Did you know that one journalist described the simultaneous release of Elvira Nikolaisen 's Quiet Exit and Marit Larsen 's Under the Surface as the peak of a "girl war" in Norwegian music?
text: Did you know that Michael Stern was one of two journalists to enter Rome on June 3, 1944, one day ahead of American forces?
text: Did you know that the Theater St. Gallen is considered to be the oldest professional theatre in Switzerland ?
text: Did you know that S. H. Finne-Grønn and Sigurd Segelcke Meidell were among the founders of the Norwegian Genealogical Society ?
text: Did you know that in the 1950s, midget professional wrestlers Sky Low Low and Little Beaver wrestled in a match for the UK's Queen Elizabeth and Egypt's King Farouk ?
text: Did you know that Germany 's lowest recorded temperature of −45.9°C (−50.6°F) was recorded at the Funtensee ?
text: Did you know that Edvard Beyer edited the Scandinavian Journal of Literary Research Edda from 1962 to 1972?
text: Did you know that in 1972 the Australian submarine HMAS Onslow survived a crash dive to almost double her safe operating depth ?
text: Did you know that the Broadway play Irena's Vow tells the story of Irena Gut , a Polish nurse who during World War II saved twelve Jews from the Holocaust at the risk of her own life?
text: Did you know that King Nissanka Malla of Sri Lanka carried out a refurbishment of the Dambulla cave temple , in which 50 Buddha statues and the temple's interior were gilded ?
text: Did you know that Nintoku Seamount , an underwater volcano in the Hawaiian-Emperor seamount chain , is over 56.2 million years old?
text: Did you know that Lou Marson hit his first major league home run on the final day of the Philadelphia Phillies ’ World Series -winning 2008 season ?
text: Did you know that no professional wrestler has held the ROH World Championship twice during its seven-year existence?
text: Did you know that Thomas Christian Wyller is regarded as one of the founders of political science as an academic discipline in Norway ?
text: Did you know that Anaconda Copper 's El Salvador mine and Kennecott Copper 's El Teniente mine were nationalised by Salvador Allende , the President of Chile ?
text: Did you know that the 1979 Easter flood was among the most costly and devastating ever to occur in Mississippi , with over $1.4 billion in damages?
text: Did you know that besides commanding the Bulgarian First Army during World War II , Vladimir Stoychev was an Olympic equestrian and Bulgarian Olympic Committee chairman?
text: Did you know that Bob Dylan was familiar with folk singer Dillard Chandler in 1969, when Chandler's album Old Love Songs & Ballads had sold only 50 copies?
text: Did you know that the descendants of at least three unrelated Irish clans or septs , named in Gaelic Mac Amhlaoibh and Mac Amhalghaidh , bear the exact same or similar surnames ?
text: Did you know that the Brazilian dreadnoughts Minas Gerais and São Paulo "outclassed the entire Argentine fleet" when they were built?
text: Did you know that the professional wrestling stable Poder Mexica was formed after two of the founding members, Sangre Azteca and Dragón Rojo, Jr. , wrestled to a draw?
text: Did you know that Alexander Hamilton Bowman helped build Fort Sumter and later served as the superintendent at West Point during the American Civil War ?
text: Did you know that Johanne Dybwad ´s acting career spanned sixty years, from 1887 to 1947?
text: Did you know that the WW2 Royal Enfield WD/RE motorcycle was known as the Flying Flea as it was designed to be dropped by parachute from bomber aircraft?
text: Did you know that ends Tom Maentz and Ron Kramer , known as the " touchdown twins," were the first University of Michigan athletes to appear on the cover of Sports Illustrated ?
text: Did you know that Moose A. Moose is a fictional cartoon moose who hosts TV shows on Nickelodeon 's educational spin-off Noggin ?
text: Did you know that composer Mozart learned card tricks and fencing while recovering from smallpox ?
text: Did you know that there are only 0.5–1.5 tigers per 100 square kilometres (39 sq mi) in India 's Palamau Tiger Reserve ?
text: Did you know that the stand-off at the Fords of Arkaig ended a deadly feud between Clan Cameron and Clan Mackintosh that had continued for 360 years?
text: Did you know that Niels Christian Ditleff initiated the White Buses rescue operation, recruiting Folke Bernadotte to negotiate with Heinrich Himmler ?
text: Did you know that the Allaire Iron Works , using pig iron from Howell Works , built more than fifty percent of America's early marine steam engines ?
text: Did you know that Bulgarian volleyball coach Radostin Stoychev won the Italian Volleyball League and the CEV Champions League in his debut seasons?
text: Did you know that the 1929 eruption of the Gareloi Volcano created a fissure running down the mountain's southern summit?
text: Did you know that an uprising led by local chapter of the Jewish Combat Organization occurred in the Będzin Ghetto during its final liquidation in early August 1943?
text: Did you know that Axel Otto Normann , a theatre critic and director of the National Theatre in Norway, did not hold a degree of higher education ?
text: Did you know that populations of the butterfly Henry's Elfin are growing in New England due to the introduction of buckthorn , which the butterflies now use as a host plant?
text: Did you know that although large designs in earlier Roman mosaics were mostly floors, Late Antique and medieval mosaics in Italy are found mainly on walls and ceilings?
text: Did you know that baseball pitcher Darryl Scott was demoted to the minor leagues in 1993 while at a hospital with his wife and newborn son?
text: Did you know that when it opened in 1776, the punishment for vandalism to Richmond Bridge was seven years of exile in America ?
text: Did you know that actress India de Beaufort prepared for her exotic dance in the Kröd Mändoon episode " Golden Powers " by studying pole dancing at a Hungarian strip club?
text: Did you know that when Morcar was given lands including Weston-on-Trent in Derbyshire 1,000 years ago, he was unusually given freedom from the threefold tax ?
text: Did you know that higher-education institutions in Nevada include a university with 134 students?
text: Did you know that C. S. Schilbred was among the founders of both the Norwegian Genealogical Society and the Norwegian Heraldry Society ?
text: Did you know that professional wrestling promotion Chikara hosted La Lotería Letal , a tag team tournament composed of randomly paired teams?
text: Did you know that German -born Henry Schwarzschild —after emigrating in 1939—was a Freedom Rider and helped found the National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty ?
text: Did you know that the SCTV character Edith Prickley has been described as "an amalgam of Rona Barrett , Joan of Arc , and Auntie Mame ?"
text: Did you know that one event of the United States Academic Decathlon can include questions like "How would you alert someone that their zipper is down?"
text: Did you know that Melidectes is a genus of honeyeater birds endemic to the mountains of New Guinea and New Britain ?
text: Did you know that Francis Augustus Cox , who started preaching in his teens, was a Baptist minister in Hackney for 42 years?
text: Did you know that the 2002 Pacific hurricane season and the 1994 Pacific hurricane season are currently tied for the number of Category 5 hurricanes in the same season with three each?
text: Did you know that Karl Bull was present at the negotiations in Karlstad between Norway and Sweden in 1905 as a military representative?
text: Did you know that " Dream Team ", an episode of The Office , marked the return of writer and actor B.J. Novak , who departed to film his role in the upcoming Quentin Tarantino film Inglourious Basterds ?
text: Did you know that Sir John Horsey and his son, also called Sir John Horsey , are both buried in a tomb in the Wykeham Chapel of Sherborne Abbey ?
text: Did you know that in the 1970s, the average Argentine consumed nearly 24 gallons (equal to 120 standard 750 ml bottles ) of Argentine wine a year?
text: Did you know that the punishment for treason in Ancient China was the extermination of one's entire family ?
text: Did you know that the Phil Collins song, " That's Just the Way It Is ", was written about the conflict in Northern Ireland called " The Troubles "?
text: Did you know that film historian Donald Bogle has identified six basic stereotypical film roles available to African-American actors and actresses: toms , coons, mulattoes , mammies , bucks, and sidekicks ?
text: Did you know that scientists believe construction of the Rengali Dam and barrier in Orissa , India , negatively impacts plant species in the Bhitarkanika Mangroves ?
text: Did you know that Willie Groves was the first footballer to be transferred for £ 100 or more?
text: Did you know that hours before the curtain raised on his debut opera Guntram , composer Richard Strauss was reportedly engaged in a heated discussion of John Henry Mackay 's Die Anarchisten ?
text: Did you know that music critic Craig Seymour claimed stripping gave him the confidence he needed to interview major celebrities ?
text: Did you know that the observational documentary Teens in the Wild followed the journey of six teenagers with "behavioural difficulties" into the wilderness of Connemara ?
text: Did you know that Lady Inger’s daughter’s scandalous behavior enabled Jens Tillufssøn Bjelke , while of lesser nobility, to marry into leading Norwegian nobility?
text: Did you know that the 12th-century guide to Rome 's wonders, De mirabilibus urbis Romae , survived in a single copy?
text: Did you know that last year, Perfume was the first technopop group since Yellow Magic Orchestra to have a number-one album in Japan ?
text: Did you know that the professional wrestling promotion Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) consider the TNA X Division Championship to be a world championship when most are heavyweight titles?
text: Did you know that before becoming milliner to Christian Dior , Stephen Jones ' s first commercial commission was a hat for a cough medicine advertisement?
text: Did you know that Richard Perceval, who was born at Nailsea Court , deciphered Spanish documents for Queen Elizabeth about the Spanish Armada invasion plans?
text: Did you know that when Eisenhower told Nixon that he was unsure if Nixon would stay on the ticket if the Checkers speech succeeded, Nixon replied that there are times “when you've either got to shit or get off the pot”?
text: Did you know that the Swaminarayan temple in Cardiff replaced a synagogue when it opened in 1982 and then an Irish club when it moved in 1993?
text: Did you know that philanthropist Dorothy Cullman and her husband, Lewis Cullman, donated over $250 million in support of the arts , science , and education ?
text: Did you know that the steamship SS Makambo was built in Scotland , caused an environmental disaster on Lord Howe Island by introducing Black Rats there, and was sunk by a British submarine ?
text: Did you know that the murder of Rie Isogai was the first single-killing in recent years in Japan for which multiple convicts were sentenced to death ?
text: Did you know that the present-day Bevill State Community College is the result of the merger of four institutions ?
text: Did you know that Canadian Harvey Lowe won the first World Yo-Yo Contest in 1932 at age 13?
text: Did you know that in 1934, the Soviet high-altitude balloon Osoaviakhim-1 set a flight altitude record during its maiden flight but crashed during the descent?
text: Did you know that tetraconch churches, with four apses spreading from a central dome, are a speciality of medieval Armenian and Georgian architecture ?
text: Did you know  that the reconstructed Old Town , a UNESCO World Heritage Site , is one of the main tourist attractions of Warsaw , Poland ?
text: Did you know that when Zionists and the Jewish Anti-Zionist League clashed in Cairo in 1947, Egyptian police sided with the Zionists?
text: Did you know that since 2006, Irish TV programme One to One ' s interviewees have included a former head of UN Monitoring and a US Supreme Court judge?
text: Did you know that after World War II , only 168 of 444 trams in Munich , Germany , were in operational condition?
text: Did you know that coach Paul E. Davis led Mississippi State to win the 1963 Liberty Bowl ?
text: Did you know that the erstwhile capital of the Qing Heilongjiang was built on the site of a town formerly belonging to the Ducher people , whose ethnic identification remains controversial?
text: Did you know that singer Jordy van Loon was offered six different record deals after he gave an unplanned performance on Mooi! Weer de Leeuw while he was glued behind a piece of wallpaper ?
text: Did you know that the discovery of a population of Aleutian Cackling Geese on Buldir Volcano in the Aleutian Islands prevented their extinction?
text: Did you know that three songs written by Mexican singer-songwriter Juan Gabriel peaked at number-one in the Billboard Hot Latin Tracks chart in 1986 ?
text: Did you know that a focus group report heavily critical of the " Pilot " episode of the NBC show Parks and Recreation was leaked to the media one month before the show aired?
text: Did you know that the 24 buildings with Grade I listed status in Brighton and Hove , England, include the ruined West Pier —damaged by a succession of fires and storms?
text: Did you know that actress Sela Ward was not initially interested in playing Stacy Warner on FOX 's House , but changed her mind after watching tapes of the show?
text: Did you know that Torolf Prytz , a Norwegian architect turned goldsmith , also served as Minister of Industrial Provisioning for the Liberal Party ?
text: Did you know that the name of basketball player Aulcie Perry has become a generic phrase for a tall person in Hebrew ?
text: Did you know that academic Anastasios Christodoulou was named 'Anastasios' (' Resurrection ') by his parents as he was born on Easter Day ?
text: Did you know that the Golden-scruffy Collybia mushroom has been placed in 14 different genera ?
text: Did you know that walkers were encouraged to use the Buntingford Branch Line on Sundays by being offered cheap tickets ?
text: Did you know that the members of R&B girl group Electrik Red appeared together in Ciara 's music video for " Like a Boy "?
text: Did you know that thousands of Olive Ridley turtles are found dead at the mouth of the Devi River every year?
text: Did you know that brothers Jim Perry and Gaylord Perry made Opening Day starts for the Major League Baseball Cleveland Indians ?
text: Did you know that Gunvald Tomstad , a double agent for Norwegian resistance in World War II , acted as a local "ideologist" of the Fascist party Nasjonal Samling ?
text: Did you know that George Whitaker , president of Willamette University in Oregon , banned talking between boys and girls at the school?
text: Did you know that the original U.S. Forest Service ranger's cabin at Allison Ranger Station in the Ochoco Mountains of Oregon was built in 1911?
text: Did you know that the flowers of the bamboo species Bambusa lako of Timor have yet to be scientifically observed?
text: Did you know that actor Billy Bob Thornton provides drums and vocals for the country rock band The Boxmasters ?
text: Did you know that Thomas Johannessen Heftye co-founded the Norwegian Trekking Association in 1868?
text: Did you know that one critic wrote that Jivin' in Be-Bop includes "one of the worst ballets ever put on film"?
text: Did you know that The Independent ' s reaction  to Ireland 's recent emergency budget included a cartoon of the country's Taoiseach measuring a dead tiger ?
text: Did you know that American race car driver Scott Gaylord asked his future wife out for their first date while competing against her in a race?
text: Did you know that in 1995, René Fasel of Switzerland became the first ever representative of ice hockey to become a member of the International Olympic Committee ?
text: Did you know that Frédéric Chopin's Nocturne in A-flat major, Op. 32, No. 2 , originally written for piano, was orchestrated in the ballet Les Sylphides ?
text: Did you know that LtCol. John F. Bolt , Korean War Navy Cross recipient,  remains the only U.S. Marine Corps jet aircraft flying ace ?
text: Did you know that Sprout Creek , whose subwatershed covers 29,342 acres (11,874 ha) of land, is the largest tributary of the Fishkill Creek ?
text: Did you know that Ove Gjerløw Meyer is recognized as the 1772 founder of the Norwegian Society ?
text: Did you know that the Orange-winged Amazon and Red-bellied Macaw mostly eat fruit from the royal palm Roystonea oleracea from July to September?
text: Did you know that the defunct Portland University in Oregon had only one building , so the school bookstore was a nearby general store ?
text: Did you know that Professor Harald Noreng led a project to list every word used in Henrik Ibsen 's oeuvre ?
text: Did you know that the Río Pilcomayo National Park in Argentina is included in the Ramsar Convention 's list of wetlands of international importance ?
text: Did you knowthat during World War II , William D. Alexander helped produce more than 250 newsreels concerning African-American soldiers and sailors?
text: Did you know that during the Mexican Revolution , Metropolitan Magazine sent reporter John Reed to Mexico where he stayed with Pancho Villa ?
text: Did you know that despite signing over 100 affiliate TV stations, the NTA Film Network never developed into a major television network ?
text: Did you know that professional wrestler Dragón Rojo, Jr. is one of Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre 's "ambassadors" against tuberculosis ?
text: Did you know that 21-year-old Isuru Udana of the Wayamba province cricket team was adjudged Man of the Match and Series of the 2009 Inter-Provincial Twenty20 tournament?
text: Did you know that the spring orange peel fungus infects caches of pinecones collected by squirrels ?
text: Did you know that George W. Barrett was the first person sentenced to death by hanging under a congressional act that made it a capital offense to kill a federal agent ?
text: Did you know that the Mendoza wine region produces nearly two-thirds of all the wine made in Argentina ?
text: Did you know that the 1998–99 NBA lockout forced the cancellation of 464 regular-season National Basketball Association games?
text: Did you know that Herbert Kisza owns one of the largest private one-artist galleries in Central Europe in Kadaň , Czech Republic ?
text: Did you know that at age 61, Ludvig Munk fathered Kirsten Munk with whom King Christian IV entered into a morganatic marriage ?
text: Did you know that KHSN , one of Oregon 's first radio stations , began broadcasting in 1928?
text: Did you know that author Jeanette Winterson was upset at being asked to rewrite the ending of her 1994 film Great Moments in Aviation ?
text: Did you know that Koko Guyot , an underwater volcano in the Hawaiian volcanic chain , was named for the 58th emperor of Japan , Emperor Koko ?
text: Did you know that linguist Trygve Knudsen was co-editor of the dictionary Norsk Riksmålsordbok from 1925 until its completion in 1957?
text: Did you know that Waldschmidt Hall at the University of Portland in Oregon is the oldest building on campus, and older than the school?
text: Did you know that Phú Xuân was the capital of the Nguyễn Lords , the Tây Sơn Dynasty and the Nguyễn Dynasty ?
text: Did you know that before a cavalry charge , Charles A. May told his soldiers, "Remember your Regiment and follow your officers!", which today remains a motto of the 2nd Stryker Cavalry Regiment ?
text: Did you know that the first successful flat panel display , the Aiken tube , was originally developed as an interactive plotting table for U.S. Navy anti-submarine helicopters?
text: Did you know that after decades as an anarcho-syndicalist , Maksim Rayevsky suddenly left the anarchist movement and went to work for the Soviet government?
text: Did you know that genetic monitoring of the DNA from feathers shed by the Eastern Imperial Eagle shows it is shorter lived than other long-lived raptors?
text: Did you know that the tomb of Pope Clement II in the Bamberg Cathedral is the only extant papal tomb outside Italy and France ?
text: Did you know that Fermín Salvochea was one of the early anarchist thinkers and activists in Spain ?
text: Did you know that the prototype two-wheeled, battery-powered, self-balancing PUMA from General Motors and Segway can carry two passengers at 35 miles per hour (56 km/h) for a distance of up to 35 miles (56 km)?
text: Did you know that Turkish political parties cancelled their rallies ahead of the local elections in respect of the death of Yazıcıoğlu , leader of the Great Union Party , in the 2009 Medair TC-HEK helicopter crash ?
text: Did you know that Andreas Paulson , a socialist and well-known literary and theatre critic , spent his professional career as a bank accountant ?
text: Did you know that the This is why you're fat website received 10 million page views in the first two months after its creation and features photographs of dishes like the "Homewrecker" and "30,000 Calorie Sandwich"?
text: Did you know that the lime-green waxy cap has a limited geographical distribution, having been collected only in California and Mexico ?
text: Did you know that Gideon Byamugisha was the first religious leader in Africa to publicly announce that he was HIV positive?
text: Did you know that Google and Universal Music Group have announced Vevo , a YouTube -based, joint venture , music video - hosting website?
text: Did you know that American journalist and writer Bessie Breuer ' s first novel, Memory of Love (1935), was the basis for the 1939 film In Name Only which starred Cary Grant and Carol Lombard ?
text: Did you know that accounting ethics helps accountants and auditors resolve ethical dilemmas in ways that may not benefit a company but will benefit the public relying on the company's financial reports?
text: Did you know that poet and philanthropist Constant Tonegaru was imprisoned by Romania 's regime when one of his aid parcels was redirected toward anti-communist fighters ?
text: Did you know that the busiest ATM in the entire Buffalo , New York, region is in the hamlet of Snyder ?
text: Did you know that the American sisters Rose and Ottilie Sutro were the world's first duo - piano team?
text: Did you know that the Sumpa were a large tribe of 30,000 families in northeastern Tibet conquered and then assimilated by the Tibetans in the 7th–8th centuries CE?
text: Did you know that the Great Canadian Wrestling Expo ' s first two events featured puppet Ed the Sock as commissioner in 2005 and a match to determine leadership of the Power Rangers in 2006?
text: Did you know that the City University of New York system (CUNY) is the United States ' largest urban public university system?
text: Did you know that John Shearman ' s book on Quattrocento painting was commissioned by 1984, but was incomplete at his death, and remains a gap in the series?
text: Did you know that despite being called a " one-hit wonder "  by members of the UK music industry, singer Jamelia has had seven Top 10 singles enter the UK Singles Chart ?
text: Did you know that ex-professional footballer Julian Hails has a BSc honours degree in mathematical studies and became a mathematics teacher?
text: Did you know that Tang Dynasty Jiedushi (military governor) Li Yijian stopped his army from using two new styles of music, believing that it was the central government's prerogative to create military music?
text: Did you know that country music artist and Dead Reckoning Records co-founder Tammy Rogers was once a backing musician for Patty Loveless and Trisha Yearwood ?
text: Did you know that to strengthen its bid to air the UAAP college league , Philippine TV network ABS-CBN proposed to air the men's basketball finals at its flagship VHF channel 2 instead of at UHF channel 23 ?
text: Did you know that Ritchie Coliseum was called less adequate than a high school gymnasium by Maryland coach Bud Millikan ?
text: Did you know that Suez Canal construction reduced the salinity of Lake Timsah ?
text: Did you know that, in the first issue of The Covent-Garden Journal , Henry Fielding declared literary war on the "armies of Grub Street " and thereby triggered the Paper War of 1752-1753 ?
text: Did you know that part of a $1 billion renovation of the Fontainebleau Miami Beach hotel brought on a policy change for their toilet paper folding ?
text: Did you know that the bamboo species Bambusa oldhamii , known as the Giant Timber Bamboo, has been introduced into California, where it is the most common clumping bamboo?
text: Did you know that at least 20,000 Indigenous Australians and between 2,000 and 2,500 Europeans are estimated to have been killed in the Australian frontier wars ?
text: Did you know that Holocaust deniers have contacted former SS - Rottenführer Oskar Gröning to convince him that the things he witnessed at Auschwitz were hallucinations on his part?
text: Did you know that HMS Spitfire captured at least nine French privateers and small naval vessels during a four year period under the command of Michael Seymour ?
text: Did you know that between 47,000 and 65,000 Filipinos live in France ?
text: Did you know that Bird Millman , once called the "most celebrated female high-wire performer of all time", was a premiere attraction with  the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus ?
text: Did you know that the Empire Building in Manhattan is one of the oldest steel framed skyscrapers built on pneumatic caissons ?
text: Did you know that Wade Hampton II 's home, Millwood , now in ruins, is considered to have been the social center of antebellum South Carolina ?
text: Did you know that the documentary Dolce e selvaggio includes both genuine and fake scenes of human death?
text: Did you know that contributions to the U.S. Treasury 's Conscience Fund , a fund for voluntary gifts from people who have defrauded the U.S. Government , are not tax deductible although other gifts are?
text: Did you know that in 1935, the uniform of the national-conservative Bismarckjugend was banned in Germany ?
text: Did you know that the owner of a radio station in Corvallis, Oregon , had the station's legal call sign changed to KEJO to honor his late daughter, Emily Jo?
text: Did you know that Governor of Formosa Pieter Nuyts (1598–1655) was rumoured to hide an interpreter under his bed to translate pillow talk during his affairs with local women ?
text: Did you know that Swedish singer Agnes Carlsson 's 2009 Melodifestivalen entry " Love Love Love " was originally planned to be performed as a duet?
text: Did you know that the film version of the play Norman, Is That You? substitutes an African-American family for a Jewish family?
text: Did you know that General Hausmann , commander of Norway’s Army,  was dismissed as too warlike, but the army he built repelled Swedish attacks between 1716–1718?
text: Did you know that Frascati , a Federal-style plantation near Somerset, Virginia , was home to Supreme Court Associate Justice Philip Pendleton Barbour ?
text: Did you know that Francis Bull , a board member of the National Theatre when Nazi Germany occupied Norway in 1940, was arrested in 1941 and spent three years in a concentration camp ?
text: Did you know that the interactive fiction Violet won four XYZZY Awards and took first place in the 2008 Interactive Fiction Competition ?
text: Did you know that the Tang Dynasty general Han Hong had once sent a beautiful woman as a gift to his subordinate general Li Guangyan , only to have Li reject and return her?
text: Did you know that the Japanese television drama Yūkan Club won four of the five possible awards at the 2007 Nikkan Sports Drama Grand Prix?
text: Did you know that Ann Arbor, Michigan , was founded by John Allen and Elisha Rumsey in 1824?
text: Did you know that AfterEllen.com praised the yaoi manga series The Moon and the Sandals for illustrating "the challenges gay men face in Japanese society"?
text: Did you know that on two occasions, the TNA World Tag Team Championship has been held by individual wrestlers rather than tag teams ?
text: Did you know that Choor Singh , former judge of the Supreme Court of Singapore , was the first Singaporean judge to impose the death penalty on a woman?
text: Did you know that Detroit Seamount , an underwater volcano in the North Pacific , is as big as the island of Hawaii ?
text: Did you know that when the Swedish book Are U 4 Real? was released in the United States , several parts regarding sex were removed?
text: Did you know that Joe Mauer won a batting title , the first by a catcher since 1942, and a Silver Slugger Award at catcher in 2006?
text: Did you know that the Harrell Prairie Botanical Area is one of the last undisturbed portions of the Jackson Prairie in the U.S. state of Mississippi ?
text: Did you know that before its broadcast, the Japanese visual novel Tayutama: Kiss on my Deity 's anime adaptation was first exhibited as a video hosted by Media Factory ?
text: Did you know that two Spanish versions of the Italian song " Tutta la vita " peaked at number 1 on the Billboard Hot Latin Tracks chart ?
text: Did you know that when Thirwat Shehata visited Ayman al-Zawahiri in a Russian prison, he was allowed to give the al-Jihad leader a letter that authorities did not bother to translate?
text: Did you know that Irish rugby union commentator Ryle Nugent has worn sheepskin gloves whilst clinging to his microphone "for dear life"?
text: Did you know that syndicated radio show host " Delilah " got her start in radio reporting local news and sports on KDUN in Reedsport, Oregon , while still in junior high school ?
text: Did you know that the South Park episode " Fishsticks " spoofed rapper Kanye West who said that his feelings were hurt by the show?
text: Did you know that the cooperative eye hypothesis suggests an explanation for how the human eye evolved its distinctive coloring?
text: Did you know that there are 64 units in the State University of New York system ?
text: Did you know that Balu Sankaran received a Padma Shri award in 1972 for helping and treating injured soldiers in Safdarjang Hospital during the Bangladesh Liberation War ?
text: Did you know that Alex Rodriguez holds four offensive statistical records among shortstops during his seven Silver Slugger-winning seasons ?
text: Did you know that in 1958, a Royal Enfield Super Meteor motorcycle was used by the Transport Research Laboratory to test the Maxaret anti-lock braking system?
text: Did you know that a student at the University of Portland won US$ 3 for suggesting the new name of the student newspaper, The Beacon ?
text: Did you know that Robert K. Crane ' s discovery of sodium – glucose co-transport led to the development of oral rehydration therapy ?
text: Did you know that Minsk Ghetto was the largest ghetto in the German-occupied territory of the Soviet Union ?
text: Did you know that Dag Kavlie , former rector of the Norwegian Institute of Technology , participates regularly in the Birkebeinerrennet ski race?
text: Did you know that the shooting deaths of three Pittsburgh Police officers was the second-deadliest incident for United States law enforcement since the September 11 attacks ?
text: Did you know that former NPB catcher Katsunori Nomura was managed by his father, Katsuya Nomura , on three different teams: the Yakult Swallows , the Hanshin Tigers and the Rakuten Golden Eagles ?
text: Did you know that in his book The Evil Empire: 101 Ways That England Ruined the World , author Steven A. Grasse argues that the United Kingdom was responsible for the Vietnam War ?
text: Did you know that Gus Van Sant casted Paranoid Park via MySpace ?
text: Did you know that Teresa Edwards is the all-time leader for the most Olympic medals in basketball ?
text: Did you know that the lyrics on the album Kew. Rhone. are filled with anagrams , palindromes , and other verbal puzzles?
text: Did you know that Henrik Mohn is credited with founding meteorological research in Norway ?
text: Did you know that all citizens over the age of 16 in the People's Republic of China are required by law to carry personal identification ?
text: Did you know that University of Pittsburgh halfback Gibby Welch broke the single-season yardage record set by Red Grange , gaining 1,964 yards in just nine games in 1926?
text: Did you know that students from National Institute of Rehabilitation Training and Research in Orissa , India , attacked its Director during a protest about living conditions in the hostel ?
text: Did you know that abolitionist Stephen Symonds Foster was thrown in jail in 1838 for two weeks during his senior year at Dartmouth but still managed to graduate third in his class?
text: Did you know that Keila Costa is the South American record holder in the women's triple jump event?
text: Did you know that radio stations KGAL and KSHO are celebrating Oregon 's sesquicentennial with a year-long series of historical vignettes ?
text: Did you know that after the death of two original co-editors of Norsk biografisk leksikon , Gerhard Gran and Anders Krogvig , the third original editor Edvard Bull was joined by Einar Jansen ?
text: Did you know that under the United States ' doctrine of substantial similarity , a work can be found to infringe copyright even if the wording of the text has been changed?
text: Did you know that Thomas Heftye was the Norwegian Minister of Defence on two occasions, but for a total time of six months?
text: Did you know that the Roaring River Wilderness near Mount Hood in Oregon has trees that are 1,000 years old?
text: Did you know that Robert Fielding polygamously married Barbara, Duchess of Cleveland , a former mistress of King Charles II , within a month of marrying another woman?
text: Did you know that Guttorm Hansen , the President of the Norwegian Parliament who started his career as a mechanic , declined three offers for a government minister position?
text: Did you know that ChristianCinema.com gives filmmakers a place to submit screening copies of their work with the possibility of being distributed and promoted by the website?
text: Did you know that Ritchie Hanlon became manager of St Albans City F.C. at the age of 29, three months after he retired as a player?
text: Did you know that the New Jersey County Colleges is a system of 19 public community colleges with over 60 campuses in the U.S. state of New Jersey ?
text: Did you know that Raja Chelliah , a public finance expert in India , received the Padma Vibushan award in year 2007?
text: Did you know that when the German U-boat UB-8 was transferred to the Bulgarian Navy in May 1916, she became the first ever Bulgarian submarine ?
text: Did you know that Donna Kossy is "an expert on kooks [who] has a genuine, if sometimes uncomfortable, affection for her subjects"?
text: Did you know that Li Fanwen got the opportunity to complete the first draft of his dictionary of the extinct Tangut language when Premier Zhou Enlai was told that only a few old scholars were able to read the complex Tangut script ?
text: Did you know that Augustin Barruel ' s Memoirs Illustrating the History of Jacobinism is considered one of the founding documents of the right-wing interpretation of the French Revolution ?
text: Did you know that Charles Henry Tompkins was the first Union Army officer to receive the Medal of Honor during the Civil War ?
text: Did you know that the policy of Cuban medical internationalism has provided, among other things, ongoing medical care to 18,000 victims of the Chernobyl disaster ?
text: Did you know that poet Harald Sverdrup `s literary breakthrough Sankt Elms ild (1958) earned him the Norwegian Critics Prize for Literature ?
text: Did you know that Game 6 of the 1998 NBA Finals set the record of the highest Nielsen rating for any NBA game?
text: Did you know that the Gruban v Booth case was so popular that the barristers had difficulty making to their way through the crowds to the court on the last day?
text: Did you know that Anna Maria Rückerschöld was an early Swedish cookbook author who also argued that middle class women should be entitled to an education in household matters?
text: Did you know that as of 2006, the award-winning Dictionary of Literary Biography contained 13,500 author biographies?
text: Did you know that the pharmaceutical corporation Eli Lilly and Company was founded by American Civil War veteran Colonel Eli Lilly ?
text: Did you know that the Gwangtonggwan in Seoul is the oldest continuously-operating bank building in Korea ?
text: Did you know that Alfred Madison Barbour was the superintendent of the Harpers Ferry Armory during John Brown's raid in 1859?
text: Did you know that the Trithemius cipher , created by Johannes Trithemius , is vulnerable to attack because it lacks a key , which is said to break a rule of cryptology called Kerckhoffs' principle ?
text: Did you know that despite serving in the Grand Fleet for a year, the only enemy warship destroyed in World War I by United States Battleship Division Nine was sunk entirely by accident?
text: Did you know that Gregers Winther Wulfsberg Gram was awarded the Grand Cross of the Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav in 1893 for his achievements in international arbitration ?
text: Did you know that the Tunnel de la mort (Death tunnel), an intersection in Montreal , was the scene of an inordinate number of serious car accidents ?
text: Did you know that Migingo , an island about half the size of a soccer field , is the subject of territorial dispute and a diplomatic conflict between Uganda and Kenya ?
text: Did you know that Curtis Stone worked as an enforcer for drug dealers before becoming a Christian and founding Warriors 4 Christ Wrestling ?
text: Did you know that in 1933, the German Socialist Labour Party of Poland supported the Bundist call for boycott of goods produced in Germany , in protest of the Hitler regime?
text: Did you know that ten days after a heart attack and surgery, Hillsboro, Oregon , mayor Tom Hughes helped demolish a building?
text: Did you know that the houndfish has been known to leap out of the water, causing injuries with its sharp beak, when attracted by the artificial lighting used to catch it?
text: Did you know that Cistercian architecture , "counted among the most beautiful relics of the Middle Ages ", was made possible by the Cistercian Order 's innovativeness and skill as metallurgists ?
text: Did you know that Thomas Van Scoy was the president of three universities, but only Willamette still exists?
text: Did you know that during the Siege of Paris (1870–1871), chef Alexandre Étienne Choron cooked up many of the animals in the Jardin d'acclimatation 's menagerie ?
text: Did you know that although the extinct Norfolk Island Boobook was last sighted in 1996, its genes live on in the hybrid descendants of the last living female bird?
text: Did you know that astronomy professor Jens Fredrik Schroeter first learned his subject during childhood when his father, a sea captain , taught him how to use the sextant ?
text: Did you know that according to Street Gang , a discussion at a dinner party, hosted by Joan Ganz Cooney in 1966, led to the creation of the children's television show, Sesame Street ?
text: Did you know that Cincinnati streetcars were the main form of public transportation in Cincinnati, Ohio , at the turn of the 20th century ?
text: Did you know that the founder of the Cistercian Abbeyknockmoy in 1190, Cathal Crobhdearg Ua Conchobair , King of Connacht , was buried there in 1224?
text: Did you know that Hemming's Cartulary is the first surviving medieval English cartulary ?
text: Did you know that Libertas Estonia was founded in 1994 as the Estonian Blue Party?
text: Did you know that the original Mace of the Virginia House of Delegates was sold to partners in a silversmith firm for $101?
text: Did you know that Jon Hol was indicted for lèse majesté for his 1884 pamphlet, where he called for citizens to take up arms if the King and Army interfered with parliamentary process?
text: Did you know that the Milan–Venice railway line crosses the Venetian Lagoon on a 222-arch bridge built on 80,000 piles of larch wood?
text: Did you know that under the Madhouses Act 1774 in the United Kingdom , keeping more than two lunatics without a license was punishable by a £500 fine?
text: Did you know that S. P. Adithanar was the founder of Dina Thanthi , a widely read Tamil newspaper?
text: Did you know that Canadian women's ice hockey player Hayley Wickenheiser , the highest scoring female Olympic hockey player, is credited with 14 goals and 20 assists?
text: Did you know that Bjørn Floberg , mostly known for playing unsympathetic roles, and comedian Robin Williams each played the same character in the 1997 Norwegian film Insomnia and its 2002 American remake , respectively?
text: Did you know that Independent Students Union was the student arm of Polish opposition movement Solidarity ?
text: Did you know that Supreme Court Assessor Christopher Hansteen turned down an offer to become Prime Minister of Norway in 1892?
text: Did you know that Neal, James, Fordyce and Down was a Scottish banking house which collapsed in 1772 precipitating the collapse of almost every private bank in Scotland?
text: Did you know that the Miami, Florida , group Take Back the Land breaks into unoccupied, bank- foreclosed houses and moves homeless families into them?
text: Did you know that actress Louise Gold , playing Phyllis in a West End production of Follies , was described as "injured queen one moment, vamp the next"?
text: Did you know that right after the Byzantine capital of Constantinople fell to the Ottomans , the rulers of the Byzantine Despotate of Morea called upon the Ottomans to suppress their own peasant revolt ?
text: Did you know that on a voyage to the South Pacific, Simon Hatley shot an albatross, an act which later became the basis for a poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge ?
text: Did you know that the L. Ron Hubbard House in Washington, D.C. now operates as a historic house museum ?
text: Did you know that Maria Antonescu , wife of Romania 's World War II dictator Ion Antonescu , presided over charities financed though the extortion of local Jews ?
text: Did you know that The Poets and Poetry of America (1842) by Rufus Wilmot Griswold went through three editions in six months, but is today called a "graveyard of poets"?
text: Did you know that the Orange-girdled Parasol mushroom has an odor that has been described as similar to rubber or cut metal?
text: Did you know that Norwegian linguist Christian Stang was honored by the eponymous Stang's law ?
text: Did you know that sister stations KTIX , KUMA , KUMA-FM , and KWHT share a single studio building at the west end of Eastern Oregon Regional Airport ?
text: Did you know that although criticized for poor performance in the 2006 Lebanon War by the Winograd Commission , Brigadier-General Eyal Eisenberg was promoted to command the Israel Defense Forces 's Gaza Division ?
text: Did you know that Amar Kutir in West Bengal , India , once a place of refuge for independence movement activists, has been turned into a society for the promotion of arts and crafts ?
text: Did you know that for security reasons, the findings relating to uranium in John Holt's 1941 PhD thesis on artificial radioactivity were not released?
text: Did you know that La Minerve, Quebec , named after the historic La Minerve newspaper, has only a population of 1295 but swells to nearly 15,000 in the summer?
text: Did you know that, as the Tang Dynasty chancellor Wang Yai was paraded to his execution site, the people who resented him for raising the tea tax threw rocks and brick fragments at him?
text: Did you know that a fire in Saravana Stores , Chennai , in 2008 burnt out most of the building and killed two people?
text: Did you know that the only Football League match in which Billy Jervis played was abandoned due to fading daylight after his team turned up late?
text: Did you know that the 2008 nature documentary film The Meerkats was narrated by Paul Newman and is believed to be one of his last film credits?
text: Did you know that Minori Kimura made her professional manga artist debut at the age of 14 in the 1964 Spring Special issue of Ribon , a magazine published in Japan by Shueisha ?
text: Did you know that the Tabor-Wing House in Dover Plains, New York , has an unusual amount of exterior ornamentation for a Federal style rural home?
text: Did you know that Gunnar Garbo , member of the Norwegian Parliament for four electorial periods, was later Ambassador to Tanzania ?
text: Did you know that, at the National Women's Rights Convention in Cincinnati in 1855, Lucy Stone responded to a heckler, saying "...disappointment is the lot of woman"?
text: Did you know that Jacob Rigg helped write both Barack Obama's victory speech for the 2008 presidential election, and a concession speech in case Obama lost?
text: Did you know that the environmental organisation Counterpart Caribbean is a branch of the Counterpart International group based in Barbados ?
text: Did you know that on 31 March 1921, Arthur "Spud" Murphy became "Airman No. 1" on the roll of the newly established Royal Australian Air Force ?
text: Did you know that the only known population of Irrawaddy dolphins in India is along the coast of Orissa ?
text: Did you know that Michigan end Bernard Kirk , who Knute Rockne called the "apple of my eye," died of complications from a fractured skull days after being named an All-American in December 1922?
text: Did you know that despite the different prestige that languages and dialects have, linguists do not consider any languages or dialects to be inherently superior or inferior?
text: Did you know that H. Clay Earles , founder of Martinsville Speedway , the only original NASCAR track still in use, awarded grandfather clocks to race winners, with Richard Petty earning 12 clocks?
text: Did you know that director M. Night Shyamalan has been criticized for allowing Caucasian actors to play Asian characters in his upcoming film The Last Airbender ?
text: Did you know that in 1718, General Vincens Budde ' s defense of Trondheim prevailed and General Armfeldt's retreat was likened to Napoleon's retreat from Moscow ?
text: Did you know that as of 2006, supplying fishing tackle for recreational fishing is an industry with annual sales of five billion dollars in the United States ?
text: Did you know that Czech film and stage director Evald Schorm was a notable exponent of the New Wave in Czechoslovak cinema?
text: Did you know that World War I German U-boat UB-10 was credited with sinking 23 ships in a 13-day span in July and August 1915?
text: Did you know that historian V. H. Galbraith considered the medieval English monk Hemming to be the first archivist in English history?
text: Did you know that especially in the United States, bacon mania is a phenomenon among bacon devotees seeking to develop novel dishes and to gather at bacon camps?
text: Did you know that in 1890–91, Wheelock G. Veazey served simultaneously as an Interstate Commerce Commissioner and as Commander-in-Chief of the Grand Army of the Republic ?
text: Did you know that the 2009 Malaysian Grand Prix was stopped after just 33 laps, out of 56, when torrential rain hit the circuit ?
text: Did you know that philosopher Anathon Aall wrote an entry about his former brother-in-law Kristian Aars in the biographical dictionary Norsk biografisk leksikon ?
text: Did you know that despite historical border disputes, Poland–Czechoslovakia relations were friendly, and during WWII their governments-in-exile considered forming a confederation ?
text: Did you know that Kate Mason Rowland introduced a motion in the United Daughters of the Confederacy to have the American Civil War known as the War Between the States?
text: Did you know that Arthur Bliss 's first major work for orchestra , A Colour Symphony , depicts in music the heraldic significance of the colours purple , red , blue and green , and was dedicated to the conductor Adrian Boult ?
text: Did you know that the music of Burnt Sugar has been described as "a big cloud"?
text: Did you know that Jessie Webb , an Australian academic and historian , was the first female teacher at the University of Melbourne ?
text: Did you know that in the Battle of Warsaw in 1705 , a Swedish force of 2,000 men defeated a Polish-Lithuanian-Saxonian force five times as strong?
text: Did you know that in 1986 KWVR-FM of Enterprise, Oregon , became the smallest-market radio station to win a Gracie Award from the American Women in Radio and Television ?
text: Did you know that the parody novel Pride and Prejudice and Zombies combines Jane Austen 's 1813 classic, Pride and Prejudice , with elements of zombie fiction?
text: Did you know that after Saudi authorities listed alleged al-Qaeda member Zubayr Al-Rimi as a conspirator in the Riyadh compound bombings , he wrote a personal letter to George W. Bush insisting he was innocent?
text: Did you know that the Academy of San Carlos , founded in 1781, was the first major art academy and the first art museum in the Americas ?
text: Did you know that the Case of the Hooded Man was so called because the defendant was made to wear a black hood when travelling to and from the court?
text: Did you know that Larry Scott , CEO of the WTA , put together the largest sponsorship in the history of women's athletics, an US$ 88-million deal with Sony Ericsson ?
text: Did you know that Broad Street in Reading , England – the site of a 1688 battle and crucial to the Earl of Essex 's siege of the town – is now a pedestrianised shopping street?
text: Did you know that restaurateur Pascal Rigo owns the oldest flour mill in San Francisco ?
text: Did you know that Rammstein ' s 2004 single " Mein Teil " was inspired by German cannibal Armin Meiwes ?
text: Did you know that the former actor Adam Kennedy wrote the screenplay for the Gene Hackman film , The Domino Principle , about a convict turned assassin ?
text: Did you know that escaramuza is an equestrienne display of choreographed patterns that was established as the tenth official event of charreada in 1992?
text: Did you know that Gus Cifelli won three college football national championships and an NFL championship with the Detroit Lions before being elected as a judge , where he served for over 20 years?
text: Did you know that during his time in the Isis-Urania Temple , E.W. Berridge wrote two of the Golden Dawn 's knowledge lectures and collaborated on a third?
text: Did you know that unlike many other Agaricus species, Agaricus placomyces fruits from mid to late winter rather than during the typical late spring, summer and early fall?
text: Did you know that Wacław Micuta was a Polish resistance fighter who liberated the Gęsiówka concentration camp and a UN diplomat who promoted renewable energy in developing countries?
text: Did you know that the support website Get Satisfaction was created after its founders realized that on the Internet , when people had issues with companies, other people were often willing to help out?
text: Did you know that Vice Admiral Rodney Taylor was one of the last officers to join the Royal Australian Navy as a 13-year-old cadet?
text: Did you know that during the recording of their new album Old Crows / Young Cardinals , Alexisonfire recorded seven tracks in seven days?
text: Did you know that in 1902, the Church of Norway priest Jens Jonas Jansen was called "dangerous" by bishop Johan Christian Heuch ?
text: Did you know that former KGBR disc jockey Tom Lyons advised his son against a career in radio by saying "Sell coke , run guns ... but don't ever go into radio."?
text: Did you know that R. G. Chandramogan , an entrepreneur from Sivakasi , is the head of Hatsun Agro Product Ltd, the largest private dairy in India ?
text: Did you know that the California Agricultural Labor Relations Act establishes collective bargaining for farmworkers in that state?
text: Did you know that Fredrik Georg Gade , a tuberculosis and cancer researcher , himself died of bronchial cancer ?
text: Did you know that Cherry Springs Airport in Potter County , Pennsylvania , was closed because the night sky there was too dark?
text: Did you know that in the 18th century, prisoners in the Marshalsea prison in London, such as John Baptist Grano , not only had to pay a prison fee, but could also pay extra to be allowed out each day?
text: Did you know that the South Park episode " Eat, Pray, Queef " conveys a pro-women's rights message by comparing men's contradicting opinions regarding farts and queefs ?
text: Did you know that Frédéric Chopin 's Nocturne in D-flat Major, Op. 27, No. 2 was used in the James Bond movie, The Spy Who Loved Me ?
text: Did you know that David Dean Shulman has been active as a leader of international campaigns to defend the Palestinians under threat of eviction from such villages as Susya in the South Hebron Hills ?
text: Did you know that the Franco-Ottoman alliance of 1536 between Francis I and Suleiman the Magnificent has been called "the first nonideological diplomatic alliance " between a Christian and a non-Christian power?
text: Did you know that Marguerite Rawalt was the first woman ever to be elected as president of the Federal Bar Association ?
text: Did you know that a 2009 study found that Polycap —a five-in-one polypill combining three high blood pressure medications, a cholesterol reducer and aspirin —could cut heart attack and stroke risk in half for many?
text: Did you know that coprophilous fungi are species of fungi that feed on animal feces ?
text: Did you know that although the songs " Tougher Than the Rest " and " Spare Parts " by New Jersey musician Bruce Springsteen were not released as singles in the United States, each became a Top-20 single in Europe?
text: Did you know that egg whites , fish bladders and powder made from dried blood have been used as finings to clarify wine ?
text: Did you know that Verda Welcome was the first black woman to be elected as a State Senator ?
text: Did you know that SingStar ABBA is the first band-specific SingStar video game?
text: Did you know that Elizabeth Lee Hazen developed the world's first useful antifungal antibiotic , nystatin ?
text: Did you know that the Wildlife Protection Society of India maintains a network of undercover agents and informants who gather intelligence to combat wildlife poaching and the illegal trade of wildlife parts ?
text: Did you know that I.C.C. Commissioner John J. Esch was accused of switching his vote in a case to secure renomination by President Coolidge and the Senate refused his confirmation , 39–29?
text: Did you know that the Nidaros Cathedral West Front sculpture of Archangel Michael was based on Bob Dylan ?
text: Did you know that Harald Gram , father of World War II resistance fighter Gregers Gram , was stipendiary magistrate in Oslo for 21 years?
text: Did you know that Muhammad Habibullah was India's delegate to the first session of the League of Nations in 1919?
text: Did you know that the Gray Mouse Lemur is one of the smallest primates in the world, weighing only 60 grams (2.1 oz)?
text: Did you know that Israel Prize recipient Avraham Yaski founded the largest architecture firm in Israel ?
text: Did you know that the coprophilous mushroom Conocybe rickenii may be found in large numbers in gardens where horse manure has been used to enrich the soil?
text: Did you know that Grand Funk Railroad 's epic 1970 song " I'm Your Captain (Closer to Home) " about a troubled sea voyage, is most commonly associated with emotions surrounding the Vietnam War ?
text: Did you know that H. Vasanthakumar is a MLA in India ,  owner of an entertainment channel, Vasanth TV , and of Vasanth & Co , one of the largest electronics retail chains in Tamil Nadu ?
text: Did you know that the Salad Bowl strike of 1970–1971 caused the price of iceberg lettuce to triple overnight, and thousands of acres of lettuce were plowed under as crops spoiled on the ground?
text: Did you know that Jack Grout , a PGA Tour competitor from 1931 to 1953, was the first and only teacher of successful professional golfer Jack Nicklaus ?
text: Did you know that following the upgrade of two Oslo T-bane lines , all aging T1000 trains of the system can be replaced by MX3000 's ?
text: Did you know that Harry Watson scored 36 goals at the 1924 Winter Olympics , making him the highest scoring male Canadian Olympic ice hockey player ?
text: Did you know that Ayya Nadar along with Shanmuga Nadar is credited for transforming the small village of Sivakasi in Tamil Nadu , India , into a thriving industrial town?
text: Did you know that radio station KTIL in Tillamook, Oregon , was renamed KMBD in honor of talk show host Mildred Berkey Davy?
text: Did you know that Evan Vaughan Anwyl has proven patrilineal descent back to Owain Gwynedd , who claimed to be King of Wales?
text: Did you know that when Ted Hough was signed by Southampton Football Club , his " transfer fee " was a round of 52 pints of beer ?
text: Did you know that the Norton P11 desert racing motorcycle was launched in the US under the advertising slogan Dynamite on wheels ?
text: Did you know that Sinikka Kukkonen was the first World Champion in ski orienteering ?
text: Did you know that the 1913 Street Car Strike in Indianapolis , Indiana , lasted eight days and left four dead and hundreds injured?
text: Did you know that Mahatma Gandhi stayed at the house of publisher and journalist G. A. Natesan during his first visit to Madras on returning from South Africa in 1915?
text: Did you know that Otto Preminger completed the film That Lady in Ermine after Ernst Lubitsch died, insisting the original director get sole screen credit out of "respect and admiration for the departed master"?
text: Did you know that soprano Sylvia Cecil joined and left the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company three times during her career?
text: Did you know that World War I German U-boat UB-12 was credited with sinking her final ship two months after she disappeared in the North Sea ?
text: Did you know that Will Kane was Gary Cooper 's second Academy Award-winning role?
text: Did you know that Concert Allegro , the only piano work Edward Elgar composed for concert performance , has been called a "marriage between Bach and Liszt "?
text: Did you know that Herb Treat , unanimously selected as a 1922 College Football All-American , was hit by a car in 1943 and plunged nine stories from a hotel window in 1947?
text: Did you know that the Tang Dynasty chancellor Li Fengji ' s eight associates were known as the "eight passes " for the difficulty involved in going through them to meet him?
text: Did you know that the U.S. Supreme Court decided in Michigan v. Jackson that a confession made during a police-initiated interrogation, after a request for counsel was made, would be inadmissible in court?
text: Did you know that Apolinary Hartglas was a leader of Polish Jews, a Zionist activist, and a deputy to the Polish Sejm during the interwar period?
text: Did you know that the red and yellow molded plastic Cozy Coupe from Little Tikes was called the "world's best-selling car" for most of the 1990s by The New York Times ?
text: Did you know that the video game Marvel Trading Card Game portrays the Vs System ruleset exactly the same as the physical playing card version?
text: Did you know that poet Olav Angell was awarded a prize from the Arts Council Norway for his translation of James Joyce 's novel Ulysses into Norwegian ?
text: Did you know that despite the Russian authorities' intention to turn the Teachers' Seminary in Veiveriai into a center of Russification , the seminary became a center of the Lithuanian National Revival ?
text: Did you know that a 1997 wrestling event at Chantilly High School was canceled because of the " cartoonish " sterotypes portrayed by such wrestlers as "Wiseguy" Jimmy Cicero ?
text: Did you know that Chablis was so devastated by spring time frost that the whole region only produced 11 cases of wine during the 1957 vintage ?
text: Did you know that Arthur MacMahon was one of the first political scientists to use empirical methods to study government ?
text: Did you know that in one of the major ancient Egyptian creation myths , the creator god Atum was said to have sneezed and spat out his offspring?
text: Did you know that the poet, novelist and children's author Karin Bang is a passionate collector of ancient dolls ?
text: Did you know that due to their rich biodiversity , Sri Lanka montane rain forests are  a globally important super-hotspot with a large number of endemic species?
text: Did you know that conductor George Georgescu first made music as a child by playing a violin between his legs like a cello ?
text: Did you know that Ray Pickerell secured 17 first-place race wins on a Norton Dunstall motorcycle in 1968?
text: Did you know that Mortuary Affairs , within the United States Department of Defense Quartermaster Corps , is tasked with the retrieval, identification , transportation, and burial of deceased military personnel?
text: Did you know that the German lichenologist and taxonomist Ferdinand Christian Gustav Arnold had a personal herbarium of 150,000 specimens?
text: Did you know that according to the magico -medical text Cyranides , miscarriages caused by female demons such as Gello can be prevented by wearing an aetite as an amulet ?
text: Did you know that soprano Margaret Lloyd portrayed the role of Lightfoot McClendon in the world premiere of Carlisle Floyd 's Cold Sassy Tree at the Houston Grand Opera in 2000?
text: Did you know that in the Vyadha Gita , a part of the epic Mahabharata , a vyadha (butcher) imparts teachings to a sannyasin (monk) on dharma and the importance of work?
text: Did you know that Alvin Powell was addicted to crack cocaine as a player in the National Football League , but later became a substance abuse counselor?
text: Did you know that the gambling magazine Total Gambler was Britain 's most widely circulated monthly men's magazine when it launched in August 2005, with an initial print run of 650,000 copies?
text: Did you know that at the age of 29, Bernice Cronkhite became the dean of Radcliffe College , making her the youngest person to become a dean in the United States ?
text: Did you know that Jodhpur Group - Malani Igneous Suite Contact , a National Geological Monument at the Mehrangarh Fort in Jodhpur , India, represents the last phase of igneous activity of Precambrian age?
text: Did you know that former Maryland lacrosse coach Dick Edell retired in 2001 after seventeen NCAA Division I tournament appearances, the second-most of any head coach?
text: Did you know that Louis Lomax was the first African-American television journalist?
text: Did you know that the current governor of Malai District , Cambodia , is a former Khmer Rouge diplomat and aide to Pol Pot ?
text: Did you know that actor Eli Mintz portrayed Uncle David in the television series The Goldbergs ?
text: Did you know that the National Museum of Cultures in Mexico City was once a mint for manufacturing coins and even housed the Supreme Court of Mexico ?
text: Did you know that in 1922 , Washington & Jefferson College's Charlie "Pruner" West became the first African American to play quarterback in the Rose Bowl ?
text: Did you know that Francis Bacon 's painting Fragment of a Crucifixion shows two dying animals in a scene influenced by the biblical Crucifixion and Aeschylus ' The Oresteia ?
text: Did you know that FCC and ACLU head James Lawrence Fly ' s influence in opposing wiretapping led the FBI to start a file on him?
text: Did you know that Phillips Community College 's Pillow-Thompson House is noted for its Queen Anne Style architecture ?
text: Did you know that as a Jordanian tribal Shaikh , Barjas al-Hadid has been responsible for mediating blood feuds between tribe members in Jordan, Iraq and Saudi Arabia ?
text: Did you know that KCKX , known as "Ondas de Gozo", is the first Spanish-language Christian radio station in the state of Oregon ?
text: Did you know that Gustavo Brambila , portrayed  in the 2008 movie Bottle Shock ,  was one of the first Latin Americans to graduate from the UC Davis wine program ?
text: Did you know that Harold Daniell entered a Norton Navigator motorcycle in a race at Silverstone race track where it recorded 163 kilometres per hour (101 mph) on the straight?
text: Did you know that " Carolina in My Mind ", James Taylor 's nostalgic 1968 song about growing up in North Carolina , was written in London and on the Mediterranean islands of Formentera and Ibiza ?
text: Did you know that former professional footballer Don Rossiter served as mayor of Rochester, Kent , during the 1980s?
text: Did you know that an Australian violist Richard Goldner founded Musica Viva Australia in 1945, the world's largest entrepreneurial chamber music organization?
text: Did you know that Cross Seamount ,  a landform arising from the ocean floor southwest of Hawaii , is used by the NOAA to study tuna migratory patterns ?
text: Did you know that Kamal Naji , the PLO 's deputy representative in Lebanon , was killed in a roadside bomb attack outside Mieh Mieh by unknown perpetrators?
text: Did you know that in 1993 United States representatives Ileana Ros-Lehtinen , Maria Cantwell , and Blanche Lincoln became the first women to play in the starting lineup of  the Congressional Baseball Game ?
text: Did you know that the writers Solveig Christov and Toril Brekke both have been awarded the Riksmål Society Literature Prize ?
text: Did you know that after being covered with plywood and stored due to their sexual content, Michael Spafford's murals , the Twelve Labors of Hercules , were transferred to Centralia College ?
text: Did you know that Irish international rugby union captain Dolway Walkington sometimes played matches wearing a monocle , removing it only when he needed to make a tackle?
text: Did you know that in high concentrations , the inorganic compound hydrogen disulfide can cause dizziness , disorientation and ultimately unconsciousness ?
text: Did you know that a library commemorating Gerard Corley Smith at the Charles Darwin Research Station houses the most comprehensive collection of material about the Galápagos Islands ?
text: Did you know that two of The Office protagonists quit Dunder Mifflin , the paper company they work for throughout the U.S. version of the series, in the episode " Two Weeks "?
text: Did you know that race car driver Pocholo Ramirez raced competitively into his 70s?
text: Did you know that Wallace Community College was the first comprehensive community college in Southern Alabama ?
text: Did you know that in 1980, Eamonn Collins became the youngest player in a professional football match in England, when he played for Blackpool at the age of 14 years and 323 days?
text: Did you know that a track on the Soviettes ' LP III was included on Rock Against Bush, Vol. 1 ?
text: Did you know that the 12th-century temple of Banteay Chhmar in Thma Puok District , Cambodia , covers more than half-a-million square feet?
text: Did you know that SS Governor Cobb , built in 1906, was America 's first turbine-powered steamship , and later, as USCGC Cobb , the world's first helicopter carrier ?
text: Did you know that the Raja of Perlis is the only hereditary Malay ruler in Malaysia accorded the title of " Raja "?
text: Did you know that Tulsa 's Art Deco landmark Boston Avenue Methodist Church was designed by architect Bruce Goff and Adah Robinson, his former art teacher at Tulsa's Central High School ?
text: Did you know that botanists Haaken H. Gran and Trygve Braarud began their academic careers as research assistants at Oslo 's University Botanical Garden laboratory, founded by Nordal Wille in 1895?
text: Did you know that in his 1963 speech " Message to the Grass Roots ", Malcolm X described the historic March on Washington as a "circus"?
text: Did you know that the Norton Jubilee was the smallest capacity motorcycle ever made by Norton ?
text: Did you know that Billy Joel 's hit song " I Go to Extremes " was originally written as an apology to his wife, Christie Brinkley , for his erratic behavior?
text: Did you know that concert film Liza with a Z was thought lost in the NBC vaults for almost thirty years, before its rediscovery and re-release in 2006?
text: Did you know that all of the Grand Cru vineyards of Chablis are located on a single, southwest facing slope overlooking the town ?
text: Did you know that Geoffrey Cornish , a golf course architect , has designed a total 146 golf courses throughout his career?
text: Did you know that the Kommissarische Reichsregierung is a label for multiple groups and individuals in Germany and elsewhere who assert that the German Empire continues to exist in its pre-World War II borders ?
text: Did you know that Happy99 was the first computer virus to spread rapidly by email ?
text: Did you know that in 1863, Blackheath Proprietary School was one of the founder members of the Football Association ?
text: Did you know that Dorothy Liebes , known as "the mother of modern weaving ", made fabrics out of feathers , bamboo , leather strips, plastic , and ticker tape ?
text: Did you know that Sion Record Bostick was one of the Texas Army scouts who captured Antonio López de Santa Anna following the Battle of San Jacinto ?
text: Did you know that since 1947,  the city of Oslo has donated the Trafalgar Square Christmas tree to the city of London ,  in gratitude for its support of Norway in WWII ?
text: Did you know that Governor of Indiana Samuel M. Ralston declared martial law in Indianapolis to end a workers strike in November 1913?
text: Did you know that while there are over 1,300 Iron Age hill forts in England , Kelsborrow Castle is one of only seven in Cheshire ?
text: Did you know that after Arthur Richman chose Joe Torre as Yankees manager, skeptical owner George Steinbrenner asked Richman if Richman knew what he was doing, to which Richman responded "If I don't, fire me"?
text: Did you know that the Norwegian legation in Stockholm increased its staff from four to about 1,100 from 1940 to 1945?
text: Did you know that professional wrestlers and real-life best friends Jonny Storm and Jody Fleisch feuded with each other, before winning a tag team championship together?
text: Did you know that the Blue Serpent Clock Egg is the first Tsar Imperial Fabergé egg to feature a working clock?
text: Did you know that the first printing press in the Americas started operations in 1539 in a house in Mexico City that is still standing?
text: Did you know that in 1980, planktologist Grethe Rytter Hasle was the only female representative of natural sciences in the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters ?
text: Did you know that Ramsey's Draft Wilderness , a designated wilderness area in the George Washington and Jefferson National Forests of Virginia , was established in 1984?
text: Did you know that as much as a third of Niger 's rural population travels as temporary labor during the seasonal migration in Niger between January and April, to avoid the Sahel dry season ?
text: Did you know that Edwards Dam in Maine was the first United States hydroelectric dam to be removed against the dam owner's wishes?
text: Did you know that the Tang Dynasty chancellor / general Pei Du swore to Emperor Xianzong that he would not return to the capital Chang'an unless the warlord Wu Yuanji was destroyed?
text: Did you know that the turtle is a symbol of steadfastness and tranquility in religion, mythology and folklore  around the world?
text: Did you know that Brawn GP 's one-two finish at the 2009 Australian Grand Prix made it the first Formula One team to do so on debut at a Grand Prix since 1954?
text: Did you know that actors Brent Barrett , Sally Mayes , Richard Muenz , and Lynne Wintersteller all starred in the original production of Maltby and Shire 's hit Off-Broadway musical Closer Than Ever in 1989?
text: Did you know that Las fuerzas extrañas , Lugones' least successful work at the time, is now considered to be  key in the development of the science fiction and fantasy genres in Argentina ?
text: Did you know that, as Fighter Project Officer for the United States Army Air Corps , Ben Kelsey crashed two P-38 Lightning aircraft including the only prototype built?
text: Did you know that the Central Europe Pipeline System , or CEPS for short, consists of around 6000 km of pipeline to deliver fuel for military and civilian use?
text: Did you know that George Evans won his first of three Colonial Athletic Association Men's Basketball Player of the Year awards as a 28-year-old sophomore?
text: Did you know that many of the remaining willows of the Willow Palisade were cut by the Russian and Japanese troops during the Russo-Japanese War ?
text: Did you know that downloads from the Microsoft Update Catalog are accelerated with Microsoft 's Background Intelligent Transfer Service , a technology that attempts to use as little bandwidth as possible?
text: Did you know  that in the Brazilian kidnapping of Abílio dos Santos Diniz the kidnappers were of various nationalities, including two Canadian university students?
text: Did you know that the Washington & Jefferson College football team played the heavily favored California Golden Bears to a 0–0 tie in the 1922 Rose Bowl ?
text: Did you know  that Thored , ealdorman of southern Northumbria , disappears from the historical records after being charged with leading a fleet against marauding Vikings ?
text: Did you know that the first classes of Illinois Valley Community College were held in LaSalle-Peru High School ?
text: Did you know that Nils Yngvar Ustvedt , physician and member of the Norwegian Parliament , advised his son Hans Jacob Ustvedt against becoming a politician?
text: Did you know that Russian assassin Sergey Degayev was the first mathematics professor at the University of South Dakota ?
text: Did you know that after a recent re-analysis , a hurricane in 1924 was found to be the earliest known Category 5 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson scale , as well as the strongest hurricane on record to strike Cuba ?
text: Did you know that SubGenius artist Joe Riley made masks and prosthetic makeups for gore movies as well as art and designs for children's animation franchises?
text: Did you know that most families celebrate Gotcha Day on a day other than April 1st?
text: Did you know that Johan Wollebæk and Jens Bull led the Norwegian Legation in Stockholm during World War II , when there were more than 50,000 Norwegian refugees in Sweden ?
text: Did you know that eight years before being cast in I Dream of Jeannie , Barbara Eden portrayed the former Marilyn Monroe role of Loco Jones in the syndicated TV series How to Marry a Millionaire ?
text: Did you know that the larvae of some species of the checkered beetle family Cleridae can consume several times their own body weight?
text: Did you know that Glenn D. Paige is the American political scientist known for developing the concept of nonkilling ?
text: Did you know that renal medullary carcinoma is found almost exclusively in individuals with sickle cell trait or sickle cell disease ?
text: Did you know that Ronald Reagan was propelled to stardom playing a double amputee in the 1942 film Kings Row ?
text: Did you know that part of a 700 kilometre long minefield is found in Svay Chek District , Cambodia ?
text: Did you know that during the midst of the Cold War , Alan Shulman and Dmitri Shostakovich were invited to join a Soviet – American composers ' symposium organised by Nicolas Slonimsky for NBC ?
text: Did you know that Verpa bohemica is a saprobic species of fungi distinguished from other species by its enormous spores ?
text: Did you know that while  a son of professional wrestler Aurelian Smith said his father hid the scripted nature of the business from his family, causing strain, three of his children became wrestlers?
text: Did you know that KZZR and sister station KQHC are the only two radio stations with Burns, Oregon , as their community of license ?
text: Did you know that Brian Statham shares his name with an England international cricketer and was himself a talented schoolboy cricketer , but opted to pursue a career in professional football ?
text: Did you know that 99% of Washington wine is grown in the eastern half of the state where a rain shadow effect created by the Cascades leaves the area dry and desert -like?
text: Did you know that Torolf Elster , former Director-General of the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (NRK), was also an awarded crime writer ?
text: Did you know that Vinny Castilla has won three Silver Slugger Awards at third base in four years for the Colorado Rockies ?
text: Did you know that the 13th century Sufi scholar Sayyid Abu Bakr Al-Aidarus was impressed with the stimulating effect of the coffee fruit and is credited with introducing it to the Hadhramaut region?
text: Did you know that the Key thatch palm, which was long considered part of the genus Thrinax , was reclassified into its own genus, Leucothrinax , in 2008?
text: Did you know that Front Range Community College is the largest community college in Colorado ?
text: Did you know that with her thriller Nattdykk (1983), Kim Småge was the first  of "a new female wave in Norwegian crime fiction "?
text: Did you know that American inventor and engineer Robert Fulton negotiated a bounty of £40,000 for the first decked ship destroyed in the Raid on Boulogne in 1804?
text: Did you know that Frédéric Chopin once said the middle section of his Nocturne in F-sharp minor, Op 48, No. 2 should be played as if "a tyrant commands, and the other asks for mercy"?
text: Did you know that because of the permanent damage it can cause to living tissue, the old world screwworm fly is not suitable for maggot therapy ?
text: Did you know that Mick Rathbone , now Everton F.C. 's head of sports medicine, was once simultaneously player, physiotherapist and assistant manager of Halifax Town A.F.C. ?
text: Did you know that the South Park episode " Margaritaville " portrays Kyle as a Jesus -like savior of the U.S. economy during the recession ?
text: Did you know that at the 2008 centennial of the Empresa de Ferrocarriles Ecuatorianos , only 10% of the original railway system was open?
text: Did you know that Elwood Haynes invented stellite , built one of the first gasoline driven automobiles , and made advances in natural gas technology that later resulted in refrigeration ?
text: Did you know that Lithuanians initially viewed Nazi Germany 's invasion in June 1941 as a liberation from Soviet rule, but soon began to resist, forming the Supreme Committee for the Liberation of Lithuania ?
text: Did you know that operatic soprano Dawn Kotoski won the Young Concert Artists International Auditions in 1990?
text: Did you know that the Hausstock is part of the nummulite formation of the high Glarus Alps and was a popular European mountaineering destination before becoming a ski resort and firing range ?
text: Did you know that Oregon attorney Parish L. Willis was sued for fraud over his investment in the Hot Lake Sanatorium Company , now listed as a historic place ?
text: Did you know that places of worship in Bangalore include over 1,000 temples , 400 mosques , 100 churches , 40 Jain mandirs , three Gurudwaras , two Buddha Viharas and one Parsi Agiari in a metropolitan area of 741 km 2 (286 sq mi)?
text: Did you know that Australian flying ace Raymond Brownell was awarded the Military Cross for shooting down six enemy aircraft over a three month period in the First World War ?
text: Did you know that there are two Smithsonian Museums in New York City ?
text: Did you know that Knut Østby , a 1948 Olympic silver medallist in sprint canoeing , competed at the 1953 World Championships in whitewater slalom despite no whitewater experience?
text: Did you know that most of the U.S. Navy 's Amphitrite class monitors , hastily ordered in the wake of the Virginius war scare with Spain , were not ready for service for another 20 years?
text: Did you know that the Welsh priest Wallis Thomas led church services long after his 90th birthday and was described as the oldest working priest in Britain?
text: Did you know that Johns Hopkins and Maryland , which compete in what has often been called the greatest rivalry in men's college lacrosse , actually first played football three years earlier in 1892?
text: Did you know that the Palacio de Cultura Banamex in Mexico City was the site where Agustín de Iturbide accepted the offer to become Mexico 's first emperor after the war of independence from Spain ?
text: Did you know that there is a 15,000 ton ship which operates completely out of the water ?
text: Did you know that Lust Control is frowned upon by many Christian groups ?
text: Did you know that Phil Lynott was featured in a lunar ecliptic children's fairy tale which has been criticised by internet trolls ?
text: Did you know that cheese trees grow in New South Wales and Queensland ?
text: Did you know that before William Rehnquist was sworn in as U.S. Chief Justice , John Roberts financed the Woodstock Festival ?
text: Did you know that German seamen forced a lesbian to go down during the First World War , and the French did the same during  the Second World War ?
text: Did you know that Hedgehog Pie is made of 1970s electric folk musicians?
text: Did you know that British beer authorities have declared that women prefer beer made from bananas ?
text: Did you know that Tiger Woods was beaten by a 10-year-old in one of the most prestigious competitions of the year?
text: Did you know that a team of archaeologists discovered a fossilized Han Solo in the rocks of China ?
text: Did you know that Theodore Majocci claimed the Princess of Wales slept with her butler ?
text: Did you know that it took two German submarines, UB-6 and UB-16 , to dispatch two World War I Royal Navy recruits ?
text: Did you know that the Massachusetts House of Representatives refused to legislate until the Sacred Cod of Massachusetts was rescued from cod-nappers?
text: Did you know that Lewis Hamilton ' s first name was "Sasbeck"?
text: Did you know that the Land of Green Ginger can be seen through the world's smallest window?
text: Did you know that track and field star Bob Backus , who set world records in the hammer throw , wore ballet slippers while competing?
text: Did you know that HBO television network broadcast midgets racing for prizes in a chili bowl ?
text: Did you know that Sonia Chang-Díaz won a seat in the Massachusetts Senate after her opponent was accused of stuffing her bra ?
text: Did you know that in 1825, the Court of Exchequer declared all contracts  by hobbits illegal and void in England ?
text: Did you know that if you go to a local store three weeks from today, you can probably find Asher Roth asleep in the bread aisle ?
text: Did you know that Caviar , Chardonnay , and Hot Cocoa compete for the love of Ray J ?
text: Did you know that baseball Hall of Famer Rogers Hornsby had his first plate appearance against King Lear ?
text: Did you know that both Egypt and the Holy Land were originally settled by Germans ?
text: Did you know that Sir Winston Churchill competed in the Tall Ships Race with an all-female crew?
text: Did you know that Wikipedia now has an article about everything ?
text: Did you know that New England used to be part of the Roman Empire , and China is still part of Japan ?
text: Did you know that Gordon Brown and Kim Jong-Il are both known for their athletic abilities?
text: Did you know that Sparkie Williams is still singing from his grave 47 years after his death?
text: Did you know that Peter Jackson medaled in table tennis for New Zealand ?
text: Did you know that in Disney's animated film The Story of Menstruation , the flow is snow white?
text: Did you know that the idea of a two hooded coat to keep your date dry in the rain is genius ?
text: Did you know that sightings of Captain Cook were common around New Zealand as late as the 1950s?
text: Did you know that two monkeys are employed as waiters at the Japanese Kayabukiya Tavern ?
text: Did you know that Tsutomu Yamaguchi is the only known survivor of the atomic bombings of both Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the end of World War II ?
text: Did you know that three members of the Croatian bobsleigh team at the 2006 Winter Olympics , Dejan Vojnović , Jurica Grabušić and Slaven Krajačić , had all previously competed as track athletes at the Summer Olympics ?
text: Did you know that Time magazine selected Billy C. Clark ' s autobiography A Long Row to Hoe as one of its Best Books of 1960, describing it "as authentically American as Huckleberry Finn "?
text: Did you know that the stations Mortensrud on the Østensjø Line , Forskningsparken on the Sognsvann Line , Nydalen , Storo and Sinsen on the Ring Line and Husebybakken have opened after the Oslo T-bane was declared completed with the reopening of Stortinget in 1987?
text: Did you know that during her 2008 trip to Asia, the Ecuadorian tall ship Guayas took aboard an officer of the People's Liberation Army Navy for reefing training?
text: Did you know that Isabella Grinevskaya was lauded by Leo Tolstoy for her play "Báb"?
text: Did you know that a rules dispute during the first all-cowgirl rodeo , held in 1948 in Amarillo, Texas , led to the formation of the first rodeo association for women ?
text: Did you know that as a student, mathematician Audrey Terras was steered into math away from her other choice, history , by a post- Sputnik program that paid students to study mathematics?
text: Did you know that the pencil skirt was popularised by French designer Christian Dior in the late 1940s?
text: Did you know that John Heald , the senior cruise director of Carnival Cruise Lines , began working in cruise ships as a bar waiter ?
text: Did you know that miniature pigs are bred and raised as pets and for medical research into organ transplants rather than for bacon ?
text: Did you know that Arses lorealis is the scientific name for a bird commonly known as the Frill-necked Monarch ?
text: Did you know that McFarland Mall in Tuscaloosa is the second oldest standing shopping mall in the US state of Alabama ?
text: Did you know that actress Kate Cutler walked out of the lead role in Noël Coward 's The Vortex a week before it opened in 1924?
text: Did you know that Niles Searls , a California Gold Rush miner, became Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of California ?
text: Did you know that the Puretic power block revolutionized the technology of hauling purse seine nets on seine fishing vessels ?
text: Did you know that Alvin T. Smith was the first postmaster of the first post office in Washington County, Oregon ?
text: Did you know that the Pedrail wheel was invented in 1903 for all-terrain locomotion, and was the inspiration for H.G. Wells ' short story " The Land Ironclads "?
text: Did you know that Mary Millicent Miller was the first American woman to acquire a steamboat master's license?
text: Did you know that to prepare a bacon martini , bacon has to soak in vodka for 24 hours, before it is strained over ice and served with a bacon garnish ?
text: Did you know that Walter Borchers was one of three brothers, all three received the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross during World War II?
text: Did you know that Islip Speedway , at 0.2 miles (0.32 km), is the smallest race track ever to host NASCAR 's Sprint Cup Series ?
text: Did you know that the arms of a crucifix in a Barra de Navidad church broke during 1971 's Hurricane Lily , earning the statue the name "Christ of the Cyclone"?
text: Did you know that a speaking engagement by Tom Tancredo at a Youth for Western Civilization meeting was canceled after police used pepper spray against student protesters who were gathered outside?
text: Did you know that a 1970s weather forecast of "low goat pressure" on radio station KRSB in Roseburg, Oregon , was a sure sign of rain ahead?
text: Did you know that turkey bacon is used as a substitute for pork bacon at Camille's Sidewalk Cafe locations in the Middle East ?
text: Did you know that American historian Claude H. Van Tyne won the 1930 Pulitzer Prize for History for The War of Independence ?
text: Did you know that Michael Kupperman 's Snake 'n' Bacon are a pair of cartoon characters, a snake and a strip of bacon , whose conversations are limited to hissing (on Snake's part) and making bacon-related comments (on Bacon's part)?
text: Did you know that in 2007 Major General Graham Binns signed the document that handed control of Basra back to the Iraqi people?
text: Did you know that one of the tasks of the Authorised Conveyancing Practitioners Board is to prevent conveyancing monopolies developing in England and Wales?
text: Did you know that Robert Seddon , captain of the first British Lions rugby team, drowned during the 1888 Australian tour in a sculling accident?
text: Did you know that carucage , a medieval English land tax, was first collected in 1194 in order to raise funds for the ransom of King Richard I of England ?
text: Did you know that Los Angeles Lakers point guard Nick Van Exel was fined $25,000 and suspended seven games by the National Basketball Association (NBA) for shoving referee Ron Garretson into the scorer's table?
text: Did you know that the Charles Sumner School served as the first teachers college for African-Americans in the District of Columbia ?
text: Did you know that the first class of United States Navy destroyers were designated torpedo boat destroyers ?
text: Did you know that the University of Oregon 's Pacifica Forum hosted a lecture in which the speaker referred to Martin Luther King Jr. as a "moral leper and a communist dupe"?
text: Did you know that the British lion tamer and politician John Smith Clarke cured Lenin 's dog of an illness?
text: Did you know that a year after its death in 2006, the remains of a bottlenose whale removed from the River Thames at Battersea Bridge were put on public display in the offices of The Guardian newspaper?
text: Did you know that Greg Monroe was the sixth Georgetown Hoya to win the Big East Conference Men's Basketball Rookie of the Year award?
text: Did you know that the Polish literary critic Ostap Ortwin would wake up the people of Lwów by loudly threatening futurism in the middle of a night and then abuse the policemen who’d ask him for identification?
text: Did you know that the Nevada Brewery ’s storage cave, used for aging casks of ale , was originally connected to other parts of Nevada City, California , via tunnels?
text: Did you know that quarterback Scott Zolak was a waterboy at Ringgold High School as a boy when Hall of Famer Joe Montana was the quarterback?
text: Did you know that Trustom Pond in Rhode Island , United States is part of a National Wildlife Refuge that contains over 300 species of birds?
text: Did you know that former USAF officer David P. Cooley who was the chief test pilot for the F-117 Nighthawk died in March 2009 while testing the F-22 Raptor ?
text: Did you know that " One Rainy Wish " was one of Jimi Hendrix 's many songs inspired by dreams?
text: Did you know that American football wide receiver Jaymar Johnson became the first player from Jackson State University to be drafted by the NFL since Sylvester Morris in 2000?
text: Did you know that HMS Pique's service with the Royal Navy lasted for just three years after her capture in 1795 by HMS Blanche ?
text: Did you know that Gunnar Heiberg advocated dissolution of the union between Norway and Sweden , but was dissatisfied that Norway subsequently became a monarchy ?
text: Did you know that the New York City government purchased the once-luxurious Concourse Plaza Hotel in The Bronx in 1974 and turned it into a senior citizens' residence?
text: Did you know that when a member of the Royal Commission on Local Government in England in 1966–69, Derek Senior wrote a memorandum of dissent as long as the report itself?
text: Did you know that Scott Lost , while teaming with Joey Ryan , won the PWG World Tag Team Championship , but lost the championship to himself and Chris Bosh ?
text: Did you know that after winning the 2008 Atlantic Championship , Brooks Associates Racing sold both its cars to Primetime Race Group and will not compete in 2009?
text: Did you know that the Fraud Enforcement and Recovery Act of 2009 , which was signed into law on May 20, gives an additional 165 million USD in funding to the Justice Department to detect and prosecute fraud ?
text: Did you know that actress Helen Ernstone appeared in stage adaptations of Charles Dickens novels?
text: Did you know that most staff in the Australian Government's Department of Post-War Reconstruction were young economists who had been conscripted into the Australian Public Service during World War II ?
text: Did you know that Mrs. Pack was selected as wet nurse for William, Duke of Gloucester by his father because of her breasts, which were "gigantic"?
text: Did you know that Sir Henry Benson was the first living non-American to be inducted into the Accounting Hall of Fame ?
text: Did you know that Davey Richards ' PWG World Tag Team Championship reign with Super Dragon holds the record for most defenses, while his reign with Roderick Strong is tied with seven other teams for least?
text: Did you know that Teresa Saporiti , the soprano who created the role of Donna Anna in Mozart 's opera Don Giovanni , lived to be 106?
text: Did you know that after 14 years above an ambulance company, KDCQ in Coos Bay, Oregon , relocated its radio studios to a former buffet restaurant ?
text: Did you know that Matthew Mullineux , captain of the 1899 British Lions rugby team, was immortalised in verse by Australian bush poet Banjo Paterson , famed author of " Waltzing Matilda "?
text: Did you know that Italian architect Donato Bramante was nicknamed il Ruinate for the destruction of the papal tombs in Old St. Peter's Basilica ?
text: Did you know that while fleeing from Greece to Egypt during World War II , a frustrated Olivia Manning used a chamberpot to crush a fellow refugee 's Parisian hats?
text: Did you know that Devin Britton won the 2009 NCAA Men's Tennis singles national championship as a freshman and is the only University of Mississippi tennis player to win the championship?
text: Did you know that Buxhall tower mill was built in 1860, incorporating the base of an earlier smock mill , which was itself built in 1815?
text: Did you know that pioneer Morris Moss caused an international incident between the United States and Canada by seal hunting along the British Columbia Coast in the 1870s?
text: Did you know that according to medieval French legend, guivres were dragon-like creatures with venomous breath, known to prowl the French countryside?
text: Did you know that Mickey Morandini turned the first regular-season unassisted triple play by a second baseman in National League history?
text: Did you know that Washington State Route 203 originally was split into four roads, later combined in 1937?
text: Did you know that, in nine years of professional gridiron football , Jacoby Shepherd has played for eleven teams in three leagues?
text: Did you know that the Weapon Systems Acquisition Reform Act of 2009 passed both the United States House of Representatives and the Senate unanimously ?
text: Did you know that the translation of The Lord of the Rings by Andrey Kistyakovsky and Vladimir Muravyov is the first official Russian language translation of the novel ?
text: Did you know that in 1993 almost 10 per cent of Canada 's GDP was made up of municipal government spending?
text: Did you know that despite not playing as a high school junior in 1999, American football cornerback Brock Williams still led Notre Dame defenders in playing time in 2000?
text: Did you know that the Roşia Poieni copper mine represents the largest copper reserve in Romania and the second largest in Europe ?
text: Did you know that Operetta: A Theatrical History , written by operetta scholar and historian Richard Traubner was described as the "ultimate love letter to operetta"?
text: Did you know that ship's doctors were originally termed surgeons in the Royal Navy and were paid £5 for every 100 cases of venereal disease they treated?
text: Did you know that 1996 Yukon election candidate Lois Moorcroft received less than a third of the votes, but still won her seat in the Legislative Assembly ?
text: Did you know that the inscriptions in Hieronymus Bosch 's Ecce Homo are used to convey their conversation like speech balloons in comics?
text: Did you know that the father-and-son architects Amon and Amon Henry Wilds —leading figures in Brighton 's development—used the ammonite capital as their signature device as a pun on their first names?
text: Did you know that before the Revolutionary War , Fenwick Hall on Johns Island, South Carolina , was called Johns Island Stud because of its thoroughbred horses?
text: Did you know that in 1901, after the death of John Flint Kidder , president of the Nevada County Narrow Gauge Railroad , his widow took over, becoming the first female railroad president?
text: Did you know that an illustration for Hans Christian Andersen 's " The Most Incredible Thing " was published during the Nazi occupation of Denmark that depicted a rabbi striking a semi-naked Aryan ?
text: Did you know that although the Quarter Horse Lightning Bar is known as a racehorse and father of racehorses, he won a roping contest once?
text: Did you know that in 1969, Ivar Orgland was the first foreigner to take a doctorate at the University of Iceland ?
text: Did you know that news director Brad Boyer of Missouri radio station KIRK received a Distinguished Service Award from the MSHSAA in 2008 for his "lifelong contributions to the ideals of interscholastic activities "?
text: Did you know that the pirate Henry Strangwish had his image recorded by Flicke in 1554?
text: Did you know that Steve McQueen 's posthumous popularity led to the reintroduction of the TAG Heuer Monaco chronograph watch in 1998 and again in 2003?
text: Did you know that Yehoshua Zettler organized the September 1948 assassination of Swedish Count Folke Bernadotte , who had been sent by the U.N. Security Council as its mediator following the 1948 Arab–Israeli War ?
text: Did you know that famo is a type of music from Lesotho , named after the action of female dancers exposing their naked rear?
text: Did you know that Afghani parliamentarian and Islamic feminist Shukria Barakzai began to campaign against multiple marriages when her husband took a second wife without telling her?
text: Did you know that screenwriter John Briley won an Academy Award for Gandhi and was nominated for a Golden Raspberry for Christopher Columbus: The Discovery ?
text: Did you know that President Franklin D. Roosevelt approved the design for a new elementary school in his native Hyde Park, New York ?
text: Did you know that 2009 American Quarter Horse Hall of Fame inductee Miss Meyers was the mother of the first American Quarter Horse Association (AQHA) Supreme Champion, fathered by fellow AQHA Hall of Famer Three Bars ?
text: Did you know that the Hanuman Temple, Connaught Place , in New Delhi , is unusual in having the Islamic symbol of a crescent moon fixed on its spire instead of a Hindu symbol like Aum or the sun?
text: Did you know that in 1875 actress Kate Bishop created the role of Violet Melrose in Our Boys , which was by far the longest-running work of theatre up to that time?
text: Did you know that despite being armed en flûte as a troopship , HMS Wilhelmina still engaged and drove off a more heavily armed privateer to protect the merchant she was escorting?
text: Did you know that during the term of Governor of Indiana Isaac P. Gray , a dispute arose that led the entire Indiana General Assembly to break into a fist fight, with Democrats and Republicans threatening to kill each other?
text: Did you know that 19th-century actor Henry Neville was the twentieth child of a twentieth child?
text: Did you know that of the eleven wrestlers who have held the PWG World Championship , Low Ki is the only to have lost the title outside the ring?
text: Did you know that Georgette Sanchez won the silver medal in the 9th Paris International Dance Competition?
text: Did you know that the Japanese American internment during World War II cost Seattle 's Lincoln High School the presidents of its two service clubs and the editor of its school newspaper?
text: Did you know that Marcus Favonius , in attempting to imitate the manner of Cato the Younger , frequently descended into rudeness ?
text: Did you know that the album cover artwork of Behemoth 's Evangelion is a depiction of " The Great Harlot of Babylon ", the figure of evil mentioned in the Book of Revelation in the Bible ?
text: Did you know that, while awaiting sentencing for income tax evasion and obstruction of justice , David Friedland went scuba diving , faked his own death, and fled to the Maldives where he built a chain of scuba diving shops?
text: Did you know that after leaving Global TV after founding it three months earlier, Al Bruner became one of the first broadcasters to consider local insertion on television?
text: Did you know that the legal reforms that came about as a result of the Glanville Davies affair were far weaker than those initially proposed?
text: Did you know that recently deceased photographer Luke Smalley 's earlier collections were inspired by fitness manuals and yearbooks circa 1910?
text: Did you know that Cam'ron filed a lawsuit against R. Kelly as he did not receive credit for his remix of " Snake "?
text: Did you know that George Nicholas Hardinge served as a midshipman aboard HMS St Fiorenzo in 1793, a ship he would die commanding fifteen years later?
text: Did you know that the headquarters of the Inquisition in Mexico has been converted into a museum dedicated to the history of medicine in Mexico?
text: Did you know that Vice Admiral Sir James Willis was the last head of the Royal Australian Navy to be knighted ?
text: Did you know that Kyell Gold , a furry homosexual erotic literature author, has won six Ursa Major Awards , equaling Usagi Yojimbo author Stan Sakai ?
text: Did you know that the 1915 Triumph Model H was the first Triumph not fitted with pedals, so it was their first true motorcycle ?
text: Did you know that at age 22, Captain Jose M. Portela of the United States Air Force was the youngest C-141 Starlifter aircraft commander and captain?
text: Did you know that remaining papal tombs in the Catacomb of Callixtus were emptied in the ninth century because of a feared Lombard invasion ?
text: Did you know that country music singer Buck Owens ' son Buddy Alan is also a country music singer?
text: Did you know that Tito Livio Burattini explored the Great Pyramid of Giza with English mathematician John Greaves ?
text: Did you know that George Grosz's The Funeral is in part a depiction of the madness induced by syphilis ?
text: Did you know that listeners in the Klamath Falls, Oregon , area know radio station KRAT as "The Rat"?
text: Did you know that Ontario -based musical group Family Brown has received eighteen Canadian Country Music Association awards, more than any other artist in the association's history?
text: Did you know that beta males of Paracerceis sculpta mimic females and gamma males mimic juveniles, allowing them to mate without the alpha males realising?
text: Did you know that when ill health rendered George Orwell incapable of caring for his son Richard, the child was placed in the care of anarchist Lilian Wolfe at the Tolstoyan Whiteway Colony ?
text: Did you know that during action by the UK Gay Liberation Front (GLF) to disrupt a Christian morality campaign in 1971, a GLF "bishop" began an impromptu sermon urging people to "keep on sinning"?
text: Did you know that in 1948, Dr. William Glenn and medical student William Sewell used ordinary laboratory components and an Erector Set to create one of the world's earliest artificial hearts ?
text: Did you know that privateer racing team Primetime Race Group is the only team to race a Dodge Viper Competition Coupe in the American Le Mans Series ?
text: Did you know that Kenneth St Joseph , who pioneered the use of aerial photography for archaeology, persuaded the Royal Air Force to take photos for him without charging?
text: Did you know that having led Saint Lucia to independence in 1979, John Compton became Prime Minister again at the age of 81 after his party won the 2006 Saint Lucian general election ?
text: Did you know that Andrew Carpenter and Sergio Escalona earned the first back-to-back victories by rookie pitchers for the Philadelphia Phillies since 2007 ?
text: Did you know that the sleep K-complex is the largest electroencephalographic (EEG) event that happens to the normal human brain ?
text: Did you know that American artist Tony Sisti (1901–1983) traveled with Ernest Hemingway and was also a New York State boxing champion?
text: Did you know that the Twaddle Mansion in Reno, Nevada , served as lodgings for divorce seekers waiting out Reno's comparatively short mandatory residency period, before it became a Baha'i religious center?
text: Did you know that James J. and James A. Galdieri each served one term in the New Jersey Legislature , the father in the Assembly and the son in the State Senate ?
text: Did you know that the first annual diary with printed daily sections for notes was published in 1812?
text: Did you know that in 1909 Étienne Lombard found that people automatically adjust their voice in noise to keep it audible, a finding known as the Lombard effect ?
text: Did you know that the marine fish Pacific crevalle jack is usually not found north of the Gulf of California , but may appear in San Diego Bay due to El Niño events?
text: Did you know that John Douglas was an architect responsible for the 19th-century black-and-white revival in Chester , Cheshire ?
text: Did you know that the album Early Music (Lachrymæ Antiquæ) , by the American Kronos Quartet , features Tuvan throat singers , a Swedish bagpipe and nyckelharpa , and Chinese ruans ?
text: Did you know that after selecting Sean Brewer in the 2001 NFL Draft , the Cincinnati Bengals discovered that he suffered from a three-pack-a-day cigarette habit?
text: Did you know that the first vampire story written by a woman was The Skeleton Count , by Elizabeth Caroline Grey , in 1828?
text: Did you know that during his 1950 U.S. Senate race , Richard Nixon was so angered by his opponent, Helen Gahagan Douglas , that he threatened to castrate her?
text: Did you know that Gillingham Football Club 's supporters donated £2,500 in an attempt to fund a month's extension to loanee defender Mick Bodley ' s contract?
text: Did you know that on Floodplain , San Francisco -based string quartet the Kronos Quartet plays instruments built by Walter Kitundu , including the beguèna maridhia , which is based on an Ethiopian 10-string lyre?
text: Did you know that the Frisian kingdom came to an end after their king was killed in the Battle of the Boarn where they  were defeated by the Frankish Empire ?
text: Did you know that during World War II , Brigadier General Alberto A. Nido (USAF), a native of Puerto Rico , fought for three different countries?
text: Did you know that Chikara to Onna no Yo no Naka , released in 1933 and directed by Kenzō Masaoka , was the first " talkie " animated film in Japan?
text: Did you know that Canadian politician Louis Deniset only served a term of nine months and 21 days before losing his seat?
text: Did you know that after 60 years of service to Greenville, Alabama , the FCC is allowing radio station WGYV to move to Aurora, Indiana , a suburb of Cincinnati ?
text: Did you know that actress Kate Terry , grandmother of John Gielgud , had a very successful acting career until she left the stage at age 23?
text: Did you know that heavy metal band Destroy Destroy Destroy played their first show in a pizzeria as the opening band for Mastodon ?
text: Did you know that James Annesley , an Irishman , was kidnapped by his uncle and shipped to America to work as a slave in the plantations , before returning in 1741 to try to claim the title " Earl of Anglesey "?
text: Did you know that the battle of Ancona was the only independent operation of the Polish II Corps in World War II?
text: Did you know that press agent Lee Solters had Pope John Paul II made an honorary Harlem Globetrotter , represented Frank Sinatra for decades and claimed to have known client Dolly Parton "since she was flat-chested"?
text: Did you know that about 12 plays into his NFL career Charles Fisher tore three ligaments in his knee and never played in another game?
text: Did you know that the turret of the LT vz. 34 light tank could be disconnected from its gearing and rotated using the commander's shoulder?
text: Did you know that " Company Picnic ", which aired on NBC on May 14, 2009, was the 100th episode of the comedy series, The Office ?
text: Did you know that since Zaynab bint Khuzayma died shortly after her marriage, less is known about her than any of Muhammad 's other wives?
text: Did you know that the 2003 Armenian presidential election was the first in the Commonwealth of Independent States where an incumbent president had failed to be re-elected in the first round?
text: Did you know that the NYPD has charged four men with attempting to blow up two Bronx synagogues and shoot down military aircraft?
text: Did you know that French artist Henri Félix Emmanuel Philippoteaux and his son Paul created a cyclorama of the 1863 Battle of Gettysburg that drew over half a million viewers within a year of its premiere?
text: Did you know that an American consul in Riga examined Russian-American mathematician Jacob Tamarkin in analytic geometry in order to verify his identity?
text: Did you know that a population bottleneck among Finns about 4,000 years ago may be the origin of the Finnish disease heritage that affects 1 in 500 children born in Finland today?
text: Did you know that Dwaine Carpenter ' s first interception in the CFL came in a semifinal game?
text: Did you know that the French Boirault machine built in early 1915 during WWI is considered as an ancestor of the tank , but was ultimately abandoned and nicknamed Diplodocus militaris ?
text: Did you know that despite his pronounced nationalism , Czech composer Bedřich Smetana was distrusted by his country's conservatives due to his close ties with Hungarian composer Franz Liszt ?
text: Did you know that the third season of USA Network 's Burn Notice will focus on the backgrounds of the main characters?
text: Did you know that 19th-century actor Lionel Brough played the character Tony Lumpkin in She Stoops to Conquer 7,777 times?
text: Did you know that American football coach Wayne Howard retired from the University of Utah for "no real reason" after his team nearly won a conference title?
text: Did you know that the ancient Yogmaya Temple , Mehrauli is believed to be one of five surviving temples from the Mahabharat period in Delhi ?
text: Did you know that a "think piece" written by Graham Fuller was instrumental in leading to the Iran-contra affair ?
text: Did you know that an Anglo-Moroccan alliance , developed between Elizabeth I of England and the Moroccan Sultan Ahmad al-Mansur , had an influence on at least two of Shakespeare 's plays?
text: Did you know that American theatre director Jonathan Alper directed the New York premieres of works by Brian Friel , Terrence McNally and Beth Henley ?
text: Did you know that the General Felix K. Zollicoffer Monument and the Confederate Mass Grave Monument in Somerset were built due to a young girl decorating a white oak tree each Memorial Day ?
text: Did you know that Coby Miller is the only track athlete to have run 100 meters in under ten seconds at Olympic Trials and not make the Olympic team?
text: Did you know that in September 1844 a clown from Astley's Amphitheatre sailed from Vauxhall Bridge to Westminster Bridge in a washtub towed by geese ?
text: Did you know that Newt Heisley designed the POW/MIA flag in 1971 for the National League of Families , which Congress requires be flown at federal and military buildings on six days annually, including Memorial Day ?
text: Did you know that actor Sterling Hayden admitted his shame at having co-operated with the House Un-American Activities Committee in the 1983 documentary film Leuchtturm des Chaos ?
text: Did you know that Carl Fredrik Johannes Bødtker , a military officer whose highest rank was Major General , presided over the Norwegian Order of Freemasons ?
text: Did you know that according to her groom, when the racehorse Chicado V stood in the starting gate , she looked like a rabbit because all you could see above the gate were her ears?
text: Did you know that Edwin "Big Ed" Wilkes , a Lubbock , Texas , radio talk show host, and a colleague, Bud Andrews , produced the first albums of the country comedian Jerry Clower ?
text: Did you know that in 1955, the Glass Age Development Committee proposed to demolish the whole of London 's Soho district and rebuild it entirely in glass ?
text: Did you know that All-American Beaton Squires wrote an editorial in 1905 against turning football into a "parlor game" after Harvard 's president criticized its violent nature?
text: Did you know that the red Pinot noir wines of the Côte Chalonnaise villages Givry and Mercurey were reportedly the favorite wines of King Henri IV of France and his mistress, Gabrielle d'Estrées ?
text: Did you know that jockey Bill Passmore , winner of 3,531 races, described fellow riders as "the worst touts at the track" and said that "the track makes a big mistake not installing a mutuel window in the jocks' room"?
text: Did you know that the United States Lebanese cuisine restaurant chain Aladdin's Eatery has grown to more than 20 sites from an initial $ 10,000 in 1994?
text: Did you know that Jørgine Boomer , born and raised in a remote valley in Norway, rose to prominence as an executive at the Waldorf-Astoria , befriending a generation of celebrities?
text: Did you know that the giant pulses of PSR B1937+21 , the first discovered millisecond pulsar , are the brightest radio emission ever observed?
text: Did you know that former You're a Star winner David O'Connor participated in the 2004 Karaoke World Championships in Finland , placing sixth?
text: Did you know that Skytterdalen near Sandvika , Norway , is so named because it was the site of a sport shooting field?
text: Did you know that the earliest commentary on a part of Maimonides ' transforming work of Jewish philosophy , The Guide for the Perplexed , was written by Muhammad ibn Muhammad Tabrizi , a Persian Muslim ?
text: Did you know that the pose of the goddess in Hans Holbein the Younger's Venus and Amor closely echoes that of Jesus in Leonardo da Vinci's Last Supper ?
text: Did you know that Garrett's Miss Pawhuska , a Quarter Horse racehorse, lost a match race by running over a stake 50 yards from the finish line?
text: Did you know that quarterback Mark Vlasic was injured when, after Iowa beat Michigan on a last second field goal , a mob tore down the goalpost in celebration?
text: Did you know that an appeals court overturned one formulation of the toothpaste tube theory in administrative law ?
text: Did you know that Winfried Freudenberg was the last person to die in an attempt to escape across the Berlin Wall?
text: Did you know that North Carolina -based author Perry Deane Young's first Vietnam War article for UPI was about the Tet Offensive , which began the night he arrived in Saigon ?
text: Did you know that Evening Bell is a Russian song based on a translation from English, but the English source was claimed to be translated from Russian?
text: Did you know that Grantland Rice wrote that All-American football fullback Shep Homans , who played in every minute of all 22 games for Princeton in 1890 and 1891, "represented the football that used to be"?
text: Did you know that Jimi Hendrix described the lead guitarist of The Ace of Cups , an all-female rock band, as "really great"?
text: Did you know that the onset and increased prominence and severity of the rare autosomal dominant skin disorder Oudtshoorn skin usually take place during winter ?
text: Did you know that in six seasons with the "Senior" Senators , Lude Check was among the top ten scorers for his ice hockey league four times?
text: Did you know that Clifton's Cafeteria was once known as Clifton's Golden Rule because patrons were obliged to pay only what they felt was fair?
text: Did you know that after the second Mong Kok acid attack , the initial 100,000 HK$ reward for information was tripled?
text: Did you know that Shirley E. Flynn , a local historian in Cheyenne, Wyoming , is considered an authority on the history of the annual Cheyenne Frontier Days , one of the largest outdoor western celebrations in the world?
text: Did you know that the Goa Opinion Poll was the only referendum to have been held in Independent India ?
text: Did you know that the Mill Street-North Clover Street Historic District in Poughkeepsie, New York , was expanded 15 years after its designation to include two city blocks that had been originally scheduled for demolition ?
text: Did you know that Sid Laverents ' 1970 film Multiple Sidosis , which features up to 11 different images of him simultaneously playing a song, is one of the few amateur films chosen for the National Film Registry ?
text: Did you know that Arkansas State Senator Kim Hendren authored a failed bill to require motorcyclists to wear helmets or offer proof of health insurance ?
text: Did you know that in 1998, during the two IFMAR World Championship events for 1:10th scale gas powered radio-controlled cars held at the same weekend, all Top 10 positions were dominated by users of Serpent cars ?
text: Did you know that " The Snowman " was likely the product of Hans Christian Andersen 's homoerotic ardor for Harald Scharff, a ballet dancer at the Royal Danish Theatre ?
text: Did you know that in 1899 Isaac Seneca became the first Native American to be named as an All-American football player while playing halfback for the Carlisle Indian School ?
text: Did you know that Chichester Castle was built in the Rape of Chichester in the 11th century?
text: Did you know that although Kevin Daft set two records in NFL Europe , he was released by the Tennessee Titans in August 2002?
text: Did you know that the 1994 Nepalese legislative election saw the first democratically elected communist government in Asia come to power?
text: Did you know that US TV series Parks and Recreation season finale " Rock Show " received positive reviews but the lowest ratings of the season, with only 4.25 million households tuning in?
text: Did you know that information gathered by spy Peggy Taylor , who posed as a prostitute in France during the Second World War , was instrumental in planning D-Day ?
text: Did you know that according to Henry's Law and Dalton's Law , fizz keepers , which are claimed to pump air into bottles of fizzy drink and thereby stop them going flat, do not actually work that way?
text: Did you know that from 1956 to 1986, radio station KYKN in Keizer, Oregon , was called "KGAY"?
text: Did you know that Pontius of Carthage voluntarily accompanied Cyprian into exile and later wrote his biography?
text: Did you know that Faith Ireland won two national championships as a powerlifter while serving on the Washington Supreme Court ?
text: Did you know that two-time All-American fullback "Blondy" Graydon performed a tumbling routine with the Barnum & Bailey Circus while dressed "in resplendent pink tights"?
text: Did you know that the Dollis Brook Viaduct is the highest point on both the Northern Line and the London Underground above ground level, reaching 60 feet (18 m) in height?
text: Did you know that the Khirki Masjid mosque and the Satpula weir were both built during the time of the Tughlaq dynasty in 14th century Delhi ?
text: Did you know that Jack Benny was so impressed with native Canadian singer Gisele MacKenzie that he was co- executive producer of her NBC variety show , The Gisele MacKenzie Show ?
text: Did you know that Wernher von Braun 's father Magnus von Braun was dismissed out of civil service for supporting the Kapp Putsch in 1920?
text: Did you know that the watershed of Sulphide Creek , a 2.5-mile (4.0 km) stream, harbors at least three waterfalls taller than 2,000 feet (610 m)?
text: Did you know that racehorse Clyde Van Dusen , winner of the 1929 Kentucky Derby , was named after his trainer?
text: Did you know that dozens of sled dog races have been created since the first organized long-distance sled dog race was held in 1908?
text: Did you know that Rai Purdy raised over C $250,000,000 for charity through his Telethon efforts?
text: Did you know that the Bergh-Stoutenburgh House , one of only two remaining Dutch Colonial stone houses in Hyde Park, New York , has been converted into a Japanese restaurant ?
text: Did you know that the Byzantine corps of the Optimatoi originated as an elite Gothic cavalry regiment, but was downgraded to a corps of mule -drivers after participating in the failed revolt of Artabasdos ?
text: Did you know that the same month Willamette Falls Hospital in Oregon City, Oregon , announced a plan for the next 20 years, they announced they intended to merge with Providence Health & Services ?
text: Did you know that in 1991 the IRA attempted to assassinate John Major and his War Cabinet with a mortar attack on Downing Street ?
text: Did you know that the nominees for the 25th Golden Raspberry Awards were announced by founder John Wilson at a book signing for The Official Razzie Movie Guide ?
text: Did you know that HMS Centurion had to be sent back to Britain for repairs in 1804, partly because she was infested with termites ?
text: Did you know that Thelnetham Windmill was completely restored from dereliction to working order by amateur volunteers?
text: Did you know that Ty Cobb would hide black Detroit Tigers mascot Li'l Rastus in his room or under his train berth to evade Jim Crow laws ?
text: Did you know that Sugar Babies , conceived by Ralph G. Allen , was based on his collection of more than 5,000 comedy sketches ?
text: Did you know that the suffix " -up " in Western Australian place names means "place of" in a dialect of the Noongar language?
text: Did you know that playwright Larry Kramer called Rodger McFarlane , the first paid executive director of the Gay Men's Health Crisis , someone who "did more for the gay world than any person has ever done"?
text: Did you know that The Last Nightingale was an album recorded to raise money for striking coal miners in the 1984–1985 UK miners' strike ?
text: Did you know that Jack Billingham gave up Hank Aaron 's record tying 714th home run as the Cincinnati Reds Opening Day starting pitcher in 1974?
text: Did you know that American Slovenian-style polka musician Louis Bashell received Wisconsin 's first National Heritage Fellowship grant from the National Endowment for the Arts ?
text: Did you know that Cyrus C. Miller believed the United States and Canada would one day become a single nation and that lacrosse could be its official sport ?
text: Did you know that Fireflight 's song " Unbreakable " was inspired by a fan's question asked on MySpace ?
text: Did you know that Sigurd Bødtker was Norway 's first full-time theatre critic ?
text: Did you know that the capture of Bologna on 21 April 1945 was the last battle of the Polish II Corps ?
text: Did you know  that local legend suggests that Ai-Ais Hot Springs in southern Namibia were discovered in 1850 by a nomadic Nama shepherd rounding up stray sheep?
text: Did you know that Reba McEntire starred in a television movie based on her 1992 hit single " Is There Life Out There " ?
text: Did you know that Spey casting is a two-handed fly fishing technique that was developed on the River Spey in Scotland ?
text: Did you know that although the 1998 film Restless takes place in Beijing , only about 20 percent of the dialogue is in Chinese ?
text: Did you know that the Niagara Engine House building is the only one of six engine company firehouses in Poughkeepsie, New York , still standing?
text: Did you know that Philadelphia Athletics manager Connie Mack once sent hunchbacked batboy Louis Van Zelst out to coach first base, but the umpires made Mack recall him to the dugout?
text: Did you know that each of the Chinese languages has over 100 classifiers , or "measure words", which must be used any time a noun appears with a number or a demonstrative ?
text: Did you know that the Father Millet Cross on the grounds of Fort Niagara , at just 0.0074 acres (30 m 2 ), was the smallest National Monument ever established in the United States ?
text: Did you know that the Interstate Bridge over the Menominee River was sculpted with wild rice motifs in the concrete?
text: Did you know that the first of Thomas Eakins 's William Rush and His Model paintings provoked controversy by its inclusion of the discarded clothes of William Rush 's nude model?
text: Did you know that although Mellor hill fort is Iron Age in origin, artefacts possibly as old as 10,000 years have been discovered on the site, including a 4,000-year-old amber necklace?
text: Did you know that by pinpointing three counter-cultural traits of Western Norway — Landsmål , temperance and laity — Gabriel Øidne laid the grounds for Norwegian voter sociology ?
text: Did you know that " I Don't Know What It Is ", the first single from Rufus Wainwright 's album Want One , samples Maurice Ravel 's Bolero ?
text: Did you know that Egmont Prinz zur Lippe-Weissenfeld was an Austrian aristocratic night fighter flying ace who fought for the German Luftwaffe in World War II ?
text: Did you know that the South Carolina town which Biggin Church 's chapel of ease , Strawberry Chapel , was built to serve, no longer exists?
text: Did you know that Egyptian actor C. K. Alexander composed under the pseudonyms Mario Quimber and Basheer Qadar?
text: Did you know that, under the drug policy of Canada , of those convicted of drug offences under Canadian law in 1921, three-quarters were Chinese ?
text: Did you know that former President of Poland Lech Walesa only won 1% of the vote in the 2000 Polish presidential election ?
text: Did you know that Price's Post Office in Spartanburg County, South Carolina , was a " publick house " and stagecoach stop in the early 19th century?
text: Did you know that Uruguay is known as the " Switzerland of the Americas" from its adoption of Swiss-based banking laws?
text: Did you know that Elsie B. Washington was called the "mother of the African-American romance " for her 1980 novel, considered the first to feature African American characters by an African American author?
text: Did you know that the specific epithet of bigeye trevally (Caranx sexfasciatus) refers to the six dark bands on their sides that fade and disappear as the marine fish mature and age?
text: Did you know that Don Zimmerman , once called the "best coach in college lacrosse ", has traveled around the world promoting the sport, with the ultimate goal of having it once again become an Olympic event ?
text: Did you know that the candy was a traditional South Asian unit of mass , equal to twenty maunds ?
text: Did you know that the Nebraska House in Virginia was so named because Colonel Samuel D. McDearmon 's wife refused to move to Nebraska?
text: Did you know that the Latting Observatory , described as " New York's first skyscraper ", was the tallest building in the United States at 315 feet (96 m) during its brief life from 1853 until it burnt down in 1856?
text: Did you know that the 350cc engine in the 1949 Douglas Mark III British motorcycle was based on a WW2 electricity generator engine?
text: Did you know that while still in college, children's author Eloise Greenfield realized that she was too shy to be a teacher and dropped out to work at the U.S. Patent Office ?
text: Did you know that the previous owners of KWVR in Enterprise, Oregon , actually lived at the radio station until they sold it in 2008?
text: Did you know that Yohl Ik'nal , queen of the Classic Period Maya city of Palenque in Mexico , was the first known female Mayan ruler?
text: Did you know that after a hurdle was misplaced on the running track , Angelo Taylor said he would never again compete at the Adidas Track Classic ?
text: Did you know that Nevada City, California ’s Doris Foley Library for Historical Research includes a Cornish Studies Collection?
text: Did you know that neurosurgeon Keith Black , featured in a Time special issue on "Heroes of Medicine", is known for his discovery that the peptide bradykinin can be effective in opening the blood-brain barrier ?
text: Did you know that the Smith Tobacco Barn is one of the few remaining examples of intact flue-cured tobacco barns in Dillon County, South Carolina , built between 1895 and the 1950s?
text: Did you know that the N100 brain response to auditory stimuli can help predict coma patients' probability of recovery?
text: Did you know that in May 2009, the District of Columbia ruled that Third Church of Christ, Scientist could go forward with demolition of its brutalist -style building?
text: Did you know that John G. Cullmann was nearly assassinated after establishing a settlement of German immigrants in northern Alabama ?
text: Did you know that a Zen temple's Main Hall looks like a two story building, but has in fact only one?
text: Did you know that architect Richard Neutra used mirrors and reflecting pools to provide spaciousness for his home on a small lot, the Neutra VDL Studio and Residences , on Silver Lake in Los Angeles ?
text: Did you know that 73 Mansion St. , Poughkeepsie, New York , was architecturally inconsistent with the neighboring Balding Avenue Historic District , so it was later listed separately on the National Register of Historic Places ?
text: Did you know that Don Cardwell was the Chicago Cubs' Opening Day starting pitcher against the Houston Colt .45s (now known as the Astros) on April 10, 1962, the first official game in Colt .45 history?
text: Did you know that despite strong support from England , all three Huguenot rebellions in southwestern France were suppressed by King Louis XIII ?
text: Did you know that in 1970, George M. Stafford became the first presidentially-appointed Interstate Commerce Commission chair, 83 years after it was formed?
text: Did you know that novelist Michael Crichton and seven Nobel laureates , among others, wrote the 1972 textbook Biology Today ?
text: Did you know that songwriter Gordon Chambers credited his hometown of Teaneck, New Jersey , with fostering his dream of becoming a professional?
text: Did you know that a student at Clatskanie Middle/High School organized a statewide food drive in Oregon that earned the student a national award?
text: Did you know that Catherina Margaretha Linck is the last European known to have been executed for lesbianism ?
text: Did you know that Marc Sautet started the philosophical cafe known as Café Philosophique ?
text: Did you know that the Vassar Home for Aged Men , in Poughkeepsie, New York , could not operate at full capacity until Matthew Vassar 's wife died and left it the money to do so?
text: Did you know that Håkon Stenstadvold , rector of the Norwegian National Academy of Craft and Art Industry , was a member of the Bærum municipal council ?
text: Did you know that Robert Lindahl, the recording engineer on The Kingsmen 's famous version of " Louie Louie ", lost his job as a disc jockey for KBKR because he refused to empty the Oregon station's chemical toilet ?
text: Did you know that the real name of Hagop Hagopian , the leader of the Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia , was revealed only after his assassination in Athens in 1988?
text: Did you know that rock band 21 Demands made chart history after finishing as runners-up in the fifth series of You're a Star , featuring 1992 Eurovision winner Linda Martin as a judge?
text: Did you know that Ray H. Altman , as a Kentucky state representative from tobacco -growing Taylor County , opposed a bill in 1990 to ban smoking zones for students in public schools ?
text: Did you know that Time magazine editor Otto Fuerbringer was responsible for the controversial 1966 " Is God Dead? " cover?
text: Did you know that some grass - endophyte symbioses produce loline alkaloids that are insecticidal and deterrent to various insects ?
text: Did you know that after his death, the amateur manga collection of the manga critic Yoshihiro Yonezawa was made into a library by his alma mater , Meiji University ?
text: Did you know that the Vassar Institute in Poughkeepsie, New York ,  now used for a local arts center , is on the former site of a brewery ?
text: Did you know that in 1853, Ole Thomesen signed the contract to build the paddle steamer Skibladner , which is still in operation in Norway ?
text: Did you know that the 1960 indie film Weddings and Babies is considered to be the first fictional movie to be shot with a camera that recorded synchronized sound ?
text: Did you know that lacrosse coach "Father Bill" Schmeisser was known for carrying an umbrella on the sidelines regardless of the weather, reasoning that, "This way I know it won't rain"?
text: Did you know that Carl Bødtker was a popular radio presenter for children during the early days of Norwegian broadcasting ?
text: Did you know that the 12–6 curveball gets its name from the way the pitch breaks downward, looking like it moves from the number 12 to the number 6 on a clock ?
text: Did you know that 18-year-old Jay Weinberg is touring with Bruce Springsteen as the E Street Band 's drummer while his father, Max Weinberg , prepares for the June premiere of The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien ?
text: Did you know that motorsport illustrator Michael Turner designed the original Formula One McLaren team logo ?
text: Did you know that California radio station KOWL ' s original radio studios were located inside the Harrah's Stateline Club , a casino in Stateline, Nevada ?
text: Did you know that John "Bam" Carney , a Republican member of the Kentucky House of Representatives , became well-known in his district through his work as a high school basketball coach ?
text: Did you know that the Second Baptist Church is the only Greek Revival church remaining in Poughkeepsie, New York ?
text: Did you know that Gustav Natvig-Pedersen , a President of the Storting in Norway, also wrote orthographic dictionaries?
text: Did you know that Bronson Pinchot spent three months visiting psychics to prepare for his role in the 1989 comedy film Second Sight ?
text: Did you know that singer-songwriter Django Walker was named after Belgian guitarist Django Reinhardt ?
text: Did you know that the officers' mess hall at Camp Abbot military training center was built by the Army Corps of Engineers in 1944, and is now the "Great Hall" at Sunriver Resort ?
text: Did you know that François Coignet was the first builder to use iron reinforced concrete ?
text: Did you know that Bob Bruce of the Abilene Reporter-News in Texas was considered a "superb raconteur " and versatile journalist whose "institutional memory" empowered his newsroom colleagues?
text: Did you know that Arlie Metheny , as public information officer in 1958 at Fort Chaffee , Arkansas , handled media inquiries relating to the induction of Elvis Presley into the Army ?
text: Did you know that René Olry , the commander of the French Army of the Alps during the Battle of France (1940), was a polytechnicien ?
text: Did you know that while most wines can benefit from being stored on their side, Champagne and other sparkling wines tend to age better if they are kept upright?
text: Did you know that Captain Thomas Baker played a significant role in bringing about three battles during the Napoleonic Wars : Copenhagen , Trafalgar , and Cape Ortegal ?
text: Did you know that the objective of the Nazi board game Juden Raus! (Jews Out) was to move figurines representing Jews across a map to "collection points" outside the city walls for deportation ?
text: Did you know that diplomat Sabrina De Sousa in 2009 sued the United States government to get diplomatic immunity ?
text: Did you know that Rick Gibson intended his human earrings sculpture to raise questions about the appropriateness and usage of such materials for art and self adornment?
text: Did you know that the song " Te Amo ", performed by Panamanian singer-songwriter Makano , became his first number-one single in the Billboard Hot Latin Songs chart ?
text: Did you know that former fur trader Michel Laframboise helped found Fort Astoria and later operated a ferry across the Willamette River ?
text: Did you know that the 2008 Lower Saxony state election saw the Social Democratic Party have their worst performance in Lower Saxony since World War II , while the The Left party won seats for the first time?
text: Did you know that folk singer Travis Edmonson was an honorary member of the Pascua Yaqui Tribe and helped create a dictionary for their language?
text: Did you know that planning for the demobilisation of the Australian military after World War II began in 1942?
text: Did you know that the Children's Literature Association developed a canon of children's literature consisting of 63 titles, beginning with Little Women (1869)?
text: Did you know that ABC Radio president Robert Pauley hired the then-little-known Howard Cosell in 1960 to host a weekly sports program after Cosell was able to get a relative's shirt company as a sponsor ?
text: Did you know that The New York Times described  the Welles declaration as "one of the most exceptional diplomatic documents issued by the U.S. State Department in many years"?
text: Did you know that Panamanian singer-songwriter Makano began writing songs when he was 16 years old?
text: Did you know that while the electrical conductivity of pure water is very low, the conductivity of drinking water can be thousands of times greater?
text: Did you know that gridiron football wide receiver Chris Jackson did not play football until attending Orange Coast College in 1994?
text: Did you know that despite winning the Football League Trophy in 2009, Luton Town are not presently eligible to defend their title?
text: Did you know that M. D. Madhusudan , who received the Whitley Award for 2009, uncovered links between coffee production in Brazil and cattle ownership and grazing in Bandipur National Park ?
text: Did you know that the first sea trials of a replica ship in Japan were those of the Naniwa Maru before it was placed in the Osaka Maritime Museum ?
text: Did you know that Stan Bunn ran for Congress in Oregon's 1st congressional district while his brother Jim ran for re-election in Oregon's 5th congressional district ?
text: Did you know that The Orckestra ' s debut performance was at the Moving Left Revue , a Communist Party benefit concert in London in 1977?
text: Did you know that the Union Monument in Vanceburg, Kentucky , is the only monument south of the Mason–Dixon line that honors Union soldiers that is not in a cemetery ?
text: Did you know that the number of women elected in the 2002 Moroccan parliamentary election increased to 35 from only 2 in the previous election in 1997?
text: Did you know that Joseph Wicks , a lawyer and judge in Washington State and the first city attorney of Grand Coulee , was an enrolled member of the Cherokee Nation ?
text: Did you know that the little balls of fibers that appear on clothing due to wear are called pills ?
text: Did you know that the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad lost its appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court over a $ 25 penalty it had been ordered to pay to a farmer?
text: Did you know that Mexican singer Vicente Fernández selected the anniversary of the Battle of Puebla , to release his single " Necesito de Tí "?
text: Did you know that Henry Eckford , built in New York in 1824, was the world's first steamship to be powered by a compound engine ?
text: Did you know that gridiron football defensive end Justin Brown was named in six All-American teams when playing at East Central University from 2001 to 2004?
text: Did you know that The Maori Merchant of Venice was the first Maori language film adaptation of any of William Shakespeare 's plays ?
text: Did you know that Olga Taratuta , a Ukrainian anarcho-communist , escaped from a Russian prison in 1906 while serving a 17-year sentence?
text: Did you know that amended U.S. Presidential Executive Order 8389 ordered a freeze of the Baltic states ' assets in the U.S. ?
text: Did you know that in Ayapango , Mexico , older homes have names that are displayed on plaques?
text: Did you know that according to Nobel Prize-winning economist Amartya Sen , there are more than 100 million women "missing" in Asia ?
text: Did you know that the rock band Goes Cube obtained its name from a poor back-translation of the phrase "Go Die" between English and German?
text: Did you know that The Wire actress Felicia "Snoop" Pearson wrote an autobiography, Grace After Midnight , chronicling her drug-dealing days in Baltimore , imprisonment on murder charges and rehabilitation?
text: Did you know that in the late 18th century, the Gotha Observatory became an international center for astronomy , and the most modern astronomical institute specifically for its instruments?
text: Did you know that despite nearly throwing a perfect game in 1993, American baseball pitcher Tom Kramer never pitched at the highest professional level again after that year?
text: Did you know that according to the Golden Legend , Saint Genebald left his wife around AD 499 to become Bishop of Laon , and was later imprisoned by her uncle, Saint Remigius , for sleeping with her when she visited?
text: Did you know that one of Germany's Kaiser -class battleships , SMS Prinzregent Luitpold , never received a planned diesel engine to supplement her turbines , so her range was much less than her sister ships?
text: Did you know that the 2007 dedication of the 1872-built Confederate Monument in Crab Orchard, Kentucky , included Kentucky governor Ernie Fletcher and the United States Army ?
text: Did you know that Norwegian geochemist Knut S. Heier was a member of the Apollo Project ?
text: Did you know that Aaron Spelling 's 56,500-square-foot mansion, known as The Manor , is the largest house in Los Angeles County ?
text: Did you know that al-Mansur Ibrahim , the Ayyubid governor of Hims , ended Khwarezmid power in Syria after defeating them in a battle near Lake Hims ?
text: Did you know that a promising anti-cancer drug, swainsonine , causes pea struck in Australia, locoismo in Argentina, and locoweed poisoning in North America?
text: Did you know that there is more potential for ullage development in wines bottled with long corks than in wines with short corks because wine is lost through absorption into the cork?
text: Did you know that shortly before the 1989 Revolution , current Romanian Transport Minister Radu Berceanu was questioned at length by the Securitate for allegedly intending to flee the country using a hang glider he had built?
text: Did you know that Shitou Xiqian was an obscure Zen teacher during his life but is now considered one of the two ancestors of all existing branches of Zen?
text: Did you know that during the Civil War years, the San Fernando Valley north of Los Angeles experienced floods , droughts , a smallpox epidemic , and even a plague of locusts ?
text: Did you know that after subduing most of the Hejaz , Qatada ibn Idris went on to become the Sharif of Mecca establishing a tradition of sharifs descended from him to rule the city until 1925?
text: Did you know that Operation Bayshield was the first machinima work to use digital assets not provided by the video game in which it was created?
text: Did you know that Asbjørn Kjønstad has been referred to as the " father of the smoking ban " in Norway ?
text: Did you know that the marine fish Caranx sansun , first described in 1775, has no common name , has no known holotype , and is labeled a nomen dubium as the correct identification is unlikely to be made?
text: Did you know that John B. Watson and Harvey A. Carr conducted a study called the kerplunk experiment , so named because of the sound the rat made when hitting the end of a maze?
text: Did you know that the remains of a cannon ball can still be seen in the wall of Moni Gonia Monastery from an Ottoman attack during the Cretan Revolt of 1866–1869?
text: Did you know that the United States Department of Labor first began tracking discouraged workers in 1967 and found 500,000 at the time?
text: Did you know that in a review of David Jordan 's debut album, Set the Mood , it was suggested that the singer could have been cloned from the DNA of Lenny Kravitz , Prince and Michael Jackson ?
text: Did you know that Charles Guth offered to sell Pepsi Co. to Coca-Cola , but they did not even make a bid?
text: Did you know that all postal voting was used in the 2003 Gateshead Council election and saw the third highest turnout in the 2003 United Kingdom local elections ?
text: Did you know that the Shreveport deejay Barney Cannon was particularly knowledgeable about the history of country music , his radio station KWKH-AM , and the former Louisiana Hayride ?
text: Did you know that during World War I , Britons could be fined for feeding the pigeons ?
text: Did you know that while most Enlightenment scholars criticized the Byzantine system of the Eastern Roman Empire , Konstantin Leontiev , a scholar from the Russian Empire praised it for the very same reasons?
text: Did you know that Charles Carroll the Settler ' s attempts to gain office in colonial Maryland led to all Catholics in the colony losing the right to vote?
text: Did you know that official turnout in the 2005 Algerian national reconciliation referendum was 99.95% in Khenchela but only just over 11% in Tizi Ouzou Province ?
text: Did you know that Sol Rosenberg , a survivor of the Dachau concentration camp , established an international steel company in his adopted city of Monroe , Louisiana ?
text: Did you know that the Oslo square Eidsvolls plass has been referred to as "the National Mall of Norway "?
text: Did you know that former United States President George H.W. Bush is a member of the invitation-only Alibi Club in Washington, D.C. ?
text: Did you know that Horatio Nelson called Skeffington Lutwidge , his commander on two separate occasions, 'that good old man'?
text: Did you know that Damon E. Allen led the successful campaign by the Kentucky Optometric Association to empower optometrists in the state to prescribe medication for patients?
text: Did you know that Haitian expatriate artist Edouard Duval-Carrié criticized the regime of Jean-Claude Duvalier by creating artwork that parodied Duvalier?
text: Did you know that Lizzie Lloyd King , the alleged murderess of Charles Goodrich, consumed flakes of the victim's desiccated blood during a police interrogation?
text: Did you know that according to the former mayor of the commune of Adjohoun , Gerard Adounsiba , the 2008 Benin floods were the "largest humanitarian crisis to date" to affect the region?
text: Did you know that Allison Bradshaw ' s mother, tennis player Valerie Ziegenfuss , was one of the Original 9 who established the basis for the WTA Tour ?
text: Did you know that Tom Bunn served in the Oregon Legislative Assembly at the same time as his older brothers Stan and Jim ?
text: Did you know that the subscription service BoardEx provides information on the world's business directors and senior managers, including their salaries , bonuses, and incentive pay ?
text: Did you know that Greater Manchester bus route 192 was the first in the UK to have solar powered on-street ticket machines?
text: Did you know that 1961's Hurricane Tara was one of the deadliest Pacific hurricanes on record?
text: Did you know that two trunk roads from London to the Sussex coast, the A22 and the A23 , use parts of the London to Brighton Way ?
text: Did you know that 16 people were killed in the 1999 Tashkent bombings when six car bombs were detonated, an attack most likely perpetrated by the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan ?
text: Did you know that Adam and Joe on BBC 6 Music won the Broadcasting Press Guild award for Radio Programme of the Year in its first six months of broadcast?
text: Did you know that the Mirrorwing flyingfish attaches masses of its eggs to floating debris by a series of filaments on each egg?
text: Did you know that Eunice Taylor , a catcher for the Kenosha Comets of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League , was the model for Rosie O'Donnell 's character in the film A League of Their Own ?
text: Did you know that in the 2008 motorcycle Scott Trial event, there were only 60 official finishers out of a starting entry of 200?
text: Did you know that in 1767, Union Street first connected Poughkeepsie, New York , to the Hudson River ?
text: Did you know that at the Battle of Pulo Aura , a fleet of East Indiamen under Commodore Nathaniel Dance fought off an entire French squadron ?
text: Did you know that " Thrilla in the Villa ", the first season finale of Kröd Mändoon and the Flaming Sword of Fire , was seen by 858,000 households, about half the viewership of the season premiere one month earlier?
text: Did you know that the summit of Mount Scott is the highest point in Crater Lake National Park ?
text: Did you know that Czech singer and pianist Jiří Šlitr died from coal gas poisoning?
text: Did you know that Hector Hyppolite was a Haitian Vodou priest who was classified as a surrealist painter by the surrealist theorist André Breton ?
text: Did you know that Count Arthur Strong's Radio Show! won the 2009 Sony Radio Academy Gold Award for comedy?
text: Did you know that Nobel Laureate George Smoot , whose work cemented the Big Bang theory, made a cameo appearance on the sitcom The Big Bang Theory in the episode " The Terminator Decoupling " ?
text: Did you know that footballer Bud Houghton was born in Madras to an Anglo-Indian family who migrated to England in 1947 when India gained independence from British rule?
text: Did you know that custom allocators may greatly improve the performance of a computer program written in C++ ?
text: Did you know that the Jablonkow Incident has been named the first commando operation of the Second World War ?
text: Did you know that the 1931 Vickers Type 161 may have been the first aircraft to be fitted with in-flight adjustable elevator trims ?
text: Did you know that Philip Glass composed a soundtrack in 1998, recorded by the Kronos Quartet , for the 1931 Dracula film starring Béla Lugosi ?
text: Did you know that Czech jazz double-bassist Luděk Hulan co-founded Studio 5 , one of the most important modern jazz ensembles in Czechoslovakia ?
text: Did you know that the shell of marine snails in the family Juliidae is composed of two parts, like a clam ?
text: Did you know that Raquel Forner was one of the earliest fine artists to portray scenes of outer space ?
text: Did you know that radio station KLBS broadcasts a Portuguese-language world music format to California's San Joaquin Valley ?
text: Did you know that Shamar Sands , the Bahamian 110 metre hurdles national record holder, has a degree in accountancy ?
text: Did you know that Spratt's supplied army dogs with 1,256,976,708 dog biscuits during World War I ?
text: Did you know that Earl Sprackling , who was selected as the best college football player of 1910, gained 456 total yards and kicked three field goals in one game?
text: Did you know that Belgian firm Interbrew has a 34.4% share in the Ukrainian beer market ?
text: Did you know that Norwegian Minister of Agriculture and Member of Parliament Bernt Holtsmark had two first cousins, Wilhelm and Finn Blakstad , who were also Members of Parliament?
text: Did you know that farmed salmon can escape from their sea cage and interbreed with wild salmon?
text: Did you know that Friedrich Foertsch was the second chief of staff of the Bundeswehr and recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross during World War II ?
text: Did you know that Danny Friend was the Chicago Colts ' Opening Day starting pitcher in 1896, despite only having pitched five previous Major League Baseball games?
text: Did you know that after Pacific States Lumber went bankrupt in 1939, the company town of Selleck, Washington , was sold for US$ 3,000?
text: Did you know that Texas clergyman Harold Reeves was the first missionary dispatched to Thailand by the Southern Baptist Convention ?
text: Did you know that during its one year of existence, the Tainan Air Group produced more aces than any other fighter unit in the Imperial Japanese Navy ?
text: Did you know that William Butler Yeats intended the poem " Politics " to be an envoi to " The Circus Animals' Desertion " and for it to be last in his final collection of poems?
text: Did you know that the Indiana -based Upland Brewing Company provided beer bottles and props to lend Indiana authenticity to the " Boys' Club " episode of Parks and Recreation ?
text: Did you know that the Czech trumpeter and singer Jiří Jelínek was nicknamed "The Czech Satchmo "?
text: Did you know that the spinner shark is named for the spinning leaps it makes out of the water as part of its feeding strategy?
text: Did you know that Kim Kang-woo spent about ten days acquainting himself with a cow to prepare for scenes in the film Le Grand Chef , likening the experience to working with a sensitive actress?
text: Did you know that Tennyson Bardwell 's second film The Skeptic was actually written in the 1980s, but did not start filming until 2005?
text: Did you know that the San Juan Bautista Parish of Tenango del Aire in Mexico was initially run by the Franciscans ?
text: Did you know that before starting her modeling career and appearing on America's Next Top Model , Celia Ammerman lived across from a chicken slaughterhouse in Brooklyn ?
text: Did you know that the winning candidate in the 2002 Hartlepool Council election , known as H'Angus the Monkey before taking office, pledged to give free bananas to school children in Hartlepool ?
text: Did you know that Duane Purvis 's right arm made him a world-class javelin thrower and "without peer" as a long passer in football ?
text: Did you know that every December 11 in Acatlán de Juárez , Jalisco , Mexico , bonfires are lit along the streets to commemorate the vision of Our Lady of Guadalupe to Juan Diego ?
text: Did you know that computer hacker Raphael Gray sent Viagra tablets to Bill Gates and then published what he said was Gates' credit card number?
text: Did you know that in the United States , 88 percent of public employees are covered by a defined benefit pension plan ?
text: Did you know that the 1987 roguelike computer game NetHack was named differently from its predecessor, Hack , because Hack creator Andries Brouwer "...may eventually release a new version of his own"?
text: Did you know that an alliance was formed in the 8th century between the Abbasid Caliphate and the Frankish Carolingian Empire against the Byzantine Empire and the Muslim Umayyads of Spain ?
text: Did you know that Saucon Valley Country Club has hosted five USGA golf tournaments, and is the site of the 2009 U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship ?
text: Did you know that the Dogger Bank itch is a skin condition prevalent in fishermen who work in the North Sea ?
text: Did you know that Leona Lewis ' " Bleeding Love " made her the first non-North American act to reach number-one on the Canadian Hot 100 in 2008 ?
text: Did you know that the lead character in the Mozart opera Don Giovanni calls out for a glass of Marzemino in the final banquet scene before he is carried down to hell ?
text: Did you know that Canaiolo was included in the 19th-century Chianti recipe to add fruitiness and soften the tannins of Sangiovese , much like Merlot 's role in Bordeaux wine blends?
text: Did you know that Henry Jenkins of Bolton-on-Swale , Yorkshire is said to have lived to the age of 169?
text: Did you know that the only surviving structure from the Coudersport and Port Allegany Railroad is a train station that is now the town hall of Coudersport, Pennsylvania ?
text: Did you know that Indian businessman Ness Wadia , a co-owner of the Indian Premier League cricket team Kings XI Punjab , is the great-grandson of Pakistan founder Mohammad Ali Jinnah ?
text: Did you know that GRB 050709 was the first short-duration gamma-ray burst for which an optical afterglow was detected?
text: Did you know that Jens Wisløff , a Conservative Party of Norway politician, was called "the grand old man of asphalt "?
text: Did you know that funding to help J-D's Down Home Enterprises start producing bacon -flavored salt came from a three-year-old child's winnings on America's Funniest Home Videos ?
text: Did you know that the razorfish hides in the spines of sea urchins both for protection and as a hunting strategy?
text: Did you know that Leonard Trask published an account of his life as a sufferer of a condition in which his spine curved forward to the extent that his chin rested on his chest?
text: Did you know that the Criminal Law (Temporary Provisions) Act of Singapore that allows for suspected criminals to be detained without trial has been renewed 12 times since its enactment in 1955?
text: Did you know that Mount Veniaminof in the Alaska Peninsula National Wildlife Refuge contains the most extensive crater glacier in North America , at roughly 5.2 miles (8.4 km) in diameter?
text: Did you know that among Gerhard Knoop ´s stage productions are Chekhov 's Uncle Vanya , Ibsen 's Hedda Gabler , Strindberg 's Miss Julie , Beckett 's Waiting for Godot , and Ionesco 's The Chairs ?
text: Did you know that from 1995 to 2003, an Arkansas radio station now called KZTD shared its "KBBL" call sign with the fictional radio station on The Simpsons ?
text: Did you know that Juliano Verbard escaped from a French prison in a hijacked helicopter ?
text: Did you know that the Jungle Shrew is a small mammal found only in Sri Lanka lowland rain forests ?
text: Did you know that heavy losses on the Western Front in the First World War caused the French Army to conscript men up to age 45?
text: Did you know that vibraphonist Karel Velebný is considered one of the founders of modern Czech jazz ?
text: Did you know that enamel tufts , self-healing defects in tooth enamel at its junction with dentin , help enamel withstand bite forces as high as 1,000 N ?
text: Did you know that Lester Belding was the first Iowa Hawkeyes football player to be named an All-American ?
text: Did you know that the aerial telescope is a type of very long focal length refracting telescope built in the second half of the 17th century that did not use a tube?
text: Did you know that Rotten Sound 's Murderworks album cover was censored in Europe by manufacturers in Germany who considered it too disturbing for consumers?
text: Did you know that Hauz Khas Complex in South Delhi encompasses a water tank, an Islamic seminary , a mosque , a tomb and pavilions built around a medieval village in the 13th-century Delhi Sultanate reign?
text: Did you know that The Ladies' Mercury was the first periodical publication designed just for women?
text: Did you know that actor Kim Kang-woo had to overcome his fear of water to star in Marine Boy , and went on to film dangerous water sequences without using a stunt double ?
text: Did you know that the larvae of the Appalachian Azure , a species of gossamer wings butterfly , can only feed on the flowers of the black cohosh ?
text: Did you know that Christopher Grigson made important contributions to scanning electron microscopy , but switched careers and became a naval architect ?
text: Did you know that in the late 1980s, there was a surge of interest in using Colorino in Chianti blends for the added deep dark coloring and structure from phenolic compounds that it brought to the wine ?
text: Did you know that KDMN (now KSKE ) and its Radio Colorado sister stations became the target of prank calls in 2003 when the film Bruce Almighty displayed the station group's phone number as God 's?
text: Did you know that The Office episode " Cafe Disco " includes cameos by series writers Gene Stupnitsky and Lee Eisenberg at an office dance party?
text: Did you know that cartographer Jan Martin Larsen was a pioneer in the development of the specialized orienteering map ?
text: Did you know that Oregon radio station KKRB won New Music Weekly magazine's "Adult Contemporary Radio Station of the Year" New Music Award in 2006, 2007, and 2008?
text: Did you know that Bulgarian zoologist Ivan Buresh , dubbed "the patriarch of Bulgarian biology", was the son of a Czech zincographer ?
text: Did you know that Becharof Lake within the Becharof National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska contains the second largest run of sockeye salmon in the world?
text: Did you know that the early 20th-century diaries of German ornithologist Bernhard Hantzsch influenced British Arctic explorer Pen Hadow ?
text: Did you know that Carrington Moss was used to dispose of Manchester 's night soil , and was a Starfish site in World War II ?
text: Did you know that Carlton Skinner commanded the first racially integrated United States warships , and later served as Guam 's first civilian governor ?
text: Did you know that Hel Fortified Area was in 1939 the last place of Poland to surrender to the invading Wehrmacht, and during World War II it was used as a Kriegsmarine base?
text: Did you know that William Butler Yeats originally published the poem " On being asked for a War Poem " under the title "A Reason for Keeping Silent" in 1916?
text: Did you know that the Baptist folk high school at Strand, Akershus , Norway , was visited by Martin Luther King in 1964?
text: Did you know that James Edward Hanger , the first amputee of the American Civil War ,  designed his own prosthesis and went on to found a prosthetic manufacturer still in business today?
text: Did you know that two aircraft working for the New Zealand Police collided in mid-air over central Auckland in 1993?
text: Did you know that New York talent agent Sam Cohn , who Time magazine called "the first superagent of the modern age", liked to eat paper?
text: Did you know that The Hate That Hate Produced , a documentary critical of the Nation of Islam , caused the group's membership to double?
text: Did you know that Praise of the Two Lands is the first ship mentioned by name in a written record?
text: Did you know that in college basketball a bonus is awarded to a team beginning with the seventh foul in a half from the opposing team?
text: Did you know that Ukrainian sculptor Mikhaylo Parashchuk , who decorated many major buildings in Sofia , Bulgaria , was reportedly a student of Auguste Rodin ?
text: Did you know that Jonathan Roberts , a United States Senator from Pennsylvania from 1814 to 1821, built a school for poor children?
text: Did you know that the song " Que No Se Rompa la Noche ", first performed by Julio Iglesias , has been covered by Pandora , Vikki Carr and Ray Conniff ?
text: Did you know that in 2003 a ricin contaminated letter was sent to the White House ?
text: Did you know that Dutch film pioneer Willy Mullens worked as a human cannonball before becoming a film director ?
text: Did you know that Microsoft attempted to tap into the Chinese computing market in 1999 with a prototype computer known as Microsoft Venus ?
text: Did you know that Polish merchant Jan Dekert was a vocal advocate for the enfranchisement of burghers during the Great Sejm in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth ?
text: Did you know that a 1947 earthquake in the U.S. state of Wisconsin was strong enough to break a seismograph at Marquette University ?
text: Did you know that although Mahfouz al-Walid was reported killed in 2002, it was not until 2007 that the Office of Foreign Assets Control acknowledged that his name was not an alias for Mohamedou Slahi ?
text: Did you know that the four-slide machine is an atypical type of stamping machinery that can produce 1,200 to 4,300 stampings per hour?
text: Did you know that Adam Davis was convicted of the murder of Vicki Robinson and is currently on Florida 's death row ?
text: Did you know that the first use of the format of the advice column was in The Athenian Mercury in 1690?
text: Did you know that Work Is a Four-Letter Word is the only film in which Cilla Black has had a starring role?
text: Did you know that the thoroughbred horse Onion never won another stakes race after his upset defeat of Secretariat in the 1973 Whitney Handicap ?
text: Did you know that when Riaz Mohammad Khan stepped down as Foreign Secretary of Pakistan , media speculated that he was sacked because he opposed the UN investigation into the assassination of Benazir Bhutto ?
text: Did you know that William Butler Yeats wrote the poem " A Prayer for My Daughter " in 1919 while staying in the tower at Thoor Ballylee during the Irish War of Independence ?
text: Did you know that the SARK , the US Navy 's Search and Rescue Knife, was designed and built within 24 hours by custom knifemaker Ernest Emerson ?
text: Did you know that a possible extension of the Røa Line metro to Øverland was considered in the interwar period , but did not materialize?
text: Did you know that after Bill Sketoe was lynched in 1864, a hole dug to facilitate his hanging remained visible for over a century?
text: Did you know that a network of companies including the Chester Rolling Mill , Chester Pipe and Tube Company , Standard Steel Casting Company and Combination Steel and Iron Company made shipbuilder John Roach & Sons one of America's first vertically integrated businesses?
text: Did you know that Polish merchant Jan Dekert was a vocal advocate for the enfranchisement of burghers during the Great Sejm in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth ?
text: Did you know that radio station KBCH chose its call sign to represent the "20 Miracle Miles" of beaches in Lincoln County, Oregon ?
text: Did you know that still-extant English piano manufacturer Broadwood and Sons once made instruments favoured by Haydn , Beethoven and Chopin ?
text: Did you know that American Louis Littlepage had to receive a special permission from the US Congress to serve as a secretary to the last king of Poland, Stanisław August Poniatowski ?
text: Did you know that the fungus Helvella corium has been found growing on caustic spoil mounds of a soda factory and on uranium tailings ?
text: Did you know that Ohio teenager Vicki Lynne Cole held up a sign (which she hadn't read) saying "Bring Us Together Again" at a 1968 Nixon rally, and the candidate later mentioned it in his victory speech?
text: Did you know that on April 7, 1977, baseball pitcher Ken Brett was the Chicago White Sox's Opening Day starter against the Toronto Blue Jays in the latter's first-ever regular season game?
text: Did you know that Ismail Shammout ' s painting Where to ...? , depicting the Lydda Death March of July 1948, is said to have attained iconic status in Palestinian culture?
text: Did you know that because actor Alan Dale was unable to go to Hawaii to appear on ABC 's Lost as Charles Widmore , the camera crew moved to London to include him on the show anyway?
text: Did you know that the fungus Helvella acetabulum resembles a cabbage leaf?
text: Did you know that Anne Donahue was one of only five Republicans in the Vermont House of Representatives to vote in favor of a bill legalizing same-sex marriage in the state?
text: Did you know that when the new Argentine dreadnought Rivadavia arrived in Buenos Aires on 19 February 1915, over 47,000 people, including President Victorino de la Plaza , came out to see the ship?
text: Did you know that Karsten Solheim 's invention of the modern lob wedge golf club may have come from experimentally gluing a potato chip to a straw?
text: Did you know that World War I flying ace Eddie Rickenbacker 's memoirs influenced 1930s "flying pulp" magazines such as Flying Aces ?
text: Did you know that opera singer Richard Suart , known for his roles in Gilbert and Sullivan , has also specialised in avant-garde modern opera?
text: Did you know that Richard Upjohn 's Gothic alterations to the Mandeville House , the oldest in Garrison, New York , were removed by a later owner?
text: Did you know that extracts from the elastic saddle fungus can dissolve fibrin blood clots ?
text: Did you know that in June 1994 the NBA blocked the sale of the Minnesota Timberwolves to a group seeking to move the franchise to New Orleans , thus keeping the Timberwolves in Minneapolis ?
text: Did you know that the Air Battle of El Mansoura in the Yom Kippur War involved nearly 180 aircraft in a continuous engagement lasting 53 minutes?
text: Did you know that Mary Roberts was the first recorded female miniaturist in the American colonies ?
text: Did you know that the Greeves motorcycle company funded production from a contract with the Ministry of Pensions for their Invacar for disabled drivers?
text: Did you know that although Vic Gold co-wrote the first President Bush 's autobiography and wrote a novel with Dick Cheney's wife , in 2007 he wrote a book attacking the second President Bush and Cheney ?
text: Did you know that in the capture of Ormuz in 1622 , an Anglo - Persian force combined to expel the Portuguese ?
text: Did you know that 19th century wrestler John McMahon ' s career began with a 17-year undefeated streak?
text: Did you know that the bacterium Streptococcus iniae has been called "one the most serious aquatic pathogens in the last decade"?
text: Did you know that Golden Raspberry Awards founder John Wilson 's marketing work has included publicity for the Academy Awards ?
text: Did you know that local councils in the United Kingdom can make byelaws regulating the design of bathing costumes worn on the beach?
text: Did you know that radio evangelist "Fighting Bob" Shuler , known for his attacks on politicians and support of the Ku Klux Klan , received 25% of the votes in a 1932 US Senate election in California ?
text: Did you know that no specialist ceramics museum has as large a collection as the 340,000 pieces in The Palace Museum, Beijing ?
text: Did you know that in NASCAR, 1952 was the first year that companies started to pay award monies for publicity?
text: Did you know that in the Capture of Ré island in 1625, English and Dutch warships were used controversially to quell a revolt of French Huguenot coreligionaries?
text: Did you know that Tyler Shanabarger's death was believed to be caused by sudden infant death syndrome until his father confessed to the murder?
text: Did you know that one can list every positive rational number without repetition by breadth-first traversal of the Calkin–Wilf tree ?
text: Did you know that George Cryer , Mayor of Los Angeles in the Roaring Twenties , was allegedly controlled by the city's political boss Kent Parrot and vice king Charles Crawford , whose coterie of bootleggers and criminals was known as the "City Hall Gang"?
text: Did you know that the Siege of Saint-Martin-de-Ré in 1627 resulted in the failure of the Duke of Buckingham to occupy the French island of Ile de Ré and support the Siege of La Rochelle ?
text: Did you know that Gene Lees wrote the English language lyrics to Antonio Carlos Jobim 's " Corcovado " on a bus travelling to Belo Horizonte ?
text: Did you know that Michael Scott pretends to fire Pam Beesly as a prank in The Office episode " Casual Friday ", which is a reference to a similar scene in the show's first episode ?
text: Did you know that in 1917, engineer William Ruthven Smith drew a 6,000-foot (1,800 m) * anti-submarine net across the channel at Hampton Roads ?
text: Did you know that both solvent-shared and contact ion-pairs of magnesium and sulphate ions are present in sea-water?
text: Did you know that after some members of the Guamanian Congress refused to attend a joint session, Governor Charles Alan Pownall removed them from office?
text: Did you know that the purse won by a claimed horse in a claiming race usually goes to the former owner?
text: Did you know that " A Supermarket in California " is a poem by Allen Ginsberg published in 1956 and dedicated to Walt Whitman in the centennial year of the first edition of Leaves of Grass ?
text: Did you know that the recipe for tomato sauce published by Antonio Latini in Naples in 1692 was the very first one?
text: Did you know that 2009 Kentucky Derby winner Mine That Bird had the second highest odds of a Derby winner?
text: Did you know that in 2001, Dutch musician and artist Herman Brood committed suicide by jumping from the roof of the Amsterdam Hilton Hotel ?
text: Did you know that a blister beetle was introduced in Hawaii to trim the wood-boring Sonoran carpenter bee population, but the beetle failed to survive in the islands?
text: Did you know that three of Nguyen Anh 's generals, Do Thanh Nhon , Chau Van Tiep and Vo Tanh , were called "Gia Định Tam Hùng" (Three Heroes of Gia Dinh ) in Vietnamese folk culture ?
text: Did you know that Michael Jackson was unavailable for the filming of the music video for The Jacksons ' song, " Torture ", so a wax dummy was used in his place for the video?
text: Did you know that Brigadier Generals Winfield Scott and Edmund P. Gaines fought bitterly over a promotion to major general in the United States Regular Army that Colonel Alexander Macomb received instead?
text: Did you know that when the Chinese delicacy Buddha Jumps Over the Wall was introduced to South Korea , the name ignited a controversy in the Buddhist community ?
text: Did you know that Abigail Bush , in 1848, was the first American woman to serve as president of a women's rights convention ?
text: Did you know that Nymphaea leibergii is an uncommon North American dwarf waterlily whose flowers open each day and close at night?
text: Did you know that Humphrey de Bohun, 3rd Earl of Hereford had a father, a grandfather and a son , all with the same name?
text: Did you know that, despite having a run of only 18 months, close to 1.5 million Penny Venetian Red postage stamps were printed in Great Britain between 1880 and 1881?
text: Did you know that the Gibson Mansion , once believed to be a haunted house , is now a historical museum with a working blacksmith ?
text: Did you know that the Labour party lost control of Hartlepool council for the first time in 21 years after the 2000 Hartlepool Council election ?
text: Did you know that the Billy Joel and Ray Charles duet, " Baby Grand " , was originally produced because Charles had contacted Joel over Joel naming his daughter after Charles?
text: Did you know that Wilmslow Road in Manchester is reputed to have the busiest bus corridor in Europe?
text: Did you know that, unable to sell the radio station and facing financial difficulties, KORC in Waldport, Oregon , went dark on April Fool's Day 2009?
text: Did you know that the perpetrator of the Orly airport attack , Varujan Garabedian , was freed and deported to Armenia in 2001, after serving 17 years in jail?
text: Did you know that the Kentucky Route 2014 Bridge in Pineville, Kentucky , is one of only two bridges built in Kentucky by an in-state construction company?
text: Did you know that British motorcycle pioneer Bert Greeves owned a 1912 Triumph with the registration 'OLD 1'?
text: Did you know that Charlie Crowe started an appeal to raise money for a machine to prevent Alzheimer's ?
text: Did you know that singles from Stone Sour 's self titled debut album received two Grammy Award nominations in consecutive years?
text: Did you know that Indian musician Niladri Kumar started learning the sitar at the age of four and gave his first live performance when he was six years old?
text: Did you know that even though MacAdam/Cage was outbid for Audrey Niffenegger 's novel The Time Traveler's Wife , Niffenegger chose the small, independent firm because of their desire to publish the work?
text: Did you know that Polish Jesuit and missionary Jan Mikołaj Smogulecki introduced the knowledge of logarithms to China in the mid-17th century?
text: Did you know that Timbaland 's " Apologize " featuring OneRepublic was Canada's longest-running chart-topping single in 2007 ?
text: Did you know that Alberts Frères , one of the earliest film production companies in the Netherlands , filmed a stunt at a Maastricht market with a donkey and a suckling pig to promote the company?
text: Did you know that Peter Gummer , founder of Shandwick , went to Selwyn College, Cambridge wanting to be a priest?
text: Did you know that singer Matthew West 's song " The Motions " was "brought to life" for him after having vocal surgery?
text: Did you know that Margitta Gummel-Helmboldt was the first woman to throw a shot put more than 19 meters in the Summer Olympic Games ?
text: Did you know that the film version of Hello, Dolly used Garrison Landing , New York, for scenes set in 1890 Yonkers ?
text: Did you know that Tofo in southern Mozambique draws foreign tourists to its beaches and population of whale sharks ?
text: Did you know that critically-acclaimed Bolivian Aymara painter, Alejandro Mario Yllanes , disappeared from New York after winning, but not claiming, the Guggenheim fellowship in 1946?
text: Did you know that the Dokos shipwreck is the oldest underwater shipwreck known to archeologists ?
text: Did you know that with his number one single "Laura (What's He Got That I Ain't Got)", Leon Ashley became the first country music artist to write, record, release, distribute and publish his own material?
text: Did you know that the suburb of South Dunedin in Dunedin , New Zealand , contains one of only three known preserved gasworks museums in the world?
text: Did you know that Five Tango Sensations by the Kronos Quartet was the last studio recording by tango music legend Ástor Piazzolla ?
text: Did you know that despite playing the position of wide receiver in American college football , LaShaun Ward was the third leading rusher for the University of California Golden Bears in 2001?
text: Did you know that Stevie Smith 's most famous poem , " Not Waving but Drowning ", describes a man who drowns because onlookers mistake his thrashing for waving?
text: Did you know that Aleksander Sulkiewicz was a Muslim Tatar who co-founded the Polish Socialist Party and probably saved the life of the future leader of Poland, Józef Piłsudski , by planning his escape from a mental hospital?
text: Did you know that "The Cowboy Culture Center" is a weekly three-hour block of cowboy poetry and western music on radio station KNND in Cottage Grove, Oregon ?
text: Did you know that Irving Phillips 's comic strip The Strange World of Mr. Mum is cited as paving the way for later titles like The Far Side and Bizarro ?
text: Did you know that Rafael Nadal is the first player to win five consecutive titles at the Monte Carlo Masters ?
text: Did you know that Dylan McGrath 's documentary The Pressure Cooker was criticised by Michelin star - winning French restaurateur Patrick Guilbaud but has been praised by L'Ecrivain owner Derry Clarke , a judge alongside Sammy Leslie on the Adare -produced Fáilte Towers ?
text: Did you know that a captain's clerk was a job, now obsolete, in the Royal Navy for a person employed by the captain to keep his records and correspondence, and his accounts for the Admiralty to approve?
text: Did you know that Nathaniel Henry Hutton was a civil engineer on routes for the Pacific Railroad Surveys and a wagon road used by the Butterfield Overland Mail in the years before the American Civil War ?
text: Did you know that one of the members of R&B girl group RichGirl was discovered through MySpace ?
text: Did you know that Henrich Krummedige 's 1502 murder of Knut Alvsson ended the feud started by their fathers, Hartvig Krummedige and Alv Knutsson , as well as Knut's leadership of the rebellion against King Hans' rule over Norway ?
text: Did you know that a New Man magazine endorsement helped convince Chuck Norris to support Mike Huckabee's presidential campaign ?
text: Did you know that the government of Tunisia initially believed the explosion caused by Niser bin Muhammad Nasr Nawar was accidental, until they learned he had sent a letter taking credit in the name of al-Qaeda ?
text: Did you know that Old Bethpage Village Restoration on Long Island, New York , has been preserving historic buildings as a living museum since 1970?
text: Did you know that Merle Fainsod based his book Smolensk under Soviet Rule on Soviet documents captured by the Wehrmacht during World War II ?
text: Did you know that the band Dead Hot Workshop got their start at a Tempe club named Long Wong's , where bands such as the Gin Blossoms and The Refreshments also performed in the 1990s ?
text: Did you know that a former minister at Hove Methodist Church , England , spoke so forcefully during sermons that Communion cruets would sometimes be sent crashing to the floor?
text: Did you know that MGM Group of Companies is the master franchisee of Marrybrown fast food chain for Southern India ?
text: Did you know that Altman Lighting Co. introduced the PAR 64 for a Rolling Stones concert tour in 1966?
text: Did you know that Taiwan 's first printed newspaper , the Taiwan Church News , was written in Pe̍h-ōe-jī , not Chinese characters ?
text: Did you know that American painters Robert Feke and Benjamin West were strongly influenced by the technique and compositions of English-born painter John Wollaston ?
text: Did you know that Woolmer Forest , a former royal hunting forest in Hampshire , is the only site where all twelve species of amphibians and reptiles native to England are found?
text: Did you know that in 1978, Franklin Jacobs high jumped 59 centimeters (23 in) above his own height, setting an indoor world record that lasted a day, and a height differential record that still stands?
text: Did you know that one of many examples of territorial evolution of the Caribbean is that France sold the Caribbean island of Saint-Barthelemy to Sweden in 1784,  who in turn sold it back to France in 1878?
text: Did you know that the largest striped bass ever caught in California , weighing 67.5 pounds (30.6 kg), was found in the O'Neill Forebay Reservoir in August 2008?
text: Did you know that the Council of Bourges in November 1225 has been called the "fountainhead" of representational democracy in Western Europe ?
text: Did you know that the City Hall Post Office and Courthouse in New York City , designed by architect Alfred B. Mullett , was known as "Mullett's Monstrosity" until it was torn down in 1939?
text: Did you know that Baroness Crawley first became involved in politics while seeking funding for a youth theatre she ran?
text: Did you know that Terry Riley: Cadenza on the Night Plain is the first record to result from the long and fruitful collaboration between American composer Terry Riley and the Kronos Quartet ?
text: Did you know that the capture of Tunis by the Ottoman Empire from the Spanish Empire in 1574 decided that North Africa would be under Muslim rather than Christian rule?
text: Did you know that Shadow Hare is a real-life superhero who wears a cape and mask while fighting crime in Cincinnati, Ohio ?
text: Did you know that the song " Lo Mejor de Tu Vida " by Spanish singer Julio Iglesias held the record for biggest leap to number-one in the Billboard Hot Latin Tracks chart for almost 20 years?
text: Did you know that retired New York State Assembly Deputy Speaker Arthur Eve was an observer and negotiator at the 1971 Attica Prison riot where he entered the prison to hear inmate demands?
text: Did you know that the sports field at Ringstabekk , Norway , has hosted matches in the Bandy World Championships ?
text: Did you know that Dion Boucicault introduced the combination company to England with his first tour of The Colleen Bawn ?
text: Did you know that the powdery mildew fungus Phyllactinia guttata has gelatinous filaments thought to help it adhere to leaves?
text: Did you know that American spy Allen Dulles ran an intelligence organization from his house on Herrengasse , a street in the Old City of Berne , Switzerland , collecting information on the Nazis during World War II ?
text: Did you know that although the Lord of the Rings fan film The Hunt for Gollum is completely unofficial, its creators "reached an understanding" with Tolkien Enterprises ?
text: Did you know that the Western Weald is to be included in the proposed South Downs National Park , an outcome which author Bill Bryson said would have been "a national tragedy" had it not happened?
text: Did you know that Susan Boyle 's 2009 rendition of the song " I Dreamed a Dream " from the musical Les Misérables created an upsurge in public interest that elevated Patti LuPone 's original version to #45 on the UK Singles Chart ?
text: Did you know that Robert F. Hale was serving as Executive Director of the American Society of Military Comptrollers when President Barack Obama appointed him Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller) ?
text: Did you know that gashing is a machining process used to rough out gears prior to final machining operations, like hobbing or shaping ?
text: Did you know that Jampa Tsedroen, the monastic name of German Buddhist nun Carola Roloff , means "loving kindness" and "lamp of life" in Tibetan ?
text: Did you know that radio station KSWB in Seaside, Oregon , was originally owned by Jerden Records founder Jerry Dennon and American folk group The Brothers Four ?
text: Did you know that studies with sham surgery in humans have shown that treatments with cell transplants into the brains of patients with Parkinson disease were ineffective?
text: Did you know that J.T. Alley , police chief of Lubbock , Texas , vowed in 1970 to shoot looters taking advantage of his city's devastating tornadoes ?
text: Did you know that Queen Millennia was combined by Harmony Gold and Carl Macek with another Leiji Matsumoto series, Captain Harlock , to create Captain Harlock and the Queen of a Thousand Years ?
text: Did you know that professional wrestler Alex Koslov was the first Russian to wrestle in Arena Coliseo, 72 years after it was built?
text: Did you know that during the 2008–09 flu season in the United States, only 14.1% of influenza tests were positive for influenza ?
text: Did you know that Jerzy Borejsza , in charge of the Polish communist cultural policy in the early postwar years , was so influential that his network was called an "empire" or "state within a state"?
text: Did you know that in the comic fantasy sitcom ElvenQuest , "The Chosen One" who will find the sacred Sword of Asnagar is a dog called "Amis"?
text: Did you know that Spanish murderer Francisco Arce Montes developed an obsession with personal hygiene during his teenage years?
text: Did you know that the 85-mile (137 km) Susquehannock Trail System hiking trail passes through the 30,253-acre (12,243 ha) Hammersley Wild Area , the largest area  in Pennsylvania without a road?
text: Did you know that the first season of Celebrity Bainisteoir was said to have "brought the worlds of celebrity and GAA club football crashing together", and the second season features Working Girls and Wonderwomen star Katherine Lynch and Miss Universe contender Andrea Roche ?
text: Did you know that at the age of 61, Junko Akimoto is the oldest singer to have a number one single in Japan ?
text: Did you know that professional wrestler Christopher Bauman first gained recognition in a ladder match described as "psychotic"?
text: Did you know that Wandsworth Bridge has been described as "probably the least noteworthy bridge in London "?
text: Did you know that staff at KLYC in McMinnville, Oregon , reported a paranormal "presence" in the radio station 's previous studio building?
text: Did you know that the world's largest mathematical experiment, designed by Brian Butterworth , found women to be faster than men at subitizing ?
text: Did you know that Dunbrody Country House Hotel owner Kevin Dundon and Thornton's Restaurant owner Kevin Thornton of Heat were featured on Guerrilla Gourmet alongside Café Paradiso owner Denis Cotter , The Mustard Seed owner Dan Mullane and former Mint Restaurant proprietor Dylan McGrath ?
text: Did you know that BoA 's Best of Soul made her the first non- Japanese Asian singer to have two million-selling albums in Japan?
text: Did you know that Richard Nixon was approached to run in California's 12th congressional district election, 1946 only after local Republicans failed to interest General George Patton in the race?
text: Did you know that in Dragon Ball Kai the story of Dragon Ball Z will be cut down to only one hundred episodes ?
text: Did you know that British Conservative Member of Parliament Sir Percy Hurd used to go round villages in Wiltshire telling funny stories?
text: Did you know that a major weakness of the Japanese RED cipher arose from the desire to save money on telegrams ?
text: Did you know that Rufus Wainwright 's EP Waiting for a Want features guest appearances by family members Martha Wainwright and Suzzy Roche and musicians Teddy Thompson and Joan Wasser ?
text: Did you know that Royal Navy officer Charles Elphinstone Fleeming was once challenged to a duel by his former subordinate, Charles John Napier ?
text: Did you know that Microsoft 's Chrome project was so widely criticized by web developers for failing to meet media standards that the project was cancelled before it was released?
text: Did you know that Italian Vice Consul Vito Positano saved the future Bulgarian capital Sofia from burning by the Ottoman army?
text: Did you know that the Corgi Motorcycle Co Ltd. ' s Corgi scooter was branded the "Indian Papoose" for the United States market?
text: Did you know that actress Venida Evans has appeared as a " muse " in a series of IKEA television commercials which have been described as " surreal " and "creepy"?
text: Did you know that " Share the World/We Are! " made K-pop boy band TVXQ the only foreign artist to have six number one singles in Japan?
text: Did you know that Johannes Gerckens Bassøe was Norway's first permanent Governor of Svalbard ?
text: Did you know that Leroy E. "Ed" Parsons, co-founder of KVAS (now KKEE ) in Astoria, Oregon , created the one of the first cable television systems in the United States?
text: Did you know that in 1979, John Phillip Santos became the first Mexican-American Rhodes Scholar ?
text: Did you know that Del Rey Manga finds most of its translator talent from anime and manga fans at conventions since fluent English speakers who know enough Japanese are preferred over native Japanese translators?
text: Did you know that Harrison Oxley was the youngest cathedral organist in Britain when he became organist of St Edmundsbury Cathedral at age 24?
text: Did you know that Gold Toe Brands produces more than half the men's dress socks sold in United States department stores?
text: Did you know that R. Thamaraikani punched former Agriculture minister Veerapandi Arumugam during a debate in the Tamil Nadu state assembly in 1999?
text: Did you know that the original radio studios of the station now called KLMG were located in California 's Old Sacramento State Historic Park ?
text: Did you know that Hartvig Andreas Munthe , an aide-de-camp of King Oscar II of Sweden and Norway , was made Colonel in the turbulent year of 1905 , only to die three months later?
text: Did you know that the film Best: His Mother's Son was made in 2009 without the consent of George Best 's family?
text: Did you know that Hugh Stockwell rose from the rank of Major to that of Major General in fewer than five years?
text: Did you know that the South Fallsburg, New York , Hebrew Association Synagogue has a full sukkah in its basement?
text: Did you know that the host of The Political Cesspool was described as "ecstatic" that the show was included on the Southern Poverty Law Center 's Hate Watch List?
text: Did you know that in 1994, Joseph Takahashi and his collaborators identified the genetic basis for circadian rhythms in mammals ?
text: Did you know that Harriman Historic District in Bristol, Pennsylvania , originally built to house workers of the Merchant Shipbuilding Corporation , was the largest single housing project undertaken by the EFC in World War I ?
text: Did you know that Wes Schulmerich turned down an offer to play football for Knute Rockne at Notre Dame , later becoming a Major League Baseball player ?
text: Did you know that South Africa 's Take a Girl Child to Work Day started in 2003 to fight gender inequality in the workforce ?
text: Did you know that Rigoberto Torres and John Ahearn collaborated on the South Bronx Hall of Fame , monuments of ordinary people, as a response to the practice of enshrining public figures?
text: Did you know that the Lipka Rebellion of 1672 was the only time that the Muslim Lipka Tatars mutinied against the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth ?
text: Did you know that an early Washington National Opera , unrelated to its modern namesake, presented Bidu Sayão in her 1936 U.S. operatic debut with organ , not orchestra , accompaniment owing to a financial dispute?
text: Did you know that Alice Allison Dunnigan became the first African-American journalist to accompany a U.S. president while traveling?
text: Did you know that Salbit , thought to have been the site of the biblical Shaalabbin, was depopulated during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War ?
text: Did you know that Ann-Kristin Olsen was the first female chief of police in Norway as well as the first female Governor of Svalbard ?
text: Did you know that the Lake Chelan wine region petition was delayed because of a hold on all AVA approvals due to the Napa Valley sub-AVA controversy?
text: Did you know that V. Ramaswami was the first Justice of the Supreme Court of India to face impeachment proceedings in independent India ?
text: Did you know that the cotton presses near Latta, South Carolina and Tarboro, North Carolina , are antebellum , animal-powered, handmade wooden presses?
text: Did you know that in a 1997 Alaskan expedition, pathologist Johan Hultin retrieved samples of the 1918 influenza virus from the lungs of flu victims preserved by permafrost ?
text: Did you know that Governor of Minnesota Jesse Ventura had his former wrestling tag team partner Stephen Cepello paint his official portraits?
text: Did you know that the book Yellow Star is based on the true story of one of twelve children who survived the Lodz Ghetto ?
text: Did you know that Ida Henrietta Hyde was the first woman to receive a Ph.D. at the University of Heidelberg ?
text: Did you know that Cothelstone Manor was largely destroyed during the English Civil War and rebuilt 200 years later?
text: Did you know that Derek and Alex King changed their defense twice in the course of prosecution for the murder of their father?
text: Did you know that the encyclical Demandatam was issued in 1743 to ordain the full preservation of the Byzantine Rite in the Melkite Catholic Church ?
text: Did you know that Barbara McGuire invented the "Duo-Stamp," a two-sided rubber stamp that is popular with the stamping community?
text: Did you know that Thomas Henry Barry was Superintendent of the United States Military Academy from 1910 to 1912?
text: Did you know that in his first TV series , Crusader ( CBS , 1955–1956), Brian Keith portrayed fictional journalist Matt Anders, who during the Cold War liberates oppressed people from communism ?
text: Did you know that the medieval bishop Julian of Cuenca raised money for himself and the poor by making and selling baskets?
text: Did you know that after a dam created a reservoir for the Delaware and Hudson Canal during the 19th century, it was later named Silver Lake and became an attraction for guests at the summer resorts near Woodridge, New York ?
text: Did you know that Fernanda Nissen was one of the two first film censors in Norway?
text: Did you know that charitable initiatives championed by current First Spouses of the United States have included blankets for the homeless and development assistance in Rwanda ?
text: Did you know that the application of a spray-on condom was based on the logistics of a drive-through car wash ?
text: Did you know that after being sentenced to a 14-year deportation in 1845, Norwegian Knud Bull became a pioneer in Australian landscape painting ?
text: Did you know that when architect Frank Lloyd Wright designed his American System-Built Homes , he produced over 900 working drawings , which was more than he made for any other project?
text: Did you know that Fatma Aliye Topuz , whose portrait illustrates the reverse of the current 50 Turkish lira banknote, is credited as the first female Turkish and Muslim writer?
text: Did you know that the Caricature Museum of Mexico City has featured cartoons and sketches by Frida Kahlo and Jose Clemente Orozco ?
text: Did you know that actor Jeff Bridges credits his mother, Dorothy Bridges , with passing down lessons she learned from acclaimed acting teacher Michael Chekhov to her children?
text: Did you know that the library system of the University of Toronto is the fourth-largest academic library in North America ?
text: Did you know that Ward Van Orman was denied the 1925 Gordon Bennett Cup in ballooning for landing his balloon not on land, but on the deck of a ship?
text: Did you know that Johannes Sejersted Bødtker , Finland's Honorary Consul to Oslo, was held almost three years in a concentration camp during World War II ?
text: Did you know that the tugboat that towed log rafts across Upper Klamath Lake to the Algoma lumber mill in Algoma, Oregon , is now on display in the Collier Memorial State Park logging museum?
text: Did you know that Samuel D. McDearmon played a critical role in developing the village of Appomattox Court House , where Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant ?
text: Did you know that based on the documents in the Liber instrumentorum memorialium the twelfth-century population of Montpellier and its environs has been estimated at 9,000 people?
text: Did you know that Amalia Mesa-Bains , a Ph.D. psychologist, was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship for her artwork?
text: Did you know that the Galapagos shark is often the most abundant shark around oceanic islands?
text: Did you know that although professional wrestler Max Bauer won the 2008 Toxic Waltz tournament , it was not counted because he competed under a mask ?
text: Did you know that the town of Shenkeng is popularly known in Taiwan as the " Tofu Capital"?
text: Did you know that in 1897, a Texas farmer discovered a UFO landed on his property: an airship operated by United States Army engineer Samuel Escue Tillman and inventor Amos Dolbear ?
text: Did you know that when the Rogue River eroded andesitic lava in the Rogue Valley , it created the Upper and Lower Table Rock geologic formations?
text: Did you know that Frye's Measure Mill is the only remaining water-powered measure mill in the United States after some 150 years of operations?
text: Did you know that when Richard Peek of Loddiswell became Sheriff of London , he paid for a missionary to visit the prisoners at Newgate Prison ?
text: Did you know that John Ruskin had wallpaper made for his study at Brantwood based on the design of a tablecloth in a painting of 1499 by Marco Marziale ?
text: Did you know that the fictitious newspaper article written by the journalist in the Parks and Recreation episode " The Reporter " was featured as a PDF file on the official NBC website?
text: Did you know that Rufus Wainwright 's second studio album Poses features a song originally written by his father, Loudon Wainwright III ?
text: Did you know that St Joseph's Church , a Roman Catholic church in Brighton , England, was not officially dedicated until 100 years after building work started because a debt had not been settled?
text: Did you know that The Grove at Ole Miss was called "the mother and mistress of outdoor ritual mayhem" for its legendary football game day tailgating by The New York Times ?
text: Did you know that Pacnews stopped reporting on Fijian news rather than submit to government censorship in the wake of the 2009 Fijian constitutional crisis ?
text: Did you know that the alfalfa grown on the Wendelin Grimm Farmstead in Carver County, Minnesota , became the source of varieties of alfalfa grown on 25,000,000 acres (10,000,000 ha) of the United States ?
text: Did you know that the Hallein Salt Mine is known for its long wooden slides for miners and tourists to descend into the mine?
text: Did you know that although professional wrestler B-Boy lost a Loser Leaves Town match to Nate Webb in Combat Zone Wrestling in August 2005, he returned to the promotion the next month?
text: Did you know that the " Devil's Cigar " is a mushroom found only in Texas and Japan ?
text: Did you know that among French handball player Valérie Nicolas ´ triumphs are victories at the World Championship , Champions League , EHF Cup , Cup Winners' Cup , and both French and Danish national championships?
text: Did you know that an 1830s newspaper article in Freedom's Journal in favor of the free produce movement determined that the sugar consumption of 25 people required the toil of one slave ?
text: Did you know that British flight instructor Valentine Baker taught such noted pupils as Edward, Prince of Wales , Amy Johnson , and Lord Londonderry of the Air Ministry ?
text: Did you know that Johanson-Blizzard syndrome , a recessive congenital disorder , can cause abnormal development of the pancreas , nose and scalp , with mental retardation , hearing loss and growth failure ?
text: Did you know that in April 2009, Lim Hwee Hua became the first woman to be appointed a full Minister in Singapore 's Cabinet ?
text: Did you know that the Royal Navy accepted Gay Viking and Gay Corsair into their service during the Second World War , with another 12 Gay class fast patrol boats joining in the 1950s?
text: Did you know that the Conservative and Unionist Women's Franchise Association stymied anti-suffragists by denying them widespread Conservative Party support?
text: Did you know that when Henrik Ibsen 's play Brand was first staged in Norway , 38 years after it was published, Egil Eide played the title role?
text: Did you know that Ki-a-Kuts Falls in Oregon were named after the last chief of the Atfalati band of Native Americans?
text: Did you know that in 1950 former record-setting balloonist Thomas G. W. Settle was assigned to perform a nuclear test in the Aleutian islands ?
text: Did you know that the first series of British radio stand-up comedy show Mark Steel's in Town was recorded in Skipton , Boston , Lewes , Walsall , Merthyr Tydfil and the Isle of Portland ?
text: Did you know that Don Featherstone created over 750 plastic animals, but is most famous for the plastic flamingo ?
text: Did you know that fluffy bums suck on passion vine juice?
text: Did you know that Frank Grouard , a famous scout during the Indian Wars , was believed by many to be an American Indian but actually came from the Society Islands in the South Pacific ?
text: Did you know that individual smalltooth sand tigers have been documented returning to the same location off Lebanon every summer?
text: Did you know that Julian Myrick , an insurance businessman, was inducted in the International Tennis Hall of Fame for his promotion and administration of the sport in the United States?
text: Did you know that on 28 February 1828, dozens of people died when The Emma was launched on the River Irwell in Manchester ?
text: Did you know that the Czech actor Bolek Polívka was involved in one of the oddest legal disputes in the history of the Czech Republic ?
text: Did you know that according to her autobiography Singin' and Swingin' and Gettin' Merry Like Christmas , Marguerite Johnson changed her name to Maya Angelou because it sounded more exotic?
text: Did you know that volcanoes in the Puyehue Volcano complex may have produced some of the most primitive magmas in the Andes ?
text: Did you know that Studioteatret was started in Oslo by actors and students, including Jens Bolling , Liv Strømsted and Arne Thomas Olsen , who had secretly studied Stanislavski 's theatre theories during World War II ?
text: Did you know that season 8 of Law & Order: Criminal Intent premiered April 2009 after a five-month delay, reportedly because the episodes with Jeff Goldblum were so "terrible" the production crew had to be changed?
text: Did you know that Archie Roe , who scored South Shields F.C. 's first ever goal in The Football League , was then signed by the team he had scored it against?
text: Did you know that a 2.5 million dollar climate change project in Basedth District , Cambodia , aims to improve water supply and increase rice production?
text: Did you know that Major Caleb Huse purchased the majority of imported weapons used by the Confederate Army during the American Civil War ?
text: Did you know that the Kangchu system was instrumental in driving Johor 's economy during the 19th century?
text: Did you know that Arizona Territorial Governor Alexander Oswald Brodie pardoned Pearl Hart under the condition the stagecoach robber left the territory?
text: Did you know that a rare, iridescent purple pearl worth thousands of U.S. dollars was found in a plate of steamed clams at a Florida restaurant?
text: Did you know that Gerhard Munthe , a painter, illustrator and chair of the National Gallery of Norway , lost his wife to explorer Fridtjof Nansen ?
text: Did you know that the Persian embassy to Europe in 1599–1602 aimed at establishing a Christian – Persian alliance against the Ottoman Empire ?
text: Did you know that Patrick Murphy Malin was expected to become head of the family bank, but instead served as executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union ?
text: Did you know that patients with the congenital vascular malformation double aortic arch have two aortic arches , instead of one, which form a vascular ring that can compress the trachea ?
text: Did you know that the Indian Fields Methodist Campground in South Carolina has been used for camp meetings and religious gatherings for over 160 years?
text: Did you know that the erotic-philosophical film I + People = ? was created by Leonid Konovalov , a homeless Russian who has not showered in 19 years?
text: Did you know that Leonard T. "Max" Schroeder Jr. was the first American soldier to land in Normandy from an assault boat on D-Day in World War II ?
text: Did you know that more than a quarter of freshwater fishes that have been discovered in rivers and streams of southwestern Sri Lanka are endemic ?
text: Did you know that the Norwegian novelist and editor of Vinduet , Henrik Langeland , wrote a doctoral thesis on Marcel Proust ?
text: Did you know that the Department of Central Eurasian Studies at Indiana University began as a specialized U.S. Army training program during the Second World War ?
text: Did you know that al-Batani al-Sharqi , a depopulated Palestinian village near Gaza , was originally founded as a ranch by the Umayyad caliph Muawiyah I in the 8th century?
text: Did you know that James D. Hutton was a pioneer photographer of the northern Rockies who betrayed the plans for the Federal defense of Alexandria, Virginia , to the Confederacy early in the American Civil War ?
text: Did you know that the 1957–1958 CBS sitcom Dick and the Duchess was one of the few American television series filmed in England ?
text: Did you know that the 2009 World Wrestling Entertainment Draft featured seven selections that affected seven of the company's nine championships ?
text: Did you know that before becoming director general of the Norwegian State Railways in 1924, Eivind Heiberg was the director of the manufacturing company Skabo Jernbanevognfabrikk ?
text: Did you know that Queen Latifah 's rendition of " I'll Be Seeing You " from the Broadway musical Right This Way during the 81st Academy Awards In Memoriam tribute was the annual tribute's first vocal accompaniment?
text: Did you know that Jan Konopka was a Polish cavalry commander in the Napoleonic period , a general, a Baron of the French Empire , and was decorated with the Légion d'honneur ?
text: Did you know that " Broke ", a fifth season episode of The Office , was directed by lead actor Steve Carell himself?
text: Did you know that Hamby Park in Hillsboro, Oregon , is named after the owner of a Chevrolet car dealership?
text: Did you know that the Dragon Goby , which looks like a tiny dragon, is actually an almost blind and totally harmless fish?
text: Did you know that although Leo Wolman was once director of research for the Amalgamated Clothing Workers Union , his criticisms of unions led directly to the passage of the Taft-Hartley Act in 1947?
text: Did you know that the extreme luminosity observed for supernova 2005gj could be explained by the incidence of a quark nova ?
text: Did you know that after professional wrestler "the New Horror" Sami Callihan won the CZW Iron Man Championship , he renamed it the "CZW New Horror Championship"?
text: Did you know that George Habash , founder of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine , was a survivor of the Lydda Death March of July 1948?
text: Did you know that NBC network executive Perry Lafferty produced the 1985 television movie An Early Frost , one of the first dramatic films to deal with the subject of HIV / AIDS ?
text: Did you know that the first chapter of Hamamatsu Chūnagon Monogatari , an eleventh-century Japanese tale, no longer exists?
text: Did you know that David Shaw , who won the 1991 Pulitzer Prize for Criticism for coverage of the McMartin preschool trial , got his first writing job at age 16 filling in at a motorcycle race for an absent reporter?
text: Did you know that the Anyangcheon , a river in Gyeonggi Province and Seoul City of South Korea , is home to a variety of wildlife such as goldfish , Grey Heron and Northern Shoveler ?
text: Did you know that the day the Parks and Recreation episode " Canvassing " aired on NBC , it captured almost one million viewers more than its direct ABC time-slot competitor, Samantha Who?
text: Did you know that John Henry Turpin , who survived the catastrophic explosions of USS Maine in 1898 and USS Bennington in 1905, was one of the first African American Chief Petty Officers of the United States Navy ?
text: Did you know that Bobby Cowell only played for one professional club during his entire football career ( Newcastle United )?
text: Did you know that the ending of the South Park episode " Fatbeard " mirrors the resolution of the hijacking of the Maersk Alabama by Somalian pirates ?
text: Did you know that the linguistic works of Daniel Gravius are used by modern scholars to shed light on the society of the 17th-century Siraya people of Taiwan ?
text: Did you know that over 100 countries are represented and almost 170 languages are spoken in the ethnic enclaves of New York City ?
text: Did you know that American journalist Phelan Beale, Jr. was a son of Edith Ewing Bouvier Beale and a brother of Edith Bouvier Beale , whose lives were highlighted in the documentary Grey Gardens ?
text: Did you know that the Foothill Yellow-legged Frog secretes an anti-fungal protein from its skin to prevent infections by various fungi such as Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis ?
text: Did you know that during the First Great Migration , the majority of Shubuta, Mississippi , moved to Albany, New York , with some recreating a religious rural community in Rapp Road Community Historic District ?
text: Did you know that protected areas of Sri Lanka such as Sinharaja Forest Reserve account for 26.5 percent of the total area of Sri Lanka ?
text: Did you know that Anshei Glen Wild Synagogue in Glen Wild, New York , is so small it has never had its own rabbi ?
text: Did you know that Norwegian politician Lars T. Platou was an electrical engineer and farmer by occupation?
text: Did you know that the term maverick , referring to an animal without a brand , came from Texas land baron Samuel Maverick who was notorious for not branding his cattle?
text: Did you know that Gerontion is a poem by T. S. Eliot that was first published in 1920 which relates the opinions and impressions of a gerontic, or elderly man?
text: Did you know that Brian McMenamin graduated with a degree in political science , but is co-owner of the McMenamins chain of brewpubs ?
text: Did you know that The Magnet was the first film to give James Fox a starring role, at the age of 11?
text: Did you know that Julie Wainwright was CEO of one of the shortest-lived public companies on record?
text: Did you know that in Breaking the Spell , the author discusses how she helped plan an assassination plot against a U.S. Attorney while at Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh 's commune in Rajneeshpuram , Oregon ?
text: Did you know that José Sabogal was "the most renowned early supporter" of the artistic indigenist movement of Peru ?
text: Did you know that openly gay actor John Barrowman was one of the final candidates for the role of the gay character Will in the pilot episode of Will & Grace , but lost to heterosexual Eric McCormack for not being "gay enough"?
text: Did you know that Poricy Park in New Jersey is known for allowing limited collecting at its Cretaceous -era fossil shell beds?
text: Did you know that director/screenwriter Kang Dae-ha from Jeju Island , South Korea , directed films related to Korean shamanism ?
text: Did you know that Disappearing Model , a body painting in which a model is painted so that she is indistinguishable from her background, is Joanne Gair 's most famous work and was displayed on Ripley's Believe It or Not! ?
text: Did you know that although Darius Danesh did not win the first series of Pop Idol , he still achieved a number-one single with " Colourblind "?
text: Did you know that the Australian Army 's 1965–6 secret incursions into Indonesia during Australia's involvement in the Indonesia-Malaysia Confrontation were not officially acknowledged until 1996?
text: Did you know that then Conservative party leader William Hague and former Eastenders actor Michael Cashman campaigned for the 1999 Lichfield Council election ?
text: Did you know that after Daniel Shanks and John Wrench calculated pi to 100,000 decimal digits , a bound, gold-inscribed printout of the digits was presented to the Smithsonian Institution ?
text: Did you know that Wilco 's upcoming studio album is expected to feature a duet with Canadian singer Feist ?
text: Did you know that Islam and Protestantism have an early history of mutual support against Catholicism , and share some common attitudes to faith, such as textual criticism and iconoclasm ?
text: Did you know that Johnny Madison Williams Jr. , one of the most successful bank robbers in American history, was nicknamed " The Shootist " by the FBI because of his modus operandi of firing into the air at the beginning of each heist?
text: Did you know that the Kyshtym disaster was a serious nuclear accident in 1957 , which resulted in permanent evacuation of about 10,000 people?
text: Did you know that Benjamin Edwards , who expanded the privately-held A. G. Edwards into the largest U.S. brokerage firm headquartered outside of New York City , owned the world's largest collection of Imari porcelain ?
text: Did you know that both members of Duo Crommelynck , a noted classical piano duo, committed suicide in 1994, the only known such case in classical music history?
text: Did you know that children in the high-altitude gold mining town of Kimberly, Utah , attended school from April through November to avoid the deep snows of winter?
text: Did you know that the 1956 film Lovers and Lollipops , by indie filmmaker Morris Engel , was noted for its realism and New York City locations, and influenced the French New Wave ?
text: Did you know that although the steam-powered SS Clan Alpine had a maximum forwards speed of 10.5 knots (19.4 km/h ), on her final journey she went backwards at 35 knots (65 km/h)?
text: Did you know that Joey Hamilton held five baseball records at Georgia Southern University until 1995?
text: Did you know that in 2008, the Triumph Bonneville America was updated with electronic fuel injection to meet European legislation and had the fuel injectors concealed by dummy carburettors ?
text: Did you know that a 1.5 million dollar land concession project in Sameakki Mean Chey District , Cambodia , will provide land to 732 of the poorest farming families?
text: Did you know that the Kröd Mändoon episode " Our Bounties Ourselves " included an almost verbatim parody of George W. Bush 's famous "Fool me once" speech gaffe?
text: Did you know that Kevin Walton and Richard Butson were the first to climb several Antarctic peaks, with both of them going on to receive the Albert Medal for heroism and the Polar Medal ?
text: Did you know that Festival Republic has replaced Aiken Promotions as co-organiser of Stradbally Hall 's boutique Electric Picnic arts-and-music festival in 2009 ?
text: Did you know  that Obadiah Rich was a diplomat and bibliographer specializing in Latin American works whose younger brother William Rich was a botanist with the United States Exploring Expedition of 1838–42?
text: Did you know that the Federal Works Agency funded and supervised the construction of housing, public health facilities, and schools for communities impacted by fast-growing defense industries during World War II ?
text: Did you know that architect Georg Andreas Bull designed about sixty railway stations, including the Krøderen Station from 1872?
text: Did you know that the butterflyfish species Forcipiger longirostris has the longest Hawaiian name for any fish: lauwiliwilinukunukuʻoiʻoi ?
text: Did you know that Ohave Shalom Synagogue was founded when the members of the existing synagogue in Woodridge, New York , had a dispute over who would be the community's ritual slaughterer of animals ?
text: Did you know that the Welbike was the smallest motorcycle ever used by the British Armed Forces?
text: Did you know that Baton Rouge attorney Dan Claitor was elected in 2009 to the Louisiana State Senate despite his fellow Republican , Governor Bobby Jindal endorsing his opponent?
text: Did you know that the problem of deforestation in Costa Rica in the 1980s and early 1990s was referenced in Michael Crichton 's 1990 novel, Jurassic Park ?
text: Did you know that, although professional wrestlers Kurt and Karl Von Steiger won the AWA World Tag Team Championship , their title reign is not recognized because the previous champions were not authorized to lose the title?
text: Did you know that the 64-pillared 17th century marble monument Chausath Khamba is a tomb for Mirz Aziz Koka?
text: Did you know that Jeffrey Zients , the new United States Chief Performance Officer , was in a club that tried to buy the Washington Nationals baseball team?
text: Did you know that Sofmap , a Japanese retailer, released a collector's box of Izuna 2: The Unemployed Ninja Returns that mirrors the design of erotic eroge games?
text: Did you know that astronomer Rolf Brahde provided commentary for the 1969 moon landing on Norwegian television ?
text: Did you know that the vestararius managed both the wardrobe and money of the pope from the 8th to 11th centuries?
text: Did you know that Pete Overfield won a professional American football championship in 1901 and was later nominated by U.S. President William Howard Taft as a federal judge in Alaska ?
text: Did you know that the 1953 Asian Socialist Conference held in Rangoon , was an important precursor to the 1955 Bandung Conference ?
text: Did you know that Cherokee Chief J. B. Milam funded an expedition to Mexico in 1939 to find the grave of Sequoyah , the inventor of the Cherokee writing system ?
text: Did you know that members of a thief network, named " Pink Panthers " by Interpol , have stolen millions of dollars worth of jewels by driving limousines through a window, escaping on a speedboat and cross-dressing ?
text: Did you know that as Director of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service , Wayne L. Horvitz played a major role in negotiating labor disputes ranging from coal strikes to musicians at the Metropolitan Opera ?
text: Did you know that Xi , a console -based alternate reality game , involved the users in searching for clues in the real world ?
text: Did you know that Earl Donnchadh of Carrick gave lands to Paisley Abbey so that he could found a new abbey at Crossraguel , but because the monks of Paisley wanted to keep the lands for themselves the foundation was delayed?
text: Did you know that defunct Christian radio station KPBA was owned by former National Football League tight end Jackie Harris ?
text: Did you know that Ingvald Smith-Kielland left his ambassadorship in the Czechoslovak Republic after the Prague Spring ?
text: Did you know that the " Wizard of Oz " and " Iron Man " are just two of the four members of the Baseball Hall of Fame who have won Gold Glove Awards at shortstop ?
text: Did you know that HMS Canopus served for less than six months for the French Navy , and then for 89 years for the Royal Navy ?
text: Did you know that SN 2002cx was classified as a type Ia supernova , but does not have some features that define a type Ia supernova?
text: Did you know that Angeles University Foundation , Arellano University and the Emilio Aguinaldo College are the guest teams playing in the 2009 basketball season of the Philippine NCAA ?
text: Did you know that the success of the championship 1901 Homestead Library & Athletic Club football team inspired promoters to form the first National Football League in 1902?
text: Did you know that 20th-century medieval scholar Erika Cheetham interpreted Nostradamus ' writings as prophecies of Napoleon , Hitler , and the establishment of modern Israel ?
text: Did you know that although it was mocked by Indira Gandhi 's Congress (I) as the "Congress for Defectors", Jagjivan Ram 's Congress for Democracy helped the opposition Janata Party win the 1977 election ?
text: Did you know that typical subjects for late medieval Andachtsbilder include the Pietà , Pensive Christ , Man of Sorrows and Arma Christi , and the Veil of Veronica ?
text: Did you know that Nanuli Shevardnadze , wife of the future president of Georgia Eduard Shevardnadze , initially rejected his marriage proposal, fearing her family background would ruin his career?
text: Did you know that while the Pakistan Socialist Party won several seats in 1954 in East Pakistan due to reservations for religious minorities, the party opposed such reservations in principle?
text: Did you know that Bernardo Peres da Silva , the only native Governor of Portuguese India in its 451-year history, was deposed after just seventeen days in office?
text: Did you know that the leaves of young Bagassa guianensis trees are so different from those of the adults that taxonomists considered them to be different species for at least 150 years?
text: Did you know that the Homicide: Life on the Street episode " Subway " was inspired by an episode of the HBO documentary series Taxicab Confessions where a detective talked about a man who became pinned between a subway train and the platform?
text: Did you know that Norwegian politician Rolf Thommessen edited the newspaper Tidens Tegn for more than twenty years, from 1917 to 1938?
text: Did you know that the 1932 Colgate University football team was "undefeated, untied, unscored upon, and uninvited" after being snubbed by the Rose Bowl ?
text: Did you know that Centipede were an English jazz / progressive rock band with more than 50 members?
text: Did you know that during World War II , Richard Andvord conducted illegal resistance work through the company Rich. Andvord , founded in 1865 by his ancestor of the same name ?
text: Did you know that industries that have shaped the Hudson, New York , historic district include whaling , antique shops and prostitution ?
text: Did you know that Frank Bossard was the first spy caught with the aid of an electronic transmitter ?
text: Did you know that although he headed the Royal Stables of Norway from 1945 to 1960, Richard Andvord only had responsibility for motor vehicles ?
text: Did you know that the Veterans Benevolent Association , an early organization for gay American veterans, worked with the NAACP to end the issuance of the less-than-honorable blue discharge ?
text: Did you know that the classically -inspired porticoes on the Hudson, New York , post office echo those of the Columbia County courthouse across the square?
text: Did you know that Michel T. Halbouty was a wildcatter who was credited with discovering more than 50 oil and gas fields, though he twice declared bankruptcy?
text: Did you know that a Maya ruler of Ixlu , a small ancient city in Guatemala , claimed to be the lord of the major Maya city of Tikal ?
text: Did you know that John Mayberry, Jr. hit his first two career home runs against the New York Yankees and the Toronto Blue Jays , the last two Major League Baseball teams for which his father John Mayberry played?
text: Did you know that the rarely seen Rufous Scrub-bird occurs on Mount Banda Banda in New South Wales , Australia ?
text: Did you know that pioneering lesbian journalist Edith Eyde only assumed the pseudonym Lisa Ben after editors of the lesbian magazine The Ladder rejected her first choice, "Ima Spinster"?
text: Did you know that Ukrainian naturalist , lecturer, artist and author John Lhotsky was credited as the first discoverer of gold in New South Wales ?
text: Did you know that the 1749 pamphlet Satan's Harvest Home blamed influences from France and Italy for promoting effeminacy and homosexual contact among British gentlemen?
text: Did you know that Kelly Misa ranked 84th in the FHM Philippines ' sexiest women of 2006?
text: Did you know that Isambard Kingdom Brunel used light rails and heavy timber baulks for the Great Western Railway 's baulk road track because existing technology could not produce strong rails?
text: Did you know that despite having organized the first LGBT rights demonstration in the US , activist Randy Wicker denounced the Stonewall riots , saying that "throwing rocks through windows doesn't open doors"?
text: Did you know that the poet William Dickey finished a poem about the death of his mentor, John Berryman , shortly before his own death in 1994?
text: Did you know that São Gabriel was one of the two ships of Vasco da Gama 's armada that returned from the trip to India ?
text: Did you know that the main theme of Indian novelist V.J.P. Saldanha ' s writings was the 18th-century captivity of 60,000 Mangalorean Roman Catholics at Seringapatam ?
text: Did you know that the organizers of San Francisco's Trans March rerouted the event through the city's Mission District to draw attention to violence against transgender people?
text: Did you know that HMS Lively won five battle honours during the Second World War , despite a career lasting less than a year from commissioning to being sunk?
text: Did you know that the Los Angeles chapter of the Gay Liberation Front organized a project to take over the government of Alpine County, CA , to establish a gay separatist community called Stonewall Nation ?
text: Did you know that the Maya archaeological site of El Tintal , in the northern Petén region of Guatemala , includes a triadic-style pyramid estimated to be 30 metres (98 ft) tall?
text: Did you know that the Adam Clayton Powell Jr. State Office Building is the tallest building in Harlem ?
text: Did you know that Pungent Stench 's early demos compiled on Praise the Names of the Musical Assassins caused a "considerable amount of interest" in the group, leading them to sign a deal with Nuclear Blast ?
text: Did you know that Alan Wagner , the first president of the Disney Channel , was also an opera critic and radio personality?
text: Did you know that Philipp Schoch is the only snowboarder to win two gold medals at the Winter Olympic Games ?
text: Did you know that while Chief of Defence Staff Jean Boyle was ridiculed for ordering the Canadian military to halt nearly all operations for one day to search for missing files , some were subsequently found?
text: Did you know that Indian women's activist Moturu Udayam is said to have been the first woman to ride a bicycle in the state of Andhra Pradesh ?
text: Did you know that a "no ID , no sitting on the bench" rule will be implemented in the 2009 UAAP basketball season to avoid what happened last year when a coach was given a technical foul for not wearing his ID?
text: Did you know that despite its author keeping detailed journals of his experiences, the baseball memoir Odd Man Out was criticized by many people named in the book as being factually inaccurate?
text: Did you know that as governor of Davao del Norte , Prospero Amatong oversaw the creation of nearby Compostela Valley , eventually serving as the new Filipino province's interim governor in 1998?
text: Did you know that Christian Zheng Sheng College on Lantau , Hong Kong , has a dormitory on Cheung Chau from which students take small ferries called kai-tos to get to school?
text: Did you know that the British 21st Army Tank Brigade had so few tanks after the Battle of Dunkirk that two-thirds of the brigade was forced to serve as infantry ?
text: Did you know that Mika Tervala won gold medals in all the first five World Championships in mountain bike orienteering ?
text: Did you know that the estimated population of Japan significantly decreased from 160,300 in 1300 BC to 75,800 in 900 BC?
text: Did you know that the Garfield School , a 19th-century schoolhouse in Brunswick , New York , is considered unique for its time period because its design was commissioned ?
text: Did you know that Coleman Coker 's work has been featured in the Cooper-Hewitt National  Museum , the New York City MoMA , the San Francisco MoMA , the Wexner Center for the Arts , and the National Building Museum ?
text: Did you know that Duguetia tobagensis , a small tree endemic to the island of Tobago , has only been collected three times since its original discovery in 1912?
text: Did you know that Luchador Mascara Dorada had to outlast nine other wrestlers to win the CMLL World Super Lightweight Championship ?
text: Did you know that the Quartermaster Award is the highest rank in the Sea Scouting program of the Boy Scouts of America ?
text: Did you know that Broderbund 's computer game Orly's Draw-A-Story won the inaugural Interactive Achievement Award for Computer Innovation in 1998?
text: Did you know that Negro league baseball executive Cum Posey organized the East-West League in 1932, but the league folded before the end of the season?
text: Did you know that during World War II , the Czech actor Oldřich Nový refused to divorce his wife, as a consequence of which they were both imprisoned in a German concentration camp ?
text: Did you know that the internal column ( columella ) of the shell of snail Holospira is hollow?
text: Did you know that San Francisco Chronicle pop music critic Joel Selvin was an early member of the rock and roll band Rock Bottom Remainders , made up of authors and journalists?
text: Did you know that in 1906, Georgian Socialist-Federalists managed to seize 315,000 rubles during an attack on a Russian treasury in Dusheti ?
text: Did you know that Helena Palaiologina , Queen consort of Cyprus , gave orders for the nose of her husband 's beautiful mistress to be cut off?
text: Did you know that the City of Carlisle is the largest city in England in terms of area , but is one of the smallest by population?
text: Did you know that Hans G. Furth , Professor in the Faculty of Psychology of the Catholic University of America , trained to become a concert pianist and performed for Jewish internment camps?
text: Did you know that Aso Mining Company , which belongs to Prime Minister of Japan Aso Taro 's family, allegedly forced prisoners of war to work in mines during World War II ?
text: Did you know that the windmill at Aylsham in Norfolk was built so well that its demolition was abandoned?
text: Did you know that Congregation Emanu-El in Victoria, British Columbia , built in 1863 in the building boom that followed the Fraser Canyon Gold Rush , is the oldest surviving synagogue in Canada?
text: Did you know that Wushan Man , a species of Homo , was identified from a fossil jaw found south of the Yangtze River but is now thought to come from an extinct ape that lived in China two million years ago?
text: Did you know that Jan Władysław Dawid was a lecturer at the Flying University in Warsaw ?
text: Did you know that the shooting death of striking miner Tom Manning in the 1920 Anaconda Road Massacre in Butte, Montana is still officially unsolved?
text: Did you know that in 1992, the Utah Utes football team , coached by Ron McBride , ended a 28-year bowl game drought by appearing in the 1992 Copper Bowl?
text: Did you know that choreographer Sergey Vikulov selected three lead couples where Jennifer Olayvar was one of the dancers chosen to perform in La Fille Mal Gardée ?
text: Did you know that in September 2008, the Abu Dhabi Media Company established Imagenation, a subsidiary with access to more than US$ 1 billion with which to finance film production ?
text: Did you know that former long jump record holder Carol Lewis tried out for the 2002 Winter Olympics bobsleigh team?
text: Did you know that there are more than 250 different crystalline forms of silicon carbide , and that some of them have a 301.5 nm lattice constant , about 1,000 times longer than usual lattice spacings?
text: Did you know that Liam Jurrah , a Warlpiri from Yuendumu , is the first Indigenous Australian from a remote community in Central Australia to play in the Australian Football League ?
text: Did you know that Mexican group Los Bukis won the Lo Nuestro Award for Best Regional Mexican Song in 1989 with their number-one single " Y Ahora Te Vas "?
text: Did you know that in the 2009 Inter-Provincial Twenty20 tournament's semi-finals Wayamba beat Ruhuna in the bowl-out to reach the finals?
text: Did you know that Sacajawea Peak is the highest point in the Wallowa Mountains and the sixth highest peak in Oregon ?
text: Did you know that Milwaukee Brewers baseball player Dan Thomas was called the "Sundown Kid" because he refused to play on Sabbath ?
text: Did you know that Charles Cameron , fired and deprived of his house by Paul I of Russia during the battle of the palaces , later lived in retirement in Paul's favorite palace ?
text: Did you know that Harvard historian Ernest May's 1997 book The Kennedy Tapes: Inside the White House During the Cuban Missile Crisis was the primary source for the 2000 film Thirteen Days starring Kevin Costner ?
text: Did you know that in Albanian folklore, the zana , mountain fairies revered for their beauty and courage, are said to have watched approvingly over Albanian protests against the 1878 Treaty of San Stefano ?
text: Did you know that Kendrick Moxon assisted Scientologists in filing 50 lawsuits against the Cult Awareness Network , which eventually led to the bankruptcy of the organization?
text: Did you know that the koa wood hull of a Hawaiian-style outrigger canoe named Mālia became the mold for modern fiberglass racing canoes ?
text: Did you know that How Am I Supposed to Kill You If You Have All the Guns? was described as "disgusting" by the parents of one of its creators?
text: Did you know that Japanese tenor Taro Ichihara made his Metropolitan Opera debut in the role of the Italian tenor in Der Rosenkavalier ?
text: Did you know that the 2001 Gator Bowl was the final collegiate game of American football star Michael Vick ?
text: Did you know that Stylianos Zaoutzes , the father-in-law of Byzantine emperor Leo VI the Wise , was one of only two people to ever be awarded the title of basileopator , meaning "father of the emperor"?
text: Did you know that the strong, dark red timber of the Australian hardwood tree the Narrow-leaved Ironbark was used in Elizabeth Farm , Australia's oldest surviving European dwelling?
text: Did you know that Korea Aerospace Research Institute 's STSAT-2 (Science and Technology Satellite-2) will carry two payloads, a satellite laser ranging and a Lyman-alpha Imaging Solar Telescope?
text: Did you know that Geary Eppley , an administrator at the University of Maryland , confiscated thousands of copies of the student newspaper when it printed an exposé on dormitory living conditions?
text: Did you know that some historians argue that Haimo , a medieval royal official who died around 1100, was one of the first barons of the Exchequer ?
text: Did you know that in 1796, Abraham Bradley, Jr. published the first comprehensive postal route maps for the United States Post Office Department ?
text: Did you know that Chennai Central Prison was 172 years old when demolition of its premises began in June 2009?
text: Did you know that former Olympic show jumper Marion Coakes won a silver medal on a pony and learned to ride on a donkey?
text: Did you know that St Deiniol's Church, Hawarden , Wales , contains monuments to W. E. Gladstone , former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom , and his family?
text: Did you know that the song " Debo Hacerlo " written by Juan Gabriel has been covered by Aleks Syntek , Pandora , Nydia Rojas and Ana Gabriel ?
text: Did you know that during the tour in promotion of the album Rise to Power , the death metal band Monstrosity headlined the Rock Al Parque festival in Bogotá , Colombia , and performed in front of 80,000 people?
text: Did you know that the website United Kingdom Election Results is listed as a resource by the Parliament of Australia , The University of New South Wales , and The University of York ?
text: Did you know that Iceland–Norway relations date back to Norwegian colonization of Iceland in the ninth century?
text: Did you know that in the course of its 150-year history, Haili Church has survived earthquakes , tsunamis , lava flows , fires, and heavy tropical rains?
text: Did you know that Edward Hanrahan , groomed to succeed Chicago mayor Richard J. Daley , saw his elected career end after a 1969 police raid that resulted in the death of Black Panther Party leader Fred Hampton ?
text: Did you know that the section of the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999 covering arbitration clauses was described as "very messy" and "a mire"?
text: Did you know that masked wrestler Dos Caras, Jr. only defended the CMLL World Heavyweight Championship four times in 533 days?
text: Did you know that the satellite GPS IIR-1 , intended to become part of the United States Air Force Global Positioning System , was destroyed 13 seconds after launch?
text: Did you know that the 1979 Australian vampire-science fiction film Thirst drew influence from sources as diverse as Elizabeth Báthory and Soylent Green ?
text: Did you know that the current minister at the First Presbyterian Church in Marcellus, New York , was ordained in 1956?
text: Did you know that Dublin 's Windmill Lane Studios is regularly visited by tourists wishing to view the U2 -inspired graffiti adorning the walls?
text: Did you know that Prescott, Arizona , Mayor Sam Steiger was criminally prosecuted for painting a crosswalk between the local courthouse and the saloons on Whiskey Row?
text: Did you know that Joseph Anthony directed The Rainmaker , its 1956 film adaptation , and the musical version 110 in the Shade ?
text: Did you know that Specific ion Interaction Theory is a theory used to estimate single- ion activity coefficients in electrolyte solutions at relatively high concentrations?
text: Did you know that Israel 's Kfar Shaul Mental Health Center , known for its association with Jerusalem Syndrome , was built on the site of a 1947 massacre ?
text: Did you know that Sverre Mitsem wrote the column "SORRY" in Norway 's Aftenposten from 1946 to 1996, the year he turned 89 years old?
text: Did you know that the New York Islanders 's 2009–10 season will be the franchise's 38th season in the National Hockey League ?
text: Did you know that a Royal Command Performance of Gilbert and Sullivan 's The Gondoliers was held before Queen Victoria at Windsor Castle in 1891?
text: Did you know that the Rumford Prize , awarded for excellent contributions to the fields of heat and light , is one of the oldest scientific prizes in America?
text: Did you know that Air Vice-Marshal John Ernsting became a professor at King's College London and Imperial College, London after a successful military career of 35 years with the RAF Institute of Aviation Medicine ?
text: Did you know that the song " Qué Te Pasa ", performed by Mexican singer Yuri , became the longest running number-one single of the 1980s in the Billboard Hot Latin Tracks ?
text: Did you know that due to rapids on the Rogue River , mules had to be used to transport mail to the post office at Illahe, Oregon ?
text: Did you know that Czech actress Olga Scheinpflugová suffered a heart attack directly on the stage, during her performance in the play Mother , written by her husband Karel Čapek ?
text: Did you know that Hughie Lehman , the Blackhawks third head coach , was hired after yelling at the first Chicago Blackhawks owner Frederic McLaughlin ?
text: Did you know that by the end of its second year in business, Participant Media ' s films had been nominated for 11 Academy Awards ?
text: Did you know that Zalman Shapiro , who received a 2009 patent for a method of diamond synthesis at age 89, was instrumental in developing the world's first nuclear-powered submarine , the Nautilus , launched in 1954?
text: Did you know that the Little Red Schoolhouse in Brunswick , New York , served as a one-room schoolhouse from the 1830s until 1952?
text: Did you know that the Tonkin commemorative medal was awarded to the French soldiers and sailors who participated in the Tonkin campaign and the Sino-French War , between 1883 and 1885?
text: Did you know that despite being named one of the "top prospects of the decade" by Baseball America , American baseball pitcher Nick Neugebauer compiled a career record of just two wins and eight losses?
text: Did you know that the protagonist of the Japanese PlayStation 2 RPG Venus & Braves is a 345-year-old with the appearance of a teen
text: Did you know that Charles Perrault 's The Master Cat, or Puss in Boots existed in a handwritten and illustrated manuscript a full two years before its publication in Histoires ou contes du temps passé in 1697?
text: Did you know that Canadian security guard Claude Brunelle, who was killed during the 1985 Turkish embassy attack in Ottawa , was awarded the Star of Courage ?
text: Did you know that limbic resonance is a process of "internal adaptation whereby two mammals become attuned to each other's inner states"?
text: Did you know that historian Philip D. Curtin challenged widely-used estimates that 20 million African slaves had crossed the Atlantic , estimating that 9.5 million had arrived in the Americas by 1870?
text: Did you know that the New York Yankees refused to allow its logo to appear in the Homicide: Life on the Street three-part episode " Blood Ties ", which featured a subplot involving a murderous Yankees fan?
text: Did you know that the inaugural 1993 Rugby World Cup Sevens took place in Scotland , the birthplace of the rugby sevens variant of rugby union ?
text: Did you know that Indian labour leader J. Hemachandran called for a ban on sales of Coca-Cola and Pepsi in the state of Tamil Nadu ?
text: Did you know that Mincarlo is the last surviving sidewinder fishing trawler of the Lowestoft fishing fleet?
text: Did you know that Freeman Fitzgerald played football with Knute Rockne and once struck out 19 batters in a baseball game?
text: Did you know that the taillight shark has a gland on its belly that releases clouds of luminescent blue fluid?
text: Did you know that British civil engineer Thomas Page , who designed Westminster Bridge , suggested placing a submerged tube between England and France to be used as a tunnel?
text: Did you know that while in Boston in 1768, sailors and marines from HMS Romney tried to confiscate a merchant vessel belonging to John Hancock ?
text: Did you know that in the Scottish village of Badbea , livestock and children were tethered to prevent them being blown over the cliffs?
text: Did you know that when former New Jersey Senate President George H. Large died in 1939, he was the last surviving participant in the first college football game ever played ?
text: Did you know that the Norwegian band Superfamily consists of several academics, including lead singer Steven Wilson who holds a Ph.D in chemistry?
text: Did you know that in tropical cyclone naming , the name "Hazel" is the only name to be retired in both the Atlantic and in the East Pacific ?
text: Did you know that 51 composers wrote a total of 83 variations on a waltz by Anton Diabelli , which were published in 1823–24 as Vaterländischer Künstlerverein and included Beethoven's 33 Diabelli Variations ?
text: Did you know that the 1977 U.S. Supreme Court case Zacchini v. Scripps-Howard Broadcasting Co. dealt with the legal issues of broadcasting a human cannonball act without consent?
text: Did you know that the Feminist Improvising Group challenged the male-dominated musical improvisation scene in the late 1970s?
text: Did you know that Krijn is the common name for the first Neanderthal discovered in the Netherlands ?
text: Did you know that 461 Fifth Avenue is a post-modern skyscraper noted for its use of a pre-cast concrete finish to mimic the appearance of limestone ?
text: Did you know that baseball player Don Kelly was drafted by the Detroit Tigers , made his major league debut with the Pittsburgh Pirates , and later played his first game as a Tiger against the Pirates?
text: Did you know that Tamazight language cannot grammatically express an equivalent to the English phrase "who saw what?"
text: Did you know that Dan Povenmire was at a Wild Thyme restaurant in South Pasadena, California , when he first drew the character Phineas Flynn ?
text: Did you know that the new Puzhal Central Prison is the largest prison in India and provides relatively more facilities to inmates?
text: Did you know that the 1963 Leopold Report was written in response to the controversial killing of an estimated 4,309 elk in Yellowstone National Park by the U.S. National Park Service ?
text: Did you know that Wade Walker helped smuggle the 1963 Mississippi State basketball team out of the state to play a racially integrated opponent in violation of a court order ?
text: Did you know that Bible translations in the Middle Ages were rare because "the vernacular appeared simply and totally inadequate" for such a prestigious work?
text: Did you know that John Houghtaling created the Magic Fingers Vibrating Bed, which reached its peak of popularity in the 1960s, earning US$ 2 million in gross revenue each month, 25 cents at a time?
text: Did you know that Leucopaxillus albissimus , one of the larger mushrooms in the San Francisco Bay Area , has a fruiting body unusually resistant to decay?
text: Did you know that Robert Despenser , a royal steward under King William II of England , derived his surname from his office which was also known as dispenser ?
text: Did you know that St. Paul's (Zion's) Evangelical Lutheran Church in Red Hook, New York , converted to Lutheranism from the German Reformed Church when they could not find a new pastor ?
text: Did you know that Polish philosopher Józef Kalasanty Szaniawski began as an advocate for restoring Poland's independence but ended as a high government official in Russian Poland —and an enemy of philosophy?
text: Did you know that Virginia Cavaliers halfback Eugene "Buck" Mayer became the first consensus first-team All-American from a Southern school in 1915?
text: Did you know that it has been argued that privity in English law is simply an element of consideration ?
text: Did you know that Socrates Hotchkiss Tryon ' s land claim was logged for firewood to be used in a foundry by the Oregon Iron Company , but is now the Tryon Creek State Natural Area ?
text: Did you know that during the American Civil War , the Third Tennessee regiment was sent to Camp Trousdale to help relieve disease, but its soldiers still suffered from epidemics?
text: Did you know that of the 68 track sprinters who have broken the 10-second barrier in the 100 metres , only Patrick Johnson is not of West African descent?
text: Did you know that following the 1995 Dayton Accords , it was suggested that Bosnian mujahideen commander Abdelkader Mokhtari had secured a cache of SA-7 missiles through his influence with the President?
text: Did you know that the Keane Wonder Mine in Death Valley was mined so intensely in the early 1900s that it has begun to collapse?
text: Did you know that Villy Christensen is a core developer of the ecosystem modelling software system Ecopath , which NOAA named as one of the ten biggest scientific breakthroughs in its history?
text: Did you know that according to rumour, an Englishman was murdered and a fire ruined Metcalfe 's testimonials during a Christmas Eve party in 1895 at the Metcalfe House in Delhi , India ?
text: Did you know that the developers of the simulation game PHM Pegasus consulted with the hydrofoil manufacturer Boeing Marine Systems to increase the realism of hydrofoils in their game?
text: Did you know that Dick King , who played in the early days of the NFL , was called "one of the greatest backs who ever wore moleskins"?
text: Did you know that Sir Frank Newsam took charge of the British recovery efforts after the North Sea flood of 1953 and "secured achievements that would have surprised Canute "?
text: Did you know that Ken Boyer and Clete Boyer are the only brothers both to have won Gold Glove Awards at third base ?
text: Did you know that Alphonso Boone , grandson of Daniel Boone , started a ferry in Oregon that ran from 1847 until 1954?
text: Did you know that in the churchyard of St Peter's Church , Ardingly , West Sussex , one gravestone depicts angels watching a skeleton stabbing a woman with a lance ?
text: Did you know that while Justice Minister, Brazilian Defense Minister Nelson Jobim lobbied for decriminalization of the use of marijuana ?
text: Did you know that Prince Carl Philip of Sweden is a licensed race driver currently driving for Flash Engineering in the Porsche Carrera Cup Scandinavia ?
text: Did you know that "The Great Gilroy" , the leading scorer in college football in 1916, was charged in 1940 with stealing 35 shoe stitching machines from a Massachusetts factory?
text: Did you know that a neutron monitor can only directly detect neutrons , but is used to indirectly detect cosmic rays , high-energy charged subatomic particles impacting the Earth's atmosphere from outer space ?
text: Did you know that Aine Lawlor presents Morning Ireland , Ireland 's most listened to radio programme ?
text: Did you know that John Watts de Peyster prevented the Tivoli, New York , village board from meeting in the firehouse he had built for them, because of a tax dispute?
text: Did you know that as a child, Swedish opera singer Hjördis Schymberg and her four sisters performed live music to accompany silent films ?
text: Did you know that there are six nature reserves in Jordan ?
text: Did you know that after writing songs for Garth Brooks , Stephanie Davis joined Brooks' road band and recorded an album for Asylum Records ?
text: Did you know that the Cemetery of the Holy Rood has a privately funded area set aside for the burial of abandoned children?
text: Did you know that American business historian Thomas K. McCraw won the 1985 Pulitzer Prize for History for Prophets of Regulation ?
text: Did you know that country music singer-songwriter Roger Miller 's third studio album, The 3rd Time Around , was the only record of his career to top the Country Album charts ?
text: Did you know that Michael Annals designed the sets for productions of Macbeth in the Soviet Union and in Portugal ?
text: Did you know that the South Woods at Montgomery Place near Annandale-on-Hudson, New York , are the oldest oak forest in the Hudson Valley ?
text: Did you know that, because of a bout with mononucleosis , Dale Castro became a record-setting college football placekicker and consensus All-American ?
text: Did you know that before St Wilfrid's Church was built, Anglicans in Haywards Heath , West Sussex , had to worship in the loft of a carpenter's workshop?
text: Did you know that masked wrestler Ephesto is named after the Greek god Hephaestus ?
text: Did you know that Uruguayan Senator Rafael Michelini , whose father Zelmar was assassinated, is a politician active in human rights issues?
text: Did you know that an estimated 75% of examples of American cobblestone architecture can be found within 75 miles (121 km) of Rochester, New York ?
text: Did you know that the Pâquet family, which owned much of what is now Saint-Nicolas Heritage Site for over 150 years, has included local, provincial and federal politicians?
text: Did you know that the Yaocomico Native Americans traded the land that became St. Mary's City, Maryland to English settlers for tools and cloth?
text: Did you know that Albert Adu Boahen , an academic at the University of Ghana , challenged former head of state of Ghana Jerry Rawlings in the presidential election of 1992 ?
text: Did you know that the Lee Child novel The Visitor was published as Running Blind in the United States because the American publisher thought the original title sounded too much like a science-fiction novel?
text: Did you know that John Murray , presenter of Ireland 's most popular radio show , once worked as a deputy press secretary for the Irish government ?
text: Did you know that in 2009, the newly discovered ultramicrobacterial species Herminiimonas glaciei was isolated from 120,000-year-old glacial ice, 3,042 metres (1.89 mi) deep?
text: Did you know that Rommie Loudd was the first African American majority owner of a major league sports team?
text: Did you know that the 1923 Kraków riot resulted in over 30 fatalities and helped in the fall of the Chjeno-Piast government of Wincenty Witos ?
text: Did you know that U.S. Senator Eugene McCarthy 's 1968 presidential campaign won the most Democratic primary votes but was denied the nomination at the party's 1968 National Convention ?
text: Did you know that Christian Rynning-Tønnesen accepted a CEO job offer of Agder Energi in 2006, but changed his mind shortly after when offered the same position in Norske Skog ?
text: Did you know that George Harrison included two versions of the song " Isn't It a Pity " on his All Things Must Pass album?
text: Did you know that the Village Diner in Red Hook was the first diner in New York to be listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places ?
text: Did you know that Ole Mørk Sandvik was a founder and first president of the Norwegian Folk Music Research Association ?
text: Did you know that there are ninety-four federal district and territorial courts in the United States ?
text: Did you know that Irish journalist Mary Wilson received three out of five stars for her meal on reality television show The Restaurant ?
text: Did you know that Indonesia and Papua New Guinea share a 760-kilometre (470 mi) border that has raised tensions and ongoing diplomatic issues over many decades?
text: Did you know that Norwegian Liberal MP Hans Larsen Saakvitne was among the "Pure Liberals" who turned against the Liberal Prime Minister in 1888?
text: Did you know that Fight Like Apes and the Mystery of the Golden Medallion was inspired by a 1980s cartoon which followed the attempts of Mr. T to coach an Olympic gymnastics youth team?
text: Did you know that Coronation Park was the site of the 1911 Delhi Durbar that marked the shifting of the capital of India from Calcutta to Delhi ?
text: Did you know that Jan and Anna Puchalski , Polish Righteous among the Nations , harbored six Jewish fugitives from the ghetto in Grodno , under their bedroom floor during the Holocaust ?
text: Did you know that the Dollis Valley Greenwalk is one of ten parks and open spaces in the London Borough of Barnet to win a £400,000 grant to improve its quality and safety?
text: Did you know that Ricardo Rangel co-founded Mozambique 's first full color magazine Tempo , as a voice of opposition to Portuguese colonial rule ?
text: Did you know that Cards Pond is among only three of Rhode Island 's nine salt ponds that receives significant freshwater from streams or rivers?
text: Did you know that the swellshark bends its body in a U-shape and sucks in water to double in size and avoid attacks from predators?
text: Did you know that while their old band was named after a Jack Kerouac novel , Harrys Gym took their name from an abandoned fitness center ?
text: Did you know that Pauline Rita played three roles in Gilbert and Sullivan operas for Richard D'Oyly Carte , but left his company in 1878 never to return?
text: Did you know that Nobel Prize Economist Robert Lucas estimated that the welfare costs of the business cycle in terms of social welfare are negligible?
text: Did you know that Storebrand executive Gustav Aarestrup marked himself as an opponent of the Festning Tunnel and Fjellinjen ?
text: Did you know that Valley Entertainment acquired in 2001 the prestigious back catalogue of ambient music from Hearts of Space ?
text: Did you know that Marion West Higgins , the first female Speaker of the New Jersey General Assembly , was the daughter of Dr. James E. West , the first Chief Scout Executive of the Boy Scouts of America ?
text: Did you know that the National Fresh Water Fishing Hall of Fame is home to the world's largest muskie sculpture?
text: Did you know that the FBI issued a 2002 terrorism alert after Michael John Hamdani invented a story about terrorists entering the United States as part of a plea bargain ?
text: Did you know that Realph Norland , father of Verdens Gang and Aftenposten chief editor Andreas Norland , was himself a newspaper editor for Tønsbergs Blad ?
text: Did you know that Gao Ling is the all-time leader for the most Olympic medals in badminton ?
text: Did you know that during the 2008 fall migration , over 10,000 hawks passed the observation point at Washington Valley Park , New Jersey ?
text: Did you know that the cardinals were not allowed to serve simultaneously as residential bishops until the pontificate of Alexander III ?
text: Did you know that Cathal Mac Coille ate breakfast with CNN broadcaster Larry King on Super Tuesday of 2008 ?
text: Did you know that in the 1625 Battle of Blavet , a French Huguenot fleet under Soubise captured a Royal fleet belonging to Louis XIII , triggering the Second Huguenot rebellion ?
text: Did you know that Bronisław Malinowski 's ethnography Coral Gardens and their Magic describes magic spells used in Trobriand agriculture as a pragmatic component of human behaviour?
text: Did you know that William F. Hyland , while serving as Attorney General of New Jersey , performed as a clarinetist with Benny Goodman and later became executor of his estate?
text: Did you know that Debo Hacerlo was the last album released by Mexican singer-songwriter Juan Gabriel until 1994, due to a dispute with BMG over copyrights of his songs?
text: Did you know that Yale All-American Paul Veeder has been credited with throwing the "first forward pass in a major game"?
text: Did you know that the 1988 Polish strikes shook the country's Communist regime to such an extent that it was forced to begin considering recognition of Solidarity ?
text: Did you know that Norwegian philologist Konrad Nielsen , known for work on the Sami languages , was a member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences ?
text: Did you know that the Capitulations of Santa Fe granted Christopher Columbus the titles of Admiral of the Ocean Sea , the Viceroy , the Governor-General and honorific Don ?
text: Did you know that Washington State Route 106 has been renumbered four times over a 49-year period from 1915 until 1964?
text: Did you know that both of the Kaiserliche Marine 's Odin -class coast defense ships were rebuilt as freighters after the end of World War I ?
text: Did you know that in 1947, University of Michigan basketball player Mack "Soup" Supronowicz was hailed as "the greatest cage prospect in college history"?
text: Did you know that Japanese pop rock singer Yui 's " Again " has the highest opening week sales for a female act in 2009?
text: Did you know that the Heinz Award , named in honor of the late United States Senator John Heinz , is worth $ 250,000?
text: Did you know that The Meaning of Life series featured filmmaker Neil Jordan 's account of having met his dead father on an aeroplane?
text: Did you know that at the age of seven, Zach Bonner founded the Little Red Wagon Foundation to aid the 1.3 million homeless children in the United States ?
text: Did you know that Plácido Polanco became the first Gold Glove winner at second base to post an errorless season in 2007 ?
text: Did you know that Thomas Bertie was one of three future admirals who served together on HMS Seahorse in 1773, the others being Horatio Nelson and Thomas Troubridge ?
text: Did you know that Cyclone Nancy of the 2004–05 South Pacific cyclone season was one of four severe tropical cyclones to impact the Cook Islands during the span of a month?
text: Did you know that journalist and novelist Gerd Grønvold Saue is also a former board member of the International Peace Bureau ?
text: Did you know that a critical bug in the PSP game Class of Heroes was found only days before manufacturing began?
text: Did you know that 77-year-old U.S. Representative Claude Pepper used his chairing of the United States House Permanent Select Committee on Aging to highlight the falsehoods of age stereotyping ?
text: Did you know that Ho Chi Minh 's marriage to Tang Tuyet Minh has never been acknowledged by the government of Vietnam ?
text: Did you know that although the Siegfried -class coast defense ships were rendered obsolete by the 2nd Naval Law in 1908, they continued to serve in their intended roles until 1915?
text: Did you know that theoretical biologist Mary Jane West-Eberhard says that she learnt more about science at high school from her English course on critical reading and writing than from her biology class?
text: Did you know that Fun Little Movies is the first United States company to produce comedy films to play on mobile phones worldwide?
text: Did you know that John W. Wescott initially opposed Woodrow Wilson 's candidacy for Governor of New Jersey but later gave the nominating speech for Wilson at both the 1912 and 1916 Democratic National Conventions ?
text: Did you know that Constance Demby 's 1986 album Novus Magnificat helped build the reputation of Stephen Hill 's Hearts of Space Records ?
text: Did you know that when Indigenous Australian artist Makinti Napanangka won the National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award in 2008, her age and family circumstances prevented her from attending the ceremony?
text: Did you know that August Lange , Carl Jakhelln and Olav Larssen co-wrote a book about their experiences from the Sachsenhausen concentration camp during World War II ?
text: Did you know that a reconstruction of Verrazzano 's flagship La Dauphine is planned to arrive in New York Harbor for the 500th anniversary of Verrazzano's arrival in 2024?
text: Did you know that former Prime Minister of Tonga Baron Vaea piloted PBY Catalina flying boats for the Royal New Zealand Air Force during World War II ?
text: Did you know that Fluxus 1 , an artists' book produced by the Lithuanian-American artist George Maciunas , was assembled over a period of 13 years?
text: Did you know that Rachael English , presenter of the Irish radio news programme Five Seven Live , was joined on the show by her father, who provided Cheltenham horse racing tips for her listeners?
text: Did you know that through extensive studying of the pathophysiology of hypertension , it was discovered that hypertension can be caused by genetic inheritance ?
text: Did you know that Damian Sims and Fred Reid spent a year out of football before being recommended to their current CFL teams?
text: Did you know that according to legend, Fabian was selected as pope because a dove landed on him?
text: Did you know that actress Nancy Andrews won a Theatre World Award for her Broadway debut performance in 1949?
text: Did you know that Honewort , growing in the Avon Gorge near Bristol, was one of the first rare plants to be documented in Britain, by William Turner in 1562?
text: Did you know that Major League Baseball pitcher Scott Williamson underwent two Tommy John surgeries ?
text: Did you know that the custom of collecting a feudal aid from a vassal originated in the 11th-century France, in the County of Anjou ?
text: Did you know that Liz Swaine was a locally well-known television news anchor who quit to become a mayoral executive assistant and later ran for mayor of the city of Shreveport, Louisiana ?
text: Did you know that the Californian plant Eryngium racemosum has become extirpated due to the non-occurrence of natural flooding?
text: Did you know that the Nobel Peace Prize is awarded annually by the Norwegian Nobel Committee ?
text: Did you know that after a 1981 robbery , lawyers for Dr. Alan Berkman claimed that he was the first U.S. doctor charged for treating a fugitive since Dr. Samuel Mudd treated John Wilkes Booth in 1865?
text: Did you know that the Hockley Valley Provincial Nature Reserve in the Canadian province of Ontario supports a population of the nationally endangered Butternut ?
text: Did you know that Bob Haymes played a song publisher in the sitcom It's a Business and actually co-wrote the song " That's All "?
text: Did you know that the reference Conspiracy Encyclopedia discusses 365 different conspiracy theories ?
text: Did you know that DemiDec , a company that sells study material for the United States Academic Decathlon , also annually hosts the World Scholar's Cup ?
text: Did you know that during Shakespeare 's time, it was commonly believed that there were five "outward" wits as well as five "inward" wits?
text: Did you know that Desert Strike: Return to the Gulf was at the time publisher Electronic Arts ' highest-selling video game ever?
text: Did you know that in a June 2009 "parliamentary coup" , Democrats Pedro Espada, Jr. and Hiram Monserrate agreed to vote with Republicans , giving the minority Republicans control of the New York State Senate ?
text: Did you know that baboons are among the hazards faced by South African winemakers ?
text: Did you know that paleontologist Gerta Keller theorizes that dinosaurs did not become extinct until 300,000 years after the Chicxulub meteor , though she agrees that "I'm sure the day after, they had a headache"?
text: Did you know that during the 1950s, Louisiana State Senator Herman "Wimpy" Jones advocated voting by 18-year-olds long before ratification of the 26th Amendment ?
text: Did you know that the Ritland crater is believed to be a meteoric impact crater ?
text: Did you know that actress Mary Lawson married F. W. L. C. Beaumont , son of the Dame of Sark , and they died together in 1941 during the Liverpool Blitz ?
text: Did you know that camber thrust contributes to the ability of bicycles and motorcycles to negotiate a turn with the same radius as automobiles but with a smaller steering angle?
text: Did you know that the Mill Colonnade was originally reviled by critics before eventually becoming a symbol for Karlovy Vary ?
text: Did you know that Indigenous Australian artist Rosella Namok gave birth to her second son on the way to submit a painting for the Wynne Prize ?
text: Did you know that despite the success of Ennio Morricone 's soundtrack for The Good, the Bad and the Ugly , the main theme only became a hit single in the cover version by Hugo Montenegro ?
text: Did you know that Sir John Strange trained at the same set of chambers as Lord Hardwicke , who later made him Master of the Rolls ?
text: Did you know that the Global Forum for Health Research identified the 10/90 gap : just 10% of medical research spending is on 90% of existing health problems?
text: Did you know that during World War II , the Czech comics illustrator Kája Saudek was imprisoned in a German concentration camp ?
text: Did you know that Undulus asperatus is the first new proposed cloud type in over 50 years?
text: Did you know that E.D. Gleason , a member of the Louisiana House of Representatives during the 1950s, proposed a one-cent state sales tax earmarked for public school teacher salaries?
text: Did you know that the Emmy Award -winning show The Freddy Awards , a ceremony honoring high school theater in the Lehigh Valley region in Pennsylvania and New Jersey , is to be the subject of a documentary film?
text: Did you know that on May 31, 2009, the ROV Nereus reached an underwater depth of 10,902 metres (6.8 mi), becoming the world's deepest-diving vehicle?
text: Did you know that of the three precious statues of the goddess Kannon enshrined in the Sugimoto-dera temple in Kamakura , Japan , likely none were made by the artists they are traditionally attributed to?
text: Did you know that the Black Procession of Polish burghers in 1789 resulted in the passage of the belated major urban reform in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth ?
text: Did you know that before its removal, Pennsylvania Route 963 was the easternmost state traffic route in Pennsylvania ?
text: Did you know that Jesse Wharton , a colonial governor of Maryland , died just over a month after taking office in 1676?
text: Did you know that Orthodoxy, Autocracy, and Nationality , the doctrine of the Russian Empire in the 1830s–1850s, was also a family motto of its creator Sergey Uvarov ?
text: Did you know that while in college, New England Patriots cornerback Jonathan Wilhite was described as "a jokester" who "could be a stand-up comedian "?
text: Did you know that post-hardcore band Enter Shikari 's song " Juggernauts " contains a " Mockney spoken words" section that has drawn comparisons with The Streets ?
text: Did you know that in 1979, L.D. Knox of Winnsboro , Louisiana , had his name legally changed to "None of the Above" Knox to dramatize the lack of choices for voters on his state's ballot ?
text: Did you know that mental health patients released after long stays in psychiatric hospitals may experience institutionalization , or difficulty in managing the demands of independent living?
text: Did you know that in 2005, Appalachian State , led by quarterback Richie Williams , became the first college or university in North Carolina to win an NCAA national championship in football ?
text: Did you know that the reference book The History of British Political Parties contains information on over 250 political parties in the United Kingdom ?
text: Did you know that due to certain environmental conditions, Maschaug Pond in Rhode Island is considered particularly vulnerable to storm surge ?
text: Did you know that actress Charlene McKenna was pleased that her full-frontal nude scene in the television series Raw attracted few complaints?
text: Did you know that Major League Baseball outfielder Pete Milne 's only career home run was a game-winning inside-the-park grand slam ?
text: Did you know that Waldmann disease , a disease that is characterized by dilated lymphatic vessels , is usually diagnosed before the patient is three years old?
text: Did you know that Belgian senator Baron Jacques Brotchi survived World War II as a child when his Jewish family was hidden from the Nazis by a Belgian family in Comblain-au-Pont ?
text: Did you know that Pilot Rock is one of the oldest volcanic formations in the Cascade Range ?
text: Did you know that Grammy award -winning singer Duffy made her TV debut on the Welsh language talent show Wawffactor ?
text: Did you know that Pope Innocent II demolished Santa Maria in Trastevere and was buried in the rebuilt basilica , in the space formerly occupied by the tomb of his rival, Anacletus II ?
text: Did you know that George Strait 's 2009 single " Living for the Night " is the first single of his solo career that he co-wrote?
text: Did you know that almost 29 years after she went missing in Darwin Harbour during Cyclone Tracy , the Booya was discovered by accident in only 20 metres (66 ft) of water?
text: Did you know that from July 1, 2009, content-control software called Green Dam Youth Escort must be included with all personal computers sold in the mainland of the People's Republic of China ?
text: Did you know that the perpetrator of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum shooting had self-published a book praising Adolf Hitler in 1999?
text: Did you know that Irish journalist Richard Downes secretly entered Zimbabwe disguised as a tourist to film an undercover report for the BBC 's Newsnight during the 2008 Zimbabwean presidential election ?
text: Did you know that human rights in Estonia are generally well respected, but controversies still surround the Bronze Night incident of April 2007?
text: Did you know that Thomas S. Rodgers was one of five members of his family to reach the rank of Rear Admiral in the United States Navy during the first 25 years of the 20th century?
text: Did you know that the Association of Broadcasters of the Philippines advocates the 18 minutes of advertising per hour rule for Philippine TV stations ?
text: Did you know that in the U.S. state of Michigan , no one is more than 6 miles (10 km) from a lake ?
text: Did you know that Diane Dietz set the Big Ten single-game basketball scoring record with 45 points in 1982 and the University of Michigan career record with 2,076 points?
text: Did you know that prior to the 1929 Royal Mail Case , British accountants were not expected to use their moral and ethical judgment in making decisions?
text: Did you know that when the Louisiana State Representative C.W. Thompson died in office in 1951, then Governor Earl K. Long appointed Lizzie P. Thompson to finish her husband's term?
text: Did you know that after receiving more than 10,000 protest letters, the editors of the United Methodist Hymnal decided not to eliminate " Onward, Christian Soldiers " from it?
text: Did you know that in 1984, Fort Worth billionaire Ed Bass committed $30 million to (and eventually spent over $150 million on) Biosphere 2 , to experiment with "recreating the Earth" and potentially settling Mars ?
text: Did you know that Rafael Carrión, Sr. was one of the founders of Banco Popular de Puerto Rico , the largest bank in Puerto Rico and the largest Hispanic bank in the United States?
text: Did you know that Irish band Fight Like Apes named one of their 2007 EPs David Carradine is a Bounty Hunter Whos Robotic Arm Hates Your Crotch ?
text: Did you know that Ninigret Pond is the largest of Rhode Island 's nine salt ponds ?
text: Did you know that New Super Mario Bros. Wii will have a feature that allows the game to play on its own while paused?
text: Did you know that when the Washington Huskies softball team won the 2009 Women's College World Series , it marked the 22nd time in the 28 World Series that a Pac-10 team was crowned champion?
text: Did you know that it took 16 years for the pilot episode of Phineas and Ferb to be picked up?
text: Did you know that gridiron football player Malik Jackson has played at every defensive position in his professional career?
text: Did you know that  although Telltale Games was formed after LucasArts abandoned adventure game development in 2004, the two companies are now collaborating to create a new series of adventure games ?
text: Did you know that the song " Aquí Estoy Yo " by Puerto Rican singer-songwriter Luis Fonsi became his sixth number-one single in the Billboard Hot Latin Tracks chart ?
text: Did you know that the Louisiana politician J. Frank Colbert was active during the 1920s and 1930s in Henry George 's "Single Tax" Utopian movement?
text: Did you know that Fremantle Football Club defender Clancee Pearce is only the fourth player of Indian heritage to play  in the Australian Football League ?
text: Did you know that after performing the theme to the 1963 film Hud , country music singer Darrell McCall decided to take up acting, appearing in three films during the 1960s?
text: Did you know that upcoming MMORPG video game Final Fantasy XIV has been in development by Square Enix under the codename Rapture ?
text: Did you know that when the future 9th , 10th and 11th Baronets of Cockburn were painted with Augusta Anne , the daughter of Francis Ayscough , Dean of Bristol Cathedral , she was the only one dressed?
text: Did you know that the People's Action Party has dominated the Government of Singapore by winning a majority of seats in every general election since 1959 ?
text: Did you know that John Verney became a Member of Parliament to gain contacts to help him in his career as a barrister ?
text: Did you know that in 1956, Christian A. R. Christensen was behind the first revision of the Ethical Code of Practice for the Norwegian Press ?
text: Did you know that Garth Brooks released both live and studio recordings of his 1998 single " It's Your Song " to radio?
text: Did you know that Tracy Kidder , a Pulitzer Prize winner for his second book, was so unhappy with his first book that he bought back the rights from the publisher so that it would not "see the light of day again"?
text: Did you know that the 2006 MPC Computers Bowl featured the Miami Hurricanes , whose season had been marred by an on-field brawl , the termination of their head coach , and underachievement on the field?
text: Did you know that Emirati marriage counselor Wedad Lootah claimed that many men in Saudi Arabia have their first sexual experiences with other men, due to its gender segregation ?
text: Did you know that the 36-year-old Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund changed its name to LatinoJustice PRLDEF last year, partly due to fewer Puerto Ricans being in New York City 's Latino population?
text: Did you know  that as the world's third largest democracy , Indonesia 's 2004 legislative election was the most complicated in the world?
text: Did you know that Barry Wood , Frank Sinatra 's predecessor on the radio program Your Hit Parade , was promoted as America's "sweater boy"?
text: Did you know that at its establishment in 1760, the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters was the northernmost learned society in the world?
text: Did you know that the CZW World Tag Team Championship has been won by an individual wrestler once, when it is only supposed to be intended for tag teams ?
text: Did you know that the old Honolulu Police Station in Hawaii 's Merchant Street Historic District was designed by American architect Louis Davis in the Mission Revival Style ?
text: Did you know that a section of the former BUS M-28 in Newberry, Michigan , has also carried the designations M-28 , M-48 , M-117 or M-123 at different times in its history?
text: Did you know that while training for World War I , American athlete Brooke Brewer played for the "Usaacs", a football team composed of soldiers from the U.S. Army 's ambulance service?
text: Did you know that in 1920 Bolsheviks attempted to stage a coup d'etat in Georgia ?
text: Did you know that a copy of Sharlot Hall‎ ' s poem Arizona , which mocked efforts to merge Arizona Territory and New Mexico Territory into a single state, was given to every member of the U.S. Congress ?
text: Did you know that actor Frank Cellier toured in Britain, Germany, America and South Africa from 1903 to 1920, appearing only once in London, before beginning a West End career?
text: Did you know that the Pokémon video game glitch MissingNo. occurs as a result of buffer data containing the player's name not being cleared?
text: Did you know that galleries with Henrik Sørensen ´s artwork have been raised at two of his favorite painting locations?
text: Did you know that A Fine Frenzy 's debut album, One Cell in the Sea , launched the group to the top of Billboard ' s Top Heatseekers chart?
text: Did you know that Brett Swenson of Michigan State , one of college football 's top placekickers , was passed over for the 2008 Lou Groza Award after missing three consecutive field goals against Michigan ?
text: Did you know that Indian politician Erasmo de Sequeira rejected Prime Minister Indira Gandhi 's offer to make him a Deputy Minister, stating that he wanted her post?
text: Did you know that the British Velocette MAC (WD) 350cc single was Velocette 's first military motorcycle for World War Two ?
text: Did you know that cinematographer Lawrence Sher first developed an interest in photography after his father convinced him to take a 35mm camera on a Teaneck High School -sponsored trip to France ?
text: Did you know that Operation Antyk was the Polish Underground State 's anti-communist propaganda department?
text: Did you know that half of the regular advertisers for the ABC series thirtysomething pulled out of the episode " Strangers ", costing the network some US$ 1.5 million, because it showed two men in bed together?
text: Did you know that Tom Kruse was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) for his work in the Australian outback ?
text: Did you know that the first two classes of U.S. Navy aircraft carriers were actually conversions of other ship types?
text: Did you know that while mayor of Gaza , Fahmi al-Husseini was imprisoned by British Mandate authorities on charges of opposing the British presence in Palestine during the 1936 Arab revolt ?
text: Did you know that in 2006, a division of the Philippines ' National Labor Relations Commission had confirmed resolving 2,697 labor disputes?
text: Did you know that James Scott became a top contender in the World Boxing Association 's light heavyweight division while serving time at Rahway State Prison ?
text: Did you know that historian Czesław Madajczyk , best known for his works on the occupation of Poland and Polish culture during World War II , has been criticized for being too malleable to the demands of the Polish communist regime ?
text: Did you know that a full-scale riot at Luton Town 's Kenilworth Road ground on 13 March 1985 led to a four-season ban on visiting supporters?
text: Did you know that Gazette de Leyde was likely the most important newspaper of the late 18th-century Europe, and the only one read by Louis XVI ?
text: Did you know that Patrick Swayze was the star of the first and only season of the 1982 television show The Renegades ?
text: Did you know that Mexican singer-songwriter Ana Gabriel ranked third at the OTI Festival held in Lisbon, Portugal , in 1987 with the song " Ay Amor " ?
text: Did you know that XU leader Lauritz Sand was turned in to the Gestapo by a female Norwegian Abwehr agent?
text: Did you know that The Tubridy Show 's book club significantly boosted book sales in Ireland ?
text: Did you know that the motor theory of speech perception proposes that people understand speech not only through sound, but also by seeing the movements of the mouth ?
text: Did you know that the 2009 Loyal Arrow NATO exercises in Sweden are the biggest aerial military exercises ever held in Sweden, involving around 2000 soldiers and 50 jets?
text: Did you know that Hurricane Gustav of the 1990 Atlantic hurricane season was the only major hurricane to develop during the season?
text: Did you know that in blackjack , regardless of the casino's rules for betting and how the cards are played, it is always optimal to split aces and eights ?
text: Did you know that the New Lipchis Way passes an hundredal church and an Iron Age hill fort used by clubmen before crossing the Devil's Ditch?
text: Did you know that the 1992 French film The Lover , the first Western film produced in Vietnam , is based on the semi-autobiographical novel by Marguerite Duras ?
text: Did you know that the KDN forest complex is the last large remaining rainforest in Sri Lanka other than Sinharaja ?
text: Did you know that the Life without Death cellular automaton , a mathematical model of pattern formation ,  is a variant of Conway's Game of Life in which cells, once brought to life, never die?
text: Did you know that American journalist Andrea Elliott received the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing for a series of articles on an Egyptian-born imam living in Brooklyn?
text: Did you know that the Anna Kournikova computer virus was created by Jan de Wit using a generic Visual Basic Worm Generator program?
text: Did you know that Sir William Fortescue was prompted to become a barrister by the death of his wife?
text: Did you know that Rafael Palmeiro won the Gold Glove Award at first base in 1999 despite appearing in only 28 games at the position?
text: Did you know that Vegard Sletten , editor of Verdens Gang in his later life, saw his liberation from Berg concentration camp on his birthday?
text: Did you know that Mike Reid was a linebacker for the Cincinnati Bengals before becoming a country music singer and releasing the single " Walk on Faith " ?
text: Did you know that Otto Nielsen played an important role behind the Norwegian cultural scene, as a program editor of the radio magazine Søndagsposten for more than twenty years?
text: Did you know that Tautiška giesmė , a poem by Vincas Kudirka written to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the Varpas newspaper, became the Lithuanian national anthem ?
text: Did you know that the Manning–Kamna Farm near Hillsboro, Oregon , has ten buildings that were included in the National Register of Historic Places , including a privy ?
text: Did you know that during the offseason, Canadian football linebacker , Raymond Fontaine , works as a roughneck in the Alberta oil fields?
text: Did you know that Upper Pine Bottom Run in Lycoming County , Pennsylvania , was home to an iron furnace and sawmills in the 19th century, but today is home to state forest land and the 5-acre (2.0 ha) Upper Pine Bottom State Park ?
text: Did you know that Chelsea Bridge was little used at night when it first opened, because of its owners' policy of only turning the lighting on if Queen Victoria was spending the night in London ?
text: Did you know that the tiny rare green Mystery Orchid, Cooktownia robertsii , was named after Cooktown and its discoverer, Lewis Roberts , and is the only member of the genus Cooktownia ?
text: Did you know that George Chesworth was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for sorties against the Chinese in the Korean War ?
text: Did you know that the Agricultural Museum was the first agricultural periodical journal published in the United States ?
text: Did you know that the Holt-Bragg Bridge will be named after the family who perished when the previous bridge collapsed during the June 2007 Hunter Region and Central Coast storms ?
text: Did you know that Gumarcaj , in Guatemala , is archaeologically and ethnohistorically the best known of the Late Postclassic highland Maya capitals?
text: Did you know that Verne Meisner and his son Steve were the first polka music artists to win the Wisconsin Area Music Industry award?
text: Did you know that the Estonian Centre Party and Res Publica Party won 28 seats each in the 2003 Estonian parliamentary election tying for the most seats?
text: Did you know that Sir Thomas Clarke was only offered the position of Master of the Rolls after William Murray turned it down?
text: Did you know that in 1998, Liverdance by Rhode Island Soft Systems was the first screensaver to incorporate built-in multiple advertisements?
text: Did you know that Brigadier Glyn Hughes , the officer who liberated Belsen concentration camp , once labelled rugby player John Taylor a Communist for opposing apartheid?
text: Did you know that the discovery of oil in 1966 led to Dubai's rapid expansion and modernisation?
text: Did you know that although threatened by habitat destruction , the endangered Nicobar Bulbul does not appear to have been impacted by the Red-whiskered Bulbul or the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami ?
text: Did you know that the Philippines Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) spent a total of 112.71 million pesos for the overseas absentee voters in 2004?
text: Did you know that the song " Soy Así " was recorded by Mexican singer José José during a personal crisis that included a divorce and a change of management ?
text: Did you know that Hockenhull Platts , three bridges on a medieval road in Cheshire , England, were crossed in 1353 by the Black Prince , in 1698 by Celia Fiennes , and in 1780 by Thomas Pennant ?
text: Did you know that had she been completed, the German aircraft carrier I would have been the largest German carrier of World War II , longer even than the Graf Zeppelin -class aircraft carriers ?
text: Did you know that Hotel Woodland was designed by William Henry Weeks , a prominent architect, and was his 14th and last major work in Woodland, California ?
text: Did you know that in September 1945, Lieutenant General Barney M. Giles piloted one of three B-29 Superfortresses that were the first to fly nonstop from Japan to the United States?
text: Did you know that in 1961, a British Velocette Venom motorcycle set the 24-hour world record at a speed of 100.05 mph which has never been equalled since?
text: Did you know that Bob Dylan 's song " On the Road Again " previews the grotesque characters that would feature in Dylan's later songs?
text: Did you know that Hugo Jaeger ' s personal collection of photographs includes colour shots of Adolf Hitler on a cruise in 1939 and of the Nazi leader attending a Christmas party in 1941?
text: Did you know that University of Michigan pitcher Herman Fishman set a Big Ten record in 1936 with a 0.86 ERA and was named to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency 's Jewish All-American basketball team?
text: Did you know that Chopin's 21 nocturnes generally feature ternary form , a melancholy melody and a broken chord bass line?
text: Did you know that Sebastian Petrycy (1554–1626), in Poland , created a vernacular philosophical terminology not much later than did philosophers in France and Germany?
text: Did you know that the Windsor Locks, Connecticut tornado caused more than $400 million in damage, making it the sixth-costliest tornado in US history?
text: Did you know that in the 1950s, geographer George Cressey was included on a list of suspected communists in the US at the same time that China included him on its list of capitalist enemies?
text: Did you know that Italian filmmaker Nanni Moretti , who directed Antonello Grimaldi in the 2006 film Il caimano , starred in the 2008 film Caos calmo , directed by Grimaldi?
text: Did you know that in the 1986 case Posadas de Puerto Rico Associates v. Tourism Company of Puerto Rico ,  the United States Supreme Court allowed Puerto Rico to ban legal casino advertising targeted at local residents?
text: Did you know that English actor Harry Andrews played the role of Laertes in the final production at the Lyceum Theatre before it closed in 1939?
text: Did you know that the systematics of snowfinches is quite straightforward, while their taxonomy was, and still is, subject to extreme confusion?
text: Did you know that Orange County, California , has an unincorporated area popularly known as the Gaza Strip ?
text: Did you know that country music singer George Strait discovered his backup band , the Ace in the Hole , after responding to a flyer posted around the Southwest Texas State University campus?
text: Did you know that Governor of Indiana Warren T. McCray resigned from office and served three years in prison after being convicted of mail fraud ?
text: Did you know that Oregon linebacker Casey Matthews is the son , grandson , brother , and nephew of National Football League players?
text: Did you know that Aurangzeb , apart from imprisoning his brother Murad Baksh, had the dubious credit of incarcerating his eldest daughter Zebunnisa in the Salimgarh Fort in Delhi for 21 years till her death?
text: Did you know that many female portraits by Jeremiah Theus share identical poses and costumes, down to the folds and shadows of the sitters' dresses?
text: Did you know that Lemar is the most successful Fame Academy graduate with six top ten singles in the UK singles chart ?
text: Did you know that Danuta Siedzikówna , a Polish nurse in anti-Nazi and anti-Communist resistance was only seventeen years old when she was sentenced to death and executed by the communist government of Poland in 1946?
text: Did you know that the winner of the 1996 Olympic air pistol competition , Italian Roberto Di Donna , also competes in the Bundesliga for the current German champions, SV Kelheim-Gmünd?
text: Did you know that Puerto Rican poet Francisco Matos Paolí was arrested in 1950 because he made four speeches in favor of Puerto Rico's independence and he had a Puerto Rican Flag in his house?
text: Did you know that the former Union Chapel , Brighton 's oldest Nonconformist place of worship, was converted into a pub after 300 years of religious use?
text: Did you know that catcher Alicia Seegert set Big Ten Conference records for batting average , hits , total bases and RBIs while playing softball for the University of Michigan from 1984 to 1987?
text: Did you know that video games with isometric graphics were regarded as the second-most cloned piece of software after WordStar ?
text: Did you know that Rwenzururu , a region in the Rwenzori Mountains of Uganda , was recognized as having a kingdom 40 years after one was declared?
text: Did you know that future governor of Mississippi and Mexican-American War general John A. Quitman was born at the parsonage of the Old Stone Church in Rhinebeck, New York ?
text: Did you know that one of Mooney 's Blue Tits laid six eggs in the gardens of Irish President Mary McAleese ?
text: Did you know that Swedish modernist painter Torsten Andersson sometimes destroyed hundreds of sketches leading up to his finished works?
text: Did you know that Tom Green is the winningest men's basketball coach in Fairleigh Dickinson University history and led the team to its first NCAA Tournament berth in 1985 , losing 59–55 to top-seeded Michigan ?
text: Did you know that Byzantine official Peter the Patrician may have been responsible for the murder of Ostrogothic queen Amalasuntha , despite being instructed to secure her safety by emperor Justinian I ?
text: Did you know that Super Mario Galaxy 2 will mark the first time a second full-3D Mario franchise title has been made for a single Nintendo system?
text: Did you know that despite a 26 minute length, the 1965 album The Return of Roger Miller won the Grammy award for best country album, and five additional Grammys for its track " King of the Road "?
text: Did you know that President Barack Obama has appointed two former Presidents of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York to positions in his administration ?
text: Did you know that St Mark's Church, Brighton was originally planned as a school's private chapel, but served as a public church for nearly 150 years before the school took it over?
text: Did you know that " Dahil Sa Iyo " , a song with Tagalog and English lyrics, is so popular that it has been suggested as a replacement for the Filipino anthem?
text: Did you know that the Baudette Fire of 1910 burned down the twin towns of Spooner and Baudette , Minnesota , on October 7, 1910?
text: Did you know that before the Quarter Horse Barbara L became a racehorse , she demonstrated horse trailers for her owner, a trailer salesman?
text: Did you know that Adrienne Beames , the daughter of Australian rules footballer , first-class cricketer , and journalist Percy Beames , was the first woman to break the 3-hour barrier in the marathon ?
text: Did you know that the first Governor of colonial Maryland , Leonard Calvert , appointed his successor Thomas Greene only hours before Calvert's death?
text: Did you know that  remnants of terracotta piping used in public baths during Roman times in Morocco are on display at the Rabat Archaeological Museum ?
text: Did you know that Sara Northrup Hollister , the second wife of L. Ron Hubbard , was a noted member of an occult society in Pasadena, California , who went on to play an important role in the development of Dianetics ?
text: Did you know that editor-in-chief Andreas Norland left Norway's largest newspaper Verdens Gang to edit Osloavisen , which lasted less than a year?
text: Did you know that a sex scandal in Boise, Idaho , in 1955 resulted in almost 1,500 people being interviewed and a list of 500 suspected homosexuals?
text: Did you know that as Adam Best , David Proud will be the first visibly disabled adult actor to appear in the British soap opera EastEnders ?
text: Did you know that as part of preparations for 1984's Tropical Storm Isidore , some citrus farmers burned seedlings potentially infected with canker to prevent heavy rains from spreading the disease?
text: Did you know that, covering 19 ha (47 acres), Maiden Castle in Dorset is the largest hill fort in Britain and one of the biggest in Europe?
text: Did you know that Michael Jackson was unsuccessfully sued over allegations he plagiarized the song " Dangerous "?
text: Did you know that Calcutta Polo Club , established in 1862, is considered the world's oldest polo club in existence?
text: Did you know that during five years of college football , E. J. Kuale played at three different colleges?
text: Did you know that Islamic prophet Muhammad is said to have forbidden his followers to collect his sayings, and there is considerable criticism of such collections which have been said to form the basis of Islamic law ?
text: Did you know that Mario vs. Donkey Kong: Minis March Again will allow players to create custom-made levels and send them wirelessly to players on other Nintendo DSi devices?
text: Did you know that the presenter of The Marian Finucane Show has been compared to Jay Leno , Michael Parkinson and Jonathan Ross ?
text: Did you know that Daniel P. Mannix spent a year studying foxes before penning his 1967 novel The Fox and the Hound to ensure he portrayed vulpine behavior realistically?
text: Did you know that Evelyn Scotney , an Australian coloratura soprano, sang opposite Enrico Caruso in his final appearance on the opera stage?
text: Did you know that Iowa -based Gomaco Trolley Company , founded in 1982, makes replicas of 1902 streetcars ?
text: Did you know that Ivory Williams competed against Usain Bolt in a 150-metre street race as part of the Great City Games in Manchester , England ?
text: Did you know that even though the band Memphis May Fire formed in December 2006, it was not until February 2007 that the group decided on their name?
text: Did you know that Scottish actress Rona Anderson married fellow actor Gordon Jackson after appearing with him in the romantic drama Floodtide ?
text: Did you know that the Abelardo L. Rodriguez Market in Mexico City has about 1,500 square meters of mural work done by students of Diego Rivera ?
text: Did you know that a schoolbag is the only known trace of 13 year-old Irish schoolboy Philip Cairns , who disappeared in October 1986?
text: Did you know that the Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episode " Zebras " earned higher ratings than an NBC special about Barack Obama , which aired the same night?
text: Did you know that Anna Goldfeder , a pioneer in the fields of radiology and cancer treatment , worked as a research scientist in an abandoned building for two years before she secured enough grant money to move her laboratory?
text: Did you know that Lithuanian writer and educator Gabrielė Petkevičaitė-Bitė , as the oldest representative, chaired the first session of the Constituent Assembly of Lithuania in 1920?
text: Did you know that the pendulum in the Hornsby Water Clock has the same four-second time cycle as the one in Big Ben , but a heavier counterweight ?
text: Did you know that Maryland's Catholic colonial Governor William Joseph fled the colony after serving only a year in office when Protestant colonists rebelled?
text: Did you know that 95% of cases of hypertension are of the essential hypertension type, and that essential hypertension has many established risk factors ?
text: Did you know that DNC Chairman Stephen A. Mitchell was mentioned in Richard Nixon 's Checkers speech after he called for Nixon to resign from his ticket?
text: Did you know that a former brother-in-law to Barack Obama might stand at the next Bracknell parliamentary election in the UK?
text: Did you know that Stefan Knapp , a Polish artist working in Great Britain , used his experiences in the Gulag and as a RAF pilot as a basis for his artwork?
text: Did you know that Lost Forest in Lake County , Oregon , is an isolated stand of Ponderosa pine separated from the nearest pine forest by forty miles of arid high desert ?
text: Did you know that Buttrum's Mill , Woodbridge , is the tallest surviving windmill in Suffolk ?
text: Did you know that Robert Yates, assistant editor for The Observer first coined the term " grief porn " at a 2005 news conference to denote a "gratuitous indulgence of tangential association with tragedy"?
text: Did you know that Gotjawal Forest , a naturally formed forest on Jeju Island in South Korea , consists of a rocky area of aa lava ?
text: Did you know that following the Grue Church fire on Pentecost 1822 in Solør , Norway , in which at least 113 people perished, a law was passed prescribing that all doors of public buildings must swing outwards?
text: Did you know that Holden Bowler , the namesake of J.D. Salinger's character Holden Caulfield , was also the godfather of singer Judy Collins ?
text: Did you know that seed swaps , potluck -style events where gardeners exchange seeds, help maintain biodiversity and preserve cultural and regional traditions?
text: Did you know that the early homophile organization NACHO adopted the slogan "Gay is Good", modeled on the African American slogan "Black is Beautiful" ?
text: Did you know that the antebellum Stoney Creek Presbyterian Chapel in McPhersonville, South Carolina , was built by lowcountry rice planters as a summer chapel?
text: Did you know that jolly boats were carried on practically all types of warships of the Royal Navy during the age of sail , from ships of the line down to brigs ?
text: Did you know that Alysa Stanton is the first African American female rabbi ?
text: Did you know that Scottish actor J. Grant Anderson served in both World Wars , founded a theatre in India , and played a clown in a Burmese circus?
text: Did you know that The Heartbreak Express ' first and second FIP Tag Team Championship reigns hold the record for most, and fewest title defences respectively?
text: Did you know that actress and television announcer Barbara Matera is a candidate for the centre-right The People of Freedom (PdL) party in the 2009 European Parliament elections ?
text: Did you know that the Goa Liberation Movement , which sought freedom from Portuguese colonial rule , achieved its aim only when the India Army invaded Goa in 1961 ?
text: Did you know that venture capitalist Frank Legacki set American records in the 50-yard freestyle and 100-yard butterfly while attending the University of Michigan in 1961?
text: Did you know that the fine of £175,000 handed to Arsenal F.C. in 2003 after the Battle of Old Trafford was a record for English football ?
text: Did you know that one-time Nickelodeon star Jason Zimbler ( Clarissa Explains It All ) founded the Portland, Oregon theatre company 'The Re-Theatre Instrument' in late 2007?
text: Did you know that Fine Gael politician George Lee used The Week in Politics – broadcast by his former employer – to criticise a round of golf played by several Irish senators ?
text: Did you know that Sofia, New Mexico , was founded in 1911 as the first Bulgarian agricultural colony in the United States , and was named after the Bulgarian capital Sofia ?
text: Did you know that in 1975, Eugeniusz Knapik became known as a member of a group of Polish composers who rejected the previous generation for seeking the destruction of musical tradition?
text: Did you know that despite being a World Series of Poker bracelet event, the Casino Employee Championship receives little attention?
text: Did you know that the small parrot known as the Guaiabero is so named in its native Philippines for its penchant for guavas ?
text: Did you know that Norwegian physicist Gabriel Gabrielsen Holtsmark had two brothers who were Norwegian Parliament members?
text: Did you know that Rowen House School in Derbyshire was an "Educational experiment" that used the power of the childhood group in the same way as Summerhill School ?
text: Did you know that two American bands named themselves after the same 1960 Japanese Sun Tribe film The Warped Ones ?
text: Did you know that after facing 2009 All-American softball pitcher Nikki Nemitz 's fastball, a sports writer for the Detroit Free Press wrote that he "actually felt a breeze" and his "knees buckled"?
text: Did you know that during World War I , a British propaganda claim that Germans converted the bodies of their dead soldiers into various products, was based on a mistranslation of the German word Kadaver ?
text: Did you know that the jazz singer Eva Olmerová was persecuted by the State Security service of the Czechoslovak communist regime ?
text: Did you know that the medieval lituus , a musical instrument that hasn't been seen or heard for 300 years and for which Johann Sebastian Bach composed music, has been recreated by a team of scientists from Switzerland and the United Kingdom ?
text: Did you know that Lazdynų Pelėda ( Hazelnut Owl ) was a common pen name used by two Lithuanian sister writers, Sofija Pšibiliauskienė and Marija Lastauskienė ?
text: Did you know that the Ice Hotel in Québec , Canada , is the first ice hotel in North America ?
text: Did you know that before winning the third series of Britain's Got Talent , dance troupe Diversity won the UK National Street Dance competition?
text: Did you know that the recently-announced video game Metroid: Other M is being co-developed by both Team Ninja and Nintendo ?
text: Did you know that political boss Tom Pendergast made future DNC chair William M. Boyle a precinct captain even though he was too young to vote?
text: Did you know that Anthracite, Alberta , now a ghost town , was once a hotspot for illegal activities?
text: Did you know that the BMW R80G/S —launched in 1980—was the first motorcycle in the BMW GS family, of which half a million examples have now been built?
text: Did you know that Jerry Rosenberg , New York's longest-incarcerated inmate , was the first to earn a law degree in a New York prison and served as a jailhouse lawyer to the leaders of the Attica prison riot ?
text: Did you know that after the collapse of the Broughton Suspension Bridge in 1831, the British military introduced the order to "break step" when soldiers were crossing a bridge?
text: Did you know that cookbook Seduced by Bacon by Joanna Pruess not only includes a recipe for pecan , brown sugar, and bacon ice cream, but also writings by Mark Twain ?
text: Did you know that the collapse of Australia's largest managed investment scheme agribusiness , Great Southern Group , is being examined by two separate Australian parliamentary committee inquiries?
text: Did you know that the Pyne and Harrison Opera Company paid composer William Vincent Wallace only 10 shillings for the rights to his opera Lurline and later made £ 50,000 from its performances?
text: Did you know that Hal Lubarsky outlasted 6,300 other players at the World Series of Poker despite playing blind?
text: Did you know that Barry Wood , who played quarterback at Harvard and became a physician and microbiologist , was elected to both the College Football Hall of Fame and the National Academy of Sciences ?
text: Did you know that the BBC Radio 4 sitcom Newfangle has been described by different sources as being set in either 100,000 B.C. or two million years ago?
text: Did you know that the Financial News competed with its rival the Financial Times by attacking companies which advertised there?
text: Did you know that in a US study almost all surgeons indicated that they experienced needlestick injuries during their training?
text: Did you know that in the Canadian film Public Domain the producers of a reality TV game show install cameras in dysfunctional contestants' homes without their knowledge or permission?
text: Did you know that the Lord Chancellor's Advisory Committee on Legal Education and Conduct was disbanded in 1999 despite only having started work in April 1991?
text: Did you know that there has been a demand for a separate Tulu Nadu state from Karnataka , India since the 1990s?
text: Did you know that law professor Paul Steven Miller , who has a type of dwarfism , was one of the longest serving Commissioners of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission ?
text: Did you know that the Nazi concentration camp Grini was built as a women's prison?
text: Did you know that despite the word "heavyweight" in the title of the CZW World Heavyweight Championship , multiple non-heavyweight wrestlers have held the championship?
text: Did you know that according to the 2000 United States Census , Guttenberg , New Jersey , is the most densely populated incorporated place in the U.S. ?
text: Did you know that Mabel Philipson became the third woman to sit in the British House of Commons after winning the Berwick-upon-Tweed by-election in 1923?
text: Did you know that after the Poland–Czechoslovakia war , January 23 – January 30, 1919, a new border was agreed to on Feb. 3, 1919, at the signing of the Polish-Czech border agreement, in Paris?
text: Did you know that, measuring a mere 8.6 cm (3.4 in) long, the Buff-faced Pygmy-parrot is the world's smallest species of parrot ?
text: Did you know that the sale of alcohol was banned for three days during the 2003 Salvadoran legislative election ?
text: Did you know that in the advent of war with Great Britain, Adolf Hitler 's Plan Z stipulated that the O class battlecruisers would be tasked with destroying convoys before they could deliver their cargo to the British?
text: Did you know that Pirates of the Caribbean: Armada of the Damned takes place in the universe of the Pirates of the Caribbean film series but its story is not connected to the series at all?
text: Did you know that the Driver's Privacy Protection Act , which protects the privacy of driver's license information in the United States , was upheld by unanimous decision of the United States Supreme Court in Reno v. Condon ?
text: Did you know that Stanford Keglar was coached by ex- Purdue defensive back Ken Coudret in high school, before going on to play at Purdue himself?
text: Did you know that Karatsu ware is a style of Japanese pottery which is considered one of the top choices for implements used in the Japanese tea ceremony ?
text: Did you know that the longest and shortest state highways in Washington are located in Pend Oreille County ?
text: Did you know that Donald Duck talk , the voice used by Clarence Nash for Donald Duck , is one of three forms of alaryngeal speech ?
text: Did you know that PokerTracker 3 , the leading poker tool for online poker , uses a HUD analogous to the head-up display that Arnold Schwarzenegger 's Terminator character used?
text: Did you know that the audio series The Dongle of Donald Trefusis by Stephen Fry went to No. 2 on the UK Albums Chart when it was released for download in 2009?
text: Did you know that Irish architect Frederick Clarendon designed the Dublin museum known as the Dead Zoo ?
text: Did you know that Newington Green Unitarian Church has strong ties to political radicalism stretching over 300 years, with Richard Price in the pulpit and Mary Wollstonecraft in the pews?
text: Did you know that the 1960 Velocette Viper British motorcycle was one of the first to have glass fibre enclosure panels?
text: Did you know that despite winning 37.3% of the vote the opposition coalition won no seats in the 2003 Djiboutian parliamentary election ?
text: Did you know that former RNC chairman Guy Gabrielson was one of the few Republican politicians not to support Richard Nixon after the Checkers speech ?
text: Did you know that the tollbooths of the 19th-century turnpike that followed Pennsylvania Route 171 were torn down by citizens?
text: Did you know that the Lurgi-Ruhrgas process for oil shale extraction was originally developed for the liquefaction of lignite ?
text: Did you know that Shakespeare Cliff Halt , a private railway station on a cliff ledge near Dover , England, has been used by miners, the British Army , and railway employees, but never by the public?
text: Did you know that from 1936 to 1939 , Alexander Monkman led a volunteer effort to build a road through the Monkman Pass into British Columbia ?
text: Did you know that the Hindu temple Swaminaryan Mandir in Colonia , New Jersey , USA, was originally a synagogue ?
text: Did you know that Poland 's Antoni Gawryłkiewicz , a recipient of the Righteous among the Nations medal, signed his Yad Vashem deposition in Hebrew , a language he did not understand?
text: Did you know that the Byzantine court title of protospatharios had such high prestige that an aged cleric once purchased it for over 19 kilograms (42 lb) of gold ?
text: Did you know that modern radars use frequency agility to reduce the effects of intentional interference , or jamming?
text: Did you know that German-Italian Marxist political scientist Johannes Agnoli was, in his youth, an enthusiastic fascist and Wehrmacht volunteer?
text: Did you know that angels on horseback was featured in the New York Times in 1896 as a "dish for sultry weather"?
text: Did you know that in the 2003 Cypriot presidential election , Costas Kyriacou called for free love and claimed that he won 73 percent of the vote?
text: Did you know that a new government was not formed in Cambodia for almost a year after the 2003 Cambodian parliamentary election ?
text: Did you know that Stegt Flæsk , a popular bacon dish in Danish cuisine , has been described as "a dish of pork fat , and only pork fat, in parsley sauce"?
text: Did you know that the Dallas Aces were the world's first professional bridge team?
text: Did you know that Mar Abba I , the Nestorian Catholicos of Seleucia-Ctesiphon from 540 to 552, was a convert from Zoroastrianism ?
text: Did you know that after ruling Japan for 135 years, the Hōjō clan set its family temple on fire before committing mass suicide within, and were enshrined en masse in the temple of Hōkai-ji ?
text: Did you know that the debut single of Romanian singer Corina entitled Noi Doi reached fourth place in the Romanian Top 100 ?
text: Did you know that soprano Deborah Voigt lost over 100 pounds (45 kg) by means of gastric bypass surgery after she was fired in the " Covent Garden incident"?
text: Did you know that the Olympic ice hockey tournament was nearly canceled when two hockey teams from the United States arrived in St. Moritz , Switzerland , to compete in the 1948 Winter Olympic Games ?
text: Did you know that Peter Symonds , an English mercer , founded an almshouse in Winchester that was to become Peter Symonds College ?
text: Did you know that National Pig Day is included in a handbook for first-year teachers as a day for activities including cooking bacon , making BLTs , and discussing where pork chops come from?
text: Did you know that Torvald Tu ' s musical comedy Kjærleik på Lykteland from 1923 was one of the greatest stage successes at Det Norske Teatret ?
text: Did you know that some of the elements of the adventure pack Neverwinter Nights 2: Mysteries of Westgate were released so that they could be used for free by the Neverwinter Nights 2 community?
text: Did you know that Bruce Springsteen 's song " For You " is about a woman who has attempted suicide ?
text: Did you know that although the report of the Benson Commission led to the Courts and Legal Services Act 1990 , the report and Act disagreed in many ways?
text: Did you know that in only his second mixed martial arts fight, the 2006 World Champion in Greco-Roman wrestling , Joe Warren , defeated former champion Norifumi "Kid" Yamamoto ?
text: Did you know that Jan Piekałkiewicz , a leading Polish statistician , became the Polish Underground State 's Government Delegate , and died at the hands of Nazi Germany ?
text: Did you know that the Chinatown in Mexico City may be the world's smallest?
text: Did you know that the Oscar Award-nominated film The Final Inch , a documentary about efforts to eradicate the poliovirus , is the first film project from Google 's philanthropic division Google.org ?
text: Did you know that surform tools can shape materials as diverse as automobile repair plastic body filler and elephants ' hooves ?
text: Did you know that the beard of Greek cardinal Basilios Bessarion was partly responsible for the defeat of his candidacy in the papal conclave, 1455 ?
text: Did you know that Katie Jarvis was cast in the film Fish Tank , after a casting agent spotted her having an argument with her boyfriend at Tilbury Town railway station ?
text: Did you know that the original radio studio building of KOBB (then called KBMN) in northern Bozeman, Montana , now serves as a small casino ?
text: Did you know that when classicist Bernard Knox was selected for the 1992 Jefferson Lecture (the U.S.'s highest humanities honor), he gave his speech the "provocative" title "The Oldest Dead White European Males"?
text: Did you know that a critic reviewing country music artist Ronnie Milsap 's 2006 album My Life observed that Milsap's voice remained "virtually unchanged" since his debut in the early 1970s?
text: Did you know that the Sopwith Bulldog , a prototype British World War I fighter plane, was so unreliable that one test pilot said "I never remember being able to get all cylinders to fire at the same time"?
text: Did you know that in 1895, the husband of English actress Amy Roselle shot her dead and then killed himself, leaving behind a suicide note censuring the acting profession?
text: Did you know that in the U.S. Supreme Court case of Ashcroft v. Iqbal , a prisoner sued Federal prison guards and their superiors alleging physical abuse?
text: Did you know that As'ad Pasha al-Azm , governor of Damascus under the Ottoman Empire for 14 years, ordered the construction of the Azm Palace and Khan As'ad Pasha ?
text: Did you know that John Wick , who passed on information that led to an ongoing scandal about expenses of Members of the United Kingdom Parliament , once commanded the Royal Army Ordnance Corps 's Mobile Bath Unit?
text: Did you know that the Fossil Cabin in Wyoming was built of dinosaur bones and was billed by its builder as "the building that used to walk"?
text: Did you know that music producer Bill Szymczyk got started in music engineering while working on SONAR for the United States Navy ?
text: Did you know that Mushet steel was the first tool steel and later led to the discovery of high speed steel ?
text: Did you know that driving for Polestar Racing Group , Katherine Legge became the first woman to win an open-wheel race in North America?
text: Did you know that San Pedro Atocpan hosts a festival every year devoted to mole sauce ?
text: Did you know that Henri Pinault , the last Roman Catholic bishop of Chengdu , was imprisoned and expelled from China by the Communist Party of China in 1952, but retained his title until 1983?
text: Did you know that before Tommy Walker became a footballer he was a champion sprinter?
text: Did you know that Hannah Tracy Cutler wrote an advice column for farm girls before she became president of the American Woman Suffrage Association in 1870?
text: Did you know that human skin flora includes roughly 1,000 species of bacteria ?
text: Did you know that Donald G. Fink , later to become a prominent electrical engineer , was selected as the best orator in his county at a high school competition?
text: Did you know that the 1927 British AJW Summit v-twin motorcycle was capable of 161 kilometres per hour (100 mph)?
text: Did you know that in the 2009 Indian parliamentary election , Bangshi Badan Barman of the Greater Cooch Behar Democratic Party became the first undertrial prisoner to file candidate nomination papers in West Bengal ?
text: Did you know that The Cheese Store of Beverly Hills , established in 1967, carries more than 500 varieties of cheese ?
text: Did you know that the Derwent Valley Mills World Heritage Site in Derbyshire , which includes a mixture of mills and workers' housing, is considered the birthplace of the factory system ?
text: Did you know that Terrence Wheatley and teammate Sammy Joseph were the first two freshman cornerbacks to start at the same time in Colorado Buffaloes history?
text: Did you know that her controversial publication of The Woman's Bible in the 1890s effectively ended Elizabeth Cady Stanton 's further influence in the women's suffrage movement?
text: Did you know that King Cnut the Great ordered the murder of Eadric Streona and Northman , the eldest son of Leofwine, Ealdorman of the Hwicce , in 1017?
text: Did you know that Greg Golson stole over 100 bases in his five years as a Philadelphia Phillies minor leaguer ?
text: Did you know that the Virginia Tech Hokies , winners of the 1995 Sugar Bowl , were selected for the game only after sanctions were levied against the Miami Hurricanes ?
text: Did you know that the Old Log Theater is reputedly the oldest professional theater in the state of Minnesota and is the oldest continuously operating professional theater in the United States?
text: Did you know that Daphne Anderson has played Father William, the Walrus, and the Red Queen in various productions of Alice in Wonderland ?
text: Did you know that in a defined contribution plan , a type of retirement plan , the contributions to the account are guaranteed but the future benefits are not?
text: Did you know that Arsenal won the 1988–89 English Football League Championship title thanks to a goal scored in the last minute of the very last game ?
text: Did you know that the Helmerich Award , an annual literary award that pays US$40,000 to an "internationally acclaimed" author, is named after the actress who played "Nurse Kelly" in the 1950 film Harvey ?
text: Did you know that the Indian Star Tortoise , Sri Lanka Junglefowl , Sri Lankan Elephant , Sri Lanka Leopard and Rusty-spotted Cat are among the endangered species of the Hurulu Forest Reserve ?
text: Did you know that the last train to run on the Port Whitby and Port Perry Railway was a special passenger service to Toronto to visit the Royal Tour of 1939 ?
text: Did you know that the Northwestern Wildcats women's lacrosse team has won the NCAA Women's Lacrosse Championship five consecutive times since 2005?
text: Did you know that approximately 37,500 Local and Personal Acts have been passed by the Parliament of the United Kingdom since 1539?
text: Did you know that the many optical effects apparent in Johannes Vermeer 's The Lacemaker indicate that he made use of the camera obscura ; an early photographical device?
text: Did you know that Ralph Alswang designed the Westport, Connecticut , home of actor Paul Newman ?
text: Did you know that the Benner House is the sole surviving German -style vernacular home built to a one-room plan in Rhinebeck, New York ?
text: Did you know that the comic strip character Pupung was based on the creator's nephew Jeff Young?
text: Did you know that the country music quartet The Oak Ridge Boys reached their highest ranking in 26 years on the Billboard 200 with the release of their 2009 album The Boys Are Back ?
text: Did you know that Han dynasty politician Zhang Tang once tried and executed a rat ?
text: Did you know that in 1987, the Elk Creek Dam's construction on Elk Creek was halted due to a court injunction issued over a lawsuit designed to protect salmon and other migratory fish from the effects of the dam on the river?
text: Did you know that Jared C. Monti is only the second person to be awarded the Medal of Honor for actions during the War in Afghanistan ?
text: Did you know that in 2008 one of Jamaica 's most wanted fugitives evaded police capture when a motorist flashed his headlights to warn of police activity ahead?
text: Did you know that Wyoming newspaper publisher Charles E. Richardson won a Sharpshooter Medal for his skill with a .38 caliber pistol while serving in the Army in the late 1950s?
text: Did you know that during the Japanese conquest of Burma in 1942, the heavily defended Taukkyan Roadblock was unexpectedly abandoned overnight, allowing the Allied forces to escape safely from Rangoon ?
text: Did you know that Snorri Thorfinnsson , son of explorers Thorfinn Karlsefni and Guðríðr Þorbjarnardóttir , is said to be the first European born in North America?
text: Did you know that Agaricus albolutescens , unlike other species of Agaricus , turns tawny-brown rather than yellow when bruised?
text: Did you know that Canadian professional wrestler Billy Two Rivers decided to move to the United Kingdom because of a coin toss ?
text: Did you know that after a massive expansion program in the 1980s, Lavalin 's corporate bankers forced it to merge with the rival SNC Group , forming one of the largest civil engineering firms in the world?
text: Did you know that Kjell Fjalsett , Arnold Børud , Ivar Skippervold and Rune Larsen constitute the gospel group Frisk Luft , called the first Christian supergroup in Norway ?
text: Did you know that T.H.E. Fox , drawn on a C64 KoalaPad and published on CompuServe , Q-Link and GEnie , is among the earliest online comics?
text: Did you know that "Calexico Kid" Primo Villanueva led UCLA to the NCAA football championship in 1954 and was inducted into the British Columbia Restaurant Hall of Fame in 2009?
text: Did you know that during June 1976 protests in Poland , the biggest demonstrations took place in Radom , where workers burned the local office of the Polish Communist party ?
text: Did you know that the clubhouse of the Royal Findhorn Yacht Club was originally the home of its first Commodore, James Chadwick?
text: Did you know that Sir William Cheyne has been described as one of the most obscure Chief Justices of the King's Bench in the late medieval period ?
text: Did you know that both Margot Marsh's Mouse Lemur and Arnhold's Mouse Lemur are separated from their closest relatives by species barriers ?
text: Did you know that the French won a victory over the Royal Navy in a naval battle off Cape Breton during the American Revolutionary War ?
text: Did you know that in the mid-1880s, Nelson's Greenbrier Distillery dwarfed Jack Daniel's in its output of Tennessee whiskey ?
text: Did you know that Elizabeth Fox, Baroness Holland was a political hostess who introduced the dahlia to the United Kingdom in 1804?
text: Did you know that the New Jersey version of the NWA United States Tag Team Championship is one of at least five championships that share the same name?
text: Did you know that the Habeas Corpus Act 1862 was passed to prevent Britain's courts from issuing writs of habeas corpus in British colonies and dominions ?
text: Did you know that psychologist Sidney W. Bijou would not punish his 15-year old son for a joyriding arrest as he "had punishment enough", his son recalling that "it can pay off to have a psychologist for a father"?
text: Did you know that the German battleship SMS König sank the Russian battleship Slava during Operation Albion in 1917?
text: Did you know that Samuel Taylor Coleridge was accused of plagiarism over his poem " Hymn Before Sunrise "?
text: Did you know that the 1973 parliamentary election was the last to be held under imperial rule in Ethiopia ?
text: Did you know that the distinctive foliage of Hydrangea radiata , a shrub of the southern Appalachians , is dark green on one side but silvery white on the other?
text: Did you know that Irish-born journalist and poet Daniel O'Connell worked for a number of newspapers in San Francisco and was one of the co-founders of the Bohemian Club ?
text: Did you know that three conclavists —personal aides to cardinals during a papal conclave —have gone on to be elected Pope ?
text: Did you know that French philosopher Denis Diderot posed naked for a Berlin innkeeper's wife ?
text: Did you know that the Southern sennet , a member of the Barracuda family , has been linked to ciguatera poisoning?
text: Did you know that an Australian football player was banned for life for umpire abuse ?
text: Did you know that Ziegfield Girl Susan Fleming found Harpo Marx , despite his non-speaking film persona, to be "a warm, fun, darling man to talk to", and they married in 1936 after she had proposed to him three times?
text: Did you know that the Hunt-class destroyer HMS Badsworth was named after a fox-hunt in Yorkshire and adopted by the town of Batley , following a Warship Week campaign in March 1942?
text: Did you know that Immigration Equality has been the main advocate for the Uniting American Families Act to give same-sex couples the same status as heterosexuals under the U.S. Immigration and Nationality Act ?
text: Did you know that the cam follower , which is a specialized type of roller bearing designed to follow cams , was invented in 1937 by the McGill corporation?
text: Did you know that one mixed martial arts fight at the Insomnia Summer Show in Satu Mare , Romania , lasted only seven seconds?
text: Did you know that the St. Johns River was Florida 's first tourist attraction and the primary travel route to the more remote parts of the territory before it was developed?
text: Did you know that when the Four Mile uranium mine commences operations in 2010, it will be the first new uranium mine in Australia for nearly ten years?
text: Did you know that mayors elected in the 1900 Cuban local elections had to swear an oath of allegiance to the U.S. Military Government before taking office?
text: Did you know that pocket neighborhood developments have included smaller homes around a landscaped common area to promote neighborly contact while keeping parking out of view?
text: Did you know that of the 13 named storms in the 1996 Atlantic hurricane season , 6 were major hurricanes (Category 3 or higher on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale )?
text: Did you know that Felix Hathaway helped construct the first American-built ship in what is now the state of Oregon ?
text: Did you know that bottlenose dolphin Moko rescued two pygmy sperm whales from possible death?
text: Did you know that Congregation B'nai Israel is the oldest synagogue in Bridgeport , and the third oldest in the U.S. state of Connecticut ?
text: Did you know that Czech children's writer Ondřej Sekora was also one of the first propagators of rugby in Czechoslovakia ?
text: Did you know that the Grutas de Cacahuamilpa National Park in Mexico includes one of the largest cave systems in the world, with some openings wide enough to be used as concert halls?
text: Did you know that Walter O. Bigby , who served in the Louisiana House of Representatives during the 1970s, was called the "Dean of the House" because of his reputation for integrity, fairness, and hard work?
text: Did you know that the Chichester to Silchester Way was discovered when the boundary banks of a mansio were seen by Ordnance Survey archaeologists on an aerial photograph ?
text: Did you know that the Manchester Grand Hyatt Hotel lost an estimated $2.4 to $7 million because the owner donated $125,000 to help California Proposition 8 ?
text: Did you know that Tekno Team 2000 , a "futuristic" professional wrestling tag team , was said to have the goal of bringing the World Wrestling Federation "into the 21st century"?
text: Did you know that Saint Ninian , the subject of Ailred of Rievaulx 's Life of Saint Ninian , is an "unhistorical doppelgänger " of the real-life British churchman Finnian ?
text: Did you know that in partnership with McIlwraith, McEacharn & Co. , the Adelaide Steamship Company developed the world's first purpose built container ship , MV Kooringa ?
text: Did you know that the Renfrew County Courthouse was described as "one of the finest in Canada" by the County Atlas of 1881?
text: Did you know that after helping Werner von Braun publish a book in post-war Germany, Heinz-Hermann Koelle joined von Braun's team at the U.S. Army Ballistic Missile Agency , where he worked on Saturn rockets ?
text: Did you know that the papal conclave, October 1503 was the shortest papal conclave in history due to the lack of a conclave capitulation ?
text: Did you know that only one aircraft, a Bombardier Dash 8 of Amakusa Airlines , uses Amakusa Airfield ?
text: Did you know that Gordon Brown 's independent advisor on ministerial conduct, Sir Philip Mawer who was given a knighthood in 2002, has also been a dame ?
text: Did you know that the Shanta Creek fire has burned over 13,000 acres (53 km 2 ; 20 sq mi) on Alaska 's Kenai Peninsula since it was started by lightning on June 29, 2009?
text: Did you know that in 1904, the whitewash was removed from the west wall of St. George's church, Trotton , leading to the discovery of an unprecedented 600-year-old wall painting?
text: Did you know that the first newspaper in Hawaii was printed by students of Lorrin Andrews in 1834, on a printing press brought to the islands in 1820?
text: Did you know that in 1901, two former political adversaries in Cuba , the Cuban National Party and the Republican Party of Havana , united behind the presidential candidature of Tomás Estrada Palma ?
text: Did you know that the marbleized appearance of the granite siding on the Gerard Crane House in Somers, New York , is a naturally occurring feature of the locally quarried stone?
text: Did you know that in each Summer Olympic Games since 1992 , the women's singles gold medalist in table tennis has also won gold in either the doubles or team competition?
text: Did you know that Pink Dot is a Los Angeles –based chain of grocery stores that offers delivery service of groceries, deli food, cigarettes, and alcohol?
text: Did you know that Kenneth W. Winters , a member of the Kentucky State Senate from Murray , did not begin his legislative service until he was 70 years old?
text: Did you know that no footballer has scored a hat-trick against England since Marco van Basten in 1988?
text: Did you know that during the 1700s, businesswoman Anna Krefting operated the largest ironworks in Norway ?
text: Did you know that the westernmost and easternmost points in the United States by travel , in Guam and the U.S. Virgin Islands , are both named "Point Udall," after brothers Mo and Stewart Udall ?"
text: Did you know that Weston Dressler of the Saskatchewan Roughriders set 19 school records in football at the University of North Dakota ?
text: Did you know that Bob Dylan sang his 1964 song " Chimes of Freedom " at Bill Clinton 's 1993 presidential inauguration?
text: Did you know that professional poker player Ilari Sahamies lost over US$3 million playing online poker while drunk, including more than $700,000 in a single day?
text: Did you know that Barbara Margolis , creator of a Rikers Island restaurant training program, was held in such regard by inmates that her car was returned after prisoners learned it was stolen from a prison lot?
text: Did you know that astronomer William Herschel was the first organist at the Octagon Chapel in Bath ?
text: Did you know that the Central Economic Intelligence Bureau serves as the secretariat of the Economic Intelligence Council of India ?
text: Did you know that the first Hof's Hut was opened in Belmont Shore by Harold Hofman on September 16, 1951, the same day that his son was born?
text: Did you know that due to a violent intimidation campaign of the Federal Republican Party , no other political groups dared to contest the 1900 municipal elections in Las Villas , Cuba ?
text: Did you know that Morgan Henry Chrysler was one of only four men who rose from private to major general during the American Civil War ?
text: Did you know that John Ruskin 's " wretched rant " influenced architects, artists and ecclesiologists ?
text: Did you know that Rocketdyne 's E-1 rocket engine never saw production, but gave NASA confidence to develop the F-1 that powered the Saturn V to the Moon?
text: Did you know that in Bishop Lloyd's House , Chester , Cheshire , is a fireplace with an overmantle containing a carving of Cupid riding on a lion?
text: Did you know that 21-year-old professional poker player Sami Kelopuro experiences daily swings of up to one million dollars when playing online poker ?
text: Did you know that many of the world's pelagic fish species are threatened with extinction , including the devil fish ?
text: Did you know that the Cuban People's Party was barred from contesting the 1901 elections, as the government demanded the party produce a register of thousands of members in just two hours?
text: Did you know that National Football League All-Pro linebacker and Super Bowl champion Cato June was co- class president , salutatorian and a member of the National Honor Society in high school?
text: Did you know that the Battle of the Oranges is the largest organized food fight in Italy ?
text: Did you know that Homer Paine was one of several college football players that Oklahoma Sooners head coach Jim Tatum lured away from the school's rivals after World War II ?
text: Did you know that Nazi German regulation of Polish forced laborers intentionally created and supported discrimination on the basis of ethnicity ?
text: Did you know that in baseball , no Gold Glove Award-winning catcher posted an errorless season until Charles Johnson and Mike Matheny accomplished the feat twice in six years?
text: Did you know that Killiniq , an abandoned settlement on the Hudson Strait , was formerly a part of Labrador , and then the Northwest Territories , but is now on the Nunavut side of Killiniq Island ?
text: Did you know that ornithologist Robert Thomas Moore , who is credited with discovering more than 30 bird species and subspecies, also founded the 29-volume series of Borestone Mountain Poetry Awards ?
text: Did you know that All Souls Unitarian Church in Tulsa, Oklahoma , is one of the largest Unitarian Universalist congregations in the world?
text: Did you know that giant Daniel Cajanus appeared in pantomime on the London stage in 1734?
text: Did you know that French singer Georges Guétary , who played the "older man" in a romantic triangle with Gene Kelly and Leslie Caron in the film An American in Paris , was nearly three years younger than Kelly?
text: Did you know that William Blake 's poem " The Mental Traveller " went unpublished during Blake's lifetime but was translated multiple times after his death?
text: Did you know that Jack Hennemier , head coach of the Calgary Stampeders , was sued by the Washington Redskins for attempting to sign two of their players?
text: Did you know that an inscription from Korba, Tunisia , records the town's fortification by Pompeian generals during the Roman civil war ?
text: Did you know that Meridian Baptist Seminary was the first school in Mississippi to offer high school diplomas to African-American students?
text: Did you know that Czech composer Jan Rychlík played the drums in the jazz orchestra of Karel Vlach ?
text: Did you know that the fruit of the pondberry , an endangered wetland shrub, was used by children in the rural Southern United States as ammunition in toy pop guns made from hollowed-out elderberry stems?
text: Did you know that as a variable-pitch turbofan aircraft engine, the Turbomeca Astafan could generate reverse thrust in midair without the use of a thrust reverser ?
text: Did you know that the Chicago Tribune claimed that hundreds of applicants to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign between 2005 and 2009 had received " special consideration "?
text: Did you know that the document known as the Remonstrances was presented in 1297, as England was on the brink of civil war ?
text: Did you know that a colony of sex offenders forced to live under a highway bridge in Miami, Florida , numbered approximately 140 members as of July 2009?
text: Did you know that A Vision of the Last Judgment is a painting by William Blake that disappeared after an exhibition was cancelled in 1810?
text: Did you know that Bridgecorp Holdings , a former Australian real estate development group, collapsed in 2007 owing 14,500 investors a total of A$ 467 million?
text: Did you know that Robert V. Decareau was known as "Mr. Microwave" for his research on microwaves in food that led to the development of the microwave oven ?
text: Did you know that Felix Salten 's novel Bambi, A Life in the Woods , originally published in Austria in 1923, is considered the first environmental fiction novel to be published?
text: Did you know that Poh Ling Yeow , the runner-up of MasterChef Australia , has appeared in four films?
text: Did you know that the 1969 Jefferson Airplane psychedelic folk-rock song " Good Shepherd " is derived from an early 1800s hymn from a backwoods preacher and a 1930s gospel blues recording by a blind axe murderer?
text: Did you know that the earliest activities of the Port of Amsterdam , today the Netherlands ' second largest port, date back to the 13th century?
text: Did you know that when hired as CEO of Rocket Chemical Company, John Barry changed its name to WD-40 to match its primary product, whose name came from "water displacement, formulation successful in 40th attempt"?
text: Did you know that three armies surrounded the papal conclave, September 1503 , held during the Italian Wars ?
text: Did you know that Xavier Petulengro , known as " The King of the Gypsies ", led traditional Romany weddings in Yorkshire where he mingled the blood of the couple and bound their wrists with a silk cord?
text: Did you know that 23% of the world's uranium reserves are held in Australia ?
text: Did you know that Czech violinist Karel Hoffmann was the only permanent member of the Bohemian Quartet throughout its 42-year existence?
text: Did you know that Denis Potvin has played the most games with the New York Islanders while holding the title of team captain ?
text: Did you know that the ancient Tzippori Synagogue in Israel was discovered by workers building a parking lot?
text: Did you know that the 1995 Mayfest Storm was the costliest hailstorm ever to hit the United States when it occurred?
text: Did you know that Nick Cave requested all television cameras be switched off during his performance of the song " Into My Arms " at the funeral of INXS singer Michael Hutchence ?
text: Did you know that airline pilots in the 1930s and 1940s flew with their ears when visibility was poor ?
text: Did you know that the third officer of the MV Horizon-1 ,  a cargo ship recently hijacked by Somali pirates , is a 24-year old Turkish woman?
text: Did you know that U.S. Army major William Stewart Walker was credited with leading 380 of his fellow soldiers to safety in Belgium from behind German lines during World War II ?
text: Did you know that the Manggahan Floodway in the Philippines was built to reduce flooding along the Pasig River but in turn contributed to flooding along the shores of Laguna de Bay ?
text: Did you know that professional wrestler Pablo Fuentes Reyna took the ring name "MS-1" from the highest rank of a Mexican Antiterrorist corps?
text: Did you know that Under Your Spell , director Otto Preminger 's first English language film, was a remake of the Spanish language release Las fronteras del amor ?
text: Did you know that two Victoria Crosses were awarded for action during the Umbeyla Campaign led by Neville Chamberlain in 1863?
text: Did you know that an ad campaign for the MMORPG Evony featured depictions of scantily clad women and the tagline "Save the Queen!", despite the fact that there is no queen to save in the game?
text: Did you know that quarterback Lindy Berry played in a game one week after suffering a broken jaw , and since it was the era before football helmet facemasks, he wore a hockey mask instead?
text: Did you know that the first expedition of the Universities' Mission to Central Africa ended disastrously, when the bishop and several others died of malaria ?
text: Did you know that, when Murray Chotiner produced the infamous "pink sheet" against opponent Helen Gahagan Douglas , Richard Nixon 's Northern California campaign manager Harvey Hancock refused to run it?
text: Did you know that Nói Síríus is Iceland 's largest candy manufacturer and now owns English chocolate company Elizabeth Shaw ?
text: Did you know that in one of his Posen speeches , Reichsführer - SS Heinrich Himmler said that the decision had to be made to make the Jews "disappear from the Earth"?
text: Did you know that the Dunns Pond Mound in Ohio may have been used for Native American burials for nine centuries?
text: Did you know that Arnon Grunberg 's award-winning 2003 novel The Asylum Seeker features a ménage à trois involving a former john , a terminally ill former prostitute , and an Algerian asylum seeker ?
text: Did you know that as of 2008, there is no treaty covering the border between Botswana and Namibia , which remains as defined in a treaty signed between the British and German Empires in 1890?
text: Did you know that Horace Barker was awarded the National Medal of Science for discovering the coenzyme of vitamin B12 , which Barker had isolated from mud taken from San Francisco Bay ?
text: Did you know that the White-bellied Sea Eagle and the Grey-headed Fish Eagle are the notable raptors of Gal Oya National Park ?
text: Did you know that Statutes of Casimir the Great from the 14th century were the first codification and the basis of modern Polish law ?
text: Did you know that the O'Kane Building in Bend , Oregon , was built for Hugh O’Kane who, as a boy, came to the United States illegally from Ireland by stowing away on a New York bound ship?
text: Did you know that in World War II , the British Indian Army was driven out of Burma at the Battle of Sittang Bridge ?
text: Did you know that professional wrestler Pirata Morgan lost his right eye in a mid-match accident?
text: Did you know that the Spadena House , a storybook house also known as The Witch's House, was originally built as offices and dressing rooms for a movie studio ?
text: Did you know that an East German defector hijacked a Polish plane in 1978 to escape to West Germany ?
text: Did you know that Jane H. Smith is not only the first woman state legislator from Bossier Parish in Louisiana , but she is the first woman to have been a high-school principal and school superintendent there as well?
text: Did you know that the Gurgaon Metro will be India 's first privately owned and operated metro ?
text: Did you know that sprint athlete and British 200 metres champion Toby Sandeman did a photoshoot for Vogue with Naomi Campbell ?
text: Did you know that the Superior multimineral shale oil extraction process was developed to combine the production of shale oil with that of sodium bicarbonate , sodium carbonate , and aluminum ?
text: Did you know that Patsy's Pizzeria first served up its coal oven pizza pies in 1933 and vies with Rao's to be the "best bite" in New York 's Spanish Harlem ?
text: Did you know that when confronted by a rebellion and an invasion , King Valagamba promised the rebel leader the throne and sent him against the invading army?
text: Did you know that founders of the National Fibromyalgia Association first met through the internet ?
text: Did you know that F. Springer 's novel Bougainville features a character who slept with Mata Hari on the boat taking them to the Dutch East Indies ?
text: Did you know that Bob "Horse" Reynolds founded the Los Angeles Angels baseball team and was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame within a year?
text: Did you know that the Indian Economic Intelligence Council is chaired by the Finance Minister ?
text: Did you know that a year after the American Civil War ended, discharged soldiers had conflicts with local policemen in Memphis , which escalated into one of the worst race riots in U.S. history ?
text: Did you know that German cigar maker Josef Feinhals wrote a compendium on scatology and smoking , under the pseudonym Collofino ?
text: Did you know that most Hindus in the Netherlands are immigrants from Suriname , a former Dutch colony in South America?
text: Did you know that no services have been held in Mt. Zion Methodist , the oldest church in Somers, New York , for almost 80 years?
text: Did you know that Nguyen Van Tuong helped install and depose three Vietnamese emperors in the space of a year?
text: Did you know that, for a period of 100 days, families featured on the television series The 100 Mile Challenge were not allowed to consume any food or drink grown or produced more than 100 miles from their home?
text: Did you know that female professional wrestler Jean Antoine married her high school sweetheart in the middle of a wrestling ring because she had a match afterward?
text: Did you know that on 18 February 1942, Brigadier "Punch" Cowan personally went to Rangoon to ask permission to retreat at the Battle of Bilin River ?
text: Did you know that Judge William C. Conner ruled that $2 million in lost cash was worth $634.90?
text: Did you know that when Khirbat al-Minya , an Umayyad -built palace near the Sea of Galilee , was first excavated in 1932, it was mistaken by archaeologists for a Roman fort ?
text: Did you know that at the Battle of Cape Finisterre , HMS Malta forced the surrender of one Spanish ship, and sent her boats to take possession of another?
text: Did you know that the players selected for the 1935 College Football All-America Teams included SMU 's "Iron Man" Wetsel , Stanford 's "Vow Boy" Bobby Grayson , military historian Jac Weller , aspiring G-Man Paul Tangora , Charles Wasicek of the "unbeaten, untied and uninvited" Colgate team, Minnesota 's "battering ram fullback " Sheldon Beise and tackles Ed Widseth and Dick Smith , Cal end Larry Lutz , Ohio State end Merle Wendt , Princeton second-generation All-American Gilbert Lea and Walter Winika , the first Rutgers varsity athlete killed in World War II ?
text: Did you know that 24 people died digging Bramhope Tunnel , known for its eccentric Neo-Gothic portal?
text: Did you know that surgeon Dr. Evan O'Neill Kane signed his handiwork by tattooing the letter K in Morse code on his patients in India ink ?
text: Did you know that professional wrestler Rayo de Jalisco, Jr. wrestled for a year before his father, Rayo de Jalisco, Sr. , found out?
text: Did you know that when the horse in her first maquette of The Scout was criticized for looking too "eastern", Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney shipped a horse from Buffalo Bill 's ranch to her studio in New York ?
text: Did you know that the Indian Defence Intelligence Agency was established because of intelligence lapses during the Kargil War ?
text: Did you know that Republican State Senator Vernie McGaha of Russell County , Kentucky , considers his highest priority helping constituents "stuck in the red tape of government"?
text: Did you know that the first pulsar was discovered as a result of an experiment designed to study interplanetary scintillation ?
text: Did you know that The Ivy restaurant was sued over an accident involving Lindsay Lohan and her 604 horsepower V-12 Mercedes Benz SL65?
text: Did you know that Susanna Montgomery, Lady Eglinton taught rats to come to her table for food?
text: Did you know that Chinese-Australian businessman Stern Hu , accused by Chinese officials of espionage , is said to have "caused huge loss to China's economic interest and security" by the Chinese Foreign Ministry ?
text: Did you know that humans living next to a lake at the Bouri Formation in Ethiopia 160,000 and 154,000 years ago butchered not only adult Hippopotamuses but also those that were newborn?
text: Did you know that more than 130 people died in July 2009 after consuming adulterated bootleg liquor in Gujarat , India , where alcohol consumption is prohibited?
text: Did you know that biochemists Ralph F. Hirschmann and Robert Bruce Merrifield both led teams that synthesized the enzyme ribonuclease and while Merrifield won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry , Hirschmann did not?
text: Did you know that the HMS Cockchafer played host to the regent of Iraq Amir Abdul Illah who had been deposed and was fleeing an assassination plot in Baghdad ?
text: Did you know that Western marksman Joe Bowman learned as a boy how to shoot flies off a garbage can with his BB gun ?
text: Did you know that Gaynell Tinsley , a two-time All-American end at LSU , set an NFL record with 675 receiving yards as a rookie in 1937?
text: Did you know that before marching to the Battle of White Wolf Mountain , the warlord Cao Cao fooled his enemy into thinking he had retreated by simply erecting a sign saying so?
text: Did you know that the automated Launch Processing System used by NASA for Space Shuttle launches has reduced the required number of firing room personnel to half of those required for an Apollo launch?
text: Did you know that in 1957, West Germany 's Federal Minister of Justice Hans-Joachim von Merkatz was the focus of an East German propaganda campaign, which portrayed him as a " fascist " and "leading Nazi functionary"?
text: Did you know that the Mansion District was once known as the "Garlic Core" of Albany, New York , due to its large Italian American population?
text: Did you know that professional wrestler Mr. Niebla once wrestled as " Batman "?
text: Did you know that the artwork of full-blood Tsimshian photographer Benjamin Haldane has enjoyed a revival after his glass plate negatives were discovered in an Alaskan dump?
text: Did you know that Moss Force , a waterfall in the English Lake District , was described by poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge as "an awful Image and Shadow of God and the World"?
text: Did you know that India 's Narcotics Control Bureau was created in 1986 to enforce the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act ?
text: Did you know that in the Broadway comedy Two Blind Mice , two government workers keep their office running after its abolition by Congress by renting out rooms and hiring out the front lawn as a parking lot?
text: Did you know that in English law , legal relations created in a social context are not considered binding?
text: Did you know that while playing baseball at Shibe Park , outfielder Herschel Bennett crashed into a wall, causing him to fall into a 36-hour coma and helping to end his major league career?
text: Did you know that Andrew Carroll went on a 1998 nationwide tour sponsored by the Academy of American Poets , distributing 100,000 free poetry books at truck stops , hospital waiting rooms and train stations ?
text: Did you know that Swiss mechatronics company Stäubli was originally founded in 1892 as a workshop for producing dobby looms ?
text: Did you know that Utah's Patchwork Parkway is the second-highest paved road in the state of Utah at 10,626 feet (3,239 m) above sea level?
text: Did you know that Canadian House of Commons member Philéas Côté introduced a private member's bill in 1946 seeking to rename Dominion Day to Canada Day ?
text: Did you know that Sri Lankan Prime Minister S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike was forced to abandon an agreement aimed at solving that country's ethnic problems amidst protests by radical Buddhist monks ?
text: Did you know that Lorraine Sneed, partner for 15 years of blade server inventor Christopher Hipp , said she had "got him" on their first date after asking "if he wanted to come see my SGI "?
text: Did you know that the ringlegged earwig gets its common name from the noticeable dark bands around the middle of its six legs ?
text: Did you know that Swedish film director Tomas Alfredson stated that he had grown tired of the Swedish film industry after finishing Let the Right One In ?
text: Did you know that in 1988, a West German court appointed an ex- notary to represent the interests of the German Reich concerning the Upper Mundat Forest against the Federal Republic of Germany ?
text: Did you know that Sid Wagner led Michigan State to their first consecutive football wins over the Michigan Wolverines and was the first player selected by the Detroit Lions in the first NFL Draft ?
text: Did you know that Jake Gyllenhaal has a brief part as the son of a widower played by Robin Williams in the Homicide: Life on the Street episode, " Bop Gun "?
text: Did you know that Dutch writer Louis Ferron , born of a German soldier and a Dutch mother during the German occupation in World War II , wrote a series of novels later called The Teutonic Trilogy ?
text: Did you know that The Office writer Jennifer Celotta and Office actor Rainn Wilson won a Writers Guild of America Award for writing the 2008 Independent Spirit Awards ceremony?
text: Did you know that Judy and Alfred were two 90-inch (2.3 m) tall steam locomotives specially designed to fit under a bridge at Par that was only 96 inches (2.4 m) high?
text: Did you know that the farming of celery was first introduced to the United States by George Taylor in 1856?
text: Did you know that Jimmy Carter , Colin Powell and Evander Holyfield were all election monitors at the 1997 Jamaican general election ?
text: Did you know that during the mutiny at the Nore , Captain William Hotham and Admiral Adam Duncan had to imitate an entire British fleet with just two ships?
text: Did you know that 1975's Tropical Storm Hallie existed as three types of cyclones : subtropical , tropical , and extratropical ?
text: Did you know that the band "Goodtime Washboard Three", with Peter R. Arnott on banjo , played on April Fools' Day in 1967 for Bing Crosby as he hosted the television show The Hollywood Palace ?
text: Did you know that the Gateway Protection Programme provides the opportunity for an annual quota of 750 especially vulnerable refugees selected by the UNHCR to be resettled in the United Kingdom ?
text: Did you know that Tom Paton , a member of the Montreal hockey club , was the first goaltender to win the Stanley Cup in 1893?
text: Did you know that the Hutchinson County Historical Museum , which opened in 1977, is housed in a two-story building constructed in 1927?
text: Did you know that New Zealand moved 30 centimetres (12 in) closer to Australia during a recent 7.8 magnitude earthquake ?
text: Did you know that Louisiana Sheriff Henderson Jordan sought to keep the death car of Bonnie and Clyde to compensate the officers who in 1934 risked their lives to capture the fugitives?
text: Did you know that the Victorian -style White-Pool House , built in 1887, is the oldest standing structure in Odessa , Texas ?
text: Did you know that Andrew Jordaan was the first cricketer to be timed out in a first-class match after poor weather delayed him in reaching the ground to start his innings?
text: Did you know that antique china dolls were predominantly made in Germany in the 1800s?
text: Did you know that Robert Isabell had four tons of glitter dumped on the floor of Studio 54 for a 1970s New Year's Eve party, which owner Ian Schrager described as like "standing on stardust"?
text: Did you know that the Tampere Philharmonic Orchestra participated in recording of the Vendetta album by the Finnish power metal band Celesty ?
text: Did you know that in 1908, accountant William Abner Eddy took a kite aerial photograph of two men who had stolen his ice cream?
text: Did you know that Bagel Bakers Local 338 controlled bagel making in New York City for decades, with a 1951 strike creating a "bagel famine" that resulted in sales of lox dropping up to 50% in area delis ?
text: Did you know that actor Knut Wigert was a driving force behind the establishment of a Henrik Ibsen museum in Oslo ?
text: Did you know that the Big Apple dance was popular at the Big Apple Club, an African-American night club at the former House of Peace Synagogue ?
text: Did you know that Josef Pleskot designed the administrative building of the ČSOB Bank , the first European building awarded the gold certificate of the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design ?
text: Did you know that the unsolved murder of Miss Garnett-Orme at Savoy Hotel, Mussoorie , India in 1911, inspired Agatha Christie 's first novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1916)?
text: Did you know that SMU All-American Truman "Big Dog" Spain , known for his "rumba king" good looks, was described as "hard as ship's steel and as torrid as a foundry furnace"?
text: Did you know that if a supermassive black hole is ejected from a galaxy , it can carry a dense cluster of stars called a hypercompact stellar system ?
text: Did you know that legend tells of how 15th-century Chief Justice of the King's Bench Sir William Hankeford committed an early form of suicide by cop ?
text: Did you know that amateur footballer Jürgen Wilhelm scored Germany 's 1983 Goal of the Year while playing for BFV Hassia Bingen in the third division Oberliga Südwest ?
text: Did you know that Iuliu Ilyés , the current mayor of Satu Mare , Romania , has twice been elected to the office with close to double the vote of his opponent?
text: Did you know that the closest transportation to Davidof Volcano is 199 miles (320 km) away in Adak, Alaska ?
text: Did you know that four-time U.S. table tennis champion Lou Pagliaro hated when the sport was called "ping-pong", a name that he said "sounds sissy" in a 1942 article in The New Yorker ?
text: Did you know that for about a millennium, the Hindu kings of Bishnupur were supreme in the Bankura area, even after Muslims conquered Bengal ?
text: Did you know that as a member of the Wyoming House of Representatives , Elton Trowbridge worked with a bipartisan group to bring public television to his state?
text: Did you know that the mineral erionite is a carcinogen , and chronic exposure to this mineral has been linked to excess mortality from mesothelioma in a number of villages in Turkey ?
text: Did you know that the tallest building in Mobile , Alabama , is the 745-foot (227 m) RSA Battle House Tower ?
text: Did you know that the loss of television reception—caused by the Canary Wharf Tower —for several hundred households was held not to be a nuisance in Hunter v Canary Wharf Ltd ?
text: Did you know that wealthy newspaper publisher Joe Knowland played a prison guard in his first feature film , Escape from Alcatraz , at the age of 49?
text: Did you know that singer-songwriter Craig Bickhardt , formerly of Schuyler, Knobloch & Bickhardt , has written Number One hits for The Judds and Ty Herndon ?
text: Did you know that the Vajpayee government called a joint session of the Indian Parliament in 2002 to pass the Prevention of Terrorism Act ?
text: Did you know that Dartmouth Conferences is one of the longest ongoing bilateral unofficial dialogues between American and Soviet (now, Russian) representatives?
text: Did you know that during the first recording session of Sanctus Real 's album The Face of Love , the studio was 90° F and "nobody wanted to be there"?
text: Did you know that Guido di Tella was an Argentine businessman , academic and diplomat who served as Minister of Foreign Relations between 1991 and 1999?
text: Did you know that shark bite victims have met with U.S. Senators to express their support for the Shark Conservation Act , which is pending approval by the Senate ?
text: Did you know that Montacute Priory was a dependency of Cluny Abbey from its foundation around 1100 until 1407?
text: Did you know that Delgadillo's Snow Cap Drive-In was built by owner Juan Delgadillo using mostly scrap lumber from the nearby Santa Fe Railroad yard?
text: Did you know that professional wrestler Black Warrior was forced to unmask after losing a match to Místico ?
text: Did you know that the lake in Adams Lake State Park was built as a water source for West Union , Ohio, and became the focus of the new park in 1950, when a new water source was developed?
text: Did you know that the incorporation of terms in English law requires a party to take "reasonable steps" to bring a term to the other party's attention?
text: Did you know that Thomas E. Trowbridge , who served in the Wyoming House and Senate , was originally a dairy farmer and rancher committed to rural development?
text: Did you know that nude weddings have become a $440 million dollar industry?
text: Did you know that Hebrew National 's kosher hot dogs , three-quarters of which are bought by non-Jews , have been advertised for decades under the slogan We answer to a higher authority ?
text: Did you know that Charles Lock , British consul in Naples , hated the British ambassador 's wife Emma Hamilton , and wrote widely read scabrous letters back home denouncing her and her lover Lord Nelson ?
text: Did you know that unless HR 2267 passes, there will be no federal or state regulatory agency protecting US citizens or ensuring "standards of integrity and fairness" on certain interstate activities?
text: Did you know that after surviving almost two years in the Ravensbrück concentration camp , Lise Børsum wrote a book about her experiences in the camp?
text: Did you know that " Mr. Tambourine Man " was the first song written by Bob Dylan to reach #1 on a pop music chart?
text: Did you know that photographer Fred Hartsook went from driving a mule-drawn mobile darkroom around California to taking pictures of Hollywood stars like Mary Pickford ?
text: Did you know that Albert Midlane wrote over 700 hymns , his best known being " There's a Friend for Little Children "?
text: Did you know that the election in 1181 of Pope Lucius III was the first papal election held in accordance with the decree that the pope is to be elected with a two-thirds majority by the cardinals ?
text: Did you know that Richard Morningstar is the Special Envoy of the United States Secretary of State for Eurasian Energy ?
text: Did you know that the Bobrof Volcano is an uninhabited island in the Andreanof Islands , part of Alaska 's Aleutian archipelago ?
text: Did you know that Gothabhaya of Sri Lanka banished 60 Buddhist monks from the Abhayagiri monastery for following Mahayana teachings?
text: Did you know that Helen Callaghan of the AAGPBL and son Casey Candaele are the only mother/son duo to play professional baseball, with Candaele having a career batting average seven points lower than his mother's?
text: Did you know that the U.S. 10th Mountain Division Special Troops Battalion was to take part in the invasion of Japan , but instead returned to the U.S. two days after Japan's surrender ?
text: Did you know that David L. Cole served in the labor mediation field under every US President from Franklin D. Roosevelt to Richard Nixon ?
text: Did you know that in 2007 the Tamil Nadu Chief Minister, M. Karunanidhi , took part in Thevar Jayanthi celebrations, after shunning the event for two decades?
text: Did you know that philanthropist Elliott Cresson received autographs of George Washington and Thomas Jefferson from ex-president James Madison ?
text: Did you know that Milwaukee held the 2009 Great Circus Parade after a six-year hiatus?
text: Did you know that the next Finnish Chief of Defence Lieutenant-General Ari Puheloinen , is a son of an electrician, while the four preceding chiefs-of-defence have come from officer families?
text: Did you know that Edward R. Tinsley , who rescued K-Bob's Steakhouse from bankruptcy in 1992, is a former president of the National Restaurant Association ?
text: Did you know that when appointed, Sir Rigby Swift was the youngest judge in the High Court of Justice ?
text: Did you know that the former common pasture was the first area outside Albany, New York 's stockade to be settled?
text: Did you know that the Mayor of Danzig , Conrad Letzkau , was treacherously murdered in 1412 by the Teutonic Knights for his support of Poland and refusal to pay taxes?
text: Did you know that the abandoned Sucreries Raffineries Bulgares factory in Sofia , Bulgaria , once owned by a Belgian company, was used as the set for Kreuzberg in a Bulgarian film?
text: Did you know that at the 1929 Rose Bowl , Benny Lom stopped Cal teammate Roy "Wrong Way" Riegels who had run 60 yards in the wrong direction and was about to score a safety , in a game Cal lost 8–7 to Georgia Tech ?
text: Did you know that the tutor of Peter the Great , Nikita Zotov , became the "Prince-Pope" of The All-Joking, All-Drunken Synod of Fools and Jesters ?
text: Did you know that before the NCAA began sponsoring a women's collegiate basketball tournament in 1982 , the AIAW Women's Basketball Tournament crowned national champions from 1972 to 1981?
text: Did you know that Sidonia von Borcke , executed for witchcraft in 1620, became a cult femme fatale in Victorian art and Gothic fiction ?
text: Did you know that the 1850 Squatters' Riot in Sacramento , California , effectively ended land speculation in the region?
text: Did you know that Lionel Pincus , who ran Warburg Pincus from 1966 to 2002, has donated more than $5,000,000 to the New York Public Library , including an endowment for the Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division?
text: Did you know that the idiom kick the bucket probably comes from a method of suicide in the middle ages?
text: Did you know that State Senator Coleman Lindsey became lieutenant governor of Louisiana , when Earl  Long succeeded Governor Richard W. Leche ?
text: Did you know that footballer Ole Gunnar Solskjær scored a 12-minute hat-trick after coming on as a substitute ?
text: Did you know that at least 10 members of the Sadeler family were active as engravers between 1572 and 1675?
text: Did you know that plug and feather , still used today, was the method used by the ancient Egyptians to cut stone?
text: Did you know that Martin Siem was among the leaders of the naval intelligence organization RMO in Norway during World War II?
text: Did you know that Gwen Verdon was nominated for an Emmy for playing a widow wishing death upon her husband in the Homicide: Life on the Street episode, " Ghost of a Chance "?
text: Did you know that the President's Surveillance Program , authorized by George W. Bush , included "unprecedented collection activities" that are still highly classified?
text: Did you know that Canadian football wide receivers and Murray State University graduates Andrew Nowacki and Jason French caught touchdown passes nearly one minute apart?
text: Did you know that the MILA tracking station provides the primary voice and data link during the first 7½ minutes of a Space Shuttle launch?
text: Did you know that in 1960, top US labor mediator Joseph F. Finnegan said employers shouldn't be stuck with "antiquated rules" nor should workers hit by automation be handled as "a robot to be cast on a trash heap"?
text: Did you know that Caroline Anthonypillai helped found the Lanka Sama Samaja Party , the oldest political party in Sri Lanka , along with her brother Philip ?
text: Did you know that nurses have been alarmed by brain-dead patients moving their arms in front of their faces, a phenomenon named the Lazarus sign after the biblical character resurrected by Jesus ?
text: Did you know that Eddisbury hill fort , the largest and most complex Iron Age hill fort in Cheshire , was destroyed by the Romans to prevent it being used against them?
text: Did you know that Mexican professional wrestler La Sombra made his in-ring debut at the age of thirteen?
text: Did you know that the first upper division college was the College of the Pacific ?
text: Did you know that after 30,000 people visited the Roman-era mosaic in Lod in one weekend, it was reburied to prevent damage until the Lod Mosaic Archaeological Center opened?
text: Did you know that the University of Virginia men's lacrosse game against Maryland in 2009 extended into seven overtime periods, making it the longest game in college history?
text: Did you know that during the ancient Anuradhapura Kingdom of Sri Lanka the slaughter of cattle was a crime punishable by death ?
text: Did you know that the funding for the German König -class battleships was secured by Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz 's threat of resignation?
text: Did you know that Donold Lourie , a former Princeton University football star, was appointed to a State Department post by President Dwight D. Eisenhower ?
text: Did you know that the 1998 Seychellois general election saw the Commonwealth of Nations and the Francophonie send a joint team of election monitors for the first time?
text: Did you know that scenes in a "desolate, shabby" psychological clinic in the Skins episode " JJ " were shot at the show's own offices?
text: Did you know that Robert Leiber , Jesuit adviser to Pope Pius XII , advised Bishop Alois Hudal that he should think of his plan for a "ratline" for fascists escaping Europe as a "crusade"?
text: Did you know that Mark Twain wrote the essay " The Awful German Language " to express his frustrations when learning German ?
text: Did you know that Diana Golden , who lost a leg to cancer at the age of 12, was named female skier of the year in 1988 by the United States Olympic Committee ?
text: Did you know that in 1999 at the Battle of Aidabasalala an Australian SAS team was surrounded but were able to shoot their way out, killing five of their attackers before being successfully extracted?
text: Did you know that in 2009 the Frontier Times Museum in Bandera , Texas , named the late folklorist J. Frank Dobie to its new Texas Heroes Hall of Honor?
text: Did you know that Carl Daniel Ekman , who first commercialized the sulfite process of wood pulp paper production, was the last of his father's sixteen children, who were all born in the same house?
text: Did you know that the skin colour of the Pokémon Jynx was modified because of complaints that the original design was racist?
text: Did you know that the prize fund for chuckwagon racing at the Calgary Stampede has grown from $275 at its inception in 1923 to $1.15 million in 2009?
text: Did you know that the Lebanese are the most numerous community in Uruguay after the Spanish and Italians ?
text: Did you know that Frances Fuller Victor , an influential writer of history and fiction, was initially uncredited for her major contributions to historian Hubert Howe Bancroft 's monumental work, The History of the West ?
text: Did you know that Ryan Smyth has been captain of the Canadian Ice Hockey World Championships five times, more than any other Canadian player since 1977 ?
text: Did you know that the authorship of the Instructions of Kagemni is attributed to a vizier of the fourth dynasty of Egypt , even though the earliest source is the Prisse Papyrus of the twelfth dynasty ?
text: Did you know that although the design of the Livingston County Courthouse was chosen in part for its fireproof qualities, the building was called "hardly fireproof" in 1915?
text: Did you know that Domhnall Gleeson , son of Brendan and cast as Bill Weasley in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows , has also played a randy young farmer who falls in love with a call girl ?
text: Did you know that the now defunct Heritage Christian School in Hillsboro, Oregon , once held a chariot race ?
text: Did you know that the first point of the 1940 Soviet ultimatum to Lithuania demanded to put Kazys Skučas , Minister of the Interior, and Augustinas Povilaitis , Director of the  State Security Department, on trial?
text: Did you know that as a struggling actor in 1993, Edie Falco paid for a month's rent by appearing in the Homicide: Life on the Street episode " Son of a Gun "?
text: Did you know that while governor of Jaffa in the early 19th century, Muhammad Abu-Nabbut initiated the city's fortification, the erection of two public fountains, and renovation of the Mahmoudiya Mosque ?
text: Did you know that in 1893, The Philadelphia Record "held its own" as "one of the best and most widely circulated newspapers in the United States " despite a troubled economy ?
text: Did you know that Leonardo Carrera who wrestles as Damián 666 is nicknamed "The Beast of the Apocalypse"?
text: Did you know that in order to attract new residents to the town, the community of Greenethorpe, New South Wales , has developed a farmhouse rental scheme offering houses for rent at AU$ 1 per week?
text: Did you know that Nuclear Assault 's EP The Plague includes mocking references to singer Vince Neil of Mötley Crüe ?
text: Did you know that the cuticle of the mushroom Agaricus arorae , which was first described in Santa Cruz County, California , turns yellow in potassium hydroxide when cut?
text: Did you know that Louisiana State Representative Jim Morris tried without success in 2009 to gain repeal of his state's compulsory motorcyclist helmet law?
text: Did you know that the first Czechoslovakian flag was handed over by the French President in the small Vosges town of Darney ?
text: Did you know that drunkards are held not to have the capacity in English law to enter into ordinary contracts ?
text: Did you know that to save money, new Minnesota radio station KYES shares studio space with KKJM , which founder Andy Hilger had donated to the Diocese of St. Cloud in 2000?
text: Did you know that, being created in 1934, the Mexican National Lightweight Championship is one of the oldest professional wrestling championships still in use today?
text: Did you know that V.V. Whittington was a Louisiana state senator from 1928 to 1932 and later president of the Louisiana Bankers Association?
text: Did you know that in 1996, the University of Glasgow renamed its Chair of Drama after former professor James Fullarton Arnott ?
text: Did you know that the Museum of Western Art in Kerrville , Texas , features the works of living artists in the genre of Remington and Russell ?
text: Did you know that in 1990, drug lord Haji Ayub Afridi used his Pakistani government connections to gain a seat in the Pakistani National Assembly for the Islamic Democratic Alliance ?
text: Did you know that the intensity of sexual violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has been described as the worst in the world?
text: Did you know that in 2009, theater students performed a series of old-style radio dramas on WNJR , Washington & Jefferson College 's radio station?
text: Did you know that the Quartet has supported election reform in Palestine through a UN -sponsored Elections Reform Support Group ?
text: Did you know that in Marcel Bellefeuille 's head coaching debut, wide receiver Prechae Rodriguez had 198 total yards to help Bellefeuille record his first win?
text: Did you know that the SS Ferret was stolen from Scotland and reappeared several months later in Australia under a new name?
text: Did you know that the direct action group Queer Liberaction staged same-sex kiss-ins and a marriage ceremony to draw attention to same-sex marriage issues?
text: Did you know that on July 9, 2009, the racing yacht Alfa Romeo II broke the Transpac record for miles sailed in one day, by sailing 431 nautical miles in 24 hours?
text: Did you know that the killing of Aza Gazgireeva , former Deputy Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Ingushetia , was described as "brutal" and "brazen"?
text: Did you know that the National Policy on Education of 1968 called for education spending to increase to six percent of India 's national income ?
text: Did you know that over ten million people watched Sweden's Melodifestivalen 2009 final through Sveriges Television 's online service compared to only 3,592,000 who watched the actual television broadcast?
text: Did you know that during his tenure as West Germany 's Federal Ministry of Justice , Fritz Neumayer worked primarily on reforming criminal law ?
text: Did you know that children's book publisher Kane/Miller published the English language edition of Everyone Poops ?
text: Did you know that rough hits from Michigan 's Richard France induced Wisconsin star Pat O'Dea to slug France, leading to O'Dea's ejection from the 1899 Western Conference championship game?
text: Did you know that Bed and Sofa is a 1927 Soviet silent film that satirizes polygamous relationships amongst the Moscow working poor ?
text: Did you know that the Presidential Museum and Leadership Library in Odessa , Texas is uniquely dedicated to the presidential office rather than specific presidents?
text: Did you know that Howiesons Poort , a Middle Stone Age culture in South Africa , shows evidence that humans used symbolism in the form of ground ochre 25,000 years before the start of the Upper Paleolithic ?
text: Did you know that IGN 's Chris Roper compared Gravity Games Bike: Street Vert Dirt unfavorably to E.T. for the Atari 2600 , which is often considered one of the worst video games of all time ?
text: Did you know that the diesel exhausts from the Royal Navy's Dark-class fast patrol boats caused the ships to become so dirty that they had to paint the hulls black?
text: Did you know that later Verdens Gang editor-in-chief Oskar Hasselknippe was a sub-editor in the newspaper Ringerikes Blad under editor Kaare Filseth before an intermezzo in Milorg ?
text: Did you know that the Latrobe Gate was one of the few structures at the Washington Navy Yard not destroyed when British forces burned the city ?
text: Did you know that the National Interventions Museum in Mexico City is located at the site of the 1847 Battle of Churubusco of the Mexican–American War , in a former Franciscan monastery built on top of an Aztec shrine?
text: Did you know that in summer 2008, future Memphis Grizzlies draft pick Sam Young , then a player for the University of Pittsburgh , slept at the school's basketball arena for a month?
text: Did you know that a selvage is the edge of a piece of woven or knitted fabric that does not fray or come unraveled?
text: Did you know that Oscar Mayer , maker of hot dogs and processed meats, was led by three generations of Oscar Mayers as chairmen, founder Oscar F. Mayer , his son Oscar G. Mayer, Sr. and grandson Oscar G. Mayer, Jr. ?
text: Did you know that in his Major League Baseball debut on July 30, 1961, pitcher Art Mahaffey gave up two singles but picked off each of those baserunners at first base?
text: Did you know that Udawatta Kele Sanctuary contains a 200–300 years old giant Entada rheedii liana ?
text: Did you know that Dutch writer Hans Warren (1921–2001) published 21 volumes of his Secret Diary , a diary he kept until three days before his death?
text: Did you know that the radio station now called KARP-FM was launched in 1968 as the FM sister station to KDUZ in Hutchinson, Minnesota ?
text: Did you know that Jasper Conran bought the 18th-century Ven House in rural Somerset and complained about plans to extend a slurry pit and install polytunnels close to the land?
text: Did you know that James Yoshimura wrote the Homicide: Life on the Street episode " Subway ", about a dying man pinned between a subway car and a train platform?
text: Did you know that the doom metal band Bloody Panda performs wearing executioner's hoods and robes?
text: Did you know that almost a quarter of the brown lanternsharks found in Suruga Bay , Japan , have both male and female organs ?
text: Did you know that You Chung Hong , the first Chinese American admitted to practice law in California , helped develop the new Chinatown in Los Angeles in the 1930s, including designing its neon-lit gateway?
text: Did you know that statues of The Boy with the Leaking Boot are found in Cleethorpes (England), Winnipeg and Toronto (Canada) and several cities in the United States, but his origins are obscure?
text: Did you know that Kentucky State Representative Sam B. Thomas coached fellow army soldiers in Olympic basketball trials in Japan after World War II ?
text: Did you know that today, most Butts are Muslims , although some practice Hinduism or Christianity ?
text: Did you know that Rhode Island industrialist Rowland G. Hazard helped win the release of nearly 100 African-Americans who were being held as slaves in the pre-Civil War American South ?
text: Did you know that the conviction of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi in State of Uttar Pradesh v. Raj Narain was formally overturned by the Supreme Court of India on November 7, 1975?
text: Did you know that the time travel video game Achron allows players to play simultaneously and independently in the past, present, and future?
text: Did you know that the bench from which David Salomons rose to become the first Jew ever to speak in the British Parliament is preserved in the Salomons Museum ?
text: Did you know that courts applying the dominant factor test have determined that poker is not gambling ?
text: Did you know that Togo Tanaka publicly called Japan 's government "stupid" the day after Pearl Harbor for starting an unwinnable war but was one of 10,000 Japanese Americans forcibly relocated to the Manzanar camp?
text: Did you know that " Racing in the Street " commemorates the racing that occurred on a little fire road outside Bruce Springsteen 's home town of Asbury Park ?
text: Did you know that in 1696, Catherine Bernard established the aesthetic principle of the French literary conte de fées with the dictum: "the [adventures] should always be implausible and the emotions always natural"?
text: Did you know that the Whitehead Memorial Museum in Del Rio , Texas , contains the graves of legendary Justice of the Peace Roy Bean and his son, Sam?
text: Did you know that some historians believe Goscelin of St Bertin may have been the author of the anonymous Life of King Edward ?
text: Did you know that, although mayor Hardin Bigelow served the city of Sacramento for only seven months, a flood, several fires, a riot , and a cholera epidemic all afflicted the city during his term?
text: Did you know that the Gangavaram Port is the deepest port in India ?
text: Did you know that the Japanese visual novel Princess Lover! 's anime adaptation was first exhibited as a video hosted by Television Kanagawa prior to its televised broadcast?
text: Did you know that The New York Times said Paul Hemphill ' s first book The Nashville Sound was "generally regarded as one of the best books on country music ever written"?
text: Did you know that the Hetaireia , the Byzantine guards unit responsible for the safety of the emperor on campaign, was composed chiefly of foreigners?
text: Did you know that Martin Wheelock , football player for the Carlisle Indian School in the 1890s, was inducted into the American Indian Athletic Hall of Fame in 1980?
text: Did you know that much of the Mahmoudiya Mosque in Jaffa was built during the Ottoman era using construction materials acquired from Roman columns ?
text: Did you know that James Hamilton of Bothwellhaugh was the first assassin to use a gun?
text: Did you know that Cyneweard of Laughern , last Anglo-Saxon sheriff of Worcestershire , lost his office to the Norman incomer Urse d'Abetot around 1069?
text: Did you know that during World War II , Australia produced almost 500,000 barrels of shale oil by operating the Nevada–Texas–Utah type of oil-shale retorts ?
text: Did you know that John Brown was the first physiotherapist of the Scotland national rugby union team ?
text: Did you know that Plymouth Synagogue is the oldest synagogue built by Ashkenazi Jews in the English speaking world ?
text: Did you know that Sandra Warfield met future husband James McCracken when they sang the leads in Samson and Delilah , the same opera in which the couple performed in her Metropolitan Opera farewell performance?
text: Did you know that the distribution of the snail Escargot de Quimper is disjunct ?
text: Did you know that homosexuality has been labeled by some communists as a product of bourgeois decadence?
text: Did you know that Bovista aestivalis is so similar to Bovista dermoxantha that a microscope is required to differentiate the two fungi based on their spores ?
text: Did you know that the Opera Krakowska , one of the leading Polish opera companies , founded in 1954, moved into its first permanent house only in 2008?
text: Did you know that the Pennsylvania Supreme Court reversed Robert E. L. Taylor ' s 1963 contempt conviction for refusing to reveal sources in a corruption case as his actions were protected by the state's shield law ?
text: Did you know that after their defeat at the Battle of Arnhem , 138 men were able to escape German occupied territory in Operation Pegasus ?
text: Did you know that the levels in the iPhone video game Rolando 2: Quest for the Golden Orchid are in 2.5D while the characters remain in 2D ?
text: Did you know that research done by D. Mark Hegsted in the 1960s on the effects of diet on cholesterol levels led to recommendations to reduce consumption of the saturated fats found in meat and eggs?
text: Did you know that the World Uyghur Congress ' s activities have been described as "cyber- separatism "?
text: Did you know that Robert Kenner won an Emmy in 2006 for producing and directing the Vietnam War documentary "Two Days in October" for the PBS television program American Experience ?
text: Did you know that Montreal up-and-comers Hollerado accompanied The Stills to the TransmitCHINA conference, an event established to promote musical exchange between Canada and the People's Republic of China ?
text: Did you know that a recent court case in South Carolina dealt with an 1802 law that makes Sorry! and Monopoly illegal?
text: Did you know that taekwondo practitioner Logan Campbell has opened a brothel to fund his bid to compete at the 2012 Summer Olympics ?
text: Did you know that Johann Friedrich, Duke of Pomerania was host and chief mediator at the peace conference ending the Northern Seven Years' War ?
text: Did you know that the 1930 film Tom Sawyer was the third screen adaptation of Mark Twain 's novel, following silent versions in 1907 and 1917?
text: Did you know that the Office of the Parliamentary Counsel , which is tasked with drafting the bills of the Parliament of the United Kingdom , is staffed by 61 lawyers?
text: Did you know that Aubrey Epps of the Pittsburgh Pirates had three hits in four at bats in the final game of the 1935 season, but never played another major league game, ending his career with a .750 batting average ?
text: Did you know that the yellow passionflower is the only known pollen host for the passionflower bee , but this bee species is not known to pollinate this flower?
text: Did you know that according to different versions of his legend, Hindu cattle-god Bir Kuar was killed by either a tigress , seven witches , Mughal soldiers, or his own sister?
text: Did you know that the Phineas and Ferb episode " Dude, We're Getting the Band Back Together " was nominated for an Emmy award for the song "I Ain't Got Rhythm"?
text: Did you know that Insadong is a district of Seoul consisting of galleries and antique shops, known for " culture of the past and the present"?
text: Did you know that the location for the Hauz-i-Shamsi tank, revealed to Sultan Iltutmish in a dream by the Prophet Muhammad , has Jahaz Mahal (Ship Palace) built on its eastern edge?
text: Did you know that Paul Bunker died in a Japanese POW camp in 1943 but kept hidden a remnant of the U.S. flag from Corregidor now displayed at the West Point Museum?
text: Did you know that Anchor Church in Derbyshire had its caves extended to be a summerhouse for Sir Francis Burdett ?
text: Did you know that, although the NWA Wrestling Legends Hall of Heroes has announced the induction of three sets of "brothers", only George and Sandy Scott are actually related?
text: Did you know that Rob Smets suffered a broken neck three times before retiring for good from the sport of rodeo bullfighting in 2006?
text: Did you know that all twenty of David Bowie's solo studio albums from Hunky Dory (1971) to date have reached the top 10 of the UK Albums Chart ?
text: Did you know that the Crab Orchard & Egyptian Railroad was the last railroad in America to use steam locomotives exclusively in common carrier freight service?
text: Did you know that during World War II , Jan Dahm , Leif Utne and Bjarne Thorsen helped operate an illegal radio transmitter in Bergen codenamed " Theta "?
text: Did you know that in 1861, plans to build St John the Evangelist's Church closer to Burgess Hill town centre than first agreed caused local landowners to place a newspaper advert with their strong objections?
text: Did you know that Charles de Saulles coached an undefeated football team of workers from a Kansas zinc smelting works that defeated the Carlisle Indians and was dubbed "the oddest football team in the country"?
text: Did you know that three species of sea turtle , including critically endangered Hawksbill turtle , visit the Hikkaduwa coral reef ?
text: Did you know that the four rowhouses at 744–750 Broadway in Albany, New York , are the only ones left along that street in the city's Fifth Ward?
text: Did you know that Zhou Youguang is credited as the "father of pinyin ", the official romanization in the People's Republic of China ?
text: Did you know that the 1954 syndicated TV series Stories of the Century , starring Jim Davis as a railroad detective , was the first western to win an Emmy ?
text: Did you know that the 1977 Pacific hurricane season is the least active Pacific hurricane season since 1949?
text: Did you know that All-American fullback John Baird was forced to withdraw from Princeton in 1898 after playing a football game on a wet field while recovering from tonsilitis ?
text: Did you know that despite being an All-American running back with the University of Evansville , Sean Bennett played fullback at Northwestern ?
text: Did you know that the Chaldean Syriac Assyrian Popular Council won the last round of the Christian elections in Iraq ?
text: Did you know that singer-songwriter Tatsuo Kamon began studying with rakugo master Tsuruko Shōfukutei at age 16?
text: Did you know that Hillsboro, Oregon -based RadiSys was founded by former employees of Intel and 20 years later purchased a division of Intel?
text: Did you know that the horror film Kraken: Tentacles of the Deep received its name through a 2006 contest held by the Sci Fi Channel ?
text: Did you know that after his company struck oil, William Walkley stopped traffic in the middle of Sydney , Australia , wearing a red ten gallon hat ?
text: Did you know that Bemus Pierce , a guard for the Carlisle Indians football team, ran back three kickoffs for touchdowns in an 1896 game against the University of Illinois ?
text: Did you know that the Royal Opera House in Mumbai is India 's only surviving opera house ?
text: Did you know that Zigzag district office was built by the Civilian Conservation Corps and is one of nineteen historic buildings at the Zigzag Ranger Station in Oregon 's Mount Hood National Forest ?
text: Did you know that Polish philosopher Władysław Heinrich wrote the first report in experimental psychology to be presented to the Polish Academy of Learning in 1898?
text: Did you know that the restaurant of the hotel Chester Grosvenor and Spa , overseen by executive chef Simon Radley , was awarded its 19th consecutive Michelin star in 2009?
text: Did you know that radio and TV announcer Ken Roberts voiced the skit Love of Chair on the PBS show Electric Company , spoofing his decades-long run as announcer of the soap opera Love of Life ?
text: Did you know that in 1925, journalist and historian J. Marvin Hunter published a posthumous autobiography of John Wesley Hardin , an outlaw and gunfighter of the American Old West ?
text: Did you know that the Soviet Peace Committee , a peace movement created and sponsored by the Soviet Union , criticized Western policies but defended Soviet ones?
text: Did you know that in 1973, composer Richard Bunger Evans wrote The Well-Prepared Piano , a classic work describing prepared piano technique?
text: Did you know that under modern principles of vicarious liability in English law , employers are answerable for the intentional wrongdoings of their employees?
text: Did you know that the Homicide: Life on the Street episode " Three Men and Adena " was ranked by Entertainment Weekly as one of the 100 greatest television moments?
text: Did you know that although Florida -based slave holder and trader Zephaniah Kingsley wrote pamphlets defending slavery, he freed dozens of his own and married four of them?
text: Did you know that Richard Ravitch was appointed Lt. Governor of New York on July 8, 2009, in a move that New York's attorney general claimed was unconstitutional ?
text: Did you know that those villages defeated by the Dutch pacification campaign on Formosa signalled their surrender by sending small betel nut trees to their conquerors ?
text: Did you know that composer David Braham began playing the violin because he could not fit his harp on a stagecoach ?
text: Did you know that the 13th-century Hanging Chapel in Langport has been a town hall , grammar school , museum and armoury before becoming a masonic hall?
text: Did you know that Toys in the Attic , a semi- autobiographical play by American playwright Lillian Hellman , won the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for Best American Play in 1960?
text: Did you know that Charles Boit ' s enamel group portrait of the family of Emperor Leopold I cracked after one of the Imperial princes accidentally sat down on it?
text: Did you know that Anthony Haswell , Postmaster General of the Vermont Republic , was later convicted of seditious libel under the Alien and Sedition Acts ?
text: Did you know that threats of war between England and France and English antagonism to French dancers led to riots in 1755 with the first London production of Noverre 's Les Fêtes Chinoises completely destroyed?
text: Did you know that roll-off is an electronic filter parameter of significance for removing muscle activity noise in electrocardiograph machines?
text: Did you know that Lt Col Rupert Thorneloe , who died in 2009 during Operation Panther's Claw in Afghanistan , is the highest-ranking British officer to be killed in action since Lt Col 'H'. Jones in the Falklands War ?
text: Did you know that Tropical Storm Dottie in 1976 was compared to a mere thunderstorm by local officials?
text: Did you know that Annie M. G. Schmidt , the "queen of Dutch children's literature ," euthanized herself a day after her 84th birthday?
text: Did you know that the 1972 Rose Bowl was the last football game that Stanford University played using "Indians" as their nickname ?
text: Did you know that shed is a weaving term for the temporary separation in warp threads so the shuttle with the weft can go through?
text: Did you know that the NYU University Village is a former Mitchell-Lama housing complex that hosts a Pablo Picasso sculpture ?
text: Did you know that on July 1, 2009, Nils Ušakovs became the first Russian mayor of Riga since Latvia 's restoration of sovereignty in 1991?
text: Did you know that the Moneymaker Effect is the name of poker 's sudden growth in popularity after amateur Chris Moneymaker won the 2003 World Series of Poker Main Event and claimed the US$2.5 million first prize?
text: Did you know that genderbending Chinese spy Shi Pei Pu , inspiration for M. Butterfly , had a sexual relationship with a French diplomatic worker who believed that he was a she and had given birth to their "son"?
text: Did you know that Sri Lankan Minister Maithripala Sirisena escaped an assassination attempt by a suicide bomber in 2008?
text: Did you know that the Campaign for Unmetered Telecommunications was cited as "a major driving force" behind the introduction of unmetered Internet access in the United Kingdom?
text: Did you know that an 11-time NFL Pro-Bowler 's mother was the first African-American woman to serve on the Arkansas Supreme Court ?
text: Did you know that despite being excommunicated by Pope Eugene IV , Prospero Colonna was the leading candidate to be Eugene's successor as Pope?
text: Did you know that President of Lithuania Antanas Smetona was ridiculed by Soviet propaganda for fleeing the country across the shallow Liepona rivulet in the aftermath of a Soviet ultimatum ?
text: Did you know that J. Curtis Counts , Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service director in the Nixon Administration , first met the future president when their respective girlfriends were roommates?
text: Did you know that the Ducati 98 , called the racy motorcycle brand 's "first true sporting model," was a hit in the Italian la passeggiata (street cruising scene) of the 1950s?
text: Did you know that Fernand , Alain and Hakeem Kashama have all played for the Calgary Stampeders ?
text: Did you know that obesity in Australia was made a "national health priority" by the government in 2008, officially elevating awareness to the same level as other health risks like cancer , heart disease and diabetes ?
text: Did you know that the British boyband One True Voice split up in 2003 despite reaching the top ten with their first two releases?
text: Did you know that the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters is responsible for the Abel Prize and the Kavli Prize ?
text: Did you know that Grambling State running back Walter Dean was nicknamed " American Express " in reference to the credit card company?
text: Did you know that Hiltgunt Zassenhaus was the only person from Germany decorated with the Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav for her activities during World War II ?
text: Did you know that Marxist sociology , despite Marxist influences on the Russian Revolution , has been suppressed in the Soviet Bloc , while flourishing in the West ?
text: Did you know that the South Dakota -class battleships are considered to be the best " treaty battleship " ever built?
text: Did you know that Italian composer and American citizen Nino Marcelli led the San Diego High School orchestra to achieve a national reputation in the 1930s?
text: Did you know that Jimi Hendrix originally wanted to cover Bob Dylan 's " I Dreamed I Saw St. Augustine " from the John Wesley Harding album, but covered " All Along the Watchtower " from the same album instead?
text: Did you know that when he was crown prince the future Emperor Jing of Han killed the Prince of Wu during an argument over a game of Liubo by throwing the game board at his opponent?
text: Did you know that the earthquake of 1348 in the Alpine region of Friuli hit at the same time as the plague in Italy and it caused odours to come up through the earth?
text: Did you know that the Japanese ammunition ship Kashino was specifically designed to transport the Yamato class battleships' main battery to the shipyards where they were being built?
text: Did you know that Bob Dylan 's song " Joey " is a sympathetic portrayal of real-life gangster Joey Gallo ?
text: Did you know that after affixing blame for the death of Empress Xiao Xian on Johann Adam Schall von Bell , Yang Guangxian took his place as head of the Chinese Bureau of Astronomy?
text: Did you know that in 2004, there were 1.8 million traditional fishing boats , such as dugouts and coracles ?
text: Did you know that nobody knows what happened to the bishopric of Hexham after Tidfrith ?
text: Did you know that in designing a new analogue filter , Sidney Darlington found tables of the exact elliptic functions required in an 1829 Latin paper by Carl Jacobi in the New York City Library ?
text: Did you know that Franz von Rintelen , a German spy living in New York during World War I , used pencil bombs to sabotage Allied shipping?
text: Did you know that Lee Child took inspiration for his novel Echo Burning from the grave of "the gentlemen gunfighter" Clay Allison ?
text: Did you know that the wild zebrafish is the first vertebrate to have its entire genome sequenced in India , a task carried out by the scientists at the Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology ?
text: Did you know that in 1937, members of a boy's club in Haywards Heath , West Sussex , demolished their own hut to allow St Richard's Church to be built on the site?
text: Did you know that Harvard All-American Bert Waters was accused of jabbing a finger into a Yale player's eye in the 1893 football game that became known as "The Bloodbath in Hampden Park"?
text: Did you know that in 1901, Emir of Kuwait Mubarak Al-Sabah asked the Russian Empire for protection , only two years after his country became a British protectorate ?
text: Did you know that Albert Sharpe participated in football , basketball , baseball , gymnastics , rowing , and track and field , and was called "the greatest living all round athlete" in 1915?
text: Did you know that during the early 20th century, the depopulated Palestinian village Sarafand al-Amar was the site of the largest British Army base in the Middle East ?
text: Did you know that the pump station built to supply Hudson River water to Albany, New York , is now home to a brewpub , planetarium and the city's visitor center ?
text: Did you know that a priest refused quarter and perished in his burning church during the 1759 St. Francis Raid by Rogers' Rangers ?
text: Did you know that the glamorous American actress Mary Castle was once dubbed more like Rita Hayworth than Hayworth herself?
text: Did you know that after the destructive Byzantine civil war of 1341–1347 , the treasury of the Byzantine Empire contained "nothing but the atoms of Epicurus "?
text: Did you know that Howard Reiter has been credited by some with developing the overhand spiral forward pass while playing for the Philadelphia Athletics of the original National Football League (1902) ?
text: Did you know that although Balao halfbeaks are mainly used as baitfish for sailfishes and marlins , they are also utilized as a food source in the West Indies ?
text: Did you know that Saturn Award winning costume designer Marilyn Vance once produced films with E! Entertainment founder Alan Mruvka ?
text: Did you know that Davidson Ditch was inspected by engineers working on problems faced by the Trans-Alaska Pipeline ?
text: Did you know that Australian jazz singer Grace Knight , ex- Eurogliders , organised a nude protest of 750 women against the 2003 invasion of Iraq ?
text: Did you know that according to Big Bang cosmology , neutrinos , a type of elementary particle , ceased to interact significantly with the other constituents of the Universe about one second after the Big Bang?
text: Did you know  that in the 1970s, female professional wrestler Betty Niccoli helped lift the New York State Athletic Commission 's ban on women's wrestling ?
text: Did you know that the Montefiore Synagogue in Ramsgate , built in 1833 for Sir Moses Montefiore using a design by David Mocatta , was the first synagogue built in England by a Jewish architect?
text: Did you know that Princeton All-American Dudley Riggs was the son of a wealthy banking family that lent $16 million to the United States to fund the Mexican-American War ?
text: Did you know that the eruption of Amak Volcano in about 2550 BCE was confirmed by tephrochronology ?
text: Did you know that, while filming Skins episode " Katie and Emily ", actress Kathryn Prescott genuinely punched her co-star by accident during a fight scene?
text: Did you know that SMS Blücher was the last armored cruiser built by the German Imperial Navy ?
text: Did you know that Mary Lou Forbes , whose reporting on school integration in Virginia won a 1959 Pulitzer Prize , had been hired as a copy girl by the Washington Star after the accounting spot she wanted was filled?
text: Did you know that at least eleven of the twenty electors of the papal conclave, 1362 were from the Limousin province of France ?
text: Did you know that De Schoolmeester , a smock mill at Westzaan , Noord Holland , is the only wind powered paper mill in the world?
text: Did you know that in 2008, the United States produced 5,778 million bearing balls ?
text: Did you know that 27 years after Barbara George 's hit " I Know (You Don't Love Me No More) " was released, a cover by Marisela peaked at number one on the Billboard Hot Latin Tracks chart ?
text: Did you know that the fungal genus Hericium includes the monkey's head fungus , used in Traditional Chinese medicine ?
text: Did you know that in 1975 professional wrestlers Sandy Parker and Jean Antoine had the first legal women's wrestling match in Oregon in 50 years?
text: Did you know that the 1973 album Love Devotion Surrender by Carlos Santana and John McLaughlin was made as a tribute to guru Sri Chinmoy ?
text: Did you know that convergence of the iterative proportional fitting procedure for estimating cell values of a contingency table was rigorously proved using differential geometry ?
text: Did you know that much of the recorded rowdyism in New York of the 1820s took place at the short-lived Lafayette Circus ?
text: Did you know that the Elizabeth Cross will be given to the next of kin of members of the British Armed Forces killed in action or as a result of a terrorist attack?
text: Did you know that Peter J. Bowler said that he was interviewed under false pretenses for The Voyage that Shook the World , a creationist documentary about the life of Charles Darwin and his voyage on the Beagle ?
text: Did you know that the Wabash College Little Giants were the only football team to defeat Notre Dame at home during a period of 29 years and 125 games?
text: Did you know that Sugarland 's 2009 single " Joey " was co-written by Bill Anderson ?
text: Did you know that a 1977 memo by Robert Derzon , overseer of U.S. Medicaid / Medicare programs, supported federal abortion funding for poor women, citing $1,000 in annual welfare savings on each unwanted child?
text: Did you know  that although its fossils were first discovered in 1946 , the pliosaurid genus Gallardosaurus was not declared a valid taxon until 2009 ?
text: Did you know that KATR-FM was honored by the Colorado Broadcasters Association for giving away an "ugly" pickup truck ?
text: Did you know that Roy McCardell was the first hired film screenwriter , and the first to start a Sunday paper comics supplement in color?
text: Did you know that the Wołów bank robbery was the biggest bank robbery in the history of the People's Republic of Poland ?
text: Did you know that Mickey Stanley is the only Gold Glove-winning outfielder to have posted more than one errorless season, amassing a fielding percentage of 1.000 in 1968 and 1970 ?
text: Did you know that Irish playwright Hamilton Deane introduced the tuxedo and high-collar to the costume of Count Dracula to facilitate him vanishing off-stage through the floor in the 1920s stage production of the novel ?
text: Did you know that the rust fungus Puccinia jaceae var. solstitialis is the first plant pathogen approved by the United States Department of Agriculture as a biological control agent ?
text: Did you know that Alfred Henningsen , three-term member of the Storting , has referred to the Norwegian Parliament as "the loony bin"?
text: Did you know that London 's old Artillery Church was used by five different kinds of Protestants before becoming the Sandys Row Synagogue ?
text: Did you know that Robert Brown was only 22 when he was commander of the Vancouver Island Exploring Expedition in 1864?
text: Did you know that in 1926, Odd Gleditsch, Sr. founded the company Jotun Kemiske Fabrik, since 1972 named Jotun ?
text: Did you know that Maggie Cogan was the first female horse and buggy driver in New York City 's Central Park ?
text: Did you know that of the 81 Canadian casualties during Hurricane Hazel , 35 lived on Raymore Drive in Weston , Toronto , Ontario ?
text: Did you know that The 1940s House is a British historical reality television program about a modern family that tries to live as a typical middle-class family in London during The Blitz ?
text: Did you know that the Metropolitan Opera House is a movie theatre in Iowa Falls, Iowa ?
text: Did you know that Julius Caesar speculated his name Caesar to have been derived from the elephant , reportedly called caesai in the "Moorish", probably Punic language ?
text: Did you know that the flamboyant TV appearances of British rock and roll singer Wee Willie Harris led to concerns about the BBC 's role in promoting teenage decadence?
text: Did you know that the 1947 Betty Grable film The Shocking Miss Pilgrim included eleven songs George and Ira Gershwin had written but never used in any productions?
text: Did you know that the Środa treasure , one of the most valuable archeological finds in 20th-century Europe , was originally lost during the Black Plague ?
text: Did you know that the Cremation of Care ceremony is performed on the first night of the Bohemian Club 's annual summer encampment at the Bohemian Grove ?
text: Did you know that England -born American composer Wallace Arthur Sabin was the first dean of the San Francisco chapter of the American Guild of Organists ?
text: Did you know that Tommy Thevenow hit his only two home runs in a six-day span in 1926, but none in his next 12 seasons, setting a Major League record of 3,347 consecutive regular season at bats without a home run?
text: Did you know that the Merthyr Synagogue may be the only synagogue in the world with a dragon on its gable?
text: Did you know that in 1958, female professional wrestlers Kay Noble , Lorraine Johnson, Penny Banner , and Laura Martinez were charged with inciting a riot when they began fighting outside of the ring , but pleaded not guilty in court?
text: Did you know that Sir Albert Napier was described as the "midwife to civil legal aid "?
text: Did you know that a lake scene in the Skins episode " Naomi " had to be shortened when one of the actors was suspected to have hypothermia ?
text: Did you know that incoming Romanian Member of the European Parliament Norica Nicolai was the first woman to preside over a session of the Romanian Senate ?
text: Did you know that the campus of Columbia University occupies a former lunatic asylum ?
text: Did you know that when Auguste Forel named the zona incerta area of the brain in 1877, he did so because it was a "region of which nothing certain can be said"?
text: Did you know that England -born American composer Wallace Arthur Sabin was the first dean of the San Francisco chapter of the American Guild of Organists ?
text: Did you know that the MCW Heavyweight Championship was won by Jerry "The King" Lawler , who has held over 200 professional wrestling championships throughout his career?
text: Did you know that Julius Babao was awarded best male newscaster in the 2008 PMPC Star Awards for TV?
text: Did you know that incoming Romanian Member of the European Parliament Norica Nicolai was the first woman to preside over a session of the Romanian Senate ?
text: Did you know that The Naked Ladies of Twickenham were covered with grey sludge during World War II to hide them from the Luftwaffe ?
text: Did you know that the 1994 production of The Pirates of Penzance by Essgee Entertainment became the top-selling music video in Australian history?
text: Did you know that Nikolai Schei survived an assassination attempt while serving as Director of Provisioning and Rationing in Norway ?
text: Did you know that, originally established as the Federation of Crippled and Disabled in 1935, Fedcap Rehabilitation Services switched to its current name in 1992?
text: Did you know that the Jewish mother of former German Federal Minister of Justice Gerhard Jahn died at Auschwitz ?
text: Did you know that the ecosystem contained in Myanmar 's N'Mai River watershed contains some of the most diverse flora of its type in the world, yet it is threatened with destruction through damming ?
text: Did you know that Thomas Patch , who painted men on their Grand Tours , had to leave Rome after a homosexual act?
text: Did you know that Italian composer and bandleader Ulderico "Rico" Marcelli married the violin soloist from his own Fibber McGee and Molly radio show band?
text: Did you know that the French pre-dreadnought battleship Henri IV was the first ship to mount a superfiring gun turret?
text: Did you know that McCaw Cellular began business by buying, selling and trading licenses for cellular frequency allocations after an AT&T article that suggested they were being sold at a discount?
text: Did you know that Johnny Sylvester received a promise from baseball player Babe Ruth while suffering from a life-threatening illness that he would hit a home run for him during the 1926 World Series ?
text: Did you know that the 2002 Redditch Council election saw no party win a majority for the first time in over 50 years?
text: Did you know that Parke H. Davis , who retroactively named the American college football national champions between 1869 and 1933, was the only historian to select college champions based on research ?
text: Did you know that in 2005 Georgian ambassador to Israel Lasha Zhvania asked Hebrew speakers to stop calling his country Gruziya ?
text: Did you know that country music singer Colt Ford is a former professional golfer ?
text: Did you know that Per Jacobsen , a Norwegian resistance member who died in Natzweiler , was twice national champion in figure skating in the interwar period ?
text: Did you know that the interrogation of Saddam Hussein revealed that as a fugitive, he took refuge in the same place in 1959 and 2003 ?
text: Did you know that after withstanding three years of siege by the Crusaders on the Acrocorinth , Leo Sgouros committed suicide by jumping off a cliff on horseback?
text: Did you know that grunting in tennis has been labelled as cheating by former player Martina Navratilova ?
text: Did you know that U.S. President John Quincy Adams said U.S. Ambassador to Brazil Condy Raguet ' s "rashness and intemperance" nearly "brought this country and Brazil to the very verge of war"?
text: Did you know that in 1944, the Greek Socialist Party leader Professor Alexandros Svolos became President in the Greek resistance government ?
text: Did you know that theater impresarios Shelly Gross and Lee Guber , creators of the Valley Forge Music Fair and Westbury Music Fair , met after being seated in alphabetical order next to each other in high school?
text: Did you know that following the revelation of the Secret Intelligence Service radio station Skylark B in Trondheim in September 1941, eleven of the group members were sent to German death camps?
text: Did you know that Robert Keable 's 1921 novel Simon Called Peter propelled him to prominence when it sold 600,000 copies, was cited in a double murder trial, and referenced in The Great Gatsby ?
text: Did you know that holocaust denier David Irving accidentally referred to the judge as 'Mein Führer' in his libel suit against historian Deborah Lipstadt ?
text: Did you know that the Cheltenham Synagogue still has a prayer for the health of Queen Victoria and her family on its wall?
text: Did you know that P. Chr. Andersen , a Norwegian sports journalist, official and radio commentator, also refereed football matches at the 1924 Summer Olympics ?
text: Did you know that Winnetka School District 36 was the subject of a 1919 educational experiment ?
text: Did you know that the fire at Lakanal House , Camberwell , London was described as "one of the most significant fires in some time in terms of lives lost" by the Assistant Commissioner of the local Fire Brigade ?
text: Did you know that Domenico Brescia wrote in 1919 that he was probably the first composer to use a chromatic set of cowbells as a symphony instrument?
text: Did you know that the California -based donut shop Psycho Donuts has generated controversy for its mental health -themed products, such as the "Manic Malt" and "Bipolar"?
text: Did you know that federal authorities in New York may have gambled that there would be no legal challenges to their unexpected seizure of $34 million from 27,000 bank accounts in the United States ?
text: Did you know that during World War II , Norwegians Erik Welle-Strand , Egil Reksten , Sverre Midtskau , Einar Johansen , Haakon Sørbye and Bjørn Rørholt operated illegal radio transmitters codenamed "Skylark" for the Secret Intelligence Service ?
text: Did you know that Kenny Tate , one of college football 's top wide receiver recruits in 2008 , was ultimately switched to the position of strong safety ?
text: Did you know that Vice-Admiral Sydney Fremantle was assigned to guard the German High Seas Fleet , but had taken his ships out on exercises when the German fleet was scuttled in Scapa Flow ?
text: Did you know that in the penalty shootout during the London Senior Cup final 2009, Serge Makofo was the only player to score for Croydon Athletic ?
text: Did you know that the motivation behind the assassination attempt against Sri Lankan President J. R. Jayawardene in 1987 was his signing of the Indo-Sri Lanka Accord a few weeks before?
text: Did you know that oil extracted from the common prickly-ash Zanthoxylum americanum has been used to treat "chronic rheumatism , typhoid and skin diseases and impurity of the blood"?
text: Did you know that the final results of the 1940 elections to the People's Parliaments in Estonia , Latvia , and Lithuania were published in London before the voting booths closed?
text: Did you know that passengers mourned the closure of the Wolverton to Newport Pagnell Line so much that they poured a bucket of water over a double dressed as Richard Beeching , associated with closure of British railway lines in the 1960s?
text: Did you know that British politicians Sir Peter Fry and William Howie, Baron Howie of Troon served as consultants to political research company Parliamentary Monitoring Services ?
text: Did you know that Frithjof Sælen was known for the book Snorri the Seal , banned during the German occupation of Norway for being a subtle satire on Nazi Germany ?
text: Did you know that the flag of New Mexico is designed after the Zia tribe's symbol?
text: Did you know that Charles Dickens used his father John Dickens as his inspiration for the character of Mr Micawber in his novel David Copperfield ?
text: Did you know that Maiden Castle , an Iron Age hill fort in Cheshire , is so-called because it is thought never to have been taken in battle?
text: Did you know that The Rookie (1959) was the first film to give starring roles to the comedy act of Tommy Noonan and Peter Marshall ?
text: Did you know that although a row of six houses was built in 1870 at 37-47 North Fifth Street in Hudson, New York , ten years later the census recorded only two?
text: Did you know that Arne Bonde stepped down as editor of Verdens Gang due to his own sentiment that he was not young enough for the newspaper?
text: Did you know that a modern hippodrama , featuring 32 horses, will be shown in London in September 2009?
text: Did you know that film and television producer Alan Mruvka , founder of E! Entertainment , is now a real estate developer in Southern California ?
text: Did you know that the Sibyllenbuch fragment may be the earliest surviving remnant of any book printed by movable type, before the Gutenberg Bible ?
text: Did you know that the Janata Morcha had defeated Indira Gandhi 's Congress (R) in the elections in Gujarat , 15 days before the start of the Indian Emergency on June 26, 1975?
text: Did you know that Union Mills, Burnham Overy is a combined windmill and watermill , and that each mill could drive the other's machinery?
text: Did you know that the Prewitt-Allen Archaeological Museum in Salem, Oregon , has a mummy of a 3,500 year-old falcon ?
text: Did you know that Augustus Dickens , the brother of English novelist Charles Dickens , abandoned his blind wife in London and ran away to America with another woman?
text: Did you know that the 1898 Michigan Wolverines football team ' s Western Conference championship inspired a student to write the fight song " The Victors "?
text: Did you know that the pro- communist 1950 May Day speech given by the Trade Union Congress president Thakin Lwin revealed a major split in the Burma Socialist Party ?
text: Did you know that Thompson Pass holds the Alaskan records for snowfall in a single day, a whole winter, and the annual average snowfall?
text: Did you know that medieval historian Dorothy Whitelock called the Liber Eliensis "unique among post- Conquest monastic histories"?
text: Did you know that the Norwegian coastal steamer SS Barøy replaced a vessel sunk by the Royal Navy during the 1940 Norwegian Campaign and was herself sunk by the Fleet Air Arm the next year?
text: Did you know that producer Anna Turner , co-host of Hearts of Space as "Annamystic", reportedly communicated with a spirit named Lazaris?
text: Did you know that the album Here We Go Then, You And I was said to confirm Morten Abel 's status as Norway 's "king of pop"?
text: Did you know that Cooks syndrome is a hereditary disorder characterized by the absence of toenails ?
text: Did you know that professional wrestler Brain Damage held the CZW Iron Man and the CZW Ultraviolent Underground Championships simultaneously?
text: Did you know that Sir George Coldstream , the Permanent Secretary to the Lord Chancellor's Office , was described as "one of the 10 men who run Britain "?
text: Did you know that the setting of John Greenleaf Whittier 's poem Snow-Bound , a house in which a family is trapped for three days by a snowstorm, is still standing?
text: Did you know that William Lewis Moody, Jr. once took over all of Conrad Hilton 's hotels?
text: Did you know that Indian musician Ram Narayan 's album Rāg Lalit was recorded in a single unedited take of over 73 minutes?
text: Did you know that the 1982 Washington Metro train derailment resulting in three fatalities was the deadliest accident involving the Washington Metro until the 2009 collision resulting in nine?
text: Did you know that the Samarkand clan ' s main rival in Uzbekistan is the Tashkent clan ?
text: Did you know that Alec Gallup , co-chairman of The Gallup Organization and the son of founder George Gallup , was described as someone who could "smell out a bad question or an unreasonable interpretation of data"?
text: Did you know that the traditional account of the papal conclave, 1513 has been judged extremely improbable by a modern mathematician ?
text: Did you know that the catchphrase " To Infinity and Beyond " from Toy Story helped to save an autistic child lost at sea in Daytona Beach, Florida ?
text: Did you know that John G.F. Francis , who co-devised the QR algorithm for computing the eigenvalues and eigenvectors of matrices, had no idea of the impact his work had made until contacted almost 50 years later?
text: Did you know that Total Nonstop Action Wrestling 's X Division , which uses a fast-paced style of wrestling , has been praised by Kevin Nash ?
text: Did you know that a reed is a comb -like tool used in weaving that determines how fine the cloth is?
text: Did you know that Ukrainian runner Yuliya Krevsun ended her track career in 2005 to start a family, but later made a comeback and reached the 800 metres final at the Beijing Olympics ?
text: Did you know that more than 18 million viewers saw the series finale of Will & Grace , making it the most watched episode of the final two seasons of the show?
text: Did you know that the Sassoon Mausoleum is now a hip supper club ?
text: Did you know that German-American saboteur Richard Quirin was described as a "cool, cruel man who would not hesitate to kill anyone to accomplish the mission's objectives?"
text: Did you know that Jan van Riebeeck established the first vineyards in South Africa to help Dutch East India Company sailors ward off scurvy while traveling the spice route ?
text: Did you know that William E. Simkin , longest-serving head of the U.S. Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service , first got involved in arbitration when a professor asked him to assist with a hosiery industry dispute?
text: Did you know that officers of the Sarsfield Grenadier Guards were traditionally elected by the men?
text: Did you know that William Michael Rooke 's opera Amilie, or the Love Test enabled New Yorkers of 1838 to appreciate "a broad new repertoire "?
text: Did you know that the electric drill was invented in 1889 by Arthur James Arnot ?
text: Did you know that the 1890 College Football All-America Team was composed entirely of players from Harvard , Yale and Princeton , including Ralph Warren , John Cranston , Billy Rhodes , Frank Hallowell and Jesse Riggs ?
text: Did you know that some prints of the Mass of Saint Gregory claimed to offer indulgences of up to 45,000 years?
text: Did you know that Stanley R. Jaffe , who resigned as president of Paramount Television in 1971, returned to become president of Paramount Communications in 1991 and president of Paramount Pictures in 1992?
text: Did you know that the earliest example of humans having the skill to manufacture artifacts with a compound glue was found in Sibudu Cave , South Africa ?
text: Did you know that White Dome Geyser erupts from one of the largest geyserite cones in Yellowstone National Park ?
text: Did you know that the first Spanish film shot in English is La residencia , a 1969 horror film about murders in a female-only boarding school ?
text: Did you know that the Revolutionary War spy Enoch Crosby was the basis for the character Harvey Birch in James Fenimore Cooper 's novel The Spy ?
text: Did you know that the Dresden Elbe Valley in Germany is only the second delisted UNESCO World Heritage Site ?
text: Did you know that Currambena School student David Heilpern went on to become one of New South Wales ' youngest magistrates and Southern Cross University 's Alumnus of the Decade?
text: Did you know that an extreme derecho that struck the southern portions of the Midwestern United States on May 8, 2009, is considered the worst in at least a decade?
text: Did you know that on appointment in 1486, Robert Morton became the last English Bishop of Worcester until the English Reformation ?
text: Did you know that Fancy Nancy parties are held throughout the United States ?
text: Did you know that in 1864, René Dagron produced a stanhope which enabled the viewing of a microphotograph that included the portraits of 450 people in an area of 1 mm 2 ?
text: Did you know that since its release in 1978, Space Invaders and its many sequels have been remade for numerous video game platforms ?
text: Did you know that under UNESCO 's new biosphere reserve concept, Brighton and Hove is bidding to become the first urban biosphere reserve ?
text: Did you know that Stephen van Rensselaer III is considered the tenth richest American in history because of his ownership of the Manor of Rensselaerswyck during the 19th century, which he inherited at the age of five?
text: Did you know that though the Raša River in Croatian Istria is less than 30 km (19 mi) long, it has formed a political boundary for much of the last two millennia?
text: Did you know that the bus for Australian jazz band leader, pianist and composer, Graeme Bell , had groupies posing as band member's wives?
text: Did you know that Romanian Foreign Minister Cristian Diaconescu is a seventh-generation jurist ?
text: Did you know that Washington State Route 113 was given to Clallam County in 1955, only to be given back to the state in 1991?
text: Did you know that Irv Hall ' s 1,904 at bats without a home run from 1943 to 1946 places him second among batters since 1900 who never hit a home run during their Major League Baseball career?
text: Did you know that the American victory in the Battle of Johnstown during the American Revolutionary War effectively ended fighting in the Mohawk Valley ?
text: Did you know that Chinese actress Zhang Yuqi was first discovered because of a role she played in a 30-second Kentucky Fried Chicken commercial?
text: Did you know that the spermaceti beam press exhibited at the Nantucket Whaling Museum is the only one in the world still in its original location?
text: Did you know that the study of sociology in China was repressed as a bourgeois pseudoscience during the early communist era?
text: Did you know that Phoemela Baranda placed 23rd in the FHM Philippines 100 Sexiest Women of the World in 2006?
text: Did you know that in the late 1960s, Philadelphia residents held Annual Reminder protests claiming that LGBT Americans did not enjoy the rights to " life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness "?
text: Did you know that in 1973, A. J. Antoon was nominated for two Tony Awards for Best Direction, a feat not repeated until 2009?
text: Did you know that the executive director of Homicide: Life on the Street said Richard Belzer was a "lousy actor" when he first auditioned for the role of John Munch in the pilot episode " Gone for Goode "?
text: Did you know that radio broadcaster Frank Ford adopted his name while hosting a show sponsored by Frankford Unity Grocery Store, and later wondered what his name would have been if the sponsor had been Piggly Wiggly ?
text: Did you know that Admiral of the Fleet Sir George Martin was the grandson of another admiral of the fleet, William Rowley ?
text: Did you know that the Elisha Williams House is different from other Federal style houses in Hudson, New York , because Williams came to Hudson from Connecticut instead of Massachusetts ?
text: Did you know that Broadway producer Morton Gottlieb described theater as a profession easiest to start at the top, noting "All you need is chutzpah. You call all the agents and say, 'Here I am — a producer!'"?
text: Did you know that an East German , upon finding a deer shredded by the SM-70 antipersonnel mine , reported that the area "appeared as if it had been worked over by a rake"?
text: Did you know that the last autofictional texts by Romanian novelist Mircea Nedelciu , written during his losing battle with Hodgkin's lymphoma , compare his own biography with deep-sea diving?
text: Did you know that Red Dog, California , now a ghost town with only a cemetery remaining, was named by a 15 year old California gold rush prospector ?
text: Did you know that in January 2009, Theodore Hoskins became the only Democratic chairman of a committee in the Missouri House of Representatives ?
text: Did you know that the annual Grove Plays staged by the Bohemian Club at the Bohemian Grove have been described as "lumbering pageants?"
text: Did you know that former Gloucestershire cricket captain Sir Derrick Bailey founded an airline and based the colour of its planes on the racing colours of his South African father ?
text: Did you know that the Late Classic Maya archaeological site of La Muerta , in northern Guatemala , is distinguished by its unusual subterranean labyrinth?
text: Did you know that the book The Post-American World was criticized for not delivering on what the title promised: an examination of a world not dominated by America?
text: Did you know that Bob Dylan has stated that the Queen Jane, the subject of his 1965 song " Queen Jane Approximately ", is a man?
text: Did you know that Finnish mountain bike orienteer Päivi Tommola has won eight medals at the World Championships?
text: Did you know that the first person to die in Australia from the 2009 flu was a Pintupi man whose people gave up hunting to settle the remote community of Kiwirrkura at the time of his birth?
text: Did you know that conversation poems of Samuel Coleridge were inspired by many events: adulterous love , marriage sex , a French invasion , a bad childhood , depressed birds , a fever , burning his foot , and a better poet ?
text: Did you know that the Mercedes-Benz W25 was withdrawn from the 1934 Belgian GP as the Belgian customs asked the German teams to pay 180,000 francs duty for their alcohol-based special fuel?
text: Did you know that Jesse Lee Kercheval got the idea of Underground Women after seeing a woman collapse in a launderette in Paris ?
text: Did you know that Gay Bowel Syndrome , currently considered obsolete, is neither gay-specific , confined to the bowel , nor a syndrome ?
text: Did you know that ballerina Virginia Zucchi once performed an entire solo en pointe ?
text: Did you know that the Gold Stealing Detection Unit is the oldest specialist police service in Western Australia ?
text: Did you know that the British officer Henry Lindsay Bethune became a Major General in the Persian Army of Mohammad Shah and received the Order of the Lion and the Sun for his services?
text: Did you know that the core of the tribe Moreae (part of the mulberry family ) are thought to have originated 59–79 million years ago in Laurasia , the northern supercontinent ?
text: Did you know that it was speculated that J.K. Rowling based the Harry Potter character Albus Dumbledore on the "splendidly bearded" T.P. Wiseman , her classics professor at Exeter University ?
text: Did you know that the Four-State Tornado Swarm of 1787 is considered to be the earliest example of a tornado outbreak on record?
text: Did you know that while training to become a mountain guide , former Olympic snowboarding gold medalist Karine Ruby was killed in a climbing accident on Mont Blanc ?
text: Did you know that Bob Dylan 's song " From a Buick 6 " borrowed some lyrics from the 1930 Sleepy John Estes song "Milk Cow Blues"?
text: Did you know that following the Supreme Court's ruling on Coeur Alaska, Inc. v. Southeast Alaska Conservation Council , Coeur d'Alene Mines share prices increased by over five percent?
text: Did you know that the works of Romanian sociologist and novelist Dan Lungu refer to concealed communist-era phenomena, such as the working class practice of stealing state property?
text: Did you know that the New Mexico School for the Blind and Visually Impaired covers nearly ninety percent of its operating expenses with income from lands held in trust for it by the State Land Office?
text: Did you know that American hammer thrower Walter Boal astonished passengers on a ship traveling to England in 1899 by skipping rope around the deck with another athlete on his back?
text: Did you know that the house where Edvard Grieg grew up, located in the street Strandgaten , was destroyed when the steam trawler Voorbode exploded in 1944?
text: Did you know that George McTurnan Kahin was expelled by Dutch authorities while conducting research in Indonesia for his dissertation on the country's struggle for independence ?
text: Did you know that several popes of the Byzantine Papacy were forced to wait months for the approval of the Byzantine emperor before consecration ?
text: Did you know that Dutch children's writer Paul Biegel wrote comics for Marten Toonder before publishing his first novel?
text: Did you know that some 9,000 weddings a year are held in Queens Borough Hall in New York City , with Friday as the most popular day?
text: Did you know that Max Manus referred to the release of Norwegian resistance member Kolbein Lauring from Grini concentration camp in 1943 as a "miraculous mistake" by the German authorities?
text: Did you know that the Hematological Cancer Research Investment and Education Act names programs after Representatives Joe Moakley , who died of myelodysplastic syndrome , and Geraldine Ferraro , who has multiple myeloma ?
text: Did you know that the killers of Aladi Aruna , former Law Minister of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu , were sentenced to death?
text: Did you know that Bob Dylan was heckled by fans while playing " It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry " during his controversial electric set at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival ?
text: Did you know that Matthias Bernegger in 1635 translated Galileo Galilei 's Dialogo from Italian into Latin ?
text: Did you know that the Lublin Ghetto was one of the first German-created ghettos in occupied Poland to be "liquidated"—its inhabitants murdered and many of the remaining cultural landmarks destroyed?
text: Did you know that John Callaway created the award-winning news program Chicago Tonight and was awarded 10 honorary doctorates, despite being a college dropout who hitchhiked to Chicago with 71 cents in his pocket?
text: Did you know that in 2006, current Hamilton Tiger-Cats head coach Marcel Bellefeuille helped the Montreal Alouettes have the CFL 's only two receivers with 1,000 receiving yards?
text: Did you know that Norske Intelligenz-Seddeler (1763–1920) was the first newspaper in Norway ?
text: Did you know that architect Wilfrid Lacroix , designer of the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec , later became a member of the Canadian House of Commons ?
text: Did you know that in 1739, the chiefs of Clan Macdonald of Sleat and Clan Macleod were involved in a scheme to kidnap their own clansfolk, transport them to the American Colonies , and sell them into slavery ?
text: Did you know that Dan Povenmire and Jeff "Swampy" Marsh had nearly no involvement in the video game based on their television series Phineas and Ferb ?
text: Did you know that while with the Edmonton Eskimos , Canadian football linebacker Tumbo Abanikanda was called "T. A." because his head coach couldn't pronounce his name?
text: Did you know that Frank J. Low , an infrared astronomy pioneer, used data from an infrared telescope flown on a Learjet to show that planets Jupiter and Saturn generate and emit internal energy into space?
text: Did you know that the 11th century medieval tractate De Iniusta Vexacione Willelmi Episcopi Primi is the first surviving detailed account of an English state-trial ?
text: Did you know that the Edmonton Eskimos were reportedly looking to draft either Dimitri Tsoumpas , Samuel Giguère or Keith Shologan with the second pick in the 2008 CFL Draft , but after Shologan and Giguère signed with the NFL , the team traded the pick?
text: Did you know that the extreme metal band Success Will Write Apocalypse Across the Sky took their name from the 1989 text "Apocalypse" by William S. Burroughs ?
text: Did you know that Canadian professional wrestler Billy Red Lyons won a tag team championship with his real-life brother-in-law, Dick Beyer ?
text: Did you know that even after Germany lost its colonies during WWI , colonial postage stamps continued to be sold by the German post office ?
text: Did you know that while robbing the countryside east of Toronto , members of the Markham Gang found a way to sell the same stolen horses over and over?
text: Did you know that in the shuffle ensuing from the 1983 resignation of Yves Bérubé and two other Quebec ministers , four unelected people became ministers , the highest number since 1936?
text: Did you know that Ham Hill , a nature reserve managed by the Wiltshire Wildlife Trust , is one of only two confirmed sites in the county where Musk Orchid grows?
text: Did you know that after recording two sacks against Winnipeg during the 2008 CFL season , Jonathan Brown passed Harold Hallman for most sacks in Toronto Argonauts team history?
text: Did you know that the Royal Mail consumes nearly 1 billion rubber bands per annum at a cost of almost £1,000,000?
text: Did you know that gambling on papal elections has been documented since the 16th century, despite being punishable by excommunication ?
text: Did you know that in 1992, the Naval Reserve of Canada created a reenactment group of the Compagnies Franches de la Marine , a colonial military force of New France ?
text: Did you know that Benito Mussolini emigrated to Switzerland in 1902, only to be deported after becoming involved in the socialist movement ?
text: Did you know that species in the fungal genus Rhodocollybia have spores that are dextrinoid ?
text: Did you know that Canadian football cornerback Stanford Samuels recorded the Winnipeg Blue Bombers ' only blocked punt of 2006?
text: Did you know that gridiron football player Lenny Walls recorded multiple tackles in every game he played for the Calgary Stampeders in 2008?
text: Did you know that one of a series of hotels called the Volcano House , built at the edge of Kilauea volcano since 1846, burned to the ground from a kitchen fire?
text: Did you know that the loss of nine military crew members and passengers when Buffalo 461 was shot down over Syria in 1974, remains the largest single-incident loss of life in Canadian peacekeeping history ?
text: Did you know that actor Paul Scofield came out of retirement in 1998 in order to play the part of Hermes in the BBC radio play Troy ?
text: Did you know that according to Edmonton Eskimos general manager Danny Maciocia , Canadian linebacker Mark Restelli "plays as if his hair is on fire"?
text: Did you know that Samuel Sutton joined HMS Monarch as an able seaman in 1777, and twenty-one years later was commanding her as a flag captain ?
text: Did you know that the Artocarpeae , one of the five subdivisions of the mulberry family , is best known as the tribe that includes the breadfruit and the jackfruit , two widespread tropical crops?
text: Did you know that Johannes Klingenberg Sejersted , who created a military defence plan for Norway somewhat before its 1814 independence declaration , drew experience from an 1808 campaign by Christian August of Augustenborg ?
text: Did you know that non-payment of papal income tax was punishable by excommunication ?
text: Did you know that as GM of the Wenatchee Chiefs , Frank Dasso ran a 1953 promotion where fans could pay whatever they wanted for admission, with game profits exceeding those of any three games so far that season?
text: Did you know that since 2006, The World Hypertension League has assigned 17 May as World Hypertension Day ?
text: Did you know that the first shots by the United States in World War I were fired by the Porto Rico Regiment of Infantry from El Morro Castle at a German ship in San Juan Bay , Puerto Rico ?
text: Did you know that the 2008 single " Enfants ", by microhouse producer Ricardo Villalobos , incorporates "no development over its seventeen minute length"?
text: Did you know that one of the public address applications of parabolic loudspeakers is to project sound waves in a 10° cone pattern 300 feet (90 m) away?
text: Did you know that Fred Hollands scored twice in Southampton St Mary's biggest competitive victory, a 14–0 FA Cup win against Newbury Town on 13 October 1894 that still remains a record win for Southampton?
text: Did you know that Egyptian military figure and politician Youssef Seddik launched the first military procedures in the July 23 Revolution of 1952?
text: Did you know that the Kavala Archaeological Museum has been described as being the most important archaeological museum in Eastern Macedonia ?
text: Did you know that director Henri-Georges Clouzot once drugged actress Brigitte Bardot to make her drool ?
text: Did you know that film director Quentin Tarantino encouraged Omar Doom to become an actor, and cast Doom in Inglourious Basterds two weeks before filming began?
text: Did you know that after the Battle of Frankfurt an der Oder in 1631, it took six days to bury the dead in mass graves ?
text: Did you know that because of his patriotic songs, Czech songwriter Karel Hašler died in Mauthausen concentration camp ?
text: Did you know that Magnolia × soulangeana is the most commonly used magnolia in horticulture in the British Isles?
text: Did you know that Indonesian politician Ibnu Parna , leader and the sole MP of the communist Acoma Party , was killed in the 1965 massacres ?
text: Did you know that ex-professional tennis player Claire Curran competed for both Ireland and Great Britain in the Fed Cup and accumulated a win–loss record of 20–7 in Fed Cup matches over the course of her career?
text: Did you know that since being dedicated for "park and parkway" purposes in 1909, Dickerman Park in Saint Paul, Minnesota , has been primarily used for parking lots and front yards of businesses?
text: Did you know that Polish actor Roman Kłosowski portrayed Nostradamus in the 2009 film Before Twilight ?
text: Did you know that the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center is one of only four health centers in the United States with seven professional colleges?
text: Did you know that Karl Evang and Torbjørn Mork , who consecutively headed the Norwegian Directorate for Health between 1938 and 1992, were both active members of the Labour Party ?
text: Did you know that the Wrinkle-faced Bat is able to bite 20% harder than other bats of a similar size allowing it to eat a wider range of fruits ?
text: Did you know that, though ostensibly built to defend the city, the citizens of Cork pulled down Elizabeth Fort within two years of its first construction for fear that it would be used against them by James I ?
text: Did you know that an ancient pagoda on the Toe River in Ma-ubin , Burma , fell in 2002 due to river erosion and had to be rebuilt?
text: Did you know that in addition to leading a committee which investigated alleged communists, California State Senator Jack Tenney composed the popular song " Mexicali Rose "?
text: Did you know that the Australian rainforest (and garden) plants Narrow-leaved- , Brown , and Native Gardenias of the genus Atractocarpus have fragrant flowers, much like the more familiar Common Gardenia ?
text: Did you know that Polish historian and socialist activist Adam Próchnik was alleged to have been an illegitimate son of the Polish Prime Minister Ignacy Daszyński ?
text: Did you know that The Play of the Weather by the Catholic playwright John Heywood is a plea for religious tolerance after the Reformation in the form of an allegory ?
text: Did you know that Taschereau Bridge and Galipeault Bridge were both widened in a bid to appease Île Perrot merchants who were worried that the newly-built Île aux Tourtes Bridge would drive away their customers?
text: Did you know that Brigadier Ronnie Tod was awarded the freedom of Athens by Archbishop Damaskinos in 1944?
text: Did you know that within 15 years of its construction, the J. Vivian, Jr. and Company Building was enlarged twice, firstly to add a third story, and secondly to increase its width?
text: Did you know that the Jewish cemetery in Chernivtsi , Ukraine , is one of the biggest historic Jewish cemeteries preserved in Central and Eastern Europe?
text: Did you know that basketball center Jānis Krūmiņš won 1956 Olympic silver only three years after he started playing basketball?
text: Did you know that Hitchcon , a convention celebrating the 30th anniversary of the publication of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy , will feature a live commentary on Twitter given by Marvin the Paranoid Android ?
text: Did you know that Samuel Wilbert Tucker organized an African-American civil rights sit-in at the Alexandria, Virginia , public library as early as 1939?
text: Did you know that the music video for Pirates of the Mississippi 's 1991 single " Feed Jake " was believed by some members of the gay community to have a homosexual theme?
text: Did you know that Polish architect Chrystian Piotr Aigner used a range of styles including Classicist , Neoclassicist , Palladian , Neogothic , Empire and Romantic ?
text: Did you know that the Byzantine regiment of the Vigla , which served as an imperial bodyguard unit in the 8th–11th centuries, had its origin in late Roman cavalry units of the 5th century?
text: Did you know that American cab driver Ihab Ali Nawawi crashed a Sabre jet belonging to Osama bin Laden into a sand dune in Sudan?
text: Did you know that the primary line constants describe characteristics of copper transmission lines ?
text: Did you know that in 1896, Christian IX of Denmark awarded Ramon Santamarina the Order of the Dannebrog , for supporting the settlement of Danish emigrants in Argentina ?
text: Did you know that the Jenisch house , a 19th-century country house , is located in the oldest landscaped park in Hamburg , Germany?
text: Did you know that koalas eat the leaves of the eucalyptus tree known as the Red Mahogany ?
text: Did you know that Ola Lindholm hosted the 2004 version of Melodifestivalen , an annual music competition and the most watched television program in Sweden?
text: Did you know that reflections of signals on conducting lines cause high frequency electrical ringing on domestic power cables which continues long after the original disturbance?
text: Did you know that William Weston may have been the first Englishman to have led an expedition to North America ?
text: Did you know that Japanese theoretical physicist Kazuhiko Nishijima is well-known for developing the concept of strangeness in particle physics ?
text: Did you know that with 665 Members taking part, the August 1892 vote of no confidence against the Marquess of Salisbury 's government saw the most votes ever cast in Parliament ?
text: Did you know that the Dagenham Roundhouse in East London featured acts including Genesis , Led Zeppelin , Thin Lizzy and Pink Floyd during the early 1970s?
text: Did you know that Per Voksø resigned as editor-in-chief of Morgenposten shortly after Sverre Munck bought the newspaper?
text: Did you know that the National Gallery of Victoria only purchased Australian artist Frederick McCubbin 's triptych The pioneer after he reworked the painting to add a view of the city of Melbourne in the background?
text: Did you know that Glensanda was an ancient deserted settlement in the Highlands of Scotland , but is now a super-quarry which exports 6,000,000 tons of granite every year?
text: Did you know that the Australian Military Court was declared constitutionally invalid after a sailor accused of " teabagging " a superior officer challenged its validity in the High Court of Australia ?
text: Did you know that fairy tale collector Nicolae Constantin Batzaria was an Aromanian representative among the Young Turks , an Ottoman government minister, and one of Romania 's best-known creators of comic strips ?
text: Did you know that Georgia Cottage , an 1840s house in Mobile, Alabama , was the home of Augusta Jane Evans , the first female author in the United States to earn more than $100,000 for her literary work?
text: Did you know that Gus Hurdle rejected a chance to play international football for Barbados to help Crawley Town in their relegation match against Dorchester Town , saying it was the "bigger game"?
text: Did you know that Elvis recorded his last number one hit, " Suspicious Minds ", at American Sound Studio ?
text: Did you know that in 2004, Jørn Holme became the first active politician to be appointed as director of the Norwegian Police Security Service ?
text: Did you know that Iron Duke , the lead ship of the Iron Duke -class battleships was the flagship of the British Grand Fleet at the Battle of Jutland in May 1916?
text: Did you know that the death of John Lewis (better known as " Spanish Louie ") was the first recorded use of a drive by shooting as a means of gangland execution in New York City ?
text: Did you know that Dorothea Lange and Pirkle Jones were commissioned to take photographs of Monticello, California as it was being prepared for destruction?
text: Did you know that Gray's Inn only began employing a librarian after barristers began stealing the books?
text: Did you know that the agaric mushroom species Agaricus benesii is found under the pines of Monterey Cypress trees and bruises pinkish-red when injured?
text: Did you know that the English herald Ralph Brooke tricked Sir William Segar into granting a coat of arms to a London hangman ?
text: Did you know that Louisiana state Judge Henry L. Yelverton , facing mandatory retirement at 75, went on to work five years as a clerk for the appeals court in Lake Charles ?
text: Did you know that SS General Karl Wolff claimed to have foiled a plot to kidnap Pope Pius XII ?
text: Did you know that Hurricane Greta in 1956 was the largest Atlantic hurricane ever recorded?
text: Did you know that the United Kingdom relied on the Imperial Japanese Navy and its North American Task Force to defend Canada 's west coast during the First World War ?
text: Did you know that brothers George Wright and Harry Wright both managed the Providence Grays National League baseball team?
text: Did you know that Albert Bates , partner of Machine Gun Kelly , participated in the kidnapping of oil tycoon Charles Urschel in 1933?
text: Did you know that Taking Woodstock , Elliot Tiber 's memoir about the famed 1969 music festival , was the basis for the Ang Lee film of the same title ?
text: Did you know that a savior sibling has undergone preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) in order to serve as a stem cell donor to a diseased sibling?
text: Did you know that Richard Petty 's victory at the 1966 Daytona 500 was the first and only time that he captured the pole position , despite winning the event a record seven times?
text: Did you know that American artist Duke Riley was arrested for driving his wooden submarine too close to the Queen Mary 2 ?
text: Did you know that a portion of the Rhode Island Route 37 expressway was inadvertently constructed over a historic cemetery in Cranston, Rhode Island ?
text: Did you know that Johannes Kvittingen , an exiled Norwegian bacteriologist in London in 1940, was asked to be head recruiter of Norwegian agents for the Special Operations Executive ?
text: Did you know that there have been 57 celebrity housemates in the British version of Big Brother ?
text: Did you know that the construction of Stalingrad -class battlecruisers was cancelled soon after their major supporter, Joseph Stalin , died in March 1953?
text: Did you know that in 1975 Phil Slocombe was Somerset County Cricket Club 's first batsman to score 1,000 runs in his first full season?
text: Did you know that Galerina sulciceps is considered the most toxic mushroom?
text: Did you know that Karhu Sports sold the three stripe trademark to Adidas for the equivalent of 1600 euros and two bottles of whiskey?
text: Did you know that the 13th-century settlements known as the Mise of Amiens and the Mise of Lewes are the only two such "mises" in English history?
text: Did you know that Alfred Proksch won two gold medals at the 2009 World's Masters Championships because he was the only competitor in the 100+ age bracket for discus and shot put ?
text: Did you know that Major League Baseball presents a variety of awards each season for individual performance , excellence in batting , pitching performance , and fielding prowess ?
text: Did you know that despite being born in Harlow , England , Alex Stavrinou qualified to play for the Cyprus youth football team through his father's Cypriot heritage?
text: Did you know that, during World War II , Greek Air Force pilot Marinos Mitralexis rammed the rudder of an enemy bomber with the propeller of his PZL P.24 , causing the enemy aircraft to crash to the ground?
text: Did you know that David Orme-Johnson wanted the United States Department of Defense to hire 10,000 people to perform Transcendental Meditation continuously in order to improve society?
text: Did you know that injuring Lactarius indigo will make it bleed a blue milk that slowly turns green?
text: Did you know that during the 1967 outbreak of foot and mouth disease in the United Kingdom , around 430,000 animals were slaughtered?
text: Did you know that the recording of " La Incondicional " by Luis Miguel broke several airplay records in Latin America , where it remained at the top of the charts for seven months?
text: Did you know that linguist Dennis Baron has written about the English-only movement , peoples' relationships with their computers, and the grammar of the Second Amendment ?
text: Did you know that the Portuguese Fireplace war memorial is the remains of a camp where Portuguese labourers helped the Canadian Forestry Corps in felling timber during World War I ?
text: Did you know that Alaska Airlines evolved from McGee Airways , which originated with a single three-seat Stinson plane?
text: Did you know that Chromis abyssus was the first species entered into the ZooBank registry of zoological nomenclature ?
text: Did you know that My Boy Jack , a 2007 film starring Daniel Radcliffe and David Haig , is based on one of Haig's plays of the same name ?
text: Did you know that three students were burnt to death in the 2000 Dharmapuri bus burning , an incident which resulted from the conviction of J. Jayalalitha for corruption?
text: Did you know that the Canadian documentary film Act of God investigates the metaphysical effects of being struck by lightning ?
text: Did you know that the calendar web application 30 Boxes is able to determine the time, date, and title of an event from a single sentence?
text: Did you know that when the FBI celebrated its 100th anniversary in 2008, Walter Walsh , its oldest living former agent, was one year older than the agency itself?
text: Did you know that American football player Captain Munnerlyn returned a kickoff for 84 yards and a blocked field goal for 81 yards in the same game?
text: Did you know that Art Attack is the longest running programme in the history of CITV ?
text: Did you know that actors Nicolai Cleve Broch and Aksel Hennie have been referred to as " Norway 's Ben Affleck and Matt Damon "?
text: Did you know that Charles Darwin 's 1875 book Insectivorous Plants describes how he tried to feed meat and glass to carnivorous plants to get them to bite?
text: Did you know that AltaRock Energy 's demonstration project for generating renewable energy through geothermal power may increase the number of earthquakes in California ?
text: Did you know that in 1988, after flying to space with first Cuban cosmonaut Arnaldo Méndez , Yuri Romanenko was invited to an underwater fishing trip with Fidel Castro ?
text: Did you know that American theologian Jonathan Edwards , in his 1734 sermon The Justice of God in the Damnation of Sinners , condemns Jews for their strict observance of Mosaic Law ?
text: Did you know that 97% of the letters from viewers of The Rejected , the first documentary about homosexuality to air on American television , were positive?
text: Did you know that Tunisian philosopher Youssef Seddik attempted to publish a Qur'an in the form of seven volumes of comics in 1992?
text: Did you know that Basil "The Owl" Banghart (1900–1982), an American burglar and prison escape artist, acquired his nickname because of his abnormally large eyes?
text: Did you know that semi-professional footballer Gareth Risbridger holds a UEFA 'B' Pro Licence coaching badge and is also a qualified referee , as well as working as a greenkeeper at Wycombe Heights Golf Club?
text: Did you know that the world's largest mobile phone producer, Nokia , have announced their plans to release their first PC since 1991 ?
text: Did you know that Emma Nutt became the world's first female telephone operator when she started working for the Boston Telephone Despatch company in 1878?
text: Did you know that the "kids for cash" scandal in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania involves kickbacks from prison officials to judges to send kids to prison?
text: Did you know that the Original Dixieland Jass Band 's " Livery Stable Blues " (1917) was the first released jazz recording?
text: Did you know that the California lizardfish is not sought by most anglers because its flesh has a taste resembling iodine ?
text: Did you know that Dipak Patel once called Zambian president Levy Mwanawasa a "cabbage" and accused him of rigging his election , yet still went on to serve as his Minister of Commerce?
text: Did you know that the Rijksmonument designation has been applied to about 55,000 sites in the Netherlands ?
text: Did you know that Eileen McKenney , who was the inspiration for the title character in My Sister Eileen , was killed in an automobile accident four days before the play opened on Broadway ?
text: Did you know that new evidence has revealed that Australian artist Tom Roberts painted much of his masterpiece Shearing the Rams on location en plein air , not in his Melbourne studio?
text: Did you know that the Paleozoic monoplacophoran Pilina unguis was twice as large as any known living monoplacophoran?
text: Did you know that the mass-luminosity relation , first derived by Arthur Eddington in 1924, helps astronomers find the distances to binary star systems ?
text: Did you know that the Boga is also known as the Snit in Jamaica and as the Bonnetmouth in the Bahamas ?
text: Did you know that kids are people too!
text: Did you know that the Oslo Sporveier tram company became the first company to be found guilty of homicide in Norway as a result of a 2001 fatal accident involving an SM91 tram ?
text: Did you know that audiobook publisher Michael Viner produced the Incredible Bongo Band 's often- sampled recording of " Apache ", as well as a joke album called The Best of Marcel Marceau ?
text: Did you know that a young Idi Amin was a reserve player for the East Africa rugby union team during the 1955 British Lions tour to South Africa ?
text: Did you know that Thomas E. Corcoran received the Medal of Honor for rescuing his crewmates from their sinking ship during the American Civil War ?
text: Did you know that rock group The Beau Brummels sang " Laugh, Laugh " on a 1965 episode of The Flintstones as The Beau Brummelstones?
text: Did you know that in his lifetime, Roy Sullivan was struck by lightning seven times, but died from a gunshot?
text: Did you know that the seven most obese nations in the world are all located in the Pacific ?
text: Did you know that HMS Fifi , a German warship captured and added to the Royal Navy during the First World War , was named to mean 'tweet-tweet' in French ?
text: Did you know that Ernest Poole 's book His Family received the first Pulitzer Prize for the Novel in 1918?
text: Did you know that a British rower attempting to break the record for the quickest solo crossing of the Atlantic Ocean abandoned his boat due to the approach of Hurricane Bill ?
text: Did you know that Kari Gjesteby is the first female State Conciliator of Norway ?
text: Did you know that 99 Fables , a posthumously published collection by William March , "emphasizes the platitudes of life by the platitudinous nature of his fables ?"
text: Did you know that as part of the cortisol awakening response , the stress hormone cortisol normally increases by about half in the half hour after we awake?
text: Did you know that Viking warlord Sigurd Eysteinsson was killed by the severed head of his enemy?
text: Did you know that kuisis are Native American flutes crafted in distinct male and female pairs, but meant to be played together?
text: Did you know that oats have been ground at a watermill on the site of Barry Mill , in Scotland, since 1539?
text: Did you know that a 1999 excavation by the Israel Antiquities Authority inside a sewer pipe in the depopulated Arab village of Bashshit revealed ceramic remains dating back to the Early Islamic period?
text: Did you know that inventor Brutus de Villeroi tested the first French submarine in the commune of Noirmoutier-en-l'Île on 12 August 1832?
text: Did you know that the Hamsa-Sandesha is a Sanskrit love poem that tells the story of Rama and Sita in the style of Kalidasa 's Meghaduta ?
text: Did you know that although John Fortescue listed ten Inns of Chancery , only nine are known?
text: Did you know that country music singer Alan Jackson still likes bologna ?
text: Did you know that William Anderson , a surgeon and naturalist aboard Captain James Cook's HMS Resolution , wrote in 1777 that the Tasmanian Inchman had an "almost intolerable" bite?
text: Did you know that Asaga ' s Vardhaman Charitra (Life of Vardhaman ), written in 853 CE, was the first Sanskrit language biography of Jain Tirthankara , Mahavir ?
text: Did you know that the coincidence of the global financial crisis with the release of Margaret Atwood 's Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth led The Walrus to auction predictions by Atwood at a fundraiser?
text: Did you know that Empty Dwelling Management Orders , designed to help put empty housing back into use in the United Kingdom , have only been used twenty-four times in three years?
text: Did you know that scholars identify the mound upon which the depopulated Palestinian Arab village of Tulayl was built, with the Roman town of "Thella"?
text: Did you know that Rita Inos , a Doctor of Education , was the first female candidate for Lieutenant Governor of the Northern Mariana Islands ?
text: Did you know that because the Foulées du Gois road running race is held on a tidal causeway , participants are sometimes forced to swim to the finish line?
text: Did you know that Bristol 's classical chamber orchestra , the Emerald Ensemble , play standing up and have performed at a local nightclub?
text: Did you know that in the eight months after the Battle of Narva in 1700, Andrew Vinius melted one quarter of Russia's church bells to make cannon ?
text: Did you know that the pilot episode of The Spectacular Spider-Man features Robert Englund -- best known for playing Freddy Krueger -- as the voice of supervillain Vulture ?
text: Did you know that linebacker Quincy Monk nearly had a football helmet drop kicked into his head during the 2003 NFL playoffs ?
text: Did you know that the manager of Oasis has described Republic of Loose as the most exciting band since Oasis?
text: Did you know that on 13 August 2009, Egyptian fishermen taken hostage by Somali pirates overpowered their captors and escaped , taking along four prisoners?
text: Did you know that Dr Malik Dohan al-Hassan was an octogenarian when he was appointed Justice Minister of Iraq in 2004?
text: Did you know that blue cake , a flaky pastry from the Bernese Oberland , Switzerland , is not blue?
text: Did you know that the 1997 video game Ballblazer Champions is a remake of the 1985 Ballblazer that was released for the Commodore 64 and Atari consoles?
text: Did you know that BBC defence correspondent Caroline Wyatt was born in Australia and adopted by a British diplomat ?
text: Did you know that the first violin concerto by Philip Glass was composed in honor of his father Ben, who died some sixteen years before the work's conception?
text: Did you know that 2009 National Indigenous Art Award winner Danie Mellor once created a sculpture using ceramics, kangaroo skin, synthetic eyeballs , and stuffed birds ?
text: Did you know that in 1904, gymnast George Eyser won six Olympic medals, including gold in the vault , even though he had a wooden prosthesis for a leg?
text: Did you know that the Battle for Lake Tanganyika involved an expedition dragging two motor boats through Africa, led by a man who was "court-martialled for wrecking his own ships, an inveterate liar and a wearer of skirts"?
text: Did you know that the largest concentration of the parasitic plant species Buckleya distichophylla can be found in the Poor Mountain Natural Area Preserve of Roanoke County , Virginia , USA ?
text: Did you know that British Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy's poem " Education for Leisure " was removed from study at GCSE level due to concerns about teenage knife crime?
text: Did you know that the Blue Bell in Chester , Cheshire , England, contains a chamber separated from the rest of the building which has been a ticket office for stage coach operators, a soda fountain bar and a barber 's shop?
text: Did you know that Golden Krust Caribbean Bakery & Grill is a chain of 120 restaurants serving Jamaican patties , jerk chicken and curried goat?
text: Did you know that Australian troops fought their last battle of the Korean War just hours before the ceasefire, fighting off numerous Chinese attacks during the Battle of the Samichon River ?
text: Did you know that when Sir Edward Atkinson was appointed Director of Public Prosecutions he refused to believe it was true and walked out of the Home Office ?
text: Did you know that as the SS struggled to keep up sorting the valuables plundered from prisoners at Auschwitz , Karl Möckel stated that fifteen to twenty suitcases of them were sent to the WVHA quarterly?
text: Did you know that Simon & Garfunkel did not know that Bobby Gregg was the drummer on their #1 single " The Sounds of Silence "?
text: Did you knowthat in August of 1948 the Labour Party of Indonesia merged with the Communist Party ?
text: Did you know that the former library of Kingston, New York , has been used as the offices for the janitors at the neighboring high school ?
text: Did you know that the BBC radio producer R.D. Smith , husband of Olivia Manning and model for a character in her Fortunes of War novels, was identified as a Soviet spy by MI5 ?
text: Did you know that the Keller Ferry , which operates as part of Washington State Route 21 was taken over by the Washington Department of Highways on September 1, 1930, although a cable ferry was operated during the early 1890s?
text: Did you know that Franciszek Przysiężniak led partisan units into the largest battles of the anti-Nazi and anti-communist resistance ?
text: Did you know that the Will & Grace episode " Marry Me a Little, Marry Me a Little More " was the first time that a prime-time sitcom showed a Jewish protagonist marrying inside the faith?
text: Did you know that infestation by Halofolliculina corallasia leads to Skeletal Eroding Band , the first coral disease known to be caused by a protozoon or by any eukaryote ?
text: Did you know that female professional wrestler Ann Casey won the USA Women's Wrestling Championship in 1974 from The Fabulous Moolah and was never defeated for the title?
text: Did you know that the founders of the Socialist Party of Indonesia (Parsi) included a group of Indonesians who had participated in the anti-fascist resistance in the Netherlands during World War II ?
text: Did you know that Jadwiga of Żagań bore no sons to her husband, Casimir III the Great , which spelled the end of the Piast Dynasty in the Kingdom of Poland ?
text: Did you know that the Interim Government of India , which was formed on 2 September 1946, established diplomatic relations with the United States ?
text: Did you know that the Fairy Flag is traditionally thought to have been a gift from the fairies to the chiefs of Clan Macleod ?
text: Did you know that John Heriot , a late-eighteenth-century British journalist , was secretly funded to publish two pro-government newspapers?
text: Did you know that in the first 15 years of its logging in New Caledonia , 8,000 tonnes of sandalwood , especially Santalum austrocaledonicum , was harvested?
text: Did you know that Kenneth Bacon , a former spokesperson for the U.S. Department of Defense , served as president of Refugees International until his death in 2009?
text: Did you know that the former Palestinian Arab village of Khiyam al-Walid is believed to be a reference to the tents of Khaled ibn al-Walid 's army which conquered the Levant in the 7th century?
text: Did you know that after his death William Johnson Sollas was implicated in the Piltdown Man hoax by his assistant, J.A. Douglas?
text: Did you know that the script for the 1943 Hepburn – Tracy motion picture Keeper of the Flame includes information from the U.S. Office of War Information , a propaganda agency of the U.S. government?
text: Did you know that the Japanese Buddhist monk Nichiji attempted to walk to Xanadu ?
text: Did you know that scholars believe that Secacah was the ancient name of Khirbet Qumran, the archaeological site where the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered?
text: Did you know that George "Snatchem" Leese was a member of the Slaughter House Gang who was known for being the official "bloodsucker" at prize fights in New York ?
text: Did you know that Freeheld is an Academy Award-winning documentary by Cynthia Wade that follows a New Jersey detective fighting for the right to pass on her pension to her female domestic partner ?
text: Did you know that Romanian artist Eugen Taru contributed to the Soviet–Yugoslav propaganda war with large posters depicting Josip Broz Tito as a butcher?
text: Did you know that the Australian Supermarine Aircraft company make the only aluminum reproduction Supermarine Spitfire currently in production?
text: Did you know that Norwegian actress Beate Eriksen is the granddaughter of Olympic gymnast Marius Eriksen , and daughter of World War II flying ace Marius Eriksen, Jr. ?
text: Did you know that Yale University Press expunged all of the cartoons from The Cartoons that Shook the World ?
text: Did you know that John Edward Marr spent 45 years at the University of Cambridge ?
text: Did you know that the Phineas and Ferb episode " The Monster of Phineas-n-Ferbenstein " has been nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award in the category "Outstanding Special Class - Short-format Animated Programs"?
text: Did you know that Clive Ponting was found not guilty of violating the Official Secrets Act by a jury even after the judge, Sir Anthony McCowan , summed up strongly in favour of the prosecution?
text: Did you know that during the Roman Empire in Palestine , the road that connected Lydda to Jerusalem passed through Barfiliya ?
text: Did you know that during the Holocaust , of the four Jews rescued by Stanisław Jasiński and his daughter from Kostopol in Eastern Poland , only Szmuel Liderman survived the massacres ?
text: Did you know that Layforce was a brigade -sized British commando force named after their commander Robert Laycock ?
text: Did you know that Filipino comedian Tado ' s screen name is derived from a Tagalog cuss word?
text: Did you know that Michael Jackson 's " Gone Too Soon " was dedicated to the memory of Ryan White , a teenager who died following a battle with HIV / AIDS ?
text: Did you know that Englishman James McFarlane was appointed a Knight Commander of the Royal Norwegian Order of Saint Olav for his eight-volume work Oxford Ibsen ?
text: Did you know that Sequalitchew Creek was the location of the original Fort Nisqually trading post established in 1833 by the Hudson's Bay Company ?
text: Did you know that the Byzantine general John Kourkouas , supreme commander of the Byzantine armies in the East for 22 years, was hailed by his contemporaries as "another Trajan or Belisarius "?
text: Did you know that Theodore Roosevelt contracted Cuban fever during the Spanish–American War , and had recurring symptoms before, during, and after his time as President of the United States ?
text: Did you know that during his lifetime, geologist William Noel Benson published over 100 academic papers?
text: Did you know that the island of Orosay overlooks Traigh Mhòr , reputedly the only beach in the world used as a runway for scheduled aircraft flights?
text: Did you know that Bobbi Gibb was the first woman to run the entire Boston Marathon ?
text: Did you know that the Bayerischer Rundfunk caused a scandal in 1986 for refusing to relay the broadcast signal of the political cabaret show Scheibenwischer ?
text: Did you know that Indian communist politician K.P. Prabhakaran was in the forefront of a trade union of toddy tappers in Kerala for 55 years?
text: Did you know that the Ninth Fort massacres November 1941 were the first organized mass murders of Reich Jews ?
text: Did you know that Sir Arthur Lee donated Chequers , a country house in Buckinghamshire , for use as the official country residence of the British Prime Minister ?
text: Did you know that, starting with the episode " The Ex-Girlfriend ", filming of the NBC sitcom Seinfeld moved from Desilu Cahuenga in Hollywood, California , to CBS Studio Center in Studio City ?
text: Did you know that the Ness of Brodgar archaeological site in Orkney includes the remains of a large building described as a Neolithic "cathedral"?
text: Did you know that John Earls , the chief writer and editor of Teletext 's Planet Sound music section, used to write reader music reviews during his teenage years for Blue Suede Views on ORACLE , the predecessor to Teletext?
text: Did you know that the first major battle to involve Australian soldiers in the Korean War was the Battle of the Apple Orchard in October 1950?
text: Did you know that an eternal flame burns at Triyuginarayan Temple , believed to be the venue of the marriage of Hindu deities Shiva and Parvati ?
text: Did you know that Markus Brunnermeier won the Germán Bernácer Prize for his work in financial economics on bubbles and crashes ?
text: Did you know that the Spanish cruiser Baleares was commissioned into service without one of its four main turrets ?
text: Did you know that historian Jack T. Kirby decried popular media depictions of Southerners that used "clichés of racists, graceful landed gentry, poverty, homespun rural values, stock-car racers and moonshiners"?
text: Did you know that Curious George made his literary debut in H.A. Rey 's 1939 children's short story, Cecily G. and the Nine Monkeys ?
text: Did you know that the first Australian soldiers to die in the Korean War were killed in action during the Battle of the Broken Bridge in October 1950?
text: Did you know that Belgian cyclist Eddy Merckx is the only person to have won the general, points and king of the mountains classifications in the same tour?
text: Did you know that Otomi grammar , the grammar of the indigenous Otomi language of Mexico has traits of active/stative alignment , but has no adjectives ?
text: Did you know that Japanese electrical engineer Hisashi Kobayashi was appointed the founding director of the IBM Tokyo Research Laboratory in 1982?
text: Did you know that the Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement was given the unusual name at the request of India ?
text: Did you know that in 1992, the crews of USS Baton Rouge and K-276 Kostroma failed to detect each other until the two nuclear submarines collided in the shallow waters of the Barents Sea ?
text: Did you know that when large numbers of the sap-feeding redeye cicada gather on a tree their waste products may fall in a constant shower?
text: Did you know that the 16"/45 caliber Mark 6 guns aboard the battleship USS Massachusetts (BB-59) are believed to have fired the United States' first and last 16-inch shells of World War II ?
text: Did you know that the Baekryulsa temple located in Gyeongju , South Korea , which was once the capital of the Silla kingdom, is believed to be associated with Ichadon , the first martyr for Buddhism in Korea ?
text: Did you know that the British officer James Scurry was held captive for ten years by Hyder Ali and Tippu Sultan at Seringapatam ?
text: Did you know that the offices at Stogumber railway station are on the east side of the line, but the platform is on the west?
text: Did you know that despite entering the finals of 2009 Inter-Provincial Twenty20 unbeaten, Basnahira South collapsed from a strong position of 133 for 1, losing their last nine wickets for just eleven runs?
text: Did you know that Air Vice Marshal Ellis Wackett , the RAAF's senior engineer from 1935 to 1959, was nicknamed " Punch " for his prominent chin and nose?
text: Did you know that magnetic tapes afflicted with sticky-shed syndrome are unplayable, but they can be treated by baking ?
text: Did you know that Perinpanayagam Sivaparan opposed the nomination of Selvarasa Pathmanathan to lead the Tamil Tigers ?
text: Did you know that the Milton Odem House is one of the best examples of a Streamline Moderne style residence found in the state of Oregon ?
text: Did you know that Chieftain's Salute , composed by Graham Waterhouse , is scored for Great Highland Bagpipe and string orchestra ?
text: Did you know that the Homicide: Life on the Street episode " Night of the Dead Living ", takes place entirely within the set of the homicide detectives' squad room?
text: Did you know that a U.S. Senate committee once claimed that Joseph Glimco ran "the nation's most corrupt union "?
text: Did you know that the Lewes Free Presbyterian Church , affiliated with Ian Paisley 's Free Presbyterian Church of Ulster , occupies a listed building that was formerly a Strict Baptist chapel?
text: Did you know that Mumbai has the world's second largest number of Art Deco buildings after Miami ?
text: Did you know that despite never obtaining a university degree, Taiwanese historian Ts'ao Yung-ho was made an Officer of the Order of Orange-Nassau for his scholarly work on Dutch Formosa ?
text: Did you know that a scene in the Homicide: Life on the Street episode " Smoke Gets in Your Eyes ", in which detectives convince a suspect that a copy machine is a lie detector, was based on real-life events within the Baltimore Police Department ?
text: Did you know that Le Van Duyet , the last viceroy of the Nguyen Dynasty 's Cochinchina , was a eunuch ?
text: Did you know that the variety of places of worship in the district of Lewes , England, reflect its long tradition of Protestant Nonconformism ?
text: Did you know that the first home versions of the Sega video game Jambo! Safari are set to be released, ten years after the game first appeared in arcades ?
text: Did you know that Qaisar Bagh of Wajid Ali Shah , the last Nawab of Awadh , was ordered demolished by the British Raj after the Indian Rebellion of 1857 , but his queens' residence is still standing in Lucknow today?
text: Did you know that professional poker player Dan Harrington sometimes finds himself the victim of the poker strategies that he teaches in his Harrington on Hold 'em book series when playing poker tournaments ?
text: Did you know that the Toi gold mine in Japan houses the world's largest pure gold bar , weighing 250 kilograms (550 lb)?
text: Did you know that the designers from the second season of Project Runway Philippines include a registered nurse , a call center agent, an accountant , and a Physical Education teacher?
text: Did you know that Jan Pol , a smock mill in Dalen , is the tallest remaining windmill in Drenthe ?
text: Did you know that according to LGBT interpretations , the Hindu fire god Agni 's role in accepting sacrifices is paralleled by his accepting semen from other gods like Shiva and Soma ?
text: Did you know that country music performer Roger Miller included his own recordings of two songs that he had written for Jim Reeves in the 1950s, on his 1966 album Words and Music ?
text: Did you know that the owners of the Cray Mansion and neighboring Hubbard House competed to see who could add the better home improvement?
text: Did you know that character actor Billy House once continued performing in a play immediately after suffering a heart attack ?
text: Did you know that the Mir diamond mine is so large that its natural downward air flow can crash helicopters?
text: Did you know that according to Jewish customs , a yahrzeit candle is lit in memory of the dead on the anniversary of the death on the Hebrew calendar ?
text: Did you know that The Murderer Lives at Number 21 was director Henri-Georges Clouzot 's first feature film for the Nazi -owned company Continental Films?
text: Did you know that the Coyote Gold Mine in the remote Tanami Desert of Australia was opened in 2006 by the then Governor-General of Australia , Michael Jeffery ?
text: Did you know that Hassard Short was born into the English landed gentry but moved to New York as an actor in 1901 and later became one of Broadway 's greatest musical theatre directors and lighting designers ?
text: Did you know that the Large Mindoro Forest Mouse , first described as a distinct species in 1995, is known from only 16 individuals from a single mountain on the Island of Mindoro , Philippines ?
text: Did you know that Preston Henn , owner of the Fort Lauderdale Swap Shop , won the 1983 24 Hours of Daytona sports car race and after retiring refused to discuss his racing career?
text: Did you know that New Yorker Marcey Jacobson had planned to visit Chiapas for 10 days in 1956, but ended up staying there for most of the next 50 years, taking 14,000 photos of daily life in Southern Mexico?
text: Did you know that the National Center for Atmospheric Research 's Mesa Laboratory was I. M. Pei 's first rural project?
text: Did you know that Indiana Governor Matthew E. Welsh ran in the 1964 Democratic primary just to prevent segregationist George Wallace from winning the state?
text: Did you know that the cicada Abricta curvicosta of eastern Australia is known as the floury baker from its appearance of being dusted with white powder?
text: Did you know that in 1960 , country music artist Claude Gray bought the song "Family Bible" from Willie Nelson for $100?
text: Did you know that the modern Mexican state of Tlaxcala was born when the chief of the old Tlaxcala kingdom struck a deal with Hernán Cortés?
text: Did you know that in the 51 Major League Baseball seasons for which the Rawlings Gold Glove Award has been presented, pitchers Greg Maddux and Jim Kaat have won the award 34 times?
text: Did you know that despite having severely paralyzed hands, William B. T. Trego painted some of the most iconic images of the American Revolution and Civil War in the 19th century?
text: Did you know that the 2011 Pro Bowl and the 2012 Pro Bowl are contracted to return to Aloha Stadium due to a backlash from players and coaches?
text: Did you know that recovery of the oil in Spraberry Trend , an oil field ranked third in the U.S. by total proven reserves , is so difficult that the area was dubbed "the world's largest unrecoverable oil reserve"?
text: Did you know that a branch of Exeter City Supporters' Trust members helped finance James Norwood ' s contract at the football club, paying £ 19 per month?
text: Did you know that neuroscientist Ira Black expressed frustration with U.S. federal restrictions on stem cell research, as it could lead to therapies that would "get patients out of bed and out of wheelchairs"?
text: Did you know that the German 30.5 cm SK L/50 gun was featured in the main batteries of 16 of the 26 capital ships built by the Kaiserliche Marine before the First World War ?
text: Did you know that after English rugby international forward Denys Dobson was killed by a charging rhinoceros , he was reportedly said to always have had "a weak hand off "?
text: Did you know that the second deepest spot in the world, the HMRG Deep , was discovered by a team of scientists from Hawaii even though it is located by Guam ?
text: Did you know that in 1693 Sheikh Yusuf of Makassar , Indonesia , was exiled by the Dutch East India Company to South Africa , where he established the first Muslim community in the Cape ?
text: Did you know that No. 3 Commando was the first British commando unit raised during the Second World War ?
text: Did you know that Japanese pop R&B singer-songwriter Mai Kuraki 's 2009 album, Touch Me! became her first album in five years to top the Japanese album chart?
text: Did you know that Justin Fashanu was the first professional association football player to come out as gay ?
text: Did you know that Schwartz Communications , the largest PR agency in Massachusetts , started by making campaigns for baby food before specializing on counseling pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies?
text: Did you know that a riot broke out between English and Irish labourers who had consumed 1000 gallons of strong beer following the completion of the New Cut waterway in Bristol in May 1809?
text: Did you know that the Lake Linden Historic District was rebuilt largely of brick after property insurance companies with heavy losses in an 1887 fire threatened to pull out of the area?
text: Did you know that John Durnford-Slater was the first British Commando ?
text: Did you know that The Simpsons 20th Anniversary Special - In 3-D! On Ice! , a documentary about The Simpsons , will most likely not be filmed in 3-D or take place on ice?
text: Did you know that Branchinecta lynchi , a vulnerable species of fairy shrimp , can be found in vernal pools around Agate Lake ?
text: Did you know that Sir Patrick Hastings approved the prosecution of the Campbell Case which was instrumental in the fall of the first Labour government?
text: Did you know that Summer Wars was the first Japanese animated film to be included for competition at the Locarno International Film Festival ?
text: Did you know that Sockington , a cat on the microblogging site Twitter , now has over a million followers since starting there in 2007?
text: Did you know that James Brady and his gang, the Yakey Yakes , forced their rivals, the Eastman Gang and the Five Points Gang , to "do their fighting north of Catherine Street" in New York City ?
text: Did you know that at one point the Clerks of Assize in England and Wales were earning more than the Assize Judges themselves?
text: Did you know that the Homicide: Life on the Street episode " A Shot in the Dark " erroneously refers to Detective Pembleton 's kids, even though he does not have children until later in the series?
text: Did you know that the only survivor of the 1944 killing of 10 civilians ordered by Josef Scheungraber testified against him at his war crimes trial, where Scheungraber received a life sentence in August 2009?
text: Did you know that the American Florida -class battleships were the first U.S. battleships equipped with a steam turbine propulsion system?
text: Did you know that the Australian bushfood plant and black pepper substitute Tasmannia lanceolata is poisonous to fish?
text: Did you know that the creation of napkin holders has been a project featured in Popular Science and Popular Mechanics ?
text: Did you know that baseball manager Bill Watkins managed the Detroit Wolverines to their only World Series championship?
text: Did you know that the theme of pederasty in the 1977 German film Die Konsequenz was so controversial that one regional broadcaster refused to relay the transmission signal?
text: Did you know that professional wrestling promoter Emile Dupré has said that the Cormier wrestling family ( Yvon , Jean-Louis , Leonce , and Romeo ) "were to New Brunswick what the Hart family was to Calgary "?
text: Did you know that St. Mary's , the first village planned in the Township of Bexley , was never built because the site lay above a bed of limestone ?
text: Did you know that Sean Munsanje became the first ever male presenter of Xposé upon winning the reality television show Total Xposure ?
text: Did you know that fallow deer bones found in the Qesem Cave , Israel , show evidence that humans 400,000 to 200,000 years ago butchered animals to share and cook ?
text: Did you know that New York Governor Thomas Dewey appointed Alger Chapman as his 1946 campaign manager, though Chapman had no political experience?
text: Did you know that Canada and Panama signed the Canada-Panama Free Trade Agreement on August 11, 2009?
text: Did you know that Eddy Arnold was inspired to record The Casinos ' " Then You Can Tell Me Goodbye " after hearing its writer, John D. Loudermilk , sing it?
text: Did you know that Banksia 'Roller Coaster' , the prostrate cultivar of Banksia integrifolia , is less than 50 centimetres high, while the normal form can be a 25 metre tree?
text: Did you know that professional wrestler Ángel Azteca died from a heart attack shortly after losing a wrestling match?
text: Did you know that Detective John Munch 's pro- drug liberalization rants in the Homicide: Life on the Street episode " And the Rockets' Dead Glare " were based on actor Richard Belzer 's real-life past of drug abuse?
text: Did you know that Stanley Palace in Chester , Cheshire , built as a town house in 1597, has since been apartments , a boys' school, and a museum, and is now used as an office and meeting rooms?
text: Did you know that before the 2008 Sugar Bowl game Georgia defensive tackle Geno Atkins asked Hawaii quarterback Colt Brennan for his autograph?
text: Did you know that outlaw motorcycle club the Gypsy Jokers has rallied the support of rival clubs to protest proposed Australian anti-" bikie " laws?
text: Did you know that Alan Taylor was chosen to direct the Homicide: Life on the Street episode " A Dog and Pony Show " after the show's producers were impressed by a short film Taylor made in a seminar taught by Martin Scorsese ?
text: Did you know that the sole developer and creator of Bob's Game tried to publicly protest by locking himself in his room for 100 days or until Nintendo granted him the software development kit for the game?
text: Did you know that in both 2006 and 2007, Louisiana Tech defensive tackle D'Anthony Smith had five tackles against Fresno State ?
text: Did you know that while running for the presidential nomination in 2008, Hillary Clinton credited political advisor and lobbyist Anne Wexler with providing her first job in politics?
text: Did you know that the USS Archer-Fish (SS-311) , under the command of Joseph F. Enright , sank the largest ship ever destroyed by a submarine ?
text: Did you know that master distiller Jimmy Bedford "held what he considered one of the most enviable jobs imaginable — making sure Jack Daniel's Old No. 7 Tennessee Whiskey tasted just the way it had since 1866"?
text: Did you know that after Rokuzan Ogiwara viewed Auguste Rodin 's just-completed masterpiece, The Thinker , he abandoned his career as a painter and became a sculptor instead?
text: Did you know that Possibility Playground , a $450,000 playground for special needs children, was built through donations and volunteer work from thousands of people?
text: Did you know that dramatic actor Alexander Ostuzhev , who completely lost his hearing in 1910, played leading roles at Maly Theatre for four more decades?
text: Did you know that Shawnee Community College is one of only a few community colleges to offer on-campus housing ?
text: Did you know that Indu Mitha is one of only two Bharatanatyam experts in Pakistan ?
text: Did you know that the Oregon Bach Festival is about to celebrate its 40th anniversary under the direction of its founder, German conductor Helmuth Rilling ?
text: Did you know that the sport of ferret legging is open only to sober male contestants, who must first remove their underwear?
text: Did you know that Hungry: A Mother and Daughter Fight Anorexia was written by a James Beard Award winner and her bulimic daughter?
text: Did you know that ice hockey left winger Brent Peterson scored nine goals in his three seasons with the National Hockey League 's Tampa Bay Lightning ?
text: Did you know that 120 earthquakes and tremors in total were felt in Edo , Japan during the Ansei Great Earthquakes of 1854–55?
text: Did you know that the largest derrick in New York State at the time was used to build the Broadway Theatre in Kingston ?
text: Did you know that SS - Oberscharführer Ludwig Plagge , executed for his crimes at Auschwitz , was one of the first SS men to be deployed there?
text: Did you know that Rend Lake College broke ground for its present campus on the very same day it received accreditation on March 27, 1969?
text: Did you know that this month celebrates the 100th anniversary of the discovery of the main Burgess Shale locality?
text: Did you know that make-up artist Howard Smit led efforts to establish the Academy Award for Best Makeup and require film studios to credit make-up artists in a film 's screen credits ?
text: Did you know that the pterosaur genus Carniadactylus was originally classified under the species name Eudimorphodon rosenfeldi ?
text: Did you know that six years after leaving the governor's cabinet, Massachusetts gubernatorial candidate Charles D. Baker, Jr. was elected to his small town's board of selectmen ?
text: Did you know that Angelo Mathews scored 152 runs in the finals of the 2009 Inter-Provincial tournament to help the Basnahira North cricket team to win the title?
text: Did you know that Arthur Adams , the singer of " You've Got the Floor ", was a bandleader at B. B. King's blues club in Los Angeles?
text: Did you know that when the Water Tower in Chester , Cheshire , England, was built in 1322–25 it stood in the River Dee , but it is now about 200 yards (183 m) inland due to silting of the river?
text: Did you know that in 1941 the United States Naval Academy refused to play a lacrosse game against Harvard University because Harvard's team included a black player?
text: Did you know that the Prayer of Joseph is a fragmentary Old Testament pseudepigraph composed in the first century AD?
text: Did you know that Larvik Fotball was founded as a cooperation club in Larvik , Norway, but repeatedly failed to include the club Larvik Turn in the merger?
text: Did you know that AT&T once released designs for 83,539 equivalent transforms of a circuit into the public domain just to deny their competitors the ability to patent them?
text: Did you know that preserving food in tin cans was first patented in 1810 by Peter Durand although he did not invent the process?
text: Did you know that Sixteen , the 16th-floor restaurant at Trump International Hotel and Tower in Chicago , features an eye-level view of the Wrigley Building clock tower?
text: Did you know that Ragnar Ulstein has written several documentary books on military intelligence in Norway during World War II ?
text: Did you know that a contestant on reality boxing show Charity Lords of the Ring left after being warned by neurosurgeons that he might die?
text: Did you know that rapper Lil Wayne is said to have brought the phrase " no homo " into the mainstream of hip hop ?
text: Did you know that the tuber of Drosera gigantea , one of the largest carnivorous sundew species, can be a metre below the ground?
text: Did you know that following the battle of Menin Road , Daniel Poole received a bar to his Distinguished Conduct Medal for what was described as "reckless leadership"?
text: Did you know that in the 2009 Indian parliamentary election the Communist Party of India (M-L) Red Flag decided to support the Left Democratic Front , claiming that its opponents were pro- Israeli ?
text: Did you know that the majority of Mexican land grant Rancho Las Putas was covered by Lake Berryessa in 1957?
text: Did you know that the early career of Mauritian - Norwegian footballer Caleb Francis was halted due to racist abuse ?
text: Did you know that John 3:7 , once flung from a train window, made the news again in 2009 after going missing on a train?
text: Did you know that the sandakada pahana design originally had carvings of a procession of elephants, lions, horses and bulls, but bulls were later removed due to influences of Hinduism ?
text: Did you know that in 2007, Indiana University defensive end Greg Middleton led college football in sacks and broke a school record?
text: Did you know that composer Gian Carlo Menotti considered his opera The Island God "a big bore"?
text: Did you know that the creators of the 1996 documentary film The West traveled over 100,000 miles (160,000 km) to gather footage and conduct research?
text: Did you know that the social systems of some bee-eaters are the most complex of any bird , including four tiers: pair, family, clan and colony ?
text: Did you know that sidewalks in Ann Arbor, Michigan , were spray-painted with the words " AnnArbor.com is here"?
text: Did you know that when the Soviet cruiser Voroshilov was bombed in 1942, flooding caused by one bomb hit extinguished an artillery magazine fire started by another?
text: Did you know that the 1st Australian Task Force was deployed northeast of Saigon during the 1968 communist Tet offensive and was heavily engaged during the Battle of Bien Hoa between January and March?
text: Did you know that in 2008, defensive tackle Arthur Jones was one of only 10 players for Syracuse to start every game?
text: Did you know that during the 11th century, Christian kingdoms of medieval Spain gained considerable wealth by collecting parias from the taifas of al-Andalus ?
text: Did you know that Hugh Murray was both the youngest Justice and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of California , having been appointed at ages 25 and 27, respectively?
text: Did you know that a quarter wave impedance transformer can make an electrical open circuit look like a short circuit ?
text: Did you know that DJ George Taylor Morris created a 1997 media frenzy with the " Dark Side of the Rainbow " phenomenon, in which the Pink Floyd album Dark Side of the Moon is said to synch up with The Wizard of Oz ?
text: Did you know that due to the John Wood Community College ' s "Common Market" approach, its first class of graduates in 1976 never set foot in a classroom of the college?
text: Did you know that the 1977 Pat Travers album Live! Go for What You Know , featuring Travers and Pat Thrall on guitar, is said to bridge the gap between 1970s and 1980s styles of metal guitar playing?
text: Did you know that Samuel Coleridge's Eminent Characters series includes: a lawyer , a speaker , a Unitarian , a general , a rebel , a betrayer , a poet , an actress , a philosopher , a friend , a playwright and a lord ?
text: Did you know that Babette March , the first cover model of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue , became a farmer in Canada and is now an artist, entrepreneur and chef in Halfway, Oregon ?
text: Did you know that the premiership of Lal Bahadur Shastri of India lasted only 19 months due to his sudden death in 1966?
text: Did you know that country music singer Easton Corbin ' s debut single "A Little More Country Than That" was co-written by Rory Lee Feek of Joey + Rory ?
text: Did you know that the Gull River system of reservoirs in Ontario controls the water levels of the Trent-Severn Canal , although they were not originally created for this purpose?
text: Did you know that Martina Navratilova is credited as a corpse in Single-Handed , a drama series in which the main character has sexual intercourse with his own sister ?
text: Did you know that the 1907–1908 New Zealand rugby tour of Great Britain organised by Albert Baskiville helped establish rugby league in Australia and New Zealand ?
text: Did you know that the Bank of New England went bankrupt in 1991, but its liquidation is still in progress?
text: Did you know that despite the amputation of his left leg and injury to his left hand, Russian World War I fighter ace Juri Gilsher continued to fly and scored five kills in 1917?
text: Did you know that the Kenny Chesney – Dave Matthews duet " I'm Alive " was previously recorded by Willie Nelson on an album that Chesney co-produced?
text: Did you know that Al-Majdal, Tiberias , a village depopulated in 1948 , preserved the name of the ancient village reputed to be the birthplace of Mary Magdalene ?
text: Did you know that the White Cyclone is the longest wooden roller coaster outside of the United States?
text: Did you know that the first rotating-wheel can opener was invented by William Lyman in 1870?
text: Did you know that Royal Navy Admiral Lawrence Halsted was the son of a naval captain , married the daughter of an admiral , and was the father of a vice-admiral?
text: Did you know that the Rugrats episode " Reptar on Ice " was a satirical parody of over-commercialization of children's media in the form of merchandise tie-ins ?
text: Did you know that the 1695 Siege of Namur has been called the most important event in the Nine Years' War ?
text: Did you know that according to Taiwan 's Central Weather Bureau the earthquakes of Douliu , Meishan , Nantou , Hsinchu-Taichung , Zhongpu , Xinhua , the East Rift Valley , Hengchun , Baihe , and Jiji were the ten deadliest quakes to strike the island in the 20th century?
text: Did you know that Carvins Cove, Virginia , was abandoned and subsequently inundated to create Carvins Cove Reservoir in the 1940s?
text: Did you know that Viennese -born architect Konstantin Jovanović provided the original designs for the National Assembly buildings of both Bulgaria and Serbia ?
text: Did you know that 19-year-old Panamanian sprinter Alonso Edward is a two-time South American Champion and the fourth fastest 200 m runner this year?
text: Did you know that the Kunjin virus , which can be transmitted by mosquitoes and may cause encephalitis in humans, is named for an Indigenous Australian clan living near where the virus was first isolated?
text: Did you know that the Charles Boyd Homestead is a group of three buildings that were once part of a pioneer ranch that supplied beef to logging crews in Central Oregon ?
text: Did you know that the SMS Nassau was the first dreadnought ship built by the German Imperial Navy ?
text: Did you know that professional wrestler Super Muñeco teamed with Super Ráton (dressed like Mighty Mouse ) and Super Pinocho (dressed like Pinocchio ) to form Trio Fantasia ?
text: Did you know that for his 2009 film Lucky Bastard , writer/director Everett Lewis drew upon his own relationship experience with a crystal meth addict?
text: Did you know that Madeleine Masson unknowingly met Krystyna Skarbek , whose biography she would write two decades later, days before Skarbek's murder in 1952?
text: Did you know that Anthony Impreveduto lost his Secaucus, New Jersey Town Council seat to reform candidate Dennis Elwell , with both later resigning from political office following corruption charges?
text: Did you know that Byzantine Emperor Andronikos II Palaiologos created the Metropolitanate of Lithuania , which was later regarded as an "anomaly" by the Byzantine authorities?
text: Did you know that Alex Cusack , on his debut in first-class cricket , partnered with Andre Botha to break a 111 year record?
text: Did you know that Ball Park station was used as a backdrop by Jon Huntsman, Jr. to support a proposition that included 33 unidentified transit projects?
text: Did you know that Jennifer Zeng was imprisoned and subject to electroshock therapy in the People's Republic of China for being a Falun Gong practitioner?
text: Did you know that the Nano Ganesh mobile application allows farmers in India to control irrigation pumps in remote fields with mobile phones ?
text: Did you know that on his wife Nancy 's birthday, Ronald Reagan would send flowers to his mother-in-law, Edith Luckett Davis , to thank her for giving birth to Nancy?
text: Did you know that Ambassador Kazimierz Papée protested to Cardinal Secretary of State Luigi Maglione regarding the Holocaust in Poland that "when something becomes notorious, proof is not required"?
text: Did you know that Rika's Landing Roadhouse in Big Delta , Alaska , was transferred from John Hajdukovich to Rika Wallen for "$10.00 and other considerations"?
text: Did you know that Bill Humble was a test pilot for Hawker Siddeley during the Second World War , and was the grandfather of British TV presenter Kate Humble ?
text: Did you know that the concert selected for the Dave Matthews Band 's newest live album, Live Trax Vol. 16 , was chosen by the staff at a Dave Matthews Band fansite?
text: Did you know that in 1704 Simón Susarte , a Spanish Gibraltarian goatherd , revealed a concealed path to the Spanish Army which led to the top of the Rock of Gibraltar , so they could surprise the Anglo - Dutch troops based there?
text: Did you know that Acanthoplus discoidalis is able to squirt haemolymph up to 30 centimetres (11.8 in) when attacked by predators?
text: Did you know that Minnesota Vikings safety Colt Anderson recited a vulgar rhyme celebrating his hometown of Butte before each game while at the University of Montana ?
text: Did you know that Beatrix Potter initially resisted the idea of colour illustrations for The Tale of Peter Rabbit ?
text: Did you know that the former United Nations commander in Bosnia , Colonel Bob Stewart , has been accepted as a prospective parliamentary candidate for the UK Conservative Party ?
text: Did you know that the Bald Man and the Red Emperor, the antagonists in Ion Creangă 's Harap Alb story, have been interpreted as echoes of conflicts opposing Romanians to the Tatars and the Khazar " Red Jews "?
text: Did you know that Toney Douglas and his brother Harry are the sixth pair of brothers to play in the National Basketball Association (NBA) and National Football League (NFL), respectively?
text: Did you know that Holby City woman is a voter demographic in the United Kingdom considered influential to the outcome of the next United Kingdom general election ?
text: Did you know that contestants on the reality television series Face the Ace win US$1 million if they beat three poker professionals in one-on-one matches of Texas hold 'em ?
text: Did you know that Kerry Hallam , an artist based in Nantucket , but trained in Chesterfield , has created an exhibition of nude ex-wives?
text: Did you know that during World War I , U.S. YMCA worker and preacher William Howard Hoople sailed to France to serve on the front lines as an entertainer?
text: Did you know that the PlayStation 3 video game Rorona no Atelier: Aarando no Renkinjutsushi is the first in its series to feature 3D computer graphics ?
text: Did you know that the history of Bali dates back at least 200,000 years, with evidence of paleolithic tools such as hand axes found in Sembiran and Trunyan villages?
text: Did you know that black Baptist minister and former slave R. H. Boyd had so much success in religious publishing that it caused a split in his denomination ?
text: Did you know that the British Army Gold Cross awarded to field and general officers during the Peninsular War inspired the design of the Victoria Cross ?
text: Did you know that the LRC tilting train provided core service with VIA Rail in Canada for several decades, and that Bombardier Transportation used its coach design on the Acela Express and British Rail Class 221 ?
text: Did you know that professional wrestler Estrella Blanca holds the record for the most " bet match " wins?
text: Did you know that the Australian energy company Linc Energy is the first company in the world to produce synthetic fuel by combining underground coal gasification and gas-to-liquid technologies?
text: Did you know that after he lost the Battle of Wolgast , Christian IV of Denmark withdrew from the Thirty Years' War by concluding the Treaty of Lübeck ?
text: Did you know that the Uncle Sam diamond , the largest diamond ever discovered in the United States , bears the nickname of the man who found it?
text: Did you know that the House of Neville , one of the most powerful families in England during the Middle Ages, descended from the same line as the Scottish monarchy ?
text: Did you know that, as a Louisiana state senator in 1946, Drayton Boucher proposed a tax on amusements, including theater tickets, to finance teacher pay raises?
text: Did you know that Bulgarian physical chemist Ivan Stranski is considered the father of crystal growth research?
text: Did you know that after Sweden entered the Thirty Years' War , Pomerania and France became her allies in the Treaty of Stettin (1630) and the Treaty of Bärwalde (1631)?
text: Did you know that in 993, Seo Hui , a Korean diplomat in the Goryeo period , prevented an invasion by Khitan troops?
text: Did you know that the Genetic Studies of Genius is the longest-running longitudinal study in the world?
text: Did you know that Ken Major was considered a world authority on windmills , watermills , animal engines and other forms of industrial archaeology ?
text: Did you know that John McClannahan Crockett was the second mayor of Dallas , and the Lieutenant Governor of Texas from 1861 to 1863?
text: Did you know that Joachim-Friedrich Huth lost a leg in World War I but served as a general in the Luftwaffe of both the World War II Wehrmacht and the West German Bundeswehr ?
text: Did you know that Thomas N. Schroth worked for his father Frank D. Schroth as an editor at the Brooklyn Eagle and two decades later at The Ellsworth American under his father-in-law James Russell Wiggins ?
text: Did you know that the copper roof of Hungary 's Óbuda Synagogue was melted down to make weapons during World War I ?
text: Did you know that Republican presidential candidate Richard Nixon received regular briefings on the Vietnam War from Democratic President Lyndon Johnson during Nixon's 1968 campaign against Johnson's Vice President ?
text: Did you know that Benson , Britain's "biggest and best-loved" common carp , was known as "the people's fish"?
text: Did you know that because the only approach to Badrinath , Uttarakhand , India, since early times was along a path through a forest of berries, the word "Badri" (berry) was suffixed to Sapta Badri temples?
text: Did you know that Ernesto Basile completed the reconstruction of the Palazzo Montecitorio , which is now the seat of the Italian Chamber of Deputies ?
text: Did you know that the gift of $105 million of Coca-Cola stock to Emory University by brothers Robert W. and George W. Woodruff was the largest single donation ever made to a school?
text: Did you know that in Chinese mythology , Wu Gang had to chop down a tree on the moon that always healed itself, forcing him to keep trying forever?
text: Did you know that after Indian domino cockroaches copulate , a female does not permit males to approach, kicking them away with her hind legs?
text: Did you know that synthetic analogues of Viagra , such as thiomethisosildenafil , have been detected in some products sold as " herbal " aphrodisiacs ?
text: Did you know that less than two months after the Puget Sound Shore Railroad opened, service was suspended for over a year?
text: Did you know that with a shell height of up to 91 centimetres (36 in), Syrinx aruanus is the largest snail in the world?
text: Did you know that the BBC commissioned Carol Ann Duffy , the British Poet Laureate , to write Last Post to mark the deaths in July 2009 of First World War veterans Henry Allingham and Harry Patch ?
text: Did you know that the forces of the ancient state of Epirus invaded Latium , threatening Rome itself, during the Pyrrhic War in 280 B.C.?
text: Did you know that Takeo Kimura made his feature film directorial debut at age 90?
text: Did you know that the singer of " Fuckin' 'Ell It's Fred Titmus " had never even met the cricketer , "let alone greeted him in such an overfamiliar way"?
text: Did you know that the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration funded Lincoln Laboratories to develop Terminal Doppler Weather Radar in the 1990s to assist air traffic controllers by improving wind shear detection?
text: Did you know that Irish multi-instrumentalist musician R.S.A.G. performs with a virtual band projected onto a screen in a style which has been likened to Gorillaz ?
text: Did you know that Crypt Chambers , a department store in Chester , Cheshire , England , was built in 1858 above one of the best medieval crypts in the city?
text: Did you know that Alfredo Figaro of the Detroit Tigers is the cousin of fellow Tigers pitcher Fernando Rodney ?
text: Did you know that Project Kaisei is investigating whether the debris floating in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch can be collected and recycled?
text: Did you know that Portuguese warrior and folk hero Gerald the Fearless led several Christian victories during the Reconquista , but later switched sides and served as governor of al-Sūs under the Almohad caliph Yusuf I ?
text: Did you know that Saint-Gilles-Croix-de-Vie in France is home to a Brotherhood of the Sardine , of which French Prime Minister François Fillon is a special "sympathizer"?
text: Did you know that one of the first actions of India 's Desai government was to formally end the state of emergency imposed by Indira Gandhi ?
text: Did you know that Frank Chance is the only Chicago Cubs manager to lead the team to a World Series victory?
text: Did you know that after the declaration of martial law in 1981, Kornel Morawiecki became one of the most wanted people in Poland?
text: Did you know that the world's largest brown diamond was found in discarded rubble from a mine by a young girl?
text: Did you know that Albert Levitt was involved in the drafting of the ERA , challenged the appointment of Justice Hugo Black , and ran against Nixon for Senate ?
text: Did you know that the Irish triad Cambrai Homily , which outlines three categories of martyrdom , each designated by a different colour, is the oldest single example of an extended prose passage in Old Irish ?
text: Did you know that, after noticing that white teenagers in his Cleveland, Ohio record store were increasingly listening to rhythm and blues records, Leo Mintz was one of the first to call the music " rock and roll "?
text: Did you know that Diego von Bergen , who was the ambassador to the Holy See for the Kingdom of Prussia until 1918, continued to serve in this position for the Weimar Republic as well as Nazi Germany ?
text: Did you know that in 2008 Cincinnati Reds pitcher Jared Burton pitched in a career high 54 games despite missing about a month and a half due to injury?
text: Did you know that Saskatchewanian politician Charles McDonald first attracted public attention in 1918 when he assisted the capture of two bandits?
text: Did you know that Shafiq al-Hout , former head of the Palestine Liberation Front , resigned from the PLO Executive Committee following Yasser Arafat 's signing of the Oslo Accords in 1993?
text: Did you know that writer , suffragist, and feminist Emily Newell Blair has been described by Senator Carter Glass as "go[ing] down so smooth and easily but has an awful kick afterwords"?
text: Did you know that Crosbie Castle and the Fullarton estate was the home of William Wallace 's uncle, and it was here that he set off on the day that ended in the burning of the Barns of Ayr as an act of revenge?
text: Did you know that a group of seven singing postal workers from Richmond, Virginia , called The Spiritual Harmonizers , made it past the first round of the fourth season of America's Got Talent ?
text: Did you know that after the settlement of the Shen-kuang-szu Incident in 1851, Fuzhou became the first Chinese treaty port where missionaries were given official permission to reside within the walled city?
text: Did you know that the melody of the title track of Neil Innes ' album How Sweet To Be An Idiot was plagiarised by Oasis for their 1994 single " Whatever " and Innes now receives royalties and a co-writing credit?
text: Did you know that The Infomatics have been called "the loudest voice in Irish hip hop "?
text: Did you know that one of Kam Chancellor ' s coaches called him possibly "the greatest safety in Virginia Tech history"?
text: Did you know that The Chapters entertained two hundred people on a train as part of the twenty-fifth anniversary celebrations of the DART ?
text: Did you know that Confidence Hall in Placerville, California , was named after a fire truck?
text: Did you know that Polish pilot Władysław Turowicz moved to Pakistan , became a citizen, and has since become known as the "Rocket-Missile Man of Pakistan"?
text: Did you know that President Woodrow Wilson 's Fourteen Points speech was transmitted to Europe from New Jersey 's New Brunswick Marconi Station in 1918?
text: Did you know that the Dutch intervention in Bali in 1906 caused a "fight to the death" by the Balinese , resulting in mass ritual suicide ?
text: Did you know that the owner of KFMR , forced off the air for financial reasons, is selling the Utah radio station and New Mexico sister station KPSA-FM to his own father?
text: Did you know that species in the fungal genus Ameliella have been found in the Skibotn area in central Northern Norway , a hotspot of lichen species diversity ?
text: Did you know that Ras Ibn Hani , a small cape located 8 km north of Latakia , Syria , was occupied almost continuously from the late Bronze Age until Byzantine times?
text: Did you know that King Sigismund I the Old built a castle for his Italian wife Bona Sforza in the Lithuanian town Maišiagala during the Jagiellon dynasty ?
text: Did you know that Britney Spears ' guest appearance in the Will & Grace episode " Buy, Buy Baby " was her first acting performance on prime-time television?
text: Did you know that the Phineas and Ferb season two premiere was the most watched cable telecast on Friday, March 13, 2009?
text: Did you know that the tallest building in Bucharest is the 110-metre (361 ft) Bucharest Tower Center located in Sector 1 ?
text: Did you know that current NFL player Terrance Knighton received only two scholarship offers coming out of high school ?
text: Did you know that collective punishment meted out to mostly innocent Ukrainian peasants by Polish authorities during the Galicia Pacification campaign resulted in increased bitterness and encouraged extremists on both sides?
text: Did you know that despite significantly reforming the law relating to indictments , the Indictments Act 1915 does not actually define what an indictment is?
text: Did you know that following her service in the Mexican–American War , laundress and madam Sarah Bowman was breveted an honorary colonel and buried with military honors ?
text: Did you know that of three churches in Shoreham held by the Lord of Bramber in the 11th century, one partly collapsed in a storm, another is now part of a barn , and the other has carvings of King Stephen , his wife , and a cat?
text: Did you know that Pakistan Hindu Party's flag, which bears two ancient Hindu symbols, Om and Trishool , was designed by the party's founder, Rana Chandra Singh ?
text: Did you know that General Jakob von Washington , a distant relative and contemporary of US President George Washington , became a Baron of the Kingdom of Bavaria ?
text: Did you know that Lloyd's Weekly Newspaper was the first publication to regularly sell one million copies an issue?
text: Did you know that between 1992 and 2002, more than 60 million people became obese in China ?
text: Did you know that Panapasa Balekana co-wrote God Save Our Solomon Islands , the national anthem , as a prayer for the country after receiving inspiration in a dream?
text: Did you know that the medical ethicist and tutor Maurice Henry Pappworth (1910–1994) was instrumental in the establishment of stricter codes of practice for human experimentation?
text: Did you know that TV personality Brian Belo descends from Nigerian royalty?
text: Did you know that the anti-government August 31, 1982 demonstrations in Poland ended with four demonstators killed and unknown number wounded?
text: Did you know that W. Harry Vaughan founded the Georgia Tech Research Institute in 1934 with a budget of $5,000?
text: Did you know that the sapropelic mud from Lake Amara contains around 40% organic and 41% mineral substances?
text: Did you know that Lyman Hall established the first textile engineering school in the Southern United States in 1899 while president of the Georgia Institute of Technology ?
text: Did you know that a visit by Che Guevara sparked 50 years of ties between Cuba and Sri Lanka ?
text: Did you know that in 1965, Czech jazz singer Vlasta Průchová invited Louis Armstrong for dinner?
text: Did you know that 14 American fugitives showed up at the phony Puño Airlines counter to claim their prize, after authorities sent phony congratulations on winning a free trip to the Bahamas?
text: Did you know that the 1987 Hipercor bombing was Basque paramilitary group ETA 's deadliest attack?
text: Did you know that Acintya is the Supreme God according to Balinese Hinduism ?
text: Did you know that construction of the Natron Cutoff was delayed for 11 years while the U.S. Department of Justice decided whether to allow the Southern Pacific Company to remain in control of its owner, the Central Pacific Railway ?
text: Did you know that Japanese pink film / sexploitation producer-director Kan Mukai gave Academy-Award winner Yōjirō Takita his first work in the film industry?
text: Did you know that the battleship Bayern was the first German warship to mount 15 inch guns?
text: Did you know that after crashing in the same event in 1992 , John Kah was the reserve in the short track relay and watched on as teammates Steven Bradbury , Richard Nizielski , Kieran Hansen and Andrew Murtha won Australia's first ever medal at the Winter Olympics ?
text: Did you know that the website Like.com allows users to highlight a part of a product image and search for similar-looking products based on the pattern , shape , and color of the highlighted part?
text: Did you know that Infinity Broadcasting , sold for nearly $4 billion in 1996, was started in 1972 when co-founder Michael A. Wiener bought FM station KOME with $5,000 from the sale of his father's stamp collection?
text: Did you know that a square metre patch of Phylactolaemata , a freshwater class of Bryozoa , can produce 800,000 statoblasts, "survival pods" withstanding freezing and drying that get carried long distances?
text: Did you know that Robert Cushman expanded the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences ' photo archives through donations from United Artists ' studios and Katharine Hepburn ?
text: Did you know that the Limitation Act 1963 was described by Lord Reid as having "a strong claim to the distinction of being the worst drafted Act on the statute book "?
text: Did you know that Gladys Bustamante became a leading Jamaican trade unionist after she took a job as a secretary for her future husband, Sir Alexander Bustamante ?
text: Did you know that The Art of the Motorcycle exhibition broke all Guggenheim Museum attendance records and kicked off a wave of blockbuster museum shows?
text: Did you know that English writer and historian Mercia MacDermott , who has authored five books on the ethnography and history of Bulgaria , learned Mandarin Chinese while living in Weihai as a child?
text: Did you know that award-winning romance novelist Jeffrey McClanahan has written under three distinct pen names : "Dixie Cash", "Anna Jeffrey", and "Sadie Callahan"?
text: Did you know that the 1937 peasant strike in Poland was the largest anti-government demonstration in the Second Polish Republic ?
text: Did you know that Lynn Pressman , while president of the Pressman Toy Corporation , promised not to create "any of the dreadful weapons that can destroy life as playthings for children"?
text: Did you know that the Ninth Circuit ruled in Alperin v. Vatican Bank that property claims by Holocaust survivors did not constitute a political question , while human rights and international law claims did?
text: Did you know that toxic puffball Agaricus praeclaresquamosus can be distinguished from its close relative Agaricus perobscurus by a stipe base which turns yellow immediately when injured?
text: Did you know that Albrecht von Wallenstein 's series of victories was ended by the Scots Alexander Seaton and Alexander Leslie in the Battle of Stralsund (1628) ?
text: Did you know that The Raw Sessions is Ireland 's first ever rockumentary series?
text: Did you know that producer Ozzie Cadena's first session at Savoy Records was for trombonists J. J. Johnson and Kai Winding , the first in a long collaboration by the duo?
text: Did you know that the French captured HMS Castor in 1794, only to have her retaken 20 days later by HMS Carysfort ?
text: Did you know that the show There Goes the Neighborhood built a 20 feet (6.1 m) tall wall around a Kennesaw, Georgia , neighborhood for its filming?
text: Did you know that William "King" Cole played for a national championship team at Michigan and coached Nebraska to two championships?
text: Did you know that in 1939, Soviet Ambassador Konstantin Umansky was the youngest Ambassador in Washington, D.C. ?
text: Did you know that the Charter of Freedoms and Exemptions allowed the patroonship of Rensselaerswyck in New York , which lasted for over two centuries?
text: Did you know that when the New Redmond Hotel opened, it was billed as Oregon 's finest hotel east of the Cascade Mountains with rooms from $1 per day?
text: Did you know that the Japanese animated television series Last Exile uses terms from chess in its episode titles?
text: Did you know that a key differentiator between rotors and propellers is disk loading ?
text: Did you know that in 1747, Aulay Macaulay , the last chief of Clan MacAulay , invented a system of shorthand in an unsuccessful attempt revive his clan 's fortune?
text: Did you know that the Urban Transportation Development Corporation was formed to build a version of the Transrapid maglev train , but instead designed a completely new system known today as the Bombardier ART ?
text: Did you know that Ted Nierenberg formed Dansk International Designs to sell Scandinavian-style items in the U.S. after seeing Jens Quistgaard's handcrafted fork and knife on display in a Copenhagen museum?
text: Did you know that the largest water slide in the U.S. state of Oregon is Thrill-Ville USA in the city of Turner ?
text: Did you know that Yishan Yining , a Zen master who pioneered Gozan Bungaku literature in 14th-century Japan , was originally a Buddhist monk on a diplomatic mission from China ?
text: Did you know that Renée Asherson made her first stage appearance in John Gielgud 's 1935 production of Romeo and Juliet ?
text: Did you know that Ned Hanlon managed the Baltimore Orioles to three consecutive National League pennants?
text: Did you know that the Mexican government offers rewards of 30 million pesos for information leading to the arrest of the leaders of various drug trafficking cartels , such as the Beltrán-Leyva brothers ?
text: Did you know that although the Soviet Union recognised Swaziland in 1968, it wasn't until 1999 that Swazi relations with Russia were officially established?
text: Did you know that the U.S. Senate rejected Ernest W. Lefever for a State Department human rights post, a nomination opposed by his two brothers who claimed he supported views that "blacks were genetically inferior"?
text: Did you know that the two German Scharnhorst -class armored cruisers were both sunk at the Battle of the Falkland Islands in 1914?
text: Did you know that two county attorneys were sued for not reporting the plot by a jealous ophthalmologist to murder another ophthalmologist , who later lost his eyesight in prison?
text: Did you know that as of 1981, New York City 's Toy Center was the site of 95% of the toy business transacted in the United States ?
text: Did you know that in 1918 the UK hospital ships HMHS Rewa and HMHS Glenart Castle were sunk by German U-boats within two months of each other?
text: Did you know that professional wrestler Olímpico ' s ring name was inspired by the 1992 Summer Olympics ?
text: Did you know that Film & Kino , which organizes municipal -owned cinemas in Norway , also co-organizes the Norwegian International Film Festival in Haugesund ?
text: Did you know that fish diseases and parasites can result in mass fish die offs , particularly if the ambush predator Pfiesteria piscicida is involved?
text: Did you know that the Mexican Green Party has run an advertising campaign to promote the restoration of capital punishment in Mexico ?
text: Did you know that when George Booth built Booth Mansion in Chester , Cheshire , England, he angled the building to make it more visible from Chester Cross, but was fined £10 for encroaching into the street?
text: Did you know that renalase is an enzyme that breaks down stress hormones and decreases blood pressure ?
text: Did you know that studio executive Steven Rothenberg designed and oversaw the film distribution strategy for the indie horror film The Blair Witch Project ?
text: Did you know that the Australian cicada Psaltoda plaga is commonly known as the "black prince"?
text: Did you know that with 125 Scottish clans in attendance, The Gathering was the world's largest clan meeting and Highland games ?
text: Did you know that federal judge Paul Jones sentenced a pregnant mother of ten to jail for selling a quart of liquor, lectured her on birth control, and asked, "Doesn't this woman know how to stop it?"
text: Did you know that the title of Robbie Williams ' upcoming album Reality Killed the Video Star is a reference to 1979's The Buggles hit Video Killed the Radio Star ?
text: Did you know that during the Tang dynasty (618–907 AD), aquaculture in China of the common carp was banned because the Chinese word for common carp sounded like the family name, Li (李) , of the emperor?
text: Did you know that the coldest temperature in south-west England on record was −16.1 °C (3.0 °F) at Yeovilton , Somerset , in January 1982?
text: Did you know that recruiting analysts thought Da'Rel Scott was too small for a college running back , but in 2008 he ran for more than 1,000 yards and led his conference in rushing for most of the season?
text: Did you know that secretions from the placenta prevent the maternal immune system from recognizing the fetus as a foreign object, partly explaining immune tolerance in pregnancy ?
text: Did you know that Miles Davis owed Bob Weinstock of Prestige Records four albums, so Davis recorded in two days of sessions the music for the 1956 albums Cookin' , Relaxin' , Workin' and Steamin' ?
text: Did you know that the Mexican land grant Rancho Las Juntas was given to Irishman William Welch, who was listed as "Guillermo Welch" on official land documents?
text: Did you know that the government of Griqualand East destroyed £10,000 in currency shortly after printing it?
text: Did you know that the Dallas Hilton , built in 1925 for Conrad Hilton in Downtown Dallas , Texas , was the first highrise hotel to be branded a " Hilton "?
text: Did you know that John Waltz managed the Baltimore Orioles for eight games despite lacking any qualifications for the job?
text: Did you know that Three-Mile Hog Ranch was a center for prostitution for soldiers at Fort Laramie ?
text: Did you know that professional wrestler Virus once worked in the Minis division until he won the right to wrestle regular sized wrestlers?
text: Did you know that the director of the documentary Who the Hell is Juliette? intentionally misspelled the name of the film's title character in the credits ?
text: Did you know that Michigan fullback Everett Sweeley set a college football record in 1902 when he kicked the ball 86 yards?
text: Did you know the New York Court of Common Pleas was established in 1686 by Thomas Dongan as a successor to the New Netherlands ' Worshipful Court of the Schout, Burgomasters and Schepens ?
text: Did you know that in December 1998 the host of The Gay Byrne Show , a favourite of Kenmare housewives, was greeted by a surprise audience which included the President and Taoiseach ?
text: Did you know that the San Francisco Art Association used the expansive Palace of Fine Arts to show a small collection of public art, and lost money each year from 1915 to 1922?
text: Did you know that the US Army 's Signal Corps built the MOBIDIC semi-trailer mounted computer to route battlefield information, but put it to good use as a logistics system instead?
text: Did you know that upon coming in contact with an alkali solution, the hairs of the fungus Microstoma floccosum will swell and then dissolve?
text: Did you know that Filipino basketball player Gec Chia ' s walk-off buzzer beater in the 2002 UAAP semifinals brought his coach Joel Banal to his knees, and he later described the shot as "a miracle"?
text: Did you know that the original plans for the Laurence Harbor New Jersey Transit station included a large commercial and residential development?
text: Did you know that quarterback Jarrett Brown replaced injured starter Pat White and led West Virginia to defeat Rutgers in 2008, having done the same thing in the 2006 game after three overtime periods?
text: Did you know that on Africa ’s coast, Guachanche barracuda are normally found from Senegal to Angola (including Cape Verde ), but can also be found much further north off the Canary islands ?
text: Did you know that the French botanist Nicolas-Joseph Thiéry de Menonville smuggled valuable cochineal insects out of Oaxaca to Port-au-Prince and wrote a dramatic account of his adventure?
text: Did you know that the 2002 documentary Afghan Massacre: The Convoy of Death , alleging U.S. involvement in the Dasht-i-Leili massacre , was viewed by the European Parliament , but received no coverage in U.S. media?
text: Did you know that in 1804 The Siege of Gibraltar , an aqua drama at the Sadler's Wells Theatre , used 117 floating model ships capable of firing their own guns?
text: Did you know that professional wrestler Mike Segura earned the nickname "Suicida" because of his risky dives out of the ring?
text: Did you know that I Anzac Corps suffered 6,300 casualties during the Battle of Mouquet Farm in 1916 and as a result had to be withdrawn from offensive operations on the Western Front for the next two months?
text: Did you know that Clayton Hill , who played the "sweater zombie" in the 1978 horror film Dawn of the Dead , was described by a member of the film's crew as "one of the most convincing zombies of the bunch"?
text: Did you know that Lujan-Fryns syndrome is often associated with failure of a major brain structure to develop?
text: Did you know that Only Clouds Move the Stars has received more international film awards than any other Norwegian film ?
text: Did you know that Bruce Shorts , head football coach at Nevada and Oregon , was described in 1904 as "the best coach west of the Mississippi River "?
text: Did you know that according to a 1977 book, the 1905 sentimental ballad " Nellie Dean " "must surely be the song most often sung in pubs during the present century"?
text: Did you know that an unnamed member of the extinct order Hupehsuchia exhibited an unusual form of polydactyly that is similar to that of some early tetrapods of the Devonian period?
text: Did you know that Wilma Scott Heide grew NOW to 50,000 members and an annual budget of $750,000 during her four-year term as president, having taken office in 1971 with 3,000 members and spending of $28,000?
text: Did you know that a total of 441 military and civilian personnel of the Turkish Naval Base Gölcük , among them a rear admiral , were killed by the 1999 İzmit earthquake ?
text: Did you know that in 1973, U.S. District Judge Orrin G. Judd issued an injunction prohibiting the United States ' continued bombing of Cambodia , but a higher court stayed the ruling before it could take effect?
text: Did you know that when Ireland bowler Peter Connell took a hat-trick on his debut in first-class cricket , he was the first player to do so in an international match?
text: Did you know that the community of Old Glory in Texas used to be known as "New Brandenburg" until residents petitioned the U.S. Postal Service for a name change in 1918 due to anti-German sentiment ?
text: Did you know that Canadian Sandy Hott 's result in 2005 was the highest placement ever at the World Orienteering Championships by a competitor from the North American continent?
text: Did you know that Pure Mule upset "a lot of people" and caused a politician to comment on the "ticking time bomb" of teenage sex , cocaine and sexual promiscuity in rural Ireland ?
text: Did you know that tight end Dennis Pitta put his college football career on hold for two years to serve in a Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints mission in the Dominican Republic ?
text: Did you know that Native Americans in the West Indies used an extract from Fishfuddle to sedate fish, making them easier to catch?
text: Did you know that it was not realized for 70 years that the Brazilian False Rice Rat was described twice under two different names?
text: Did you know that following the war in August , Russia and South Ossetia signed a treaty in September 2008, guaranteeing Russian intervention in the event of an attack on South Ossetia ?
text: Did you know that Frederick Van Voorhies Holman is credited with giving the nickname "Rose City" to Portland, Oregon ?
text: Did you know that the Chapel of St Non in Pembrokeshire is unusual in that it is aligned north / south rather than the usual east / west?
text: Did you know that Harry Hawkins won the U.S. national collegiate hammer throw championship in 1926 and was rated by Fielding Yost as the best football lineman of 1925?
text: Did you know that the "anti-energy" drink Slow Cow is a parody of Red Bull ?
text: Did you know that in 1907 French photographer Léon Gimpel became the first photographer to have his work published in color?
text: Did you know that all Allied pilots shot down over Poland in World War II are laid to rest at the Rakowicki Cemetery in Kraków ?
text: Did you know that Khan al-Harir , built by Darwish Pasha, the Ottoman governor of Damascus , was the first great caravanserai to be built inside the old city walls of Damascus?
text: Did you know that Indian sarod player Brij Narayan composed music for the 1988 movie The Bengali Night ?
text: Did you know that the locations in which one can execute a will according to the Wills Act 1963 include ships and aircraft?
text: Did you know that Patricia Van Cleve Lake , rumored daughter of Marion Davies and William Randolph Hearst , performed in the radio sitcom Blondie for five years alongside her real-life husband Arthur Lake ?
text: Did you know that Isis and her devotees are often depicted carrying a bucket ?
text: Did you know that Zali Steggall was the first Australian to win an individual medal at the Winter Olympics ?
text: Did you know that Penitents Compete is a Turkish reality television series in which a Jewish rabbi , a Buddhist monk , a Greek Orthodox priest , and a Muslim imam try to convert atheists ?
text: Did you know that Albert Clinton Horton was the first Lieutenant Governor of Texas ?
text: Did you know that Bloc Party 's remix album Silent Alarm Remixed contains a version of the single " Banquet " by the original album 's producer, Paul Epworth ?
text: Did you know that medievalist art historian Walter Horn was the special intelligence officer who recovered the crown jewels of the Holy Roman Empire when they were hidden by Nazis during World War II ?
text: Did you know that the Sangtuda 1 Hydroelectric Power Plant is expected to provide up to 12% of the total energy output of Tajikistan ?
text: Did you know that cornerback Syd'Quan Thompson of California , a preseason All-America prospect, played his first game with a broken wrist and was outrun for two touchdowns by the wide receiver he was assigned?
text: Did you know that the grisette is enjoyed by cows?
text: Did you know that in Serbian legend old people who had outlived their usefulness were ritually slain by their children in a custom known as lapot ?
text: Did you know that Sir Aulay MacAulay of Ardincaple , chief of Clan MacAulay , was an ally of the MacGregors , and that he feuded with the Buchanans , Campbells , and the Galbraiths ?
text: Did you know that the Bare-faced Bulbul , the only songbird in Asia to lack feathers on the face, is the first Asian bulbul to be described in over 100 years?
text: Did you know that W. H. Weeks designed the plans for hundreds of buildings in California including the Yolo County Courthouse and Yolo Branch Library ?
text: Did you know that according to Blind Harry , the Scottish patriot William Wallace was warmly greeted at Faslane Castle , after he had sacked Dumbarton and laid waste to the castle of Rosneath ?
text: Did you know that evidence from Gerald Gardner , a man who served as president of the Pittsburgh chapter of the National Organization for Women , led to a ban on sex-segregated help wanted ads, a ruling upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court in a 1973 ruling ?
text: Did you know that the Bear and Billet , now a public house in Chester , Cheshire , England, was originally the town house of the Earls of Shrewsbury ?
text: Did you know that when Henry John Whitehouse was elected Episcopal bishop of Illinois he refused to take up his seat for nine years, until his salary demands were met?
text: Did you know that Jonny Diaz , brother of Major League Baseball player Matt Diaz , abandoned his college baseball career to become a Christian musician ?
text: Did you know that the Capitulation of Franzburg forbade the rape of decent women and frivolous use of arms?
text: Did you know that Abraham Barak Salem was the first Black Jewish lawyer in India ?
text: Did you know that the cast of Home Movies completely improvised the show's pilot episode ?
text: Did you know that Fernando Ansúrez II , Count of Monzón , sent four embassies to the court of al-Hakam II , Caliph of Córdoba , during his reign?
text: Did you know that Bruce Springsteen wrote " She's the One " before recording Born to Run , but was originally unsure whether to include it on the album?
text: Did you know that President Benjamin Harrison 's 1890 speech at the Coal Palace in Ottumwa , Iowa , was drowned out abruptly by noise from an indoor waterfall ?
text: Did you know that NYU professor Lionel Casson built a view of ancient maritime history by studying classical texts and archeological studies of ancient shipwrecks and the contents of the amphorae they carried?
text: Did you know that the English Gothic Revival architect Sir George Gilbert Scott was concerned by the morality of silver-gilt ?
text: Did you know that Marcia McNutt , nominee for director of the United States Geological Survey , studied underwater demolition and explosives handling with the U.S. Navy UDT and Seal Team ?
text: Did you know that a British Army major was awarded one of the FBI Honorary Medals , the FBI Star?
text: Did you know that Nirupama Rao , the present Foreign Secretary of India , was the first woman spokesperson of the External Affairs Ministry in 2001–2002?
text: Did you know that Georgia Tech lured away Clemson's head football coach, John Heisman , by offering a US$450 pay increase?
text: Did you know that professional wrestler Bam Bam used the name of his favorite cartoon character, Bamm-Bamm Rubble , as his ring name ?
text: Did you know that during the English Civil War , Charles I was staying in Gamul House , Chester , Cheshire , when his army was defeated at the Battle of Rowton Moor ?
text: Did you know that during his 31 years as a federal judge in New York , Henry W. Goddard heard cases including William James Sidis 's invasion of privacy suit against The New Yorker and the second perjury trial of Alger Hiss ?
text: Did you know that after the French defeat at the Battle of Muong Khoua during the French Indochina War , the four surviving soldiers trekked 80 kilometres (50 mi) through the jungle of Laos to safety?
text: Did you know that English poet Mary Jones , called "the Chantress" by Samuel Johnson , did not consider publishing her efforts until pushed to do so by her friends?
text: Did you know that muscles of patients with neuromuscular diseases such as Lou Gehrig's Disease have electrical abnormalities that can be detected by electrical impedance myography ?
text: Did you know that Polish partisan leader Władysław Łukasiuk , despite his paralyzed leg, always marched at the head of his unit, using his carbine as a crutch?
text: Did you know that Kelly Clarkson fought to prevent her record company, RCA , from releasing her song " Already Gone " as a single?
text: Did you know that tree ring analysis of Swaggerty Blockhouse 's logs indicate a cutting date circa 1860, well after the posted construction date for this nationally-recognized historic structure?
text: Did you know that the blotched catshark exhibits fluorescence , with spots that glow yellow under blue light?
text: Did you know that one type of GM V-8 engine requires five cores per mold to create one casting ?
text: Did you know that Geoff Henke , founding chairman of the Olympic Winter Institute of Australia , was succeeded as the head of Australia's Winter Olympics team by Ian Chesterman , under whom the country won three gold medals?
text: Did you know that Hamida Banu Begum , wife of Mughal Emperor Humayun , gave birth to the future Emperor Akbar the Great in 1542, while taking refuge at a fortress?
text: Did you know that Congregation Shaarey Zedek constructed five new synagogue buildings in fewer than 100 years as it followed its congregants toward the Detroit suburbs?
text: Did you know that the Brumbrella was a motorised rain cover for the Edgbaston Cricket Ground in Birmingham ?
text: Did you know that when The Mountaineers opened at the Savoy Theatre in London in 1909, The Times declared that "it forms one of those instances of respectable mediocrity"?
text: Did you know that Jadwiga of Pomerania might have been a daughter of a Polish king , but scholars are uncertain as to her lineage?
text: Did you know that Mike Lantry , a Vietnam veteran and walk-on place-kicker , broke the University of Michigan record for the longest field goal twice in the same quarter?
text: Did you know that Cyclone Rona of 1999 uprooted trees that survived a 1934 cyclone that hit the same area in Queensland , Australia ?
text: Did you know that Way to Heaven is a play about a 1944 visit to Theresienstadt during which the Nazis duped the Red Cross into reporting that rumors of mass murder were untrue?
text: Did you know that multi-platinum selling artist Harry Connick, Jr. , is scheduled to release his new album Your Songs on vinyl , a whole month before its CD release?
text: Did you know that the palatability of foods and drinks depends upon an " opioid -eating site" in the brain's nucleus accumbens and ventral pallidum ?
text: Did you know that of the 60+ First Nations in British Columbia (BC) only a few have signed treaties with the BC and Canadian governments?
text: Did you know that electro-hydrostatic actuators can replace the hydraulic plumbing of an aircraft with electrical wiring, leading to a "power-by-wire" design?
text: Did you know that in the final phase of its existence, the Soviet Union deprioritized relations with Laos for the sake of achieving a settlement in the Cambodian Civil War ?
text: Did you know that the Kraków City Council has forty-three elected members, including the mayor ?
text: Did you know that The Californian , California's first newspaper, appeared first in August 1846 on large sheets of cigarette paper , with English on one side and Spanish on the other?
text: Did you know that the hurricane database HURDAT contains information about every tropical cyclone in the Atlantic Ocean since 1851?
text: Did you know that Dănuţ Borbil 's left arm is more successful than his right?
text: Did you know that the Dean of Barnard College and Teddy Roosevelt's grandson founded an organization that lobbied the Truman administration to prevent the creation of the State of Israel ?
text: Did you know that the Qayqayt First Nation , of New Westminster , British Columbia , was thought to be extinct until 1994 when Rhonda Larrabee became the only member?
text: Did you know that baritone Earl Wrightson won an Emmy Award for hosting the 1950s CBS Sunday afternoon television show The American Musical Theater ?
text: Did you know that the Eritrean Independent Moslem League was persuaded to support a union between Ethiopia and Eritrea, after receiving Ethiopian assurances on Arabic schooling and respect for Islamic traditions?
text: Did you know that water from the Little Applegate River was used in the mine in Sterlingville , the largest hydraulic mine in Oregon and possibly the entire western United States ?
text: Did you know that Pinchas Lapide 's Three Popes and the Jews controversially claims that Pius XII saved 860,000 Jews from The Holocaust ?
text: Did you know that lyric soprano Lois Hunt was introduced to then Vice President Lyndon Johnson while he was wearing a pair of green silk pajamas embroidered with his initials?
text: Did you know that Rudolf Caracciola once drove a car on public roads at 432.7 kilometres per hour (268.9 mph)?
text: Did you know that a mummy was found in a cave in Wyoming ?
text: Did you know that " King Richard " lost his ear in a car accident, but still scored 24 times for his country ?
text: Did you know that Mexican land grant Rancho Los Medanos was called "New York of the Pacific" by the New York army colonel who bought it?
text: Did you know that in 1967 Kōji Seki directed Perverted Criminal , Japan's first 3-D film and the world's first 3-D sex film?
text: Did you know that " A slumber did my spirit seal " is the only poem in William Wordsworth 's Lucy poem series that does not mention the dead Lucy by name?
text: Did you know that Richard Leroy Walters , a homeless man who managed his money from the billiards room of a senior center in Phoenix, Arizona , converted to Catholicism on his deathbed and left $4 million to charity?
text: Did you know that Abdel Hamid Sarraj , at age 35, was the minister of interior in the United Arab Republic and the most powerful Syrian official in the UAR?
text: Did you know that the Ersatz Yorck -class battlecruisers , although not completed, served as the basis for the Scharnhorst class battleships of the Kriegsmarine ?
text: Did you know that Guilian Gary , a former college wide receiver , says he has few "fond football memories" of the season in which he made a conference championship -winning reception ?
text: Did you know that Pope Pius XII's 1942 Christmas address was interpreted differently throughout Europe by contemporaries and remains a "lightning rod" of historical interpretations?
text: Did you know that Filipino revolutionary leader Daniel Tirona was almost shot at twice by Philippine National hero Andrés Bonifacio ?
text: Did you know that The Addams Family , an upcoming musical by Andrew Lippa , features an original story based solely on the cartoons of Charles Addams , rather than the subsequent television series and films?
text: Did you know that Alexander Valentine , Chairman of London Transport from 1959 to 1965, published a book Tramping round London ?
text: Did you know that " A Chorus Lie ", the Will & Grace episode in which Matt Damon appeared, had the highest viewing figures in the show's history?
text: Did you know that the river Vaitarani that flows near the Rudranath Hindu shrine is identified with the "river of salvation", where souls of the dead cross to the other world?
text: Did you know that professional wrestler Juan Aguilar Leos was not revealed to be the son of El Texano until he was unmasked, after which he adopted the ring name "El Texano, Jr."?
text: Did you know that Percival C. Pope 's Marine Corps Brevet Medal , at the Navy Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., is the only known original Marine Corps Brevet Medal on public display?
text: Did you know that the Softwarepark Hagenberg has also been called the "miracle of Hagenberg" for its success?
text: Did you know that George Burgess , the first Episcopal Bishop of Maine , died at sea in 1866 while traveling to Haiti on Church business?
text: Did you know that the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation 's flamboyant former director, Thomas Krens , was at the forefront of the 1990's trend of worldwide museum expansion?
text: Did you know that US Highway 10 crosses the Wisconsin – Michigan border via a privately-owned carferry ?
text: Did you know that the station for the town of Chasseneuil-du-Poitou is served by up to 40 TGV trains every day?
text: Did you know that in 1969, Côte d'Ivoire severed its relations with the Soviet Union , following accusations that the Soviet ambassador had supported Ivorian student protests?
text: Did you know that when the Vigeland Museum was created in 1947 to showcase Gustav Vigeland 's works, it was partially funded by a budget surplus from Oslo 's municipal cinema company ?
text: Did you know that in the Douglas Treaties the Chewhaytsum Indian Tribe of Vancouver Island signed away the land rights for the city of Sooke, British Columbia , for £45.10?
text: Did you know that in 1953, the Eritrean Moslem League of the Western Province proposed the creation of an independent Beja state out of parts of Eritrea and Sudan , but failed to secure British support for the idea?
text: Did you know that the remains of at least 55 individual mammoths have been excavated at the Mammoth Site of Hot Springs in South Dakota , discovered in 1974 by a construction worker at a prospective subdivision ?
text: Did you know that physician Robert Huebner and self-trained entomologist Charles Pomerantz found R. akari , the source of the disease rickettsialpox , in mites so numerous that the "wallpaper appeared to be moving"?
text: Did you know that in July 2009, GERB politician Tsetska Tsacheva became the first ever Chairwoman of the National Assembly of Bulgaria ?
text: Did you know that Anton Roman's literary magazine The Californian , published in 1880, was a continuation of his earlier Overland Monthly ?
text: Did you know that the National Union of Algerian Farmers , one of the six main mass organizations of the FLN period, enjoyed less political autonomy than the other mass organizations in Algeria at the time?
text: Did you know that astronaut-politician John Glenn 's 1964 run for the U.S. Senate in Ohio was criticized as an "undesirable precedent in astronauts' capitalizing on their fame to enter political roles"?
text: Did you know that the shape of recession varies greatly between different economic downturns ?
text: Did you know that in 1955, pressure from the Catholic Church and Conservatives forced the Colombian military government of Rojas Pinilla to close down the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo trade union centre?
text: Did you know that Bahadur Shah Zafar II who wished to be buried at a burial ground in Zafar Mahal precincts in Delhi was deported to Rangoon after the Sepoy Mutiny where he died without honour?
text: Did you know that by 1870, "New Departure" Democrats stopped opposing Reconstruction and civil rights for African Americans to improve their electoral fortunes?
text: Did you know that Dr. Thomas Dao was an early advocate for breast self-examination , mammography and conservative alternatives to radical mastectomy in which patients can take time to consider treatment options?
text: Did you know that the Danube Delta and Retezat National Park are part of the seven natural wonders of Romania ?
text: Did you know that, as a result of the Pennsylvania government 's seventh consecutive budget impasse , most state employees are working without pay?
text: Did you know that Michigan 's "chunky fullback ," "Bullet Bob" Westfall , known for his "spinner play," was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1987?
text: Did you know that the largest specimens of the sandy stiltball fungus have been found growing in floodplains with halophilic vegetation?
text: Did you know that William Smalley, the first settler in the area of Cowan Lake State Park in Ohio, was held captive by the Lenape twice, for a total of 6 years and 7 months?
text: Did you know that the nasal infix , which was used in the Proto-Indo-European language to express the present tense , can still be traced in word pairs like convince / conviction ?
text: Did you know that the decision of Pope Pius XII to appoint German apostolic administrators to occupied Poland during World War II was labelled "one of his most controversial decisions"?
text: Did you know that St John's Hospital in Bath was founded around 1180, by Bishop Reginald Fitz Jocelin beside the hot springs of the Cross Bath ?
text: Did you know that the Ioan Slavici National College in Satu Mare , Romania , has a 200-seat chapel on its campus?
text: Did you know that Alum Creek in Alum Creek State Park in Ohio was a major path on the Underground Railroad ?
text: Did you know that while working as a children's entertainer in the 1980s, actress Fay Ripley was set up as a jewellery thief in an insurance fraud attempt?
text: Did you know that Dean Holness , who starred in football television drama Dream Team and film Mike Bassett: England Manager , played professional football for Southend United ?
text: Did you know that Roman commander Gaius Considius Longus was killed by his own men during the Roman civil war as he attempted to escape Caesar 's victorious forces?
text: Did you know that John Marsh , the first Anglo owner of Rancho Los Meganos , was murdered in 1856 by employees who thought he was cheating them?
text: Did you know that a June 5, 1981, report by Dr. Joel Weisman in MMWR about five gay men with an unusual illness is recognized as the start of the AIDS pandemic and "the first report on AIDS in the medical literature"?
text: Did you know that in 1957, the Wycombe Repertory Theatre presented the English-speaking premiere of The Threatening Storm written by Basil Ashmore ?
text: Did you know that Hasan Nuhanović is a survivor of the Srebrenica genocide who is suing the Dutch state for its failure to protect his family from being killed by Bosnian Serb forces in July 1995?
text: Did you know that God's Providence House in Chester , Cheshire , probably gained its name because the owners survived the plague of 1647–48?
text: Did you know that Gamal Salem was chief judge of the court that sentenced seven Muslim Brotherhood leaders to death for participating in an assassination attempt on Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser ?
text: Did you know that the historic N. P. Smith Pioneer Hardware Store is the oldest wood-frame structure that still exists in downtown Bend , Oregon ?
text: Did you know that in the Skins episode " Pandora ", comedian David Baddiel guest-starred as the lover of his real-life girlfriend 's character?
text: Did you know that the Mihai Eminescu National College in Satu Mare , Romania , was established in 1634 when Jesuits received approval to open a college in the city?
text: Did you know that Jesse N. Funk was awarded the Medal of Honor in World War I for running through no man's land to rescue wounded men?
text: Did you know that Henry Swinburne was the first canon law writer to write his works in English?
text: Did you know that the ornamental houseplant Asparagus densiflorus is toxic to dogs and cats?
text: Did you know that Daniel Boyd is accused of leading a jihadist terrorist cell in North Carolina ?
text: Did you know that the old rank of mate was revived in 1913 as part of the Selborne-Fisher scheme for the accelerated promotion of promising enlisted personnel to become engineering officers?
text: Did you know that " The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County " was one of the stories Mark Twain published in the San Francisco weekly literary newspaper The Californian ?
text: Did you know that the single "Hot" by Romanian singer Inna was posted on YouTube and reached 2 million views in under one year?
text: Did you know that the undefeated 1940 Stanford Indians were coached by Clark Shaughnessy , whose record at the University of Chicago had caused that school to discontinue its football program ?
text: Did you know that in the Dutch children's book Pluk van de Petteflet , a group of grown-ups get intoxicated from eating mysterious berries , a scene praised by educators?
text: Did you know that the Hindu god Shiva is worshipped in form of a navel-shaped lingam at Madhyamaheshwar temple?
text: Did you know that All-Pro linebacker Milan "Sheriff" Lazetich , a rodeo rider before joining the NFL , reported that no end or back ever threw a block like a wild pony "when he feels the first touch of a saddle"?
text: Did you know that although the Chancery Amendment Act 1858 was repealed in the United Kingdom , it is still valid in the Republic of Ireland and parts of Canada ?
text: Did you know that Abdel Latif Boghdadi resigned his position as vice president of Egypt because Nasser adopted a more Soviet Union -style system for Egypt rather than closer United States relations?
text: Did you know that the four Mackensen -class battlecruisers were canceled according to the terms of the Treaty of Versailles in 1919?
text: Did you know that in the mid-1980s, Burger King offered customers $5,000 for finding a nerd ?
text: Did you know that a plot on the American soap opera One Life to Live featuring sexually confused police officer Oliver Fish invited controversy when an actress objecting to the storyline was replaced?
text: Did you know that in the fiscal years 2001 to 2003, the oil tanker MV Montauk made over 125 voyages in and about South Korea and Japan ?
text: Did you know that despite a poor economy, a record number of people anted up $1,000 in a "Stimulus Special" ?
text: Did you know that in 1961, the Soviet ambassador to Guinea Daniel Solod was accused of being involved in an anti-government plot, and was expelled from Guinea?
text: Did you know that on Reek Sunday , in a tradition of the past 1,500 years, thousands of people from across the world have embarked on an annual national pilgrimage up Croagh Patrick , some barefoot?
text: Did you know that Leo Paquin , one of the Seven Blocks of Granite on the 1936 Fordham University football team, was nicknamed "Twinkletoes"?
text: Did you know that Geastrum triplex is considered the largest of the earthstar fungi ?
text: Did you know that Münchausen by Internet is a pattern of behavior where people feign illnesses in online forums to gain attention and sympathy?
text: Did you know that Alan Garnett Davenport , a Member of the Order of Canada , was the wind engineer on the World Trade Center , the Sears Tower , and the Tsing Ma Bridge ?
text: Did you know that New Zealand and Australian soldiers massacred the adult males of a village in Palestine during the Surafend affair of 1918?
text: Did you know that Wyatt Durette, co-writer of Zac Brown Band 's " Toes ", called Brown at 6:00 in the morning to give him the idea for the song?
text: Did you know that chronically indebted Philipp Julius, Duke of Pomerania wanted to sell the island of Rügen to Denmark ?
text: Did you know that the Azores Bullfinch is the most threatened passerine bird in Europe?
text: Did you know that Sgt. James Crowley, who arrested Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates , has taught a course entitled " Racial Profiling "?
text: Did you know that Washington, D.C. Chief of Police Richard H. Sylvester is credited with having coined the term " third degree " to refer to harsh means of extracting confessions from suspects?
text: Did you know that Kalpeshwar is the only temple in the Panch Kedar circuit, a group of five sacred Shiva temples in the Garhwal Himalayas , accessible throughout the year?
text: Did you know that Susan Mary "Lily" Yeats , the sister of Irish poet W. B. Yeats , was a professional embroiderer who studied the craft under May Morris ?
text: Did you know that Hartley Road, the shortest numbered route in the city of Kawartha Lakes , is entirely a causeway crossing the man-made Mitchell Lake ?
text: Did you know that quarterback Vic Hall broke the Virginia state record for total yards as a high school junior and then broke his own record as a senior ?
text: Did you know that the Macmillan Report 's most briefly discussed issue, an alleged "gap" in British industrial financing , was one of the only recommendations acted upon?
text: Did you know that professional wrestler Juan Alvarado Nieves and his five brothers all use ring names with the term Brazo ( Spanish for "arm") in them?
text: Did you know that future U.S. President Gerald Ford waited tables at the fraternity house of Michigan halfback Herman Everhardus ?
text: Did you know that early audience members of Dublin 's LGBT film festival Gaze risked being arrested as homosexuality was still illegal in Ireland ?
text: Did you know that Khaled Mohieddin , a former member of the Free Officers Movement , founded the leftist Taggamu party in Egypt ?
text: Did you know that the endangered Socorro springsnail is found in only one spring in the U.S. state of New Mexico ?
text: Did you know that businessman John Young migrated to Australia as a Ten Pound Pom , but was worth A$184 million in 2006, although the company that made him rich is now insolvent ?
text: Did you know that over 5,000 people applied to the quiz show Jeopardy! to be a part of the show's Clue Crew , a team of correspondents that film videos used to accompany some of the show's clues?
text: Did you know that in an obituary of Adolf Hitler , Knut Hamsun infamously referred to Hitler as "a prophet of the gospel of justice for all nations"?
text: Did you know that Louis Edward Gelineau , the American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church who was succeeded by Robert Edward Mulvee in 1997, opposed a 1985 ordinance for the city of Providence to protect homosexuals from discrimination?
text: Did you know that the professional wrestling group Los Infernales were the first team to win both the Mexican National Trios Championship and the CMLL World Trios Championship ?
text: Did you know that the United States ' largest oak stand occupies 2 to 3 million hectares of the Great Plains and is composed of ancient Quercus havardii ?
text: Did you know that Bonneau du Martray is the only estate in Burgundy to make wine exclusively from grand cru vineyards ?
text: Did you know that baseball Hall of Famer Fred Clarke was the last Louisville Colonels manager ?
text: Did you know that, inspired by nationalist Jean-Marie Le Pen 's success in France , Norwegian anti-immigrant political party Stop Immigration 's only election win was a single seat on the Drammen City Council?
text: Did you know that Colonel Ernest Bankey won the Soap Box Derby twice before becoming an American ace in a day on December 27, 1944?
text: Did you know that journalist James F. Bowman wrote a grandiose poetry review for The Californian newspaper, then published an anonymous review in the Dramatic Chronicle savaging his earlier review?
text: Did you know that the names of the several "Blue" public houses and inns in Grantham have their origins in a time when the parliamentary constituency of Grantham was a pocket borough ?
text: Did you know that in 1899, Lave Cross and Joe Quinn managed the Cleveland Spiders to the worst record in professional baseball history?
text: Did you know that in 1984, the National Day of Hatred was instituted in Kampuchea , to condemn the Khmer Rouge and their allies?
text: Did you know that the first steeple of the Old Dutch Church in Kingston, New York , collapsed a year after it was built because slate roofing was substituted for the tin in Minard Lafever 's design?
text: Did you know that Hungarian handball player Anita Görbicz was voted World Player of the Year 2005 by the International Handball Federation ?
text: Did you know that " Love Minus Zero/No Limit " is a fraction ?
text: Did you know that Jane Weinberger , wife of Caspar Weinberger , began writing and publishing children's books in response to budget cuts by the Reagan administration ?
text: Did you know that the opportunity for the establishment of the Indy Grand Prix of Alabama as part of the 2010 IndyCar Series season resulted in part from the Detroit Indy Grand Prix being discontinued?
text: Did you know that Lorenzo Campeggio , the cardinal protector of England during the English Reformation , determined that Henry VIII 's marriage could not be annulled?
text: Did you know that Howard Engle was the lead plaintiff in a class action suit in which a jury awarded a U.S. record punitive damage verdict of $145 billion against the tobacco industry ?
text: Did you know that in the 1960s, Israel trained Ethiopian forces for counterinsurgency operations against the Eritrean Liberation Front ?
text: Did you know that Tony Romano was the Peterborough Petes 's leading scorer during the 2008–09 Ontario Hockey League season?
text: Did you know that Matt Kirshen 's Bigipedia article on the "Bee Whisperer" was inspired by an article found using the random article function on Wikipedia ?
text: Did you know that Thomas B. Kay was elected as the Oregon State Treasurer four times and served in the office longer than anyone else in Oregon history?
text: Did you know that in the late 1980s, the Mongolian pioneer movement , the Sukhe Bator Mongolian Pioneers Organization , had a membership of 360,000?
text: Did you know that while developing Star Wars: Episode I: Battle for Naboo , Factor 5 put together a playable demo for Star Wars Rogue Squadron II: Rogue Leader in 19 days to show at Nintendo 's 2001 Space World ?
text: Did you know that in 2006, the Michigan State Spartans mounted the greatest comeback in top division college football history, but their coach was fired two weeks later?
text: Did you know that ex parte O'Brien was a test case seeking the release of between 80 and 100 people arrested under the Restoration of Order in Ireland Act 1920 ?
text: Did you know that a farewell gathering for entomologist Henry Edwards in the woods of Marin County in 1878 was the beginning of the Bohemian Club 's tradition of a yearly encampment at the Bohemian Grove ?
text: Did you know that " She Belongs to Me " was one of the first anti-love songs?
text: Did you know that American Racing Hall of Fame jockey Isaac Burns Murphy , now interred at the Kentucky Horse Park , was initially buried at African Cemetery No. 2 ?
text: Did you know that the building known as Three Old Arches in Chester , Cheshire , has a shop front which is considered to be the oldest in England?
text: Did you know that Mahesh Rangarajan is a researcher, author and historian who analysed present-day conservation conflicts in India and found their roots in India's colonial past ?
text: Did you know that players from the 1990 England and West Germany association football teams replayed their Italia '90 World Cup semi-final match in aid of charity, for the Sir Bobby Robson Trophy ?
text: Did you know that the Commanding Officer of RAAF Station Richmond in 1938–40, Group Captain "Kanga" De La Rue , was once locked up by his own guards when he tried to enter the base without a pass?
text: Did you know that the Cathedral of Our Lady of Tortosa in Tartus , built by the Crusaders in the mid-12th century, is among the best-preserved religious structures of the crusades?
text: Did you know that the game rock-paper-scissors has been used to determine the winner of several events at the World Series of Poker ?
text: Did you know that Heinz Lord , Secretary General of the World Medical Association , survived Moringen concentration camp and the sinking of prison ship Cap Arcona ?
text: Did you know that Walter Scott met the explorer Mungo Park by the banks of the Yarrow Water , and that William Wordsworth journeyed there with "The Ettrick Shepherd" ?
text: Did you know that professional wrestlers Timothy Well and Steven Dunn , of the tag team Well Dunn , were criticized for their ring attire, which mixed bow ties and thongs ?
text: Did you know that the Kölcsey Ferenc National College in Satu Mare , Romania , was established in 1557 as a subsidiary of the University of Debrecen ?
text: Did you know that Tahitian nationalist Pouvanaa a Oopa was elected to the French Senate representing French Polynesia following his return from exile in France ?
text: Did you know that the 2/48th Australian Infantry Battalion was Australia's highest decorated unit of the Second World War ?
text: Did you know that Fritz Crisler called George Ceithaml , quarterback of the Michigan Wolverines 's single-wing offense from 1941 to 1942, "the smartest player he ever taught"?
text: Did you know that Sylvia Levin registered more than 47,000 new voters in the Los Angeles area, an individual record both in California and the United States ?
text: Did you know that mechanical plating , developed in the 1950s, is commonly used to overcome hydrogen embrittlement issues when electroplating hardened steel ?
text: Did you know that CEPPS is a cooperative agreement between the International Foundation for Electoral Systems , the International Republican Institute and the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs ?
text: Did you know that descendants of 17th-century members of the congregation of the Vrouwekerk , a medieval church in Leiden , the Netherlands , include four U.S. presidents ?
text: Did you know that a former Bear Stearns executive and magazine mogul are part of the November Nine trying to prevent logger Darvin Moon from winning millions of dollars?
text: Did you know that Joan Baez has been regarded as the subject of " It's All Over Now, Baby Blue " and also covered the song herself?
text: Did you know that unlike contempt of court , contempt of cop is not a crime in the United States?
text: Did you know that while Per Kristiansen chaired the training committee of the Norges Orienteringsforbund , Norway's orienteering team, from 1967 to 1973, team members won gold medals at three world championships ?
text: Did you know that a 1955 " Speaker's Corner " experiment in Bangkok inspired the launching of a Thai Hyde Park Movement Party ?
text: Did you know that during the 1960s , Texas lawyer John Ben Shepperd worked to obtain the land for the creation of Lyndon B. Johnson State Park and Historic Site along the Pedernales River ?
text: Did you know that Monmouth County Sheriff Kim Guadagno , running mate of Republican gubernatorial nominee Christopher J. Christie , would become the first Lieutenant Governor of New Jersey if elected in November?
text: Did you know that when Wales rugby union international Dan Rees switched to professional rugby league in 1905, his signing-on fee of £300 was a Welsh record?
text: Did you know that the Azm Palace in Hama , Syria , has been regarded as "one of the loveliest Ottoman residential buildings in Syria"?
text: Did you know that Michigan halfback Tom Kuzma was described as "a smacker from Smackersville"?
text: Did you know that the Norwegian airline Braathens ' destinations included seven offshore oil fields served by Braathens Helikopter ?
text: Did you know that Sister Pearl Corkhill was one of only seven Australian military nurses to win the Military Medal in the First World War ?
text: Did you know that the 2006 The Dawn album Tulad Ng Dati was not intended to serve as a soundtrack album for the film of the same title ?
text: Did you know that in eastern Turkey around 1900 BCE, a Near East mass migration set in motion a vast wave of refugees that changed the population of Greece forever?
text: Did you know that Canadian writer Carol Shields died before she ever got to see the completed version of the screen adaption of her novel, The Republic of Love , despite being involved in the pre-production of the film?
text: Did you know that rigged elections to the People's Assemblies of Western Ukraine and Western Belarus became an official legitimization of Soviet annexation of eastern Poland in 1939?
text: Did you know that when the play Trafford Tanzi was produced on Broadway , the cast included singer Deborah Harry as a professional wrestler and comedian Andy Kaufman as a referee ?
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text: Did you know that, in 2007, the spiritual needs of the residents of Linxia County were served by 445 imams , 12 Taoist priests , 31 Buddhist monks , 15 lamas ,  and 3 living Buddhas ?
text: Did you know that the Chrysotriklinos , the ceremonial hall of the Great Palace of Constantinople , was the model for Charlemagne 's Palatine Chapel in the Palace of Aachen ?
text: Did you know that at the 1895 United Kingdom General Election , Tankerville Chamberlayne 's election as a Member of Parliament was declared void because of electoral fraud ?
text: Did you know that the persecuted Cagots were only allowed to use the special holy water font when attending the church in Saint-Savin ?
text: Did you know that Typhoon Choi-wan was the first Category 5 equivalent super typhoon on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale during 2009?
text: Did you know that when M.P. and Lord Mayor , Sir James Sanderson, bart. died, his widow helped make a rich prophet of William Huntington S.S. ?
text: Did you know that the Black African Students Federation in France (F.E.A.N.F.) opposed the French 1965 Loi Cadre , which it considered as a move to Balkanize Africa ?
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text: Did you know that bankers, airline executives, Academy Award -winning directors, Bob Geldof and a representative from Coca-Cola were among delegates who attended the Global Irish Economic Forum in September 2009?
text: Did you know that lawyer, politician and anti-immigration activist Erik Gjems-Onstad also initiated the cyclosportive Styrkeprøven ?
text: Did you know that the United Bible Society and Norwegian Protestant Mission have provided a New Testament in the Khassonké language for the Malian commune Tomora ?
text: Did you know that in 1960, Archbishop Gerald Patrick Aloysius O'Hara became the first papal representative to visit the British Houses of Parliament in four centuries?
text: Did you know that Matt Brown , from Idalou , Texas , won the gold medal for discus with a prosthetic leg at the 2008 Parapan American Games in Rio de Janeiro ?
text: Did you know that unlike most Depression -era armories in New York, the Schenectady Armory was built in the center of its city rather than on its outskirts?
text: Did you know that " Pawnee Zoo ", an episode of the American television comedy Parks and Recreation , features a fictional same-sex marriage between two penguins?
text: Did you know that ferritic nitrocarburizing is a ferrous case hardening process that causes little shape distortion because of its low temperature (below 650 °C)?
text: Did you know that Mette Hanekamhaug , at 22, became the youngest parliamentarian elected in the 2009 Norwegian parliamentary election ?
text: Did you know that the first United States national track and field championships were organized by the New York Athletic Club in 1876?
text: Did you know that the "severe" and "assertive" former St Peter's Church in Shoreham-by-Sea was converted into a nursing home , retaining many of its original features?
text: Did you know that former Louisiana Public Service Commissioner Dale Sittig was credited with obtaining lighting for the Louisiana State University at Eunice 's baseball stadium?
text: Did you know that Marcel Oopa , French National Assembly member from Tahiti and the Polynesian autonomist R.D.P.T , died on Bastille Day 1961?
text: Did you know that Buster Keaton built a trestle bridge near Culp Creek, Oregon , just to burn it down for a movie ?
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text: Did you know that Admiral Sir Francis Wheler's mangled body was washed up two days after the loss of his flagship HMS Sussex in 1694?
text: Did you know that a pastor of the First Congregational Church in Long Beach, California , vowed to defy an order to block homeless people from sleeping on the church steps?
text: Did you know that the historical region of Colchis in which the Kolkheti National Park of western Georgia is now located appears in the Jason and the Argonauts myth?
text: Did you know that the 1955 Hindi film Vachan marked composer Ravi 's debut as a film music director?
text: Did you know that after the Division I men's basketball coach Norman Shepard went undefeated in his first year, he quit?
text: Did you know that Travis Touchdown , the anti-hero of the Wii video game No More Heroes , was so named to "sound cool to a Japanese audience"?
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text: Did you know that Ireland 's annual National Ploughing Championships is Europe's largest agricultural event?
text: Did you know that Yilun Yang is ranked as a 7 dan in the board game Go ?
text: Did you know that the 1920 film Sex , opening with its star performing a seductive "spider dance" clad in "a translucent cloak of webs", had its title censored in Pennsylvania ?
text: Did you know that the rice rat " Oryzomys hypenemus ", first identified from bones collected from caves in Antigua and Barbuda as early as 1958, still lacks a formal scientific name ?
text: Did you know that B.G. Dyess was elected to the Louisiana Senate at the age of 73?
text: Did you know that no one was allowed to take photographs of the Beardmore Relics for more than thirty years?
text: Did you knowthat when Friedrich Giesel discovered actinium independently from André-Louis Debierne , he wanted to call it "emanium"?
text: Did you know that the First Presbyterian Church of Redmond , Oregon , is the city's oldest church?
text: Did you know that Emanuel Levenson married the widow of the record producer of his only surviving recording?
text: Did you know that Lunugamvehera National Park is one of the protected areas where the near threatened species Tufted Gray Langur occurs?
text: Did you know that Romanian writer Eugène Ionesco deemed critic Şerban Cioculescu "stupid by obligation" during a cultural debate of the 1930s?
text: Did you know that Guo Moruo wrote a poem about the Liujiaxia Dam , while the displaced farmers received about RMB 364 per person?
text: Did you know that Jo Swerling initially declined to rewrite Frank Capra 's first draft screenplay for the 1930 film Ladies of Leisure because he thought it was a "putrid piece of gorgonzola "?
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text: Did you know that besides being a clown , mime , juggler , and sleight of hand magician , vaudevillian Avner the Eccentric is a certified Ericksonian hypnotist ?
text: Did you know that the blurred and smooth lanternsharks form a species group distinguished from the rest of their family by the shape and arrangement of their dermal denticles ?
text: Did you know that John C. Cremony was a Boston newspaperman and United States Army Major who wrote the first dictionary of the Apache language and an account of their culture in 1869?
text: Did you know that Bath , the only entire city in England to be a World Heritage Site , was awarded that status largely because of its buildings and architecture ?
text: Did you know that Robert Bloet , a medieval Bishop of Lincoln , appointed his own son Simon as Dean of Lincoln ?
text: Did you know that Trondheim Airport Station opened as the Nordic Countries's first airport rail link in 1994?
text: Did you know that Andy "The Bull" McSharry , who was jailed for banning hillwalkers from his land, compared his opponents to the Mafia and patrolled his farm on a quad ?
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text: Did you know that physical chemists Isabella Karle and her Nobel Prize -winning husband Jerome Karle retired in July 2009 after a combined 127 years of employment at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory ?
text: Did you know that reviewers called The Wolf Woman the "greatest vampire picture of all" and its star, Louise Glaum , "the greatest vampire woman of all time"?
text: Did you know that Sandouping , China , has not only the world's largest power plant , but also 1,000 hectares of citrus orchards?
text: Did you know that after limited success in film , actor Patrick McVey won starring roles in three television series : Big Town , Boots and Saddles , and Manhunt ?
text: Did you know that the United States revenue cutter Jefferson Davis was named in 1853 for Jefferson Davis , later president of the Confederate States of America ?
text: Did you know that Ilyas Kashmiri was an elite Pakistani commando before he was killed by a U.S. drone in 2009?
text: Did you know that the landmark Insurance Exchange Building in Long Beach, California , has housed a boy's clothing store, courthouse, dance studio, nightclub and Jamaican restaurant?
text: Did you know that Captain Robert Waterman set three speed records for sailing from China to New York in the 1840s?
text: Did you know that Studio Wall , an oil painting by the German artist Adolph Menzel , is considered one of the "masterpieces of Menzel's maturity"?
text: Did you know that the Tibetan Annals form the oldest surviving Tibetan history providing a summary of events from the 640s to 764 CE, when Tibetan soldiers returned from sacking the Chinese capital, Chang'an ?
text: Did you know that the Benham Plateau is located in the West Philippine Basin and its basement is probably a micro-continent ?
text: Did you know that the green lanternshark often preys on squid and octopus much larger than itself, which it may overwhelm by attacking in packs ?
text: Did you know that Ras Alula Engida was called "the Garibaldi of Abyssinia "?
text: Did you know that U.S. Independence Day is celebrated every 4th of July in Rebild National Park in Himmerland , Denmark ?
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text: Did you know that the Sanni Yakuma is a traditional Sinhalese exorcism and dance ritual that calls various demons believed to be ailing humans and humiliates them through comic and obscene enactments?
text: Did you know that as of 2009, Liz Shuler is the first woman and youngest person to hold the position of AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer, and the highest-ranking woman in the labor federation's history?
text: Did you know that " Gossip ", the sixth season premiere of The Office , saw an 18 percent Nielsen Ratings drop compared to the fifth season premiere, " Weight Loss "?
text: Did you know that just behind the Agave Garden on the Plaza Garibaldi , a museum of tequila is being built, complete with a large tasting room?
text: Did you know that Jesse Sublett was a pioneer of the Austin, Texas , punk rock scene, authored a series of mystery novels, and wrote a history of the Texas Turnpike Authority ?
text: Did you know that with Kerry 's victory in the 2009 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final , Tadhg Kennelly became the first person to win medals at the highest level of Australian rules and Gaelic football ?
text: Did you know that frogfish can suck prey into their mouths in just 6 milliseconds , too fast for other animals to see?
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text: Did you know that the song " Sentimental Lady ," written by Bob Welch , which appeared on Fleetwood Mac 's 1972 album, Bare Trees , was re-recorded to feature on his 1977 debut album, French Kiss ?
text: Did you know that during the 1527 sacking of Rome by imperial troops, William of Enckenvoirt paid 40,000 scudi to protect his house and properties?
text: Did you know that Du Jun was recently sentenced to seven years in prison for his role in Hong Kong 's biggest insider trading case?
text: Did you know that the Suceava North railway station in Suceava was selected as a location for the film Gruber's Journey because the filmmakers believed the architecture was reminiscent of World War II ?
text: Did you know that some geologists say the Great Falls Tectonic Zone is a shear , while others argue it is a suture ?
text: Did you know that John T. Elson , who famously asked, " Is God Dead? " in 1966, is dead at age 78?
text: Did you know that the largetooth cookiecutter shark has the largest teeth relative to its body of any living shark ?
text: Did you know that the Italian comune of Acerno in the Province of Salerno was founded by refugees from Picentia , destroyed by the Romans after the Second Punic War ?
text: Did you know that the Carolina Liar single " Show Me What I'm Looking For " was described as " rock music for anyone who finds Snow Patrol a bit too giddy sometimes"?
text: Did you know that Dirty Diaries is a collection of Swedish pornographic feminist short films that sparked controversy because it was financed with tax money?
text: Did you know that the Ilyushin Il-18 airliner was installed with different engines than those originally intended, but the plane was then cancelled because its engines were unreliable?
text: Did you know that historians have cited an article in the May 31, 1921, Tulsa Tribune as a cause of the Tulsa race riot , but all copies of that page of the newspaper have apparently disappeared?
text: Did you know that the Peeters directive describes French-speaking residents of Flanders , Belgium , having the right to use French to deal with the government as being "exceptional" and "temporary"?
text: Did you know that after the release of The Beatles ' " Lady Madonna " in March 1968, radio personality Larry Josephson liked the song so much that he broadcast it over and over for two hours?
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text: Did you know that the Chief Kno–Tah statue in Hillsboro, Oregon , was designed to incorporate features of Chief Joseph ?
text: Did you know that "a whole entertainment ecosystem" involving donkeys and sheepdogs emerged from Alice O'Sullivan ' s victory in the 1959 Rose of Tralee pageant?
text: Did you know that Einar Sissener acted in the first Norwegian sound film , Den store barnedåpen from 1931, playing the same character as he did in the stage production six years earlier?
text: Did you know that Tennessee politician Tommy Burnett easily won re-election to the state legislature while he was in U.S. federal prison ?
text: Did you know that Union College in Schenectady , New York , has the first comprehensively planned college campus and had the longest-serving college or university president in the United States ?
text: Did you know that according to Manichaean tradition Mar Ammo brought Manichaeanism east into Sogdiana , and was viewed as the founder of a Manichaean sect after the death of Mani ?
text: Did you know that the AFL-CIO gained its latest member union when the 265,000-member UNITE HERE reaffiliated on September 16, 2009?
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text: Did you know that Sankey Tank in Bangalore is named after Sir Richard Hieram Sankey , an officer in the Royal (Madras) Engineers in British India ?
text: Did you know that the namesake of the Victorian Bembridge House was strangled to death in 1999 at the house where she had lived for 81 years?
text: Did you know that Trimön , a Tibetan conservative politician and governor was one of the officials involved in the search and recognition of the reincarnated 14th Dalai Lama in 1935?
text: Did you know that the Bonny Doon Ecological Reserve in the Santa Cruz Mountains of California contains an ancient seabed with fossils of various marine lifeforms, such as sand dollars and bivalves ?
text: Did you know that the history of Bulgarians in Italy dates to the 7th century, when groups of Bulgars settled in several regions of the Italian Peninsula ?
text: Did you know that the first Red-fronted Parrot to be scientifically identified was named Congo Jack?
text: Did you know that Makiko Esumi won the 1995 Rookie of the Year Award at both the 19th Annual Japan Academy Prize ceremonies and at the 38th Blue Ribbon Awards for her debut acting role in the 1995 film Maborosi ?
text: Did you know that Kompani Linge 's Oslo Detachment , a subgroup of the Special Operations Executive , was the dominant sabotage group in occupied Oslo between May and September 1944?
text: Did you know that professional wrestler Kerry Brown won a tag team championship with his real-life uncle, Bob Brown ?
text: Did you know that 851 children were reported to have been poisoned by a lead plant in Shaanxi province in China this year?
text: Did you know that Green Day 's Grammy Award winning concept album American Idiot has been adapted for the stage by the band members and two Tony Award winners?
text: Did you know that Leon Feiner , a leader of the Bund and of Żegota , wrote many communiques to the Western Allies describing the Holocaust in Poland ?
text: Did you know that Hillsboro, Oregon , based Norm Thompson Outfitters was started with an ad in Field & Stream magazine?
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text: Did you know that the mushrooms Boletus zelleri , B. mirabilis , Suillus americanus , S. brevipes , S. lakei , and Leccinum manzanitae are all examples of edible boletes ?
text: Did you know that gridiron football quarterback Mike Quinn was the final member of the Houston Texans ' first signings left on the team?
text: Did you know that in 1946, the residents of the former Palestinian village of Biriyya were arrested after the discovery of an arms cache in the village?
text: Did you know that South Gate Assembly , opened in 1936, was the first General Motors plant west of the Mississippi River and the first to build more than one car line?
text: Did you know that Australian criminal Dennis Ferguson was forced to relocate to numerous locations around Australia due to public hostility and news media attention?
text: Did you know that the Senate of France has an Administrative Meeting , instead of a full fledged Group , for Senators who are Independents or from small parties?
text: Did you know that in the 1977 pink film Fairy in a Cage , according to actress Naomi Tani , her upside-down torture scenes were not faked with suspension braces, in order to show tension in her thigh muscles?
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text: Did you know that Robert Searcy , who served with the Tuskegee Airmen in World War II , was employed after the war by United Airlines cleaning aircraft?
text: Did you know that Arbois is the only grape variety besides Chenin blanc permitted in the Loire Valley wine of Vouvray ?
text: Did you know that the South African film Jerusalema is based on the real-life case of an organized crime figure taking over real estate in Johannesburg 's Hillbrow neighborhood?
text: Did you know that a weir built to aid fish traveling up a fish ladder in Little Butte Creek was destroyed just three months later?
text: Did you know that Viola Tree , her father Herbert Beerbohm Tree , and her son David Tree all performed in premieres of play or film versions of George Bernard Shaw 's Pygmalion ?
text: Did you know that The Book of est compares Werner Erhard 's est training to The Teachings of Don Juan by Carlos Castaneda ?
text: Did you know that before the 2008 International Bowl , American football linebacker Jamaal Westerman was asked questions about the weather in Toronto , because he had lived there?
text: Did you know that Louis Cordier expanded the geological collection of the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle in Paris from 1,500 specimens in 1819 to 200,000 specimens in 1861?
text: Did you know that application of iron salts will turn a white coral green?
text: Did you know that Gary Ablett, Jr. won the 2009 Brownlow Medal , an award that his father, Australian Football Hall of Fame member Gary Ablett, Sr. , never won?
text: Did you know that some houses on Union Street in Schenectady, New York , were built with a veranda -width setback to allow views of the Union College campus by those approaching it from downtown?
text: Did you know that Russian pilot Semyon Bychkov served both in the Soviet Air Forces and the Luftwaffe and was stripped of all Soviet awards posthumously?
text: Did you know that Mubarak Shah, founder of the lost city of Mubarakabad, was buried in Delhi 's Kotla Mubarakpur Complex in 1434?
text: Did you know that the chicken tax led to Ford importing light trucks to the United States from Turkey and immediately shredding portions of their interiors in Baltimore ?
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text: Did you know that actor Bret Harrison 's first role was in Our Town at the Hillsboro Artists' Regional Theatre in Hillsboro, Oregon ?
text: Did you know that the coronation ceremonies of Russian Tsars Paul I , Alexander I and Nicholas I were decorated by Italian theatre set designer Pietro Gonzaga ?
text: Did you know that violence in the 1970 Koza riot against US military presence in Okinawa was directed specifically against white servicemen, while care was taken to avoid attacking black MPs ?
text: Did you know that the site of Diego Rivera 's first large-scale mural work was Mexico City ' s Secretariat of Public Education Main Headquarters ?
text: Did you know that Oregon Republican state senator Jeannette Hamby made several trips to Nicaragua and supported the socialist Sandinistas ?
text: Did you know that Romania 's ruling Social Democratic – Democratic Liberal coalition was divided over Education Minister Ecaterina Andronescu ' s intervention in the appointment of school directors?
text: Did you know that when Cooper Arms opened in Long Beach, California , it boasted the latest amenities, including "disappearing beds" and "dustless roller screens"?
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text: Did you know that although the 1954 Guinean by-poll was marred with irregularities, only the communists and the African Democratic Rally voted against validating the results in the French National Assembly ?
text: Did you know that the Long Beach Post Office has been called "Post-Quake Moderne " due to the local prevalence of the style after the Long Beach earthquake of 1933 ?
text: Did you know that Rafael Trujillo 's daughter presided as Queen Angelita I over the Fair of Peace and Fraternity of the Free World in the Dominican Republic ?
text: Did you know that Carl Rubin made significant modifications to Meir Dizengoff 's house changing it into an art museum, which would later become Israel's Independence Hall ?
text: Did you know that although the Coronation grape has been described as having "an odd, off taste", it is the most-planted seedless table grape variety in southern Ontario ?
text: Did you know that Rancho Las Mariposas , unwanted by John C. Frémont until gold was discovered in September 1849, turned out to be the richest rancho in California ?
text: Did you know that Queen Elizabeth II was taught constitutional history by Henry Marten ?
text: Did you know that 50 years ago today, on an Iowa farm , farmer and hybrid corn salesman Roswell Garst hosted Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev ?
text: Did you know that while in the lead of the last relay leg of the 2009 World Orienteering Championships , Martin Johansson was injured by a wooden stick penetrating 12 centimetres (5 in) into his leg?
text: Did you know that Son of Ingagi was the first film with an all- black cast in the science fiction - horror film genre?
text: Did you know that of Japanese band Supercell ' s eleven members, only one of them makes the music and the rest are illustrators and designers?
text: Did you know that the Seinfeld episode " The Revenge " was based on an experience by screenwriter Larry David , who once quit his job at Saturday Night Live and returned the following morning as if nothing had happened?
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text: Did you know that the 1999 anime series Digimon Adventure was first seen as an imitation of Nintendo 's Pokémon franchise when its episodes first aired in North America?
text: Did you know that Mirosław Iringh , a leader of Slovak Platoon 535 , wore a white-blue-red armband made out of a French military decoration once bestowed upon a fellow insurrectionist by Marshal Foch ?
text: Did you know that the Binford & Mort publishing company in Hillsboro, Oregon , was once the largest book publisher in the Northwestern United States ?
text: Did you know that John Lawford was the only captain who fought at Copenhagen in 1801 to receive an honorary reward specifically for his actions during the battle?
text: Did you know that in 2009 two MIT students made a vehicle to take pictures of the Earth from 93,000 feet (28,000 m) for US$148?
text: Did you know that Arnold Laven directed feature films about a psychotic gardener/serial killer, an army of giant mollusks and George Armstrong Custer , and episodes of The A-Team ?
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text: Did you know that the tomb of Pope John V was destroyed in the Sack of Rome in 846 AD , centuries before nearly all of the remainder of the papal tombs in Old St. Peter's Basilica were demolished?
text: Did you know that Japanese manga Red Colored Elegy has an eponymous single performed by Morio Agata , which ranked seventh in Japan's Oricon charts in 1972?
text: Did you know that Clayton W. Williams, Sr. , an oilman and rancher from Fort Stockton , Texas , was part of the group that formed the American Legion in Paris in 1919?
text: Did you know that visually impaired chess player Reginald Bonham founded the International Braille Chess Association ?
text: Did you know that the land for 53rd Avenue Park in Hillsboro, Oregon , was purchased from exercise equipment maker Soloflex ?
text: Did you know that during the absence of Byzantine emperor Heraclius from Constantinople in 622–626, the patrician Bonus defended the city from a major Avar siege in July 626?
text: Did you know that when describing his time fighting jihad in Afghanistan , Mohamad Elzahabi said "What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas"?
text: Did you know that Tajammul Hussain Malik headed an unsuccessful coup attempt against Pakistani dictator General Zia-ul-Haq in 1980?
text: Did you know that Metallica 's management company told The Quietus magazine to remove published reviews of early track versions from the band's 2008 album Death Magnetic ?
text: Did you know that after the merger of UNITE and HERE in 2004, the merged union UNITE HERE owned the Amalgamated Bank of Chicago ?
text: Did you know that Czech ice-hockey goaltender Josef Mikoláš ' career injuries included eight lost teeth, a broken cheekbone , a double fracture of his lower jaw and 35 head sutures ?
text: Did you know that single-pass bore finishing can finish a bore to a size tolerance of 0.001 mm and a geometry tolerance of 0.0003 mm?
text: Did you know that the prewar AVA Radio Company , in Warsaw , built all the electro-mechanical equipment used by Poland 's Cipher Bureau to break German Enigma ciphers ?
text: Did you know that Frank Coghlan said "damn" in Gone with the Wind , but is best known for saying "Shazam" in Captain Marvel , the first big screen depiction of a comic book superhero?
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text: Did you know that Mike Milligan was a Division I head coach for football and basketball at two different institutions?
text: Did you know that ABC aired the Marcus Welby, M.D. episode " The Outrage " despite having been zapped for the earlier episode " The Other Martin Loring "?
text: Did you know that Captain Isaac Coffin rescued a man from drowning while commanding HMS Alligator , but injured himself in doing so?
text: Did you know that the largely residential community of Dockton on Maury Island, Washington , was once an industrial center?
text: Did you know that Kir Ianulea , a 1909 novella by Romanian author Ion Luca Caragiale , relocated Niccolò Machiavelli 's Belfagor arcidiavolo into Phanariote -era Bucharest ?
text: Did you know that Gordon Faber , as mayor of Hillsboro, Oregon , once carried an ax while wearing an executioner's hood to an employee's performance review?
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text: Did you know that Columbia College acting dean Henry S. Coleman , held hostage in the Columbia University protests of 1968 , later wrote law school recommendation letters for some of his student captors?
text: Did you know that in writing the 1973 song " Hypnotized ", Bob Welch drew upon his perception of the Benifold mansion in Hampshire that Fleetwood Mac were inhabiting at the time, and where the song was recorded?
text: Did you know that a casket discovered by Anant Sadashiv Altekar near Vaishali , on display at the Patna Museum , is said to contain the remains of the Buddha ?
text: Did you know that Yreka phlox , an endangered flowering plant that grows in serpentine soil , is the official city flower of Yreka, California ?
text: Did you know that the Pedersen bicycle with its unusual cantilever frame , though never hugely popular since its introduction in the 1890s, is still produced today?
text: Did you know that the prewar AVA Radio Company , in Warsaw , built all the electro-mechanical equipment used by Poland 's Cipher Bureau to break German Enigma ciphers ?
text: Did you know that Turnbuckle Championship Wrestling saw the reunions of both Tekno Team 2000 and the father and son team of Dusty and Dustin Rhodes ?
text: Did you know that Nikolay Karamzin compared the architectural projects of Vasili Bazhenov to Plato 's Republic and Thomas More 's Utopia ?
text: Did you know that the Higgins Industries A-1 lifeboat was first dropped by parachute to save six American airmen stranded in the North Sea in 1945?
text: Did you know that after seeing Zero Hour , a play about the life of actor Zero Mostel , Theodore Bikel wrote to the playwright, "Thank you for bringing back a volcano that we thought was long extinct"?
text: Did you know that the West African trade union centre CGTA , a splinter-group of the French CGT , rejected the notion of class struggle , stating that there were no antagonistic classes in Africa ?
text: Did you know that only 1% of students attending Oregon Connections Academy live within the school district?
text: Did you know07, 21 September 2009 (UTC)
text: Did you know that Andrew Berg , a Finnish immigrant to the U.S. state of Alaska , became the Territory's first licensed hunting guide?
text: Did you know that the 1921 Triumph Ricardo British motorcycle was capable of over 70 mph and set three world speed records?
text: Did you know that Kilkenny beat favourites Galway in a semi-final match of the All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship 2009 despite one third of their team being under the age of twenty?
text: Did you know that Alfred Gottschalk performed the 1972 rabbinic ordination of Sally Priesand , the second woman to be formally ordained in the history of Judaism ?
text: Did you know that the depiction of Eros and Psyche on the Marlborough gem , a carved onyx cameo from as early as the first century CE, was copied or reproduced by Cipriani , Bartolozzi , Wedgwood and Flaxman ?
text: Did you know that one of Emmy Award -winning screenwriter Frank Deasy ' s last acts before dying led to a record number of applicants for organ donor cards?
text: Did you know that in October 1945, shortly after unexpectedly entering a cloud, National Airlines Flight 16 crashed into a lake in Lakeland , Florida , drowning two passengers?
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text: Did you know that the first African American to see the Great Falls of the Missouri River was York , a slave who participated in the Lewis and Clark Expedition ?
text: Did you know that two foiled attacks by N.D.F.L.O.A.G. guerrillas in June 1970 sparked a conspiracy to overthrow the Sultan of Oman ?
text: Did you know that IOC organizers proposed to demonstrate American football at the 1932 Summer Olympics as a match-up between the defending national champions at USC and East Coast powerhouse Yale University ?
text: Did you know that botanist Thomas Frederic Cheeseman had a wide range of interests including Māori ethnology ?
text: Did you know that the artist who made a stone relief of the Menorah in Israel 's Migdal Synagogue in 50 BCE – 100 CE may have seen the original Menorah in the Second Temple before its destruction in 70 CE?
text: Did you know that though he has won six nonconsecutive elections to the Louisiana State Senate , Joe McPherson of Rapides Parish has twice failed in bids for his state's Public Service Commission ?
text: Did you know that Australian band The Sundance Kids was formed in a shopping centre car park over takeaway pizza?
text: Did you know07, 21 September 2009 (UTC)
text: Did you know that when archaeologists excavated the Urartian fortress-city of Erebuni they discovered a rich collection of Persian artifacts dating back 2,500 years?
text: Did you know that American sprinter Walter Dix won two bronze medals at the 2008 Beijing Olympics but hardly competed at all in 2009 due to injury and a legal dispute with his agent?
text: Did you know that the commander of the Croatian forces who carried out the Stupni Do massacre in 1993 during the Croat-Bosniak war had his name and rank changed as part of a cover-up?
text: Did you know that the city of Schenectady bought and demolished several other hotels to ensure the success of the Hotel Van Curler, now Schenectady County Community College 's Elston Hall ?
text: Did you know that the wedding of Charles, Prince of Wales, and Lady Diana Spencer was watched by a global television audience of 750 million, at the time the most popular programme ever broadcast?
text: Did you know that Sylvan Friedman , a member of both houses of the Louisiana State Legislature from 1944 to 1972, was part of a small but influential Jewish community in Natchitoches Parish ?
text: Did you know that in the 1985 hijacking of Braathens SAFE Flight 139 , the hijacker exchanged his gun for beer?
text: Did you know that Akaitcho , Chief of the Yellowknives , was John Franklin 's Coppermine Expedition guide?
text: Did you know that the luxurious Villa Riviera was the second tallest building in Southern California from the time of its completion in 1929 through the mid-1950s?
text: Did you know that James Aubrey , who appeared in the 1963 film version of Lord of the Flies , made his professional acting debut in Isle of Children ?
text: Did you know that the city of Hillsboro, Oregon , asked residents to donate their used Christmas trees for planting at Turner Creek Park ?
text: Did you know that Lars Peder Brekk was Norwegian Minister of Fisheries and Coastal Affairs for only 56 days, due to his cabinet withdrawing shortly after he was supplemented into it?
text: Did you know that the French conquest of Senegal started in 1659 with the establishment of a trading post in Saint-Louis ?
text: Did you know that when artist Sérvulo Gutiérrez sold a nude portrait of his lover Doris Gibson , Gibson stole it from the buyer, telling him "I don't want to be nude in your house"?
text: Did you know07, 20 September 2009 (UTC)
text: Did you know that the rheology of food affects how pleasant a food feels in the mouth and therefore how desirable it is to the consumer ?
text: Did you know that prior to writing the book Twisted Scriptures , Mary Alice Chrnalogar had belonged to the religious group Church Universal and Triumphant ?
text: Did you know that while serving in the California Assembly , Republican Michael D. Duvall was described as having "blasted" attempts to legalize gay marriage ?
text: Did you know that the southern African frilled shark preys mainly on smaller sharks , which it swallows whole with its greatly distensible mouth?
text: Did you know that City View was the first charter school in Hillsboro, Oregon , when it opened in 2004?
text: Did you know that Norwegian ship-owner Ludvig G. Braathen founded the airline Braathens SAFE in 1946 to serve his ships in the Far East with supplies and crew?
text: Did you know that the co-founder of the New England Institute of Religious Research was a court-appointed guardian of 13 children removed from a religious sect in Attleboro, Massachusetts ?
text: Did you know07, 20 September 2009 (UTC)
text: Did you know that the Brandenburg-Pomeranian conflict involved the houses of Ascania , Hohenzollern , Luxembourg , Pomerania , Sweden and Wittelsbach ?
text: Did you know that Hayden Bridge , a covered bridge on the National Register of Historic Places , had to be repaired in 2006 after a logging truck crashed into it?
text: Did you know that a car-driving collie recently auditioned for the second series of The All Ireland Talent Show ?
text: Did you know that Barbara Atkinson appeared with the National Theatre Company for their 1969–1970 season?
text: Did you know that the AIDS activist group ACT UP twice shut down production of the Midnight Caller episode " After It Happened ", believing that it would encourage vigilantism against people with AIDS?
text: Did you know that in only his third full Major League Baseball season, Chuck Workman hit 25 home runs, second in the National League?
text: Did you know that the Bromley equation is important for the understanding of ions in river, lake and sea-water?
text: Did you know07, 20 September 2009 (UTC)
text: Did you know that Jon Olav Alstad was elected to the Norwegian Parliament at the age of 25?
text: Did you know that two windmills in Burdaard , the Netherlands , are named after the elephant and the swallow , and that both mills are Rijksmonuments ?
text: Did you know that the Cannock Chase murders sparked one of the largest manhunts in British history?
text: Did you know that the mineral processing plant at the Kittilä mine includes a bomb shelter , as required by a 1917 law?
text: Did you know that Romanian actress Ecaterina Nazare appeared in a theatrical version of Shakespeare's sonnets , produced and staged by the National Theatre Bucharest ?
text: Did you know that Belgian dredging company Jan De Nul launched the world's largest dredger in June 2008 with the 46,000m³ capacity Cristobal Colon ?
text: Did you know that James A. Kowalski , dean of the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine, New York , had a Roman Catholic father and a Jewish mother, but they joined the Episcopal Church when they started a family?
text: Did you know that Trabzonspor were the first Turkish soccer team entitled to participate in the UEFA Women's Champions League ?
text: Did you know that Arthur P. Luff is considered one of the founders of 20th century forensic medicine ?
text: Did you know that almost 30 years after quitting his career as a composer , Gervase Hughes returned to music in 1960 as a writer of books on musical subjects?
text: Did you know that Rancho Buena Ventura , the northernmost Mexican land grant in California , was given to Pierson B. Reading in 1844 even though he was never a Mexican citizen?
text: Did you know that the Letter to an Anti-Zionist Friend was ostensibly published by Martin Luther King in 1967, but is actually a forgery that first appeared 30 years after King's death?
text: Did you know that Italian Gigi Peronace has been described as the first football agent in England?
text: Did you know that when British mosaicist Elaine M Goodwin and three fellow artists founded an exhibiting group in 2008, they deliberately avoided the word " mosaic " due to its negative perception in the art world ?
text: Did you know07, 19 September 2009 (UTC)
text: Did you know that Jerusalem's historic Stern House houses an Israeli bookstore that once had branches in Beirut, Cairo, Damascus and Baghdad?
text: Did you know that over the course of his 44 year career as a writer and editor with the Bend Bulletin , Phil Brogan trained numerous young journalists including Tom McCall , who later became governor of Oregon ?
text: Did you know that unlike most other elections held in other parts of French West Africa on the same day, the 31 March 1957 assembly election in Senegal was not dominated by the African Democratic Rally (RDA)?
text: Did you know that 4,000 people applied to be in the audience of Pat Kenny 's new programme The Frontline ?
text: Did you know that the machinima -based music video Dance, Voldo, Dance was featured at the San Jose Museum of Art as part of an exhibit in 2006?
text: Did you know that Australian Army engineers uncovered and destroyed more than 17 kilometres (11 mi) of Viet Cong tunnels in the Ho Bo Woods as part of Operation Crimp during the Vietnam War ?
text: Did you know that Vilhelm Evang served as head of the Norwegian Intelligence Service for almost twenty years, from 1946?
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text: Did you know that radio star Rolf Kirkvaag walked through a blizzard with a broken leg to get help after surviving the plane crash at Hummelfjell ?
text: Did you know that the Perry Professorship of Jurisprudence at the Government Law School in Bombay was established in 1855 to honour judge Thomas Erskine Perry ?
text: Did you know that the archaeological site of Chan-Chan gives its name to the Chanchaense Complex, a archaeological culture extending acoss Chile from 37° to 55° South?
text: Did you know that the series Svenska Hollywoodfruar follows Swedish women living a glamorous lifestyle in the Hollywood -area with rich American husbands?
text: Did you know that the gambrel-roofed David and Maggie Aegerter Barn is the only Linn County, Oregon barn featuring overhang on all sides?
text: Did you know that Herbert K. Pililaau was the first person from Hawaii to receive the Medal of Honor ?
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text: Did you know that Robert Louis Stevenson donated his birthday, by formal deed , to Henry Clay Ide ' s daughter, Anne, because she was born on Christmas Day ?
text: Did you know that Pope Sergius I successfully avoided arrest by the Byzantine protospatharios after rejecting the canons of the Quinisext Council ?
text: Did you know that 2009 Michigan Wolverines senior running back Brandon Minor rushed for 209 yards in his first high school football game and 24 yards in his first college football carry?
text: Did you know that the removal of an icon of Christ from the Chalke , the main ceremonial entrance to the Great Palace of Constantinople , marked the beginning of the Byzantine Iconoclasm ?
text: Did you know that the silky shark is the most common source of ornamental shark jaws sold to tourists in the tropics ?
text: Did you know that Bulgarian far right politician Ivan Dochev died in 2005 despite being given three separate death sentences in the 1940s?
text: Did you know that the Taxpayer March on Washington was the largest demonstration against President Barack Obama's administration to date?
text: Did you know that Angelika Amon discovered two gene regulatory networks that regulate the exit of cells from mitosis to the G1 phase ?
text: Did you know that Cencoroll is a 2009 30-minute Japanese animated science fiction film nearly singlehandedly written, designed, directed, and animated by manga author Atsuya Uki?
text: Did you know that the researchers who lived in the GE Realty Plot in Schenectady, New York , were collectively responsible for over 400 patents and one Nobel Prize ?
text: Did you know that the Zappas Olympics were a series of four athletic contests held in Athens between 1859 and 1889 and are considered as precursors to the modern Olympic Games ?
text: Did you know that baseball player Slick Coffman pitched an 11-inning victory over Hall of Famer Lefty Grove in his first game in Major League Baseball ?
text: Did you know that the CART motor racing series changed the 2001 German 500's name to the American Memorial following the September 11 attacks ?
text: Did you know that George Cruikshank , in Artist and the Author , disputed the origin of William Harrison Ainsworth 's stories about evil gypsies , a famous thief , treasonous Catholics , a dark prison , burned sinners , an old miser , a horny king , and a stupid queen ?
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text: Did you know that on Sarvapitri amavasya (today), Hindus offer food to the ancestors, who are believed to accept the offering through a crow?
text: Did you know that Alf Rolfsen has decorated three of the walls in the Central Hall of Oslo City Hall , where the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony is held every year?
text: Did you know that center George Gregory led the Columbia Lions in 1930–31 to its first title in what was to become the Ivy League , and was later named as the first African American All-American basketball player?
text: Did you know that the Nikkatsu Roman Porno film Love Hunter (1972) was confiscated by the Tokyo Metropolitan Police , and became the last film to be tried for obscenity in Japan to this day?
text: Did you know that gymnast Věra Čáslavská was four times elected the Sportsperson of the Year of Czechoslovakia ?
text: Did you know that the French colonial administration in Guinea opposed the founding of the political party Socialist Democracy in 1954, as they feared it would split the anti- Sékou Touré vote?
text: Did you know that when Cannes Film Festival officials called Zhang Yimou 's Not One Less a propaganda piece, he accused them of "discrimination" against Chinese cinema and withdrew the film from the festival?
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text: Did you know that Czech Republic orienteering world champion Michal Smola joined an orienteering club at age 12 and won his first national championship race at age 14?
text: Did you know that the radar screen of the prototype reconnaissance version of the Soviet Tupolev Tu-14 twin-jet torpedo bomber could be recorded by a special camera?
text: Did you know that as dean of Columbia College , Carl Hovde advocated for more lenient treatment of participants in the Columbia University protests of 1968 , as "the demonstrations were not without cause"?
text: Did you know that a persimmon regiment was a nickname for three Union army regiments that had an unusual fondness for eating persimmons ?
text: Did you know that 2009 Michigan Wolverines starting quarterback Tate Forcier got his nickname from the 1991 movie Little Man Tate ?
text: Did you know that in the wrongful death lawsuit Slee v. Erhard , the plaintiff claimed her son's death was due to est training ?
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text: Did you know that World Cup winning soccer player José Andrade once played drums in a carnival band?
text: Did you know that although Atka mackerel are most common to the Bering Sea , they have been reported as far south as Redondo Beach, California ?
text: Did you know that Walter Colquhoun Grant introduced cricket and the invasive plant Scotch broom to the Colony of Vancouver Island in 1849?
text: Did you know that 1991's Hurricane Grace contributed to the formation of the 1991 Halloween Nor'easter , commonly known as the "Perfect Storm"?
text: Did you know that Human Rights Watch war crimes investigator Marc Garlasco wrote a book on Nazi war medals?
text: Did you know that while Venice lost some territories in the Peace of Turin in 1381, it was in fact winning the Venetian–Genoese Wars ?
text: Did you know that music licensing for Rihanna 's song, " Take a Bow ", was offered at a discounted price for the Glee television episode " Showmance "?
text: Did you know that Heroes Cross on Caraiman Peak , illuminated at night by 300 light bulbs of 500 watts each, can be seen from dozens of miles away?
text: Did you know that although color-blind , Nicholas U. Mayall was better able to detect faint galaxies than most other astronomers ?
text: Did you know that William Warren Bartley , author of the biography Werner Erhard , also served several years as philosophical consultant to Erhard 's est training ?
text: Did you know that Dublin 's 2009 Liffey Swim was the 90th anniversary of the race and saw electronic timing used for the first time?
text: Did you know that the bass-baritone Gustav Hölzel was dismissed from the Vienna State Opera because he changed the words of a song that he was singing in the role of Friar Tuck ?
text: Did you know that Bjørn Kjos , former fighter jet pilot, lawyer, judge, entrepreneur and now CEO of Norwegian Air Shuttle , débuted with his first spy thriller in 2006?
text: Did you know that the public activist group Citizen Action shut down in 1997 due to the effects of a labor union election campaign funds scandal?
text: Did you know that the Texas historian Ernest Wallace was once a consultant to the Justice Department regarding suits filed by the Kiowa and Comanche against the U.S. government ?
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text: Did you know that Grammy award winning guitarist John Jorgenson of the John Jorgenson Quintet portrays French guitarist Django Reinhardt in the film Head in the Clouds ?
text: Did you know that the hay tedder was a machine that allowed one man and one horse to do the work of fifteen laborers, and improved the aroma and color of hay ?
text: Did you know that Maj. Gen. Charles Bond was credited with shooting down nine-and-a-half Japanese planes and was himself shot down twice while serving with the Flying Tigers in Burma and China ?
text: Did you know that the Pakistan National Congress represented Hindus and other minorities and won 28 seats in the East Bengal Legislature in 1954?
text: Did you know that Maurice Lenz , a physician, professor, and radiation therapy pioneer, was internationally known amongst his peers for his fluency in English, Russian, French, German, Portuguese and Spanish?
text: Did you know that the reviewer from The Times was so unnerved by Sarah Waters ' book The Little Stranger that she confessed she had to stop reading it?
text: Did you know that basketball pioneer Lou "Lulu" Bender earned his nickname after scoring an outside shot while in high school when a spectator shouted "now that was a lulu of a basket"?
text: Did you know07, 17 September 2009 (UTC)
text: Did you know that the Oregon Chorale based in Hillsboro, Oregon , USA has performed five tours in Europe?
text: Did you know that Chick Lathers quit Major League Baseball in 1913 to become a car salesman for Ford Motor Company ?
text: Did you know that St. Anne's Church in Trani, Italy, was built as a medieval synagogue?
text: Did you know that Tecolutla, Veracruz is famous for the "Tecolutla Monster" that washed up on shore in 1969?
text: Did you know that, in a rare set of circumstances, an unnamed hurricane in 1991 formed from the center of another, larger low pressure system ?
text: Did you know that lawyer Albert L. Gordon , a heterosexual who became a gay rights activist after his son came out , successfully challenged a 1915 California law that criminalized oral sex ?
text: Did you know that the Moine Supergroup , a sequence of Neoproterozoic metasediments forming the main outcrop in the northwest Scottish Highlands , is named after 'a'Mhoine', a peat bog in northern Sutherland ?
text: Did you know that Lankapura Dandanatha , a general of the army of Parakramabahu I , led an expeditionary force to South India to assist a Pandyan king?
text: Did you knowthat Star Air Service , founded by three pilots in 1932, is the predecessor to Alaska Airlines ?
text: Did you know that "Pop" Warner 's undefeated 1917 Pitt Panthers football team, known as "The Fighting Dentists", featured dental students "Katy" Easterday , "Tank" McLaren , "Skip" Gougler and "Jake" Stahl ?
text: Did you know that in the entire discography of George Michael , the most successful release in his homeland is a 1998 compilation titled Ladies & Gentlemen , which has been certified sevenfold platinum?
text: Did you know that SS - Untersturmführer Hans Stark admitted that during the mass gassing of prisoners at Auschwitz , he inserted the Zyklon B into the gas chamber himself when a medical orderly did not turn up?
text: Did you know that the 2006 Honda ad Cog won more awards than any other advertisement in history?
text: Did you know that the Cimarron Redoubt in southwestern Kansas was built as a fortification and later converted to a post office ?
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text: Did you know that the milk shark is so named because of a belief in India that eating its meat improves lactation ?
text: Did you know that Pabonka Hermitage , near Lhasa , is one of the earliest known buildings built by Songtsän Gampo in the Tibetan Empire and is believed to be the site at which the Tibetan alphabet was invented?
text: Did you know that, prior to the formation of the Washington, D.C. fire department , building owners in the city were required to provide leather buckets for fire control?
text: Did you know that sale of the Wii Classic Controller was briefly discontinued in the United States due to a lawsuit by Anascape Ltd?
text: Did you know that Hurricane Fred , which formed and dissipated near Cape Verde earlier this month, was the strongest North Atlantic tropical cyclone on record to appear east of 35°W?
text: Did you know that Cannonball Adderley recorded "I'm on My Way," his 11-year-old nephew Nat Adderley, Jr. ' s first song, for his 1967 album Why Am I Treated So Bad! ?
text: Did you know that Charterhouse Cave is the deepest cave in Southern England ?
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text: Did you know that the State of Oregon laboratories for health and environmental quality used to be located in an old parking garage before moving to a new facility in Hillsboro, Oregon ?
text: Did you know that former PLO member Wahid Khalil Baroud was ordered deported and put on a plane by Canada, but since no countries would agree to host him, lived in airports for the next eight months?
text: Did you know that the 120 miles per hour (190 km/h) Healey 1000/4 British motorcycle of 1973 was fitted with a 1000cc engine designed by Edward Turner in 1928?
text: Did you know that Pitt All-American Tom Davies threw a touchdown pass , ran 80 yards for a touchdown, returned a kickoff 90 yards and returned an interception 60 yards in the same game?
text: Did you know that the passenger capacity of a public transit system is affected by headway ?
text: Did you know that William J.C. Kennedy-Cochran-Patrick , a British flying ace in the First World War , scored his first victory when he was a test pilot and was awarded the Military Cross for capturing that enemy plane?
text: Did you know that during conversion of the Dequindre Cut into a greenway , the existing graffiti art was left in place and new additions encouraged?
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text: Did you know that retired banker and former Louisiana legislator Loy F. Weaver was as an FBI agent cited five times for outstanding performance and personal bravery by Director J. Edgar Hoover ?
text: Did you know that the Metropolitan Association for Befriending Young Servants aimed to prevent girls in London from becoming prostitutes , criminals and alcoholics by training them as domestic servants ?
text: Did you know that French Resistance fighter and spy Hélène Deschamps Adams served as the basis for video game character Manon Batiste ?
text: Did you know that Queen Teuta of Issa , who briefly ruled Illyria in the 3rd century BC , is depicted on the Albanian 100 lekë coin?
text: Did you know that the 16th century Moro blacksmith Panday Pira is known as the "First Filipino Cannon-maker"?
text: Did you know that the region formed by Ilfov County and Bucharest accounts for 19% of exports and 40% of imports in Romania ?
text: Did you know that blues singer Jesse Fortune , better known as the "Fortune Tellin' Man," passed on performing in Europe because he did not want to disappoint customers at his Chicago barbershop?
text: Did you know that The Chicago Reader in 2007 said the 1971 science fiction theatrical production Warp! "anticipated the Star Wars phenom by several years"?
text: Did you know that the Geumsansa temple in Gimje , South Korea , served as the training ground for the Buddhist volunteer corps along with monks against Japanese invasions of Korea in the end of the 16th century?
text: Did you know that Greek monk Maximus the Confessor dominated the Lateran Council of 649 , the first council convened by a pope to claim ecumenical status ?
text: Did you know that the Peekskill, New York , post office includes neoclassical arched windows in its Colonial Revival design?
text: Did you know that 20th-century composers including Kagel , Ligeti , and Xenakis wrote music for cellist Siegfried Palm ?
text: Did you know that Charlie Burns is the only person to have been a player and a head coach for the Minnesota North Stars at the same time , doing so in the 1969–70 NHL season ?
text: Did you knowthat the British RSPCA now formally prosecutes individuals who are cruel to fish ?
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text: Did you know that growth rates for broadleaved trees on the British Isles exceed those of mainland Europe ?
text: Did you know that Anders Nordberg was elected Orienteer of the year 2007 by Norwegian sports journalists?
text: Did you know that five years before he was cast as banker Theodore J. Mooney on The Lucy Show , Gale Gordon played the co-owner of a department store on the NBC sitcom Sally ?
text: Did you know that 2009 US Open girls' singles champion Heather Watson was the 2008 Commonwealth Youth Games tennis gold-medalist?
text: Did you know that after being named to the All– Western Athletic Conference team before the 2008 season , American football tight end Rob Myers suffered a turf toe injury that forced him to miss the entire season?
text: Did you know that Jan Birger Jansen , Johan Scharffenberg and Sven Arntzen , all with background in the Norwegian resistance movement , were later members of the National Association for Referendum ?
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text: Did you know that Icehouse Wilson , a member of " Oakland 's first World Champion Baseball team," had a career batting average of .000 in Major League Baseball ?
text: Did you know that in a 2001 survey of Animage magazine readers, the 50-episode series Digimon Adventure 02 was ranked 17th on the list of anime that should be remembered?
text: Did you know that although Paul W. Bryant High School in Tuscaloosa, Alabama is named for football coach Paul "Bear" Bryant , a court order prevented the school from using "Bears" as its mascot?
text: Did you know that the British anti-Islamist group Stop the Islamification of Europe was inspired by a Danish group of the same name?
text: Did you know that Lloyd Brazil , once called "the ideal football player," averaged more than eight yards per carry and gained 5,861 yards in three years at the University of Detroit ?
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text: Did you know that on the final day of the 1959–60 Football League season , Trevor Meredith scored the goal that won the league title for Burnley ?
text: Did you know that, as a publicity stunt , the makers of the film Asylum Seekers arranged for a couple to be married on the red carpet immediately before the film's premiere ?
text: Did you know that the Scottish Referendum Bill 2010 proposes that a referendum on Scottish independence be held on St. Andrew's Day 2010, Scotland's official national day ?
text: Did you know that Sierra Leonean physician Aniru Conteh saved thousands of lives from Lassa fever before dying from the disease himself?
text: Did you know that the tower of St Lawrence's in Ipswich houses the oldest ring of church bells in the world?
text: Did you know that bellum se ipsum alet , "war feeds itself", was a military strategy used during the Thirty Years' War ?
text: Did you know that jasmine is the national flower of Tunisia ?
text: Did you know that the Church of St Matthew and St James is described in the Buildings of England series as "one of the best Victorian churches in Liverpool "?
text: Did you know that in 1900, Wilf Waller was the first South African footballer to play in the English Football League ?
text: Did you know that grants given to the British Library by the Friends of the British Library have enabled it to acquire many historical treasures, such as the Dering Roll ?
text: Did you know that Claude Lambie scored Burnley 's first-ever competitive hat-trick ?
text: Did you know that according to ancient Tibetan annals, the founder of the Tibetan Empire , Songtsän Gampo , is believed to be buried at the Valley of the Kings in modern day Qonggyai County ?
text: Did you know that the wild population of the critically endangered Helmeted Honeyeater comprises fewer than 100 birds and is largely restricted to the Yellingbo Nature Conservation Reserve ?
text: Did you know that the lawn mower was invented in a small English village called Thrupp ?
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text: Did you know that music on The O.C. included world premieres of singles by the Beastie Boys , Gwen Stefani and U2 ?
text: Did you know that the City Beautiful -inspired Foster Building was the first terra cotta building in Schenectady, New York ?
text: Did you know that David Avadon earned his livelihood for 30 years as "a daring pickpocket with dashing finesse"?
text: Did you know that the 14th Searchlight Battery was the only Finnish Army unit comprised entirely of women during World War II ?
text: Did you know that the Wii Zapper was first conceived when a staff member of The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess's development team created a makeshift gun-like frame using rubber bands and wires?
text: Did you know that physician Hans Eng was a part of the Osvald Group 's hit list during World War II ?
text: Did you know that former Motown Records president Skip Miller began his career as a stock clerk and has been credited with helping to develop the rap genre?
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text: Did you know that literary critic Boris Eikhenbaum considered skaz as a central element of Russian culture and literature?
text: Did you know that, after defeating the troops of Petro Doroshenko in the Battle of Podhajce , John III Sobieski was promoted to Grand Crown Hetman , the highest military rank in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth ?
text: Did you know that Grunge Lit is an Australian literary genre which features gritty depictions of urban and suburban life revolving around a nihilistic pursuit of sex , drugs and alcohol ?
text: Did you know that as director of the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center in the 1970s, Robert Spinrad oversaw development of such products as Ethernet , laser printers and "the first modern personal computer "?
text: Did you know that 14 of the 16 founding congregants of New York 's Peekskill Presbyterian Church were women?
text: Did you know that Caleb Green holds The Summit League 's all-time scoring and rebounding records?
text: Did you know that specimens of the tiger cowry have been found at Pompeii , where they were most likely used as ornaments ?
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text: Did you know that USC quarterback Gaius Shaver was the leading rusher in the American football competition at the 1932 Summer Olympic Games ?
text: Did you know that at the Blind Chess Olympiad , the players are required to announce their moves, so the games are often recorded on tape rather than paper?
text: Did you know that the Legal Framework Order, 1970 , issued by Gen. Yahya Khan , set the rules for the first direct popular elections in the history of Pakistan ?
text: Did you know that Jimmy Melbourne , who co-incidentally was murdered in Melbourne , was the first Indigenous Australian to play Australian rules football at a senior level?
text: Did you know that the city of Anadarko in the U.S. state of Oklahoma is named for the Nadaco , a Native American tribe from Texas ?
text: Did you know that Josefin Crafoord originally declined an offer to appear on the Swedish version of Dancing on Ice because she did not know how to skate ?
text: Did you know that Havelock Ellis called peau d’Espagne “of all perfumes that which most nearly approaches the odor of a woman's skin”?
text: Did you know that Michigan center "Bubbles" Paterson was the namesake of an award recognizing academic achievement by football players?
text: Did you know that the Bridge of Nations Bell which hung in Shuri Castle on Okinawa is so named for the inscription upon it, alluding to the central role of the Ryūkyū Kingdom in the region's maritime trade?
text: Did you know that Josephus used the chronicles of Demetrius the Chronographer for his Antiquities of the Jews and adopted his chronological system?
text: Did you know that the Wayne Wonder song " No Letting Go " is about a girl who is not mentioned by name?
text: Did you know that the Baroque Cherasco Synagogue was built on a courtyard so that the sounds of Jewish worship would not reach Christian ears, and possibly endanger the Jewish community?
text: Did you know that Virginia Shehee , Louisiana 's first woman state senator , once bought a pig at a 4-H show, the proceeds of which helped a boy with cerebral palsy to learn how to walk?
text: Did you know that the residents of England 's Butt Hole Road raised £ 300 to have the name of the street changed to keep tourists away and end jokes about the street's name?
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text: Did you know that Finnish soldiers nicknamed the 20 ITK 40 VKT "Vekotin", or " gadget "?
text: Did you know that William Chaloner was a counterfeiter, swindler, charlatan, sham plotter, and agent provocateur , who was convicted by Isaac Newton , sent to Newgate Prison , and hanged on the gallows at Tyburn ?
text: Did you know that Montana 's 30 percent tax on coal production, upheld in Commonwealth Edison Co. v. Montana (1981), was once called "the most significant piece of legislation enacted in Montana in this century"?
text: Did you know that Nan Vernon provided the end credit music of both of Rob Zombie's Halloween films and has been noted for being part of the " singer-songwriter trend" of women nurturing folk music 's rebirth?
text: Did you know that the Ryūkyū Shimpō , founded in 1893 by former royal prince Shō Jun , was the first newspaper in Okinawa ?
text: Did you know that the Oregon Geographic Names Board was established by Governor George Chamberlain in 1908 to assist the United States Board on Geographic Names in naming geographic features within the state of Oregon ?
text: Did you know that the lollipop catshark is shaped like a tadpole and has an almost gelatinous body?
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text: Did you know that as Clarenceux King of Arms , Robert Cooke arranged the state funeral of Sir Philip Sidney ?
text: Did you know that the prototype of the Soviet Il-22 jet bomber made the first ever Soviet jet-assisted take-off on 7 February 1948 with a pair of SR-2 boosters?
text: Did you know that the Louisiana oral historian Hubert D. Humphreys was a charter member of the faculty at Louisiana State University in Shreveport ?
text: Did you know that University College London Union is the oldest students' union in England ?
text: Did you know that Burkinabè politician and revolutionary ideologue Valère Somé was forced into exile to Congo-Brazzaville after the overthrow of Thomas Sankara ?
text: Did you know that Chrysler vehicles won 34 races in the 1966 NASCAR season , after winning only six in the previous season?
text: Did you know that somebody jumped 8 feet 6 inches (2.59 m) high on a pogo stick at Pogopalooza this year?
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text: Did you know that after the German occupants shut down several underground newspapers in Norway in February 1944, Bulletinen was the only one remaining with contacts to the leadership of the civil resistance ?
text: Did you know that William Sharman , a finalist in the 110 meter hurdles at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics , is also a classically trained pianist and has a master's in banking and finance?
text: Did you know that in the midst of the 1962 Cuban missile crisis , the Indonesian Murba Party pledged to send volunteers to Cuba ?
text: Did you know that the Louisiana short story writer Ada Jack Carver Snell had a French grandmother who encouraged her literary and intellectual pursuits?
text: Did you know that the first time the Soviet prototype of the Ilyushin Il-40 ground-attack aircraft fired its guns in the air its pilot was temporarily blinded and both jet engines flamed out ?
text: Did you know that after a failed jail escape, anarchist Harold Thompson had 31 years added to his life sentence ?
text: Did you know that the Automatic Complaint-Letter Generator generates complaint letters that are "general enough to be true or fit anyone and everyone, yet specific enough to mean something"?
text: Did you know that Dennis Gorski sponsored legislation in the New York State Assembly that preserved the right to declare "loss of fetus " as a serious injury in automobile accidents?
text: Did you know that the first airborne lifeboat carried by bombers converted to air-sea rescue service was designed in the UK by Uffa Fox ?
text: Did you know that The Edw. Malley Co. department store operated for 130 years and was billed as "The Metropolitan Store of Connecticut "?
text: Did you know that according to 1996 research into sexuality in music videos , hip-hop and R&B scored highest in an analysis of sexual content?
text: Did you know that part of Audenshaw , Greater Manchester and a section of an ancient ditch that according to folklore was the site of a bloody battle between Saxons and Vikings , was destroyed in the 19th century by the construction of Audenshaw Reservoirs ?
text: Did you know that Syrian political activist Faeq al-Mir was arrested and potentially faced life in prison for a phone call?
text: Did you know that Maltman Barry , a British political activist, was a friend of Karl Marx , but stood for election as a Conservative ?
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text: Did you know that staff members of the Maria Mitchell Association conduct research into topics as varied as exoplanets and the American Burying Beetle ?
text: Did you know that SMS Weißenburg , a German pre-dreadnought battleship , was sold to the Ottoman Navy , and later came to the rescue of the battlecruiser Goeben , another former German warship in Ottoman service?
text: Did you know that Southern Miss Golden Eagles quarterback Austin Davis broke 15 different school records his redshirt freshman season?
text: Did you know that the song " Voices Carry " was originally written and sung by 'Til Tuesday 's lead singer, Aimee Mann , as to a woman?
text: Did you know that the distinctive "na-na-na-na" sound found in the music of the Katamari Damacy series was created by sound director Yū Miyake as an experiment in creating memorable video game music ?
text: Did you know that the convicted killers known as the Scissor Sisters dismembered and beheaded their mother's partner, chopped off his penis and dumped most of his body in the Royal Canal ?
text: Did you know that at the heart of the U.S. Supreme Court 's decision in Communications Workers of America v. Beck is a dispute over a US$10-a-month agency shop fee?
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text: Did you know that the first peace-time air-sea rescue unit equipped entirely with helicopters was No. 275 Squadron RAF in 1953?
text: Did you know that halfback Andy Hastings led the 1916 Pitt football team to a national championship and was also elected president of Pitt's University Glee Club?
text: Did you know that after being driven mad, some survivors of the Brazilian cruiser Bahia jumped off of their rafts and were eaten by sharks?
text: Did you know that two of the three daughters of the Louisiana real estate developer and Springhill mayor Jesse L. Boucher became Hollywood actresses ?
text: Did you know that Vickers Viscount G-ALWE crashed on approach to Ringway Airport, Manchester when a bolt on the starboard flap mechanism failed?
text: Did you know that the Battle of San Marino was fought between Allied and German forces inside a neutral country ?
text: Did you know that after being reported as dead in LIFE magazine, Don Bell was greeted with "Hello, Lazarus " by General MacArthur ?
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text: Did you know that when the Vladimir Dudintsev novel Not by Bread Alone was published in the Soviet Union in 1956, it was so popular that copies sold for five times the cover price?
text: Did you know that the Romanian–American Refinery was one of several refineries bombarded by the allied powers in Operation Tidal Wave during World War II ?
text: Did you know that " Kicks ," a 1966 hit single by Paul Revere & the Raiders , was called "a dumb anti-drug song" by singer-songwriter David Crosby ?
text: Did you know that Cut , a 2009 ad designed to promote domestic violence awareness, was deemed too violent to appear on British television ?
text: Did you know that the 19th century New York City saloon Hole-in-the-Wall employed two female criminals as bouncers ?
text: Did you know that Shirley Huffman , the first female mayor of Hillsboro, Oregon , worked to change the city's charter to allow her more time in office?
text: Did you know that while racing in the 2009 World Orienteering Championships gold medalist Thierry Gueorgiou rescued an injured competitor?
text: Did you know that Caroline Moore was 14 years old when she discovered supernova 2008ha ?
text: Did you know that the Scolanova Synagogue , one of four synagogues confiscated and turned into churches in Trani , Italy in 1380, is now a synagogue again?
text: Did you know that in 1729, when his plantation Corotoman was destroyed, Robert "King" Carter I lamented in his diary about the total destruction of his wine cellar ?
text: Did you know that David Snell , who was the first person to allege that Japan had tested its own atomic bomb prior to Hiroshima and Nagasaki , later became a writer for Life Magazine ?
text: Did you know that in the legal case Werner Erhard and Associates v. Christopher Cox for Congress the plaintiff claimed charges of libel and slander for being referred to as a " destructive cult "?
text: Did you know that the film based on the novel Names in Marble is the most successful Estonian film in terms of box office profits?
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text: Did you know that forensic techniques in antiquity included pulling donkey tails and filling the mouths of suspects with rice?
text: Did you know that director Frank Capra cast street people from Downtown Los Angeles as extras in the 1933 film Lady for a Day ?
text: Did you know that a sotie is different from a farce in that it uses allegorical protagonists , rather than real people?
text: Did you know that the list of alumni of Union College in Schenectady, New York , includes one President of the United States , a Secretary of State from both the Union and the Confederacy , and numerous Congressmen ?
text: Did you know that in 2007, Jon Willis became the first British fencer to win a World Cup since 1981?
text: Did you know that Fighter Wing 71 is the sole unit in the Luftwaffe still operating the F-4 Phantom II fighter?
text: Did you know that the 2007 drama The Memory Thief made use of interview footage of actual Holocaust survivors?
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text: Did you know that the video sharing website Trilulilu is one of the most visited websites in Romania , with an average of 2.2 million unique visitors per month?
text: Did you know that in the lawsuit Ney v. Landmark Education Corporation and Werner Erhard , a default judgment of over US$500,000 was entered against Erhard ?
text: Did you know that the Tasmanian Masked Owl is threatened by competition for nest hollows by feral bees , kookaburras and possums ?
text: Did you know that Hillsboro, Oregon , based Beyond Words Publishing ' s first book retailed for over US$2,000, with one copy presented as a gift to the Japanese Emperor ?
text: Did you know that the Montreal Gazette of November 18, 2008, included the Papineau-Labelle Wildlife Reserve in the 10 hot spots of Quebec 's wilderness that "you should experience before you die"?
text: Did you know that the 1964 British BSA Thunderbolt motorcycle was capable of over 100 miles per hour (160 km/h)?
text: Did you know that Arsenal Park Transilvania , one of Europe 's few military-themed amusement parks , has villas named after Douglas MacArthur , Julius Caesar , and Eremia Grigorescu ?
text: Did you know that Yaakov Bodo played the character "Moishe Ventilator" more than 1,000 times?
text: Did you know that the author of the American book How the Scots Invented the Modern World is from the Midwestern United States and has no Scottish in his ancestral background?
text: Did you know that the F.N.B.P.B. bakery workers' union , founded in 1960, is the oldest member of the Confédération générale du travail du Burkina trade union centre in Burkina Faso ?
text: Did you know that the one off Winton Train commemorates Sir Nicholas Winton , the "English Oskar Schindler "?
text: Did you know that CFL rookie Bobby Keyes won a $1,000 player pool for grabbing the Edmonton Eskimos ' first interception of the 2009 season ?
text: Did you know that Carletonomys , a rodent related to modern rice rats , is known only from one incomplete upper jaw from over 1 million year old silt deposits in Argentina ?
text: Did you know that Fred Allison erroneously claimed to have discovered new chemical elements he called alabamium and virginium in 1930?
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text: Did you know that Australian singer Lana Cantrell , a 1968 Grammy Award nominee for Best New Artist , later became an entertainment lawyer in New York City ?
text: Did you know that Tawang Monastery in northeastern India is said to be the largest Buddhist monastery in the world outside of Lhasa , Tibet ?
text: Did you know that Miranda Lambert 's new album Revolution is slated to include songs co-written by Blake Shelton as well as Charles Kelley and Dave Haywood of Lady Antebellum ?
text: Did you know that, in his 1765 work A Dissertation Concerning the End for Which God Created the World , theologian Jonathan Edwards argued that God's purpose in creating the world was not human happiness but His own glory ?
text: Did you know that Fred McQueen , the son of Steve McQueen , is in 20th Century Boys 2: The Last Hope , one of the most expensive Japanese films ever made?
text: Did you know that in the 1950 confidence vote for the Indonesian Natsir cabinet , the National People's Party was the sole party without ministers of its own to support the government?
text: Did you know that Leonid Rogozov had to perform an appendectomy on himself because he was the only doctor stationed at the Soviet Antarctic research station Novolazarevskaya ?
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text: Did you know that Ridge A in Antarctica has been identified as the coldest, driest, calmest place on Earth?
text: Did you know that, at seventeen years old, Charles L. Gilliland was the youngest Medal of Honor recipient of the Korean War ?
text: Did you know that the declared purpose of the Texas Psychological Association is to advance the field of psychology as a science, profession, and means of promoting human welfare?
text: Did you know that Albert Pape scored a goal for Manchester United against Clapton Orient in 1925, despite only completing a transfer from Orient to United an hour before kick-off?
text: Did you know that singer Myriam received a gold certification in México for an album that included a cover version of the number-one song " Simplemente Amigos "?
text: Did you know that the Yibir are a Somali clan of itinerant magicians who give blessings to newborns and newly married couples?
text: Did you know that the daggernose shark can adjust the timing of events in its reproductive cycle by several months?
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text: Did you know that at the 2000 Camp David Summit , Yasser Arafat denied that a Jewish Temple ever existed in Jerusalem?
text: Did you know that Pavel Argeyev , a Russian flying ace , fought on both the Eastern Front and the Western Front for both Russia and France during the First World War ?
text: Did you know that the Indonesian Murba Women's Union ran programmes to help women start batik and weaving household industries?
text: Did you know that while heading the Norwegian Directorate for Cultural Heritage , Harry Fett worked for the preservation of the site Bryggen in Bergen , and the mining town Røros ?
text: Did you know that the then Crown Prince of Austria Karl I praised Galicia 's Jews for their patriotism during the Russian occupation of 1914–15?
text: Did you know that Chamchuri Square , an office/residential/retail building complex in Bangkok , Thailand , stood uncompleted for almost ten years due to the 1997 Asian Financial Crisis ?
text: Did you know that after leading Illinois to "the greatest football upset of all time," Bart Macomber left school for the Orpheum vaudeville circuit?
text: Did you know that decltype can be used to "clean up function syntax mess" in C++ programming ?
text: Did you know that the depopulated Palestinian Arab village of Alma was once the biggest centre for growing olives in the District of Safad ?
text: Did you know that Buffalo 's "Ockie" Anderson scored more points in the 1920 NFL season (the league's first) than four entire teams?
text: Did you know that the pilot in the Soviet Il-20 ground attack aircraft prototype sat on top of the engine, directly behind the propeller?
text: Did you know that Martha Wollstein became the first female member of the American Pediatric Society in 1930?
text: Did you know that Judge Richard Posner 's 2009 book, A Failure of Capitalism , moves away from his past advocacy of free-market capitalism and criticizes the Bush administration 's policies?
text: Did you know that Eddie Gillette led the Wisconsin Badgers football team to an undefeated season and in baseball "beat some of the best pitchers in the ' Three-Eye League '"?
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text: Did you know that before 1977, hundreds of wild elephants in North-East India were captured each year by mela shikar , a traditional method involving a lasso ?
text: Did you know that Sir John Henry Pelly was Governor of the Hudson's Bay Company and Governor of the Bank of England ?
text: Did you know that although he failed to win the office himself in 1883, Thomas Z. Morrow ' s brother-in-law and son were both elected governor of Kentucky in 1895 and 1919, respectively?
text: Did you know that the HAWAII MR1 mapping system was used to find the USS Yorktown , a shipwreck 17,000 feet underwater?
text: Did you know that Hillsboro, Oregon , native Rick Dancer announced he was running for Oregon Secretary of State while on air working for KEZI ?
text: Did you know that the murder of 17-year-old Raonaid Murray has still not been solved ten years after it occurred?
text: Did you know that iPod Touch / iPhone game Doodle Jump has been the top paid downloaded app in five countries including the US ?
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text: Did you know that Pope Constantine , in 711, was the last pope to visit Constantinople for over 1250 years?
text: Did you knowthat Tropical Storm Wendy of 1999 was labeled "the most serious storm of the century" by the local government in Wenzhou, China , where it killed 133 people?
text: Did you know that Charles of Lorraine-Commercy was the one of the most trusted lieutenants of Prince Eugene of Savoy ?
text: Did you know that the CSCT is the largest container terminal in the Black Sea basin, having an annual traffic capacity of 1,500,000 twenty-foot equivalent unit (TEUs)?
text: Did you know that No Jacket Required is highest selling release from the discography of Phil Collins , having been certified diamond for sales of over 10 million copies in the United States ?
text: Did you know that between studying maths at Cambridge University and becoming a highly cited neuroscientist , Stephen Dunnett was a social worker in the London Borough of Southwark in the mid- 1970s ?
text: Did you know that U.S. President Herbert Hoover was once the manager of the Gwalia Gold Mine in Western Australia ?
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text: Did you know that the Nyack, New York , post office has been renamed in memory of two local police officers and a security guard slain in the 1981 Brinks robbery ?
text: Did you know that Wilhelm Munthe served four years as president of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA)?
text: Did you know that Faith Bible High School in Hillsboro, Oregon , closed for a day after a student received a threatening message on AOL Instant Messenger ?
text: Did you know that Fred Griffiths , who played twice for the Wales national football team , was killed in action during the First World War ?
text: Did you know that the Indonesian Dayak Unity Party was dissolved in 1959 when President Sukarno issued a ban on ethnic political parties ?
text: Did you know that Carrie Underwood 's single " Cowboy Casanova " was rush-released on YouTube after an unfinished mix of the song leaked online?
text: Did you know that after losing both arms in a coal mining accident, Vladislav Titov wrote several books by holding a pen with his teeth?
text: Did you know that the U.S. Coast Guard 's Helicopter Interdiction Tactical Squadron uses .50-caliber rifles to shoot out the engines of fleeing drug runners?
text: Did you know that Tore Gjelsvik headed the Norwegian Polar Institute for more than twenty years?
text: Did you know that Francisco Goya 's series of etchings The Disasters of War was not published until 35 years after his death, when there was no risk of political repercussions?
text: Did you know that the ILO 's Right to Organise and Collective Bargaining Convention neither authorizes nor prohibits union security agreements , "such questions being matters for regulation in accordance with national practice"?
text: Did you know that Samuel Clucas was offered a soccer scholarship in the United States after studying sports development at Lincoln College ?
text: Did you know that the owners of the Flickinger Center for Performing Arts in Alamogordo, New Mexico , gave the building away to local government so that state funding could be used to renovate the building?
text: Did you know that the songs on Ferdinand Richard ' s solo album En Avant are sung in eight different languages?
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text: Did you know that when actress Gerda Ring had to flee from Norway to Sweden during World War II , she started the theatre group Fri Norsk Scene , together with her husband Halfdan Christensen ?
text: Did you know that in Ixcateopan de Cuauhtémoc , the mortal remains of the last Aztec emperor are on public display?
text: Did you know that in 1949, a monument in recognition of Dr. Niels Ebbesen Hansen and his contributions to the Horticultural Department was erected on the campus of South Dakota State College ?
text: Did you know that 94% of the Members of Parliament elected in the 1992 election in Burkina Faso were male?
text: Did you know that Dr. Wacław Olszak , Polish physician and former mayor of Karviná , Czechoslovakia , was murdered by Nazis just ten days after the war started?
text: Did you know that the religious Vision Interfaith Satellite Network evolved into the Hallmark Channel ?
text: Did you know that according to Hindu mythology , god Shiva proposed to his consort Parvati at Guptakashi ?
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text: Did you know that 2,500 out of 3,000 prisoners at the Chinese Jiabiangou labor camp died within three years, mostly from starvation?
text: Did you know that the recently discovered Speleonectes atlantida is an eyeless crustacean equipped with powerful prehensile limbs and poisonous fangs that function as hypodermic needles ?
text: Did you know that while filming Counsellor at Law , director William Wyler had to resort to placing cue cards around the set because lead actor John Barrymore kept forgetting his lines?
text: Did you know that Christopher Elrington , general editor of the Victoria County History , was a professor at the University of London even though he never taught there?
text: Did you know that in 1770, James Cook named two landmarks near Cook Island, New South Wales , Mount Warning and Point Danger because he nearly shipwrecked there?
text: Did you know that most of the exhibits at the International Maritime Museum Hamburg are from the private collection of Peter Tamm , who started collecting when he was six years old?
text: Did you know that Georgia Tech halfback and College Football Hall of Fame inductee "Stroop" Strupper used lip-reading to overcome deafness ?
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text: Did you know that a Lufthansa Junkers Ju 52 was the first plane to land at Oslo Airport, Fornebu in Norway, nine months before it opened?
text: Did you know that Norman Luxton sailed across the Pacific Ocean in a 100-year old Nootka dugout canoe for five months before being forced to stop from injuries?
text: Did you know that due to technical malfunctions, it took nine years from the date SL95 trams of Oslo , Norway , were ordered until all units were in service?
text: Did you know that the 122 miles (196 km) Dorcheat Bayou in Arkansas and Louisiana was once navigable for several months a year to access the Red River ?
text: Did you know that even though Karen Platou in 1921 was the first woman elected to the Norwegian Parliament , the first woman to sit in that assembly was Anna Rogstad , ten years earlier?
text: Did you know that in Taxco during Holy Week some perform penance walking with 50 kilograms (110 lb) bundles of thorned blackberry canes on their backs?
text: Did you know that Yummy Dough is modelling clay that can be eaten as well as played with?
text: Did you know that several Armillaria species are bioluminescent ?
text: Did you know that Clarence Cazalot quadrupled Marathon Oil 's net income during his first year as chief executive ?
text: Did you know that the Election Commission of Nepal oversaw approximately 10,000 polling places, 10,000 candidates, and 234,000 election workers during voting for the Nepalese Constituent Assembly ?
text: Did you know that William of Pagula ' s book Oculus Sacerdotis , intended to be a manual for parish priests, was written in such a way that many of the priests couldn't read it?
text: Did you know that Rancho Cañada de Pogolimi , a fertile California ranch exceeding 8,780 acres (35.5 km 2 ), was granted in 1844 to María Antonia Cazares, who was married at 14 and widowed at 17?
text: Did you know that semi-professional football player Nevin Saroya featured in the football-themed film Mean Machine ?
text: Did you know that Katsura Hoshino based her manga character Allen Walker on a female character, only altering the hair length?
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text: Did you know that Mount Widerøe , Antarctica, is named for Viggo Widerøe , who flew aerial photography planes to map 80,000 km 2 (31,000 sq mi) of the continent's coast?
text: Did you know that at only 0.32 miles (0.51 km) long, New Jersey Route 64 is a state highway that consists primarily of a bridge over Amtrak -maintained railroad tracks ?
text: Did you know that Brandenburg and Pomerania settled their conflicts in the Treaty of Soldin , but fought it out when Pomerania disobeyed?
text: Did you know that the Swedish reality show Wild Kids has been described as a children's version of Survivor ?
text: Did you know that Jim Bunning , currently a U.S. Senator from Kentucky , was the Pittsburgh Pirates ' Opening Day starting pitcher in 1968 ?
text: Did you know that Polish archaeologist Mieczysław Domaradzki , who was based in Bulgaria for 22 years studying the archaeology of Thrace , discovered the ancient market centre Pistiros ?
text: Did you know that Beverly Hills , California , produces more than 874,000 barrels of oil a year, with approximately 11 million barrels in reserve , and oil wells on campus at the local high school ?
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text: Did you know that the gorgon Medusa is a common theme in the mosaic decoration of Villa Armira , a Roman villa near modern Ivaylovgrad , Bulgaria ?
text: Did you know that Jacques Callot 's series of etchings The Large Miseries of War were so called to distinguish them from a smaller set of Miseries ?
text: Did you know that of the two formats of Ashokan Edicts (Delhi) namely, rock edicts and stone pillar edicts, the in-situ rock edict found in 1966 links Delhi ’s history with the Ashokan era (273–236 BC)?
text: Did you know that the Simpson Railroad is one of the last operational logging railroads in the continental United States?
text: Did you know that Austrian Jewish author Elfriede Gerstl as a child had to hide in a wardrobe to avoid deportation to a concentration camp ?
text: Did you know that all but one of Masami Hirosaka 's IFMAR titles were won driving cars by Yokomo and their home market distributor Associated Electrics ?
text: Did you know that in the world's northernmost university it is obligatory to take self-defence shooting classes?
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text: Did you know that Gershom Schocken was the editor of Haaretz for over 50 years?
text: Did you know that the hydraulis or water organ of the Dion Archaeological Museum is the first water organ found in Greece , and believed to be the oldest excavated to date anywhere in the world?
text: Did you know that the history of transport in Somerset has gone from the Sweet Track , an ancient causeway , to a modern international airport?
text: Did you know that polyaryletherketone (PAEK) is a family of thermoplastics that are used in high temperature applications and surgical implants ?
text: Did you know that mainstream Japanese film journal Kinema Junpo chose director Tatsumi Kumashiro 's The World of Geisha as one of the best ten Japanese films of 1973 despite its being in the softcore Roman porno genre?
text: Did you know that the 2009 Serbian Air Force MiG-29 crash killed Lieutenant Colonel Rade Randjelovic, Serbian Air Force 's display pilot and commander of the 98th Air Base ?
text: Did you know that Leonese nobleman Fruela Díaz gave, as a gift to Queen Urraca of León , a horse worth the equivalent of 5,000 sheep?
text: Did you know that No. 6 Commando , a British commando unit, used American uniforms and equipment during Operation Torch in an attempt to placate the Vichy French ?
text: Did you know that The Homestead , one of the oldest buildings in Haverstraw, New York , has been home to a state legislator and congressman , the county sheriff and the local school superintendent ?
text: Did you know that the thirteen-year-old Kumawakamaru took revenge for his father by assassinating the monk Homma Saburō with his own sword?
text: Did you know that the two roads that use former New Jersey Route 65 , Port Street and Doremus Avenue, dead-end just after their respective intersection?
text: Did you know that Edward Atienza made his London theatrical debut in 1954, as the Mole in Toad of Toad Hall ?
text: Did you know that the United States Navy conducted Operation Teardrop in 1945 in the mistaken belief that German U-boats were en route to attack the United States east coast with V-1 flying bombs ?
text: Did you know that Japan 's incoming First Lady Miyuki Hatoyama claims to have been abducted by aliens in a triangular-shaped UFO and to have known Tom Cruise when he was Japanese in a prior incarnation ?
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text: Did you know that prior to reclamation of the Polaris mine , the 700 feet (210 m) long warehouse that stored concentrated ore was the largest building in Nunavut ?
text: Did you know that in 1947 a group broke away from the Communist Party of Indonesia (PKI) and founded the rival Red Communist Party , in protest of the PKI leadership's willingness to negotiate with the Dutch ?
text: Did you know that the Russell Drysdale 's 1948 painting The cricketers has been described as "possibly the most famous Australian painting of the 20th century"?
text: Did you know that the Battle of Oldendorf was one of only two battles in the Thirty Years' War where both armies attacked?
text: Did you know that the political cabaret show Neues aus der Anstalt is the first of its kind to be broadcast on the second German public-service channel since 1979?
text: Did you know that British Isles and Australian rugby player Blair Swannell played every game in the same pair of unwashed breeches ?
text: Did you know that in combat areas of the Eastern Front of World War II , German soldiers were ordered to shoot any dog because it might be an anti-tank dog ?
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text: Did you know that Jacob van Deventer spent fifteen years making hundreds of maps of Dutch cities, but his work was only rediscovered 299 years after he began?
text: Did you know that Battle of Long Khanh was the last joint American-Australian battalion-sized operation in Vietnam?
text: Did you know that wet storage stain , more commonly known as "white rust", is a very selective type of corrosion that only occurs on fresh zinc surfaces that are stored in close quarters and collect moisture?
text: Did you know that Bulgarian – Italian Futurist painter Nikolay Diulgheroff , an honorary citizen of Turin , studied at the original Bauhaus in Weimar ?
text: Did you know that the Soviet Il-8-2 ground-attack aircraft prototype mounted a cassette of ten AG-2 aerial grenades to drop in the path of pursuing fighters?
text: Did you know that the German hospital ship Ophelia was seized by the British Navy as a spy ship in 1914 only to be torpedoed and sunk by German U-boat UB-10 a year later?
text: Did you know that mob boss Gennaro Angiulo ' s high-school ambition was to be a lawyer?
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text: Did you know that the giant Tiber oilfield was found 6 miles (10 km) down, in some of the oldest offshore rock layers ever drilled for oil?
text: Did you know that San Jose Mercury News West Magazine received awards for reporting on Japanese American internment , environmental policies of the Reagan administration , and effects of Proposition 13 ?
text: Did you know that in the churchyard of St Mary's Church, Hale , Cheshire , England , is the grave of John Middleton , who was reputed to have been over 9 feet (3 m) tall?
text: Did you know that Haitian pianist and composer Ludovic Lamothe was hailed as the "black Frédéric Chopin " after years of recitals to the Haitian elite?
text: Did you know that the four Brandenburg -class battleships were the first ocean-going battleships built by the German Imperial Navy ?
text: Did you know that in the United Kingdom a drought is defined as fifteen consecutive days or more with less than 0.2 millimetres of rainfall ?
text: Did you know that Gaylord Stinchcomb , one of the stars of Ohio State 's first football victory over Michigan , also won the 1921 NCAA championship in the broad jump ?
text: Did you know that as the result of a wrong order, the elite British T-Force moved in to Kiel just prior to VE Day while a strong German force was still present in the city?
text: Did you know that a miniature clay figurine of a woman or goddess in the Argos Archaeological Museum in Greece is one of the oldest sculptural representations of humans found in Europe to date?
text: Did you know that after being part of the Communist Party of Burma for 20 years, Pheung Kya-shin mutinied against the party and established his own army?
text: Did you know that in the initial Anglo-Italian Cup football tournaments, one point was awarded for every goal scored?
text: Did you know that the English explorer Robert Machin , who has been credited with discovering the island of Madeira , may never have existed?
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text: Did you know that Romanian DJ David Deejay was the first artist in the country to release two songs simultaneously, I Can Feel and So Bizzare [ sic ], with the last becoming a number one hit?
text: Did you know that Ford developed a people mover system known as ACT , but the only one to see passenger service was built between the Hyatt Regency hotel and Fairlane Town Center shopping mall on Ford-developed lands in Dearborn, MI ?
text: Did you know that Pope Pius XII appointed Hilarius Breitinger as Apostolic Administrator to the Reichsgau Wartheland , the portion of Poland annexed by Nazi Germany ?
text: Did you know that during the 2009 Big Ten Conference football season nine teams open their seasons at home ?
text: Did you know that the building of the Archaeological Museum of Chania in Crete was once the main church of a Franciscan monastery and survived a major earthquake in 1595?
text: Did you know that African-American groom Eddie Sweat is depicted with Secretariat in a life-sized statue at the Kentucky Horse Park ?
text: Did you know that Kirātārjunīya , a Sanskrit poem by Bharavi , is known both for its depth and its wordplay, including a symmetric verse that reads the same forward, backward, horizontally and vertically?
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text: Did you know that Henry Gerber founded the first gay rights organization in the United States in 1924, only to see it destroyed in less than a year following accusations that it was a "strange sex cult"?
text: Did you know that Roy Nielsen was one of the two saboteurs responsible for sinking the German troop ship SS Donau in the Oslofjord in January 1945?
text: Did you know that Travis Tritt 's song " Lord Have Mercy on the Working Man " features Brooks & Dunn , T. Graham Brown , George Jones , Little Texas , Dana McVicker , Tanya Tucker and Porter Wagoner ?
text: Did you know that the Edenton Tea Party was one of the first instances of political activism by women in the Thirteen Colonies ?
text: Did you know that although Tennessee Williams co-wrote the screenplay for the 1950 film version of his play The Glass Menagerie , he called the film a "dishonest" adaptation of his work?
text: Did you know that the Oslo Metro station serving the district of Grini in Bærum was closed in 1995 because many passengers chose to walk to another station from whence the fare was cheaper?
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text: Did you know that Christian Kølle introduced the feminine grammatical gender in Norway in an anonymous work released in 1785?
text: Did you know that a turma signified a cavalry squadron of 30 men in the Roman army , but evolved into a regiment of up to 6,000 men in the Byzantine Empire ?
text: Did you know that German CDU politician Karl-Josef Laumann was appointed Minister of Labor, Health and Social Affairs for North Rhine-Westphalia in 2005?
text: Did you know that Turner Contemporary , a visual arts venue in Margate , has begun construction atop a promenade so that it won't be destroyed by the North Sea ?
text: Did you know that bonnetmouths can be found at depths from 3 to 90 metres (9.8 to 295.3 ft), but mainly occur in schools at about 64 metres (210 ft) deep?
text: Did you know that the British Velocette Valiant motorcycle launched in 1956 was criticised for its underpowered engine?
text: Did you know that Singaporean author Rex Shelley wrote his first novel The Shrimp People , about the Eurasian community in Singapore , in 1991 at age 61?
text: Did you know that the herald Robert Glover was appointed to the office of Norroy King of Arms jointly with his 82-year-old father-in-law William Flower in 1580?
text: Did you know that Hamburg 's Wellingsbüttel Manor was the former home of Duke Friedrich Karl of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck , and used as a student's resident hall from 1964 till 1996?
text: Did you know that Lewis A. "Tam" McArthur paid to have his book, Oregon Geographic Names , published in 1928 and that the book is still in print today?
text: Did you know that in the 1894–95 Madagascar expedition , France lost only 25 men in combat , but as many as 4,800 men to diseases ?
text: Did you know that Helga Karlsen , who was the first female Member of Parliament from the Norwegian Labour Party , died only four days before she could be elected for a third term?
text: Did you know that members of the 15th Arizona Territorial Legislature used a glass eye and the services of a prostitute to ensure passage of the session's first act ?
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text: Did you know that English former footballer David Hamilton was Wigan Athletic 's first ever full-time scout ?
text: Did you know that the Haverstraw King's Daughters Public Library is the oldest chartered public library in Rockland County, New York ?
text: Did you know that Duke Paul Frederick of Mecklenburg became the youngest soldier in the world when assigned to the 15th Mecklenburg Dragoons by German Emperor William I shortly after his birth?
text: Did you know that in 1987, 13 years after its citizens voted to repeal the city's gay rights ordinance , Boulder , Colorado , became the only American city to adopt a gay rights law through popular referendum?
text: Did you know that the former actress Sherry Boucher , formerly married to George Peppard , is now a Realtor in Bossier Parish , Louisiana ?
text: Did you know that Death Risk Rankings , nicknamed the "death calculator", allows users to view their chance of dying of sixty-six causes of death, such as murder , in a twelve-month span?
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text: Did you know that the former secretary to the French embassy to Constantinople and army officer Étienne Soulange-Bodin set up a horticultural institute near Paris to rival Kew in the early 19th century?
text: Did you know that Shirley Temple film vehicles Curly Top and The Littlest Rebel were both named to Variety ' s list of top box office draws for 1935?
text: Did you know that Old Norse poems attributed to Torf-Einarr describe his defeat of Hálfdan Longlegs?
text: Did you know that De Eendracht , a smock mill in Anjum , Netherlands , is used as a tourist information office as well as being a working mill?
text: Did you know that George Quaintance was an American artist whose "idealized, strongly homoerotic " depictions of men appeared in physique magazines ?
text: Did you know that the deepest living demersal fish ever retrieved, Abyssobrotula galatheae , was found in the Puerto Rico Trench at a depth of 8,370 metres (27,453 ft)?
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text: Did you know that Lake Bistineau in northwestern Louisiana was originally formed in 1800 by flooding stemming from a large log jam on the nearby Red River ?
text: Did you know that on New Year's Day in 1980, 60 people were killed by an earthquake in the Azores Islands ?
text: Did you know that when designing The Spectacular Spider-Man , Victor Cook looked at the style of Hellboy: Blood and Iron , which he directed, for inspiration?
text: Did you know that the RAF Memorial Flight Spitfire Mk IIa P7350 is the only surviving Spitfire from the Battle of Britain still flying?
text: Did you know that Tien Ang Tong is the first Methodist church built in China that provided services in the English language ?
text: Did you know that Romanian writer Alexandru Odobescu viewed antisemites preventing linguist Lazăr Şăineanu from obtaining naturalization as " cannibals " devouring "a civilized man"?
text: Did you know that Sapta Puri represents the seven holy Hindu cities of Ayodhya , Dwarka , Haridwar , Ujjain , Kanchipuram , Mathura and the holiest, Varanasi ?
text: Did you know that many well-known works of Renaissance art passed through the hands of connoisseur art dealer Stefano Bardini of Florence ?
text: Did you know that Winnfield , home of the Louisiana Political Museum and Hall of Fame , is known as "the birthplace of Louisiana politics" because three governors , Huey and Earl Long and O.K. Allen , were born there?
text: Did you know that Med Hondo is an award-winning Mauritanian film director who dubbed the voice of Donkey in the French language version of Shrek ?
text: Did you know that since 2006, a Gibraltarian no longer needs be a Member of Parliament to become Mayor of Gibraltar ?
text: Did you know that after cancelling the political cabaret series Notizen aus der Provinz in 1979, the ZDF did not broadcast a similar show for 28 years?
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text: Did you know that three-time All-American Eddie Mahan was named by Jim Thorpe as the greatest football player of all time?
text: Did you know that William Blake 's unfinished manuscript An Island in the Moon contains early versions of three of his famous Songs of Innocence ?
text: Did you know that the waviness of bearing balls and bearing races surfaces is one of the reasons for bearing noise and vibrations?
text: Did you know that the 1986 Vrancea earthquake in Romania , which damaged roughly 55,000 homes, was felt as far north as Poland and as far southwest as Italy ?
text: Did you know that Francesco Torniello was the first to define the point as a unit of measurement in typography?
text: Did you know that the position of Clerk of the Parliaments has existed in England since at least 1315?
text: Did you know that the rule of the Salt Hotel is "don't lick the walls"?
text: Did you know14, 3 September 2009 (UTC)
text: Did you know that Norwegian professor of bacteriology Sverre Dick Henriksen was an honorary member of the Polish Chamber of Physicians and Dentists , despite having never worked in Poland ?
text: Did you know that Severe Tropical Cyclone Keli was the first recorded tropical cyclone to form within the South Pacific Ocean in June?
text: Did you know that Henry Dorling , step-father of cookery writer Mrs Beeton , was the first Clerk of the Course of Epsom Racecourse ?
text: Did you know that the farmland at Ramstad , Norway , was affected by the 19th-century construction of both the Drammen Line and the European route E18 ?
text: Did you know that in 1974, Louis Gaston Mayila became Deputy Personal Adviser to the then President of Gabon , Omar Bongo ?
text: Did you know that the treadmill COLBERT (Combined Operational Load Bearing External Resistance Treadmill) aboard the International Space Station was named after political satirist Stephen Colbert ?
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text: Did you know that Robin Hoare received the Albert Medal for removing depth charges from a ship while it was on fire?
text: Did you know that critics praised The Spectacular Spider-Man episode " Natural Selection " for its action and fight sequences?
text: Did you know that the term surface integrity is defined as the nature of the surface condition of a workpiece after being affected by manufacturing processes?
text: Did you know that one of the largest fish culture stations in Quebec , Canada , is in Lac-des-Écorces ?
text: Did you know that Triangle , the 1967 album by The Beau Brummels , was partially inspired by the Legion of Honor ?
text: Did you know that Martin Demaine founded the first one-man art glass studio in Canada and home-schooled his son Erik to become MIT ' s youngest ever professor despite not having a college degree himself?
text: Did you know that Auld Lang Syne was written by Robert Burns at Ellisland Farm near Dumfries , Scotland ?
text: Did you know that supporters invaded the pitch on three occasions during a football match between West Ham United and Millwall in 2009?
text: Did you know that the Intimidator roller coaster on the South Carolina side of the Carowinds amusement park takes its name from the nickname of former NASCAR driver Dale Earnhardt ?
text: Did you know that according to government records in 2006, more than a third of the total number of Chinese residents in Botswana worked in the construction business?
text: Did you know that the Germantown Colony and Museum near Minden , Louisiana , preserves the remnants of a Utopian religious commune active between 1835 and 1871?
text: Did you know that Giveamanakick ' s live performances involved gas masks and streamers and one of their albums was said to be "something akin to being battered round the head with a plank of wood for half an hour"?
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text: Did you know that all proceeds from the 2009 Radiohead song " Harry Patch (In Memory Of) " were donated to The Royal British Legion ?
text: Did you know that Giuseppe Ricciotti 's book "Life of Jesus Christ" was edited in 1941 and reedited and reprinted several times?
text: Did you know that as a result of the Okęcie Airport Incident in 1980 , four top players of the Polish national football team were disqualified, and one of them never capped for Poland again?
text: Did you know that Alexander Gordon Lyle is one of only two dental officers ever to receive the United States ' highest military decoration, the Medal of Honor ?
text: Did you know that, predicted to appear in at least 1 in 20,000 humans, the microduplication of a band on chromosome 17 leads to the rare disease Potocki-Lupski syndrome ?
text: Did you know that King Louis IX of France said that he would rather break clods behind a plough than accept the 1264 Peace of Canterbury ?
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text: Did you know that the Castilian nobleman Fernando Núñez de Lara became a Knight Hospitaller on his deathbed in exile in Marrakesh ?
text: Did you know that Joginder Singh and Nick Nowicki were twice members of a group nicknamed the Unsinkable Seven after managing to be among the seven survivors of the East African Safari Rally in 1963 and 1968?
text: Did you know that users in the upcoming MMORPG DUST 514 will be able to interact with users from another game, EVE Online , through mercenary assistance?
text: Did you know that the Polish Committee for Settling of Place Names determined 32,138 toponyms of Poland inbetween 1946 and 1950?
text: Did you know that the White-throated Round-eared Bat creates roosts inside the nests of the termite , Nasutitermes corniger ?
text: Did you know that William Hutton , François Pierre La Varenne and Benjamin Disraeli wrote about game pie , and Josiah Wedgwood made cooking dishes for it?
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text: Did you know that groups considered UFO religions by scholars include Aetherius Society , Heaven's Gate , Order of the Solar Temple , Raëlism , and Scientology ?
text: Did you know that the 1966 film Alice of Wonderland in Paris reimagined the Lewis Carroll heroine as an American girl who is obsessed with visiting the French capital ?
text: Did you know that Chisho Itoh, the winner of the 1988 Yokohama Film Festival Best New Director Award, went on to a career as the hardcore Japanese adult video director Tohjiro ?
text: Did you know that about a third of the population of Sheridan, Oregon , are criminals?
text: Did you know that Fuzhou Tanka people in Fujian lived on boats most of their lives?
text: Did you know that the Indonesian political party Permai was also a mystical religious movement?
text: Did you know that in the 1990s many users gained Internet access by using Slirp to emulate a TCP/IP connection via a dial-up shell account ?
text: Did you know that after The Saturday Evening Post announced its closure in 1969, embittered editor-in-chief William Emerson wished "that all the [magazine's] one-eyed critics will lose their other eye"?
text: Did you know that Caney Lakes Recreation Area and nearby Lake Bistineau in northwestern Louisiana have been plagued with the giant salvinia fern, which impairs boating ?
text: Did you know that 80% of the taxis used for transport in Hamburg are driver-owned?
text: Did you know that the 1930 musical The New Yorkers received criticism for bad taste, and its song " Love for Sale " was subsequently banned from the radio?
text: Did you know that Mexico celebrates its Bicentennial of Independence and Centennial of the Mexico Revolution in 2010?
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text: Did you know that the practice of stacking dead bodies and covering them with soil instead of digging graves has left Postman's Park , a former burial ground in the City of London , elevated above street level?
text: Did you know that Al Purvis played for the Edmonton Mercurys , an ice hockey team sponsored by a local car dealership, that won the gold medal at the 1952 Winter Olympics ?
text: Did you know that the extensive ornamentation on the Haverstraw, New York , post office may be due to the influence of Postmaster General James Farley , a native of the area?
text: Did you know that the Somali Ostrich faces eradication in the Horn of Africa ?
text: Did you know that the Philadelphia Saving Fund Society's headquarters building was one of only two U.S. skyscrapers featured at the 1932 International style exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art ?
text: Did you know that architect Charles Durrett has designed more than 50 cohousing communities in North America?
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text: Did you know that the documentary Harvard Beats Yale 29-29 gets its name from an actual headline in the Harvard Crimson ?
text: Did you know that Japanese erotic film actress Motoko Sasaki made her screen debut at the advanced age for the field, of 29, and won a Best Actress award at 36?
text: Did you know that despite leading the New York Giants in tackles in 2004, Kevin Lewis was released before 2005?
text: Did you know that the Map of Rensselaerswyck shows that Kiliaen van Rensselaer originally named areas around the upper Hudson River , near Fort Orange , after the women in his life?
text: Did you know that Venezuelan performer José Luis Rodríguez "El Puma" received a Grammy Award nomination for his number-one song " Baila Mi Rumba "?
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text: Did you know that five months after the 2nd Arizona Territorial Legislature created Pah-Ute County most of the county's land was given to Nevada ?
text: Did you know that following the depopulation of the Palestinian village of Bayt Susin in 1948, the moshav of Ta'oz was established just two years later?
text: Did you know that Robert Sommers , who became British Columbia Minister of Forests in 1952, was the first cabinet minister in the British Commonwealth to be imprisoned for taking bribes ?
text: Did you know that the 1st Special Squadron of the Imperial Japanese Navy was tasked with defending Australia and New Zealand during World War I ?
text: Did you know that both scutching and heckling are steps in the process of turning flax into linen ?
text: Did you know that Bathwick Hill, Bath is the site of a large Italianate villa, built by Henry Goodridge as his own house?
text: Did you know that the fictional Caribbean island of "San Sebastian" appears in RKO's The Ghost Ship , I Walked With a Zombie , and Zombies on Broadway ?
text: Did you know that one thousand human sacrifices are required to retrieve a treasure hidden in the Bopath Ella Falls ?
text: Did you know that infection by pistil smut induces the development of female sex organs in a male?
text: Did you know that hairy black cups use toxic chemicals to kill living things?
text: Did you know that The Haunted House written by Charles Dickens in 1859 is the inspiration for an attraction which can be seen at Chatham in Kent ?
text: Did you know that half- Egyptian Bazil Ashmawy spent a night with ghostbusters in a haunted shopping centre and was hypnotised by witches to meet his ancestors for his TV show Baz's Culture Clash ?
text: Did you know that on every Wednesday and Saturday, the demons of Sri Lanka assemble to give an account of their activities to their king?
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text: Did you know that Big Max pumpkins are not really pumpkins?
text: Did you know that Cutting Edge haunted house was recently awarded the Guinness World Record for the largest haunted house attraction?
text: Did you know that the title witch of action game Bayonetta can form giant boots with her hair to attack enemies, but loses some of her clothing in the process?
text: Did you know that the demon Maha Sohona , whose head has been replaced with that of a bear, haunts graveyards and feasts on human flesh?
text: Did you know that so many witnesses saw the spectre of Stephen Decatur appear at a window at Decatur House , one of the haunted locations in Washington, D.C. , that the window was walled up?
text: Did you know that The Sunday Business Post praised Fight Like Apes frontwoman MayKay for her "long black hair and banshee wail"?
text: Did you know that Devil's doors allowed the Devil to escape from churches after leaving the souls of newly baptised babies?
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text: Did you know that Mycena nargan was so named because its white speckles were like the eyes of the mythical nargun of  Australian aborigines?
text: Did you know that people paid to see a skeleton strike a thigh bone against a human skull every sixty minutes ?
text: Did you know that the carnivorous monster called a Hidebehind from American folklore cannot be accurately described because it is always hiding behind something?
text: Did you know that the first Canadian musical staged at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival really sucked ?
text: Did you know that the Wells and Mendip Museum has a skeleton believed to be that of the Witch of Wookey Hole ?
text: Did you know that according to the Testament of Solomon , the one-winged demon Abezethibou is trapped underneath the Red Sea ?
text: Did you know that in the children's book I Like Pumpkins , the narrator sees Frankenstein and his pet alligator buying pumpkins?
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text: Did you know that Terrestrial Physics is a sculpture made out of a 1 million volt (low energy) particle accelerator ?
text: Did you know that far right British National Party leader Nick Griffin feared for his safety over his first ever appearance on the BBC 's Question Time panel?
text: Did you know that the Seinfeld episode " The Phone Message " was written to replace a script in which one of the main characters bought a handgun , which was considered too provocative?
text: Did you know that footballer James Constable worked in an undergarment lining factory while playing as a semi-professional ?
text: Did you know that the Alliance political party claimed in 1998 that the Royal New Zealand Navy ship HMNZS Charles Upham was "doing a passable imitation between a lemon and a white elephant "?
text: Did you know that as special counsel for compliance in the United States Department of Energy , Paul Bloom recovered $6 billion from American oil companies that had overcharged refiners for their "old oil"?
text: Did you know that in the 30 Rock episode " Into the Crevasse " , Jack Donaghy redesigns a microwave oven , turning it into the Pontiac Aztek ?
text: Did you know that church services may be held in Serbia under the crown of a zapis , a large oak with a cross inscribed into its bark, sacred for the village at which it is situated?
text: Did you know that noblemen in the Byzantine Empire were often mutilated to make them ineligible to be Emperor ?
text: Did you know that radio personality Yngvar Ustvedt has written more than seventy books?
text: Did you know that the lyrics in the U2 song " No Line on the Horizon " were inspired by an image of a place "where the sea meets the sky and you can't tell the difference between the two"?
text: Did you know that the dachshund - terrier , Otto , is the oldest dog in the world at one hundred and forty-five dog years ?
text: Did you know that during the Seven Years' War , Kolberg was besieged three times ?
text: Did you know that the Parks and Recreation episode " Beauty Pageant " was directed by Jason Woliner , who directed Parks star Aziz Ansari in the MTV sketch comedy show, Human Giant ?
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text: Did you know that Les Cocker , a coach with the victorious England team at the 1966 World Cup , received a winner's medal in June 2009, nearly 30 years after his death, following a campaign launched by his family?
text: Did you know that by the time their lands were ceded to the United States in the Kalapuya Treaty of 1855, only 400 Kalapuya Native Americans remained, the rest having died of disease or armed conflict?
text: Did you know that ceftaroline is a novel antibiotic against MRSA and other resistant bacterial strains and is under clinical trial as a treatment for infectious diseases such as community-acquired pneumonia ?
text: Did you know that the 1919 novel Lad: A Dog is a fictionalized account of the life of author Albert Payson Terhune 's real life rough collie Lad?
text: Did you know that a 2008 study concluded that the Ramapo Fault in New York has the potential to cause a magnitude 7 earthquake and billions of dollars in damages?
text: Did you know that the Pará class destroyers were based on the River class destroyers and served in the Brazilian Navy for 38 years?
text: Did you know that former Louisiana State Senator Heulette Fontenot wrote legislation to require that disaster preparedness officials also provide for the safety of household pets during evacuations?
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text: Did you know that from 1850 until 1872, the Party Processions Act made it illegal to parade in Ireland with music, flags or banners?
text: Did you know that many congenital malformations in babies share the common life-threatening complication of pulmonary hypoplasia ?
text: Did you know that while tortillerias are a long-time fixture in Latin America , they now are becoming common in some areas of the United States ?
text: Did you know that when asked if she wanted to focus on drawing , painting , or sculpting in art school, Ruth Duckworth said she wanted to study all of them just as Michaelangelo had?
text: Did you know that during the American Civil Rights Movement , Carraway Methodist Medical Center in Birmingham, Alabama , turned away a wounded Freedom rider ,  but treated the man who blew up the  16th Street Baptist Church ?
text: Did you know that despite making his national team debut in 1924, footballer James Mitchell remains the only player to represent England while wearing spectacles ?
text: Did you know that it took the U.S. government seven years to design, then two additional years to build, the Hoosick Falls, New York , post office after it acquired the land?
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text: Did you know that the head of Polish communist secret police Stanisław Radkiewicz ordered his agents to "liquidate" members of the Polish Peasant Party , and make it look like the work of the anti-communist underground ?
text: Did you know that American band Cartel took one year to record their third full-length album, Cycles , after spending less than a month in the studio for each of their previous two albums?
text: Did you know that Stephen Barnett was a leading critic of the Newspaper Preservation Act of 1970 , arguing that it led to newspaper monopolies and the demise of smaller papers in cities in the United States ?
text: Did you know that the U2 song " Fez – Being Born ", created by joining the two in-progress songs "Fez" and "Being Born" together, was originally called "Chromium Chords"?
text: Did you know that contraception expert Dr. Sheldon Segal led the team that developed the implantable device Norplant , described as "the first significant advance in birth control since the pill "?
text: Did you know that although United Kingdom law has a principle of "innocent until proven guilty", under parts of the Prevention of Crime Act 1953 the burden is on the defendant to prove his innocence?
text: Did you know that Kentucky judge Benjamin Mills ' opinion regarding the rights of slaves brought to the Northwest Territory was cited as a precedent in U.S. courts until the U.S. abolished slavery following the American Civil War ?
text: Did you know that as a Seattle School Board member during World War I , German -born Nathan Eckstein bowed to pressure to drop German language classes in Seattle Public Schools ?
text: Did you know that the Olympic Runners were widely assumed to be an American funk band until their identities were revealed to be British session musicians including Mike Vernon and Pete Wingfield ?
text: Did you know that part of the land where the depopulated Palestinian village territory of Jahula lay is used to cultivate cotton and watermelons today?
text: Did you know that Kwame "The Snow Leopard" Nkrumah-Acheampong is the first Ghanaian to qualify for the Winter Olympics ?
text: Did you know that local lore in Salem, New York , has it that one of the first people buried in the Revolutionary War Cemetery was an unknown local Indian who wandered into town and died?
text: Did you know that Emilia Malessa , a Polish soldier in the anti-communist resistance , committed suicide after she had trusted the security chief Różański and revealed her fellow soldiers which led to their arrest?
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text: Did you know that Germany's Federal Minister of the Interior Werner Maihofer resigned after Der Spiegel uncovered an illegal wiretapping of physicist Klaus Traube ?
text: Did you know that the Phosphorite War is regarded in Estonia as a catalyst that led to the dissolution of the Soviet regime?
text: Did you know that Ritchie Yorke instigated and organized the first political meeting between a pop star and a prime minister, between John Lennon and Pierre Trudeau in 1969?
text: Did you know that the Salem, New York , historic district was the site of one of the earliest churches built in New York north of Albany ?
text: Did you know that despite the escalating human-elephant conflict , the number of elephants in the dry zone of Sri Lanka has increased, and 211 individuals were counted in Kaudulla National Park ?
text: Did you know that PNC Financial Services bought National City Corp using TARP funds only hours after accepting the funds while National City itself was denied funds?
text: Did you know that the annual Emsley Carr Mile was created to encourage athletes to break the four-minute mile , but by the second race in 1954, Roger Bannister had already broken it?
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text: Did you know that a minute of silence was held in memory of murdered rugby player Shane Geoghegan at Ireland 's 2008 international match against New Zealand ?
text: Did you know that Overlook Hospital , founded in 1906 by a 26-year-old entrepreneur, established the first hematology oncology children's clinic in New Jersey , in 1977?
text: Did you know that despite serving as the editor of The Observer for fifty years, Lewis Doxat prided himself on never having written a single article for the paper?
text: Did you know that the constitutions of Greece , Ireland , Switzerland and several U.S. states are enacted in the name of God ?
text: Did you know that Joseph G. Aulisi was the costume designer for Die Hard with a Vengeance and Bicentennial Man ?
text: Did you know that Hong Kong property developer Henderson Land Development claims to have sold the most expensive apartment in the world at 39 Conduit Road ?
text: Did you know that Sir Maurice Amos was the third member of his family to become a legal professor at University College London , after his father and grandfather?
text: Did you know that globs are millimeter sized modules in the V4 complex part of the brain where humans and other primates first perceive color hue ?
text: Did you know that her own troubled divorce prompted Louisiana State Senator Julie Quinn to work for the law that requires the violator of a protective order to serve at least a 90-day sentence?
text: Did you know that the Charomskiy ACh-30 B aircraft diesel engine was tested as a motorjet where the jet engine's compressor was driven by the piston engine's turbochargers ?
text: Did you know that of the 104 celebrity competitors that have appeared on the American version of Dancing with the Stars to date, three withdrew from the competition?
text: Did you know that Bottisham Village College was the second of the Village Colleges established by Henry Morris in his vision for a better education for country people in Cambridgeshire ?
text: Did you know that the exact location of the city of Cialis , where Bento de Góis became convinced in 1605 that Cathay is China , has been a subject of debate among later historians?
text: Did you know that Nephila komaci is the largest web -spinning spider known to date?
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text: Did you know that in 2003, Judge Sybil Moses ordered the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey to release transcripts of employee radio transmissions in the World Trade Center during the September 11 attacks ?
text: Did you know that the Byzantine theme of Lykandos , which played an important role in the Byzantine–Arab wars of the early 10th century, was founded by Melias , an Armenian prince, and settled by Armenians?
text: Did you know that actress Michelle Wild , whose real name is Katalin Vad, changed her name to accommodate to the international distribution of Hungarian pornography ?
text: Did you know that the Satyashodhak Communist Party was founded in Maharastra , India , in 1978, seeking to combine the philosophies of Karl Marx , B.R. Ambedkar and Jyotirao Phule ?
text: Did you know that the U.S. State Department tried to pressure International Astronomical Union delegate Leo Goldberg into demanding membership for the Republic of China , despite the country's lack of professional astronomers?
text: Did you know that in 1944 the Soviet Factory No. 500 began to disassemble the stored Charomskiy M-40 engines to use their components in the closely related Charomskiy ACh-30B engine?
text: Did you know that when the musical Kelly closed after one night on Broadway , a reviewer noted " Ella Logan was written out of Kelly before it reached the Broadhurst Theater Saturday night. Congratulations, Miss Logan"?
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text: Did you know that William Waterhouse considered the rapport between violist Cecil Aronowitz and cellist Terence Weil the special distinction of the Melos Ensemble ?
text: Did you know that the Wi-Fi Alliance plans to ease the task of setting up small Wi-Fi networks with their new Wi-Fi Direct standard?
text: Did you know that Italian writer Dante Troisi was posthumously awarded the Feronia Literary Prize in 2005?
text: Did you know that Finland band Nightwish was nominated for 27 awards including  2 Echo Awards and 13 Emma-gaala Awards ?
text: Did you know that Diane Winston lost a special election for the Louisiana State Senate in 2005, despite having led the first round of balloting?
text: Did you know that in spite of the fact that child labour in India is illegal, children as young as five years are employed?
text: Did you know that Arthur Schütz managed to get the Neue Freie Presse to print a letter in which he complained about the use of fireproof coal and oval wheels by the Federal Railway of Austria ?
text: Did you know00, 28 October 2009 (UTC)
text: Did you know that by identifying watermarks in the paper of the incunabulum Missale Speciale , a book alleged to pre-date the Gutenberg Bible (c. 1455), Allan H. Stevenson proved it was printed nearly 20 years later?
text: Did you know that the defeat of the US 8th Cavalry Regiment at the Battle of Unsan has been called "one of the most devastating US losses of the Korean War ."?
text: Did you know that although SS Empire Beatrice was scrapped in 1966, a 50-foot (15 m) long section of her can still be found off Dungeness , Kent ?
text: Did you know that Louisiana in 2008 became the fiftieth state to ban cockfighting , nearly two decades after former State Representative Garey Forster led the initial effort to halt the practice?
text: Did you know that 26 nations have ratified the Treaty of Lisbon since 2007, and only one country, the Czech Republic , has yet to complete the process?
text: Did you know that Japanese manga artist Seizō Watase worked at an insurance company for 16 years before retiring to work on manga full time?
text: Did you know that New Jersey Route 324 is the only state highway in New Jersey where neither of its termini is another roadway?
text: Did you know that in an Air Madagascar DC-4 crash in 1967 at Antananarivo Airport , among those killed was the Malagasy foreign minister Albert Sylla ?
text: Did you know that the proceedings of the British Summary Court were in both English and German ?
text: Did you know that Sara Szweber , one of a few women who held leadership positions in the Jewish socialist movement , after the invasion of Poland was threatened with arrest by the NKVD and fled to the United States ?
text: Did you know that the first golf course in North America was a three-hole course built in 1868 in the village of Sainte-Pétronille near Quebec City , Canada ?
text: Did you know that Chinese 'cultbuster' and qigong master Sima Nan has publicly exposed qigong trickery in China?
text: Did you know that Sri Lankan cricketers hold the world record for the highest team total of 260 for 6 in Twenty20 Internationals ?
text: Did you know that when Swede Anna Bågenholm got trapped under a layer of ice in a river for eighty minutes, her body temperature decreased to 13.7 °C (56.7 °F) — the lowest survived body temperature ever recorded in a human?
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text: Did you know that Tanco Mine in Manitoba , Canada , is the world's largest producer of caesium ?
text: Did you know that reporter M. A. Farber was jailed for 40 days and The New York Times fined $285,000, for Farber's refusal to turn over notes in the Mario Jascalevich "Dr. X" curare murder trial in 1978?
text: Did you know that the 2009 science fiction television series Twin Spica was produced in cooperation with the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency ?
text: Did you know that Judge Morris Pashman upheld a ban on the sale of the John Cleland book Fanny Hill in New Jersey , calling it "sufficiently obscene to forfeit the protection of the First Amendment "?
text: Did you know that Lookingglass, Oregon , became nationally famous in the 1970s when a parking meter for horses was installed in front of the general store ?
text: Did you know that former New York City Medical Examiner Michael Baden credited Dr. Valentino Mazzia with creating the field of forensic anesthesiology ?
text: Did you know that during the Second World War , SS Hispania was detained by the French , seized by the Vichy French , declared a war prize , passed to the Kriegsmarine and eventually sold back to her original owners?
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text: Did you know that the national park Sumapaz Paramo in Colombia , is the largest Paramo ecosystem in the world?
text: Did you know that the mayor of Rongelap , James Matayoshi , led the Marshallese who suffered from radiation sickness due to nuclear testing in seeking monetary compensation?
text: Did you know that the electricity generating capacity of Ethiopia is projected to double when the Gibe III dam and the associated hydropower plant, currently under construction on the Omo River , are completed?
text: Did you know that as Bergen County, New Jersey prosecutor, Guy W. Calissi obtained murder convictions and death sentences for Edgar Smith and Thomas Trantino , though neither would ever go to the electric chair?
text: Did you know that the Parnall Pixie won both the fuel consumption test and the speed prize at the 1924 Lympne Light Aircraft Trials , with the aid of interchangeable wings?
text: Did you know that Canadian singer Térez Montcalm 's debut album, Risque , saw her nominated for five Félix Awards in 1995?
text: Did you know that Jamaica 's Dry River isn't?
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text: Did you know that outfielder Bill Taylor never made an error in his five-year Major League Baseball career?
text: Did you know that there are five main types of metal casting defects : gas porosity , shrinkage defects, mold material defects, pouring metal defects, and metallurgical defects?
text: Did you know that Narcyz Wiatr , a Polish activist in the agrarian movement and member of the anti-Nazi resistance group Peasant Battalions , was murdered by the communist secret police in Kraków ’s Planty Park ?
text: Did you know that the Schluchsee , at 930 metres above sea level , is the highest reservoir in Germany and also the largest lake in the Black Forest ?
text: Did you know that Louisiana District Judge Stephen J. Windhorst is a former reserve police officer who also served eight years in the Louisiana House of Representatives as an anti-crime advocate?
text: Did you know that in the Siege of Tripoli (1551) the Ottoman Empire captured the city of Tripoli in modern-day Libya from the Knights of Malta ?
text: Did you know that Robert Brown 's 1818 botanical article Congo was deemed by one reviewer to be remarkable for its frequent use of the word "remarkable"?
text: Did you know that Hubert Whittell , a career soldier in the Indian Army , studied Urdu , Pashto and Persian , before moving to Western Australia to become a farmer and ornithologist ?
text: Did you know that the U2 song " Stand Up Comedy " was recreated so many times during the No Line on the Horizon sessions that six different songs were written as a result?
text: Did you know that former U.S. Ambassador to Laos G. McMurtrie Godley testified in 1992 to the Senate Select Committee on POW/MIA Affairs that no POWs remained behind after the end of the Vietnam War ?
text: Did you know that after being reported as the site of the alleged murders by "Dr. X" Mario Jascalevich , Riverdell Hospital closed in 1981 due to declining numbers of patients?
text: Did you know that the New Haven , which operated most of the steam railroad mileage in the U.S. state of Connecticut , also controlled a vast system of trolley lines through the Connecticut Company ?
text: Did you know that after defending American Nazi Party leader George Lincoln Rockwell , attorney David I. Shapiro was told by Rockwell to "listen up, Jewboy ... I'll watch as you and all the other Jews go to the gas chamber"?
text: Did you know that before the 2004 Russia–Belarus gas dispute , Gazprom sold natural gas to Belarus at Russian domestic prices?
text: Did you know14, 26 October 2009 (UTC)
text: Did you know that the Bavarian ministry of education once ordered 75,000 copies of a song book for school children to be destroyed because it contained Biermösl Blosn ' s Gott mit dir, du Land der BayWa ?
text: Did you know that Japanese high school pitcher Yusei Kikuchi could be the first player to bypass a domestic draft and play for a Major League Baseball team?
text: Did you know that a CD by hazzan Samuel Benaroya of Seattle, Washington 's Sephardic Bikur Holim Congregation is one of the few recordings of Ottoman Hebrew sacred music?
text: Did you know that the 1896 Meiji-Sanriku earthquake caused the most devastating tsunami in Japanese history , destroying about 9,000 homes and killing more than 22,000 people?
text: Did you know that Kobaïan is a lyrical language created by French drummer and composer Christian Vander for his progressive rock band Magma ?
text: Did you know that reviews for the pilot episode of Modern Family compared it to Arrested Development and Married...With Children ?
text: Did you know that U.S. Civil Rights Movement leader Marie Foster walked fifty miles in a march , despite receiving injuries two weeks earlier on Bloody Sunday ?
text: Did you know14, 26 October 2009 (UTC)
text: Did you know that Arne Berge and Conrad Vogt-Svendsen , priests at the Norwegian seamen's church in Hamburg, played a central role in the White Buses operation?
text: Did you know that all three former head coaches of the BC Lions already inducted to the Canadian Football Hall of Fame , Annis Stukus , Eagle Keys and Cal Murphy , had losing records coaching this Canadian football club?
text: Did you know that Bernard Lens III was the first English miniaturist to paint on ivory instead of vellum ?
text: Did you know that the Institute for Advanced Study of Human Sexuality in San Francisco houses one of the world's most comprehensive libraries of academic sexological and erotological resources?
text: Did you know that in William Blake 's poems, Imagination fights Reason in his version of Genesis , Eden , and Exodus while his son later starts revolutions in America , Europe , Africa and Asia ?
text: Did you know  that in 2008 61-year-old Rosie Swale-Pope completed a five-year 20,000-mile around the world run to highlight the importance of early diagnosis of prostate cancer ?
text: Did you know  that in 2008, a 49% stake in Air Malawi was offered to Comair for only US$ 3,500?
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text: Did you know that Dominican baseball prospect Miguel Angel Sano received the highest international signing bonus in Minnesota Twins history, more than the Twins spent on 70 international prospects from 2006 to 2008 combined?
text: Did you know that the Lulworthiaceae are a family of marine fungi that typically grow on submerged wood or seaweed ?
text: Did you know that Joseph Zack Kornfeder , a founding member of the Communist Party of America in 1919, became a vigorous anti-Communist after his wife was arrested by the NKVD during the Great Purge of 1937–38?
text: Did you know that Saint Giles 's leper hospital at Fugglestone was founded by Queen Adelicia ?
text: Did you know that Hawaiian Chiefess Kapiʻolani ' s walk into an active volcano in 1824 was the subject of a poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson ?
text: Did you know that Tadeusz Kościuszko initially did not want to support the Greater Poland Uprising of 1794 in order to avoid a two-front war against both Russia and Prussia ?
text: Did you know that the Rugrats episode " A Rugrats Passover " fell under controversy from the Anti-Defamation League over the designs of two characters featured in it?
text: Did you know that after resigning in 2003 as Texas secretary of state , Gwyn Shea accepted employment with Harrah's Entertainment Company and lobbied for privatization of the state lottery ?
text: Did you know that Queen Victoria was "vastly amused" by a command performance in 1892 of La fille du régiment , presented by the Carl Rosa Opera Company at Balmoral Castle ?
text: Did you know that Jake Owen 's 2009 single " Eight Second Ride " is a re-recording of a song from his 2006 debut album Startin' with Me ?
text: Did you know that Pedro Fróilaz de Traba ( fl. 1086–1126) had an iron statue of himself erected in the square in front of the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela in Galicia, Spain ?
text: Did you know that Maurycy Orzech and Leon Feiner wrote the telegraph informing Bundist member of the Polish government in Exile Szmul Zygielbojm of the outbreak of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising ?
text: Did you know that Mississippi -born Joshua Green had successive careers as a major figure in the Puget Sound Mosquito Fleet and as a Seattle banker?
text: Did you know that the copilot of the Tupolev Tu-8 could turn his seat 180° and man a 20 mm (0.79 in) Berezin B-20 cannon in the rear of the pilot's compartment?
text: Did you know07, 25 October 2009 (UTC)
text: Did you know that Sani Monastery in Zanskar contains a chorten thought to date to the Kushan emperor Kanishka ’s reign in the 2nd century CE ?
text: Did you know that the fruiting structures of Conidiosporomyces fungi grow in the ovaries of various grass species?
text: Did you know that in 2004, there were only 90 women for every 100 men in the age group 18–29 in the new federal states of Germany?
text: Did you know that the officially unreleased material of Michael Jackson includes the song " A Place With No Name ", which was leaked by website TMZ.com following the singer's death ?
text: Did you know that one of the most notable actions of minor sabotage in occupied Poland during World War II involved stealing a propaganda plaque from the monument of Mikołaj Kopernik ?
text: Did you know that research in which vertebrates or cephalopods are used in Canada must meet the ethical standards set by the Canadian Council on Animal Care ?
text: Did you know that Joseph T. Buckingham , a leading Boston journalist of the 1830s, was an indentured farm laborer as a boy?
text: Did you know07, 25 October 2009 (UTC)
text: Did you know that John Ortved was signed to author the book The Simpsons: An Uncensored, Unauthorized History after writing an oral history of The Simpsons for Vanity Fair ?
text: Did you know that the French electro - swing band Caravan Palace was formed in 2005 after three of its members were hired by a film production company to provide the soundtrack for silent pornographic movies ?
text: Did you know that Pleurotus nebrodensis was declared to be a critically endangered mushroom in Sicily by the IUCN ?
text: Did you know that once the Motion Picture Association of America began enforcing the Hays Code in 1934, it became impossible to re-release Waterloo Bridge due to its controversial plot?
text: Did you know that the Church of the Sacred Heart was transported via barge from Cambridge to St Ives ?
text: Did you know that teenage singer Faryl Smith 's upcoming album Wonderland features a digitally produced duet with Luciano Pavarotti , who died in 2007?
text: Did you know that a local resident created a board game based on roundabouts built in front of the Green Oak Village Place shopping mall in Brighton, Michigan ?
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text: Did you know that the Bolhrad High School in Bolhrad , Ukraine , was founded by the Bessarabian Bulgarian diaspora as the first high school of the Bulgarian National Revival period?
text: Did you know that Cromwell Dixon died in a plane crash in 1911 only two days after becoming the first aviator to cross the Continental Divide of the Americas ?
text: Did you know that several groups have managed to add non-natural bases to DNA, while others have added non-natural amino acids into the genetic code?
text: Did you know that the sculpture Critical Assembly used an actual central component of an atomic bomb ?
text: Did you know that prior to becoming White House Online Programs Director in the Obama Administration , Jesse Lee worked for Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi ?
text: Did you know that the Russian folk song " Kupala and Kostroma " was later renamed and the lyrics altered because of pagan references?
text: Did you know that Werner Heubeck , the managing director of Ulsterbus during The Troubles , was known for personally removing IRA bombs from buses to keep them running on time?
text: Did you know that Xiuhcoatl was a mythological Aztec fire- serpent , viewed as the spirit form of Xiuhtecuhtli , the fire god , and was the lightning-like weapon of the god Huitzilopochtli ?
text: Did you know that the U2 song " Breathe " is set on 16 June, an intentional reference to James Joyce 's novel Ulysses ?
text: Did you know that, as a child, Jewish Romanian literary historian Zigu Ornea was persecuted by the antisemitic Ion Antonescu regime, and is said to have made a living selling humming tops?
text: Did you know that Nancy Wexler , who discovered the location of the gene that causes Huntington's disease and created a genetic test for it, is herself at risk as the daughter of a sufferer?
text: Did you know that the Bristol Guild of Applied Art has survived both Second World War bomb damage and a 1974 Provisional IRA attack?
text: Did you know that Frank Kanning Mott was a messenger for Western Union , a telephone operator , a hardware business owner and a city councilman before he was elected mayor of Oakland, California in 1905?
text: Did you know that some academics believe that the " First Great Debate " in international relations theory never actually took place?
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text: Did you know that the 464 BC earthquake in Sparta , Greece , led to a revolt of helots ?
text: Did you know that 43 miners were trapped for five days underground in the 1926 Pabst Mine Disaster in Michigan ?
text: Did you know that Asian women have been left traumatised and questioned by police investigating missing two-year-old Aisling Symes in New Zealand ?
text: Did you know that Martha Wainwright has contributed backing vocals on all of her brother's studio albums , and was a featured performer on his 2007 tribute album Rufus Does Judy at Carnegie Hall ?
text: Did you know that Max Beerbohm 's 1922 book Rossetti and His Circle contained caricatures of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood ?
text: Did you know that Cooper Mountain Nature Park in Oregon is located on an extinct volcano ?
text: Did you know that species in the aquatic fungus family Loramycetaceae have spores with gelatinous sheaths thought to act as flotation devices?
text: Did you know07, 24 October 2009 (UTC)
text: Did you know that the A,A Light Sculpture by Jim Sanborn at the University of Houston illuminates its surroundings with prose from different languages?
text: Did you know that a complete interactive 3D reconstruction of the 3 mm marine slug Pseudunela cornuta has been accomplished?
text: Did you know that in Bryan Talbot 's graphic novel Grandville , France won the Napoleonic Wars , invaded Britain and guillotined the British Royal Family ?
text: Did you know that Katie Piper , a former model who was burnt by acid in an attack arranged by her ex-boyfriend, had her face removed and rebuilt in a single operation, which was the first of its kind?
text: Did you know that the Dictionary of Welsh Biography contains the biography of nearly 5,000 eminent Welsh men and women over seventeen centuries?
text: Did you know that two songs on Scott Miller 's 2001 album Thus Always to Tyrants are based on unearthed family letters from the American Civil War ?
text: Did you know that theater reporter Sam Zolotow of The New York Times was said to be able to get any information he needed, as long as he had "a corned-beef sandwich, a cigar and a telephone"?
text: Did you know07, 24 October 2009 (UTC)
text: Did you know that critic Robert Christgau called The Indestructible Beat of Soweto the most important record of the 1980s?
text: Did you know that William M. Walton , Attorney General of Texas , withdrew his nomination for reelection when he learned his opponent was a disabled Confederate veteran with a family to support?
text: Did you know that the Aldabra banded snail from the Seychelles died out due to climate change ?
text: Did you know that the Salar de Uyuni salt flat in Bolivia is one of the best objects for calibrating Earth observation satellites ?
text: Did you know that Chinese singer Ai Jing is best known for a folk rock song about the 1997 handover of Hong Kong to China ?
text: Did you know that Edward VI of England 's 1547 Injunctions mandated that a copy of the English translation of the Paraphrases of Erasmus was to be kept in every parish church?
text: Did you know that producer Daniel Melnick's films won more than 20 Academy Awards out of 80 nominations, while his play Kelly closed after only one night on Broadway ?
text: Did you know that the eastern segment of Canada Park in Israel lies on the village site of the depopulated former Palestinian village of Dayr Ayyub ?
text: Did you know that while Tim Greve was editor-in-chief of Verdens Gang it became the largest newspaper in Norway?
text: Did you know that the pink buses of Bermuda are specially designed for the island's roads?
text: Did you know that economics professor Arnljot Strømme Svendsen chaired the board of the Bergen theatre Den Nationale Scene for 31 years, and also chaired the Association of Norwegian Theatres for 22 years?
text: Did you know that Jason Aldean said his 2009 single " The Truth " was "one of those songs that I heard the first time and knew I wanted to cut"?
text: Did you know that Czech jockey Josef Váňa won his sixth Velká pardubická steeplechase at the age of 56?
text: Did you know that Pope Adrian VI was so angered by one of the talking statues of Rome that he wanted to have it thrown into the Tiber River ?
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text: Did you know that Sir Oliver Starkey was the only English knight present at the siege of Malta and is the only person to be buried in the crypt of Valetta Cathedral who was not a Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller ?
text: Did you know that the book 101 People Who Are Really Screwing America includes criticism of the Fox News Channel , The Wall Street Journal , and drivers of sport utility vehicles ?
text: Did you know that a drummer boy in the Irish Legion was given the Legion of Honor for beating the charge during the Siege of Astorga even after losing both legs?
text: Did you know that iron chelate helps fix chlorophyll deficiency in garden plants but is toxic to slugs and snails ?
text: Did you know that the British Invincible class were the world's first battlecruisers ?
text: Did you know that the alternative country band The V-Roys were originally named The Vice Roys, but were forced to change their name after being threatened with a lawsuit from a Jamaican band?
text: Did you know that some parts of the United Kingdom 's Consumer Credit Act 1974 , which received Royal Assent on 31 July 1974, did not come into force until 1985?
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text: Did you know that during the Cadex 2009 military training exercises , Sri Lanka Navy cadets trained aboard vessels of the Indian Navy , while Indian cadets got a chance to visit historical places in Sri Lanka ?
text: Did you know that Life on Another Planet , a graphic novel by Will Eisner , has been called by James Morrow , "a kind of science fictional Bonfire of the Vanities "?
text: Did you know that Mohammed bin Hadou was a Moroccan ambassador to the court of Charles II in England in 1681–82?
text: Did you know that until 1950, only descendants of Massachusetts Bay or Plymouth colonists could become members of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts ?
text: Did you know that long distance runner Zersenay Tadese was the first person from Eritrea to win an Olympic medal in any sport?
text: Did you know that the U2 song " Unknown Caller " was written from the perspective of a suicidal drug addict whose phone begins receiving cryptic text messages?
text: Did you know that in a 1933 first-class cricket match, Jack Lee claimed the wicket of his older brother Harry , with the catch being taken by younger brother Frank ?
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text: Did you know that the Commander Australian Fleet holds full command of all maritime combat forces and operations within the Royal Australian Navy ?
text: Did you know that despite being located in Worcester, Massachusetts , the Assumption Preparatory School followed French custom in holding classes on Saturday mornings but not on Thursday or Saturday afternoons?
text: Did you know that the Belgrade Race Through History and Belgrade Marathon competitions were held in 1999, despite the fact that the NATO bombing campaign had caused widespread damage to the city that year?
text: Did you know that the title of the Bob Dylan song " The Wicked Messenger " mirrors a Proverbs passage, which reads "A wicked messenger falleth into mischief; but a faithful ambassador is health"?
text: Did you know that Moroccan alligator wrestler and circus strongman Tahar Douis set a world record by lifting 12 men weighing a total of 1,700 pounds on his shoulders?
text: Did you know that by the time Lyon's Inn was dissolved it was being run by only two of the standard twelve governors, neither of whom had any idea what their duties were?
text: Did you know that Aliquandostipitaceae members have the widest hyphae in the Ascomycetes ?
text: Did you know that Donna Mae Mims , known as the "Pink Lady" of racing, became the first woman to win a Sports Car Club of America national championship in 1963?
text: Did you know that several ethnic Uighurs who were former inmates of the Guantanamo Bay prison are amongst the approximately 1,000 Chinese people living in Palau ?
text: Did you know that current Chief of National Defense General Staff of Greece , Air Chief Marshal Ioannis Giagkos , served as Commander in NATO Combined Air Operations Centre -7?
text: Did you know that Gabriel Schanche Kielland's summer house Ledaal from the early 1800s later became a royal residence in custody of Stavanger Museum ?
text: Did you know that Puritan colonist Nicholas Upsall saved the lives of jailed Quaker pioneers Mary Fisher and Ann Austin , was later banished , and then helped found the first Monthly Meeting of the Quakers in America?
text: Did you know that P53 , a live album by experimental music group P53 , features two classical grand pianists , a turntablist and a real-time sampler /processor?
text: Did you know that A.W. Lawrence , the former Professor of Classical Archaeology at Cambridge University was the brother of 'Lawrence of Arabia' ?
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text: Did you know that conservative State Senator Dan Morrish broke with the Louisiana Family Forum in 2009 by supporting a law which permits restaurants to levy cover charges for live entertainment and to sell alcohol ?
text: Did you know that after the Palestinian Safad village of Fir'im was depopulated in 1948, the Israeli settle­ment of Hatzor HaGlilit was established nearby?
text: Did you know that after playing association football and coaching the Philippine women's national football team , Tony Chua switched to manage a team in the Philippine Basketball Association ?
text: Did you know that three Nobel Peace Prizes have led to withdrawal of members of the awarding Norwegian Nobel Committee ?
text: Did you know that until United States v. Georgia ,  no U.S. Supreme Court decision required US state prison systems to provide facilities for disabled inmates under ADA ?
text: Did you know that despite being one of the largest malls in the Denver area, Westminster Mall is half-vacant?
text: Did you know that when sailors more than 320 kilometres (200 mi) off the coast of Massachusetts felt the 1755 Cape Ann earthquake , they thought their ship had run aground?
text: Did you know that the Lake George, New York , post office features aspects of modernistic and Art Deco architecture on a basic Colonial Revival building?
text: Did you know that Monica C. Lozano is the publisher and Chief Executive Officer of the Los Angeles -based La Opinión , the largest Spanish language newspaper in the United States?
text: Did you know that the CALERIE study subjects humans to a 25% reduction in food calories over a two-year period, to determine if calorie restriction prolongs life and reduces the incidence of cancer and cardiovascular disease ?
text: Did you know that Kevin Newsome was a two-time state champion hurdler at Western Branch High School before he enrolled at Penn State to play football ?
text: Did you know that the shrine at Saint Melangell's Church, Pennant Melangell is reputedly the oldest Romanesque shrine in Britain , dating from the early 1100s?
text: Did you know that producer David Aukin has been nominated for two BAFTA Awards for films about Tony Blair ?
text: Did you know that pictures featured on Cake Wrecks , a photoblog founded in 2008, include a cake decorated with a sonogram image?
text: Did you know that in 1990 former Louisiana State Senator Fritz H. Windhorst spoke on behalf of a vetoed bill which would have made abortion a felony punishable by imprisonment ?
text: Did you know that many Jews of the Radom Ghetto in occupied Poland were forced to work in the local arms factory ?
text: Did you know that the Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends episode " Store Wars " was released on DVD with an audio commentary in which the characters discuss events not seen in the episode?
text: Did you know that a 36-cell jail is located on the twelfth floor of the Oakland, California City Hall ?
text: Did you know that Eddie Eagan , a medalist at the 1932 Winter Olympics in bobsledding and at the 1920 Summer Olympics in boxing, is the only person to have won gold medals in both the Summer and Winter Olympics ?
text: Did you know that at a 2004 public demonstration, Segway inventor Dean Kamen drank his own urine after it had been passed through a Slingshot ?
text: Did you know that in the book A Thousand Days , Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. was highly critical of United States Ambassador to Laos J. Graham Parsons who he felt "drastically misconceived the situation" in Laos ?
text: Did you know that the song " Fuiste un Trozo de Hielo en la Escarcha " performed by Puerto Rican singer Chayanne was written by a member of the Spanish band Mecano ?
text: Did you know that items from the collection of Mark Samuels Lasner relating to Aubrey Beardsley , Oscar Wilde and other writers and artists of the 1890s have provided the basis for numerous publications and exhibitions?
text: Did you know that B. Dalton , once the second-largest bookstore in the U.S., was founded in 1966 by the Dayton's department store chain?
text: Did you know that in a 1981 case, Judge Fred C. Galda allowed a woman to claim she shot her husband in self-defense, making him the first judge in New Jersey to accept a battered woman defense in a spousal killing?
text: Did you know that the 15th-century Ancient Priors in Crawley had hidden rooms reached by pulling meat-hooks to open a trapdoor and twisting a wall-carving to move a fireplace?
text: Did you know that Basketball Hall of Fame coach Ernest Blood led the Passaic High School Hilltoppers to a 200–1 record over ten seasons, and started the team on a U.S. record 159-game winning streak?
text: Did you know that Thomas Trantino spent 38 years in the prison system for the murder of two Lodi, New Jersey , police officers, making him the longest-serving prisoner in the state as of his parole in 2002?
text: Did you know that Zhenguo Temple 's Wanfo Hall is the only surviving building that was built during China's Northern Han dynasty?
text: Did you know that Julius Beerbohm , a Victorian author and explorer, traveled to Patagonia in 1877 to survey the land between Port Desire and Santa Cruz in the footsteps of Ferdinand Magellan ?
text: Did you know that the name of the Black Abbey is based on the fact that  the Dominicans were often referred to as Black Friars, because of the black cappa or cloak which they wear over their white habits ?
text: Did you know that the former Louisiana State Representative Peppi Bruneau of New Orleans secured passage of a bill clarifying the right of a victim to shoot carjackers ?
text: Did you know that although Saint-Thomas once was the largest tobacco producer in the province of Quebec , Canada , it no longer is cultivated there?
text: Did you know that the skills of Michigan Wolverines football punter Zoltan Mesko were discovered in seventh grade gym class when he knocked out a light during a kickball game?
text: Did you know that although the Maryland Toleration Act of 1649 is recognized as an important milestone in the development of religious freedom , it still allowed the execution of non- Christians ?
text: Did you know that Jayden Stockley made his debut in the Football League for Bournemouth whilst still a student at secondary school ?
text: Did you know that of the three semi-deck lenticular truss bridges known to have been made, the Hadley, New York , Bow Bridge is the only one that still exists?
text: Did you know that forty-eight U.S. states , the District of Columbia , and Puerto Rico allow the courts of other jurisdictions to ask for answers to certified questions of unsettled law?
text: Did you know that Konawaena High School 's 18th place finish in the 1990 World Solar Challenge was the basis for the 1996 film Race the Sun ?
text: Did you know that the Accurate News and Information Act , passed in 1937 by the Legislative Assembly of Alberta , gave a committee of legislators the authority to compel a newspaper to reveal its sources?
text: Did you know that Alfred Newman Gilbey arranged that Fisher House, Cambridge would only be demolished, quite literally, over his dead body ?
text: Did you know that Hall of Fame jockey Jorge Velásquez won the Young America Stakes four times; in 1978 with Spectacular Bid , in 1979 with Koluctoo Bay, in 1980 with Lord Avie and in 1987 aboard Firery [ sic ] Ensign?
text: Did you know that family members living overseas with members of the British Armed Forces can be tried in the military courts ?
text: Did you know that after two consecutive games in which Florida Panthers centre Nathan Horton scored goals in overtime, the Miami Herald called him the "King of Overtime"?
text: Did you know that the Commissioner's House of the Bermuda Maritime Museum is the world's first residence that was constructed with prefabricated cast-iron structural supports?
text: Did you know that Oakwood Cemetery in Troy , New York , is the resting place of the progenitor of Uncle Sam , Samuel Wilson , financier Russell Sage , and educators Emma Willard and Amos Eaton ?
text: Did you know that the 7th Earl of Pembroke was convicted of murder but pardoned by King Charles II ?
text: Did you know that the 2009 film Heart of Stone is the story of Weequahic High School beset by gangs, and its principal working with Black and Jewish alumni and gang members to restore its glory prior to 1960?
text: Did you know that  that SS Empire Bay was sunk by bombs dropped from a Dornier Do 217 of 8 Staffeln, Kampfgeschwader 2 in 1942?
text: Did you know that the Houston businessman , philanthropist , and politician George Strake, Jr. , was among the benefactors in the restoration of the World War II vessel, USS Cavalla (SS-244) ?
text: Did you know that the sinking of the Romanian -flagged crude oil carrier MT Unirea was classified by Lloyd's List as the world's largest ship accident of 1982?
text: Did you know that sailor Thomas Bourne won the Medal of Honor for actions during the 1862 Battle of Forts Jackson and St. Philip in which he "remained steadfast at his gun" despite heavy fire his ship was taking?
text: Did you know that some copies of Greek singer Chrispa 's new album Mehri Edo accidentally contained church hymns instead of her songs?
text: Did you know that in his response brief in Beck v. Eiland-Hall , attorney Marc Randazza cited the U.S. Supreme Court case Hustler Magazine v. Falwell ?
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text: Did you know that Judge George C. Pratt blamed Angelo Errichetti for luring U.S. Senator Harrison A. Williams to accept Abscam bribes, with Pratt describing Errichetti as "the center of a cesspool of corruption"?
text: Did you know that the British passenger liner RMS Persia was the largest ship in the world at the time of her launch in 1855?
text: Did you know that under British law , credit brokers include not only loan and mortgage brokers , but also solicitors , car dealers and retail shops?
text: Did you know that homosexual novelist Myron Brinig wrote several novels about homosexuality, yet he was closeted all his life?
text: Did you know that the song " Full Circle ", from The Byrds ' 1973 reunion album, was not released as a single in the United Kingdom until August 1975, more than two years after The Byrds' reunion had come to an end?
text: Did you know that The British Museum Friends recently provided funding to help the British Museum acquire twelve Greek papyri from the Oxyrhynchus Papyri ?
text: Did you know that Nikolai Menshutkin discovered in 1890 a chemical reaction which is still used to study the effect of solvent on reaction rate ?
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text: Did you know that consumption of the psychoactive mushroom Psilocybe argentipes by mice who compulsively bury marbles significantly inhibits this behaviour?
text: Did you know that Dar Lyon was the only English cricketer involved in the 1924 Test Trial match not to go on to represent England at Test cricket ?
text: Did you know that Lionel Copley was appointed the first royal governor of the colony of Maryland after a Protestant rebellion, but died after only a year in office?
text: Did you know that in 1924 the Texas historian Rupert N. Richardson became one of the founders of the West Texas Historical Association ?
text: Did you know that the jail wing at the old Warren County courthouse in Lake George, New York , has an unusual structural system in which the second floor is supported by steel rods suspended from the roof trusses ?
text: Did you know that Kerala 's Angadipuram Laterite is formed from the weathering of many rock types , including charnockite , anorthosite and gabbro ?
text: Did you know that the Little Green House on K Street in Washington, D.C. was where the Ohio Gang hatched such schemes as the Teapot Dome scandal ?
text: Did you know that the Continuity of Government Commission in 2003 recommended a constitutional amendment to ensure that vacancies in the U.S. House were filled quickly in the event of a massive attack?
text: Did you know that Puerto Rican boxer José Ruíz Matos was the World Boxing Organization 's first super flyweight champion?
text: Did you know that Irish politician John O'Donoghue resigned as Ceann Comhairle over various expense claims , including a £1 charity donation to UNICEF ?
text: Did you know that the Liberty Colored High School , built to replace a Rosenwald school for African-American students in Liberty, South Carolina , is now the Rosenwood community center ?
text: Did you know that the genus name of the commonly grown Australian garden plants Dianella caerulea and D. tasmanica is derived from the goddess Diana ?
text: Did you know that Paul Miller , who later headed Gannett Company and the Associated Press , was the city editor of a Pawhuska, Oklahoma , newspaper before he started college?
text: Did you know that the Japanese Manga de Dokuha series published a controversial manga version of Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler ?
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text: Did you know that the yacht Adele served with the Royal Australian Navy in both world wars—as HMAS Franklin in the first and HMAS Adele in the second ?
text: Did you know that Gilberto Zaldívar ' s New York City -based Repertorio Español , called "a national treasure ... unmatched by any other Spanish-language theater company", has staged over 250 productions in 40 years?
text: Did you know that in the last hundred years some of the commercially fished Hawaiian stocks have decreased by 80–85%?
text: Did you know that Leonie Pray House hosted recitals by Liberace and Risë Stevens and served as the home of Patrick Swayze 's character in Donnie Darko ?
text: Did you know that Le Vélo 's impassioned reporting of the Dreyfus affair led indirectly to the creation of the Tour de France ?
text: Did you know that Puerto Rican singer Chayanne received a Grammy Award nomination for his self-titled 1988 album ?
text: Did you know that Robert Walpole , father of England's first Prime Minister , holds the record for the longest overdue library book at 288 years?
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text: Did you know that The Heartland Series , produced by a Knoxville, Tennessee, TV station , has been called "the nation's longest-running sociological video repository"?
text: Did you know that the majority of the traditional dishes of the cuisine of Dorset originated in the 17th and 18th centuries?
text: Did you know that Canadian editorial cartoonist Stewart Cameron so alienated followers of the Alberta Social Credit League that his house was once bombed?
text: Did you know that the mushroom Entoloma austroprunicolor of Tasmania 's wet forests changes from bluish-purple, to reddish purple, to purplish grey as it ages?
text: Did you know that Prirazlomnaya oil platform on the Prirazlomnoye field is equipped with the topsides of the former Hutton oilfield 's platform Hutton TLP, which was the first Tension Leg Platform ever built?
text: Did you know that Michigan Wolverines football player Obi Ezeh was invited to try out for the United States national rugby union team ?
text: Did you know that the 1937 Social Credit backbenchers' revolt was resolved by a government bill for which all members of government disavowed any responsibility?
text: Did you know that in March 1997, Lucia Newman became the first United States journalist in twenty-seven years to be based in Cuba ?
text: Did you know that the Mussabini Medal sought to celebrate the coaches of British sportspeople who had achieved outstanding success on the world stage?
text: Did you know that Josh Turner was "elated to discover that he wouldn't have to do any acting" in the music video for his single " Why Don't We Just Dance " ?
text: Did you know that the bark of the Caribbean tree Canella winterana can be used as a spice similar to cinnamon ?
text: Did you know that local exchange carriers in the rural USA have partnered with phone sex providers in traffic pumping arrangements that earn them millions of dollars in phone connection fees?
text: Did you know that one of Sydney 's most expensive houses, Boomerang , includes a private cinema that at one time could seat 200 people?
text: Did you know that the Treaty of Grimnitz allowed Brandenburgian prince-electors to touch Pomeranian flags?
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text: Did you know that since 2007, Alien Resident Certificates issued to foreign residents in Taiwan have included an integrated circuit containing personal information?
text: Did you know that Sydney Rippon , father of a UK Cabinet minister, played in a first-class cricket match under an assumed name so that his employer, the Inland Revenue , would not find out?
text: Did you know that 300 civilians living in Ostrach survived in their cellars while 70,000 Austrians and French battled overhead in March 1799?
text: Did you know that the 2.44-mile (3.93 km) long Iowa Highway 107 consists of two segments wholly within Meservey and Thornton, Iowa ?
text: Did you know that a recently rediscovered Union Jack presented to James Clephan after the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805 is the only surviving flag from the battle?
text: Did you know that the creation of the German parliamentary electoral district of Berlin Lichtenberg proved controversial, being perceived as disadvantageous to the Party of Democratic Socialism ?
text: Did you know that during a scripted rivalry , professional wrestler Rhett Titus had the face of female professional wrestler Daizee Haze airbrushed onto his ring gear?
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text: Did you know that during Operation Doomsday , the British 1st Airborne Division suffered 34 casualties, despite the Second World War having ended several days previously ?
text: Did you know that a benefit concert taking place in Dublin tonight will be broadcast live to an audience in Gaza City ?
text: Did you know that the Georgia Marble Company supplied the marble used to build the statue of Lincoln at the Lincoln Memorial ?
text: Did you know that after Larry Niven 's first attempt at writing a Star Trek: The Animated Series screenplay was rejected, Gene Roddenberry suggested he adapt one of his short stories which became " The Slaver Weapon "?
text: Did you know that the yellow-green mushroom Entoloma rodwayi of wet forests in Tasmania turns a vivid blue-green upon drying?
text: Did you know that Victor G. Carrillo , chairman of the Texas Railroad Commission , completed law school at night while he worked as a geophysicist for Amoco Oil Company?
text: Did you know that Irene Vilar's memoir Impossible Motherhood was rejected 51 times before it was successfully published?
text: Did you know that Edmund Dummer , Surveyor of the Navy , founded Britain's Royal Navy dockyard at Devonport in the 1690s, but died bankrupt in the Fleet debtors' prison ?
text: Did you know that although the teeth of the extinct rodent Holochilus primigenus are almost identical to those of Lund's Amphibious Rat , it is probably more closely related to marsh rats ?
text: Did you know that the Holding Institute , now a community center in Laredo , Texas , was formerly a boarding school destroyed in 1954 by Rio Grande floods , relocated, and thereafter closed for financial reasons?
text: Did you know that in 1913 Gravel Island National Wildlife Refuge became the twenty-ninth wildlife refuge in the U.S. and third in the Great Lakes region ?
text: Did you know that the Franklin Borough School District in rural New Jersey had a baseball field said to have been designed by Babe Ruth and local engineers to match the dimensions of the original Yankee Stadium ?
text: Did you know that lawyer Raymond A. Brown 's clients included boxer Rubin "Hurricane" Carter , Black Liberation Army member Joanne Chesimard and "Dr. X" physician Mario Jascalevich ?
text: Did you know that Alexander the Great was one of the greatest supporters of Homonoia ?
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text: Did you know that the distribution of galaxy types found within the Eridanus Group provides evidence for the theory of cold dark matter ?
text: Did you know that Englishman Bob Bootland , who was the first foreigner to coach a football club in India, arrived in the country on holiday and never left?
text: Did you know that Kordian , a romantic drama by one of Poland's Three Bards , Juliusz Słowacki , is a polemic with Dziady , an earlier work by another of the Three Bards, Adam Mickiewicz ?
text: Did you know that Dallata was one of the villages that locals of Fir'im , Mughr al-Khayt and Qabba'a fled to in the first days of May 1948, when they were attacked during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War ?
text: Did you know that the September 1988 unemployment statistics for the United Kingdom were briefly over-recorded due to the 1988 United Kingdom postal workers strike ?
text: Did you know that the Van Buren Street Bridge in Oregon is the last movable-span truss bridge constructed by the pin connection method located on the West Coast ?
text: Did you know that Blackpool ' s director, Julie Anne Robinson , and writer, Peter Bowker , wanted to co-create a television serial set in Funny Girls , a British cabaret featuring male dancers in drag ?
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text: Did you know that in 1882, almost a century after the final partition of Poland , Polish explorer Stefan Szolc-Rogoziński tried to found a Polish colony in Cameroon ?
text: Did you know that Rear Admiral Ellis M. Zacharias , who had been deputy chief of Navy intelligence in World War II , later narrated the NBC Cold War docudrama Behind Closed Doors , titled after one of his own books?
text: Did you know that the Korean Painting of the Eastern Palace , is actually of two royal palaces to the east of Gyeongbokgung palace?
text: Did you know that an annual award for "outstanding state legislators" presented by the National Bar Association is named for Louisiana State Representative Pinkie C. Wilkerson ?
text: Did you know that from 1946 to 1991, Ordnance Survey International provided a central survey and mapping organisation for British colonies and protectorates ?
text: Did you know that the destruction of Ayn Ghazal by Israeli forces during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war was condemned by Count Bernadotte ?
text: Did you know that in the case Coleman v. Schwarzenegger a three-judge panel gave the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation two years to cut prison populations to 137.5% of capacity?
text: Did you know that in 1906 Ernest Archdeacon commissioned an Aéromotocyclette (propeller driven motorcycle) which achieved 79.5 kph?
text: Did you know that the Microsoft data loss of 2009 has been described as the biggest disaster to affect the concept of cloud computing ?
text: Did you know that Kenny Chesney has won four consecutive Billboard Touring Awards for Top Package Tour?
text: Did you know that Judge Theodore Trautwein jailed a New York Times reporter for 40 days for refusing to turn over notes in a murder trial, saying that the reporter put his own rights above those of the defendant ?
text: Did you know that the Seven Sisters women's magazines include five of the ten largest circulation magazines in the United States?
text: Did you know that Tom Frost participated in the first ascent of the Salathé Wall in Yosemite Valley in 1961?
text: Did you know that the song created for The Coca-Cola Company 's marketing campaign Open Happiness peaked at the number one spot on record charts in China ?
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text: Did you know that Hugo Raudsepp , one of Estonia 's greatest comedic playwrights, became a " non-person "?
text: Did you know that the French School at Athens , which provides archaeological discoveries for the Delos Archaeological Museum ,  began excavating at Delos in 1872 and is still excavating the area today?
text: Did you know that Porgy and Bess earned a "landmark place in theater history" when Douglas Watt encouraged producer Cheryl Crawford to create a second run on Broadway after a disappointing 1935 debut?
text: Did you know that thoroughbred horse Lord Avie , bought for $37,000 in 1980, was put to stud after retiring in 1981 and by 2002 had sired 578 starters, including 429 individual winners with total earnings of $35 million?
text: Did you know that several coalition governments in Norway have operated with suicide paragraphs , meaning that the coalition will disintegrate if the question of Norway and the European Union is put on the agenda?
text: Did you know that after footballer Barrie Thomas transferred from Scunthorpe United to Newcastle United in January 1962, attendances at Scunthorpe's home games dropped by 20%?
text: Did you know that one scene of the Cold Feet television episode " Going to Australia " was filmed on a set that was physically falling apart as the camera was rolling?
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text: Did you know that in the Polish–Muscovite War of 1577–1582 , Muscovy failed in its attempt to gain access to the Baltic Sea ?
text: Did you know that Peg Mullen ' s change into an antiwar activist after her son's death in Vietnam by shrapnel fired from U.S. artillery, became the Emmy Award -winning 1979 film Friendly Fire starring Carol Burnett ?
text: Did you know that the Czech Republic hosts more than fifty international music competitions in 2009?
text: Did you know that a trirated cable is an electrical cable that meets the safety and performance requirements of three different international standards set by the Americans , the British and the Canadians ?
text: Did you know that the socialist Romanian General Jewish Labour Bund had a strong presence in kehilla elections in Chişinău during the interbellum but largely lacked representation outside Bessarabia ?
text: Did you know that American economic historian John Ulric Nef was the co-founder of the University of Chicago 's Committee on Social Thought ?
text: Did you know that Baseball Rubbing Mud , used by every team in Major League Baseball to give baseballs a rougher texture, originates from a secret location on the Delaware River ?
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text: Did you know that winemaker David Lake made Washington State 's first Syrah and pioneered the use of single vineyard labeling in the state?
text: Did you know that in his account of "Christian expeditions" into China (first published in 1615), Matteo Ricci strongly criticized feng shui practices?
text: Did you know that the Bosworth fracture is named after the first non-Japanese to be awarded the Order of the Sacred Treasure , American David M. Bosworth ?
text: Did you know that Takthok Monastery is the only monastery of the Nyingma sect of Tibetan Buddhism in Ladakh ?
text: Did you know that Roman Catholic missionary Aengus Finucane often flew with Mother Teresa while delivering food supplies to Bangladesh ?
text: Did you know that the Hiram Charles Todd House was the very first property in Saratoga Springs, New York , to be listed on the National Register of Historic Places ?
text: Did you know that a Polish railway worker, Wojciech Najsarek , was one of the first victims of World War II ?
text: Did you know that Howell Peacock , while a medical student , coached the North Carolina Tar Heels men's basketball team as well as future Governor of North Carolina Luther H. Hodges ?
text: Did you know that the Anatolic , Armeniac , Opsician , and Thracesian themes, the first four Byzantine themes to be established, descended from the field armies of the East Roman army ?
text: Did you know that naval architect and author W.I.B. Crealock designed a yacht that was inducted into the American Sailboat Hall of Fame ?
text: Did you know that the new Utah towns of Bryce Canyon City , Hideout , and Independence were incorporated under a controversial, short-lived state law?
text: Did you know that Sir George Power, 7th Baronet of Kilfane created the role of Ralph Rackstraw in Gilbert and Sullivan 's HMS Pinafore in 1878?
text: Did you know that Hakgala Strict Nature Reserve is an important and isolated cloud forest , however its small size and isolation is jeopardizing its long term survival ?
text: Did you know that during World War II , James Hill captured two Italian tanks using only his revolver but was wounded while attempting to capture a third?
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text: Did you know that Leigh Hunt 's works involve: a juvenile poem about the pleasure palace , Hero's suicide , the jilted Ariadne , a diary with a calendar , poetic feasts , a masque , nymphs , and a deadly love affair ?
text: Did you know that Benjamin Britten composed many viola parts for Cecil Aronowitz , a co-founder of the Melos Ensemble ?
text: Did you know that France–Asia relations span more than two millennia, and have involved numerous alliances between France and Asian countries?
text: Did you know that in 1961, a year before he died, turn-of-the-century racecar driver Gus Monckmeier recreated his 1911 1,000-mile run around Lake Michigan?
text: Did you know that the people of Pachuca call the city the "Cradle of Mexican Soccer"?
text: Did you know that some historians believe that Edith Rogers was left out of the Alberta cabinet in 1935 because she was a woman?
text: Did you know that the United States Army 's Camp Warner in south central Oregon was so cold that on several occasions the camp's entire detachment of soldiers had to walk in circles all night to keep from freezing?
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text: Did you know that his fine bass voice turned Leonid Kharitonov from a poor villager in Siberia into a renowned singer performing all around the Soviet Union?
text: Did you know that Voina is a Russian art collective whose provocative works have included public group sex and staged hangings ?
text: Did you know that Judge Peter T. Farrell presided over the trial of bank robber Willie Sutton , who claimed to have stolen  millions from banks in his career, and sentenced him to 30–120 years in Attica State Prison ?
text: Did you know that the Polish town of Polanów was completely destroyed during the Second World War ?
text: Did you know that in 1989, Carlos D. Ramirez led a group that purchased El Diario La Prensa , the oldest Spanish-language newspaper in the United States?
text: Did you know that director Asit Sen received his first and only Filmfare Best Director Award for his 1970 film Safar ?
text: Did you know that Lithuanian Chief of Defence Arvydas Pocius was freestyle wrestling champion of Lithuania in junior, youth and adult groups?
text: Did you know that Jeannette Kagame , the current First Lady of Rwanda , works to help victims of the Rwandan Genocide and HIV / AIDS ?
text: Did you know that Al-Ard ("The Land") was a Palestinian nationalist movement made up of Arab citizens of Israel ?
text: Did you know that the late Louisiana State Senator Bryan A. Poston was an aerial engineer gunner sergeant on a B-17 bomber ?
text: Did you know that by 1984, less than 40 years after his death, Mori Koben had more than 2,000 descendants, who were Micronesians of Japanese descent ?
text: Did you know that GM executive Harlow Curtice turned down a generalship during World War II, and was Time magazine's Man of the Year for 1955?
text: Did you know that Anders Haugen , one of the 104 medalists at the 1924 Winter Olympics , was awarded his bronze medal in ski jumping fifty years after the games ended?
text: Did you know that British explorer Christina Dodwell was initiated into manhood by the crocodile people of the New Guinea lowlands?
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text: Did you know that French indie rock band Stuck in the Sound got their name from the fact that when the group formed, the four band members locked themselves in a basement with their music?
text: Did you know that the Meadowlands Rail Line can transport 10,000 fans per hour to and from events at Giants Stadium and other venues in the Meadowlands Sports Complex ?
text: Did you know that the popularity of Sunday night repeats of the 1967 BBC television drama The Forsyte Saga were said to be a threat to both publicans and clergymen ?
text: Did you know that 'Asta Bowen's novel Wolf: A Journey Home is based on the recorded lives of a pack of wolves relocated from Pleasant Valley, Montana , to Glacier Park in 1989?
text: Did you know that remains of Lund's Amphibious Rat , one of the largest living rice rats , have been found in association with saber-toothed cats , ground sloths , and glyptodonts ?
text: Did you know that World War II RAAF fighter ace John Waddy later became a Minister of the Crown , while British Army paratrooper John Waddy went on to command the SAS ?
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text: Did you know that patient activist Rose Kushner is credited with helping to end the practice of treating breast cancer by performing both a biopsy and a mastectomy as a one-step surgical procedure?
text: Did you know that the first six of Do As Infinity's studio albums from Break of Dawn to Need Your Love reached the top 5 of the Japanese Oricon albums chart?
text: Did you know that in order to register themselves as a political association according to Austro-Hungarian regulations, the Jewish socialist Bund of Bukovina had to limit its membership to male Austrian citizens?
text: Did you know that video game Jungle Strike was accused of jingoism ?
text: Did you know that although a yellow fever epidemic forced the team to play the final month of the season on the road, Otto Williams batted .278 and helped the New Orleans Pelicans win the 1905 pennant?
text: Did you know that the Municipality of Crabtree in Quebec, Canada is named after Edwin Crabtree, whose paper mill led to the town's development?
text: Did you know that Irish international sporting brothers Louis Magee and James Magee both had the middle name Mary?
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text: Did you know that the work of Violet Tillard , a British nurse and relief worker who died during the Russian famine of 1921 , was mentioned in the writings of Leon Trotsky ?
text: Did you know that although Spottail pinfish are known from both south Florida and the Gulf of Mexico , there are no confirmed reports of them from the West Indies ?
text: Did you know that Arunah Shepherdson Abell , founder of the Baltimore Sun newspaper, used pony express routes, telegraphy, steamships, and even carrier pigeons to gather the news more quickly?
text: Did you know that the Embassy of Russia in Copenhagen was designed by Danish architect Vilhelm Dahlerup , who also designed the Hotel D’Angleterre ?
text: Did you know that twin brothers Bubber Jonnard and Claude Jonnard formed the Nashville Volunteers baseball team's battery in 1920 and 1921?
text: Did you know that the Abir Congo Company was once described as "the black spot on the history of Central African settlement"?
text: Did you know that John Hyson published articles on the history of the toothbrush, George Washington 's dentures, and one entitled "Did You Know A Dentist Embalmed President Lincoln ?"?
text: Did you know that Dr. John J. Wild , credited with the first successful detection of breast cancer using ultrasonography, was awarded the $370,000 Japan Prize for his development of ultrasound imaging ?
text: Did you know that the star attraction of the Westminster Pit , a Victorian blood sport arena, was a dog named "Billy", who was reportedly able to kill 100 rats in five minutes?
text: Did you know that marketing executive Edward Gelsthorpe , who introduced Ban roll-on deodorant and Manwich sloppy joe sauce, earned the nickname " Cran-Apple Ed" after developing the juice drink for Ocean Spray ?
text: Did you know that two steam trains were involved in a head-on collision on the Lößnitzgrundbahn heritage railway in Saxony , Germany , on 12 September 2009?
text: Did you know that David Davies was transported to Australia for his part in the Rebecca Riots , an uprising that saw the mob leaders cross-dressing as women?
text: Did you know that the Quarter pony horse breed was developed from horses that did not meet the American Quarter Horse Association 's original height requirement of 14.2 hands (58 inches, 147 cm) high?
text: Did you know that Yehuda Hiss has been the chief pathologist at Israel 's National Institute of Forensic Medicine since 1988?
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text: Did you know that Mexican masked professional wrestler La Parka is the second man to wrestle under this ring name ?
text: Did you know that the East Side Historic District of Saratoga Springs, New York , contains 379 structures including 82 buildings formerly used by Skidmore College ?
text: Did you know that Giuseppe Giulietti , a leader of the Italian seamen's union, once hijacked a ship that was transporting weapons to the White movement in Russia ?
text: Did you know that a team of archaeologists has recently discovered the remains of a 5000-year old circle of bluestone monoliths , about 1 mile (1.6 km) from Stonehenge ?
text: Did you know that Michigan Wolverines football defensive end Brandon Graham was captain of his U.S. Army All-American Bowl team?
text: Did you know that the historic Streamline Moderne Greyhound Bus Depot in Columbia, South Carolina , is now the office for a plastic surgeon ?
text: Did you know that the illegal Galician castle constructed by Muño Peláez in 1121 was considered a "den of robbers and bandits" by contemporaries, and was soon razed?
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text: Did you know that the Giant Bible of Mainz , on display at the U.S. Library of Congress , was seized from Mainz Cathedral as a prize of war by King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden in 1631?
text: Did you know that the Norwegian-British-Swedish Antarctic Expedition (1949–1952) found evidence that suggests a portion of Antarctica was once joined to southern Africa ?
text: Did you know that the architect John Douglas designed a pair of houses at 31 and 33 Dee Banks, Chester , Cheshire , England, one for his own use and the other probably as an investment?
text: Did you know that there are 1,000 species and subspecies of eucalypts at South Australia 's 32 ha (79 acres) Currency Creek Arboretum ?
text: Did you know that Heinrich Roller invented a popular shorthand system in 1875 after having been sued unsuccessfully for publishing a popular textbook on Leopold Arends ' shorthand system?
text: Did you know that the Kodaikanal–Munnar Road in Tamil Nadu and Kerala was built by the British in 1942 as an evacuation route in preparation for a possible Japanese invasion of South India ?
text: Did you know that the platform of Austro–Hungarian Jewish politician Benno Straucher , who represented his Bukovina constituency in the Reichsrat , has been called "a sort of half-hearted Zionism "?
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text: Did you know that Billy Lauder coached Baseball Hall of Famer Eddie Collins in college, and Collins later hired Lauder to coach the Chicago White Sox ?
text: Did you know that the 1979 Abbotsford landslip was the biggest landslide ever in an urban area in New Zealand ?
text: Did you know that Lee Robins "pioneered the field of psychiatric epidemiology " and "played a key role in determining the prevalence of mental problems in the United States and the world"?
text: Did you know that Greeks in pre-Roman Gaul founded Marseilles , the oldest city of France , circa 600 BCE ?
text: Did you know that it is claimed that in 1888 Victorian medium Robert James Lees led police to the home of Jack the Ripper ?
text: Did you know that the deaths of coal and iron miners in the Forest of Dean are commemorated by an 11 feet (3.4 m) sculpture at New Fancy ?
text: Did you know that Karl Wilhelm Scheibler , the "Cotton King" of Łódź , sold his stock at triple the price after the American Civil War broke out?
text: Did you know that Nollywood actress Stephanie Okereke went back to acting and directing her own films after her car accident in 2005?
text: Did you know that the people of Scilla spent the night on the beach after the first shock of the 1783 Calabrian earthquakes sequence only to be caught by the tsunami caused by the second?
text: Did you know that Jesuit Louis J. Gallagher , who brought to Rome the relics of Andrew Bobola which were rescued from the Bolsheviks by Edmund A. Walsh , later published books about both men?
text: Did you know that Archduke Charles personally led his Hungarian Grenadiers in a charge against the French line at the Battle of Stockach in 1799?
text: Did you know that banker Jacob Furth , whom historian Bill Speidel called " Seattle 's leading citizen for thirty years," began his career as a confectioner in Budapest ?
text: Did you know that realising the many sexual and drug pressures facing young people, a student association in Morocco encourages their youth to seek Answers, Solutions and Knowledge ?
text: Did you know that in 1991, Victor Erlich, the grandson of Henryk Ehrlich , was informed that his father, a Jewish Bund leader who had been executed on Stalin ’s orders, had been " rehabilitated "?
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text: Did you know that Lucas Murray , who was born blind, is one of the first British people to learn to visualise his surroundings using a technique similar to bats and dolphins , called echolocation ?
text: Did you know that Clark University in Worcester , Massachusetts , USA, was founded by Jonas Gilman Clark in 1887?
text: Did you know that Indigenous Australian artist and illustrator Bronwyn Bancroft was the first Australian fashion designer invited to show her work in Paris?
text: Did you know that, having begun as an affiliate of the fascist Iron Guard , Romanian author Ion Negoiţescu became a noted anti-fascist , before defying the communist regime as an openly homosexual dissident?
text: Did you know that Mary of Woodstock , daughter of Edward I of England , travelled widely as a nun despite a papal travel prohibition ?
text: Did you know that the stink-bug Nezara viridula can feed on plants from over 30 families , but its preference for legumes , such as beans and soybeans , make it an economically important pest on crops?
text: Did you know that The Kinks founded their own recording studio and record label in 1973, named " Konk "?
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text: Did you know that in 1493, 150 Pomeranian prelates and landlords confirmed the Treaty of Pyritz by oath?
text: Did you know that Maria Gulovich sheltered Jews, worked for the anti-fascist underground, and was awarded the Bronze Star for saving the lives of OSS agents during World War II ?
text: Did you know that the Tuvan People's Revolutionary Party was admitted as a "sympathizing party" in the Communist International in 1935?
text: Did you know that Per Arne Watle , current chairman of Hurtigruten and former CEO of Widerøe , was also president of the European Regions Airline Association ?
text: Did you know that William Herbert Shipman owned a historic house in Hilo, Hawaii , a refuge from World War II near a volcano, and a remote beach estate where endangered nēnē were raised?
text: Did you know that more than 4,000 people died in 1933 on Nazino Island in the Soviet Union , many of whom were deported there only because they did not have an internal passport ?
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text: Did you know that in 941 CE, the Byzantine chamberlain Theophanes , commanding only 15 old ships armed with Greek fire , defeated a Rus' fleet of 1,000 ships?
text: Did you know that Marie Wadley helped to introduce legislation to establish the Five Civilized Tribes Museum in Oklahoma and later served as its first president ?
text: Did you know that the Cypriot women's basketball team was disqualified at the 2009 Jeux de la Francophonie for exceeding the permitted number of naturalized players?
text: Did you know that the animated television series Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends was nominated for thirty-one awards throughout its run?
text: Did you know that Michał Klepfisz , a hero of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising , saved his comrades' lives by throwing himself on a German machine gun ?
text: Did you know that Rakhine State in present-day western Burma was an independent country before it was invaded and annexed by Konbaung Burmese forces led by Thado Minsaw in 1784?
text: Did you know that if a tree falls on seedlings of the Walking Palm its stilt roots allow it to re-root in a different location?
text: Did you know that the Indian Army during World War II was the largest volunteer army in history, rising to over 2.5 million men in August 1945?
text: Did you know that according to the book Who's Your City? , in the United States the highest concentrations of people whose dominant personality trait is neuroticism are found in the New York and ChiPitts area?
text: Did you know that in the 1679 Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye , Brandenburg was forced by France to return recently conquered Swedish Pomerania to Sweden ?
text: Did you know that Alex Rodriguez set the AL record with 7 RBI in one inning in the team's final game of the 2009 season, the same game where he reached 30 HRs and 100 RBI for a record 13th consecutive year?
text: Did you know that Hirsh Lekert , a Bundist , tried unsuccessfully to assassinate the governor of Vilna , and became a folk hero in the Jewish workers’ movement, with poems and dramas written about him in Yiddish ?
text: Did you know that William Michael Crose was the first Governor of American Samoa styled as such, the previous ones holding the title "Governor of Tutuila"?
text: Did you know that the teenage Prince Johann Ernst of Saxe-Weimar 's music collection had a long-term influence on the musical style of Johann Sebastian Bach ?
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text: Did you know that to avoid being hit by Allied bombers during the Battle of Elephant Point in 1945, troops of the British Indian Army carried orange umbrellas?
text: Did you know that the leader of the Bund and organizer of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee , Victor Alter , was executed on Stalin ’s orders, which provoked an international outcry of protest?
text: Did you know that Lord Nuffield rejected the first designs for the buildings of Nuffield College, Oxford by the architect Austen Harrison , saying that they were "un-English"?
text: Did you know that Marie Haupt , Josephine Schefsky‎ and Friederike Grün‎ each premiered a character in Richard Wagner 's first Ring cycle at the Bayreuth Festspielhaus in August 1876?
text: Did you know that Hurricane Brenda was the first tropical cyclone on record to make landfall in Mexican state of Campeche ?
text: Did you know that the Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends special " Destination: Imagination " won the Primetime Emmy Award for "Outstanding Animated Program (for Programming One Hour or More)" in 2009?
text: Did you know that Euphorbia celastroides , a spurge closely related to the poinsettia , is sometimes used as a treatment for cancer?
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text: Did you know that Antonio Frasconi spent ten years creating an artwork that shows the people who disappeared during the dictatorships in Uruguay ?
text: Did you know that Tropical Storm Christine was the easternmost forming Atlantic tropical cyclone on record?
text: Did you know that Bill Cullen took the Guinness World Record for the largest ever book signing by signing 1849 copies of his self-help book Golden Apples on 16 April 2005 in Easons , O'Connell Street ?
text: Did you know that the first known Japanese settlement in the Federated States of Micronesia dates back to 1890?
text: Did you know that the Belgian-born Dutch politician Robert van Genechten collaborated with the German occupiers in Belgium during World War I and in the Netherlands during the Second World War ?
text: Did you know that the chicks of the Australian Little Bittern are covered with orange-buff down and are fed by regurgitation by both parents?
text: Did you know that the Sholes and Glidden typewriter was the first commercially successful typewriter ?
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text: Did you know that under university president of Northwest Missouri State University Dean L. Hubbard's tenure a program was started to replace students' printed textbooks with the electronic books or ebooks ?
text: Did you know that The Other Economic Summit (TOES), founded in 1984, was a counter-summit to the G7 meetings, held each year for the next two decades in the G7 host country?
text: Did you know that Napoleon's coronation involved two orchestras with four choruses, numerous military bands and over three hundred musicians?
text: Did you know that risk management firm Verisk Analytics raised $1.9 billion in its October 7, 2009 initial public offering , making it the largest IPO in the United States to date in 2009?
text: Did you know that nine years before being cast as J. Homer Bedloe on CBS 's Petticoat Junction , Charles Lane appeared as a hard-nosed newspaper editor in Peter Lawford 's short-lived NBC sitcom , Dear Phoebe ?
text: Did you know that the engine house of the Pinchbeck Engine , Pinchbeck, Lincolnshire , England, is a Scheduled Ancient Monument ?
text: Did you know that Luise Jaide created two roles in Richard Wagner 's Der Ring des Nibelungen opera cycle?
text: Did you know that Discovery Channel called Ardi , "The evidence that Darwin could only have dreamed of"?
text: Did you know that Mimi Weddell , whose acting career started in her mid-sixties, was named as one "The Most Beautiful New Yorkers " by New York magazine in 2005 at age 90?
text: Did you know that "Papa" De Hem ' s oyster-house in Soho was patronised by poets, spies and rock-stars?
text: Did you know that Far Rockaway High School in Queens , whose alumni include three Nobel Prize laureates and Bernard Madoff , stopped accepting students in 2008 as part of a planned closure due to declining grades?
text: Did you know that Anna Deinet created the role of Brangäne in Richard Wagner 's Tristan und Isolde , the first of two Wagner characters she premiered?
text: Did you know that in Toyota v. Williams , the U.S. Supreme Court held that under the ADA , a disability includes limitations in a " major life activity ", but excludes limitations in specific job-related tasks?
text: Did you know that the termite Globitermes sulphureus uses autothysis , a form of suicidal altruism , to entangle intruder ants in a sticky substance?
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text: Did you know that Eugenio Pacelli's (future Pope Pius XII ) 1936 visit to the United States was planned, in part, to investigate and silence Catholic priest and New Deal opponent Charles Coughlin ?
text: Did you know that for the score of the Prince of Persia , composer Inon Zur combined classical orchestral music with Arabic flutes and the woodwind duduk ?
text: Did you know that following the capture of Kafr 'Inan during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war , its inhabitants were expelled by the Israel Defense Forces on three separate occasions in 1949?
text: Did you know that John Martin Poyer was appointed Naval Governor of American Samoa after he had retired from active duty?
text: Did you know that "Stop Lasnamäe !" was one of the slogans of the Estonian Singing Revolution ?
text: Did you know that the remains of Melanie Hall who went missing in 1996 were discovered by the M5 motorway in October 2009?
text: Did you know that the Seinfeld writers, attempting to produce a " Quentin Tarantino version of a sitcom", included the title character ’s death in a dream sequence in " The Baby Shower "?
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text: Did you know that journalist Savik Shuster who used to work for Russian TV channels now prefers to work for the Ukrainian TV because he felt the Russian Government was limiting his journalistic freedom ?
text: Did you know that in 1644, during the English Civil War , Haggate was the scene of a skirmish in which five people were killed by King Charles I 's troops?
text: Did you know that Clark Daniel Stearns was removed from command of the USS Michigan for allowing the sailors under his command to organize advising committees?
text: Did you know that it is uncertain whether the extinct oryzomyine rodent Megalomys audreyae came from Barbuda or Barbados ?
text: Did you know that W. Horace Carter won a 1953 Pulitzer Prize for anti- KKK reporting, "waged on their own doorstep at the risk of economic loss and personal danger" that led to the conviction of over 100 Klansmen?
text: Did you know that in June 2004, the only businesses in operation at Normal, Illinois ' College Hills Mall, now The Shoppes at College Hills , were three anchor stores and a restaurant?
text: Did you know that footballer Arthur Wood had a metal plate inserted in his forehead following an injury received in the First World War , and was never again able to head the ball?
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text: Did you know that the selection of Ernie "Indian Red" Lopez for the California Boxing Hall of Fame led to his discovery in a Texas homeless shelter after being missing for 12 years?
text: Did you know that during filming of The Emperor Waltz in Jasper National Park , director Billy Wilder had California pines planted on location because he was unhappy with the look of the native trees?
text: Did you know that Likir Monastery in Ladakh contains a statue of Avalokiteśvara with 1000 arms and 11 heads?
text: Did you know that before becoming an ICC commissioner, James D. Yeomans helped manage two railroads and ran a stock farm?
text: Did you know that potbelly sculpture is a crude non- Maya sculptural style distributed along the Pacific slope of southern Mesoamerica and dating to the Preclassic Period ?
text: Did you know that some of the thrust horses in Montana 's Adel Mountains Volcanic Field fold some of the intrusions , while others are cut by them?
text: Did you know that Charles Langdale was one of the first Roman Catholics in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom following the passing of the Catholic Relief Act 1829 ?
text: Did you know that in 2008 over two-thirds of all prisoners in Switzerland were non-Swiss nationals?
text: Did you know that Isaac Baker Brown was an English surgeon who in 1867 was expelled from the Obstetrical Society of London for performing clitoridectomies without his patients' consent?
text: Did you know that Pindus National Park is one of three areas in Greece that hosts populations of bears ?
text: Did you know that William J. Calhoun 's report on the death of an American in Cuba persuaded President McKinley that war against Spain was advisable?
text: Did you know that Urdu poet Faiz Ahmed Faiz was suspected of involvement in the first of several military coup attempts in Pakistan ?
text: Did you know that professional wrestler Misterioso, Jr. ' s nickname translates as "the King of Yogurt"?
text: Did you know that John Travolta 's older brother Joey Travolta produced the documentary film about autism Normal People Scare Me ?
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text: Did you know that old houses in England saw an increased number of visitors in the 1840s due to published lithographs depicting architecture and historical scenes in them drawn by Joseph Nash ?
text: Did you know that Phuntsok Wangyal , a progressive pro- communist Tibetan who founded the Tibetan Communist Party , once taught at Tromzikhang in Barkhor , Lhasa ?
text: Did you know that Joseph Flores , the first Chamorro Governor of Guam , also published the island's first locally owned newspaper ?
text: Did you know that the Kultur Lige was a socialist Jewish organization associated with the Jewish Labour Bund , established in Kiev in 1918, whose aim was to promote Yiddish language literature, theater and culture?
text: Did you know that Raymond B. West developed a new standard of double exposure photography while directing a 1917 film in which one actress played two sisters?
text: Did you know that a feud between Bartolomeo Prignano and Pierre de Cros fueled the outbreak of the Western Schism ?
text: Did you know that the Riverside International Automotive Museum in Riverside, California , houses the largest and most comprehensive collection of Maserati road cars in the United States?
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text: Did you know that despite the efforts of fledgling writers Norman Lear and Larry Gelbart , Celeste Holm bombed after only eight episodes in her 1954 CBS sitcom Honestly, Celeste! ?
text: Did you know that the biography Van Morrison: Too Late to Stop Now concludes the influence of religion on Morrison 's music may be his most lasting contribution?
text: Did you know that 29 years after his defection to the Soviet Union , American Victor Norris Hamilton was discovered in a mental hospital?
text: Did you know that Llandovery Bank , established in Wales in 1799, was known locally as the "Black Ox Bank" because it issued banknotes bearing a black ox ?
text: Did you know that Tacchi Venturi , the personal liaison between Mussolini and the popes, was the architect of the Lateran Treaty , which created Vatican City and made Catholicism the state religion of Italy?
text: Did you know that the 1976 crash of Turkish Airlines Flight 452 is the all-time worst aviation accident in Turkey ?
text: Did you know that Truman C. Everts was lost for 37 days while exploring what would become Yellowstone National Park ?
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text: Did you know that the Rev. George W. Bridges libelled anti-slavery activists Escoffery and Lecesne when he said they wanted to "sheath their daggers in the breasts of their white inhabitants"?
text: Did you know that the Hankensbüttel Otter Centre won first prize in the German Ministry of Transport Regions of the Future competition in 2000?
text: Did you know that one of the tenants of Bloomington, Illinois ' Eastland Mall had operated a store in town since 1892?
text: Did you know that The Coronas had to be escorted out of the building after being mobbed by their fans following a performance at The Music Show in 2008?
text: Did you know that the three Habsburg -class battleships were the first ocean-going battleships built by the Austro-Hungarian Navy since the ironclad SMS Tegetthoff of the 1870s?
text: Did you know that George Washington and James Fenimore Cooper visited the springs at Brookside , an early resort in Ballston Spa, New York ?
text: Did you know that the Punch of the Hamburg Police has educated children in road traffic safety since 1948?
text: Did you know that Lady Emma Herbert , a bridesmaid of Camilla Parker-Bowles , is now a circus trapeze artist?
text: Did you know that in May 2007 alone, 987,000 unique visitors tried Starfall , a free website that helps children learn to read?
text: Did you know that the museum of Epidaurus has a reconstruction of part of the entablature of a Temple of Artemis , dated to 370–310 B.C.?
text: Did you know that in the 2003–04 AHL season , Binghamton Senators defenceman Andy Hedlund went 17 games without scoring a goal following his game-winning shot against Syracuse ?
text: Did you know that Cuban poet Cintio Vitier published his first book of poetry in 1938, at the age of seventeen?
text: Did you know that English actress Maxine Audley was married four times?
text: Did you know that the deadliest aircraft incident in Russia occurred because one air traffic controller fell asleep on the job?
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text: Did you know that the Inmos microprocessor factory in Newport was the first building in Wales designed by Richard Rogers ?
text: Did you know that one driver was killed at Japan's Suzuka Circuit when he was struck by another car just after he exited his stricken car?
text: Did you knowthat Archbishop Leon Tourian was assassinated in a Manhattan church on Christmas Eve , 1933 , for his refusal to publicly support independent Armenia?
text: Did you know that English author Selina Davenport , in an attempt to support herself and her two daughters after separating from her husband, ran both a coffee house and a dance school?
text: Did you know that the library in Michigan's Calumet and Hecla Industrial District originally housed public baths in its basement?
text: Did you know that medieval English bishop Alexander of Lincoln was patron of the chronicler Geoffrey of Monmouth , who dedicated his Prophecies of Merlin to the bishop?
text: Did you know that the Jensen Arctic Museum in Monmouth, Oregon , is the only museum on the West Coast other than in Alaska that focuses solely on Arctic culture?
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text: Did you know that the Mahiyangana Raja Maha Vihara is one of the Solosmasthana , the 16 religious sites in Sri Lanka that Buddhists believe to have been hallowed by visits of Gautama Buddha ?
text: Did you know that over 19 days, the magnitude -6 1703 Apennine earthquakes progressed southwards 36 km and killed an estimated 10,000 people?
text: Did you know that Adolf Bniński , Polish presidential candidate in 1926, was the Government Delegate of the Polish Underground State for the Polish territories annexed by Nazi Germany ?
text: Did you know that the 58-foot (18 m) motor yacht Sundowner , manned by Charles Lightoller , his son Roger, and a Sea Scout called Gerald, evacuated 130 men from Dunkirk ?
text: Did you know that C. Gardner Sullivan , once named among the ten greatest contributors to the motion picture industry, has four films in the U.S. National Film Registry ?
text: Did you know that Elia Kazan 's 1947 film Boomerang! , about a murder defendant whose innocence was proven by the prosecutor, was based on the true story of Harold Israel ?
text: Did you know that George Osbaldeston was twice Master of the Quorn ?
text: Did you know that husband and wife Heinrich and Therese Vogl portrayed the incestuous lovers Siegmund and Sieglinde in Richard Wagner 's Die Walküre on June 26, 1870?
text: Did you know that in 1900 alone the Eastern German provinces lost about 1,600,000 people due to Landflucht ?
text: Did you know that amateur telescope maker Robert E. Cox helped make the first live coverage of a solar eclipse ?
text: Did you know that " Black Is Black ," a 1966 song by Los Bravos , was the first international hit single by a Spanish rock band?
text: Did you know that Bank Indonesia Governor J. Soedradjad Djiwandono was not officially informed of his dismissal from office in 1998 until six days after President Suharto 's decree?
text: Did you know that the writers of the title track to Toby Keith 's 2009 album American Ride told him he was "the only guy in the world that could get away with cutting" that song?
text: Did you know that Dutch rocker Wally Tax learned English by age 11 by working as a pimp for American sailors in the Port of Amsterdam ?
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text: Did you know that silent film comedian Shorty Hamilton died in 1925 when his automobile crashed into a steam shovel in Hollywood?
text: Did you know that wine produced from grapes grown in Washington , California , Chile , Argentina or South Africa can be labeled " Cellared in Canada " and sold as Canadian wine ?
text: Did you know that Peter Rosted served as chief judge at Inderøy District Court for 46 years, from 1733 to 1776?
text: Did you know that the sculptor Emile Norman's largest and most famous work is a four-story high endomosaic window in the lobby of the Masonic Memorial Temple in San Francisco ?
text: Did you know that Paul L. Foshee , who served in both houses of the Louisiana State Legislature , holds a patent on an airplane mount bracket?
text: Did you know that the 1914–1944 Japanese presence in the Marshall Islands resulted in about 10% of the present-day islanders having some Japanese ancestry?
text: Did you know that Gina Krog and Hagbard Emanuel Berner founded the Norwegian Association for Women's Rights in 1884?
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text: Did you know that as a child, Czech painter Kamil Lhoták was infected with poliomyelitis by his father, a physician?
text: Did you know that Spinellus fusiger is a pin mold that parasitizes several species of mushrooms ?
text: Did you know that American folk blues guitarist and Grammy -winning music historian Elijah Wald is the son of prominent biologists Ruth Hubbard and Nobel laureate George Wald ?
text: Did you know that the French Church in Bucharest , Romania , is topped by a Gallic rooster ?
text: Did you know that Rabbi Wolfe Kelman prepared the way for the rabbinic ordination of women in Conservative Judaism and his daughter Naamah Kelman was the first woman in Israel ordained by the Reform Judaism movement?
text: Did you know that Horkstow Bridge in North Lincolnshire , completed in 1836, is the only suspension bridge designed by Sir John Rennie , builder of London Bridge ?
text: Did you know that more than 6,000 fans of Michael Jackson attended at a memorial service at U.S. Steel Yard in Gary, Indiana ?
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text: Did you know that the Vienna -born historian Saul K. Padover wrote definitive biographies of figures as diverse as Karl Marx and Thomas Jefferson ?
text: Did you know that James Howden invented the marine forced draught system that was used on the Lusitania and Mauretania ?
text: Did you know that the married Western Ukrainian Clergy became a hereditary caste that dominated western Ukrainian society?
text: Did you know that National Football League offensive tackle Jake Long was hospitalized in intensive care for smoke inhalation while in college?
text: Did you know that the Great Western Railway built three different stations to serve the town of Wootton Bassett in just 63 years?
text: Did you know that the monogram of King Haakon VII of Norway , H7 , became a resistance symbol during the Second World War ?
text: Did you know that the cryptographic primitives CAST-128 , CAST-256 , Grain , and HAVAL were all designed using bent functions for cryptographic security?
text: Did you know that former Romanian secret police chief Nicolae Pleşiţă , notorious for his dealings with Carlos the Jackal , admitted dragging dissident writer Paul Goma around his cell by his beard?
text: Did you know that the new world's record for the largest formation of women skydivers was organized by the daughter of Lamb Chops puppeteer , Shari Lewis ?
text: Did you know that although Andrew Bonar Law originally had fewer than forty supporting Members of Parliament , he became Leader of the UK Conservative Party after both of the frontrunners simultaneously withdrew?
text: Did you know that the recording of " Fría Como el Viento " by Luis Miguel became his third number-one song in the Billboard Hot Latin Tracks chart ?
text: Did you know that philanthropist James W. Davidson spent CAN$ 250,000 of his own money in 1914 and 1915 to establish over 20 branches of Rotary International on three continents?
text: Did you know that people used home-made balloons and submarines to escape across the inner German border between East and West Germany during the Cold War ?
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text: Did you know that Archuleta v. Hedrick was a pro se petition for a writ of habeas corpus brought by an insanity defense acquitee, hospitalized against his will?
text: Did you know that while being a member of the Spanish colonial guardia civil , Francisco Carreón also served as a member of the Philippine Revolutionary group Katipunan ?
text: Did you know that Byne's disease is not actually a disease, but a chemical reaction that attacks shells in storage or on display?
text: Did you know that footballer Tony Hawksworth had only made three appearances for Manchester United 's reserve team when he made his Football League debut, but never played another League match?
text: Did you know that the last recorded sighting of the Knob-billed Duck , now thought to be extinct in Sri Lanka , occurred in Lahugala Kitulana National Park ?
text: Did you know that the American progressive rock / avant-jazz group The Muffins were influenced by the English Canterbury scene ?
text: Did you know that women complained when celebrity chef Neven Maguire posed for a Food & Wine photo shoot alongside a bikini -wearing model and a plate of food?
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text: Did you know that despite historically good relations , Libyan leader Muammar al-Gaddafi called for Switzerland 's dissolution in September 2009?
text: Did you know that the Eparchaean Unconformity in India is a major discontinuity between Proterozoic Nagari Quartzites and Archaean granite with a time gap of at least 500 million years between the two formations?
text: Did you know that the term " Moonie " was first used by American media sources to refer to members of Sun Myung Moon 's Unification Church in 1974, during church events at the Madison Square Garden ?
text: Did you know that one of the French ships captured at the Battle of Cape Ortegal in 1805 went on to serve the Royal Navy for 144 years?
text: Did you know that the 1974 floods along the Finke River in Australia's Northern Territory resulted in the dramatic spread of the introduced Athel Tamarisk ( T. aphylla ) through the desert?
text: Did you know that French politician Jean Fontenoy , initially a communist , later became a fascist ?
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text: Did you know that John Cantius , patron saint of the Jagiellonian University , is buried in the Church of St. Anne, Kraków ?
text: Did you know that the Byzantine chapel of the Theotokos of the Pharos at Constantinople housed a huge collection of holy relics, many of which were acquired by Louis IX of France for his Sainte-Chapelle ?
text: Did you know that referee Johnny LoBianco awarded boxer Roberto Durán a 1972 knockout despite his apparent low blow , with sportswriter Red Smith stating "anything short of pulling a knife is regarded indulgently"?
text: Did you know that the Classic Period Mesoamerican archaeological site of Bilbao on the Pacific coastal plain of Guatemala , features a significant amount of sculpture with ballgame imagery?
text: Did you know that the Australian town of Acland , once host to Queensland 's oldest and smallest continuously worked coal mine , now has a population of one?
text: Did you know that Lucy Vodden was John Lennon 's inspiration for the song " Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds "?
text: Did you know that Freddy Bienstock was the designated song screener for Elvis Presley ?
text: Did you know that W. S. Gilbert 's 1878 play The Ne'er-do-Weel was the second that he wrote for actor E. A. Sothern , who did not appear in either?
text: Did you know that the Christian Byzantine Emperor Leo V performed pagan rituals in Constantinople at the signing of a peace treaty in 815 with the Bulgarians ?
text: Did you know that Karen L. Gould , a scholar of French-Canadian literature and francophone women writers, is the first woman president of Brooklyn College ?
text: Did you know that Abba Garima Monastery , located near Adwa , Ethiopia , contains the crown of the Emperor Zara Yaqob of the Solomonic dynasty ?
text: Did you know that during the Second World War , the Japanese-American family of Tsuyako "Sox" Kitashima were interned in a horse stall ?
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text: Did you know that Bruce Spizer , a New Orleans tax attorney , wrote 2,592 questions for a special Beatles edition of the board game Trivial Pursuit ?
text: Did you know that people of Austronesian origin traveled in and around the Philippine Islands using balangays , which were eventually used to trade with the Srivijayan empire?
text: Did you know that Jean de La Forêt was the first French ambassador to the Ottoman Empire in 1534, and that he negotiated in 1536 a Franco-Ottoman treaty of alliance ?
text: Did you know that the electronic version of the Encyclopedia of Chicago was the second extensive Internet encyclopedia dedicated to the history of a U.S. city?
text: Did you know that the Indian film Shehar Aur Sapna , a love story set in a drain pipe, won the National Film Award for Best Film and Filmfare Best Supporting Actor Award for actor Nana Palsikar ?
text: Did you know that reticulated foam is used to protect the fuel tanks of military aircraft such as the A-10 Thunderbolt II ?
text: Did you know that Richard Prince 's controversial "rephotograph" of Garry Gross ' s nude image of Brooke Shields at age 10 was recently banned from the Tate Gallery in London ?
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text: Did you know that Gary Lakes became an opera singer because a cracked vertebra sustained as a high school football defensive tackle derailed his plans for a sports career?
text: Did you know that some of the mallees in the Australian Inland Botanic Gardens may be up to 2,500 years old?
text: Did you know that William S. Dix was recognised as one of the American Libraries' 100 most important figures although he never obtained a degree in library science ?
text: Did you know that the Lhasa Brewery Company, which produces Tibetan beer is the highest commercial brewery in the world?
text: Did you know that Finnish chemist Edvard Hjelt organized the training of a infantry unit later used in the Finnish Civil War in 1918?
text: Did you know that Women of the Sun was the first Australian television series to portray the lives of Aboriginal women in 19th-century Australia ?
text: Did you know that Roy Frankhouser , a Ku Klux Klan Grand Dragon , was arrested at least 142 times?
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text: Did you know that the rapid automatized naming of objects, pictures and colors in pre-literate children predicts their later success in learning to read ?
text: Did you know that Wong Fu Productions does not make a profit from the short films it produces?
text: Did you know that the Klamath Diversion in the 1960s would have involved diverting the entire Klamath River to the Central Valley and Southern California ?
text: Did you know that the Norwegian company Maarud was the largest snack food producer in Scandinavia in the 1970s?
text: Did you know that the Stone Bridge near Hart Mountain in Lake County , Oregon , is completely underwater?
text: Did you know that Dymitr of Goraj , one of the most powerful people in the late 14th-century Kingdom of Poland , was instrumental in preventing the marriage between Jadwiga of Poland and William, Duke of Austria ?
text: Did you know that philanthropist Joseph Gurwin lost more than $36 million to Bernard Madoff , but promised he would continue making charitable donations even if he had "to sell apples on the street"?
text: Did you know that Julius Anton Glaser 's 1873 code of criminal procedure was the first to introduce trial by jury in Austria ?
text: Did you know that the Distomo Archaeological Collection of Greece has an exhibition of photographs related to the Distomo massacre in 1944  by Nazi troops?
text: Did you know that BBC traffic reporter Sally Traffic has also narrated poetry albums for the blind?
text: Did you know that the Christian music industry was the fastest growing segment of the music industry in the 1990s?
text: Did you know that in 2007 , Rachel Robinson , the wife of Jackie Robinson , was the first non-player to be presented with Major League Baseball 's Commissioner's Historic Achievement Award ?
text: Did you know that 51 Ophiuchi has a disk of dust and gas that is likely a planetary system in the late stages of formation?
text: Did you know that the biography Van Morrison: No Surrender discusses the musician's spiritual exploration of Gestalt therapy , Jehovah's Witnesses , mysticism , Rosicrucianism , and Scientology ?
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text: Did you know that the newspaper and radio of Vatican City during World War II ceased reporting the weather at the request of the Italian government ?
text: Did you know that in 1833, romantic poet Panagiotis Soutsos envisioned the revival of the ancient Olympic Games , 63 years before the first International Olympics ?
text: Did you know that the Abraham Glen House , now the Scotia branch of the Schenectady County, New York , public library, is a rare surviving Dutch Colonial heavy timber frame house in the Capital District ?
text: Did you know that after World War II , designs of the London Transport brand were simplified to reduce manufacturing and maintenance costs?
text: Did you know that historian Sue Eakin published an edited version of Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup , a free black taken from New York into slavery in Louisiana ?
text: Did you know that successful repair of both cruciate ligaments in a human knee was first reported in 1903?
text: Did you know that prior to writing the episode " The Apartment " of the NBC sitcom Seinfeld , writer Peter Mehlman had "barely written any dialogue in [his] life"?
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text: Did you know that author Tom Spanbauer became so stressed while writing the LGBT novel The Man Who Fell in Love with the Moon that he fainted in Penn Station ?
text: Did you know that a series of measures taken by Romanian Prime Minister Ion Gigurtu , including official persecution of Jews , failed to sway Adolf Hitler from his demand that Romania cede Northern Transylvania to Hungary ?
text: Did you know that Don Larsen won the 1956 World Series Most Valuable Player Award after pitching the only perfect game in World Series history?
text: Did you know that Ernst Märzendorfer was the first conductor to record the complete symphonies of Joseph Haydn ?
text: Did you know that " Do-Over ", the third-season premiere of the television comedy series 30 Rock , is the highest-rated episode of the series to date?
text: Did you know that besides serving as famine food , the tree Balanites aegyptiaca can be used to make furniture, cooking oil , snail repellent, and glue , and provides raw materials for making birth control pills?
text: Did you know that Abd el-Aziz el-Zoubi was the first non- Jewish member of an Israeli government ?
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text: Did you knowthat the Scotia, New York , post office was one of the last to be built in the state under Depression -era relief programs?
text: Did you know that L.C. Lecesne rose to prominence as an activist against slavery after the British Government compensated him for his illegal exile from Jamaica ?
text: Did you know that the posthumous Michael Jackson album This Is It will include a spoken word poem by Jackson titled Planet Earth ?
text: Did you know that disabled veteran street vendors have been exempt from certain municipal regulations in New York state since 1894?
text: Did you know that Operation Fair Play was the codename for the 1977 military coup that overthrew the regime of Pakistani Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto ?
text: Did you know that the only operable AWACS equipped aircraft of the Iranian Air Force was destroyed in a mid-air collision on 22 September 2009?
text: Did you know that professional wrestler Dukes Dalton teamed with World Wrestling Entertainment veteran Steve Lombardi at a " Toys for Tots " event hosted by the United States Marines ?
text: Did you know that despite establishing the mandate that Port wine should only come from the Douro , the Marquis of Pombal allowed grapes grown from his own estate in Carcavelos to be used by Port producers?
text: Did you know that Edward Fokczyński knew that Poland had solved Germany 's Enigma ciphers , but kept the secret even while being worked to death at Sachsenhausen ?
text: Did you know that Robert Southey composed five epic poems that describe: human sacrifices , murderous Hindu demons , evil sorcerers , a Goth rapist , and a violent maid ?
text: Did you know that personal injury lawyers mapped the sidewalks of New York City for defects, rendering the city liable for $600 million in judgments between 1997 and 2006?
text: Did you know that Australian musician Jim Keays , who fronted The Masters Apprentices during 1965–1972, was diagnosed with myeloma in 2007 and is in remission after stem cell transplants?
text: Did you know that the decision in Gyles v Wilcox established the legal precedent of fair abridgement, which later evolved into the modern concept of fair use ?
text: Did you know that director Paul Weiland , whose credits include Mr. Bean , 66 and more than 500 television commercials, owns an 18th-century country estate in Wiltshire , England ?
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text: Did you know that American opera singer Margaret Harshaw portrayed more Wagnerian heroines on stage at the Metropolitan Opera than anyone else in the opera's history?
text: Did you know that Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington helped popularize the Portuguese wine Bucelas in London after he discovered it while fighting in the Peninsular War ?
text: Did you know that the Ballston Spa, New York , post office was once located in an opera house ?
text: Did you know that baseball player Warren Cromartie filed an injunction against screening of the comedy film Cromartie High - The Movie because the (fictitious) school was portrayed as full of thugs and delinquents?
text: Did you know that the mural by Leon Kroll in the Worcester Memorial Auditorium was the largest in the United States when completed?
text: Did you know that Emmy Award winner and Golden Raspberry nominee John Herzfeld has directed films about the Long Island Lolita , the Preppie Murder , Ryan White , Don King , and 2 days in the Valley ?
text: Did you know that during one of several British airborne operations in North Africa , an officer knocked unconscious was heard to ask a waiter for fish?
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text: Did you know that during the First World War Edwin Flavell was awarded the Military Cross three times?
text: Did you know that wine critic Robert Parker has said that all Grolleau vines should be ripped out of the Loire Valley and replaced with other grape varieties ?
text: Did you know that the Wilsonville railroad bridge in Oregon does not need to be painted ?
text: Did you know that in 1953, former SS - Obergruppenführer Emil Mazuw received an eight year prison sentence for severely abusing political prisoners and Jews ?
text: Did you know that the designers of the proposed Vigilant Eagle system hope to be able to create an invisible protectant dome around an airport to block a missile ?
text: Did you know that casting director Caro Jones cast for more than 1,000 films and television shows , including Rocky , The Beverly Hillbillies and The Karate Kid ?
text: Did you know that at one point in the history of the TNA Women's Knockout Championship , a male argued that he was the rightful champion ?
text: Did you know that Irish folk-singer Tommy Sands received an Honorary Doctorate from The University of Nevada , Reno ?
text: Did you know that Japanese settlement in Palau dates back to the 19th century?
text: Did you know that "Mad" Micky McAvoy committed what was dubbed "the crime of the century" in 1983?
text: Did you know that the confidential academic paper more commonly known as the " Cornell Paper ", which detailed an abortive 1965 coup d'état attempt in Indonesia , was eventually published in 1971 to avoid any misconception of its contents?
text: Did you know that Milwaukee 's first underground parking garage was built in 1927 in the basement of George Brumder ' s Germania Building?
text: Did you know that an exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum in 1980 argued that "everything we know as Hollywood traces to Wilfred Buckland ", film innovator and Hollywood 's first art director ?
text: Did you know that scenes from the 2009 advertisement Carousel were used in the music video for 50 Cent 's single " Ok, You're Right "?
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text: Did you know that Michael Lockett , a British sergeant who was killed by a roadside bomb, was the first British soldier awarded the Military Cross to die in Afghanistan ?
text: Did you know that physical chemist Jerome Karle won the 1985 Nobel Prize in Chemistry , making him the third alumnus of Brooklyn 's Abraham Lincoln High School to win a Nobel?
text: Did you know that in 1960, excavations uncovered the remains of a medieval fort from the Hussite Wars at the bottom of a lake in Záběhlice , Czech Republic ?
text: Did you know that Kent Blazy , co-writer of Garth Brooks ' " If Tomorrow Never Comes ," has had a cut on all but one of Brooks' albums?
text: Did you know that despite tensions between Pakistan and India, a village called Pakistan in India's Bihar state was named in honour of its former inhabitants?
text: Did you know that Essex cricketers Frank Vigar and Peter Smith shared a club record 218-run last-wicket stand in 1947?
text: Did you know that the Eureka Diamond , the first diamond discovered in South Africa , was used as a toy by the boy who discovered it, given away for free by his mother, and sent by mail to a mineralogist in an ordinary paper envelope?
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text: Did you know that Ateneo and La Salle supporters wore yellow as a sign of respect for Corazon Aquino who died a week prior to their first basketball game of the 2009 season ?
text: Did you know that the Palestinian village of Bayt 'Itab was situated on a rocky knoll identified as the biblical Rock of Etam , within which Samson hid after burning the grain of the Philistines ?
text: Did you know that Richard Adeney , who played principal flute with the English Chamber Orchestra , was a founding member of the Melos Ensemble ?
text: Did you know that the ancient wall paintings in Coombes Church in West Sussex include a man grimacing as he holds up the 30-inch (76 cm)-thick chancel arch?
text: Did you know that Emmy Award -winning director Dearbhla Walsh described one scene in Talk to Me where a teacher commits adultery with her 15-year-old pupil as "not so much about sex as about love"?
text: Did you know that Randall's Thumb was the first of a long series of W.S. Gilbert 's plays  at Marie Litton's newly christened Royal Court Theatre ?
text: Did you know that an argument between a Catalan woman and a soldier over a chicken helped inflame the Revolt of the Barretinas against the Spanish government?
text: Did you know that Kjell Borgen resigned as Norwegian Minister of Transport and Communications because of a decision about the location of Oslo Airport ?
text: Did you know that in the 1537 Siege of Corfu , the Ottoman Emperor Suleiman the Magnificent was joined by a French fleet under Baron de Saint-Blancard ?
text: Did you know that Filipino social worker Efren Peñaflorida , 2009 CNN Hero of the Year , grew up in a slum near a garbage dump?
text: Did you know that the Antioch Dunes Evening Primrose grows only in the Antioch Dunes National Wildlife Refuge , the first wildlife refuge in the U.S. formed to protect endangered plant and insect species ?
text: Did you know that Hawaiians named a tsunami after 18th century surfer and statesman Naihe ?
text: Did you know that the opening of the Gesta principum Polonorum , a history of early Poland written sometime in the 1110s, is addressed to Martin I , Archbishop of Gniezno ?
text: Did you know that opera singer Fisher Morgan , a former principal soloist with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company , ended his career in pantomime ?
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text: Did you know that the Uniform Fourpenny Post was a United Kingdom postal rate that lasted just 36 days after it was introduced on 5 December 1839?
text: Did you know that Tore Lindholt became involved in politics and worked in the Norwegian State Railways after leaving an academic career he declared himself too "restless" to pursue?
text: Did you know that Macedonia 's Matka Canyon is home to one of the world's deepest caves?
text: Did you know that the slave Quamina , who was executed by British colonial authorities in 1823, is considered a national hero in Guyana ?
text: Did you know that the controls of St. Clair Streett 's biplane ceased to function at a record high altitude, where the temperature was −78 °F (−61 °C)?
text: Did you know that South Hobart's record of five championships in a row from 1919 to 1923 in Football Federation Tasmania 's state championship has never been equalled?
text: Did you know that the Brazilian fashion label Colcci has 1,659 stores in 31 countries, but only one in the United States ?
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text: Did you know that the music of Louisiana blues performer Lonesome Sundown was described by his producer as "the sound of the swamp"?
text: Did you know that Christian references in Islamic art include the Annunciation , the birth of Jesus and his baptism ?
text: Did you know that although plans were made in 1944 to repair war damage to London's Inner Temple , the repairs were not completed until 1958?
text: Did you know that the extinction of the Greater Antillean sloths coincided with the first colonization of their islands by humans?
text: Did you know that after the departure of head coach Fred Boye left the North Carolina men's basketball team coachless for two seasons, the team actually won more games?
text: Did you know that Nokian Tyres , a Finnish company that designed the first winter tyre , must test its summer tyres in South Africa , Spain , and Germany because of the short summers in Finland?
text: Did you know that Quantula striata is the only land snail that gives off flashes of light ?
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text: Did you know that Mihály Iglói coached Hungarian and American distance runners to set a total of 49 world records ?
text: Did you know that Scottish news presenter Mary Marquis continued to work while seven months pregnant in 1963, including one interview conducted on a roof?
text: Did you know that in the original pitch for the animated television series Phineas and Ferb , the character Ferb Fletcher did not speak?
text: Did you know that Swiss Vice-Chancellor Thomas Helbling was the project manager for the Austria–Switzerland bid to host Euro 2008 ?
text: Did you know that the 110 mph BSA Fury British motorcycle designed by Edward Turner never went into production due to the colapse of the BSA Group ?
text: Did you know that during a military campaign in 1312 , Emperor Trần Anh Tông entrusted the temporary throne to his son Trần Minh Tông who was only twelve years old at that time?
text: Did you know that Matthew T. Dickerson is a computational geometer , scholar of J. R. R. Tolkien and the Inklings , novelist, blues musician , fly fisherman , maple sugar farmer , and beekeeper ?
text: Did you know that German Kabarett artist Andreas Rebers studied to become a teacher before beginning his artistic career?
text: Did you know that one naval mine caused the loss of two Empire ships , Empire Blessing and Empire Seablue ?
text: Did you know that the 1970 Triumph Bandit British motorcycle never went into commercial production and only five have survived?
text: Did you know that Orange County Community College in Middletown, New York , held its first classes in the Webb Horton House 's garage?
text: Did you know that Launcelot Percival was an England international rugby union player before becoming Deputy Clerk of the Closet to George VI of the United Kingdom ?
text: Did you know that Czech bandleader Karel Duba died on 21 August 1968 in Mongolia , when the bus with his band fell into an abyss?
text: Did you know that the bat star has five to nine arms which resemble the wings of a bat ?
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text: Did you know that Abraham Ogden led the delegation that negotiated the Treaty of New York with the Seven Nations of Canada in 1796?
text: Did you know that among Korean regional cuisine , the luxurious style of Kaesong cuisine of North Korea is frequently compared with those of Seoul and Jeolla cuisines of South Korea ?
text: Did you know that Ayaan Ali Khan , son of famous Indian sarod player Amjad Ali Khan , hosted the TV music competition show Sa Re Ga Ma with brother Amaan ?
text: Did you know that after the WCW World Television Championship belt was thrown into the trash, Hacksaw Jim Duggan found it and became the final champion without any fights?
text: Did you know that pictures by amateur astrophotographer Steve Mandel help to explore faint nebulae of the Milky Way ?
text: Did you know that the sharpsnout stingray is caught by subsistence fishers , but not favored as food because its meat is a dark reddish color?
text: Did you know that in April 1995, the Ottawa Rough Riders of the Canadian Football League drafted Derrell Robertson , even though he had died in a car accident in December 1994?
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text: Did you know that in filmmaking, a screenwriter usually creates a production package that they hand out during their pitch , which generally includes a plot synopsis and budgeting information on their idea?
text: Did you know that African-American gay and transgender Ali Forney , once homeless himself, had a homeless LGBT youth center in New York City named after him for his work helping other youths?
text: Did you know that the wreck of Indefatigable has belatedly been declared a protected place under the Protection of Military Remains Act 1986 to discourage further damage to the resting place of 1,015 officers and men?
text: Did you know that American countertenor Bejun Mehta began his musical career as a boy soprano , praised by Leonard Bernstein ?
text: Did you know that St. Patrick's Catholic Church in Glynwood, Ohio , was the only Irish church in an area settled primarily by German Catholics?
text: Did you know that Queens Borough President Joseph Bermel fled the country an hour after promising to return to a grand jury corruption inquiry?
text: Did you know that in 1943, Alec Cunningham-Reid fought a fellow MP in the British House of Commons ?
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text: Did you know that although USS Cocopa was built for service in World War II , she remains on active duty with the Mexican Navy as ARM Seri ?
text: Did you know that both the father and son Johann Friedrich and Carl von und zu Mansbach , who spent much of their life in Hesse and Denmark , also served as commanders of Fredriksten Fortress in Norway ?
text: Did you know that Canadian middleweight boxing champion Del Fontaine was executed at Wandsworth Prison in 1935 for murdering his lover?
text: Did you know that although some sources state that they can weigh up to 3 pounds (1.4 kg), the largest recorded Saucereye porgy weighed only half that at 1.5 pounds (0.68 kg)?
text: Did you know that Connie Mack was the manager of Philadelphia Athletics baseball team for more than 7000  games?
text: Did you know that actress Aubrey Plaza said " Hunting Trip ", an episode of the NBC comedy series Parks and Recreation , could mark the start of a romance between her character and that of actor Chris Pratt ?
text: Did you know that despite being over 90 years old, the Van Gilder Hotel in Seward, Alaska , is named after a man who owned it for just a few months?
text: Did you know that the original "Three Little Maids from School" in Gilbert and Sullivan 's 1885 opera The Mikado were Sybil Grey , Jessie Bond and Leonora Braham ?
text: Did you know that in the Siege of Esztergom (1543) , the Ottoman Emperor Suleiman captured the Hungarian city of Esztergom with the support of French artillery?
text: Did you know that intelligent disobedience is a concept whereby service animals trained to help the disabled are taught to ignore unsafe commands from their owners?
text: Did you know that three airmen died testing the three prototypes of the Polikarpov SPB (D) ?
text: Did you know that the Duchy of Belz was passed as a dowry by Władysław Jagiełło, king of Poland to Siemowit IV, Duke of Masovia , upon Siemowit's marriage to Władysław's sister, Alexandra ?
text: Did you know that Otto Joachim Løvenskiold rejected offers to become both Minister of Justice and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Norway ?
text: Did you know that at Modern Toilet restaurants , the chairs are made out of toilets, dishes are served on plastic miniature toilet bowls, and drinks come in miniature urinals?
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text: Did you know that Kursha Monastery is the largest Buddhist monastery in the Zanskar region of eastern Jammu and Kashmir , India ?
text: Did you know that following the German invasion of Norway , General Fleischer and County Governor Hans Gabrielsen assumed all military and civilian power in Northern Norway , declaring the region a theatre of war ?
text: Did you know that American football center J. T. White played for NCAA national champions with both the 1947 Michigan Wolverines football team and the 1942 Ohio State Buckeyes football team ?
text: Did you know that the programmes of the National Civics Bureau , an agency of the Malaysian government , were accused of promoting the Malay supremacy and indoctrination ?
text: Did you know that the giant stumptail stingray is only known from two specimens caught near Vladivostok, Russia , in Peter the Great Bay ?
text: Did you know that after his father committed suicide, Harry Reid introduced a resolution to the United States Senate which led to the creation of the National Survivors of Suicide Day ?
text: Did you know that the Phiale of Megara may be the earliest attested example of local Doric Greek dialect written in ancient Macedonia , unless it actually comes from Megara ?
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text: Did you know that American gambler Lottie Deno was one of Texas ' most famous poker players in the late 1800s?
text: Did you know that nematode Angiostrongylus vasorum lives in the hearts of dogs ?
text: Did you know that archaeologist Anton Wilhelm Brøgger and his sons Waldemar and Niels were imprisoned in Grini concentration camp during World War II ?
text: Did you know that the play Beunans Ke , discovered in 2000, was one of the most significant finds in the study of Cornish literature and language ?
text: Did you know that Nunez Community College in Chalmette , Louisiana , is named for the late wife of former Louisiana State Senate President Samuel B. Nunez, Jr. ?
text: Did you know that HMS Aid was part of Sir Francis Drake 's fleet to meet the Spanish Armada at Plymouth ?
text: Did you know that in his mid-career, the American blues and boogie-woogie pianist , Big Joe Duskin , did not touch a keyboard for sixteen years as a promise to his father who thought he played the devil 's music?
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text: Did you know that research supported by the Sabin Vaccine Institute to treat and prevent the neglected disease of hookworm infection includes the development of hookworm vaccines ?
text: Did you know that Ramón de la Sagra founded the world's first anarchist journal El Porvenir ?
text: Did you know that under the Policing and Crime Act 2009 , it is now an offence in England , Wales , and Northern Ireland to persistently possess alcohol in a public place if you are under 18 years of age?
text: Did you know that Jetrail was the world's first fully automated monorail transit system?
text: Did you know that Trinidad has more bat species than any other island in the Caribbean ?
text: Did you know that although efforts to create a transportation trades department in the AFL-CIO began in the 1960s, the idea did not gain momentum until after the Teamsters reaffiliated with the AFL-CIO in 1987?
text: Did you know that the Italian monitor Faà di Bruno was powered by two engines from discarded torpedo boats ?
text: Did you know that American football guard Justin Boren cited family values as the reason for transferring from the University of Michigan to its arch rival , The Ohio State University ?
text: Did you know that one of the few cases of poisoning by the Montpellier snake occurred when someone stuck his finger into the snake's mouth?
text: Did you know that Trần Minh Tông ceded the throne to his five-year-old son Trần Dụ Tông because he considered the eldest prince too extravagant for the position of Đại Việt Emperor ?
text: Did you know that Oregon doctor Augustus C. Kinney lived in Astoria , but died in Oakland, California , and was buried in Salem, Oregon ?
text: Did you know that the fuselage of the Polikarpov NB was built from molded plywood reinforced with a welded steel tube framework?
text: Did you know that John Alario , the longest-serving member of the Louisiana State Legislature whose tenure began in 1972, is currently a freshman member of the state Senate ?
text: Did you know that the day after the death of businessman Fairfax Harrison , The New York Times accidentally ran the wrong picture with his obituary?
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text: Did you know that although British Prime Minister Edward Heath announced in 1972 that hooding was illegal, British soldiers were engaging in the practice in the Iraq War ?
text: Did you know that less than two years after Julia Goss thought she failed her audition, she became the principal soprano of the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company ?
text: Did you know that a group of central banks known as the London Gold Pool teamed up to regulate exchange rates and gold prices in the 1960s?
text: Did you know that King Henry I of England granted the medieval English nobleman Walter de Beauchamp (d. around 1130) the right to keep pheasants on his lands and fine any who poached them?
text: Did you know that ordinary salt may be blessed by Catholic priests and used as a protective sacramental ?
text: Did you know that following reactions to his admission of committing the offence of handball in the France vs Republic of Ireland game on 18 November 2009, French captain Thierry Henry considered retirement from international football?
text: Did you know that the citizens of Morella, Spain , hold a sexennial nine-day celebration to commemorate their deliverance from the plague by the Virgin of Vallivana?
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text: Did you know that Oregon pioneer Robert Crouch Kinney read law under Serranus Clinton Hastings , but never practiced law?
text: Did you know that although the Spanish introduced barley-based beer in Mexico , various Mesoamerican cultures had a corn-based fermented drink which is still made today?
text: Did you know that former Louisiana legislative auditor Steve Theriot investigated a police -operated toy charity which uncovered various improprieties at Mandeville City Hall?
text: Did you know that some garter snakes engage in kleptothermy by creating fake female pheromones that cause other males to cover them in attempted mating letting them steal their warmth?
text: Did you know that grinding bararite partly converts it to another polymorph cryptohalite?
text: Did you know that former Louisiana State Senator Gaston Gerald has spent his later years engaged in cattle ranching and farming in East Baton Rouge and Washington parishes?
text: Did you know that Billy the Kid was armed with a Colt Model 1877 revolver when killed by Pat Garrett in 1881?
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text: Did you know that Unthanksgiving day is held annually on Alcatraz Island as a counterpoint to the traditional Thanksgiving story and to give thanks for Native American survival in the face of genocide?
text: Did you know that the historian of the American West Herbert H. Lang researched a study of the role of Fort Worth , Texas , in the origins of the modern helium industry?
text: Did you know that the Lowell Creek Diversion Tunnel in Seward, Alaska , carries Lowell Creek 2,068 feet (630 m) through a mountain?
text: Did you know that after several previous dismissals from jobs and his wife leaving him, professor Holmes Beckwith responded to his firing from Syracuse University in 1921 by shooting his dean and then himself?
text: Did you know that the 1975 musical The Black Mikado was based on Gilbert and Sullivan 's 1885 opera The Mikado ?
text: Did you know that former Louisiana State Senator Lynn Dean , a Republican , led the move in 2003 to repeal his state's anti- sodomy law?
text: Did you know that railcars transiting the Eurasian Land Bridge from China to western Europe must change bogies twice?
text: Did you know that the Parnall Puffin was an experimental amphibious fighter-reconnaissance biplane with several unusual features, principally a single central float and an inverted fin and rudder?
text: Did you know that former Louisiana State Senator Mike Cross authored a law in 1990 to add anabolic steroids to a list of illegal substances, but lawmakers failed to clarify the proper penalty?
text: Did you know that female sterilization is considered the most prevalent birth-control method in India?
text: Did you know that Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights secretary Lola Hendricks applied personally to public safety commissioner Bull Connor for permission to demonstrate in Birmingham, Alabama , during the 1963 Birmingham Campaign ?
text: Did you know that the unusual fully-plastered attic on the D&H Canal Co. office near Lackawaxen, Pennsylvania , may be due to use as a dormitory for laborers during high-maintenance seasons on the canal?
text: Did you know that Plains Cree - Blackfoot artist and author Gerald McMaster says Hopalong Cassidy and the Lone Ranger were inspirations for his art?
text: Did you know that Tuskegee University gives up its chance for the NCAA Division II National Football Championship each year to be able to play in the Turkey Day Classic ?
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text: Did you know that the range of buildings with listed status in Worthing , West Sussex , includes a lamp-post, a dovecote and a sculpture of four male heads?
text: Did you know that American sports journalist William T. Porter founded of one of the earliest sports newspapers in the United States, The Spirit of the Times ?
text: Did you know that the Puławy Legion of the Imperial Russian Army , supported by National Democrats , was formed to counteract the Polish Legions of the Austro–Hungarian Army , an initiative of Piłsudski ?
text: Did you know that goalkeeper Barrie Delf only made one appearance in The Football League for Southend United , having previously played as an amateur ?
text: Did you know that about 75% of all the hotel rooms in the Indian town of Bhuj have been booked for the period of the opening ceremony of a new Swaminarayan Temple scheduled for May 2010?
text: Did you know that the Aleutian Shield Fern , an endangered species found only on the Aleutian Island , Adak Island , is one of the  least known of the world's ferns ?
text: Did you know that before beginning a career in animation , Jeff "Swampy" Marsh worked as a vice president of sales and marketing for a computer company, where he "freaked out" and decided to quit?
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text: Did you know that Helge Skappel was among the pioneers of aviation in Norway , and together with Viggo Widerøe he wrote a book on the pioneer days?
text: Did you know that Alter the Ending was released by American rock band Dashboard Confessional in a deluxe edition, which includes a full CD of acoustic versions of the album's songs?
text: Did you know that after the heavy American casualties over the oil refineries of Ploieşti in Operation Tidal Wave , General Gordon P. Saville called it "ridiculous and suicidal"?
text: Did you know that despite the 1969 Sarawak state elections scheduled end date of June 7, the May 13 incident delayed its completion for about a year?
text: Did you know that the pre- WWII mayor of Bergen , Asbjørn Stensaker , initially remained in his position under Nazi German rule to limit nazification, but the Nazis prevented his stepping down in 1941?
text: Did you know that transcranial alternating current stimulation , a method of applying alternating current above the scalp , can entrain brain waves that induce phosphenes and slow reaction times ?
text: Did you know that Nicole Fox , who won first place in the reality show America's Next Top Model in 2009, is nicknamed "Bloody Eyeball"?
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text: Did you know that the Great Western Arms Company was founded in 1953 to produce copies of the Colt SAA revolver, used in many Western movies and TV shows of the 1950s and 1960s?
text: Did you know that Gudmund Harlem , father of former Director-General of the World Health Organization Gro Harlem Brundtland , was a notable politician and physician in his own right?
text: Did you know that the Soviet Mikoyan-Gurevich DIS prototype of the early 1940s had an electrically operated variable-incidence horizontal stabilizer ?
text: Did you know that NCAA tennis coach Dick Gould was named "Coach of the Decade" for both the 1980s and 1990s and coached 50 All-Americans, including John McEnroe and the Bryan Brothers ?
text: Did you know that German journalist Heribert Prantl worked as both a judge and a public prosecutor before becoming the head of the domestic policy department of the Süddeutsche Zeitung ?
text: Did you know that American band Person L 's use of a diverse mix of sounds and genres on their record The Positives , has been compared to the style used by Jawbox and Fugazi ?
text: Did you know that in 1922, Henry Pellew , an American citizen, inherited the title of Viscount Exmouth , created for his grandfather who fought for the British during the American War of Independence ?
text: Did you know that Louisiana Judge Kernan "Skip" Hand was overruled in 2008 by the U.S. Supreme Court regarding the exclusion of two blacks as jurors in a high-profile murder case?
text: Did you know that British astronomer Arthur Robert Hinks had the help of Eros to calculate the distance between the Earth and the Sun?
text: Did you know that when the CGS Hawk first flew in January 1982, it was the first ultralight aircraft with an enclosed cockpit and to use strut bracing?
text: Did you know that according to local tradition on Coll , the now-ruinous dun of Dùn an Achaidh was once the fortress of the son of a Norse king named Olaf ?
text: Did you know that Big Ten champion Chet Murphy defeated America's top-ranked woman tennis player Alice Marble in a 1939 exhibition match played in front of a "throng" of spectators?
text: Did you know that the slaves who rebelled against their masters in Demerara in 1823 promised not to use violence?
text: Did you know that the Simpsons episode " The Devil Wears Nada ", in which Marge poses for racy photographs in a calendar, aired soon after she appeared nude on the cover of Playboy ?
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text: Did you know that Abdul Ghaffar Khan , a colleague of Mahatma Gandhi , was hailed as an example of pacifism in Islam for his leadership of non-violent resistance ?
text: Did you know that Omarosa Manigault-Stallworth , made famous for her appearance on the American reality television show The Apprentice , returned as a candidate for the seventh season of the show?
text: Did you know that the Cheapside Street Whisky Bond Fire in Glasgow , Scotland , in 1960 was (and remains) the worst peace time loss of life for the United Kingdom fire services ?
text: Did you know that J.D. Morgan led UCLA to at least 6 NCAA championships as tennis coach and 30 NCAA championships, including 10 men's basketball titles , as athletic director ?
text: Did you know that Prodromus Entomology was the first book about Australia containing plates engraved in Australia?
text: Did you know that Peter L. Nissen , CEO of Widerøe from 1981 to 1988, has called the Widerøe Flight disaster of 1982 "unsolved", even though commissions have reached their conclusions?
text: Did you know that the lizard Trachylepis maculata is known only from three specimens of doubtful provenance collected in the 1800s?
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text: Did you know that cosmetic acupuncture involves the insertion of needles into the human face in an attempt to reduce wrinkles and age-lines?
text: Did you know that D. W. Robertson, Jr. (1914–1992) has been regarded as the most influential scholar on Geoffrey Chaucer of the twentieth century?
text: Did you know that Prince Christian of Denmark was hailed as heir to the King of Denmark in 1610, but died in 1647 without having succeeded to the throne ?
text: Did you know that, in 1930, Ralph Royce flew aircraft in such severe cold weather operations that the Mackay Trophy was awarded to him?
text: Did you know that South Africa women cricketers played their first Test match at St George's Park , the same location as the country's men's team played their first match?
text: Did you know that when the George Armstrong Custer statue was moved to a new location near the River Raisin in 1923, it remained in relative isolation, being obscured by unkempt scrubs and trees?
text: Did you know that René Menzies , at one time Charles de Gaulle 's chauffeur , was a record-breaking long-distance cyclist who rode 62,785 miles the year he reached his 63rd birthday?
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text: Did you know that in medieval England the Honour of Wallingford existed for almost five centuries?
text: Did you know that Eddie Bayers replaced his mentor, the late Larrie Londin , as the drummer for The Notorious Cherry Bombs ?
text: Did you know that an extinct dog breed , the Alpine Spaniel , was the predecessor to the St. Bernard ?
text: Did you know that Vanderbilt 's 130-pound quarterback Irby "Rabbit" Curry , an elusive runner who "only needed the suspicion of an opening to wriggle through," was killed in aerial combat in 1918?
text: Did you know that, according to the Mahabharata , Bhadrajun was the site of Arjuna 's marriage to Krishna ’s sister Subhadra after they eloped?
text: Did you know that chocolate liqueurs have been produced from at least the 18th century?
text: Did you know that the Duke University athletics records on the 1000 and 1500 meters, set between 1971 and 1973 by the US Olympian Bob Wheeler , still stand?
text: Did you know that one of those killed in the mass murders in Piaśnica , Sister Alicja Kotowska , was beatified together with 107 other victims of Nazi terror in 1999 by Pope John Paul II ?
text: Did you know that the library of the Flyfishers' Club has been described as one of the finest angling collections in Europe ?
text: Did you know that Mark Baker made his Broadway debut in the original production of Via Galactica , which flopped for a loss of nearly $1 million?
text: Did you know that the South Park episode " Pee " features a waterpark that becomes engulfed in tsunamis of urine , as a parody of the disaster film 2012 ?
text: Did you know that Charles Darwin was a friend of his local vicar , the Reverend John Brodie-Innes ?
text: Did you know that in the past, many courts ruled that homosexuals couldn't apply for American citizenship ?
text: Did you know that " Charlie Bit My Finger " is the most viewed video of all time on YouTube , with over 130 million hits?
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text: Did you know that Glenn James is the only Indigenous Australian to umpire top grade Australian rules football ?
text: Did you know that the rare Izu stingray differs from all other Pacific members of its family in having a white fin fold on its tail?
text: Did you know that a character in the 1937 Tamil film Balayogini , one of the first children's films of South India , was hailed as the " Shirley Temple of India"?
text: Did you know that the Old Bazaar , one of the oldest and largest in the Balkans, has been Skopje 's centre for trade and commerce since at least the 12 century?
text: Did you know that South Korean fashion model Daul Kim was also a keen painter and had exhibited her works at a solo exhibition in Seoul ?
text: Did you knowthat RMS Queen Elizabeth and RMS Queen Mary were fitted with stabilisers after the improvement in passenger comfort and reduction in rolling that was seen on RMS Media ?
text: Did you know that Mithaecus 's recipe for the burrowing fish Cepola macrophthalma is the oldest recorded recipe?
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text: Did you know that hip hop duo Insane Clown Posse had a feud with headbangers in 1998?
text: Did you know that the prototype of the Polikarpov VIT-2 was first flown on 11 May 1938 by the famous pilot Valery Chkalov ?
text: Did you know that Fritz Shiverick , known as "a scoring machine", served in 1919 as Cornell 's quarterback , punter , drop kicker, kickoff returner and play-caller on both offense and defense?
text: Did you know that after delivering a rousing speech during the Battle of Arnhem , Richard Lonsdale repeated it a year later in the film Theirs is the Glory ?
text: Did you know that at the time he was elected to the New Jersey Senate in 1913, Charles M. Egan received the largest margin of victory for any county-wide office in New Jersey history?
text: Did you know that Argentine spy Bill Gaede was so successful in his clandestine operation of sending technical information from AMD to Cuban representatives that he was invited to meet Fidel Castro ?
text: Did you know that some people once moved to the now abandoned city of Pioneer, Nevada , with their houses?
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text: Did you know that William T. Ryder was the first American paratrooper ?
text: Did you know that Loots Bosman scored the first century in South African domestic Twenty20 cricket?
text: Did you know that the murder of the 4th Earl of Eglinton in 1586, as he set out from Polnoon Castle was a result of a long-standing feud between the Eglinton and the Cunninghame clans?
text: Did you know that stand-up comedian and actress Retta said her role on Parks and Recreation is stressful because she was initially unsure the show would last due to poor reviews?
text: Did you know that Northwestern 's Max Morris was a consensus All-American in both basketball and football , played both sports professionally, and twice led the Big Ten in scoring?
text: Did you know that the proposed Lithuanian–Polish–Ukrainian Brigade reflects attempts by the Polish government to tie Ukraine more closely with the West ?
text: Did you know that Chinese citizen Feng Zhenghu , now stranded in Tokyo Narita Airport , is likened to the Tom Hanks character in " The Terminal "?
text: Did you know that the career of British actress Lottie Venne spanned five decades?
text: Did you know that Alice is a science fiction reimagining of the classic Alice's Adventures in Wonderland ?
text: Did you know that James Edwards , who ran for the Tennessee House of Representatives in 2002, is the current host of the The Political Cesspool at radio station WLRM ?
text: Did you know that the Water Street Historic District in Lock Haven, Pennsylvania , includes the canal lock for which the city was named?
text: Did you know that English singer and actor Walter H. Fisher created the role of the Defendant in Gilbert and Sullivan 's 1875 opera Trial by Jury ?
text: Did you know that Belleville, California , now a ghost town , was once a gold mining boomtown with a population of nearly 10,000, the largest town in Holcomb Valley in 1860?
text: Did you know that Abraham Lincoln , one of many American politicians known for past use of cannabis , wrote that one of his "favorite things" was "smoking a pipe of sweet hemp"?
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text: Did you know that 7000 people were left stranded on Edurumandi Island after they refused to be evacuated during the 1990 Andhra Pradesh cyclone ?
text: Did you know that the monitor HMS Gorgon (1914) fired the last shots of World War I by the Royal Navy against German coastal batteries in Belgium on 15 October 1918?
text: Did you know that the Mount Lebanon Mutasarrifate , a precursor of the modern state of Lebanon , was created in the aftermath of the 1860 massacre where thousands of Christians were killed by the Druze ?
text: Did you know that the Nilgiri Wildlife and Environment Association , established in 1877, was the first wildlife conservation organisation in India?
text: Did you know that Siegfried Translateur ,  a Viennese composer of dance music , died in a Nazi concentration camp?
text: Did you know that the house now called Hill Bark was built as Bidston Court on Bidston Hill , Birkenhead , Merseyside , England, in 1891, but was demolished and rebuilt on its present site and renamed in 1928–31?
text: Did you know that when Turkey gave out personal identification numbers to their citizens in 2000, they chose to number all 120 million people born since 1840, living or dead?
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text: Did you know that when Rakel Seweriin stepped down as a member of the Parliament of Norway in 1969, she had served for 24 years, a record for a Norwegian woman?
text: Did you know that Nippon Professional Baseball 's Climax Series , implemented in 2007, is the first and only postseason playoff system used by both the Central and Pacific Leagues ?
text: Did you know that Vernon Burge was the first American enlisted man to be certified as a military aviator ?
text: Did you know that Mandazi , a form of fried bread that is popular in Eastern Africa , is often mixed with coconut milk and other ingredients, toppings, and dips to create different flavors?
text: Did you know that once Li Yingshi , a decorated veteran of the Korean War of 1592–1598 , converted to Catholicism, it took him and two Jesuits three days to find and burn all the prohibited books in his library?
text: Did you know that the Stavanger Airport, Forus in Norway was constructed at the location of the former lake Stokkavatnet ?
text: Did you know that the South Park episode " Dances with Smurfs " calls out the similarities of the upcoming film Avatar to the 1990 film Dances with Wolves ?
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text: Did you know that when President John Adams nominated Lucius Horatio Stockton to be Secretary of War in 1801, Secretary of the Treasury Oliver Wolcott, Jr. called him "a crazy, fanatical young man"?
text: Did you know that the round fantail stingray has recently colonized the Mediterranean Sea , but not as a Lessepsian migrant ?
text: Did you know that when the first Green Island Light was destroyed by fire, the keeper and his family survived by huddling in an outhouse?
text: Did you know that the Canterbury Astrolabe Quadrant discovered in 2005 is the only known British -made medieval astrolabe ?
text: Did you know that Gausel was the location of a rich woman's grave from the Viking era , discovered in the 1880s?
text: Did you know that the Louisiana Association of Business and Industry claimed in 1987 that a ten-year education reform plan in Louisiana had been "a long journey to nowhere"?
text: Did you know that David Booth found the Stirlingshire Hoard of four gold Iron Age torcs on his very first metal detecting outing?
text: Did you know that France is the only former colonial power still to maintain territory in North America ?
text: Did you know that in his book Acquainted with the Night , Dewdney tells of a syndrome in which the victims, almost always Asian men, presumably die of terror while dreaming of something sitting on their chest?
text: Did you know that Richard Barre (died around 1202), a medieval English judge and clergyman, wrote a work on the Bible titled Compendium de veteri et novo testamento ?
text: Did you know that Sevmash is the largest shipbuilding company in Russia ?
text: Did you know that the single " My Girl " by Arashi currently holds the third largest first-week sales of 2009 in Japan?
text: Did you know that Alfred "Centennial" Johnson landed at Abercastle in 1876 sailing from Gloucester, Massachusetts , and becoming the first person to make the single-handed Atlantic crossing?
text: Did you know that the Phineas and Ferb episode " Are You My Mummy? " originally aired as part of "Phineas and Ferb-urary," a special event which showed episodes of the series every night in February 2008 on Disney Channel ?
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text: Did you know that in the Siege of Diu in 1538 an Ottoman fleet equipped with 130 cannons attempted to eliminate the Portuguese from the harbour of Diu in India ?
text: Did you know that Ben Graf Henneke , who later became president of the University of Tulsa , wrote the school's fight song as a student there?
text: Did you know that The Digby Conversion of Saint Paul , a Middle English miracle play of the late 15th century , tells the story of the conversion of Paul the Apostle?
text: Did you know that one of the best sources on Yaqub Beg 's rule in East Turkestan is Tārīkh-i amniyya (History of peace), written by Musa Sayrami ?
text: Did you know that Petrillo Music Shell was commissioned by Mayor of Chicago Anton Cermak to help lift the spirits of the citizenry with free concerts following the Great Depression ?
text: Did you know that Jean McNaughton was the first South African to take a five-wicket haul in Women's Test cricket ?
text: Did you know that Achille Casanova was the first official spokesman of the Swiss Federal Council ?
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text: Did you know that after finishing active duty with the United States Air Force , Kenneth Dickson worked as a law clerk for U.S. federal judge Howard Boyd Turrentine ?
text: Did you know that the Brazilian large-eyed stingray may use coastal sandbanks as nurseries for its young?
text: Did you know that Spanish Republican guerillas held out in the mountains of the Maestrazgo in eastern Spain , against General Franco 's forces until the mid 1950s?
text: Did you know that the crematory at the Oahu Cemetery in Hawaii was used to burn $200 million in U.S. bank notes after the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941?
text: Did you know that Lalla Carlsen is regarded as one of the most legendary female revue artists in Norway?
text: Did you know that American flying ace John C. "Pappy" Herbst painted a swastika on his P-51B Mustang to indicate an aerial victory he said he earned while flying with the Royal Canadian Air Force ?
text: Did you know that as mayor of Murray, Utah , Dan Snarr was set to shave his nearly foot-long handlebar mustache for charity, but he was pressured by the American Mustache Institute to keep it?
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text: Did you know that La Amelia , a small Maya archaeological site in Guatemala , features hieroglyphic panels describing the ritual sacrifice of a bound captive who is rolled into a ball and thrown to his death?
text: Did you know that Minnesota 's Pudge Wyman scored the first kickoff return for a touchdown , the first blocked punt returned for a touchdown, and the first passing touchdown in the history of the NFL ?
text: Did you know that the medieval office of the Chancery was responsible for the production of documents for royalty and other nobles?
text: Did you know that Brazil has recently opened a commercial fishery targeting the Colares stingray , for export to Europe ?
text: Did you know that when Henry Heth became commander of the 45th Virginia Infantry , he felt frustrated by the illiteracy and lack of discipline of his men?
text: Did you know that Dean Clough business park at Halifax was once one of the world's largest carpet factories?
text: Did you know that writer Francis Wheen criticized Michael Jackson 's book Dancing the Dream and thanked God that "none" of Jackson's fans could read?
text: Did you know that Jack Grayburn was posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross after the Battle of Arnhem ?
text: Did you know that the first integrated prom in Charleston is the subject of the 2009 documentary film Prom Night in Mississippi ?
text: Did you know that the death of Indian mafioso Manya Surve at the hands of the Mumbai Police in 1982 was the city's first recorded encounter killing ?
text: Did you know that the proposed new internationalized country code top-level domain in the Cyrillic alphabet for Ukraine is .укр ?
text: Did you know that in 2003, Louisiana State legislator Danny Martiny sought penalties for sexual acts in public of up to a year in jail and a maximum $1,000 fine?
text: Did you know that restoration projects of the Wiltshire Historic Buildings Trust include Wilton Windmill ?
text: Did you know that Bård Mikkelsen , chief executive officer of Widerøe , the Ulstein Group and Statkraft , has skydived over Antarctica ?
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text: Did you know that the Reggiane Re.2007 was a proposed Italian fighter aircraft to be used in the final phase of World War II as a defense against the increasing Allied bombing raids?
text: Did you know that the concept of a national personal autonomy was strongly opposed by the Bolsheviks , and criticized by Lenin and Stalin ?
text: Did you know that Alfred Seale Haslam , Mayor of Derby , became rich from keeping meat cool on its way from the British colonies ?
text: Did you know that Turnaround ADR is the preferred, out-of-court process under which companies in Japan may attempt to reorganize their debt?
text: Did you know that Hristo Gruev Danov founded Bulgaria's first publishing house ?
text: Did you know that an Agorapocalypse was created using software from hell ?
text: Did you know that the Triumph Tiger T110 British sports motorcycle was fitted with enclosed panels in 1961, which earned it the nickname "the bathtub"?
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text: Did you know that in 1902, the Boveri-Sutton Chromosome Theory unified the genetic laws of Mendelian inheritance with the physical structures of chromosomes observed in cells?
text: Did you know that after World War II , US General Douglas MacArthur placed Sankichi Takahashi on the list of the 59 most wanted Japanese?
text: Did you know that the Joint Professional Military Education was established following greater awareness during WWII of a need for effective cooperation between the branches of the United States armed forces ?
text: Did you know that in spite of the Canadian telecommunications industry being gripped by " Telidon fever" in 1982, most attempts to commercialize the videotex system had ended by 1985?
text: Did you know that Maryland politician William S. James served in all three branches of state government, as a trial magistrate , Senate President , and State Treasurer ?
text: Did you know that Trillium reliquum is an endangered species that exists at only 21 sites in Alabama , Georgia and South Carolina ?
text: Did you know that San Antonio's Sporting District , one of the largest red-light districts in the U.S. in the early 1900s, was so large that a tourist guide was published for visitors?
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text: Did you know that over 9,000 suspects have been investigated in relation to trials in Chongqing , China , including 14 high-ranking officials?
text: Did you know that Hawaiian "George Prince" Kaumualiʻi Humehume served in the War of 1812 with the United States Marine Corps and was wounded in battle?
text: Did you know that the Gothic style railroad station originally built 1868 at the Newlin Mill Complex served as a railway station, post office, polling station, and finally a park office?
text: Did you know that German actor Ottfried Fischer founded his own theater dedicated to Kabarett in Munich in 1980?
text: Did you know that the defunct Hill Military Academy in Portland, Oregon , was a party to the U.S. Supreme Court case of Pierce v. Society of Sisters ?
text: Did you know that with 507,000 readers, Hemmets Journal is the second largest weekly magazine in Sweden?
text: Did you know that fighter ace Clinton D. "Casey" Vincent served as the prototype for two comic strip characters after his wife sent photographs to cartoonist Milton Caniff ?
text: Did you know that when Parliament of Norway member Frederik Schmidt took the initiative to scrutinize the government in 1814, it led to Norway's first Impeachment case?
text: Did you know that the 1994 season of the Warwickshire County Cricket Club has been described as the most remarkable by any side in the history of county cricket ?
text: Did you know that while a district court judge in Metairie, Louisiana , Charles Cusimano was instrumental in revamping the criminal justice computer system?
text: Did you know that Amerigo Vespucci may have seen the extinct rodent Noronhomys , otherwise known only from bone remains, on a voyage to the islands of Fernando de Noronha in 1503?
text: Did you know that the National Weather Service Central Illinois once used kites to measure data in the atmosphere?
text: Did you know that Ivan Ostromislensky was a pioneer of the production of synthetic rubber ?
text: Did you know that the organ of St Peter's Cathedral, Adelaide ironically conceals a stained glass window dedicated to Saint Cecilia , patron saint of church music?
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text: Did you know that Augustin de Beaulieu was a French general who led an expedition to Aceh in the East Indies in 1619–22?
text: Did you know that Pico Blanco Scout Reservation , built on 1445 acres of virgin Redwood forest donated by William Randolph Hearst , is the oldest Boy Scout camp on California's Central Coast ?
text: Did you know that music business executive Wayne Bickerton played early in his career as bassist with former Beatle Pete Best , and later co-wrote and produced several hits for The Rubettes ?
text: Did you know that 14 Prince's Gate, London , has been the residence of eight American ambassadors to the United Kingdom, and is now the headquarters of the Royal College of General Practitioners ?
text: Did you know that Gunnar Isachsen , topographer on Otto Sverdrup 's Fram expedition, later became Director of the Norwegian Maritime Museum ?
text: Did you know that the Ladakh Ecological Development and Environmental Group has been responsible for solar energy development in Ladakh in northern India ?
text: Did you know that the Rosario class was the last class of wooden sloops constructed for the Royal Navy ?
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text: Did you know that 16 children died during a stampede at a public hall in Barnsley , South Yorkshire , in 1908?
text: Did you know that the cruise ship Ocean Monarch was awarded a gold medal for her design by the American Academy of Designing?
text: Did you know that Robert Stewart Hyer was the first president of Southern Methodist University ?
text: Did you know that in the 18th and 19th centuries, Native American warriors used gunstock war clubs , shaped like wooden rifle stocks but embedded with blades?
text: Did you know that Titan , a Great Dane , is currently recognised as the world's tallest dog, standing 107.3 cm (42.25 in) high at the shoulders?
text: Did you know that Gerhard Ritter became so angry lecturing against the content of the book Germany's Aims in the First World War that he broke down in tears?
text: Did you know that, in a publicity stunt from an aircraft, Harold M. McClelland dropped three baseballs on Babe Ruth who was "knocked flat" by the first two?
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text: Did you know that American Lion won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Biography ?
text: Did you know that before its scientific description in 2004, the groovebelly stingray had been misidentified as either the bluntnose stingray or the common stingray ?
text: Did you know that the Treaty of Compiègne between France and the Dutch Republic compelled the Dutch to fight against their French Protestant coreligionists at the Capture of Ré island in 1625?
text: Did you know that cheerleader Desiree Jennings says she developed dystonia from a flu shot ?
text: Did you know that Tepito in Mexico City is nicknamed barrio bravo ("fierce neighbourhood") due to crime and its production of pro boxers?
text: Did you know that Young-Chang Cho was still in his twenties when appointed professor for violoncello at the Folkwang Hochschule ?
text: Did you know that the Netherlands ' proposal in 1913 for nine dreadnoughts was part of a ƒ 595,000,000 rearmament plan?
text: Did you know that John Ingram was so afraid of being bugged as North Carolina Commissioner of Insurance that he held meetings in parking garages ?
text: Did you know that the Monsoon Palace in Udaipur , Rajasthan , was used as a major location for the 1983 James Bond film Octopussy ?
text: Did you know that the Russian Spaniel is the youngest breed of Russian gundog and was first standardised in 1951?
text: Did you know that a propeller operated at such a high rpm that it cuts more than it pushes, is sometimes known as a blade grinder ?
text: Did you know that the Fort Washington Avenue Armory in Manhattan was used as a homeless shelter before becoming the permanent home of the National Track and Field Hall of Fame ?
text: Did you know that Greek singer Kostas Martakis ' second album Pio Konta was partly recorded and produced in Sweden by the duo Holter/Erixson?
text: Did you know that microminiature sculptor Hagop Sandaldjian carved Mount Ararat on a grain of rice, and made a crucifix out of a bisected strand of his own hair?
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text: Did you know that Gerrit Jan van Heuven Goedhart was the first United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees ?
text: Did you know that the first railway in Estonia , connecting the cities Paldiski , Tallinn and Narva with Gatchina , Russia , opened in 1870?
text: Did you know that despite being running mates in Manila 's upcoming local elections , Alfredo Lim and Isko Moreno support different candidates in the presidential election ?
text: Did you know that Grammy -winning musician Fred "Too Slim" LaBour's 1969 satiric review of Abbey Road in the Michigan Daily is regarded as the single most important factor in the spread of the " Paul is dead " rumor?
text: Did you know that engineer T.J. O'Malley pushed the button that launched American astronaut John Glenn into orbit on  February 20, 1962?
text: Did you know that the Polikarpov VIT-1 prototype was the first Soviet aircraft with metal-skinned control surfaces ?
text: Did you know that "Big Joe" Curtis was the starting left tackle for Michigan Wolverines football teams that outscored opponents by a combined total of 1,627 to 30 from 1903 to 1905?
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text: Did you know that the six U-Boats of the German 30. Unterseebootsflottille reached the Black Sea after transport over land and canals in 1942?
text: Did you know that Roger Villere , chairman of the Louisiana Republican Party since 2004, was among the candidates who lost a state House race in 1989 to David Duke ?
text: Did you know that China commemorates the Battle of Onjong by marking October 25 as the War to Resist America and Aid Korea Memorial Day?
text: Did you know that the Monro Muffler and Brake franchise was founded by a former Midas Muffler franchisee , Charles August ?
text: Did you know that John S. Treen , the choice of the Republican leadership, lost the 1989 special election which sent David Duke to the Louisiana House of Representatives ?
text: Did you know that the video game Metal Walker combines elements of the Pokémon series with billiards ?
text: Did you know that Max Beerbohm 's 1894 satire on Oscar Wilde A Peep into the Past was not published until 1923?
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text: Did you know that Gordon Olley was the first pilot to fly more than one million miles?
text: Did you know that English jazz musician Eddie Freeman 's custom four-string guitar was adopted for manufacture by Selmer ?
text: Did you know that in 1649, Thomas Andrewes attended the execution of King Charles I , was responsible for proclaiming the abolition of the English monarchy , and was appointed to be the Lord Mayor of London ?
text: Did you know that after being told he was too small for professional wrestling , Sam DeCero increased his weight from 75 to 90 kg (165 to 200 lbs) within three months?
text: Did you know that Hannah Böge was the first German merchant ship captured at sea by Britain in the Second World War ?
text: Did you know that François Martin de Vitré was the first Frenchman to publish an account of his travels to the Far East ?
text: Did you know that the Gullfisk trams were so named because they had tails that made them look like goldfish ?
text: Did you know that mifamurtide is a drug used against osteosarcoma , a kind of bone cancer diagnosed in only 1,000 persons per year in Europe and the US?
text: Did you know that the assumption of modern historians that Elisabeth of Greater Poland is a daughter of Elisabeth of Hungary is based on them sharing the same name and coming from Hungary ?
text: Did you know that London -born actress Sarah Badel made her acting debut in India ?
text: Did you know that Fort Harney , a United States Army outpost in eastern Oregon , was officially designated as a fort in 1879 and then abandoned in 1880?
text: Did you know that Meryl Dorey, president of the Australian Vaccination Network , has said that the Australian government is spending too much money on swine flu vaccination efforts?
text: Did you know that the Røa Line has been extended eight times, more than any other line of the Oslo Metro ?
text: Did you know that Michael Jackson blamed his record label, Sony Music , for the failed release of his charity song " What More Can I Give ", and branded the label's CEO "racist" and "very, very, very devilish"?
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text: Did you know that the aftershocks of the 1868 Hawaii earthquake , the largest in the island 's history, continue to the present day?
text: Did you know that the grave of war hero and victim of political repression in communist Czechoslovakia Josef Bryks was discovered 52 years after his death?
text: Did you know that the motorized recliner a man was caught driving while under the influence was not, as widely reported, a La-Z-Boy ?
text: Did you know that the Japanese documentary filmmaker Fumio Kamei had films banned by both Japan 's militarist wartime government and the democratizing Allied Occupation ?
text: Did you know that one purpose of the Quadrennial Diplomacy and Development Review is to correct the U.S. State Department 's problem of not knowing whether it has enough resources?
text: Did you know that the Lennox Lewis vs. Frank Bruno fight was the first time that two British-born boxers had fought for the world heavyweight title ?
text: Did you know that St Thomas Church , located at Palayoor , Kerala , was established in 52 AD by St. Thomas , one of the twelve close disciples of Jesus Christ ?
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text: Did you know that John Messmer was captain of the University of Wisconsin 's football and swim teams, set a U.S. high school record in the discus and was the first Badger to win nine varsity letters in major sports?
text: Did you know that the archaeologists that named Howieson’s Poort Shelter , the site that gave its name to the Howiesons Poort period in the Middle Stone Age , did so by misspelling "Howison"?
text: Did you know that the Texas Engineering Extension Service operates the largest firefighter and emergency responder training facility in the United States, which includes a 52-acre replica city for use in training simulations?
text: Did you know that the opposition against the use of censorship to fight child pornography on the internet by MOGIS helped strengthen the credibility of the movement against such measures?
text: Did you know that Richard R. Burt , who was the chief American negotiator of the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty , was a correspondent for The New York Times in the late 1970s?
text: Did you know that Mountain , a 2003 advertisement for the PlayStation 2 video game console , was nominated for more than 40 awards?
text: Did you know that the Star Stories parody Being Tom Cruise spoofs the actor's association with Scientology ?
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text: Did you know that the discovery of ethyl acetoacetate in 1863 by Anton Geuther stimulated studies on tautomerism in chemical molecules?
text: Did you know that Cliff Sparks , hailed in 1916 as "eel-like," a "whirlwind" and "the greatest quarterback Michigan ever has had," punted by forcefully throwing the ball at his uprising foot?
text: Did you know that Władysław Oporowski , archbishop and primate of Poland , was a chief political rival of cardinal Zbigniew Oleśnicki ?
text: Did you know that Bokken Lasson established the cabaret Chat Noir in Oslo, Norway, in 1912?
text: Did you know that the first legitimate flea market in downtown Moscow was held in Shkolnaya Street in 2007?
text: Did you know that Earache Records released Gama Bomb 's third studio album Tales from the Grave in Space via free RapidShare downloads?
text: Did you know that J. A. Adande called a joke from the episode " The Problem Solvers " his "favorite 30 Rock gag"?
text: Did you know that the Chiflik system of land management under the Ottoman Empire was one of the reasons the Greek peasants supported the Greek War of Independence ?
text: Did you know that the Niger stingray and the pincushion ray are the only two freshwater stingrays found in Africa ?
text: Did you know that Lutheran priest Henrik Lund wrote Greenland 's nation anthem, Nunarput utoqqarsuanngoravit , in the indigenous Greenlandic language ?
text: Did you know that Sherza Darwaza in Bidar Fort , India, depicts two images of tigers carved on its fascia, which according to Shia belief, denotes Ali 's assured protection of the fort from enemy attack?
text: Did you know that " Blood and the Moon " is a poem written by Irish poet William Butler Yeats in 1928 in response to the 1927 assassination of Kevin O'Higgins , the Vice President of the Executive Council of the Free State ?
text: Did you know that the 2009 album Ultimate Diamond by J-pop singer Nana Mizuki became the first album released by a Japanese voice actress to top the Japanese weekly Oricon albums chart?
text: Did you know that American geriatric psychiatrist Gene D. Cohen appeared with comedian George Burns in public service announcements about aging and mental health?
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text: Did you know that Oconee County Cage was a "jail on wheels" for the Oconee County, South Carolina chain gang in the early 20th century?
text: Did you know that although the Kongsvegen glacier has been retreating in length since 1948, its ice mass has been increasing consistently for the past 22 years?
text: Did you know that Charles Connick was described by The New York Times as "the world’s greatest artisan on stained windows"?
text: Did you know that Italian Camorrista Giuseppe Setola escaped a police raid on his hideout by slipping into secret trap door that led to the sewers?
text: Did you know that due to his home country's proximity to Ireland, the music of Davy Knowles – a Manx blues guitarist – is influenced by the Celtic genre?
text: Did you know that the farmhouse at Big Bottom Farm in rural Allegany County, Maryland , is recognized for its architecture inspired by the Greek revival style?
text: Did you know that before becoming a full-time Kabarett artist, Georg Schramm was a soldier with the Bundeswehr and then a psychologist in a rehab clinic?
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text: Did you know that Maesyronnen Chapel in Powys , Wales , was one of the earliest Nonconformist chapels to be built in the country, and that it is still in use as a chapel?
text: Did you know that the single known specimen of the Irrawaddy river shark was generally dismissed as an abnormal bull shark until 2005?
text: Did you know that Americana group Or, The Whale formed through the website Craigslist , where the two founding members of the group posted an advertisement titled "Wanna Form a Sweet Country Rock Band"?
text: Did you know that eight Canadian soldiers were tried for manslaughter in Britain after the Epsom Riot of 1919?
text: Did you know that Stenkjær og Namsos Automobilselskap started Norway 's first post-carrying bus route in 1908?
text: Did you know that Pat Brister , first woman state chairman of the Louisiana Republican Party , was ambassador to the UN Commission on the Status of Women from 2006 to 2008?
text: Did you know that Richard Rogler became the only German professor for Kabarett in 1999?
text: Did you know that a Transporte Aéreo Rioplatense Canadair CL-44 crashed in the Soviet Union in 1981, after smuggling arms from Israel to Iran during the Iran-Contra affair ?
text: Did you know that before he was a Louisiana state senator from Slidell , Gerry E. Hinton worked to obtain licensing of chiropractors in his state, the last to recognize the profession?
text: Did you know that the unsuccessful siege of Hlukhiv and the following retreat of the Polish army became the worst defeats in the Russo-Polish War of 1654–1667 ?
text: Did you know that the land gastropod Schizoglossa novoseelandica is predatory and also cannibalistic ?
text: Did you know that distributed element filters can use a wide and varied library of printed elements including butterfly and clover stubs?
text: Did you know that the Great Texas Coastal Birding Trail was the first (and still the largest) state bird-watching trail system in the U.S.?
text: Did you know that before he died in battle, John Baskeyfield VC had trained as a butcher ?
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text: Did you know that sea lice flourishing on salmon farms can spread to nearby wild salmon and devastate their stocks ?
text: Did you know that Polish media mogul Jan Wejchert , founder of the TVN television network , also converted a ruined papermill into a shopping center ?
text: Did you know that the Archaeological Museum of Eretria in Greece contains a 10th century B.C. terracotta centaur from Lefkandi which was discovered broken in two parts, each placed in a different grave?
text: Did you know that the Clay Island Light at the mouth of the Nanticoke River on the Chesapeake Bay collapsed only two years after being decommissioned?
text: Did you know that the entire rear fuselage and tail of the Soviet Yakovlev Yak-1000 aircraft was removable to allow access to the engine?
text: Did you know that P.J. Mills , a former member of the Louisiana House of Representatives , is a descendant of Robert Mills , the architect who designed the Washington Monument ?
text: Did you know that Sosnowiec Ghetto was the setting of the Maus comic book?
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text: Did you know that although Kristijonas Donelaitis wrote the poem The Seasons in Lithuanian , it was first published in its German translation in 1818?
text: Did you know that Spanish airline Spantax was the world's largest operator of Convair 990 planes , one of which was involved in a mid-air collision?
text: Did you know that in 1883, Ludwig Knorr discovered the first commercially successful synthetic painkiller Phenazone ?
text: Did you know that the Suicide Tree flowers only once before dying and falling over, creating a small gap for its seedlings to grow in?
text: Did you know that Oregon pioneer Joseph Hamilton Lambert developed the Lambert cherry?
text: Did you know that the books produced by the Dun Emer Press were written or selected by W. B. Yeats ?
text: Did you know that for scenes in the Phineas and Ferb episode " Jerk De Soleil " where the character Candace had a deep voice, co-creator Dan Povenmire had to step in for the normal voice actress?
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text: Did you know that Ascension Island was annexed in 1815 by the British crew of HMS Peruvian and HMS Zenobia so as to deny the French from using it as a base to rescue Napoleon from Saint Helena ?
text: Did you know that as a Louisiana state senator , Tom Schedler teamed with later U.S. Senator David Vitter to repeal the Louisiana inheritance tax , effective in 2004?
text: Did you know that because of the Albanian Muslim concept of Besa , Albanians saved about 2000 Jews from the Holocaust during World War II ?
text: Did you know that Iolas Melitus Huffman reportedly played in every quarter of every Ohio State football game except one from 1918 to 1921 and later played for the Cleveland Indians of the NFL ?
text: Did you know that the Swedish fried-dough pastry klenät is traditionally eaten around Christmas in southern Sweden?
text: Did you know that PS Monarch , currently operating cruises along River Medina on the Isle of Wight , is the world's smallest commercially operated paddle steamer ?
text: Did you know that after adding thallium formate and thallium malonate to water, diamonds can float in it?
text: Did you know that cricketer Audrey Jackson was only able to play in the fourth women's Test for South Africa after securing travel to the game with the opposition England side?
text: Did you know that the medieval town walls of Edinburgh served better throughout their history as a trade barrier than as a defensive one?
text: Did you know that Sverre Krogh was replaced as chair of the Norwegian Association of Local and Regional Authorities after his political party 's coalition partners supported another candidate, Jakob Eng ?
text: Did you know that Kaiser Permanente sold some land it owned in Hillsboro, Oregon after deciding not to build a hospital there, only to later begin building their Westside Medical Center at that same location?
text: Did you know that bandmates of Beverley O'Sullivan , recently killed in India , found out the true extent of her hearing difficulties when she developed a sore ear during a Westlife performance?
text: Did you know that Jerry Toppazzini is the final position player in National Hockey League history to substitute as a goaltender during a game?
text: Did you know that tungsten hexafluoride is a colorless gas that is over ten times heavier than air?
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text: Did you know that on November 15, 1992, members of the Colombian National Police gunned down nine members of a church youth group in Medellín ?
text: Did you know that the 1911 United Kingdom heat wave set a July temperature record of 36 °C (97 °F) that was not broken until 79 years later ?
text: Did you know that early Christian writers Jerome and Orosius believed that Philip the Arab , not Constantine the Great , was the first Christian Roman emperor?
text: Did you know that Léon Levavasseur invented the V8 engine ?
text: Did you know that the style of Ancient Greek black-figure pottery had its origins in Corinth, Greece ?
text: Did you know that State Representative Jim Fannin wrote the Louisiana "career diploma" law, designed to reduce the dropout rate by allowing high schoolers to pursue less rigorous studies?
text: Did you know that the bolete eater which attacks boletes is actually another type of fungus?
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text: Did you know that when the six separate British colonies in Australia federated to become the Commonwealth of Australia in 1901, they all had their own armies fighting in the Second Boer War ?
text: Did you know that the Colombian actress and beauty queen Liliana Lozano was shot to death two days after the murder of her boyfriend, the drug lord Leonidas Vargas ?
text: Did you know that in late 1921 a series of arrests of its activists led to the break-up of the Japanese Enlightened People's Communist Party ?
text: Did you know that Russian -born Joe Magidsohn was the first Jew to win a varsity "M" at the University of Michigan and the first athlete known to have refused to compete on the High Holy Days ?
text: Did you know that romidepsin , a new treatment for T-cell lymphomas , was discovered in a culture of bacteria obtained from a soil sample collected in Yamagata Prefecture ?
text: Did you know that potato doughnuts are made with either mashed potatoes or potato starch ?
text: Did you know that Makerita Urale , a leading figure in contemporary Polynesian theatre, directed the play Frangipani Perfume , the first Pacific play written by a woman for an all-female cast?
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text: Did you know that both spans of Washington, D.C. 's 11th Street Bridges are considered "fracture critical", which means if one girder in a span fails the entire bridge is likely to collapse?
text: Did you know that the first Volkswagen ever built outside Germany was assembled in Ireland ?
text: Did you know that unlike other other Siricid Wood wasps , Xeris spectrum does not have symbiotic fungi to aid its larvae as they burrow in the wood of fir and other conifer trees?
text: Did you know that the cantref of Arwystli was at the center of a dispute, which involved Llywelyn the Last and Edward I of England and escalated tensions between the Principality of Wales and the English crown?
text: Did you know that the popular Chinese TV talent show contestant Lou Jing , dubbed the "Black Pearl", is of Chinese and African American heritage?
text: Did you know that 1,468 fauna species are found within the protected area of Laguna de Términos , located in southeastern Mexico ?
text: Did you know that before a hitman shot Colombian drug lord Leonidas Vargas to death in his hospital bed, the shooter asked a neighboring patient whether he was Vargas?
text: Did you know that the Dutch ocean liner Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft caught fire before entering service, in service, and on her way to the scrapyard?
text: Did you know that the 1925 silent film The Air Mail was filmed in the ghost town of Rhyolite, Nevada ?
text: Did you know that the 61st Battalion was an Australian infantry battalion that adopted Scottish-style uniforms including kilts and the designation of Queensland Cameron Highlanders?
text: Did you know that the Eugene Saturday Market in Eugene , Oregon , is the oldest weekly open-air crafts market in the United States and is attended by 3,000 and 5,000 people every week?
text: Did you know that singer-songwriter Maria Dunn hosted a folk music radio show for twelve years before becoming a performer herself?
text: Did you know that the video game AaaaaAAaaaAAAaaAAAAaAAAAA!!! – A Reckless Disregard for Gravity was inspired by BASE jumping in a wingsuit ?
text: Did you know that cassareep , a flavoring and preservative made from cassava roots, has been rumored to keep a meat stew called Guyanese pepperpot edible for over a century?
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text: Did you know that Louisiana State Senator Jack Donahue through his philanthropic Suited for Success helped Hurricane Katrina victims  refurbish their business clothing?
text: Did you know that Marcus Baebius Tamphilus instituted the first Roman law against electoral bribery in 181 BC?
text: Did you know that during his trial, Colin Ferguson planned to examine himself as a witness?
text: Did you know that the 5th Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party was held in a church in London in 1907?
text: Did you know that figure skater Tonya Harding was once treated at Kaiser Sunnyside Medical Center in Oregon for injuries from an assault?
text: Did you know that Shanti Bhushan is an advocate in India who has represented Deve Gowda , Arundhati Roy and the accused in the 1993 Mumbai bomb blasts case and the 2001 Indian Parliament attack ?
text: Did you know that athletes in the 1928 Winter Olympics competed in skijoring , a demonstration sport in which the competitors wore skis while being pulled behind horses?
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text: Did you know that during the Easter Rising of 1916, the Dublin Gazette printed a proclamation of martial law and temporarily ceased publication?
text: Did you know that Carolyn Stait , one of only two women to reach Commodore rank in the Royal Navy , had enlisted in 1975 with plans to transfer to the diplomatic service ?
text: Did you know that semi-trailer trucks have struck the Eastern Avenue bridge over the Anacostia Freeway so many times, the District of Columbia is replacing it with a bridge that is two feet higher?
text: Did you know that colorist Josette Baujot , recently deceased, created the distinct color schemes of works in Hergé 's Adventures of Tintin series?
text: Did you know that West Virginia 's Ice Mountain contains ice vents that allow subarctic plant species to survive?
text: Did you know that Emile St. Godard won the demonstration Sled dog race at the 1932 Winter Olympics , the only time the sport has been in the Olympics?
text: Did you know that the Austrian town of Fucking installed theft-resistant road signs in 2005 because the signs were frequently stolen by tourists?
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text: Did you know that the Soviet mixed-construction Yak-8 utility aircraft was never produced in spite of a recommendation to do so, probably because the Soviets were switching to all-metal aircraft?
text: Did you know that pirated CDs were identified by the IFPI to account for 50% of all music sales in Greece in 2006?
text: Did you know that Jake Warga was an assistant cameraman on Witchboard 2: The Devil's Doorway , The Prophecy 3: The Ascent and Mimic 2 before becoming a story contributor for National Public Radio ?
text: Did you know that L. Ron Hubbard 's book Dianetics influenced Scientology ' s views of abortion ?
text: Did you know that Academy Award nominated screenwriter Ivan Moffat was the grandson of Victorian actor Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree ?
text: Did you know that the London Underground 's Baker Street and Waterloo Railway was built so Londoners could get to cricket matches?
text: Did you know that Darvin Moon , a self-employed Maryland logger , had never played in the World Series of Poker before winning US$5.18 million as the 2009 main event runner-up?
text: Did you know that flags at the University of Iowa were flown at half-mast following the death from peritonitis of Jim Trickey , one year after he became the first Hawkeye to win All-American honors in 1912?
text: Did you know that the Slingsby T.53 was the first all-metal sailplane designed and built in the United Kingdom ?
text: Did you know that former pro wrestling announcers, and real life husband and wife, Joe Pedicino and Boni Blackstone , often referred to themselves humbly as "wrestling fans who got lucky"?
text: Did you know that " Ron and Tammy ", an episode of NBC 's Parks and Recreation , features comedienne Megan Mullally playing the ex-wife of a character played by her real-life husband, Nick Offerman ?
text: Did you know that Eigenmannia vicentespelaea is the only known South American knifefish that exclusively inhabits caves ?
text: Did you know that World War II air ace Johnny Gibson formed Bechuanaland National Airways and Botswana National Airways in the 1960s?
text: Did you know that Argleton appears on Google Maps as a settlement in West Lancashire , England , even though no such place exists?
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text: Did you know that the Manchester and Salford Yeomanry was disbanded in 1824, five years after Hugh Hornby Birley led the regiment's bloody charge on unarmed voting rights demonstrators in the Peterloo Massacre ?
text: Did you know that the documentary film Collision spotlights several days of debate between prominent atheist Christopher Hitchens and conservative theologian Douglas Wilson ?
text: Did you know that the prototype Yak-210 bomber trainer carried a camera that could tilt 15° aft to photograph the bomb impacts?
text: Did you know that the Hawaiian settlement Kainaliu was named after an ancient canoe bailer who worked for King Keawenuiaʻumi in the 16th century?
text: Did you know that C. Vijayaraghavachariar , former President of the Indian National Congress , also served as President of All India Hindu Mahasabha in 1931?
text: Did you know that British sitcom pilot Campus , which was written by six of the same writers who wrote Green Wing , is set in a red brick university whose motto is "With wings"?
text: Did you know that Meadow is believed to be the first bovine calf fitted with double prosthetics?
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text: Did you know that Michigan Wolverines football offensive lineman Stephen Schilling was unable to play organized youth football due to his large size?
text: Did you know that Prince Vijaya , the founder of the Kingdom of Tambapanni , landed at Tambapanni on the day of the death of Gautama Buddha ?
text: Did you know that Maryland politician George W. Della served both as President of the Maryland Senate and as Potentate of the Boumi Temple of the Shrine ?
text: Did you know that the Sankeien garden in Yokohama , Japan, which houses ten Important National Cultural Properties, was created by a man who collected old buildings?
text: Did you know that 1930s Federal Theatre Project director Hallie Flanagan considered Seattle 's Playhouse Theatre to be the project's best " Negro unit"?
text: Did you know that aged just 13, Eileen Hurly scored the first recorded century in South African women's cricket ?
text: Did you know that the next Bishop of Peterborough , Donald Allister , hit the headlines in the UK in 2001 when it was reported that he had banned a couple from having the hymn " Jerusalem " at their wedding?
text: Did you know that Swiss equestrian Gustav Fischer won a medal in every team dressage event held at the Summer Olympics between 1952 and 1968?
text: Did you know that the Soviet Yakovlev Yak-140 fighter was denied permission to begin flight tests by the Ministry of Aviation Industry, which favored competing designs from Sukhoi and Mikoyan-Gurevich ?
text: Did you know that the Soviet documentary Salt for Svanetia was originally planned to be a fictional feature film ?
text: Did you know that the name serotonin comes from its effect in blood serum upon smooth muscle tone, a process involving serotonylation ( protein change) rather than serotonin receptor activation?
text: Did you know that after unseating long-term incumbent Sixty Rayburn for the Louisiana State Senate in 1995, Republican Phil Short resigned in 1999 to return to the United States Marine Corps ?
text: Did you know that the Vercors Cave System contains the largest cave entrance in Europe ?
text: Did you know that the Moscow International House of Music is topped by an enormous treble clef that rotates like a weathervane ?
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text: Did you know that the period from 1999 to 2002 in Britain , when gold prices were the lowest for 20 years, has been dubbed as the Brown Bottom ?
text: Did you know that CCR5 receptor antagonists are drugs that inhibit the entry of the HIV virus into cells of the immune system ?
text: Did you know that the 1534 Ottoman embassy to France was composed of janissaries who travelled to Châtellerault and Paris to meet King Francis I ?
text: Did you know that press releases for the Phineas and Ferb episode " Lawn Gnome Beach Party of Terror " detailed a cut subplot where the character Lawrence Fletcher searches for a rare bottle cap ?
text: Did you know that the Socialist League of the New East , founded by émigré Socialist-Revolutionaries in Czechoslovakia in 1927, called for splitting up the Soviet Union into separate national states?
text: Did you know that there are 165 dams in Syria , with a total storage capacity of 19,599 million m 3 ?
text: Did you know that the industrial web theory was originally based on the conviction by Air Corps Tactical School instructors that a fleet of heavy bombers was invincible?
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text: Did you know that the White Hart , a coaching inn on Crawley High Street , England, had stabling accommodation for 180 horses?
text: Did you know that Margaret Chin is the first Asian American to represent New York City 's Chinatown district on the city council ?
text: Did you know that the South American knifefish Pariosternarchus amazonensis has a wide, flat-bottomed head and almost no body pigmentation ?
text: Did you know that the Leeuwarder Courant , founded in 1752, is the oldest still-existing newspaper in the Netherlands ?
text: Did you know that director Aram Avakian was fired from working on the 1962 film Lad: A Dog for refusing to make a sentimental dog story?
text: Did you know that footballer Billy Ingham , whose nickname was "the Ginger Pelé ", worked as a bus driver after retiring?
text: Did you know that the army of Dutthagamani captured Vijithapura after a four month siege by attacking it simultaneously from four directions?
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text: Did you know that Sweden , present in Stralsund since 1628 , lost the town in 1807 to Napoleon Bonaparte ?
text: Did you know that Charlotte, North Carolina mayor-elect Anthony Foxx is the youngest man to be elected as mayor of the city?
text: Did you know that according to the 2008 public tax records, Johan H. Andresen jr. is Norway 's richest man?
text: Did you know that after being signed by record producer Kay Gee to his record label Divine Mill, American musical group Next recorded their debut album, Rated Next , in Gee's home recording studio ?
text: Did you know that Denise Annetts and Lindsay Reeler hold the highest wicket partnership for women's Test cricket with 309 runs?
text: Did you know that Jason Sadler, the founder of I Wear Your Shirt , earned US,000 in 2009 by being a "human billboard"?
text: Did you know that Ruiz v. Estelle , originally a handwritten civil suit filed by a prisoner against the Texas Department of Corrections in 1972,  became the most far-reaching prison lawsuit  in American history?
text: Did you know that Chloë Moretz , Mary Mouser , and Ariel Winter all auditioned for the role as the vampire in Let Me In , portrayed by Lina Leandersson in the original Swedish film ?
text: Did you know that the entire Częstochowa massacre , in which hundreds of Poles and Jews were murdered by the Wehrmacht , was captured in narrative form by a German photographer?
text: Did you know that Bob Storer , captain of Harvard 's undefeated, untied 1913 football team, was cited for bravery for saving a French officer during World War I ?
text: Did you know that Argentoratum was an important military Roman outpost on the Rhine , and was rebuilt six times?
text: Did you know that in 1957, solar energy pioneer George Lof completed a solar-heated home that he lived in for more than 50 years?
text: Did you know that after just two months as Bishop, Jakob Sverdrup Smitt was replaced by his cousin at the appointment of his uncle, Norwegian Prime Minister Johan Sverdrup ?
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text: Did you know that journalist Albert Londres was one of the 54 people killed in the fire onboard the French ocean liner Georges Philippar on 15 May 1932?
text: Did you know that the Review of Higher Education Funding and Student Finance could raise university tuition fees in the United Kingdom to over £7,000 per year?
text: Did you know that Constant Lambert regarded Summer's Last Will and Testament (1936) as his magnum opus , but it was not recognized as a masterpiece until its premiere recording in 1992?
text: Did you know that in the New Jersey General Assembly , Steven P. Perskie was an advocate of casino gambling, and was later named chairman of the New Jersey Casino Control Commission , the industry's chief regulator?
text: Did you know that the Kondapalli Fort built in the 14th century was initially  used as a business centre, but after the British took control in 1766 it was converted to a military training base?
text: Did you know that former Louisiana State Representative Suzanne Mayfield Krieger of Slidell has encouraged the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra to perform in local schools?
text: Did you know that " Greg Pikitis ", an episode of NBC 's comedy series Parks and Recreation , featured actress Rashida Jones dressed as Raggedy Ann ?
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text: Did you know that the 1958 mid-air collision of United Airlines Flight 736 and a U.S. Air Force F-100 Super Sabre , with no survivors, is the deadliest crash in the history of Las Vegas ?
text: Did you know that the U2 song " Moment of Surrender ", recorded in a single take, contains an uneven hi-hat part because Larry Mullen Jr. 's drum kit malfunctioned?
text: Did you know that Republican New York City City Councilman Dan Halloran is also the leader of the New Normannii Reik of Theodish Belief, a neopagan religious group?
text: Did you know that Namkha village, established by the Lao Lom people in 1906, is the oldest village in Pha Oudom District , Laos ?
text: Did you know that secret bombing priorities drawn up by the Air War Plans Division were compromised by Senator Burton K. Wheeler three days before the attack on Pearl Harbor ?
text: Did you know that the Brabants Dagblad , a regional Dutch newspaper , was founded in 1771 and is one of the oldest papers in the country?
text: Did you know that during a pioneering 54 day crossing of the Canadian Cordillera , explorer John Dunn lost 14 kilograms (31 lb) of body weight ?
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text: Did you know that Violeta Dinescu composed the children's opera Der 35. Mai based on The 35th of May, or Conrad's Ride to the South Seas by Erich Kästner ?
text: Did you know that in the attack on Hrubieszów partisans of the Polish anti-communist underground cooperated with Ukrainian nationalists , even though the two groups had previously often fought each other?
text: Did you know that Robert M. Webster studied New York City utilities in the 1930s to determine the best way to bomb an enemy's industrial base?
text: Did you know that the 1935 500cc Vincent Meteor British motorcycle was powered by Vincent Motorcycles ' first in-house developed engine?
text: Did you know that American political scientist Daniel Lev participated in the Golden Gloves competitions for amateur boxing as a youth?
text: Did you know that two decades after its release, the U2 song " Running to Stand Still " remains strongly associated, in different and sometimes unwanted ways, with the Ballymun Flats tower block in Dublin ?
text: Did you know that cricketer John McMahon once used an ornamental sword to behead gladioli at a public house at Nottingham ?
text: Did you know that Wolfgang Stumph ' s first film Go Trabi Go was a major box-office hit shortly after the German reunification ?
text: Did you know that Dan Fefferman was director of a group organized by Unification Church founder Sun Myung Moon to support Richard Nixon when the U.S. President faced impeachment ?
text: Did you know that former professional footballer Spike Rawlings , winner of a 1976 edition of TV talent show Opportunity Knocks , began his entertainment career after being asked to provide the half-time entertainment during a game?
text: Did you know that there are 20 international co-productions of Sesame Street , seen in over 140 countries?
text: Did you know that historian and biographer Hans Olav Lahlum is also an International Arbiter in chess ?
text: Did you know that the 1533 Ottoman embassy to France was sent by Barbarossa to visit the French king Francis I in the Auvergne city of Le Puy-en-Velay ?
text: Did you know that British comedian Tim FitzHigham was the first man to cross the English Channel in a bathtub ?
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text: Did you know that after Basque writer Jesús Galíndez was kidnapped from the streets of New York , his body was never found?
text: Did you know that Ivan Naumovich , a major Ukrainian pro-Russian cultural and political figure, as a youth supported the Polish national movement?
text: Did you know that the Chittenango ovate amber snail lives only in Chittenango Falls State Park , New York?
text: Did you know that Harold Gourley was injured by the 1951 Weedon rail crash and received £47,720 in damages?
text: Did you know that " My Best Friend's Girl ," a 1978 hit single for The Cars , was performed by Nirvana during their final concert in Munich ?
text: Did you know that Romanian euro millionaire businessman and politician Relu Fenechiu was reportedly responsible for the appointment of Justice Minister Tudor Chiuariu and two other cabinet members in 2007?
text: Did you know that Ready Georgia can help people determine exactly how much food, water, and other essential supplies they need to have in their survival kit in the event of a natural disaster ?
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text: Did you know that Yale 's two-time All-American "Bo" Bomeisler , called "King of the Hard Luck Players," had his foot crushed by a trolley car on Brooklyn 's Flatbush Avenue in 1914?
text: Did you know that the Zamojski Academy , the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in Poland, was founded in 1594 at Zamość by Royal Chancellor Jan Zamoyski ?
text: Did you know that former State Senator Tom Greene , originally an electrical engineer , subsequently became a veterinarian ?
text: Did you know that the little-known South American knifefish Tembeassu marauna has large, fleshy extensions at the tips of its jaws?
text: Did you know that at Harveys Lake, Pennsylvania , the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation signed Route 415 on two highways around the lake?
text: Did you know that the works of French artist James Gabriel Huquier included a portrait of an 18th century transgender spy?
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text: Did you know that the Solway Firth Spaceman is a photograph taken in 1964 in Cumbria , England , which appears to show a background figure in a white space suit ?
text: Did you know that the chemist Gustavus Detlef Hinrichs proposed a periodic table of elements as early as 1855?
text: Did you know that Eduardo Úrculo ' s brass sculpture Culis monumentalibus of a 4 m (13 ft) high female bottom is displayed in a square in Oviedo , Spain ?
text: Did you know that Alf R. Bjercke , paint company executive, consul and Norwegian Olympic Committee member, was not allowed to submit a doctoral thesis in Oslo because he lacked formal higher education ?
text: Did you know that information retrieval has been applied to legal text ?
text: Did you know that Troy Smith established the Sonic Drive-In chain in the 1950s after stopping at a Louisiana drive-in restaurant that used an intercom-based ordering system ?
text: Did you know that Teddy Tail was a cartoon mouse featured in The Daily Mail and was the first daily cartoon strip in a British newspaper?
text: Did you know that Jack E. Anderson ' s 300,000 pound sculpture Iron Man was a not only a tribute to iron ore miners , but is also the third largest statue in the United States?
text: Did you know that Ontario 's Film Classification Act, 2005 not only governs motion picture ratings , but also legally enforces ESRB 's video game ratings?
text: Did you know that Ree Drummond 's Confessions of a Pioneer Woman , the 2009 Bloggies "Weblog of the Year", is known for its "How to Cook a Steak" tutorial with photos in "ridiculous detail"?
text: Did you know that Fusion Energy Foundation was a proponent of fusion energy and the Strategic Defense Initiative before it was closed down for fraudulent fundraising practices?
text: Did you know that Go Trabi Go was one of only three films released shortly after, and dealing with, the German reunification that enjoyed box office success?
text: Did you know that before he switched to the GOP , Gerald Theunissen , a Democrat , won a special election in 1996 to the Louisiana Senate by defeating Republican state chairman Mike Francis ?
text: Did you know that according to Hindu mythology, Ila was cursed to change his/her gender every month?
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text: Did you know that as of 2005, theories of foul play still have not been ruled out in the 1976 death of jockey Michael Hole ?
text: Did you know that the impeachment of William Latimer, 4th Baron Latimer during the Good Parliament of 1376 is the earliest recorded in the Parliament of England ?
text: Did you know that "Moose" Englehorn , who played for Washington State and Dartmouth College , was the oldest living All-American football player when he died in 1993 at age 103?
text: Did you know that the ancient Bronze Age site of Ulug Depe in modern day Turkmenistan was once a flourishing agricultural town in the foothills of the Kopet Dag mountains?
text: Did you know that John Metcalf 's opera Tornrak features Inuit throat singing ?
text: Did you know that DeWitt Clinton 's 1798 deed of land to New York's Hartford Baptist Church was not recorded with Washington County until 1932?
text: Did you know that until 1981 the Municipality of La Visitation-de-l'Île-Dupas in Canada had one of the longest place names in Quebec history, namely "La Visitation-de-la-Sainte-Vierge-de-l'Isle-du-Pads"?
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text: Did you know that Dartmouth football halfback Dave Morey was given the nickname "David the Giant Killer" by American sportswriter Grantland Rice ?
text: Did you know that the Bishop of Mondoñedo Saint Gonzalo defied the authority of the Archbishop of Toledo ?
text: Did you know that the Whiz Kids , led by Robin Roberts , won the National League pennant in 1950 , but never won another with the same players?
text: Did you know that former Louisiana State Representative Vic Stelly 's 2002 Stelly Plan tax-shifting amendment was repealed in 2008 because it led to higher state income taxes ?
text: Did you know that the Nicolaus Copernicus Monument erected in 1853 at Thorn in Prussia , his native place, bears a Latin inscription drawn up by Alexander von Humboldt ?
text: Did you know that American artist Thomas Bigelow Craig is known for his paintings depicting cows in summer landscapes?
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text: Did you know that Laguna Ojo de Libre is a World Heritage Site that combines the ecosystems for species such as the grey whale with industrialisation ?
text: Did you know that HaEmes , the organ of the 1876 Hebrew Socialist Union in London , was the first Jewish socialist periodical?
text: Did you know that Brown 's All-American 135-pound quarterback "Kid" Crowther played with an elastic band around his head in lieu of a helmet?
text: Did you know that in the Battle of Stralsund (1678) , two days of bombardment forced Sweden to surrender her last major Pomeranian fortress?
text: Did you know that shelter in place is a strategy emergency authorities use in case of release of biological, chemical, or radiological contaminants?
text: Did you know that the Ulugh Beg Observatory in Samarkand , Uzbekistan enabled astronomers to work out the time of a single year to within 1 minute of modern electronic calculations back in 1437?
text: Did you know that the local English political party the Devizes Guardians was formed after five trees were felled in a marketplace ?
text: Did you know that in Inuit mythology , an Angakkuq , or shaman , is told to be able to fly with the assistance of a spirit companion, or tuurngaq?
text: Did you know that What Leave Behind is a concerto for electric guitar and toy orchestra performed by Toychestra and Fred Frith ?
text: Did you know that Philip Elman wrote the U.S. Government 's brief in the case of Brown v. Board of Education ?
text: Did you know that on his death in 1727, antiquary and historian Thomas Madox 's unpublished notes ran to ninety-four volumes, which his wife later left to be added to the British Museum 's Sloane library ?
text: Did you know that the Latvian government decided to cancel its contract with Tele2 following the 2009 Latvian meteorite hoax ?
text: Did you know that Jaromir Jagr became the first Czechoslovakian to be drafted in the NHL without defecting when he was selected in the first round by the Pittsburgh Penguins in 1990?
text: Did you know that the South American rodent Irenomys , which has teeth similar to those of an African elephant , was named after the Ancient Greek word iren ("peace") to commemorate the end of World War I ?
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text: Did you know that Harvard All-American Sam Felton averaged between 60 and 70 yards (55 to 64 meters) on football punts in 1912?
text: Did you know that when the rodent genus Nephelomys was first described in 2006, N. childi , N. maculiventer , N. moerex , N. nimbosus , N. pectoralis , and N. pirrensis were reclassified as separate species in addition to the previously recognized N. albigularis , N. auriventer , N. caracolus , N. devius , N. keaysi , N. levipes , and N. meridensis , almost doubling the known diversity of the genus?
text: Did you know that after the death of Nikolai Polikarpov in 1944, the Polikarpov TIS fighter program was canceled and his group disbanded?
text: Did you know that in England in the 1200s the Exchequer of the Jews had to be informed of all financial transactions involving the Jewish community ?
text: Did you know that the charity KaBOOM! builds playgrounds in a single day all over the U.S.A.?
text: Did you know that author W. S. Gilbert encouraged actress May Fortescue in her successful breach of promise case against Lord Garmoyle in 1884?
text: Did you know that when Ricky Ponting toured India with the Australian cricket team in 2008–09 , a swarm of bees interrupted the third Test, causing on-field players and officials to lie on the ground?
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text: Did you know that female karateka Yıldız Aras holds more World, European, and Mediterranean Games champion titles than any other Turkish sportsperson?
text: Did you know that the Hawaiian Newcomb's snail is at significant risk from the introduced Rosy Wolfsnail ?
text: Did you know that on a clear day it is possible to see more than 100 named peaks across the Scottish Highlands from the summit of Beinn Sgritheall ?
text: Did you know that the Wine Museum in Pleven , Bulgaria , has 7,000 old wines and is housed in a natural cave?
text: Did you know that Edward Kossoy represented about sixty thousand Jews , Roma and Poles in cases for reparations from Germany for Nazi terror?
text: Did you know that The Kinks ' 1970 album featured the hit "Lola", which combined the clangy sounds of a National Steel and Martin guitar?
text: Did you know that in a scientific paper, Equasy , David Nutt compared the risk of taking the drug ecstasy with the risk of horse riding ?
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text: Did you know that the Rogue Valley Medical Center in Medford , Oregon , receives patients from as far as 200 miles (320 km) away?
text: Did you know that the Georgian actress Nato Vachnadze was one of the first film stars of the Soviet Union ?
text: Did you know that Asturian magnate Pedro Alfonso had vast landholdings in the Asturias, the province of León , and the subkingdom of Toledo , including in the cities of León and Toledo ?
text: Did you know that the 155-student Solomon Schechter Day School of Raritan Valley was selected by the Blue Ribbon Schools Program in 2009, one of only 50 private schools selected throughout America?
text: Did you know that demonstrations in Oslo , Norway in 2009, held by Arne Tumyr and the organization Stop the Islamisation of Norway , developed into street clashes?
text: Did you know that Stewart Brand wrote Whole Earth Discipline knowing that many environmentalists would disagree with him?
text: Did you know that a century ago this year, 20,000 women participated in a successful strike in New York 's garment industry?
text: Did you know that The Prodigy 's album The Fat of the Land was the first international alternative dance hit after charting at number one in 25 countries?
text: Did you know that motorcycle ambulances with double-decker sidecars were used by the British, French, and Americans during World War I ?
text: Did you know that Norwegian writer Gabriel Scott was named both after the country of Scotland and after Sir Walter Scott ?
text: Did you know that 1,868 people broke the world record for the twelve-hour continuous relay race at Breffni Park in June 2009?
text: Did you know that the Palestinian villages of Nuris and Zikrin were depopulated in the 1948 Palestine War ?
text: Did you know that Charles Wilson Cross was re-appointed to the office of Attorney-General of Alberta after resigning in scandal, only to be fired by Premier Charles Stewart six years later?
text: Did you know that the scales of the flaming Pholiota are easily sloughed off due to the gelatinous hyphae that make up the cap surface?
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text: Did you know that the first postal markings on mail from Barbados appeared in the 1760s?
text: Did you know that in 1988, Bill Cosby became the first recipient to accept a Golden Raspberry Award , for his work on the film Leonard Part 6 ?
text: Did you know that RMS Fort Victoria sank in the Ambrose Channel after she was involved in a collision with SS Algonquin in thick fog?
text: Did you know that W. S. Gilbert 's first full-length comedy, An Old Score , was unsuccessful partly because Victorian audiences would not accept a scene in which a son argues with his father?
text: Did you know that members of the Maryland Senate were not elected from districts balanced by population until 1972?
text: Did you know that St. Michael's Church, Southampton , England was founded in 1070?
text: Did you know that Lieutenant Odas Moon "bombed" the USS Langley with three ripe tomatoes?
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text: Did you know that Toby Keith 's " Cryin' for Me (Wayman's Song) " is a tribute to basketball player and musician Wayman Tisdale , a friend of Keith's who died in May 2009?
text: Did you know that Richard Backus has been nominated for Daytime Emmy Awards for both acting and screenwriting ?
text: Did you know that in 1914, the sound of the bells of St. Mary's Church, Southampton inspired Douglas Furber to write the song The Bells of St. Mary's , later made famous by Bing Crosby ?
text: Did you know that Leon Wasilewski of the Polish Socialist Party learned Yiddish in order to be able to edit the party's Yiddish-language newspaper Der arbeyter ?
text: Did you know that at Total Nonstop Action Wrestling 's 2008 Turning Point pay-per-view event, the TNA Legends Championship was defended for the first time?
text: Did you know that amongst the first Japanese in Kiribati were labourers who worked in the islands' phosphate mines?
text: Did you know that the dispute between the English counties of Berkshire and Buckinghamshire over the maintenance of Datchet Bridge nearly led to the death of an elephant from Wombwell's Travelling Menagerie ?
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text: Did you know that Pete Wentz of Fall Out Boy co-created a comic book series inspired by the lyrics of his band's music?
text: Did you know that several Japanese bullhead sharks may lay their eggs in a single communal " nest "?
text: Did you know that Polish general Józef Haller de Hallenburg faked his death in the 1918 Battle of Kaniów ?
text: Did you know that Slebech in Wales has an important breeding roost for the rare Greater Horseshoe Bat (Rhinolophus ferrumequinum) ?
text: Did you know that Olympic cyclist Russell Allen was still bungee jumping into his 90s?
text: Did you know that Japanese expatriates in the Solomon Islands generally consisted of fishermen from the Miyako Islands in the Ryukyu Islands of Japan?
text: Did you know that co-founder Elmer Winter named his firm Manpower Inc. , despite the fact that most of the company's temporary workers were women?
text: Did you know that six new competition venues have been constructed in preparation for the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver and Whistler , British Columbia ?
text: Did you know that a missionary brought the first trees of Kona coffee to Kealakekua Church in 1828?
text: Did you know that before Air Marshal Richard Williams was called "Father of the RAAF ", the title was often accorded to Group Captain Eric Harrison , who gave Williams his initial flight training?
text: Did you know that the 1955 Vincent Black Knight motorcycle was a modified Vincent Rapide which was fully enclosed to keep the rain and dirt from the rider?
text: Did you know that although it was derided as a "million dollar monster" and eventually cancelled, Ferranti Canada used their Route Reference Computer mail sorter as the basis of a series of specialized computers?
text: Did you know that the mill museum De Wachter Zuidlaren contains a reconstructed butcher's shop, a clog maker's workshop, grocer's shop, millwright's worksop and waggon maker's workshop?
text: Did you know that the Coal Act 1938 gave the Coal Commission control of all the coal in England and Wales and in Scotland , but prohibited the commission from mining any of it?
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text: Did you know that while 3M ceased perfluorooctanesulfonyl fluoride production in the US and Europe over environmental concerns, it has risen in China?
text: Did you know that in the Ottoman-Safavid War (1532–1555) , the Ottoman ruler Suleiman the Magnificent invaded Persia as far as Baghdad ?
text: Did you know that the Romanian magazine Sămănătorul promoted pastoral imagery, antisemitic messages, and its own branch of Symbolist poetry ?
text: Did you know that the egg capsule of the crested bullhead shark has paired tendrils extending up to 2 m (6.6 ft), greater than the length of the adult shark?
text: Did you know that David Molk overcame mononucleosis to become the starting center for the 2008 Michigan Wolverines football team ?
text: Did you know that a group of Russian Molokans left California to start a settlement in Utah in 1914 after a judge annulled a traditional marriage between two teenagers?
text: Did you know that the Spanish art gallery Pinacoteca Eduardo Úrculo is named after an artist notable for his portrayal of luggage, the gentleman's hat, and the female bottom?
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text: Did you know that babies with alveolar capillary dysplasia may seem healthy at birth, but cannot breathe well and soon die?
text: Did you know that a Habsburg-Persian alliance was initiated by Charles V in the 16th century, in order to open a second front in his fight against the Ottoman Empire ?
text: Did you know that soprano Ruth Holton sang at Bach 's church on the 250th anniversary of his death?
text: Did you know that the British battlecruisers HMS Indomitable and HMS Indefatigable bombarded Turkish fortifications on the Dardanelles two days before the British declaration of war on the Ottoman Empire ?
text: Did you know that Roman Catholic priest Giuseppe Diana was killed by the Camorra for resisting their mafia -like rule?
text: Did you know that Wasur National Park is part of the largest wetland in the Papua province of Indonesia , and due to its high biodiversity is sometimes referred to as the " Serengeti of Papua"?
text: Did you know that despite a student poll favoring "Fighting Squirrels", the athletic teams at Indiana University of Pennsylvania were renamed the Crimson Hawks in 2006?
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text: Did you know that Marie-Noël Robert built and co-piloted the world's first manned hydrogen balloon , La Charlière , with professor Jacques Charles ?
text: Did you know that the Martin Marmon House , built in 1820, is a leading example of Quaker architecture in Ohio?
text: Did you know that owing to its generous seasoning, the poet Thomas Warton used the Oxford sausage as the title for his 1764 compilation of "highly spiced" political and satirical verse?
text: Did you know that The Fall of a Nation , the sequel to the 1915 film The Birth of a Nation , is considered to be the first film sequel ?
text: Did you know that in April 2005, cricketer Daleen Terblanche became the first South African woman to pass 1,000 One Day International runs?
text: Did you know that the U.S. Department of Defense requested to be removed from the credits of Inchon due to the film's ties to Sun Myung Moon and the Unification Church ?
text: Did you know that the magnitude of the 1833 Sumatra earthquake was calculated from the amount of uplift recorded by coral microatolls around the Mentawai islands ?
text: Did you know that in William Blake 's Four Zoas myth , the Christian God is divided into four parts, Sense , Reason , Imagination , and Love , which have the counterparts Sexual Urges , Pleasure , Inspiration , and Nature ?
text: Did you know that the world's first 'city to city' road race , where contestants rode ' boneshakers ' from Paris to Rouen , was organised by the Le Vélocipède Illustré newspaper in 1869?
text: Did you know that composer André Amellér ' s stint as bassist for the Opéra National de Paris was interrupted by a stay in the Oflag XIII prison camp ?
text: Did you know that in the Ottoman expedition to Aceh starting in 1565, the Ottoman Empire provided military support to Aceh (modern Indonesia ) against the Portuguese ?
text: Did you know that during his nine terms in the New Jersey State Assembly , John V. Kelly authored 143 bills that became law, including the state's first bicycle helmet law?
text: Did you know that yellow-band disease is a disease that attacks colonies of coral when the coral is under stress from pollution , overfishing , and climate change ?
text: Did you know that The Village of Rochester Hills is the first retail lifestyle center in the Detroit area of the United States ?
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text: Did you know that Addison's disease 's occurrence in canines was not discovered until 1953, even though its occurrence in humans was first described in 1849?
text: Did you know that in 1100 Warner of Grez took control of Jerusalem to ensure that Baldwin of Boulogne would succeed Godfrey of Bouillon as King of Jerusalem ?
text: Did you know that the name of the flowering plant genus Tetracarpaea refers to its four conspicuous and separate carpels ?
text: Did you know that Anthony T. Kahoʻohanohano was awarded the Medal of Honor 58 years after his death in the Korean War ?
text: Did you know that the United Kingdom 's Adoption Act 1958 submitted local authorities to the same regulations as professional adoption agencies?
text: Did you know that John P. Yount , an American soldier and Medal of Honor recipient, was buried with full military honors in 2007, over a century after his death?
text: Did you know that laid-off workers have turned to bossnapping , or kidnapping their bosses, as a tactic in labor disputes during the current recession ?
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text: Did you know that wood-carver Hristo Hristov, the debutant male lead in 2009 Bulgarian film Eastern Plays , died of a drug overdose shortly before the end of filming?
text: Did you know that Ferranti 's Sirius small business computer was based on a logic system known as "Neurons" that used transistors to simulate the operation of magnetic amplifiers ?
text: Did you know that Dee Anthony , talent manager for Peter Frampton and Devo , had three rules of success: 1) Get the money; 2) Remember to get the money; and, 3) Don't forget to always remember to get the money?
text: Did you know that Heli Air Monaco accounts for 90–95% of traffic at the Monaco Heliport ?
text: Did you know that the chemist Basil Weedon discovered the structure of many carotenoids including astaxanthin , rubixanthin and canthaxanthin ?
text: Did you know that " Kaboom ", an episode of NBC 's Parks and Recreation , featured the real-life charity KaBOOM! as part of a multi-network television campaign to spotlight volunteerism?
text: Did you know that in October 2009 Canadian folk singer Taylor Mitchell became the first adult in North America known to have been killed by coyotes ?
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text: Did you know that the Roanoke River Light was moved onshore from its original site on the back of a surplus Landing Craft Infantry ?
text: Did you know that during a 19th-century restoration of the Parish Church of Saint Mary in North Leigh , Oxfordshire , England, a 15th-century Doom painting was uncovered in the nave ?
text: Did you know that wild garlic and mustard are grown in Kings Pond Park , a public park in New Jersey ?
text: Did you know that Fort Lahtzanit was the first fortification of the Bar Lev Line to be captured by the Egyptian Army in the Yom Kippur War ?
text: Did you know that Alison Brie , whose character "Annie" debuted in the pilot episode of the sitcom Community , was chosen after the producers failed to find a Latina or Asian girl for the role?
text: Did you know that sportswriter O. P. Caylor was the last manager of the New York Metropolitans Major League Baseball team?
text: Did you know that 122 years after it was first described, the identity of the Brazilian rodent Oryzomys anoblepas is still unknown?
text: Did you know that Canadian documentary filmmaker Louie Lawless previously did production-related jobs on television shows such as The Beverly Hillbillies and The A-Team ?
text: Did you know that United States courts of appeals agree that private individuals can be prosecuted for honest services fraud , but disagree on the criteria for determining guilt?
text: Did you know that the song " Tu vuò fà l'americano " is about an Italian who imitates the 1950s American lifestyle, drinking and rock 'n' roll dancing, but still depends on his parents for money?
text: Did you know that U.S. Army lieutenant general John W. O'Daniel , the top American military advisor in French Indochina , was demoted to major general so as not to outrank French lieutenant general Henri Navarre ?
text: Did you know that while SS Norhauk was in the ownership of the Norwegian Government she had Oslo as her port of registry ; but never visited the city?
text: Did you know that the season premiere of the fourth season of 30 Rock had 2.4 million fewer viewers than the premiere of the prior season ?
text: Did you know that Nguyen Ton Hoan learned that he had been offered the prime ministership of South Vietnam over the radio?
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text: Did you know that Sri Lankan cricketer Muttiah Muralitharan has the highest number of five wicket hauls in Test cricket ?
text: Did you know that in the 1553 invasion of Corsica , the French allied with the Ottomans to capture the island from the Republic of Genoa ?
text: Did you know that Wronki Prison is the largest prison in Poland ?
text: Did you know that in October 1788, near Tomaševac (in present day Serbia ), Friedrich Joseph, Count of Nauendorf and approximately 300 Hussars routed 1,200 Sipahis ?
text: Did you know that the Johnny Lee — Lane Brody duet " The Yellow Rose " uses the same melody as the folk song " The Yellow Rose of Texas "?
text: Did you know that Mauricio Grabois was one of the founders of the Communist Party of Brazil?
text: Did you know that the name of the Palestinian village of Dayr Nakhkhas translates as "monastery of the cattle drover"?
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text: Did you know that the Women's Basketball Coaches Association doesn't just support basketball, they support academic excellence by honoring the teams with the highest GPA?
text: Did you know that the Ministers of the Crown Act 1937 was the first Act of Parliament to recognise the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and his Cabinet ?
text: Did you know that Clark Griffith was the first Chicago White Sox manager and led the team to the American League championship in 1901 ?
text: Did you know that Hadley Freeman accused The Killers of ripping off Richard Marx 's " Hazard " with their song " Jenny Was a Friend of Mine " ?
text: Did you know that the Russian artist Pavel Svedomsky painted six scenes from the life of Jesus in St Volodymyr's Cathedral ?
text: Did you know that upon leaving the Louisiana House of Representatives because of term limits, Henry "Tank" Powell was appointed to the state Board of Pardons by Governor Bobby Jindal ?
text: Did you know that Sigve Tjøtta , retired mathematics professor and a member of the Acoustical Society of America , competed in a half marathon at age 75?
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text: Did you know that Ireland 's former Taoiseach Bertie Ahern presented an episode of GAA television programme The Road to Croker when the usual host was at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing ?
text: Did you know that the Upstate South Carolina plantation, Ashtabula , set the "world record" for rice production in 1845?
text: Did you know that, with The Duchess of Dantzic , composer Ivan Caryll took a break from writing hit Edwardian musical comedies to produce a comic opera ?
text: Did you know that Rage Syndrome is a neurological condition similar to epilepsy that causes a dog to suddenly act aggressively?
text: Did you know that his experience surviving the London Blitz gave Norman Ayrton the courage to pursue a career in theatre?
text: Did you know that Avakai Biryani marked the debut of Anish Kuruvilla as a feature film director and Bindu Madhavi as a mainstream actress in Telugu cinema ?
text: Did you know that, in 1917, Jacob Panken was the first socialist judge elected in New York City ?
text: Did you know that Clancy Brown was cast to play the Rhino in the The Spectacular Spider-Man episode " The Invisible Hand " because he could "turn on a dime between dangerous and comedic characterizations"?
text: Did you know that the rear decking of the Yakovlev Yak-2 ' s fuselage was hinged to pivot down to allow the rear gunner to use his gun?
text: Did you know that although his 1897 drama The Fortune Hunter is largely forgotten, a letter to The Times written by W. S. Gilbert on the day of its premiere, complaining about rail services, is frequently quoted?
text: Did you know that the mushroom Hebeloma aminophilum gets its common name of ghoul fungus because it grows on the carcasses of dead animals?
text: Did you know that recently released GOAL aid workers Sharon Commins and Hilda Kawuki experienced mock executions during their more than 100 days of captivity in Darfur ?
text: Did you know that the Hoosick Falls Armory is now one of only two still operated by the New York National Guard in the Capital District ?
text: Did you know that Kurt Vonnegut once called male Czech theatre director Petr Lébl "my sister"?
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text: Did you know that Fort Budapest was the only position of the Bar Lev Line to remain under Israeli control throughout the Yom Kippur War ?
text: Did you know that the Parks and Recreation episode " Sister City " featured Saturday Night Live star Fred Armisen in a guest role as the head of a visiting Venezuelan delegation?
text: Did you know that a Japanese settlement in Papua New Guinea once existed in the first half of the 20th century?
text: Did you know that the England amateur footballer , Leonard Dawe , became a crossword compiler for The Daily Telegraph newspaper and in 1944 was interrogated on suspicion of espionage in the run-up to the D-Day landings?
text: Did you know that with a population in excess of 200,000 people, Menik Farm in Sri Lanka is believed to be the largest IDP camp in the world?
text: Did you know  that Pino Puglisi was a Roman Catholic priest in the deprived Palermo neighbourhood of Brancaccio who was killed by the Sicilian Mafia ?
text: Did you know that VIAFast was an abandoned passenger rail plan that would have cut VIA Rail 's trip times throughout the Quebec City – Windsor Corridor ?
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text: Did you know that the second director of the Australian War Memorial , John Treloar , lived in a "cubby hole" next to his office at the Memorial?
text: Did you know that the videogame Far Gate won the Independent Games Festival Audience Choice Award in 2000?
text: Did you know that a witch-hunt in 1590 inspired Hans Wiers-Jenssen ' s 1908 play Anne Pedersdotter , which was the basis for an opera by Respighi from 1934, a film from 1943 , and a second opera by Edvard Fliflet Bræin from 1971?
text: Did you know that Henry Dudley uncharacteristically used brick instead of stone for St. Mark's Episcopal Church in Hoosick Falls, New York ?
text: Did you know that John William Woolf ' s son believed that his father resigned from the Legislative Assembly of Alberta and returned to Utah because he feared prosecution under Canadian anti- polygamy laws?
text: Did you know that while playing for Lansdown Cricket Club in 1865, W.G. Grace and two of his brothers took all of the opposition United England Eleven 's twenty wickets?
text: Did you know that the sex magic technique of eroto-comatose lucidity can be traced back to the "sleep of Sialam" described by Paschal Beverly Randolph ?
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text: Did you know that the buildings now serving as Consulate General of the United States in Hamburg were once used as local headquarters for the Nazi party ?
text: Did you know that the sakia (water wheel) for the former Palestinian Arab village of Zayta was built out of a Corinthian capital , marble pillars, a rough pulley, and 85 stone jars attached by grass ropes?
text: Did you know that every year the Portway trunk road in Bristol is closed to traffic to allow inspection of the limestone cliffs of the Avon Gorge and to allow remedial work on loose rocks to be carried out?
text: Did you know that the Mary E. Surratt Boarding House , where the Abraham Lincoln assassins conspired, is now home to a Chinese / Japanese restaurant ?
text: Did you know that as a student during World War II , Tollak B. Sirnes spent time in Buchenwald and Neuengamme concentration camps following the 1943 University of Oslo fire ?
text: Did you know that the United Kingdom 's Advertisements (Hire-Purchase) Act 1957 covered newspapers, posters, and cinema advertisements, but not radio broadcasts?
text: Did you know that Flight Lieutenant Charles Crombie shot down two Japanese bombers and damaged a third in a single action in 1943 despite his aircraft being ablaze?
text: Did you know that three independent studio albums released by progressive rock band Eufonius from Japan have appeared on the Japanese Oricon albums chart?
text: Did you know that Eric Fitch Daglish supplied wood engravings for books by authors such as Izaak Walton , Gilbert White , W. H. Hudson and Henry David Thoreau ?
text: Did you know that a team of 13 writers from London aged between 17 and 22 created and wrote the entire series of EastEnders: E20 at a summer school?
text: Did you know that American singer-songwriter Thad Cockrell ' s father is a Baptist pastor , and Cockrell is the only child amongst three sons not to also become a pastor?
text: Did you know that the 1968–1977 United States Senate Select Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs first focused on those who were not eating enough, but later focused on those who were eating too much?
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text: Did you know that Roberts Dunstan was awarded the DSO for his efforts as a rear gunner in the Second World War despite having only one leg?
text: Did you know that Pushkar Fair —the largest camel fair in Asia —commenced on Kartik Ekadashi (29 Oct) and will end today on Kartik Poornima ?
text: Did you know that the Muskwa-Kechika Management Area in northern British Columbia is 6.4 million hectares; about the size of Latvia ?
text: Did you know that long before her 2009 election as chairman of the Republican Party of Texas , Cathie Adams worked in a crisis pregnancy center ?
text: Did you know that Our Lady and the English Martyrs in Cambridge is one of the largest Catholic churches in United Kingdom?
text: Did you know that hours after the attack on Pearl Harbor , the Automobile Manufacturers Association began a cooperative effort of 654 U.S. auto industry companies that accounted for a quarter of U.S. war output?
text: Did you know that athlete Simone Schaller began hurdling only three months before she competed in the sport at the 1932 Summer Olympics ?
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text: Did you know that the Tulsi Vivah (performed today) – the ritual wedding of the Tulsi plant and god Vishnu – marks the beginning of the current Hindu wedding season?
text: Did you know that an attack on Freedom Riders in May 1961 at the Greyhound Bus Station in Montgomery, Alabama , led the Kennedy administration to side, for the first time, with civil rights activists?
text: Did you know that the Arab tenant farmers at Daliyat al-Rawha' were evicted in March 1948 by Yosef Weitz and Jewish settlers from kibbutz Kfar Masaryk ?
text: Did you know that the predatory land flatworm Platydemus manokwari is a serious threat to rare endemic land snails in the Pacific Islands ?
text: Did you know that textile manufacturing in the mill village of Hallville in Connecticut dates to 1752, when a fulling mill was built there?
text: Did you know that John Athalarichos had his nose and hands cut off for taking part in a plot to overthrow his father the Byzantine Emperor , Heraclius ?
text: Did you know that in 1923, the Ku Klux Klan in New Jersey provided funding for Alma White College , the second institution in the northern US to further the Klan's aims?
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text: Did you know that Academy Award -winning film score composer W. Franke Harling wrote both the official hymn and official march of the United States Military Academy at West Point ?
text: Did you know that the 1958 BSA C15 was the first unit construction motorcycle produced by the British company BSA ?
text: Did you know that Queens Borough President Joseph Cassidy , who ran the borough with an iron fist and made a fortune despite a $5,000 salary, was nicknamed "The King of Queens"?
text: Did you know that in 1901, the head of the Russian secret police Sergei Zubatov helped found the Independent Jewish Workers Party in a bid to counter the influence of the General Jewish Labour Bund ?
text: Did you know that the Rho Ophiuchi cloud complex is one of the star-forming regions closest to the Earth ?
text: Did you know that John Kelly played in three different Major League Baseball leagues during his four-year-long career?
text: Did you know that the civil service of the Confederate States of America managed to cope with war work only because it employed African Americans ?
text: Did you know that a fireworks display at Croke Park to a soundtrack compiled by U2 drummer Larry Mullen, Jr was one of the events held in honour of today's 125th anniversary of the GAA ?
text: Did you know that the 1937 Bankers' Toadies incident resulted in the imprisonment of Joseph Unwin , a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta ?
text: Did you know that Thomas Stanley was an officer of the Royal Mint at the Tower of London under four monarchs— Henry VIII , Edward VI , Mary I and Elizabeth I ?
text: Did you know that the Field Ornithology Group of Sri Lanka , the Sri Lankan affiliate of BirdLife International , provided humanitarian assistance following the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami ?
text: Did you know that Anthony Amoroso , who attended culinary school at Hudson County Community College , defeated Masaharu Morimoto on Iron Chef America ?
text: Did you know that only 31 Vincent Grey Flash British motorcycles were ever produced?
text: Did you know that Peter Sanders began his career as a professional association football player, switched to playing rugby union , and has subsequently spent forty years running a baseball club?
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text: Did you know that St. Paul’s Church, Diu is considered to be one of the best examples of baroque architecture in India ?
text: Did you know that Steven van Herwijck created portrait medals of both Sigismund II Augustus of Poland and Elizabeth I of England ?
text: Did you know that notable figures buried at New Cemetery in Belgrade include Ivo Andrić , winner of the 1961 Nobel Prize in Literature , and Zoran Đinđić , the Prime Minister of Serbia who was assassinated in 2003 ?
text: Did you know that the mushroom species Russula albidula is commonly known as the "boring white Russula"?
text: Did you know that George P. Jenkins of MetLife helped build Pan American World Airways into a global airline and ABC into a major network through the firm's investments in the private placement market?
text: Did you know that Peyton Manning has the unusual ability to eat six saltines in one minute ?
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text: Did you know that in 1950s giant monster films , atomic energy aroused Godzilla , The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms and Them! ?
text: Did you know that the release of The Vampire's Assistant , starring Chris Massoglia , was moved so it could "capitalize on the Halloween season"?
text: Did you know that Zac Efron turned down the lead in Footloose to star in the romantic ghost story The Death and Life of Charlie St. Cloud ?
text: Did you know that 1950s blues musician Little Sammy Davis left the music scene for decades before being rediscovered in 1990?
text: Did you know that the tenor in the British TV advertisement ' Go Compare ' is played by Welsh opera singer Wynne Evans ?
text: Did you know that Jeanne Clemson is credited with both preserving the Fulton Opera House in Lancaster, Pennsylvania , from demolition, and for restoring live theater to the building?
text: Did you know that when Five Go Off to Camp they encounter "spook trains"?
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text: Did you know that Hell Gate , a ghost town in western Montana , was the scene of several notorious lynchings in 1864?
text: Did you know the Halloween genes include spook , spookier , phantom , disembodied , shadow and shade ?
text: Did you know that in the Sinhala novel Madol Doova , the two protagonists Upali and Jinna go to live on a "haunted" island?
text: Did you know that a 1767 gravestone at St Mary's Church, Walberton shows the victim crushed under a tree, as a laughing skeleton and scythe -wielding Father Time look on?
text: Did you know that Reeri Yakseya , who is believed to be the most cruel and powerful demon in Sinhalese folklore, can assume 18 different apparitions?
text: Did you know that, inspired by The Blair Witch Project , Stephen King had the idea of presenting The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer: My Life at Rose Red as real by having the fictional "Dr. Joyce Reardon" edit it?
text: Did you know that some have dared eat the eggs of the devil's dipstick ?
text: Did you know that in 1979 two Montana legislators sued the United States Department of Transportation in an unsuccessful attempt to save the North Coast Hiawatha Amtrak train?
text: Did you know that the Justice Party survived the no-confidence motion brought against it after the 1923 election in Madras Presidency ?
text: Did you know that Blue Mouse Theatre in Tacoma 's Proctor District , opened by John Hamrick in 1923, is now the oldest continuously operating theater in the U.S. state of Washington ?
text: Did you know that former Texas State Senator Marshall Formby proposed that Texas Technological College, his alma mater , be renamed Texas Tech University ?
text: Did you know that the U2 song " Winter " was written for the war film Brothers after the band viewed a rough cut of the film?
text: Did you know that out of 700 U.S. Forest Service buildings in Oregon and Washington built by New Deal programs, the Upper Sandy Guard Station Cabin is the only one crafted of stone and logs?
text: Did you know that between 5% and 45% of the words made by two year olds are speech repetitions , and that higher skill in infant speech repetition predicts more rapid expansion of spoken vocabulary ?
text: Did you know that quarterback Don Moorhead set 24 Michigan Wolverines football records from 1969 to 1970, including career records for total offense and passing yards?
text: Did you know that even though the French wines of Collioure have very little residual sugar , some wine drinkers perceive them as " sweet " because of how ripe the grapes get in the warm climate?
text: Did you know that in 2005, the Bruce High Quality Foundation pulled a floating island of parkland, complete with living trees, around New York Harbor , turning a drawing by Robert Smithson into reality?
text: Did you know that many government-planted trees in the Banni grasslands in India were legally cut down to make charcoal for profits from 2004 to 2008 even though the area has been a protected forest since 1955?
text: Did you know that professional wrestler Franky The Mobster once tagged with Kevin Steen as "Frank N' Steen"?
text: Did you know that Amar Ouzegane , first secretary of the Algerian Communist Party until 1947, later renounced communism , arguing for a fusion of Islam and socialism ?
text: Did you know that the Ballaine House was one of six built in 1905 in Seward, Alaska , known as "Millionaire's Row", not for their owners' wealth, but because they believed Alaska would soon have one million residents?
text: Did you know that as a self-described "geek" and a curious person, Whoopi Goldberg created Head Games to show people that there are "all kinds of science"?
text: Did you know that Australian Sir Noel Power became Acting Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Hong Kong in 1996?
text: Did you know that due to the storm's poorly documented loop, the 1910 Cuba hurricane was initially reported as two separate cyclones?
text: Did you know that in 2007 , A. J. Wallace broke the Penn State Nittany Lions football record for kickoff return yardage in a season with 581, which broke Kenny Watson 's 1999 record of 522?
text: Did you know that in 1983, Yıldırım Aktuna , a neuropsychiatrist and later a politician, founded Turkey ’s first alcohol and drug rehabilitation center at the country's largest psychiatric hospital in Istanbul ?
text: Did you know that in October 2009, the Pittsburgh Penguins launched Pittsburgh Penguins Radio , the first exclusive HD radio station in the National Hockey League ?
text: Did you know that over 100 former footballers called on President Paul Biya to stand in the 2004 Cameroonian presidential election ?
text: Did you know that Zodi Ikhia , the first Education Minister of the Republic of Niger , took part in a failed coup d'etat in 1963?
text: Did you know that Loteki Supernatural Being was the first dog to win both the Westminster Dog Show and the World Dog Show ?
text: Did you know that then- Louisiana Tech University President F. Jay Taylor in 1974 named Sonja Hogg to develop what became national championship teams in women's basketball ?
text: Did you know that the authors of the Manifesto of the Oppressed Black Mauritanian were convicted to prison sentences, exiles, and loss of civil rights?
text: Did you know that sociologist Bogdan Denitch of Queens College, City University of New York organized and chaired the Socialist Scholars Conference from 1983 to 2004 in New York City ?
text: Did you know that because of the controversy about excluding mathematicians from the Central Powers at the 1920 and 1924 International Congresses of Mathematicians , from 1932 and on the ICMs are not numbered?
text: Did you know that the marriage of Archduchess Isabella of Austria and Prince Georg of Bavaria was annulled on the grounds of non- consummation ?
text: Did you know that the animated sitcom Home Movies switched to Flash animation for its second season ?
text: Did you know that while searching for French zoologist Claude Riche , lost in Western Australia, botanist Jacques Labillardière collected the first specimens of Banksia repens ?
text: Did you know that Alexander Faris composed the theme tune for the classic 1970s television drama series Upstairs, Downstairs ?
text: Did you know that the Battle of Gang Toi on 8 November 1965 was one of the first engagements between Australian forces and the Viet Cong during the Vietnam War ?
text: Did you know that the Justice Party won the first election held in Madras Presidency in 1920 after a dyarchical system of government was established in 1919?
text: Did you know that Puerto Rican a capella group Nota sang together for 15 years prior to winning The Sing-Off ?
text: Did you know that ex- Springbok and current Ireland rugby forward coach Gert Smal taught his pack some Afrikaans so they could read the South African line out calls in their match in the 2009 Autumn Internationals ?
text: Did you know that possible traces of interdigital webbing have been preserved in fossils of pakicetids , the ancestors of whales ?
text: Did you know that two of the 15 children of Rufus Anderson Lyman became the first U.S. generals of Hawaiian ancestry?
text: Did you know that Shmuel Flatto-Sharon successfully ran for election to the Knesset to avoid extradition to France , where he was wanted for embezzlement?
text: Did you know that despite losing star player Dionte Christmas , the 2009–10 Temple Owls men's basketball team is currently one of the top 25 best college basketball teams in the United States?
text: Did you know that with his 60 tonne 25.25 m long Denby Eco-Link super lorry , Dick Denby of Denby Transport, Lincoln , hopes to challenge the government prohibition of most types of Longer Heavier Vehicles from the roads of the United Kingdom ?
text: Did you know that the Famous Smoke Shop , one of the largest mail order and internet cigar businesses in the United States, was initially a retail shop on Broadway founded in 1939?
text: Did you know that Natural Law Party founder Bevan Morris suggested at a press conference that President Bush learn Transcendental Meditation ?
text: Did you know that the 1865 play Society by T W Robertson marked the London debut of actor Sir Squire Bancroft ?
text: Did you know that the Japanese Computer-controlled Vehicle System (CVS) originally started out as a show-floor exhibit at Expo '70 in Osaka , but developed into one of the most advanced personal rapid transit systems of its era?
text: Did you know that the Hanneford family of the Royal Hanneford Circus have origins in performance dating back to 1690?
text: Did you know that between 1970 and 1976, former Spanish-Argentine footballer and manager Juan Carlos Touriño was part of three Spanish league championships and two Spanish cup-winning squads?
text: Did you know that Long Creek Academy , which was a Christian school near Long Creek, South Carolina , is now the local headquarters of a whitewater rafting company?
text: Did you know that the Phoenicians either introduced or encouraged the spread of winemaking to several areas like Spain , Portugal , Italy and Greece ?
text: Did you know that André Roch , a pioneer in avalanche research, was caught in avalanches three times?
text: Did you know that the 1951 film Marmayogi was the first Tamil film to receive an "Adult" rating ?
text: Did you know that Devil's Den State Park in Arkansas is recognized as one of the best preserved Civilian Conservation Corps projects in the United States?
text: Did you know that all eight endemic reptile species recorded in Minneriya National Park are listed as threatened ?
text: Did you know that the Stephen Storm House in Claverack, New York , combines urban and rural applications of the Federal architectural style ?
text: Did you know that former footballer Christopher Bryan scored the Turks and Caicos Islands ' first ever international goal?
text: Did you know that in 1989 Cuban singer-songwriter Gloria Estefan became the first artist to simultaneously reach number 1 in the Billboard Hot 100 and Top Latin Songs charts with her single " Don't Wanna Lose You "?
text: Did you know that London music festival Field Day hosts an annual village fête , featuring a sack race , tug of war and egg and spoon race ?
text: Did you know that Frank Conner is one of only two men to have competed in the U.S. Open in both tennis and golf ?
text: Did you know that the white wine grape Furmint is said to have been introduced to Hungary after the 13th-century Mongolian invasion , by immigrants recruited by King Béla IV ?
text: Did you know that Wivi Lönn was the first woman to be awarded with the honorary title Professor by the Finnish Association of Architects ?
text: Did you know that Botswana international footballer Donald Thobega was involved in the Test For Life campaign, which encourages supporters to get tested for HIV and AIDS ?
text: Did you know that the 1927 Weatherly Building in Portland, Oregon , was owned by an ice cream magnate?
text: Did you know that Swede Anna Jansson started a successful career as a crime writer in 2000 after working twenty years as a nurse?
text: Did you know that although the nudibranch slug Fiona pinnata lives in open sea worldwide, it cannot swim?
text: Did you know that artist Émile Friant was intended to be a chemist until he gained his father's permission to leave the lycée ?
text: Did you know that Parteniy Pavlovich from Silistra , an 18th-century Bulgarian cleric and writer, is regarded as the author of the first autobiography in South Slavic literature?
text: Did you know that Île Vierge , in the southwestern corner of the English Channel , has the tallest stone lighthouse in Europe?
text: Did you know that Nikolai Polikarpov was arrested and imprisoned by the OGPU in September 1929 for the crime of industrial sabotage when his Polikarpov I-6 and I-5 fighter projects both failed to meet their deadlines?
text: Did you know that in every second of normal fluent conversation , we pronounce roughly four syllables and ten or twelve phonemes ?
text: Did you know that It's a Wonderful Life actors Jimmy Stewart and William Edmunds appeared in two other movies together, The Shop Around the Corner and The Mortal Storm ?
text: Did you know that Isla Magueyes , an island 50 meters from the coast of Puerto Rico , is home to feral populations of Cuban iguanas and Rhesus monkeys which escaped from the local university ?
text: Did you know that, between 1973 and 1992, Barry Malkin edited both sequel films and both compilations of the Godfather Trilogy , but was not involved in the original 1972 film ?
text: Did you know that Antonio de León y Gama described in his 1792 book the discovery of the Aztec sun stone ?
text: Did you know that more than any other recent pop star, Madonna has used MTV and music videos to establish her popularity and to enhance her recorded work?
text: Did you know that Final Battle 2009 was the first live pay-per-view event of professional wrestling Ring of Honor 's?
text: Did you know that after playing for over twenty clubs and enjoying only mild success, former professional footballer Fred Eyre made his name as a businessman, after dinner speaker , and author?
text: Did you know that Brookbound is one of the few Second Empire - style buildings in the Claverack, New York , area?
text: Did you know that studies across 20 countries show a strong association between schizophrenia and smoking ?
text: Did you know that a marker dedicated in 2009 at Roxbury Heritage State Park in Boston was the first monument added to the Henry Knox Trail since 1927?
text: Did you know that Frith Banbury directed plays on four continents without ever having obtained an academic degree ?
text: Did you know that the 1940 New Hampshire earthquake , the strongest earthquake in state history, had an intensity of VII (very strong)?
text: Did you know that the video game Gears of War revolutionized the cover system ?
text: Did you know that buildings designed by Frederick Heath include Paradise Inn on Mount Rainier and the Pythian Temple in Tacoma, Washington , two properties listed in the U.S. National Register of Historic Places ?
text: Did you know that none of the coaches of the North Carolina Tar Heels men's basketball team has ever had a overall losing record?
text: Did you know that the Guinea hog breed of pig was kept by former US President Thomas Jefferson ?
text: Did you know that the flag on the top of the Tall Hermann tower on Toompea Hill is one of the best-known symbols in Estonia of the government in power?
text: Did you know that mathematician Herbert Busemann was awarded 2,000 Russian rubles for winning the Lobachevsky Medal in 1985, the first American to do so?
text: Did you know that the Super Saturday weekend, the last weekend before Christmas , accounted for 13.6 percent of holiday retail sales in the United States in 2006?
text: Did you know that former Australian cricket team captain Steve Waugh was sacked from the One Day International captaincy after his team failed to qualify for the 2001–02 VB Series finals?
text: Did you know that the Stephen Miller House in Claverack, New York , features Dutch Colonial elements like a gambrel roof and Dutch door on a basic Federal style house?
text: Did you know that shortly after World War II , Douglas Aircraft designed the prototype airliner DC-8 that had engines in the fuselage and propellors in the tail?
text: Did you know that after retiring from professional wrestling , Rafael Halperin helped create a credit card that would not work in Israel on Sabbath ?
text: Did you know that Stanford University biochemist Annette Salmeen was both an Olympic gold medalist and a Rhodes Scholar ?
text: Did you know that flooding of the Tishrin Dam reservoir in Syria was postponed so that three houses found at the archaeological site of Jerf el-Ahmar could be dismantled and rebuilt elsewhere?
text: Did you know that François-Marie Le Marchand de Lignery was awarded the Order of Saint Louis for his role in the French victory over British General Edward Braddock in the 1755 Battle of the Monongahela ?
text: Did you know that Bruce Springsteen joined The Gaslight Anthem onstage at Glastonbury Festival 2009 to perform the band's 2008 song " The '59 Sound "?
text: Did you know that Herbert Strutt , a High Sheriff of Derbyshire , bought the Glensanda estate where his son disappeared and was later found as a clothed skeleton?
text: Did you know that on July 20, 1964, the National Movement of the Revolution was declared the sole legal political party by law in the Republic of the Congo ?
text: Did you know that Alemayehu Bezabeh , the 2009 European Cross Country Champion , had to have X-ray tests to estimate his age?
text: Did you know that English dancer John D'Auban appeared in Robert the Devil at the opening of London 's Gaiety Theatre in 1861, and was billed as one of the theatre's "principal grotesque dancers and pantomimists "?
text: Did you know that despite being in different classes , Bradyrhizobium and Klebsiella pneumoniae have similar genes for fixing nitrogen ?
text: Did you know that during World War II , later architect Rolv Enge participated in the first ever sabotage mission of Aks 13000 ?
text: Did you know that after a winless 0–11 record in 1996, the Michigan Wolverines men's gymnastics team won the NCAA championship in 1999 and finished in the "Super Six" in 10 of the past 11 seasons?
text: Did you know that ten acts, mostly newcomers in the Greek music industry , will vie for a chance to represent Greece in the Eurovision Song Contest 2010 ?
text: Did you know that Frank Mazzei helped create the Pennsylvania Lottery before his expulsion from the Pennsylvania Senate in 1975?
text: Did you know that ORCID (Open Researcher and Contributor ID) is a proposed DOI for scientific authors that according to journal Nature could be used in "edits of Wikipedia entries"?
text: Did you know that even after Peter Sutcliffe was convicted of the " Yorkshire Ripper" murders, Assistant Chief Constable George Oldfield maintained that taunting letters and tape from Wearside Jack were connected to the case?
text: Did you know that Oilite bearings were developed by Chrysler in the 1930s?
text: Did you know that Maryam Jameelah , a New York -born convert from Judaism to Islam , became a prominent female advocate for conservative Islam?
text: Did you know that Oksbøl became the sixth largest town of Denmark because of the 37,000 inmates of the Oksbøl Refugee Camp ?
text: Did you know that Caroline Duby Glassman , who was born and raised in Oregon , was the first woman on the Maine Supreme Court ?
text: Did you know that the number-one song " Cómo Fuí a Enamorarme de Tí " was also used as the title of a movie starring Mexican band Los Bukis ?
text: Did you know that although holding a handgun sideways makes aiming very hard, it has become popular in movies and rap culture?
text: Did you know that the Michigan Wolverines softball team in 2005 became the first team from east of the Mississippi River to win the Women's College World Series ?
text: Did you know that in the run-up to the 1946 French legislative and 1947 Congolese territorial elections , Congolese Progressive Party leader Jean-Félix Tchicaya condemned the system of separate electoral colleges ?
text: Did you know that although 1989's " Second Chance " became the highest-charting U.S. song of 38 Special 's career, A&M Records did not renew the band's contract?
text: Did you know that lethal congenital contracture syndrome , characterized by fetal immobility and leading invariably to pre-natal death, may be caused by mutations in chromosome 9 ?
text: Did you know that Julia Moon , daughter-in-law of Unification Church founder Sun Myung Moon , performed Giselle with the Kirov Ballet in Leningrad ?
text: Did you know that after the restoration of independence in 1990 , the Lithuanian society debated whether to remove a monument to writer Petras Cvirka due to his pro-Soviet attitudes?
text: Did you know that during his exile on Elba , Napoleon is said to have favored the island's wines made from the grape variety Aleatico ?
text: Did you know that the Czech Christmas Mass by Jakub Jan Ryba is one of the musical symbols of Christmas in the Czech Republic ?
text: Did you know that " Christmas Scandal ", an episode of NBC 's comedy series Parks and Recreation , marked the last in a string of guest performances by stand-up comedian Louis C.K. ?
text: Did you know that the video for Paul McCartney ' s Wonderful Christmastime was filmed at the Fountain Inn in Ashurst, West Sussex ?
text: Did you know that the first Singing Christmas Tree took place in Mississippi in 1933 while the first indoor tree debuted in North Carolina in 1958?
text: Did you know that Victoria and Shane Grow Their Own followed the attempts of Victoria Mary Clarke and Shane MacGowan as they grew their own vegetables in an allotment?
text: Did you know that The Dog Who Saved Christmas won a "Yulie" on Entertainment Weekly ' s Popwatch column for "Best Use of Dean Cain "?
text: Did you know that in 2000, Indian Test cricketer Sourav Ganguly took the wicket of Lincolnshire 's 'Father' Christmas ?
text: Did you know that the 1901 film Scrooge, or, Marley's Ghost is the oldest surviving film adaptation of Charles Dickens ' 1843 novel A Christmas Carol ?
text: Did you know that at 42 meters tall, the Schlitz Christmas Candle in Schlitz , Germany , is believed to be the tallest non-wax candle in the world?
text: Did you know that the swing group Big Bad Voodoo Daddy performed music for a special Christmas episode of Phineas and Ferb ?
text: Did you know that postman Michael Gallagher predicted that Ireland would experience a white Christmas in 2009?
text: Did you know that the Roman orator Cicero once publicly criticized Julius Caesar 's father-in-law for enjoying too much Colli Piacentini wine ?
text: Did you know that the 2009 television movie A Dog Named Christmas was based on a novel by Greg Kincaid, who said his family hated the story when he originally wrote it?
text: Did you know that Christmas cookies can trace their origin to recipes from Medieval Europe ?
text: Did you know that luminarias , a Christmas Eve tradition in Santa Fe, New Mexico today, were described in colonial Mexico in the early 16th century?
text: Did you know that the 1913 film Scrooge was the first time that British actor Seymour Hicks played the role of Ebenezer Scrooge in film, the other being in 1935?
text: Did you know that Helen Bright Clark was one of the first British women to sign the Open Christmas Letter which sought to extend the hand of peace "To the Women of Germany and Austria " during World War I ?
text: Did you know that the Benji Christmas special Benji's Very Own Christmas Story was nominated for an Emmy Award in 1979?
text: Did you know that the Peace Candle of the World , a 50-foot candle-like structure in Scappoose , Oregon , is decorated with Christmas lights every holiday season ?
text: Did you know that the annual 7 Up Christmas on Ice event was launched by ice dancer Jayne Torvill in 2009?
text: Did you know that James Edgar has been credited as the first department store Santa Claus ?
text: Did you know that Uruguayan footballer Vladas Douksas ' father was a Lithuanian shopkeeper ?
text: Did you know that the tradition of the Vatican Christmas Tree at Saint Peter's Square started in 1982 during the pontificate of Pope John Paul II , at his personal request?
text: Did you know that Benjamin Britten helped to replace the Grancino double bass of Adrian Beers MBE , after it was destroyed in the Snape Maltings concert hall fire?
text: Did you know that using much of South Dakota Highway 87 costs $15 per vehicle due to state park admission fees?
text: Did you know that Dr. Ruth L. Kirschstein , appointed as the director of the National Institute of General Medical Sciences in 1974, was the first woman to direct an institute at the National Institutes of Health ?
text: Did you know that proposed sources of khutu have included narwhal , walrus , and mammoth ivory, the frontal bones of bulls, goats, and birds, the teeth of snakes, fish, and hippopotamuses , and the root of a tree?
text: Did you know that Charles W. Howard , who portrayed Santa Claus in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade for 17 years, founded the world's oldest Santa Claus School?
text: Did you know that Japanese singer and actress Junko Sakurada was part of a trio on Star Tanjō! with musicians Momoe Yamaguchi and Masako Mori?
text: Did you know that the 1999 Christmas Eve edition of Morning Ireland was a tribute to those who died in The Troubles of Northern Ireland and featured contributions from Tony Blair and Bill Clinton ?
text: Did you know that clarinetist Robert Lindemann played in the controversial American premiere of Arnold Schoenberg 's Pierrot Lunaire ?
text: Did you know that the rodent Oryzomys peninsulae had only been found alongside one Mexican river, which no longer exists?
text: Did you know that the earliest surviving aristocratic wax seal from Spain is found on a 1179 document of Castilian nobleman Pedro Manrique de Lara ?
text: Did you know that the matswaniste movement in French Equatorial Africa , l'Amicale des Originaires , developed from a self-help group into a political movement and later into a messianic religious community?
text: Did you know that in Nazi Germany, Christmas featured decorating Christmas trees with swastikas , Germanic "sun wheels" and SS -style Nordic sig runes ?
text: Did you know that worldwide the major source of morphine for medical and scientific use is not opium but poppy straw ?
text: Did you know that the Pfitzner Flyer , the first monoplane built and flown in the US, used telescopic wing-tips to avoid infringement of the Wright brothers' wing warping patents?
text: Did you know that the constitution the Convention of 1833 proposed for Mexican Texas was the first to prohibit imprisonment for debt ?
text: Did you know that most lake-dwelling grayling in the American West today can be genetically traced to Yellowstone Park 's Grebe Lake , where millions of fish eggs were harvested and distributed from 1931 to 1956?
text: Did you know that the Honduran milk snake 's color resemblance to the coral snake , known as Batesian mimicry , helps protect it from potential predators?
text: Did you know that Victorian policeman Thomas Arnold did not believe that Mary Kelly was a victim of Jack the Ripper ?
text: Did you know that, according to the pizza theorem , a circular pizza that is sliced off-center into eight equal-angled wedges can still be divided equally between two people?
text: Did you know that the main guns of the canceled Greek battleship Salamis were bought by the British to arm the Abercrombie -class monitors during World War I ?
text: Did you know that although no eruptions from the Segula Volcano have been recorded, there are lava flows on it which may only be a few hundred years old?
text: Did you know that plants of the genus Hydnophytum have bulbous stems which are honeycombed with ant tunnels?
text: Did you know that in response to rioting in Oporto over price increases for Port wine , the Marquis of Pombal had several members of the Factory House executed?
text: Did you know that the Swedish port of Gustavia was destroyed by Napoleon Bonaparte 's forces only a year after its construction had begun?
text: Did you know that the twelve One Day International centuries scored by Marcus Trescothick is the most by an English cricketer ?
text: Did you know that the broadside of the 14-gun brig HMS Speedy was so slight, Commander Lord Thomas Cochrane was able to put it all in his pockets?
text: Did you know that wine historians have speculated that the Italian grape Greco may have been used to make the Roman " cult wine " Falernian ?
text: Did you know that Lê Văn Hưu was the first Vietnamese historian who praised the revolt of the Trưng Sisters against the Han Dynasty ?
text: Did you know that the population of the village of Dode was wiped out by the Black Death during the 14th century ?
text: Did you know that the Chestnut Sparrow , which usurps nests from weavers , may be evolving into a brood parasite ?
text: Did you know that former New Jersey State Senator Harry L. Sears secretly delivered a briefcase containing $200,000 from financier Robert Vesco to the 1972 campaign of Richard Nixon ?
text: Did you know that the Heroninos Archive contains examples of a complex and standardized system of accounting used in 3rd century Roman Egypt ?
text: Did you know that, prior to entering professional wrestling , Derick Neikirk was drafted by Major League Baseball 's Detroit Tigers ?
text: Did you know that the January 1985 Arctic outbreak delayed the inauguration of President Ronald Reagan by an entire day and led to the ceremony being held indoors?
text: Did you know that the town of Yubileyny in Moscow Oblast , Russia , annexed a small strip of land to avoid being completely surrounded by the city of Korolyov ?
text: Did you know that the larvae of the Silky Hairstreak secrete substances that attract ants ?
text: Did you know that the Quartermaster General of the Luftwaffe , Hans-Georg von Seidel , said after World War II that " Hitler understood nothing about flying and cared less"?
text: Did you know that after removal of a dam that blocked their migration for nearly a century, salmon and steelhead returned in 2009 to the Little Sandy River in Oregon ?
text: Did you know that femoral pores are a part of a secretory gland found on the thighs of certain lizards which release pheromones to attract mates or mark territory?
text: Did you know that after exhausting his shot fighting a privateer for two days, Commander Hugh Downman of HMS Speedy was reduced to firing nails at his opponent?
text: Did you know that Głos magazine was closed during the revolution in the Kingdom of Poland ?
text: Did you know that classical guitarist and composer Fernando Sor 's most popular work, Introduction and Variations on a Theme by Mozart , was written in 1821 and dedicated to his brother Carlos?
text: Did you know that the Fred and Esther Dundee House in Oregon was built for race car driver Fred Dundee?
text: Did you know that in capturing the Spanish frigate Santa Dorotea Captain Manley Dixon had two men wounded on his ship , compared to 20 killed and 32 wounded on the Santa Dorotea ?
text: Did you know that Amaldus Nielsen has been called Norway 's first naturalist painter?
text: Did you know that in a manner unusual for snakes , the female Natal rock python guards its hatchlings for up to two weeks after they emerge from their eggs to protect them from predators?
text: Did you know that at least seven members of the Scottish Argentine Brown family have played international football for Argentina ?
text: Did you know that Lizzy Clark , in the 2008 BBC film Dustbin Baby , is the first actor with Asperger syndrome to portray a character having it?
text: Did you know that Valle Crucis Abbey , built by Madog ap Gruffydd Maelor in 1201, is home to the only remaining monastic fishpond in Wales ?
text: Did you know that football player Al Pollard quit the United States Military Academy because he was connected to a cribbing scandal?
text: Did you know that the Chancellor of the Kingdom of Cyprus gave a piece of the true cross to the Scuola Grande di San Giovanni Evangelista in Venice ?
text: Did you know that the moisture-adapted asteracean plant Argyroxiphium grayanum represents one extreme in the adaptive radiation of its genus , which also includes drought-adapted mountain plants?
text: Did you know that Move Like Michael Jackson , a BBC Three talent show which aims to find people who can dance like the late entertainer , is judged by Jackson's elder brother, Jermaine ?
text: Did you know that after the Swedes twice failed to take Bremen , they founded a new town nearby ?
text: Did you know that after a short career in films, Elaine Shepard was a journalist in Vietnam ?
text: Did you know that the practice of breeding show dogs has produced popular sire effects that reduce genetic diversity and can exacerbate the spread of inherited diseases?
text: Did you know that when Champoux Vineyard was first planted in Washington State , the aim was to produce grapes that rivaled the First Growth Bordeaux estate Chateau Lafite ?
text: Did you know that sales of Interpol 's records have numbered more than two million worldwide?
text: Did you know that the three remaining Shakers live at and maintain Sabbathday Lake Shaker Village , a National Historic Landmark in Maine ?
text: Did you know that in Strategic Command , a series of turn-based strategy video games taking place during World War II , the player may persuade neutral states to join the conflict using diplomatic pressure?
text: Did you know that Patrick Murphy tried to help rebels in Naco , Mexico , by dropping homemade suitcase bombs from his airplane?
text: Did you know that in a career lasting four decades, British actor William Lugg appeared in Princess Ida by Gilbert and Sullivan in 1884 and the film Scrooge in 1913?
text: Did you know that the naturally rocky knoll Dùn Foulag , on the isle of Coll within the Scottish Hebrides , was once mistakenly thought to have been the ruined remains of a fortress ?
text: Did you know that in May 2009, pentachlorobenzene was added to the list of chemical compounds covered by the Stockholm Convention , an international treaty which restricts the production and use of persistent organic pollutants ?
text: Did you know that Scottish-born engineer Alexander Arthur spent millions of dollars in unsuccessful logging , mining , and resort enterprises in southern Appalachia in the late 19th century?
text: Did you know that Skorpa prisoner of war camp was the main Norwegian POW camp in Northern Norway during the 1940 Norwegian Campaign , holding some 500 German military and civilian prisoners?
text: Did you know that the white French wine grape Baroque was nearly extinct before restaurateur Michel Guérard revived the variety at his estate?
text: Did you know that Bush vs. Kerry Boxing features Ralph Nader as a ring girl and Hillary Clinton as a referee ?
text: Did you know that the clique problem of programming a computer to find complete subgraphs in an undirected graph was first studied as a way to find groups of people who all know each other in social networks ?
text: Did you know that the intermittent Lake Palčje in the Inner Carniola region of Slovenia is filled with water only three months each year?
text: Did you know that The Old Wives' Tale , an English Renaissance play by George Peele , was the first English work satirizing the romantic dramas popular at the time?
text: Did you know that Hjalmar Steenstrup was selected to represent the Norwegian concentration camp prisoners during the Nuremberg Trials ?
text: Did you know that Acabou Chorare , a 1972 album by Novos Baianos , was ranked number 1 by Rolling Stone magazine in 2007 on its list of the 100 greatest albums of Brazilian music ?
text: Did you know that unlike most other forms of bacon , Zeeuws spek (" Zeeland bacon") from the Netherlands is sold pre-cooked?
text: Did you know that Sir Frederick Stovin was removed from command of the 92nd Gordon Highlanders in 1821, after scandalising the regiment by demanding they wear trousers?
text: Did you know that the 1510 conquest of Goa by the Portuguese Governor Albuquerque was accomplished with the help of the Hindus against a Muslim army?
text: Did you know that Team Oregon has been ranked in 2004 as the best motorcycle training program in the United States?
text: Did you know that in 1989 the song " La Chica de Humo " became the third number-one single by Mexican singer Emmanuel in the Billboard Top Latin Songs chart ?
text: Did you know that Drew Sheneman was only 23 when he was hired by The Star-Ledger in 1998, making him the youngest full-time editorial cartoonist in the United States ?
text: Did you know that the George Felpel House in Claverack, New York , was built with the stones left over after Claverack College was demolished?
text: Did you know that the worm lizard Amphisbaena ridleyi , isolated on remote Fernando de Noronha , is known for eating snails and for climbing trees to drink nectar from the flowers?
text: Did you know that Katherine Reutter , a speed skater on the 2010 U.S. Olympic team, had her thigh autographed by comedian Stephen Colbert ?
text: Did you know that one version of the 8th-century Irish text The Expulsion of the Déisi contains a passage claiming the Irish group known as the Déisi founded the royal dynasty of Dyfed , Wales ?
text: Did you know that owners of The Punch Bowl , a London pub , have included entertainer Madonna , film director Guy Ritchie and convicted criminal and Kray twins associate Freddie Foreman ?
text: Did you know that in 2006, the Alabama Department of Environmental Management hired an environmental justice ombudsman ?
text: Did you know that Christina Broom was credited as "the UK 's first female press photographer "?
text: Did you know that the Still engine was a combined steam and diesel engine designed to save fuel by using the exhaust gases to heat the boiler ?
text: Did you know that Cheryl Cole performed her song " Fight for This Love " whilst dressed as a ninja for the television special Cheryl Cole's Night In ?
text: Did you know that the nudibranch Murphydoris has a penis armed with spines?
text: Did you know that the 6 foot, 6 inch Swede Roland Nilsson of the Michigan Wolverines won six consecutive Big Ten shot put championships in the 1950s?
text: Did you know that in seeking to overcome the low in Congo – Zaire relations in the early 1970s due to the LICOPA affair , Congolese authorities sentenced a Zairean opposition member to three years' imprisonment?
text: Did you know that the Boston Brigade Band was in existence for over 40 years, from 1821 to 1862?
text: Did you know that Brazilian judoka and 1988 Olympic Champion Aurélio Miguel was later elected to the city council of São Paulo ?
text: Did you know that as "the first novel with a thesis ", Patronage by Anglo-Irish writer Maria Edgeworth , published in 1814, opened the way for the historical novels of Sir Walter Scott ?
text: Did you know that the planned Shepherds Flat Wind Farm in Oregon is expected to be the world's biggest wind farm on land when completed?
text: Did you know that World War II German fighter ace Max-Hellmuth Ostermann was so short that he had to fly with wooden blocks attached to his rudder pedals?
text: Did you know that Count Marsillac and Otto Ferdinand von Abensberg und Traun , opposing commanders in the 1734 siege of Capua , once shared a tent?
text: Did you know that plant species of the family Rubiaceae have supplied coffee , quinine , syrup of ipecac , dimethyltryptamine , and indirectly, warfarin ?
text: Did you know that in 1892, the Governor of Lagos , Gilbert Thomas Carter , ordered an attack on the Ijebu people of pre-colonial Nigeria "in the interest of civilization"?
text: Did you know that in Cambodia a person can catch the norry , an improvised bamboo train?
text: Did you know that in 1975, Iraq threatened to bomb the Tabqa Dam when Syria reduced the water flow of the Euphrates to fill the lake behind the dam?
text: Did you know that the death of a character in the Dexter episode " The British Invasion " was planned from two seasons beforehand?
text: Did you know that Xikuangshan mine was originally explored for tin but now is the largest antimony mine in the world?
text: Did you know that Sir James Shaw established the right of the Lord Mayor of London to take precedence in processions in The City of London over all except the reigning monarch?
text: Did you know that the nudibranch Onchidoris bilamellata can be found at a population density of more than 1,000 sea slugs per square metre?
text: Did you know that Odd Isøy replaced the deceased Kjell Bull-Hansen as team leader in Milorg 's sabotage squad Aks 13000 during World War II in Norway ?
text: Did you know that according to legend, the Bulgarian wine grape Dimiat was brought to Thrace by Crusaders returning from the Nile Delta ?
text: Did you know that Michigan Wolverines Hall of Famer Phil Northrup won three NCAA championships in the javelin throw and pole vault ?
text: Did you know that Go! Go! Beckham! Adventure on Soccer Island follows David Beckham on his quest to defeat the evil Mister Woe in order to restore peace to Soccer Island?
text: Did you know that the debate over the Irish budget, 2010 , which contains the first cuts in social welfare since 1924, revealed that the word " fuck " is not unparliamentary language in Ireland ?
text: Did you know that Boston 's Southwest Corridor Park was built along the vacant path of a canceled highway ?
text: Did you know that Ole Colbjørnsen has been called " Norway 's first plan economist "?
text: Did you know that the cap of the suede bolete , a species of edible mushroom , has soft velvety skin?
text: Did you know that Robert Hood Bowers ' score for the lost silent film A Daughter of the Gods was called in 1921 the most memorable up to that time?
text: Did you know that since its launch in January 2008, DogsBlog.com has helped to rehome more than six thousand dogs in the United Kingdom?
text: Did you know that due to receding glaciers , in 1951, the Alaska Railroad was able to move its route and abandon a curved tunnel built in 1906?
text: Did you know that the 1955 Bo Diddley song " Diddley Daddy " was originally called "Diddy Diddy Dum Dum," but the lyrics had to be rewritten in the studio for contractual reasons?
text: Did you know that athletes from Michigan Wolverines men's track and field have won 43 NCAA individual event championships, 14 Olympic gold medals, and 57 Big 10 team championships?
text: Did you know that the adobe chapel built by Tomas Alvarado on the eastern third of Rancho Monserate in California is the only 1870s structure still standing?
text: Did you know that the mushroom Cystodermella cinnabarina can only be distinguished from similar fungi by performing chemical tests and microscopic analysis of spores , basidia and cystidia ?
text: Did you know that Berg River Dam is the first dam in South Africa where provision is made for flood releases for environmental purposes?
text: Did you know that producers of the Showtime series Dexter imposed security measures and staff members had to sign non-disclosure agreements to prevent leaks of the surprise twist ending of the episode " The Getaway "?
text: Did you know that the Carden-Baynes Auxiliary sailplane was the first motor glider with a retractable engine, and that it had a throttle in its wing tip?
text: Did you know that chef Bobby Flay highlighted a recipe for dessert using bacon from The Bacon Cookbook as one of his favorites?
text: Did you know that professional footballer Andy Bell spent nearly a decade with hometown club Blackburn Rovers , without making a single first-team appearance?
text: Did you know that the first season of the animated sitcom Home Movies was the only season of the series to utilize the " squigglevision " style of animation?
text: Did you know that Czech landscape photographer Vilém Heckel died during the Great Peruvian Earthquake in 1970?
text: Did you know that, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency , Grassy Island in the Detroit River contains 28 different types of toxic contaminants that exceed acceptable state and federal safety levels?
text: Did you know that chaplain Władysław Gurgacz , member of the Polish anti-communist resistance , opposed lethal force, but was nonetheless executed by the Polish communist authorities?
text: Did you know that the Beirut -born, American blues guitarist Otis Grand was voted 'Best UK Blues Guitarist' seven years running (1990–1996) by the British Blues Connection magazine?
text: Did you know that during internal fertilization , the black rockfish female produces between 125,000 and 1,200,000 eggs, and then reabsorbs some back?
text: Did you know that there is a mountain named after executed merchant mariner Captain Charles Fryatt , and another is named after his ship, SS Brussels ?
text: Did you know that the salt industry sector of Ghana aims to compete with Brazil and Australia in supplying salt to western Africa?
text: Did you know that the name of the ruinous dun Dùn Beic may derive from the Gaelic personal name Béc?
text: Did you know that the English ambassador to Paris , Edward Stafford , is suspected to have given confidential information to Spain before the Spanish Armada in 1588?
text: Did you know that the leader of the governing Free National Movement lost his seat in the 2002 Bahamian general election ?
text: Did you know that Nathan Drake , protagonist of the Uncharted series, incorporates aspects from Johnny Knoxville and characters like Tintin and John McClane ?
text: Did you know that Moussa Dadis Camara and Sékouba Konaté drew lots to determine who would be President of Guinea ?
text: Did you know that, referring to Pope Damasus I 's luxurious lifestyle, the Roman Pagan senator Vettius Agorius Praetextatus once said "Make me bishop of Rome and I will become a Christian"?
text: Did you know that Harry V. Gates ' former ranch became the Crooked River Ranch in Eastern Oregon and his former house in Hillsboro, Oregon , is listed on the National Register of Historic Places ?
text: Did you know that the C. R. formula was a proposal that had failed during the Gandhi – Jinnah talks in 1944?
text: Did you know that the Memorial Arch of Tilton , symbolizing the "victories of peace", is constructed in Northfield, New Hampshire on the site of an old Indian fort?
text: Did you know that the Cornelius S. Muller House in Claverack, New York , was used for Committee of Safety meetings and courts martial during the American Revolutionary War ?
text: Did you know that Michigan 's Don McEwen , two-time NCAA champion in the two-mile run, also won consecutive Big Ten cross country championships even though his school had no varsity cross country team?
text: Did you know that for more than thirty years, John Torreano has created "real fake art" by using fake gemstones in his one of a kind art works?
text: Did you know that Charlotte von Lengefeld , wife of Friedrich Schiller , wrote a posthumously published novel and corresponded with Charlotte von Stein and Goethe ?
text: Did you know that the Norwegian black metal band Burzum is to release its first album after its founder was freed from prison on parole ?
text: Did you know that the Harriet Phillips Bungalow in Claverack, New York , may be a catalog house built by a company other than Sears ?
text: Did you know that former Louisiana State Senator Art Lentini in 2004 led the move in his state to ban cloning , both for reproduction and research?
text: Did you know that production of the Triumph Tiger 80 British motorcycle ended with the outbreak of WW2 and never resumed after the Triumph works was destroyed in The Blitz ?
text: Did you know that Stanford 's Flint Hanner , winner of the first NCAA javelin championship , later coached the Fresno State Bulldogs to 27 track and field championships?
text: Did you know that forests can migrate over the landscape?
text: Did you know that despite the Allied siege , La Rochelle was the last French city to be liberated from German occupation in 1945?
text: Did you know that the Queen of Elphame , the fairy from Scottish folklore , has appeared in a number of accounts from witchcraft trials and confessions, including the confession of Isobel Gowdie ?
text: Did you know that in 1999, Haakon Bingen won a case in the Supreme Court of Norway , stopping circulation of an academic work written by Trond Bergh and Knut Einar Eriksen ?
text: Did you know that the ambush of a Turkish patrol in Reşadiye was the deadliest PKK attack since April 2009?
text: Did you know that the Connaught Theatre in Worthing , UK, is a rare example of a cinema being converted into a theatre in the 1930s, when the reverse was common?
text: Did you know that the premiere of Million Dollar Challenge on Fox Broadcasting Company was the most watched poker television show of all time?
text: Did you know that Breachacha crannog was originally an artificial island located in the middle of a Scottish loch , but today it stands in the middle of an arable field ?
text: Did you know that paper money was first introduced into Vietnam during the reign of the Trần Dynasty ?
text: Did you know that Eurogamer 's Tom Bramwell felt that Boxing Fever carried on the Punch Out!! legacy on the Game Boy Advance ?
text: Did you know that the landmark libel case People v. Croswell was tried at the First Columbia County Courthouse in Claverack, New York ?
text: Did you know that William Ganz co-invented the pulmonary artery catheter with Jeremy Swan in 1970?
text: Did you know that the New Japan Pro Wrestling -owned IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship was defended twice in the Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) promotion , while it was held by TNA wrestlers?
text: Did you know that the Joseph T. Smitherman Historic Building in Selma, Alabama , has housed a county courthouse, two schools, and three hospitals in its more than 160 year history?
text: Did you know that Calgary Flames forward Eric Nystrom once performed an on-ice striptease while in the minor leagues as a charity stunt?
text: Did you know that Sven-Ivar Seldinger , a Swedish radiologist , first introduced the procedure of obtaining safe access to blood vessels and other hollow organs by use of a wire?
text: Did you know that Colin Clouts Come Home Againe by the English poet Edmund Spenser has received little critical attention, yet has been called the "greatest pastoral eclogue " in the English language?
text: Did you know that Yosemite Valley big wall climber Chuck Pratt was "almost obsessive" about avoiding photos and publicity?
text: Did you know that since finishing in the top ten on the third season of America's Got Talent , Kaitlyn Maher has continued to sing publicly and played the voice of Tiny in the film Santa Buddies ?
text: Did you know that a number of Test match cricketers have represented Nelson Cricket Club , including Learie Constantine , Kapil Dev and Steve Waugh ?
text: Did you know that the Renaissance artist Paolo Veronese is entombed in the church of San Sebastiano in Venice ?
text: Did you know that while doing "absolutely nothing" as a history professor at Cambridge , Shallet Turner was elected to the Royal Society for the Improvement of Natural Knowledge ?
text: Did you know that opponents of Hans Feibusch ' s "violently masculine and brutal" Christ in Majesty mural at St Mary's Church, Goring-by-Sea took their case to a consistory court ?
text: Did you know that Bradley Quinn , the official photographer for the Northern Irish band Snow Patrol , was a school classmate of lead singer Gary Lightbody ?
text: Did you know that the Spencer family 's Wormleighton Manor in Warwickshire, England , was set ablaze by Royalist forces from Banbury during the English Civil War to prevent it becoming a parliamentary stronghold?
text: Did you know that Mark-Anthony Turnage composed Twice Through the Heart after being given a video of a programme about a woman who killed her husband?
text: Did you know that the Lake Shore Limited , which began in 1897, was the New York Central Railroad 's first regular luxury passenger train ?
text: Did you know that Montana Governor Brian Schweitzer had a small role as Sheriff Strunk in the 2007 film A Plumm Summer ?
text: Did you know that the soapy knight is actually a mushroom , so named because of its strong smell of soap ?
text: Did you know that the Ravensthorpe Nickel Mine , which cost US$2.2 billion to build, was sold by BHP Billiton for only $340 million in December 2009 after having operated for less than one year?
text: Did you know that Afognak Island State Park was established as a conservation area in 1892, but did not become an Alaska state park until 1994, as a result of the Exxon Valdez oil spill ?
text: Did you know that when Darryl Strawberry , a first-round draft pick of the New York Mets , left the Mets they received two first-round picks in compensation?
text: Did you know that Airlines of New South Wales was created after airline entrepreneur Reg Ansett flew nine planeloads of shareholders to a meeting to help take over rival Butler Air Transport?
text: Did you know that all apicomplexans are parasitic , creating a need for multiple radically different cellular morphologies ?
text: Did you know that Evonne Goolagong (Cawley) has made more Australian Open Final appearances than any other player?
text: Did you know that although their larvae have been known since 1887, the adults of the crustacean group Facetotecta have never been seen?
text: Did you know that nearly 20 percent of the territory of Andalusia lies in environmentally protected areas?
text: Did you know that Eduardo Ricagni scored his only hat-trick and won his only trophy with Boca Juniors on his debut?
text: Did you know that British lithographic firm Vincent Brooks, Day & Son reproduced the weekly caricatures published in Vanity Fair magazine between 1869 and 1906?
text: Did you know that the radical Congolese Youth Union , which took part in the overthrow of the Congolese President Fulbert Youlou in 1963, began as an offshoot of the youth wing of the French Communist Party ?
text: Did you know that the rodents Thomasomys ucucha from Ecuador and Oxymycterus hucucha from Bolivia were both named after the local Quechua word for "mouse"?
text: Did you know that Jamaican -born poet , playwright and screenwriter Evan Jones wrote the 1963 BBC television play Madhouse on Castle Street in which Bob Dylan made his acting début?
text: Did you know that Worthing Tabernacle , in West Sussex , reputedly obtained its first organ from Tudor fortress Walmer Castle ?
text: Did you know that British surgeon Theodore Dyke Acland was the son-in-law of Jack the Ripper suspect Sir William Gull ?
text: Did you know that male Coastal Petaltails have unique, bright orange anal appendages called 'petaltails' that are believed to be used to attract a mate?
text: Did you know that the Texas mental health activist Helen J. Farabee was the first female student body president at a Big Ten university?
text: Did you know that during the Six-Day War , the Golani Brigade participated in the battle of Tel Faher, where it lost 23 of its soldiers?
text: Did you know that in North Korea , the question "How good was the taste of sungeoguk (trout soup)" is used as a common greeting to people returning from Pyongyang ?
text: Did you know that the most expensive dress owned by Maria Augusta, Duchess of Württemberg was worth 500 florins , more than 30 times a servant's annual income?
text: Did you know that the entire collection of the Frissell Museum in San Pablo Villa de Mitla has disappeared?
text: Did you know that Dick Padden led the Chicago White Sox to an American League championship as a player-manager in 1900, one season before the American League became a major league ?
text: Did you know that the Harold Hall Australian Expeditions formed the last systematic collecting effort of Australian birds by an overseas institution?
text: Did you know that George Martin Lees became Chief Geologist of the Anglo-Persian Oil Company despite having no formal qualifications?
text: Did you know that E. (Mrs.) v. Eve was a landmark case of the Supreme Court of Canada which rejected non-therapeutic sterilization of people with mental disabilities?
text: Did you know that Food Network: Cook or Be Cooked is the first video game to use the Food Network license?
text: Did you know that four Byzantine emperors were imprisoned in the Prison of Anemas ?
text: Did you know that in 1814, the American privateer Syren captured HMS Landrail , and that in 1896, her namesake, the torpedo gunboat HMS Landrail , rammed and sank the four-masted clipper Siren ?
text: Did you know that after a wine fraud scandal involving adulterating Port wine with elderberry juice, Portuguese wine authorities ordered all elderberry plants in the Douro to be ripped out?
text: Did you know that Virginia House in Richmond, Virginia , was once a priory in Warwickshire , England , and was used to entertain Queen Elizabeth I ?
text: Did you know that the book Bacon: A Love Story includes jokes about bacon by comedian Jim Gaffigan ?
text: Did you know that the December 2003 New England snowstorm was among the most significant early season nor'easters on record?
text: Did you know that the 2009 Norwegian spiral anomaly was later confirmed to be a failed launch of a Bulava missile from a Russian submarine?
text: Did you know that before the capture of Chusan (1840) during the First Opium War , the Chinese rejected British demands for a peaceful surrender of the island?
text: Did you know that Barker Crossing , a Mabey bridge in Workington, England , was named after Bill Barker following a campaign by local teenagers on YouTube ?
text: Did you know that in 2006 Devon County Council first raised the flag of Devon , which was designed by a member of the public in 2002 via an online poll on BBC Devon ?
text: Did you know that excavations in 1887 and 1919 on Bussell Island uncovered a number of small, round graves of early inhabitants of present-day Tennessee , USA , circa 3000 BC to 1000 AD?
text: Did you know that Major-General Tim Cross was one of the most senior British military officers involved in the reconstruction of Iraq after the 2003 invasion ?
text: Did you know that merrilactone A , a natural compound found in the fruits of some star anise trees indigenous to Myanmar and China , is neuroprotective and promotes the growth of neurons ?
text: Did you know that during his lifetime, British chemist Colin Eaborn co-authored over 500 papers?
text: Did you know that although the fruits of the nightshade Solanum erianthum are considered poisonous and can be used in arrow poison , they can be cooked and eaten and are even made into curry in southern India ?
text: Did you know that Rodriguez Seamount , an underwater volcano near Central California , used to be above-surface, and still has remnants of black sand beaches on its slope?
text: Did you know that Cecil Bothwell 's election to the Asheville, North Carolina , city council was challenged on the grounds that the North Carolina Constitution does not allow for atheists to hold public office?
text: Did you know that Bald Eagle Creek Path along Bald Eagle Creek in central Pennsylvania was a major connecting path between the Iroquois in the north and the Carolinas in the south?
text: Did you know that American athlete Eric Wilson won the 220-yard dash at the first NCAA track and field championships in 1921 ?
text: Did you know that before the first season of the NBC series Parks and Recreation even aired, critics thought it would fail due to early reports of poor test screenings?
text: Did you know that the 1978 book The Green Cockatrice asserted that Irishman William Nugent was the real author of Shakespeare 's works?
text: Did you know that Helena, comtesse de Noailles wrapped silk stockings stuffed with squirrel fur around her forehead to prevent wrinkles ?
text: Did you know that "experienced Euro watcher" Tony Connelly wrote Don't Mention the Wars: A Journey Through European Stereotypes , examining the stereotypical views of Europeans ?
text: Did you know that Argentine President Juan Perón took refuge in the Libertador Building in Buenos Aires before he was deposed and exiled in a coup d'état in 1955 ?
text: Did you know that Norwegian Minister of Finance Olav Meisdalshagen was criticized by his predecessor Erik Brofoss for "lack of economical insight"?
text: Did you know that in Europe , the human consumption of pork , wild boar , and horse meat are the main sources of infection from the parasite Trichinella britovi ?
text: Did you know that the Gwent Wildlife Trust in Wales was originally formed to protect Magor Marsh, the last remaining major area of fenland on the Gwent Levels ?
text: Did you know that the Social Credit Board in Alberta , Canada, was disbanded in 1948 because of its radical policy proposals and antisemitic conspiracy theories ?
text: Did you know that Leonard Paulu won consecutive NCAA championships in the 100 yard dash despite war injuries that included the loss of an eye and a right-leg stride four inches shorter than his left?
text: Did you know that Dzongsar Monastery , in the historical Tibetan region of Kham , was founded in 746 AD and contained a Bönpo shrine for 1,300 years?
text: Did you know that six children of the British portraitist and marine painter Samuel Drummond also became artists?
text: Did you know that the book Nudge , written by Cass Sunstein and Richard Thaler , defends the political philosophy of libertarian paternalism ?
text: Did you know that Mitsuyo Seo , the director of Japan 's first feature length anime , Momotaro's Divine Sea Warriors , a World War II propaganda film , was earlier arrested and tortured as a leftist ?
text: Did you know that in her teen years, actress Lillebil Ibsen played leading roles in Max Reinhardt 's pantomime productions?
text: Did you know that plexopathy , a disorder usually caused by trauma , can also occur idiopathically ?
text: Did you know that a Glasgow -born railway engineer, John Harley , was responsible for revolutionizing the way Uruguay played football ?
text: Did you know that Hillsboro, Oregon , politician William H. Wehrung worked on both the Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition and the Alaska–Yukon–Pacific Exposition ?
text: Did you know that radio station CKLW played " Wildflower " for three months before it was released as a single, in order for the station to meet Canadian content requirements?
text: Did you know that although the Benjamin Ten Broeck House north of Kingston, New York , was built by Dutch settlers , the layout of one of its additions suggests its residents were Palatine Germans ?
text: Did you know that Jacques Legrand , a former translator at the French embassies in Mongolia and China, has studied the anthropology of Mongolian pastoralism ?
text: Did you know that the Rugrats episode " A Rugrats Chanukah " was pitched to the series crew by Nickelodeon in 1992?
text: Did you know that Furnace Brook Parkway , a historic road in Quincy, Massachusetts , is named for a stream at the site of the first iron blast furnace in the United States, built in 1644?
text: Did you know that former National Football League wide receiver Tai Streets was named after former female figure skater Tai Babilonia ?
text: Did you know that the capture of Malacca in 1511 was accomplished by Afonso de Albuquerque with 1,200 men and less than 20 ships?
text: Did you know that cricketer George Nichols was a key member of the Somerset team that was unbeaten against other counties of England and Wales in 1890 ?
text: Did you know that ESPN sports commentator and physical therapist Stephania Bell has analyzed injuries of Tiger Woods and Alex Rodriguez ?
text: Did you know that Luiz Francisco Rebello was a founder of two of the most important experimental theatrical groups in Portugal in the postwar period?
text: Did you know that the Boston Park Board was given permission to review building designs for new structures along the Fenway to prevent unattractive buildings from depreciating property values?
text: Did you know that Norwegian Minister of Finance Olav Meisdalshagen was criticized by his predecessor Erik Brofoss for "lack of economical insight"?
text: Did you know that between 2001 and 2007 the German Foundation "Remembrance, Responsibility and Future" paid € 4.4 billion to more than 1,660,000 victims of forced labor in Germany during World War II ?
text: Did you know that the world's most expensive ice cream treat, the Golden Opulence Sundae , is covered in gold ?
text: Did you know that Smugglers Notch near Smugglers' Notch State Park in Vermont was used by smugglers circumventing the Embargo Act of 1807 , the Underground Railroad , and bootleggers ?
text: Did you know that K. A. Mathiazhagan supported M. G. Ramachandran when he was expelled from Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam party in 1972?
text: Did you know that even though the first specimens of the Bolivian rodent Oecomys sydandersoni were collected in the 1960s, it was not formally described as a distinct species until 2009?
text: Did you know that the Autism Act 2009 is the first ever disability-specific legislation to be passed in the United Kingdom ?
text: Did you know that Jason Little was nominated for a Harvey Award and an Ignatz Award for his creation of the comic book Jack's Luck Runs Out ?
text: Did you know that Medal of Honor recipient John F. Auer 's medal was stolen before he left the United States Navy ?
text: Did you know that the Poison song " Unskinny Bop " was featured during a strip club scene in " Tom's Divorce ", an episode of the NBC comedy series Parks and Recreation ?
text: Did you know that when the Canadian government attempted to move the land titles office out of Edmonton 's Land Titles Building to a rival town, an angry mob sabotaged the move and had an armed standoff with police?
text: Did you know that the Russell Watson song " Nothing Sacred – A Song for Kirsty " was released to raise money for the Kirsty Appeal ?
text: Did you know that Jody Trautwein , who attempted to convert Sasha Baron Cohen 's character Brüno from his gay lifestyle, recently ran for mayor of Birmingham, Alabama ?
text: Did you know that the 2009 Western Australian daylight savings referendum was the fourth time that Western Australia voted against introducing daylight saving time ?
text: Did you know that psychiatrist Marie Nyswander , who developed the methadone treatment for heroin addicts , was herself addicted to cigarettes ?
text: Did you know that the Indian God Rock was a popular tourist attraction for 19th-century steamboats on the Allegheny River ?
text: Did you know that the Texas politician Ray Farabee entitled his 2009 autobiography Making It Through the Night and Beyond because he unexpectedly survived his premature birth?
text: Did you know that nearly 15 years after playing in the 1966 Cotton Bowl , Louisiana State University Tigers quarterback Pat Screen was elected Mayor of Baton Rouge ?
text: Did you know that the RQ-170 Sentinel unmanned aerial vehicle was dubbed the "Beast of Kandahar" by an aviation expert before its existence was officially confirmed by the United States Air Force ?
text: Did you know that Arthur Lee Dixon was the last holder of a mathematical Chair at Oxford University to have a life tenure?
text: Did you know that the Forecastle Festival in Louisville, Kentucky , was named one of Outdoor Magazine's "Top 15 Outdoor Summer Music Festivals"?
text: Did you know that fashion illustrator Antonio Lopez discovered Jessica Lange , Grace Jones , and Jerry Hall ?
text: Did you know that the coastal tanker Empire Boy was lengthened in 1954 and that her triple expansion steam engine was replaced by a diesel engine in 1965?
text: Did you know that the author of Everything Tastes Better with Bacon decided to write the book after having an epiphany involving bacon and sugar ?
text: Did you know that in 1948, Arne Skaug became the first State Secretary in the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs ?
text: Did you know that the Type numbering system in Japan specified that the Mitsubishi A6M of 1940 would be designated "Type 0 Carrier Fighter", giving rise to the popular name "Zero"?
text: Did you know that part of the Occupiers' Liability Act 1984 , a piece of United Kingdom legislation on tort law , is intended to permit educational and recreational use of land?
text: Did you know that the Algerian communist trade union centre UGSA disbanded itself in 1957, after the rival nationalist UGTA had participated in the Leipzig congress of the World Federation of Trade Unions ?
text: Did you know that in 1893, the career of Irish nationalist politician John Deasy was cut short when he was tried for indecent assault ?
text: Did you know that the 1984 romantic TV miniseries based on the novel The Far Pavilions was filmed in the precincts of Samode Palace in Rajasthan , India?
text: Did you know that South Africa rugby captain Paul Roos helped choose the team nickname, "Springboks", to prevent the British press from inventing their own?
text: Did you know that, in 1965, Eastern Air Lines Flight 663 crashed into the Atlantic Ocean while attempting to avoid a collision with an oncoming Pan American Airways Boeing 707 ?
text: Did you know that Penn State 's John Romig , the first NCAA champion in the two-mile run, later became an explosives expert?
text: Did you know that the Swedish film Hoppa högst was written by famous author Astrid Lindgren , who based the screenplay on a story from her book Kajsa Kavat ?
text: Did you know that in his clemency application to Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee , Maurice Clemmons claimed to have learned "to appreciate and respect the right of others"?
text: Did you know that the Pygmy Pine , a tiny creeping alpine plant growing in New Zealand, is believed to be the smallest conifer in the world?
text: Did you know that Colombian billionaire entrepreneur Carlos Ardila Lülle has expanded from his start in the soft drink business with television channels and a soccer team?
text: Did you know that in the siege of Cannanore (1507) in India , a Portuguese garrison of 150 resisted for four months against 60,000 attackers?
text: Did you know that the powerful Early Classic Mesoamerican city of Balberta , in Guatemala , abruptly collapsed around AD 400?
text: Did you know that the 1957 film Edge of the City , starring John Cassavetes and Sidney Poitier , won acclaim from critics and civil rights groups for its portrayal of an interracial friendship?
text: Did you know that although he ceded the throne to his son in 1279, Trần Thánh Tông continued to co-rule Đại Việt for 11 years until his death in 1290?
text: Did you know that, despite being a genital ulcer , Lipschütz ulcer is not an STD , and is in fact most common in virgins ?
text: Did you know that Bob Ferguson played for and managed the Hartford Dark Blues Major League Baseball team from 1875 to 1877, the final three years of its four-year existence?
text: Did you know that nine new permanent competition venues will be constructed for the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro , Brazil ?
text: Did you know that the district auditor investigating the rate-capping rebellion in Lambeth found his picture on a mock Wanted poster in his local supermarket?
text: Did you know that ornithologist James David Macdonald was employed in the bird section of the British Natural History Museum despite claiming complete ignorance about birds?
text: Did you know that both the Irish Pine and Irish Oak , which were chartered from the United States by Irish Shipping Ltd during the Second World War , were sunk by German U-boats despite their neutral status ?
text: Did you know that since the death of Kamehameha I in 1819, Hawaiian Chief Hoʻolulu and his descendants have served as caretakers of the royal tombs of the Kingdom of Hawaii ?
text: Did you know that while passing through the Parliament of the United Kingdom , the Defective Premises Act 1972 was not at all debated in the House of Commons ?
text: Did you know that Monk McDonald played on the 1923–24 championship North Carolina basketball team , and then graduated and coached the team the next year?
text: Did you know that the only known source of the mineral Macaulayite in the world is in a quarry at the foot of Bennachie , Aberdeenshire – but it may also be present on Mars ?
text: Did you know that, during the territorial era of Minnesota in the U.S., Native Americans -- who were otherwise disenfranchised -- were often allowed to vote if they had worn trousers to the polling station?
text: Did you know that the Ross Casino in Pichilemu was the first casino in Chile ?
text: Did you know that the gay pornography film studio Corbin Fisher offers contracted actors health benefits and a 401(k) plan?
text: Did you know that Gordon Bastian , the Second Engineer of the Empire Bowman , was awarded an Albert Medal for rescuing two stokers after the ship was torpedoed by U-404 ?
text: Did you know that opera singer Zélie de Lussan sang 2,000 performances in the title role of Carmen ?
text: Did you know that the oblique cord is a 3.4 cm long ligament in the forearm near the elbow , between the ulnar and radius bones, which has no known function and may be vestigial ?
text: Did you know that Robert Sumrall survived being lost in the Gila National Forest for seven days in winter without food, water, or camping gear?
text: Did you know that in Teotitlán del Valle , it is possible to "steal" a bride?
text: Did you know that golf was introduced to Singapore by Sir John Tankerville Goldney in 1891 while he was Chief Justice for the Straits Settlements ?
text: Did you know that two of the residents of the Richard Upjohn -designed James and Mary Forsyth House in Kingston, New York , left it after being accused of financial wrongdoing?
text: Did you know that Jean Nouguès is believed to have written the first opera specifically composed for gramophone recording?
text: Did you know that in the 1508 Battle of Chaul in India , a Mamluk - Gujarati fleet defeated a Portuguese fleet under Lourenço de Almeida ?
text: Did you know that from 1765 to 1780 Meshullam Solomon and Tevele Schiff both claimed to be the Chief Rabbi of the United Kingdom ?
text: Did you know that Davidson Seamount , off the coast of California , is one of the largest seamounts in the world?
text: Did you know that chef Michael Carlson abruptly closed his restaurant the day after successfully entertaining a gathering of world-famous chefs?
text: Did you know that horn player Neill Sanders commuted from Kalamazoo, Michigan , to London , where he played in the Melos Ensemble ?
text: Did you know that climate change and rising ocean acidity are affecting fisheries and modifying fish distributions ?
text: Did you know that despite most of its interments later being moved to larger rural cemeteries , Sharp Burial Ground in Kingston, New York , still has the graves of two former U.S. Congressmen ?
text: Did you know that during his imprisonment in the Theresienstadt concentration camp , Fritz Weiss continued his collaboration with jazz orchestras outside of the camp?
text: Did you know that NEADS/Dogs for Deaf and Disabled Americans relies on help from inmates from 15 New England correctional facilities to train many of its assistance dogs ?
text: Did you know that James Jones , a pitcher in college, entered the 2009 Major League Baseball Draft and was selected in the fourth round as an outfielder by the Seattle Mariners ?
text: Did you know that in 1641, Bristol Corporation concluded a perambulation of the city boundaries with a duck hunt at Treen Mills on the River Malago ?
text: Did you know that the Naval Training Center San Diego was the home of a commissioned "non-ship" of the U.S. Navy , the USS Recruit , a concrete model of a warship built right into the ground and nicknamed the "USS Neversail "?
text: Did you know that during his career, comic actor Willie Edouin was said to have portrayed as many as 500 characters?
text: Did you know that the Thikse Monastery in India is called Mini-Potala because of its structural similarity to the former residence of the Dalai Lama , the Potala Palace in Tibet ?
text: Did you know that Berbak National Park in Sumatra , Indonesia , forms part of the largest undisturbed swamp forest in southeastern Asia , and the peat swamp forest with the greatest number of palm species ?
text: Did you know that unlike her predecessors, the Empress Regnant Lý Chiêu Hoàng was not worshipped in Lý Bát Đế Shrine because of her responsibility in the collapse of Lý Dynasty ?
text: Did you know that Marvin Minoff , executive producer of The Nixon Interviews between former U.S. President Richard Nixon and journalist David Frost , began his career as a talent agent ?
text: Did you know that the shell of the snail Paryphanta busbyi may explode when dried?
text: Did you know that Captain Charles Fryatt was executed by the Germans for trying to ram U-33 in March 1915 with his ferry SS Brussels ?
text: Did you know that in 1999, Robyn Regehr made his National Hockey League debut with the Calgary Flames less than four months after breaking both legs in a car accident that doctors feared would end his career?
text: Did you know that the missing terminal of the golden Sedgeford Torc was found thirty-nine years after the original discovery of the artifact ?
text: Did you know that the Tobias Van Steenburgh House was one of the few buildings in Kingston, New York , not burned by British troops in 1777?
text: Did you know that All in the Mind , the debut novel by former British government Director of Communications Alastair Campbell , drew on his experiences of depression and alcoholism ?
text: Did you know that in 2009, German actress Stephanie Stumph proposed to her idol, IBF middleweight world champion Arthur Abraham but he declined because he was "too young"?
text: Did you know that the name of the Chili Line has been attributed to its freight and the gastronomy of its patrons?
text: Did you know that 32% of welding defects are from operator error?
text: Did you know that the first single from In the Room Up There , Australian band Elora Danan 's debut album , was entitled "Door, Up, Elevator" and "inspired by elevator music, and the etiquette that goes on in elevators"?
text: Did you know that former Baton Rouge Mayor -President Bobby Simpson worked to end chronic homelessness in his city?
text: Did you know that crystals of campigliaite , first discovered in Tuscany , are transparent with a light or pale blue vitreous luster ?
text: Did you know that actress Jessalyn Gilsig hoped viewers would warm to her Glee character Terri Schuester after the episode " Mattress " , having previously experienced a fan backlash?
text: Did you know that Benny Benson created the Alaskan flag while living at the Jesse Lee Home for Children , an orphanage in Seward, Alaska ?
text: Did you know that it was feared Seattle 's Art Deco -styled Naval Reserve Armory would become a white elephant ?
text: Did you know that William Edward White may have been the first African-American to play Major League Baseball when he appeared in one game for the 1879 Providence Grays ?
text: Did you know that playwright Marisa Wegrzyn dealt with poor reviews by "being sulky and brooding and riding the subway a lot"?
text: Did you know that the Swiss Alpine Museum has the world's largest collection of raised-relief maps ?
text: Did you know that the Koshare Indian Dancers are a Boy Scouts of America Scout troop that travels the United States promoting the appreciation of American Indian culture through Indian dances ?
text: Did you know that in the capture of Ormuz (1507) , Afonso de Albuquerque subdued Hormuz Island and established a fort ?
text: Did you know that a new Chard Junction signal box was built in 1982 despite the station and junction being closed in the 1960s?
text: Did you know that in 2004 Kenyan runner Florence Barsosio won the Florence Marathon in Florence, Italy ?
text: Did you know that the Triassic reptile Vancleavea , which is specialized to live in the water , differs greatly from all other early archosauriforms ?
text: Did you know that three U.S. states do not accept the guilty plea known as the Alford plea ?
text: Did you know that rather than follow the usual practice of lip synching to prerecorded vocals, Bette Midler sang most of her songs live in the 1993 television movie Gypsy ?
text: Did you know that tabletop Role-playing game pioneer Paul Jaquays was also a designer for the Quake series of video games and co-founder of The Guildhall at SMU video game university?
text: Did you know that David Colbert was given permission to publish the book The Magical Worlds of Harry Potter only if there was a note on the cover stating that it had not been approved by J.K. Rowling ?
text: Did you know that Tsegaye Kebede , an Olympic and World Championship medalist in the marathon , worked as a child for 30 US cents a day so he could afford a daily meal and an education?
text: Did you know that tail length is not a reliable way to identify the longtail stingray , because its tail is often damaged?
text: Did you know that in 1854 the southern coast of Honshū , Japan , was hit by tsunamis caused by two great megathrust earthquakes on December 24 and 25 ?
text: Did you know that Anthony Morabito was the first of thirteen West Australians drafted in the 2009 AFL Draft , when the Fremantle Football Club selected him with their first-round pick?
text: Did you know that the mineral athabascaite was discovered in 1949 during a research study of radioactive materials collected from Lake Athabasca in Saskatchewan , Canada ?
text: Did you know that Christian music artist Miss Angie began her solo career doing praise and worship sets after Johnny Q. Public concerts?
text: Did you know that the current Chairman of the British Motorcycle Charitable Trust is John Kidson, former Isle of Man TT Formula 3 World Champion?
text: Did you know that the Obudu Ranch International Mountain Race is known as "the world's richest mountain race " because of the large amounts of prize money on offer?
text: Did you know that Shraddha Jadhav , who was recently elected as the Mayor of Mumbai and chief of India's richest municipal body, is known for her "elegant dressing"?
text: Did you know that Schwa , an upscale restaurant in Chicago , employs no receptionist, waiters, or other support staff?
text: Did you know that according to legend, Dunan Aula was the burial site of the Viking warrior 'Olaf, son of the King of Denmark '; after he was slain in combat against local Scots ?
text: Did you know that Sathyavani Muthu was one of the first two non- Congress members from Tamil Nadu to serve as a Union Minister in India ?
text: Did you know that the Atlantic torpedo can produce an electric shock of up to 220 volts , and was the namesake of the naval weapon ?
text: Did you know that former Louisiana State Senator Bill Keith authored a creation science law that was struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court in the 1987 case Edwards v. Aguillard ?
text: Did you know that the development of the Oseberg oil field is one of the significant milestones in the creation of Norway 's oil and gas industry ?
text: Did you know that Slaughter County, Iowa, named after William B. Slaughter , was renamed because its citizens were dissatisfied with the name?
text: Did you know that the last empress of the Lý Dynasty , Trần Thị Dung , married her cousin, grand chancellor Trần Thủ Độ , who was responsible for the death of her first husband Lý Huệ Tông ?
text: Did you know that there is an oil field underneath Los Angeles, California , called the Salt Lake Oil Field ?
text: Did you know that Bulgarian physician and politician Georgi Stranski , best man to national poet Hristo Botev , was the only Commissar of South Bulgaria ?
text: Did you know that since 1995 a quintet of untitled jazz musicians has been performing near Indiana Avenue in Indianapolis ?
text: Did you know that Philippine real estate company Megaworld Corporation renamed a condominum project from "The Trumps" to "One Central" after threats of legal action from Donald Trump ?
text: Did you know that the music video for alternative rock band Soul Asylum 's 1995 song " Just Like Anyone " features actress Claire Danes ?
text: Did you know that an attempted Russian conquest of Hawaii in 1815–1817 was led by a German physician ?
text: Did you know that Franz Baermann Steiner , whose parents were murdered in Treblinka and who later died of a heart attack in 1952 in Oxford , was called "one of Hitler's victims" by Iris Murdoch ?
text: Did you know that motor coordination enables our movements to be done smoothly but rarely allows the same movement to be done in exactly the same way?
text: Did you know that Bruce's Beach , which opened in the early 1910s in Manhattan Beach, California , was an African-American resort in an "otherwise lily-white community"?
text: Did you know that Poland–Lithuania and the Ottoman Empire signed a "perpetual" peace in 1533?
text: Did you know that although he was the first prince of Trần emperor Trần Thái Tông , Trần Quốc Khang was actually a son of the emperor's elder brother Trần Liễu ?
text: Did you know that Tord Asle Gjerdalen twice rejected offers for a spot on the Norwegian cross-country skiing national team, due to time-consuming medicine studies?
text: Did you know that St George's Church, Worthing established three mission chapels in the town , including a tiny hut jokingly known as "The Cathedral"?
text: Did you know that Lee Boyd Malvo entered an Alford plea in 2004 for his role in the Beltway sniper attacks , as part of a plea deal to avoid the death penalty ?
text: Did you know that Paul Eggers , the Texas Republican gubernatorial nominee in 1970, trailed his senatorial ticket mate, George H.W. Bush , by 34,000 votes, and both lost to Democrats ?
text: Did you know that the Gorgas-Manly Historic District in Tuscaloosa, Alabama , contains two of only seven buildings to survive the burning of the University of Alabama by the Union Army on April 4, 1865?
text: Did you know that because of the Bambi effect , some people will not eat a whole fish?
text: Did you know that Jean-Claude Biver has been credited with "saving the mechanical watch industry from the quartz movement "?
text: Did you know that child actor Joey Pollari was 15 years old when he appeared in the Disney XD film, Skyrunners ?
text: Did you know that the large weight (55 tons) of the main cannon at the Bijapur Fort discouraged the British from carrying it as a trophy to England ?
text: Did you know that the fourth floor of Havnelageret in Oslo was used as an air-raid shelter during the Second World War ?
text: Did you know that Louis Lesser developed Barrington Plaza , the largest urban renewal project in the western United States under President John F. Kennedy , as well as many of Howard Hughes ' properties?
text: Did you know that according to a mediaeval Icelandic saga , Jarl Gilli dreamt of the violent death of Irish king , Brian Boru ?
text: Did you know that the Peirce Geodetic Monument serves as a geodetic marker which indicates the exact latitude, longitude, and altitude of its location?
text: Did you know that New Jersey Attorney General George F. Kugler, Jr. was the father of Pete Kugler who played in three Super Bowls for the San Francisco 49ers ?
text: Did you know that the Occupiers' Liability Act 1957 covers not only land, but also aircraft and ships?
text: Did you know that Rizong Monastery in Ladakh , Inidia, is known as “the paradise for meditation”?
text: Did you know that footballer Roger Helland in 2004 scored Fredrikstad 's first goal in the Norwegian Premier League in 20 years?
text: Did you know that the Gasmouloi were the descendants of mixed Byzantine Greek and Latin unions, and were employed as marines in the Byzantine navy ?
text: Did you know that "Lucky Man" , a 1970 song by Emerson, Lake & Palmer , was written by Greg Lake when he was 12 years old?
text: Did you know that Sara Stockfleth Christie was the second female deputy member in the history of the Parliament of Norway ?
text: Did you know that in 1298, three brothers established the Myinsaing Kingdom after inviting King Kyawswa of Pagan to lead the dedication of a monastery , only to dethrone him and force him to become a monk?
text: Did you know that Navy Midshipmen 's quarterback Ricky Dobbs runs a triple option offense and shares Tim Tebow 's record for most rushing touchdowns for a college quarterback in a single season?
text: Did you know that Archbishop of Rouen Walter de Coutances (d. 1207) had to pay the final 10,000 marks of King Richard I of England 's ransom, as the archbishop was a hostage until it was paid?
text: Did you know that the Baylor University began its organized football team in 1899, but adopted a mascot only after the completion of the 1914 season?
text: Did you know that Sword of Aragon , a video game published in 1989, frustrated players with its copy protection that prompted them with inaccurate information?
text: Did you know that prior to being hired as a columnist for the Minneapolis Star Tribune , Katherine Kersten worked as a lawyer and banker?
text: Did you know that an example of the extinct Toy Trawler Spaniel , bred by Judith Blunt-Lytton, 16th Baroness Wentworth , is preserved at the Natural History Museum at Tring ?
text: Did you know that in an Alford plea a defendant in U.S. criminal court admits there is evidence to support a conviction and enters a guilty plea , while asserting innocence ?
text: Did you know that Arvid Johanson took over as Norway 's second Minister of Petroleum and Energy in 1980, when Bjartmar Gjerde resigned due to high job pressure?
text: Did you know that the annual Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest invites entrants to compose the opening sentence for "the worst of all possible novels"?
text: Did you know that Freddie Barnes , a wide receiver at Bowling Green , is one of three finalists for the Fred Biletnikoff Award ?
text: Did you know that the day after a UCLA art student set the St. Martin of Tours Catholic Church afire, the pastor of the church prayed for forgiveness for the arsonist?
text: Did you know that former Broadway actor Paul Ballantyne was born in a town that today has only about 200 residents?
text: Did you know that Beau's All Natural Brewing Company of Vankleek Hill distributes its Lug Tread lagered ale to LCBOs throughout Eastern Ontario in German-made ceramic jugs?
text: Did you know that Harry Hurt created the Hurt Report , described as "the most comprehensive motorcycle safety study of the 20th century"?
text: Did you know that although in theory a common mineral below the earth's surface, coyoteite has been found at the surface only in one volcanic pipe ?
text: Did you know that Daithí Ó Drónaí and his electronic synthesised fiddle progressed to the final of the first series of The All Ireland Talent Show ?
text: Did you know that the Irish Grand National steeplechase is hosted at the Fairyhouse Racecourse ?
text: Did you know that ZumoDrive is a HybridCloud system that allows for an iPhone to act as if it could store gigabytes more data than it actually can?
text: Did you know that brothers Johan and Werner Christie both obtained the rank of Major General in the Royal Norwegian Air Force ?
text: Did you know that the size of Fish Lake in Oregon , USA , taking water over the Cascade Divide via the Cascade Canal from nearby Fourmile Lake , is now three times larger than it was before 1902?
text: Did you know that the Himariote Greek dialect retains several archaic features no longer found in standard modern Greek ?
text: Did you know that the world's first offshore oil wells began operations in as early as 1896 when oil was drilled from piers along the coast of Summerland , California , USA ?
text: Did you know that the name of Sainte-Émélie-de-l'Énergie, Quebec is said to refer to the exuberance of an early settler's wife?
text: Did you know that Canadian police were called to a riot when " County Leitrim 's favourite son" Pat Quinn brought The Rolling Stones to North America in 1965?
text: Did you know that the floating barnacle Dosima fascicularis sometimes grows on turtles and even sea snakes ?
text: Did you know that Moghul Emperor Akbar became vegetarian, banned slaughter of animals, and gave up fishing and hunting after being influenced by Jain monk, Hiravijaya who preached non-violence ?
text: Did you know that Penzance A.F.C. competed in ten of the first sixteen finals of the Cornwall Senior Cup , winning six of them?
text: Did you know that when actress Vanessa Marshall learned that she would be playing the character Mary-Jane Watson in the Spectacular Spider-Man episode " Catalysts " , she dropped to her knees and began hyperventilating ?
text: Did you know that in 1909, the Thamshavn Line became the first electrified railway in Norway ?
text: Did you know that trash cans in France are known as poubelles because Eugène Poubelle first imposed them on Paris ?
text: Did you know that the Royal National College for the Blind was the subject of the 2007 Cutting Edge documentary Blind Young Things ?
text: Did you know that St. Timothy Catholic Church in Los Angeles, California , has an antique gold leaf altarpiece believed to have been made in Spain in the 1600s?
text: Did you know that Vietnamese scholar Đào Duy Từ was forbidden from taking Le Dynasty 's court examination because his father was a folk singer?
text: Did you know that a 1999 fire in St. Thomas the Apostle Catholic Church caused an estimated $1.2 million in damage?
text: Did you know that the music on Slut 's album StillNo1 has been compared to a variety of different artists, amongst them Radiohead , Depeche Mode , The Divine Comedy , Sigur Rós and The Beatles ?
text: Did you know that David Morehouse , president of the Pittsburgh Penguins , served on the presidential campaigns of Bill Clinton , Al Gore , and John Kerry ?
text: Did you know that the Redmond Caves in Oregon were considered for potato storage as early as the 1910s?
text: Did you know that Pete Heine participated in the Berlin Airlift , then became the crew chief on an F-86 Sabre jet, and was later mayor of Baker , Louisiana ?
text: Did you know that initial deliveries of the Polikarpov I-3 in 1929 were to units in the Belorussian Military District , where they replaced the Grigorovich I-2 ?
text: Did you know that Jan Leighton played over 1,200 famous persons in television and print advertisements, and 1,800 more on radio?
text: Did you know that John Campbell, Earl of Loudoun , tried to blame the British loss in the 1756 Battle of Fort Oswego on William Shirley ?
text: Did you know that Spoon River College in Illinois was founded in 1959 as Canton Community College?
text: Did you know that the medieval English judge Ralph Basset earned a mention in the 1124 entry of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle for hanging 44 thieves?
text: Did you know that the Phineas and Ferb character Perry the Platypus was made a platypus because of the animal's striking appearance?
text: Did you know that Akira Iwasaki was the only film critic arrested by the ideological police in wartime Japan ?
text: Did you know that a noted 20th century antiquary considered the four most interesting ruinous fortifications on Coll to be Dùn an Achaidh , Dùn Anlaimh , Dùn Dubh , and Dùn Morbhaidh ?
text: Did you know that Los Angeles Times sports writer Mike Penner told readers he was a transsexual in a 2007 essay entitled "Old Mike, new Christine"?
text: Did you know that reform of trusts law eventually contained in the United Kingdom 's Trustee Act 2000 had been requested since 1982?
text: Did you know that Émilien Amaury left school at 12 to ride a delivery bicycle, became head of propaganda in the government of Vichy France aged 30, and then founded the Amaury publishing empire?
text: Did you know that the highest-ranked British casualty in the 1878 Battle of Ali Masjid suffered a gunshot wound that drove a metal locket with his wife's photograph through his heart?
text: Did you know that ESPN The Magazine ' s October 9, 2009, Body Issue sold more issues at the news stand than any other issue of the magazine in the prior two years?
text: Did you know that after performing with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company for three decades, Anna Bethell became its Stage Director in 1947?
text: Did you know that Luis Valdez called American activist Alice McGrath , who inspired his play Zoot Suit , "one of the heroines of the 20th century"?
text: Did you know that the Embassy of Poland in London on Portland Place didn't open until ten years after the country became independent?
text: Did you know that Paul Mantz was permitted to join the Associated Motion Picture Pilots , a union of Hollywood stunt fliers, after performing a world record 46 outside loops in a row?
text: Did you know that the Red Dragon was the flagship of the first voyage of the East India Company ?
text: Did you know that retiring Democratic state legislator David Farabee of Wichita Falls represents one of the most Republican -leaning districts in Texas currently held by a Democrat?
text: Did you know that the Government Cable Office in Seward, Alaska , provided the first telegraph service to the town from the continental United States ?
text: Did you know that the Super Falcon Submersible , which cost $1.5 million, is the world's fastest personal submarine ?
text: Did you know that the Regency era British women's magazine La Belle Assemblée featured original fiction and articles on politics and science in addition to fashion plates ?
text: Did you know that Trần Quang Khải was not only grand chancellor of Trần Dynasty for many years but also a famous poet and the creator of a traditional dance?
text: Did you know that "Moses," the first solo single by Cocteau Twins singer Elizabeth Fraser , is a tribute to ex- Echo & the Bunnymen keyboardist Jake Drake-Brockman , who had been a close friend?
text: Did you know the P'urhépecha people of Santa Clara del Cobre , Mexico, have been producing hand-hammered copper products since pre-Hispanic times ?
text: Did you know that John Baldwin Neil served as Rutherford B. Hayes ' personal secretary before President Hayes appointed him Governor of Idaho Territory ?
text: Did you know that the Saw series has grossed more than one billion dollars, making it one of the highest-grossing fright franchises ever?
text: Did you know that as the mayor of Baton Rouge , Louisiana , W.W. Dumas called a curfew in 1969 to halt riots after the fatal shooting of a fleeing black suspect by a white police officer?
text: Did you know that during the latter part of the 20th century, Heekin Can was one of the largest U.S. manufacturers of food cans ?
text: Did you know that Joseph Moir built the largest stone shot tower in the southern hemisphere?
text: Did you know that the Italian ambassador to the United States offered in the 1920s to disband the Fascist League of North America ?
text: Did you know that after Eleanor Evans was appointed as Stage Director of the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company in 1949, a large number of performers, including Martyn Green , Ella Halman and Radley Flynn , left in the following years?
text: Did you know that the poppy seed test is a simple, accurate, and inexpensive medical test for vesicointestinal fistula ?
text: Did you know that Idaho Territory Governor Mason Brayman negotiated the agreement which allowed the Mormons to leave Illinois following the Illinois Mormon War ?
text: Did you know that the 1905 silent film Rescued by Rover was so popular that it had to be re-shot twice because the negatives wore out in order to meet the demand for prints?
text: Did you know that sports car racer , yachtsman and rower Robert Hichens was also the most highly decorated officer of the RNVR during the Second World War ?
text: Did you know that Rohr, Inc. 's ROMAG personal rapid transit system used a unique arrangement of linear induction motors to provide both traction power and act as a magnetic levitation suspension ?
text: Did you know that chemist Lester Shubin has been credited with saving the lives of thousands of police officers?
text: Did you know that the only known specimen of the early crocodile relative Stegomosuchus was kept in the discoverer's yard for several years before being given over for study?
text: Did you know that Phil Vassar 's high school art teacher painted the cover of his 2009 album Traveling Circus ?
text: Did you know that "elegant, witty and amusement-loving" Bulgarian physician, politician and diplomat Georgi Valkovich was assassinated by people dressed in carnival costumes?
text: Did you know that royal visitors to Worthing , West Sussex , have included Emperor Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia , who lived in a seafront hotel as a refugee?
text: Did you know that Danish whaler Christian Klengenberg opened trade routes to Copper Inuit territory?
text: Did you know that American entertainer Eve was asked to guest-star in the Glee episode " Hairography " after Whitney Houston declined to appear?
text: Did you know that the Alden staRRcar was originally designed as a high-speed four-passenger intercity electric car but emerged in the Morgantown PRT as a bus-like system for short distance travel?
text: Did you know that the Prince Chiêu Văn Trần Nhật Duật of the Trần Dynasty spoke foreign languages so well that he was once mistaken as a Chinese by a Yuan ambassador?
text: Did you know that carmaker Audi used the South Korean miniseries You're Beautiful to introduce their new Audi S4 ?
text: Did you know that Waldo Hunt , "King of the Pop-Ups ," could "make dinosaurs rear up, ships set sail and bats quiver in belfries"?
text: Did you know that after the attack on Pearl Harbor , director John Huston was forced to leave In This Our Life to fulfill an assignment for the War Department , and Raoul Walsh was called in to complete the film?
text: Did you know that Harvard lecturer Marshall Ganz is credited with devising the successful grassroots organizing model and training for Barack Obama ’s winning 2008 presidential campaign ?
text: Did you know that cartoonist Edward Barker and writer Mick Farren published Nasty Tales , the first comic book to face charges for obscenity in Great Britain ?
text: Did you know that upon its discovery, the Newark Torc was called "probably the most significant find of Iron Age Celtic gold jewellery made in the last 50 years"?
text: Did you know that Holocaust survivor Rudy Kennedy led the campaign for compensation to British survivors who had worked for German companies under the Nazi policy of extermination through labour ?
text: Did you know that English -born architect William Nichols designed and built statehouses for North Carolina , Alabama , and Mississippi in the early 19th century ?
text: Did you know that the 1969 dedication of St. Basil Church in Los Angeles prompted a "club-swinging mob" of Chicanos to break into the church during Christmas Midnight Mass ?
text: Did you know that the song " Speechless ", by Lady Gaga , was written as a plea to her father to receive the open-heart surgery he needed for a bad aortic valve ?
text: Did you know that the 47-gun galleon Elizabeth Bonaventure carried 51½ tons of weaponry against the Spanish Armada ?
text: Did you know that Memorial Park Site in Lock Haven, Pennsylvania , contains prehistoric cultural deposits up to 8,000 years old?
text: Did you know that a new railway station was built in six days in Workington to enable residents north of the river to access the town centre following floods which split the town in two ?
text: Did you know that in Ancient Egypt , servants of the pharaohs would agree to be sacrificed to provide their care in the afterlife?
text: Did you know that in 1995, American blues harmonica player James Harman recorded a song named for the Zoo Bar club in Lincoln , Nebraska ?
text: Did you know that when Yuma Quartermaster Depot State Historic Park in Arizona was a U.S. Army post from 1864 to 1877, up to 900 mules were kept there to help deliver supplies to five U.S. states ?
text: Did you know that in 1987, American blues pianist Whistlin' Alex Moore became the first African American Texan to be awarded the National Heritage Fellowship ?
text: Did you know that the captain of U-607 justified the sinking of the neutral Irish merchant vessel Irish Oak by claiming it was a Q-ship ?
text: Did you know that actor and satirical illustrator Thoralf Klouman was among the pioneers of animated film in Norway ?
text: Did you know that the Upper Peninsula Brewing Company Building had a tunnel allowing the proprietor to ignore a law prohibiting entrance to a brewery after sunset?
text: Did you know that Laura Kirkpatrick placed second in the reality show America's Next Top Model in 2009, but was ranked fan favorite in a poll conducted by the show?
text: Did you know that square root biased sampling was originally developed as a way to sample long sequences of DNA ?
text: Did you know that Winifred Carney was the only woman present during the initial occupation of the GPO in the Easter Rising , entering the building armed with a typewriter and a Webley revolver?
text: Did you know that the Philippine government unsuccessfully auctioned the decommissioned Manila Thermal Power Plant three times before it was sold to a Malaysian company?
text: Did you know that Sugar Blue , the American Grammy Award winning blues harmonicist , took his stage name from Sidney Bechet 's track, "Sugar Blues"?
text: Did you know that the Jakub Wujek Bible served as the main Catholic Bible translation into Polish for more than three centuries?
text: Did you know that the outbreak of Ebola in Bundibugyo District in Uganda in 2007 was caused by a novel strain of the Ebola virus?
text: Did you know that after litigation filed by former Scientologist Bonnie Woods reached the High Court of Justice , the Church of Scientology admitted it had made false claims about her?
text: Did you know that decades after its discovery in 1955 in Turkey 's Bursa Province , bursaite was officially discredited as a mineral in 2006?
text: Did you know that The Legarde Twins are a country act from Australia consisting of two twins, Tom and Ted, who left home in 1945 to become cowboys, then started playing country music, and are still performing—64 years later?
text: Did you know that Kate Nesbitt , the first woman in the Royal Navy to be awarded the Military Cross for bravery in Afghanistan while attached to 3 Commando Brigade , is just 5 ft 0 in (1.52 m) tall?
text: Did you know that rotating radio transients are among the brightest astronomical sources of radio waves , yet are generally detectable for less than one second a day?
text: Did you know that U.S. birth control advocate Dr. Bessie Moses gave up her practice as an obstetrician because she became emotionally attached to the outcome of every birth she attended?
text: Did you know that in 1997 the Law Commission called the Trustee Investments Act 1961 too "cautious and restrictive", suggesting some trusts were under-performing due to difficulty in complying with its terms?
text: Did you know that the author of Behind the Exclusive Brethren decided to research the Australian religious group after discovering its close access to Prime Minister John Howard ?
text: Did you know that the medieval English bishop Robert de Chesney was an early patron of Thomas Becket , later famous for his quarrel with King Henry II of England ?
text: Did you know that during the CU project controversy "bolt weevils" destroyed 14 transmission towers of a power line under construction in Minnesota ?
text: Did you know that the talkshow Skavlan marked the first time ever that Sveriges Television and the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation worked together on a television production?
text: Did you know that after being kicked out of his Michigan Militia , Norman Olson moved to Alaska to attempt to start a militia there?
text: Did you know that the outdoor sculpture Zephyr is dedicated by its artist to today's youth?
text: Did you know that the book Blown for Good describes the author's experiences practicing the Scientology technique auditing with actor Tom Cruise ?
text: Did you know that a valid computer program supplied with correct data may still exhibit unspecified behavior ?
text: Did you know that Oregon pioneer and politician Frederick Waymire was compared to Davy Crockett ?
text: Did you know that the Battle of Wawon is considered to be Turkey 's first real combat action since the end of World War I ?
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text: Did you know that Bill Inman was the first medical graduate of University of Cambridge and delivered fifty babies from his adapted wheelchair ?
text: Did you know that among the dead interred at the Calvert Vaux -designed Hillside Cemetery in Middletown, New York , are three Civil War Medal of Honor recipients?
text: Did you know that the members of the Council of Keble College, Oxford had power to move the college away from Oxford?
text: Did you know that Uruguayan Isabelino Gradín won South American championships in both football and track and field athletics ?
text: Did you know that a Franco-Hungarian alliance was formed in October 1528 between Francis I of France and Zapolya of Hungary ?
text: Did you know that the Kirkland Hotel in Kingston, New York , is a rare surviving example of a wood- frame urban hotel?
text: Did you know that of the varieties of retained surgical instruments , the most common item left in the patient after surgery is a sponge ?
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text: Did you know that LA 's St. Cecilia Church , built in 1927, adapted to its multiethnic community by installing shrines to a beatified Nigerian priest, a Oaxacan Virgin, and a Guatemalan "Black Christ"?
text: Did you know that Holby City hospital's disabled CEO Vanessa Lytton is played by Leslie Ash , whose own disability resulted from a hospital stay?
text: Did you know that Đại Việt Emperor Trần Thuận Tông was forced to cede the throne to his three-year old son Trần Thiếu Đế and thus held the title Thái thượng hoàng (Retired Emperor) at the age of 20?
text: Did you know that the oldest complete document in the National Archival Services of Norway is from 1189?
text: Did you know that former Louisiana Legislative Auditor Dan Kyle has joined a new company trying to rebuild Six Flags New Orleans , which has been closed since Hurricane Katrina ?
text: Did you know that under Jewish views of moral agency a deaf-mute could even commit murder with impunity, as Jewish law forbids legal cases without verbal communication between the involved parties?
text: Did you know that " the wrong kind of snow " delayed British Rail services during the winter of 1990–1991 ?
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text: Did you know that John W. Reynolds was admitted to practice law in Oregon before he graduated from law school ?
text: Did you know that except for bats , nearly 90% of the native land mammals of the Caribbean , including all sloths and monkeys , are now extinct?
text: Did you know that Bryant Hammett resigned from the Louisiana House of Representatives in 2006 to oversee disaster recovery for infrastructure impacted by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita ?
text: Did you know that the Ventura Oil Field is the seventh largest oil field in California , and was at one point the 12th most productive oil field in the United States ?
text: Did you know that despite being only the son of Hát tuồng actors, Dương Nhật Lễ was enthroned as emperor of Đại Việt by his impotent predecessor Trần Dụ Tông ?
text: Did you know that one part of Mendelssohn’s operetta Son and Stranger comprises only a few bars, all on the note F, because the composer’s brother-in-law, Wilhelm Hensel , had no ability as a singer?