Did you know? Facts from Wikipedia, 2008

text: Did you knowthat the name Alexandra was considered unlucky by the Romanov family because so many Alexandras in the family, including Grand Duchess Alexandra Alexandrovna of Russia , died young?
text: Did you knowthat law professor Ralph Aigler , once known as the "dominant figure in Michigan's athletics," negotiated the Big Ten 's exclusive contracts with the Rose Bowl in 1946 and 1953?
text: Did you knowthat in Test cricket , Indian batsman Sachin Tendulkar , with 39 centuries , leads the list of batsmen making centuries ?
text: Did you knowthat immunologist Robert A. Good documented the importance of the thymus gland and tonsils in the immune system and performed the first successful human bone marrow transplant ?
text: Did you knowthat Savanna Portage State Park preserves a historic portage trail used by Native Americans , fur traders , and explorers to cross between the watershed of the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River ?
text: Did you knowthat Mretebi Tbilisi was the first openly professional football club to be founded in the Soviet Union ?
text: Did you knowthat Colorado state representative Victor Mitchell secured state funding for Project Lifesaver programs that would provide tracking bracelets for the cognitvely impaired?
text: Did you knowthat Independent Learning Centre started the Railway School Car Program in 1926, in which a teacher lived in a train car that traveled to students in isolated Northern Ontario communities?
text: Did you knowthat the Allied force which landed on Morotai in September 1944 was over a hundred times larger than the Japanese force defending the island?
text: Did you knowthat Dr. Frederick Madison Allen prescribed a "starvation diet" for patients at his Physiatric Institute, the leading way of prolonging lives of diabetics in the days before the isolation of insulin ?
text: Did you knowthat Dell Comics issued contemporaneous comic books featuring the ABC network 's 1961 TV series, Follow the Sun ?
text: Did you knowthat so far, 350,000 people have been relocated in Turkey by dam projects carried out by the State Hydraulic Works , and 250,000 more will be affected in the future?
text: Did you knowthat Barry Coe , the winner of the Golden Globe award for "most promising" actor , missed out on becoming the fourth Cartwright brother on the television series Bonanza because of reported friction on the set?
text: Did you knowthat Jerry Dybzinski's baserunning error in game four of the 1983 American League Championship Series ultimately cost the Chicago White Sox both the game and the series?
text: Did you knowthat the Japanese destroyer Matsu had a very short career: just more than three months from her completion in 1944, to her sinking as she returned from her first escort mission?
text: Did you knowthat newly crowned Miss America 2008 Kirsten Haglund ' s grandmother competed at Miss America 1944?
text: Did you knowthat the boundary between Sudan and Ethiopia was defined for the region near the Pibor River in 1899 by Major H.H. Austin and Major Charles W. Gwynn of the British Royal Engineers?
text: Did you knowthat Marie Roethlisberger placed seventh at the 1984 United States Olympic gymnastic trials (making her the alternate for the six-woman team) despite being almost completely deaf ?
text: Did you knowthat according to an Iroquois legend, a woman eating roasted acorns intimidated an evil spirit of the tribe known as The Flying Head so much he never returned?
text: Did you knowthat the United States Navy 's Naval Ordnance Station in Louisville, Kentucky was chosen due to being so far inland as to prevent enemy airstrikes?
text: Did you knowthat Unsinkable Sam was a ship's cat of both the Kriegsmarine and Royal Navy during the Second World War who survived the sinking of all three ships on which he served?
text: Did you knowthat Beaufort Island in Antarctica 's Ross Sea was named for Sir Francis Beaufort in 1841?
text: Did you knowthat before coaching gymnastics at the University of Michigan from 1948 to 1983, Newt Loken was the NCAA all-around gymnastics champion in 1942?
text: Did you knowthat the K-1000 class was a hoax class of battleship made up by the Soviet Union at the start of the Cold War as propaganda ?
text: Did you knowthat the city of San Francisco contributed a large proportion of the funds for constructing the extension of Junipero Serra Boulevard beyond the city limits?
text: Did you knowthat the 1937 Hal Roach / MGM musical short Our Gang Follies of 1938 features an appearance by future jazz star Annie Ross ?
text: Did you knowthat at Winter X Games XII , skier Tanner Hall set a record with his seventh career gold medal, only to be tied by snowboarder Shaun White on the last day of competition?
text: Did you knowthat track and field athlete Anne Bersagel was a member of Team USA Minnesota while studying full time in Oslo, Norway as a Fulbright Scholar ?
text: Did you knowthat prolific American music publisher George E. Blake printed the first edition of George Frideric Handel 's Messiah in the United States?
text: Did you knowthat the Australian Ambassador to Chile , Crispin Conroy , once proposed marriage to Bollywood actress Manisha Koirala ?
text: Did you knowthat Son Goku , a German rock band, is named after the protagonist of the anime series Dragon Ball Z ?
text: Did you knowthat both Augustus and Eleftherios Venizelos exiled opponents to the Cyclades ?
text: Did you knowthat with little prior experience, South Korean actress Kim Ok-bin was given a leading role in her first film, Voice , and was nominated for "Best New Actress" at the Blue Dragon Film Awards ?
text: Did you knowthat through the opening of the Thomson MRT Line and Eastern Region MRT Line by 2020, Singapore 's rail network density will rise from 31 km per million residents today to 51 km per million, surpassing what Hong Kong and Tokyo currently have?
text: Did you knowthat Half-Breed Tracts were set aside for people of Mixed Blood descent in several U.S. states , including Iowa, Nebraska, Minnesota and Wisconsin?
text: Did you knowthat the Mattancherry Palace , known popularly as Dutch Palace, in Kochi , India , was built by the Portuguese and renovated by the Dutch ?
text: Did you knowthat the Walter Byers Scholarship is considered the highest academic honor for National Collegiate Athletic Association athletes?
text: Did you knowthat the Los Angeles attorney Bobby Diamond became nationally known a half century ago through his role as the orphaned Joey Newton in the NBC television series Fury ?
text: Did you knowthat concert organist John Walker was  to teach in Taiwan on a Fulbright Fellowship , but wound up playing benefit concerts for 1999 Chi-Chi earthquake victims?
text: Did you knowthat Antonine Barada was a 19th century mixed blood fur trader in Nebraska whose mythic strength and heroic actions against slavery prompted his status as a current-day folk hero ?
text: Did you knowthat Catherine Dolgorukov had a premonition that her morganatic husband , Tsar Alexander II , would be assassinated?
text: Did you knowthat The Sea Island Mathematical Manual or Haidao suanjing (海岛算经) was written by mathematican Liu Hui of the Three Kingdom era (220–280) as an extension of The Nine Chapters on the Mathematical Art ?
text: Did you knowthat Roy "Wrong Way" Riegels ran in the wrong direction after recovering a fumble , which led to a safety that proved to be the winning margin in Georgia Tech's 8-7 win at the 1929 Rose Bowl ?
text: Did you knowthat tourists flocked to Casa de Estudillo in San Diego, California , to see "Ramona's Marriage Place" even though Ramona was a work of fiction?
text: Did you knowthat the 1967 general election in Sierra Leone saw the first defeat of a ruling party in an election held under universal suffrage in sub-Saharan Africa ?
text: Did you knowthat Mohammed al-Shahwani was a talented general in Saddam Hussein 's Republican Guard , and is now the head of Iraq's new intelligence service ?
text: Did you knowthat with the testing of the PAD missile , India became the fourth country to have successfully demonstrated an anti-ballistic missile system?
text: Did you knowthat W.C. Fields' straightman Tammany Young was a renowned gatecrasher who managed entry to the Jack Dempsey - Georges Carpentier prize fight by claiming to be an ice man ?
text: Did you knowthat during World War II , the Japanese destroyer Hatsukaze survived four major fleet actions against the American, British, Australian and Dutch fleets, but was sunk after colliding with a Japanese cruiser ?
text: Did you knowthat Scotland 's North West Highlands Geopark contains some of the oldest rocks in Europe and the site of a famous geological controversy ?
text: Did you knowthat British MP Ronnie Campbell accidentally supported National Fetish Day due to his thinking that the word " fetish " meant " worry "?
text: Did you knowthat Cliff Keen ' s tenure as Michigan ’s wrestling coach (1925-1970) was the longest of any coach in any sport in NCAA history as of 1991?
text: Did you knowthat Séon Carsuel , Scottish Protestant reformer, Bishop of the Isles and author of the first book to be printed in any Goidelic language , was over seven foot tall?
text: Did you knowthat Salisbury Cathedral School was founded over 900 years ago by a saint ?
text: Did you knowthat Dorothy Canning Miller was the first professionally trained curator of the Museum of Modern Art ?
text: Did you knowthat historic memorabilia from the Polish National Museum in Rapperswil , Switzerland were shipped in 1927 to the newly independent Poland , only to be largely destroyed during World War II ?
text: Did you knowthat Robert Bray ( forest ranger Corey Stuart in CBS 's Lassie ), turned down a role in director Joshua Logan 's 1958 hit film South Pacific , much to Bray's longstanding regret?
text: Did you knowthat the Armenian oil magnate Nubar Gulbenkian once sued his father for $10 million after his company refused him $4.50 for a meal?
text: Did you knowthat Bullitt's Lick was the first industry and supplier of salt in what is now the Commonwealth of Kentucky ?
text: Did you knowthat the 1928–29 Boston Bruins season marked the ice hockey team's first Stanley Cup championship and their first season in the Boston Garden ?
text: Did you knowthat Gerald Ford threatened to quit the Michigan football team when African-American player Willis Ward was kept out of a 1932 game in response to Georgia Tech 's refusal to play an integrated team?
text: Did you knowthat the Castle Cary Cut-Off reduced the 325½ mile distance between London Paddington and Penzance railway stations by 20¼ miles?
text: Did you knowthat, according to Herodotus , Rhodopis was a fellow-slave with the poet Aesop ?
text: Did you knowthat stewardess Frankie Housley was called "the Bravest Woman In America"?
text: Did you knowthat Major League Baseball pitcher Stan Baumgartner was named to the All-Big Ten Conference teams for baseball , basketball , and football in 1914?
text: Did you knowthat the supervisor of a kosher restaurant is required to be a Shomer Shabbat , a Jew who observes the Sabbath?
text: Did you knowthat the crowd at the 1984 funeral of assassinated Zamboanga City mayor Cesar Climaco was estimated at between fifteen thousand and two hundred thousand people?
text: Did you knowthat a hyperdeterminant is a generalisation of the determinant in algebra ?
text: Did you knowthat when the first portion of the Lackawanna and Bloomsburg Railroad opened in 1856, it led to the incorporation of Kingston , Pennsylvania , and to the establishment of Kingston's first public transit line?
text: Did you knowthat London printer William Stansby published the landmark first folio collection of the works of Ben Jonson in 1616?
text: Did you knowthat despite healthcare in Sierra Leone decreasing child mortality from 302 deaths per 1000 live births in 1990 to 282 in 2005 Sierra Leone still has the highest level of child mortality in the world?
text: Did you knowthat Lucien Lagrange Architects has been involved in attempts to renovate Union Station in Chicago, Illinois , for over twenty years?
text: Did you knowthat despite German and Soviet attempts to suppress Polish culture during World War II , it was kept alive by underground activities, with the Polish Home Army even creating newsreels ?
text: Did you knowthat race car journalist and former race car driver Dr. Dick Berggren decided to stop teaching college psychology after he was called into the college president's office because he parked his racecar in the faculty parking lot?
text: Did you knowthat the upcoming comedy film Hamlet 2 was the top purchase at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival placing it second behind the US$10.5 million record set by Little Miss Sunshine at the festival in 2006?
text: Did you knowthat Deepak Chougule , a cricketer from the Indian state of Karnataka , created a junior world record for the most runs scored in a single day of a cricket match when he scored 400 runs in a match against Goa ?
text: Did you knowthat Houhora Mountain was the first part of New Zealand that the early explorer Kupe saw, but he thought it was a whale , according to Māori legend?
text: Did you knowthat the ceremony marking the Japanese surrender of Timor on 11 September 1945 was held aboard HMAS Moresby ?
text: Did you knowthat 24-year old Alondra de la Parra was the first Mexican woman to ever conduct a concert in New York City?
text: Did you knowthat Al Hoisch of UCLA returned a kickoff for 103 yards and a touchdown at the 1947 Rose Bowl , a record that still stands as of the 2008 game?
text: Did you knowthat William Fawcett , a character actor in B- films and television from 1946 to the early 1970s , held a Ph.D. from the University of Nebraska and was a drama professor at Michigan State University prior to the start of his acting career?
text: Did you knowthat the adobe house that is the centerpiece of the Alviso Adobe Community Park in Pleasanton, California , was built in 1854 and continuously in use until 1969?
text: Did you knowthat the Garrison Union Free School in New York traces its origins back to 1793?
text: Did you knowthat Count John A. Creighton was ennobled by Pope Leo XIII in recognition of his contributions to Creighton University , the Catholic community in Omaha , and the city of Omaha in general?
text: Did you knowthat the US Navy 's Haskell class attack transports Montrose , Renville ,  and Okanogan all saw action in three major wars – World War II , the Korean War and the Vietnam War ?
text: Did you knowthat the village of Selworthy was rebuilt by Sir Thomas Dyke Acland in 1828 as a model village for the aged and infirm of his Holnicote Estate ?
text: Did you knowthat former child actor Richard Eyer , who played the boy who runs "afowl" of the goose in William Wyler 's 1956 film Friendly Persuasion , is now an elementary school teacher in Bishop, California ?
text: Did you knowthat 1985 NCAA hurdling champion Thomas Wilcher won the Michigan High School Athletic Association team track & field championship three consecutive times, both as an athlete and a coach?
text: Did you knowthat after winning three medals at the 1992 Summer Olympics as a 16-year-old, Anita Nall retired from competitive swimming in 2000 due to chronic fatigue syndrome ?
text: Did you knowthat former Juneau , Alaska mayor Dennis Egan hosts a program called Problem Corner on local radio station KINY ?
text: Did you know that at the Battle of Noemfoor in 1944 Commodore John Collins became the first graduate of the Royal Australian Naval College to command a naval squadron in action?
text: Did you knowthat Adam R. Johnson's Newburgh Raid , using two stovepipes , charred wood, a broken wagon, and only 27 men, resulted in the first capture of a northern town in the American Civil War ?
text: Did you knowthat director Paul Greengrass is filming a fictional thriller with Matt Damon in the lead based on the 2006 nonfiction book Imperial Life in the Emerald City about the Green Zone ?
text: Did you knowthat George Jewett was the first African-American to earn a varsity letter in football at both the University of Michigan and at Northwestern University ?
text: Did you knowthat the hollow log pipes of the 1787 Mann's Lick salt furnace allegedly still existed in the 1940s ?
text: Did you knowthat a plane of Royal Canadian Air Force 's No. 426 Squadron made Canada 's first coast-to-coast non-stop flight?
text: Did you knowthat the work of the Galician poet Juan Rodríguez de la Cámara presents arguments for the superiority of women to men?
text: Did you knowthat due to its high reactivity , compounds of oxygen can be formed with all known chemical elements , apart from four noble gases ?
text: Did you knowthat as President of the College of New Jersey , John Maclean, Jr. conveyed a Doctor of Laws degree to President Abraham Lincoln during the American Civil War ?
text: Did you knowthat the only Edward Medal awarded in the Kent coalfield was won at Tilmanstone Colliery , one of only four successful pits in Kent out of twelve planned or built?
text: Did you knowthat in Greek mythology Gorgythion was one of the fifty sons of King Priam of Troy ?
text: Did you knowthat the Comanche War Chief Santa Anna was the first Comanche or Kiowa Chief to visit Washington D.C. in 1847, and was so overwhelmed with what he saw, he immediately advised his people to seek peace?
text: Did you knowthat Józef Haller de Hallenburg was one of the key shapers of scouting in Poland ?
text: Did you knowthat in order to combat the erosion of fan loyalty towards professional teams, the Nashville Predators employ customer relationship management techniques to collect information about the demographics and psychographics of their fans?
text: Did you knowthat Almaco jack have been known to remove parasites on their skin by rubbing up against scuba divers ?
text: Did you knowthat footballer John Hewitt scored the fastest recorded goal in Scottish Cup history, timed at 9.6 seconds?
text: Did you knowthat for establishing the first successful sugar beet processing plant in the United States, E. H. Dyer became known as the father of the American beet sugar industry?
text: Did you knowthat the 1951 Gold Coast legislative election was the first to be held in Africa under universal suffrage ?
text: Did you knowthat Australian Ingo Renner has won the World Gliding Championships four times and set two world gliding records?
text: Did you knowthat root nodules on the plant Myrica cerifera fix nitrogen faster than some legumes ?
text: Did you knowthat HMS Chanticleer had been scheduled to survey South America , but was in such poor condition that the Beagle was selected instead for the 1831 voyage that established Charles Darwin as a naturalist ?
text: Did you knowthat Nazi Germany planned to starve tens of millions of Jews, Poles and Soviet citizens in order to simultaneously eliminate "surplus population" and feed German citizens and their army?
text: Did you knowthat Opera Jawa is a 2006 Indonesian - Austrian musical film that features traditional Javanese classical music and dance in a setting of opera , inspired by the Ramayana ?
text: Did you knowthat offensive tackle Rich Strenger told reporters that Michigan Wolverines football coach Bo Schembechler ran a more strenuous training camp at the college level than he experienced in the NFL with the Detroit Lions ?
text: Did you knowthat Leonard Bernstein created controversy with his remarks about Glenn Gould during a New York Philharmonic concert on April 6, 1962 ?
text: Did you knowthat Ripley's Believe It or Not! "Wild Goose Chase" feature on J. Dewey Soper ' s six year, 30,000 mile search for the Blue Goose nesting grounds earned him the nickname "Blue Goose Soper"?
text: Did you knowthat Comanche War Chief Carne Muerte ' s name means "Dead Meat" in Spanish ?
text: Did you knowthat William B. Hornblower was nominated for a seat on the United States Supreme Court in 1893, but his nomination failed, largely due to a feud with Senator David B. Hill ?
text: Did you knowthat over 10,000 people attended the 1876 dedication of the Confederate Monument in Bowling Green, Kentucky ?
text: Did you knowthat the poisonous mushroom Russula emetica , commonly known as "the sickener", is hoarded and eaten by the Red Squirrel ?
text: Did you knowthat preselection is the process by which a candidate is selected, usually by a political party , to contest an election for political office, an example being the United States presidential primary ?
text: Did you knowthat the Belgian cartoonist Karl Meersman was at first disqualified from a drawing contest at age thirteen, because the jury did not believe his drawing had been created by a child?
text: Did you knowthat The Drug Years , a documentary chronicling illicit drug use in the United States , features never-before-seen film of Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters ' acid -fueled bus trip across America in 1964?
text: Did you knowthat Ian Browne and Tony Marchant won the tandem track cycling at the 1956 Olympics after being eliminated?
text: Did you knowthat Mayor Frank E. Rodgers served 48 years as mayor of Harrison, New Jersey , recognized by the Guinness Book of World Records as the longest-serving mayor in United States history?
text: Did you knowthat James A. Forbes planned to build the first flour mill in California , but delays in construction allowed competitors to flourish, driving down prices and forcing him into bankruptcy ?
text: Did you knowthat for a pure wave motion in fluid dynamics , the Stokes drift velocity is the average velocity when following a specific fluid parcel as it travels with the fluid flow?
text: Did you knowthat Jack Brod was the last remaining original tenant of the Empire State Building , New York City , at the time of his death in 2008?
text: Did you knowthat Earnshaw Cook performed his early baseball statistics calculations with a mechanical calculator and slide rule , the latter of which resides in the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum ?
text: Did you knowthat Helmut Dähne has held the official motorcycle lap record on the 20.8 km (12.9 mi) long Nordschleife track in Germany since 1988?
text: Did you knowthat the ten Revenue Marine cutters authorized by the U.S. Congress in 1790 – including the Vigilant , Active , General Green , Massachusetts , Scammel , South Carolina and Eagle – comprised the U.S. Federal government's first "armed force afloat"?
text: Did you knowthat the Latin familia must be translated as " household " rather than as "family", since neither classical Greek or Latin had a word corresponding to modern-day family?
text: Did you knowthat the 2003 book Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest by ethnohistorian Matthew Restall debunks seven popularly held beliefs about how Spanish conquistadors conquered the Aztecs ?
text: Did you knowthat when politics threatened funding for the Fuji class battleships of the Imperial Japanese Navy in 1893, Emperor Meiji offered to pay from the expenses of the Imperial Household himself?
text: Did you knowthat the first radio network in North America was created by the Canadian National Railway in 1923?
text: Did you knowthat Entoloma sinuatum was implicated in 10% of mushroom poisonings in Europe in the mid-20th century?
text: Did you knowthat Walter Bowart was a proponent of the counterculture movement of the 1960s , the writer of a seminal book on mind control , as well as a prolific publisher and editor of both newspapers and magazines?
text: Did you knowthat in the process of carbonic maceration , which is used to produce Beaujolais wine , fermentation takes place inside the individual grape berry?
text: Did you knowthat William Larkin was identified as the Jacobean era portraitist formerly known as "The Curtain Master" by art historian Roy Strong ?
text: Did you knowthat 250,000 kilometers (150,000 miles) of roads complement air, pipeline, hiking trail, and waterway travel to provide transportation in Saskatchewan ?
text: Did you knowthat straight pool champion "Cowboy" Jimmy Moore earned his nickname by appearing at a professional tournament wearing the required tuxedo , but nevertheless sporting cowboy boots and his signature white Stetson hat ?
text: Did you knowthat construction of Lake Winfield Scott Recreation Area was the last project completed by the US Civilian Conservation Corps in the state of Georgia?
text: Did you knowthat Ruth Maier , an Austrian Jew who found refuge in Norway until her deportation and death at Auschwitz in 1942, has been called "Norway's Anne Frank "?
text: Did you knowthat Alice Stebbins Wells was the first female police officer in the Los Angeles Police Department ?
text: Did you knowthat the film State of Play , which began principal photography on January 11, 2008 with Russell Crowe and Ben Affleck in the lead roles, was originally set to star Brad Pitt and Edward Norton ?
text: Did you knowthat Gary Baker and Frank J. Myers, who won a Grammy for writing the crossover song " I Swear ", recorded an album in 1995 as the duo Baker & Myers ?
text: Did you knowthat the Italian wine Orvieto was historically made with noble rot , but, unlike other botrytized wines such as Sauternes , the fungus was introduced after harvest in humid storage caves?
text: Did you knowthat Iranian dutar player and vocalist Qorban Soleimani is credited with inventing a new form of the ancient Azeri stringed instrument the gopuz ?
text: Did you knowthat the Alvin C. York Institute in Tennessee, which opened in 1929, was established as a private agricultural school by World War I hero Alvin York ?
text: Did you knowthat Scott Shafer , hired in January 2008 as the Michigan Wolverines defensive coordinator , started in football as a high school and college quarterback in Ohio ?
text: Did you knowthat London 's Army and Navy Club stands on a site once partly occupied by the house of the actress Moll Davis , a mistress of King Charles II ?
text: Did you knowthat the Right Revd Graham Charles Chadwick served as a naval intelligence officer in World War II and was expelled from South Africa for anti-apartheid activism?
text: Did you knowthat Robert McGill Loughridge co-authored the English and Muskogee Dictionary in 1890, the first English dictionary of the Creek language ?
text: Did you knowthat Cyclone Elita in January 2004 crossed Madagascar three times, an unusual event but not unprecedented?
text: Did you knowthat German record producer and journalist Uwe Nettelbeck changed the face of German rock music in the early 1970s?
text: Did you knowthat the SS Tararua sank off the Catlins in 1881, in New Zealand 's worst civilian shipping disaster?
text: Did you knowthat Entally was home to the poor and the depressed, and a neighbourhood where Mother Teresa started her active life in Kolkata , India ?
text: Did you knowthat Philadelphia publisher F. A. Davis brought electricity to St. Petersburg, Florida , and founded nearby Pinellas Park after hearing a lecture on Florida 's medical benefits?
text: Did you knowthat the northern half of Oklahoma State Highway 95 was once part of U.S. Route 56 ?
text: Did you knowthat the director of the 1981 Spanish film Deprisa, Deprisa ( English : Hurry, Hurry! ) was accused of paying his cast in hard drugs ?
text: Did you knowthat Academy Street was part of Poughkeepsie 's first planned neighborhood?
text: Did you knowthat Prince Esper Ukhtomsky ' s account of Nicholas II's Eastern tour , Travels in the East of Nicholas II , was written in close consultation with the Tsar himself?
text: Did you knowthat after his father told him to  "Get out and make a living and don't ask me for a dollar!", James Rand, Jr. founded American Kardex , which purchased his father's company five years later?
text: Did you knowthat the German Renaissance castle Schloss Brenz now regularly hosts concerts?
text: Did you knowthat intelligence analyst Richard Barlow was fired for claiming that the Pentagon had falsified information about weapons of mass destruction in 1989?
text: Did you knowthat the British First World War general Sir William Peyton served as Delhi Herald of Arms Extraordinary at the Delhi Durbar of 1911?
text: Did you knowthat according to market researcher Mintel on green marketing patterns, only 12% of the U.S. population can be identified as True Greens, consumers who seek out and regularly buy so-called green products?
text: Did you knowthat architect , former partner at Skidmore Owings & Merrill , and founder of Lucien Lagrange Architects , Lucien Lagrange was a high school dropout ?
text: Did you knowthat DBS Building Tower One , the tallest building in Singapore when completed in 1975, is an example of brutalist architecture ?
text: Did you knowthat a tornado outbreak in 1974 caused Owsley Brown Frazier to start a firearm collection large enough for a museum ?
text: Did you knowthat rugby union footballer George MacPherson was the captain of the first Scotland team to ever win a Five Nations Grand Slam ?
text: Did you knowthat in 1792, Deputy Sheriff Isaac Smith of the New York City Sheriff's Office became the first law enforcement officer to die in the line of duty in the United States ?
text: Did you knowthat the Felixstowe Fury was a five-engined triplane flying boat that crashed in 1919, the day before a planned 8,000 mile (12,900 km) flight from England to South Africa ?
text: Did you knowthat the South Korean film The Host was recognized as Best Picture at the 1st Asian Film Awards , held in 2007?
text: Did you knowthat Othniel Charles Marsh named two species of the dinosaur Coelurus from the same quarry , not knowing that the bones belonged to the same skeleton?
text: Did you knowthat the Weekly Arizonian , first published in 1859, was Arizona 's first newspaper?
text: Did you knowthat annual construction of the St. Moritz-Celerina Olympic Bobrun in Switzerland takes three weeks, fifteen ice workers, 5,000 m³ of snow, and 4,000 m³ of water?
text: Did you knowthat members of the Appalachian Volunteers were charged with sedition in 1967 for plotting the violent overthrow of Pike County , after the group's successful efforts led to closure of a Kentucky coal mine?
text: Did you knowthat American swimmer Nancy Merki began swimming at age 8 after contracting polio , and set three national swimming records at age 13?
text: Did you knowthat Frank Loughran played for the Socceroos at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne , scoring a goal in the first game his adopted country of Australia ever played in Olympic soccer ?
text: Did you knowthat in the Polish-Austrian War of 1809, part of the War of the Fifth Coalition , Polish forces under Józef Antoni Poniatowski neutralized an Austrian force twice their size and liberated most of the Austrian-held Polish territory ?
text: Did you knowthat New York City -born mathematician Judith Roitman serves as the guiding teacher of the Kansas Zen Center?
text: Did you knowthat pitcher Bill Zuber was the winning pitcher for a game played on September 21, which gave the Boston Red Sox 100 victories for the 1946 season ?
text: Did you knowthat Edward Kennon replaced John S. Hunt, III, on the Louisiana Public Service Commission in 1972, and that both politicians were nephews of former Louisiana governors?
text: Did you knowthat the Zarah Leander film La Habanera takes place in 1937 Puerto Rico but was filmed in the Canaries during the Spanish Civil War ?
text: Did you knowthat the Thelon Wildlife Sanctuary is Canada 's largest wildlife refuge , covering 26,000 square miles (67,000 km²)?
text: Did you knowthat in the churchyard of Morwenstow Church is the preserved figurehead of the Scottish brig The Caledonia , which was shipwrecked nearby in 1843?
text: Did you knowthat the effects of head trauma on memory can be seen by the post-operative results of HM , a patient who has been unable to form any new long-term memories since a surgical procedure performed in the 1950s?
text: Did you knowthat the Rufous-crowned Sparrow , a medium-sized sparrow of the southwestern United States and Mexico , has a subspecies endemic to the Todos Santos Islands that has not been seen since the 1970s?
text: Did you knowthat the story of Stephen Foster visiting what is now My Old Kentucky Home State Park may have started in order to raise the sale value of the property?
text: Did you knowthat in the 1936 expansion of the Ronaldsway Airport , workers discovered a mass grave believed to hold the remains of soldiers who died during the 1275 Battle of Ronaldsway ?
text: Did you knowthat in 1924, English light heavyweight boxer Jack Bloomfield fought American Tommy Gibbons in the first ever boxing match to be held at London 's famed Wembley Stadium ?
text: Did you knowthat although the opposition gained 40% of the vote in the 1990 Mongolian legislative election , it only received 14% of the parliamentary seats?
text: Did you knowthat Queen Elizabeth II was given a Louisville Stoneware musical box at the 2007 Kentucky Derby ?
text: Did you knowthat Joan Ingpen and her pet dachshund Williams were the founding partners of the Ingpen & Williams classical music talent agency?
text: Did you knowthat the last ever train on the Plymouth to Launceston line failed to complete its journey on 29 December 1962 due to heavy snow?
text: Did you knowthat British Conservative MP Sir Adam Butler called in the receivers at the De Lorean Motor Company while serving as minister for economic development in Northern Ireland in 1982?
text: Did you knowthat Przemysław I Noszak , Duke of Cieszyn unsuccessfully tried to negotiate peace between England and France fighting the Hundred Years' War ?
text: Did you knowthat City Academy High School in Saint Paul, Minnesota , became the first charter school in the U.S. when it opened its doors to 30 students on September 7 , 1992 ?
text: Did you knowthat neurologist Michael Ashby , an expert witness for the prosecution in the 1957 trial of suspected serial killer John Bodkin Adams , was widely blamed for its failure because his evidence was too indecisive?
text: Did you knowthat Victoriatown , a Canadian village bulldozed by the Montreal government in preparation for Expo 67 , was used as a setting for Ha Jin 's award-winning novel, Waiting: a Novel ?
text: Did you knowthat, after helping enact abstinence-only sex education as a school board member, Colorado state senator Scott Renfroe attempted to amend statewide comprehensive sex ed standards to exempt schools in his native Weld County ?
text: Did you knowthat Alyosha Karamazov , the protagonist of Fyodor Dostoevsky 's The Brothers Karamazov , is based on Vladimir Solovyov , a Russian philosopher and poet?
text: Did you knowthat none of Louisville's fortifications for the American Civil War were ever used, as Louisville was never endangered while they existed?
text: Did you knowthat the German architect Walter Gropius visited Peru in order to attend a graduation ceremony at the National University of Engineering Faculty of Architecture ?
text: Did you knowthat in 1824, the Kentucky General Assembly responded to a disfavorable ruling by the Kentucky Court of Appeals by abolishing the court and replacing it with a new one ?
text: Did you knowthat James A. Martin was the world's oldest Jesuit priest at the time of his death at the age of 105 in 2007?
text: Did you knowthat preservationists moved the Boscobel mansion 15 miles (24 km) up the Hudson River to save it?
text: Did you knowthat after being convicted of first-degree murder in 2007, Jason Coday headbutted his own attorney in a Juneau , Alaska , court?
text: Did you knowthat the Texas AgriLife Extension Service , founded in 1914 as part of the Smith-Lever Act , is the largest Cooperative Extension Service agency in the U.S.?
text: Did you knowthat the Japanese make-up artist Shu Uemura gained critical acclaim for transforming actress Shirley MacLaine into a Japanese woman?
text: Did you knowthat Soviet literature declared Russian the " world language of internationalism ", denouncing French as the "language of fancy courtiers" and English as the "jargon of traders"?
text: Did you knowthat the ancient Olympic athlete Milo of Croton reportedly drank 10 liters of the Calabrian wine Cirò every day, and that the same wine is still being produced today?
text: Did you knowthat in O'Donnabhain v. Commissioner , the United States Tax Court is presented for the first time with the issue of whether sex reassignment surgery is tax deductible?
text: Did you knowthat fake names and scenes were given to actors auditioning for roles in the upcoming episode titled " Confirmed Dead " of the fourth season of ABC 's television series Lost to limit the leak of spoilers ?
text: Did you knowthat the more than two centuries old Gun and Shell Factory at Cossipore , a neighbourhood in north Kolkata , is the oldest surviving factory in the Indian subcontinent ?
text: Did you knowthat during the 1917 Kazan Gunpowder Plant fire , its manager Vsevolod Luknitski died after flooding explosives with water, in order to save the whole city from a major explosion?
text: Did you knowthat a large coastal defense gun was temporarily installed at Oregon's scenic Cape Perpetua during World War II ?
text: Did you knowthat of the members of Australia 's Quietly Confident Quartet that won the 4 × 100 m medley relay at the 1980 Olympics , Mark Tonelli , Mark Kerry and Neil Brooks were either suspended or expelled by the Australian Swimming Union while Peter Evans refused coaching orders to train harder?
text: Did you knowthat the St. James-Belgravia Historic District of Louisville, Kentucky , the site of the 1883-87 Southern Exposition , has buildings modeled after London 's Belgravia ?
text: Did you knowthat Lyrcus is the name shared by two ancient Greek figures?
text: Did you knowthat Omar Osama bin Laden , son of Osama bin Laden , has proposed a 3000-mile horse race to replace the Dakar rally , canceled the week before due to al-Qaeda threats?
text: Did you knowthat the Tingari cycle in Australian Aboriginal mythology embodies a vast network of Aboriginal Dreaming songlines that traverse the Western Desert region of Australia, and is frequently the subject of Aboriginal Art ?
text: Did you knowthat Republican Governor Bobby Jindal supported Joel Chaisson , a Democrat , to become the new president of the Louisiana State Senate ?
text: Did you knowthat a successful experimental system must be stable and reproducible enough for scientists to make sense of the system's behavior, but unpredictable enough that it can produce useful results?
text: Did you knowthat the trophy awarded to the first winners of Norwegian film award Amanda , at a weight of 4.5 kg (9.92 lbs), was difficult for some recipients to lift?
text: Did you knowthat future Soviet psychiatrist Yuri Nuller was sent into the Gulag for supposedly being recruited by the French secret service at the age of three?
text: Did you knowthat the Peter C. DuBois House in Beacon, New York was reused as a sanatorium for much of the 20th century?
text: Did you knowthat the unsuccessful, day-long Rebellion of Cao Qin within Beijing , China in 1461 forced the Tianshun Emperor to blockade the gates of the Forbidden City with debris stripped from the Imperial Waterway?
text: Did you knowthat British - American philanthropist Rhoda Pritzker reportedly wore a life preserver on her entire trans-Atlantic voyage to the United States in 1939 due to the threat of German U-boat attacks?
text: Did you knowthat the Italian government submitted the Medici villas (pictured) in Tuscany for designation as a World Heritage Site in 2006?
text: Did you knowthat one of the most important advances in medieval Islamic psychology was the establishment of the first psychiatric hospitals ?
text: Did you knowthat in Slavic vampire folklore , vampires could take the form of butterflies ?
text: Did you knowthat because of the laws pertaining to birth aboard aircraft and ships , that it is possible for a person born in a British ship, anchored at a United States port, with a Chinese father and a Turkish mother, to have quadruple nationality ?
text: Did you knowthat German -born Guenther Podola was the last man to be hanged in Britain for killing a police officer?
text: Did you knowthat the Koitsenko were the honorary elite of the Kiowa dog soldiers , who tribal lore says called themselves that because they had dreams or visions of dogs?
text: Did you knowthat the genus Entomocorus includes a catfish species that lives only one year?
text: Did you knowthat in the year 1214 , the Scot Ruaidhri mac Raghnaill , Lord of Kintyre , stole the treasures of Derry from its monastery ?
text: Did you knowthat Independence Day Award is the highest state award given by the Government of Bangladesh ?
text: Did you knowthat British Conservative politician Sir John Loveridge published poetry and exhibited paintings and sculpture after serving 13 years as a member of Parliament ?
text: Did you knowthat the Aboriginal Community Court is an Australian court which aims to reduce the overrepresentation of aboriginal criminal offenders in the justice system?
text: Did you knowthat because of Canada 's controversial cancellation of the Avro Arrow , 428 All Weather Fighter Squadron of the RCAF was disbanded on June 1 , 1961 ?
text: Did you knowthat New York Giants quarterback Harry Newman threw the first touchdown pass in an NFL Championship Game 75 years ago in the 1933 NFL Championship Game against the Chicago Bears ?
text: Did you knowthat less than two months after showing what would become the dress of the season for Spring 2006, Roland Mouret split from his backers and took a two-year hiatus from the fashion industry ?
text: Did you knowthat when San Francisco –based photographer William Rulofson fell to his death, he was heard to have exclaimed, "I am killed"?
text: Did you knowthat the passing lanes of the Arroyo Seco Parkway , California 's first freeway , were paved in a different color to encourage drivers to stay in their lanes?
text: Did you knowthat Terminonatator ponteixensis is the type and only species described for Terminonatator , a genus of elasmosaurid plesiosaur from Late Cretaceous of Saskatchewan , Canada ?
text: Did you knowthat the Cohocksink Creek was once the boundary between two Pennsylvania towns and now runs beneath the streets of the Philadelphia neighborhood of Northern Liberties ?
text: Did you knowthat 2002's Hurricane Elida was the first hurricane to be observed by the MERIS sensor aboard the ESA's satellite Envisat ?
text: Did you knowthat the former chief architect of Yerevan , Arthur Meschian , was also one of the founders of Armenian rock ?
text: Did you knowthat London's Gresham Club (1843—1991) was named after Sir Thomas Gresham , an Elizabethan merchant?
text: Did you knowthat violent, porno-chic fashion photography in French and Italian Vogue influenced the sexualized glamor of western cosmetics in the 1970s ?
text: Did you knowthat the San Francisco and San Mateo Electric Railway was San Francisco 's first electric streetcar company?
text: Did you knowthat the bobsleigh, luge, and skeleton track constructed for the 1976 Winter Olympics in Austria , was the first permanent, combination artificially refrigerated track?
text: Did you knowthat only the shorter of the two Berks and Hants Railway lines actually entered Hants , the longer being entirely in the county of Berks ?
text: Did you knowthat Danish film director Pernille Fischer Christensen ' s first feature film , about the relationship between a beauty shop owner and a transvestite, won a Silver Bear prize at the 2006 Berlin International Film Festival ?
text: Did you knowthat the type specimen of Dromicosuchus had damage to its jaw and neck that may have been inflicted by the teeth of the large carnivore it was found underneath?
text: Did you knowthat Tommy Johnson holds the record for the most goals scored by a Manchester City player in a single season?
text: Did you knowthat Solomon Bibo was a Prussian -born Jew who became the equivalent of tribal chief of the Acoma Pueblo ?
text: Did you knowthat Indian company Reliance Power attracted US$27.5 billion of bids on the first day of its initial public offering (IPO), equivalent to 10.5 times the stock on offer, thereby creating India 's IPO record?
text: Did you knowthat the statue of King Louis XVI built in 1829, currently at the Metro Hall in Louisville, Kentucky ,  was endangered by the Second French Revolution in 1830?
text: Did you knowthat Midford Castle was built in the shape of the ace of clubs (♣)?
text: Did you knowthat Edwin Q. Cannon was sent by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints as a missionary to establish the first LDS churches in West Africa ?
text: Did you knowthat FPT University , a college in Ho Chi Minh City specializing in information technology , became the first private university in Vietnam when it was established in 2006?
text: Did you knowthat Scottish film actor Moultrie Kelsall played a pivotal role in saving the dilapidated Menstrie Castle in Clackmannanshire from demolition?
text: Did you knowthat during the reign of Beorhtwulf of Mercia , London , the chief trading centre of Mercia , was attacked twice, in 842 and again in 851, by Viking armies?
text: Did you knowthat football manager Yvon Pouliquen led two clubs to victory in the French Cup Final and relegation from the top division in consecutive seasons?
text: Did you knowthat the 1956 My Fair Lady by Shelly Manne & His Friends was the first album ever made consisting entirely of jazz versions of tunes from a single Broadway musical ?
text: Did you knowthat after Comanche prophet Isa-tai promised a coalition of Native American warriors they would be invulnerable in battle and they lost, he blamed a Cheyenne killing a skunk for negating his magic?
text: Did you knowthat the Japanese visual novel True Tears was adapted into an animated television series that is planned to consist of thirteen episodes ?
text: Did you knowthat the One Child Policy of the People's Republic of China is based on Ma Yinchu ' s New Population Theory, which was criticized by the government after its publication in 1957?
text: Did you knowthat Stubbins Ffirth drank vomit and smeared bodily fluids over himself in an attempt to prove that yellow fever was not contagious ?
text: Did you knowthat the death from disease in 951 of Gofraid mac Sitriuc , King of Dublin , was described as divine vengeance for his attack on the Abbey of Kells earlier in the year?
text: Did you knowthat the military operation against the dervish forces of Mohammed Abdullah Hassan , commonly known as the "Mad Mullah", was described by a British politician as "the cheapest war in history"?
text: Did you knowthat Milwaukee Hawks player Don Boven fouled out of six consecutive NBA games in 1952—a record that still stands?
text: Did you knowthat Italian explorer Rafael Perestrello , a cousin of Christopher Columbus , sailed on behalf of Portugal and established trading relationships for that country with the Ming Dynasty in China in 1516?
text: Did you knowthat the Two Ladies was a euphemism used for the Ancient Egyptian deities Wadjet and Nekhbet , represented on the royal crowns of the merged Upper and Lower Egypt as a cobra and a vulture , respectively?
text: Did you knowthat Inuit fur trader Stephen Angulalik sold umbrellas and parasols at his trading post in Northern Canada , which were covered in white cotton and used by hunters to sneak up on sleeping seals ?
text: Did you knowthat Kirill Eskov named a genus from the Linyphiidae spider family discovered by him in 1988 after Kikimora , a female spirit in Slavic mythology ?
text: Did you knowthat Ong Kim Seng is the only Asian artist outside the USA to be admitted into the American Watercolor Society, having won six awards from the society?
text: Did you knowthat Ralph Heikkinen was the first All-American football player from the Upper Peninsula of Michigan , being raised in the Finnish-American communities of the Gogebic Range ?
text: Did you knowthat the new BBC Two sitcom Never Better has been unfavourably compared with other dark sitcoms such as Curb Your Enthusiasm and Lead Balloon ?
text: Did you knowthat the English historian Sir Raymond Carr was knighted for services to History in the New Year Honours List , 1987?
text: Did you knowthat an Enoteca , from the Italian for wine library , is a shop that offers tourists and visitors the opportunity to sample local wines for a reasonable fee?
text: Did you knowthat the Ottoman frigate Ertuğrul disaster, which occurred in 1890 off Kushimoto , led to strengthening foreign relations between Turkey and Japan ?
text: Did you knowthat amphibious tanks which were used on D-Day were developed by Nicholas Straussler from Hungary ?
text: Did you knowthat Umberto Boccioni 's Unique Forms of Continuity in Space pays homage to Auguste Rodin 's Walking Man ?
text: Did you knowthat the weedy scorpionfish can vary considerably in color as well as appendages depending on its environment?
text: Did you knowthat the Matisse Museum in Le Cateau was created by Henri Matisse himself in 1952?
text: Did you knowthat it is expected to take 17 years to design and build the first of Australia's new submarines ?
text: Did you knowthat investment banker John P. Clay pursued his interest in Sanskrit literature by endowing the Clay Sanskrit Library , a 100-volume series of Sanskrit works translated into English?
text: Did you knowthat surface weather observations play a key role in determining aircraft safety at airports?
text: Did you knowthat Tommy Fleming was inducted into the American Soccer Hall of Fame in 2005, one of five soccer players unanimously selected to represent overlooked players from before the 1950s?
text: Did you knowthat Abani Mukherji , co-founder of the Communist Party of India , was executed by the Soviet Union as part of the Great Purge ?
text: Did you knowthat Stanfield Wells was the first of more than ten All-American football players from Washington High School in Massillon, Ohio ?
text: Did you knowthat a coal mining spoil heap at Writhlington , England was the site for the discovery of fossilised remains of the world's earliest known Damselfly ?
text: Did you knowthat Richard C. McCarty helped launch the " Decade of Behavior " campaign to bring attention to the importance of behavioral and social research ?
text: Did you knowthat Charles Moir ' s first recruit as Roanoke College 's basketball coach was Frankie Allen , who would eventually succeed Moir as head coach of Virginia Tech and become the school's first African American head coach?
text: Did you knowthat the extinct Greenlandic Norse language is believed to have left loanwords in Kalaallisut ?
text: Did you knowthat Mohammad Shukri played for the Malaysian Under-15 cricket team at the age of 18, and for the Under-19 team at the age of 20?
text: Did you knowthat Adelaide Johnson , sculptor of a memorial to women's suffrage in the US Capitol , was married in 1896 by a female minister, with two of her busts as bridesmaids?
text: Did you knowthat the Directa Decretal (385 AD) was a strongly-worded letter by Pope Siricius reminding priests of the perpetual celibacy required of them?
text: Did you knowthat graphic artist Rea Irvin ' s portrait of Eustace Tilly , a dandy peering at a butterfly through a monocle , appeared on the debut issue of The New Yorker in 1925, and annually each February until 1994?
text: Did you knowthat the vote by Stanley Forman Reed to join the majority in Brown v. Board of Education made the ruling unanimous,  helping to win public acceptance for the decision?
text: Did you knowthat two teenage brothers from Poland escaped in 1985 to Sweden under a truck, and this event was presented in a 1989 film 300 Miles to Heaven ?
text: Did you knowthat the landmark 1924 case Tournier v National Provincial and Union Bank of England clarified English law on the obligations that a bank has to protect the confidentiality of its customers?
text: Did you knowthat the supermassive black hole at the center of the quasar OJ287 has been measured to be 18 billion times the mass of the Sun , six times heavier than the previous record holder?
text: Did you knowthat Karachi ’s Lyari River is the major contributor to the annual discharge of 200 million gallons of sewage and Industrial waste into the Arabian Sea ?
text: Did you knowthat Cliff Friend co-wrote " The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down ", the theme tune of the Looney Tunes cartoon series?
text: Did you knowthat Chardonnay grapes are very neutral in flavor with many of the characteristics commonly associated with Chardonnay wine being derived from influences like terroir and the use of oak during winemaking ?
text: Did you knowthat London 's St James's Club (1857–1978) was claimed to be the only gentlemen's club with a room devoted solely to backgammon ?
text: Did you knowthat the traditional song Happy Birthday to You was first sung at the Little Loomhouse of Louisville, Kentucky ?
text: Did you knowthat before Nielsen BookScan began tracking point of sale data at bookstores, nobody knew how many copies were being sold of literary works that were published by multiple publishers and had entered the public domain ?
text: Did you knowthat when World War I aviator Stephen W. Thompson downed an Imperial German Army Air Service Albatros D.III on February 5 , 1918 , he became the first American to ever shoot down an enemy airplane?
text: Did you knowthat Sydney's Alexandra Canal is an artificial waterway originally planned to join Sydney Harbour to Botany Bay ?
text: Did you knowthat when Manolo Reyes created and hosted one of South Florida 's first Spanish-language newscasts in 1960, the station received a number of complaints from non-Spanish speakers?
text: Did you knowthat St John the Evangelist's Church, Weston , Runcorn , Cheshire is known as "The Choirboys' Church" because its choirboys wrote thousands of letters to raise money to build it?
text: Did you knowthat years after Adolph Spreckels shot M. H. de Young , the California Palace of the Legion of Honor (which he donated) and the De Young Museum merged to form the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco ?
text: Did you knowthat three different Somali government organizations have sold rights for oil exploration in Puntland in the last three years?
text: Did you knowthat under the guidance of civil engineer Eugène Belgrand , Paris 's sewer system expanded four-fold between 1852 and 1869?
text: Did you knowthat one of the classifications used in proxemics is the classification of spaces into sociofugal or sociopetal spaces (the names being analogues of the words " centrifugal " and " centripetal ")?
text: Did you knowthat as well as being the only contemporary anthology of 17th century Scottish Gaelic verse, the Fernaig manuscript is written in a form of English orthography unique to the author?
text: Did you knowthat Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theater , which ran on CBS from 1956 – 1961 , had five spin-off series , the most successful having been Chuck Connors ' The Rifleman , which ran on ABC from 1958 – 1963 ?
text: Did you knowthat writer Ngaire Thomas was forced at the age of 15 to apologise in front of 600 members of her church congregation for " fornicating " with her cousin, when in fact she had only kissed him?
text: Did you knowthat Peter de Villiers was named coach of South Africa 's national rugby union team, the Springboks , in January 2008, the first ever black coach of the team?
text: Did you knowthat Louisville's Eleven Jones Cave is the only known location for the Louisville cave beetle , Pseudanophthalmus troglodytes ?
text: Did you knowthat "Big" Alma Spreckels once successfully sued an ex-lover for "personal defloweration "?
text: Did you knowthat the church of Hagia Thekla in Constantinople , now a mosque , was rebuilt by Emperor Isaac I Komnenos as thanks for surviving a hunting accident?
text: Did you knowthat the six episodes of the Japanese original video animation series FLCL were produced by the FLCL Production Committee, which included Gainax , Production I.G , and Starchild Records?
text: Did you knowthat Hurricane Henri of 1979 was only one of four tropical cyclones in the 20th century to enter the Gulf of Mexico and not make landfall ?
text: Did you knowthat Alameda Street was built by Los Angeles County, California as a "truck boulevard" to the port ?
text: Did you knowthat Jeffrey Miles , a chief justice in Australia, once heard a case in which a woman sought damages for losing the opportunity to work as a prostitute following a fall in a supermarket?
text: Did you knowthat American lyric soprano Helen Jepson was first soprano on the original recording of Porgy and Bess ?
text: Did you knowthat Böttcherstrasse in Bremen , Germany , is an unusual ensemble of expressionist architecture ?
text: Did you knowthat at age 13 Susy Clemens wrote a biography of her father Mark Twain that was included in his posthumously published work, Chapters from my Autobiography ?
text: Did you knowthat the Chief Industrial Magistrate's Court heard the first Australian criminal prosecution of a bank for failing to protect its employees from armed holdups by improving safety at branches?
text: Did you knowthat Towson (Md.) Methodist Church 's membership split in two for 90 years after a dispute over the American Civil War ?
text: Did you knowthat Capitol Offense , the rock band of Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee , has opened for REO Speedwagon , Percy Sledge , Willie Nelson , and even Grand Funk Railroad ?
text: Did you knowthat Lorenzo Sawyer was the first judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ?
text: Did you knowthat the main house of the Thaddeus Hait Farm is built of wood and stone, an unusual combination in a Federal style building?
text: Did you knowthat Blessed Veronica of Milan unsuccessfully tried to teach herself to read until an apparition of the Virgin told her that spiritual lessons were more important?
text: Did you knowthat Hurricane Ava was the first Pacific hurricane flown into by NOAA aircraft?
text: Did you knowthat since its original completion in 1972, the bobsleigh, luge, and skeleton track in Oberhof, Germany has undergone three separate renovations ?
text: Did you knowthat two new amphibious warfare ships of Australia to be added to the nation's fleet starting in 2012 will each be able to carry an entire infantry battalion and up to 16 helicopters?
text: Did you knowthat The Expert at the Card Table , one of the most famous books on magic and card tricks, was written in 1902 by S. W. Erdnase , an author whose identity has been an enduring mystery for over 100 years?
text: Did you knowthat Robert Campbell Reeve , the founder of Reeve Aleutian Airways , set a new world record for the highest landing of a ski equipped aircraft at 8,750 feet (2,667 m) on Mount Lucania in 1937?
text: Did you knowthat the Koca Mustafa Pasha Mosque in Istanbul features a cypress tree with a chain that was swung between two people who gave contradictory statements to determine which one was telling the truth?
text: Did you knowthat William Melmoth ' s 1711 work The Great Importance of a Religious Life Consider'd went through thirty editions and sold over 420,000 copies by the end of the century?
text: Did you knowthat Polly Horvath 's award-winning 2001 children's novel Everything on a Waffle tells the story of Primrose Squarp, an 11-year old girl whose parents are lost in a typhoon?
text: Did you knowthat Hurricane Greg caused one of Mexico 's highest rainfall totals from a Pacific hurricane ?
text: Did you knowthat the original land deed requires that a jail cell from the original Dutchess County courthouse be preserved in the current building?
text: Did you knowthat the Nepalese Maoist Newar National Liberation Front sponsored the 'Miss Newa ' beauty pageant despite having previously demonstrated against it?
text: Did you knowthat London 's historic United University Club (1821-1972) is now occupied by the London Centre of the University of Notre Dame ?
text: Did you knowthat Francisco de Quevedo 's 1626 novel El Buscón , a major work of Spanish literature , was published without the permission of the author?
text: Did you knowthat Operation Camargue , one of the largest operations of the First Indochina War , failed to snare the Viet-Minh 's Regiment 95?
text: Did you knowthat in 1920, George Shima was dubbed "The Potato King" as he controlled 85% of California 's potato market?
text: Did you knowthat Think! , the Jeopardy! theme song by show creator Merv Griffin , has earned over $70 million in royalties since it debuted in 1964?
text: Did you knowthat Vereniging Basisinkomen is an organization that advocates granting all Dutch residents a guaranteed minimum income ?
text: Did you knowthat Mike Trinh , an American attorney who represents a Guantanamo detainee on a pro bono basis, studied under Viet Dinh , author of the Patriot Act ?
text: Did you knowthat Le chemin de fer , a piano composition by Charles-Valentin Alkan , is the first musical depiction of a railway ?
text: Did you knowthat Hugh Denis Macrossan was one of Queensland 's shortest serving chief justices , a post also held by his brother and his nephew?
text: Did you knowthat Catherine O'Flynn 's mystery novel What Was Lost won the First Novel Award at the 2007 Costa Book Awards ?
text: Did you knowthat R.E.M. guitarist Peter Buck wanted to produce Uncle Tupelo 's album March 16–20, 1992 after seeing the band perform a cover version of the Louvin Brothers ' "Great Atomic Power"?
text: Did you knowthat American mathematician and classical pianist Leonard Gillman received his Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1953, a decade after completing the required coursework ?
text: Did you knowthat the captain of the steamboat Natchez would increase his boat's speed by putting bacon and hog fat in its engines, and giving his men whiskey ?
text: Did you knowthat Pachycheilosuchus , an Early Cretaceous crocodile relative , was less than a meter (3.3 ft ) long and had an armored neck?
text: Did you knowthat the Hebrew term Illui , meaning genius, refers to Talmud scholars held in the highest regard?
text: Did you knowthat Traffic in Towns , a 1963 report by the UK Department of Transport , warned of damage to town centres by car traffic, and offered solutions to the problem?
text: Did you knowthat as part of the redesign of the Grand Staircase in the Truman -era White House , architect Lorenzo Winslow developed a series of maquettes , detailed scale models showing the proposed designs?
text: Did you knowthat the current Australian prime minister and treasurer both attended Nambour State High School ?
text: Did you knowthat even as he embarked on a 24-year career in the U.S. Congress , William Alden Smith oversaw construction of the Grand Rapids, Kalkaska and Southeastern Railroad ?
text: Did you knowthat the Noric language is attested in only two inscriptions, one from Grafenstein , Austria , and the other from Ptuj , Slovenia ?
text: Did you knowthat New York City 's General Motors Building sold for the record high price of $ 1.4 billion in 2003?
text: Did you knowthat Hermann Göring's chief art looter, Bruno Lohse , controlled a secret vault of looted paintings, discovered in Zurich in May 2007?
text: Did you knowthat the Rural City of Marong , a local government in Victoria , Australia , voted itself out of existence in 1994?
text: Did you knowthat Doris Day rejected an offer to star in the 1957 biopic The Helen Morgan Story with Paul Newman , refusing to portray the sordid story of a character that conflicted with Day's on-screen persona?
text: Did you knowthat the Portuguese conquest of the Jaffna Kingdom led to all the remaining royal descendants becoming nuns and monks in holy orders?
text: Did you knowthat Sir Christopher Chancellor was selected to lead the Reuters news agency in 1944, after keeping the agency's reporting from China operating during the seven years following the Japanese invasion ?
text: Did you knowthat the BBC have used Appreciation Index ratings to gauge reactions of children to their programming?
text: Did you knowthat the French flying boat Breguet 730 was designed in the 1930s, but didn't enter service in the French Navy until after the end of World War II due to the German occupation of that country?
text: Did you knowthat, before building the landmark Gandy Bridge , George Gandy was known for building a large successful theatre, originally derided as "Gandy's White Elephant"?
text: Did you knowthat Bruce Barton , in his bestselling 1925 book, The Man Nobody Knows , portrayed Jesus as "the founder of modern business"?
text: Did you knowthat despite dropping out of a screenwriting course at university before graduating, Christopher B. Landon went on to write the box office hit film Disturbia ?
text: Did you knowthat Spanish officer Félix María Calleja del Rey was named "Count of Calderón" after leading his outnumbered forces to victory at the Battle of Calderón Bridge in the Mexican War of Independence ?
text: Did you knowthat Eric John Underwood spent 30 years researching the effects of sulphur , botulism and the nutritional value of hay on sheep at Avondale Agricultural Research Station ?
text: Did you knowthat the Maniot pirate , Limberakis Gerakaris , was twice held as a prisoner by the Ottomans and spent the last fourteen years of his life as a Venetian prisoner?
text: Did you knowthat freestyle swimmer Kim Peyton , a gold medalist at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal , won a gold medal at the 1971 Pan American Games at age 14 and set three U.S. swimming records at ages 9 and 10?
text: Did you knowthat the influence of Ancient Greece on wine has played a formidable role in the history of nearly every major European wine region and of wine itself ?
text: Did you knowthat Eric Clapton 's guest appearance playing lead guitar on " While My Guitar Gently Weeps " was uncredited?
text: Did you knowthat the Anglo-Bavarian Brewery , constructed in Somerset in 1864 and now designated as an historic site, was the first brewery in Britain to produce lager ?
text: Did you knowthat Paul Worley , a Grammy Award -winning country music record producer and guitarist, got his start in the 1970s playing guitar for Janie Fricke and Eddy Raven ?
text: Did you knowthat the Canal de Marseille , built in 1849, is an 80 kilometres (50 mi) canal which runs through Provence to bring water from the Durance to Marseille , in France ?
text: Did you knowthat David O. Selznick acquired the rights to make 1957's A Farewell to Arms from Warner Bros. by trading the foreign rights to remake A Star Is Born that Selznick owned and Warner needed?
text: Did you knowthat Ric Williamson , the departed chairman of the Texas Transportation Commission advocated toll roads , including the controversial Trans-Texas Corridor , to increase his state's highway capacity?
text: Did you knowthat The Hazel Scott Show was the first U.S. network television series to be hosted by a black woman?
text: Did you knowthat despite multiple transfers of ownership, after 123 years trains still haul paper products over the White River Railroad 's line?
text: Did you knowthat Tabasco sauce heir John Avery McIlhenny stepped down as president of his family's company to serve in Theodore Roosevelt 's Rough Riders volunteer cavalry regiment in 1898?
text: Did you knowthat Englishman Christopher Merret wrote the first description of the méthode champenoise used to make sparkling wine , long before it was documented in the Champagne region of France ?
text: Did you knowthat Sara Gagliardi has introduced legislation in the Colorado House of Representatives to allow residents of that state to opt out from receiving junk mail ?
text: Did you knowthat Rastafarian Papa Noel Dyer , known as "the man who walked to Ethiopia " from England , actually hitchhiked ?
text: Did you knowthat some fish diseases are caused by carnivorous algae feeding on living prey?
text: Did you knowthat Alpine Club president Edward Lisle Strutt called the north face of the Eiger "an obsession for the mentally deranged of almost every nation"?
text: Did you knowthat although American law requires proof of a defendant 's " guilty mind " as an element of the crime , it is not concerned with motive ?
text: Did you knowthat Sir Condor Laucke was a member of the Parliament of South Australia and a President of the Australian Senate before serving as Lieutenant Governor of South Australia?
text: Did you knowthat no commercial boat has beaten the steamboat Robert E. Lee's 1870 speed record between New Orleans and St. Louis of 90 hours and 14 minutes to this day?
text: Did you knowthat a shell stitch is a crochet motif often used for decorative borders?
text: Did you knowthat before he died, Dr William Oliver gave his coachman £100, 10 sacks of flour and a recipe for a type of biscuit named after its inventor that is still eaten today?
text: Did you knowthat Canada and the Soviet Union were disqualified from the 1987 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships following the Punch-up in Piestany , costing Canada a potential gold medal?
text: Did you knowthat a pig named King Neptune helped raise $ 19 million in war bonds between 1942 and 1946?
text: Did you knowthat despite not being the most favored version of the three Mazda AZ-550 concept cars unveiled at the 1989 Tokyo Motor Show , the "Type A" ended up being selected for production?
text: Did you knowthat the Tuanku Ja'afar Cup was a cricket tournament contested by the national sides of Hong Kong , Malaysia , Singapore and Thailand from 1991-2004, and was won by Hong Kong in 9 of the 14 competitions?
text: Did you knowthat French physician Edme Castaing is thought to have been the first person to commit murder using morphine , 18 years after it was discovered?
text: Did you knowthat Nicholas de Balmyle , former Chancellor of Scotland , became Bishop of Dunblane in 1307 when he was likely in his 70s, but nevertheless lived on to hold the position for at least another 12 years?
text: Did you knowthat the Cascade Locks and Canal , completed in 1896 to allow the steamboats of the Columbia River to bypass the Cascades Rapids , were submerged in 1938, when the Bonneville Dam was constructed?
text: Did you knowafter years of studying airflow at supersonic speeds, Adolf Busemann suggested that aerodynamicists, who had forgotten his swept wing work until they got together again during Operation Paperclip , need to become ' pipe fitters '?
text: Did you knowthat Earl Bakken who invented the wearable cardiac pacemaker and co-founded Medtronic also created The Bakken , the world's only library and museum devoted to electricity in life?
text: Did you knowthat the Hoornbeek Store Complex in Napanoch, New York reflects the transition from the Federal style to Greek Revival in American architecture ?
text: Did you knowthat the Supreme Court ruled in United States v. Wheeler that the Constitution alone did not give the government of the United States the authority to prosecute kidnappers ?
text: Did you knowthat Tom Wolfe left Farrar, Straus and Giroux , his publisher for 42 years and 13 books, to make a deal with Little, Brown and Company for his forthcoming novel Back to Blood ?
text: Did you knowthat the Ladies' Confederate Memorial in Lexington, Kentucky was described by Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper as "the most perfect thing of its kind in the South"?
text: Did you knowthat the Battle of Dombås was a German attempt during the 1940 Norwegian Campaign at using Fallschirmjägers to cut rail and road links in central Norway ?
text: Did you knowthat Leo Laliman , while accredited for the solution to the Great French Wine Blight , was thought by many people to have introduced the pest which caused the blight ?
text: Did you knowthat former The Daily Telegraph obituaries editor Hugh Massingberd reshaped the style of the British obituary from a reverential recital of biographical data to a cunningly witty yet deadpan narrative on the decedent 's life?
text: Did you knowthat actor Loren Dean won a Theatre World Award in 1989 for his Off Broadway debut in the play Amulets Against the Dragon Forces ?
text: Did you knowthat of the vast Silva Carbonaria , "the charcoal forest" that stretched from south of Brussels to the Rhine in Merovingian days, 44.21 km² still remains in the Forêt de Soignes/Zoniënwoud ?
text: Did you knowthat in parts of the Kerala Backwaters the paddy fields are at a lower level than the water in canals, held back by dikes ?
text: Did you knowthat 19th century magician and vaudeville star Anton Zamloch was accused, and then exonerated, of having "bewitched" a woman's wedding ring from her gloved hand?
text: Did you knowthat in the 1783 Peace of Paris , the Dutch Republic granted to Great Britain unobstructed navigation rights in the eastern seas?
text: Did you knowthat Australian poet and writer, Dame Mary Gilmore recorded her childhood memories of  the dispossession of the Wiradjuri people and the destruction of native habitat by European settlers around Wagga Wagga ?
text: Did you knowthat in 1957, Art Houtteman was called "a pitcher of considerable promise" by Hal Lebovitz despite playing in his 12th and final Major League season that year?
text: Did you knowthat the Workers and Peasants Party leader K.N. Joglekar successfully moved a resolution that the Indian National Congress should demand full independence for India ?
text: Did you knowthat the 1980s oil glut caused the world price of oil, which had peaked during the 1979 energy crisis at over US$35 per barrel, to dip below US$15 in the early 1980s?
text: Did you knowthat a former principal of Tubman Elementary School in Washington, D.C. received a national award for her work which included a discipline program featuring a due process system for punishment referrals?
text: Did you knowthat Humphrey Chetham founded Chetham's Library , the oldest public library in the English -speaking world?
text: Did you knowthat Tiefland , Leni Riefenstahl ’s last full-feature film ,  made it into the Guiness Book of World Records on account of its long production time?
text: Did you knowthat Reeve Aleutian Airways was started with a down payment of $3,000 on one DC-3 aircraft , and that Robert Campbell Reeve , the founder, earned enough money in 53 days to purchase the aircraft outright and buy another three aircraft?
text: Did you knowthat the sitcom pilot Free Agents is likely to become the third show from Channel 4's Comedy Showcase to be given a full series?
text: Did you knowthat the East End Historic District in Newburgh, New York , has the most contributing properties of any Registered Historic District in the state?
text: Did you knowthat the site of Endymion 's cave, where Selene 's beloved sleeps forever, a sanctuary on the slopes of Latmus , still exists in Aydin Province , southwestern Turkey ?
text: Did you knowthat two local Christians stopped by the dedication ceremony for Spring Glen Synagogue 's Torah scrolls and presented the congregation with a Bible ?
text: Did you knowthat the BMW R1150GS motorcycle was used by Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman on their 2004 Long Way Round ride from London to New York ?
text: Did you knowthat the Wellsville, Addison and Galeton Railroad was also known as "The Sole Leather Line"?
text: Did you knowthat football midfielder Evan Berger was nominated for an informal Australia Day award by his local council for representing Australia in the national under-20 team ?
text: Did you knowthat the unofficial representative of Soviet Russia in the USA , Ludwig Martens , created an illegal Soviet Bureau that established links with more than one thousand American firms including J.P. Morgan banks?
text: Did you knowthat although Were Ilu served as an organizing point for the Ethiopian army at the beginning of the First Italo-Abyssinian War , as late as 1962 this settlement was connected to nearby towns by only trails ?
text: Did you knowthat the drowning of Edwin, son of Edward the Elder , half-brother of King Athelstan of England , in 933 was described as an execution and a suicide by medieval English historians ?
text: Did you knowthat after losing the Battle of Toba-Fushimi in Japan's 1868 Boshin War , Shogun Tokugawa Yoshinobu took refuge on the USS Iroquois rather than spend the night in Osaka Castle ?
text: Did you knowthat All-American end Ed Frutig was the main pass receiver for Heisman Trophy winner Tom Harmon from 1938-1940?
text: Did you knowthat Bury Castle in Greater Manchester was razed to the ground in 1485, 16 years after it was built, because its owner supported the losing side in the Wars of the Roses ?
text: Did you knowthat the Louisville and Portland Canal , opened in 1830, was the first major improvement completed on a major river of the United States ?
text: Did you knowthat former Red Army Faction terrorist Stefan Wisniewski escaped from a reform school seven times in one year in his youth?
text: Did you knowthat the Paw Paw Railroad was the shortest common carrier railroad in Michigan ?
text: Did you knowthat Joseph Lazarow , then mayor of Atlantic City, New Jersey , shook over 11,000 hands in one day to break Theodore Roosevelt 's record of 8,513?
text: Did you knowthat the 2002 Pi Glilot bombing in Tel Aviv was a failed terror attack at a gas depot that could have killed thousands ?
text: Did you knowthat in 1908 Eulabee Dix painted the last portrait from life of Mark Twain ?
text: Did you knowthat the Labour Kisan Party of Hindustan organised India 's first May Day celebrations in 1923?
text: Did you knowthat after being ousted as mayor of Georgetown, Colorado , Koleen Brooks posed topless for Playboy ?
text: Did you knowthat fishes from the genus Alepes are characterised by a curve in their lateral line ?
text: Did you knowthat the anarcho-syndicalist Argentine Workers' Federation was the country's first national labor confederation ?
text: Did you knowthat E. S. Kennedy – a founding member of London 's Alpine Club – proposed a modification to the mountaineering ice axe based on the American backwoodsman's axe ?
text: Did you knowthat actor Noah Bean says he was so shy as a child that his school asked his parents if there was something wrong at home?
text: Did you knowthat with a rapidly declining birth rate , Japan 's elderly, with the world's highest proportion at 20% of the population, is expected to double to 40% of residents by 2055 ?
text: Did you knowthat although Hillary Clinton has fewer delegates than John Edwards to the state convention of the 2008 Iowa Democratic Caucuses , she would receive one more to the national convention?
text: Did you knowthat Storm 91C of 2006 has been classified a tropical , subtropical , and extratropical cyclone ?
text: Did you knowthat the actors in the film Planet of Dinosaurs had to sign partial payment deferments on their contracts, because most of the budget was spent on stop motion dinosaurs ?
text: Did you knowthat the kitchen of the Conde-Charlotte House was originally constructed in 1822 to be the first courthouse and jail of Mobile, Alabama ?
text: Did you knowthat George the Hagiorite from Georgia who became Saint George to the Georgian Orthodox Church had his biography written in 1084 by a disciple who was called George ?
text: Did you knowthat before brick became available as a building material , churches in medieval Northern Europe were commonly built with glacial erratics and rubble ?
text: Did you knowthat in only his second Major League start, Dick Selma threw a New York Mets franchise record 13 strikeouts in a 10-inning shutout victory?
text: Did you knowthat Bombardment of Algiers , an oil-on-canvas by Thomas Luny , depicts the titular battle in which over 1000 Christians were liberated from slavery in Algeria ?
text: Did you knowthat Job Charnock landed at Jorabagan , Sutanuti ghat in 1690, which is believed by many to be the starting point of the metropolitan growth of Kolkata ?
text: Did you knowthat painter Herman Rose was noted for his Impressionistic portraits, created by painting large numbers of small blurry squares to create his highly detailed images of cityscapes ?
text: Did you knowthat Vorpostenboot , the patrol boats that the Kriegsmarine used in World War II , were in fact modified fishing ships?
text: Did you knowthat the Japanese role-playing game Night Wizard! was adapted into an animated television series consisting of thirteen episodes ?
text: Did you knowthat Bunscoill Ghaelgagh is the only primary school that teaches only in the Manx language ?
text: Did you knowthat the Little Guilin in Singapore is given its name because of its resemblance to the scenery in Guilin , China ?
text: Did you knowthat Winston's Hiccup refers to the huge zigzag in Jordan ’s eastern border with Saudi Arabia , supposedly because Winston Churchill hiccuped as he drew the boundary of Transjordan after a generous and lengthy lunch?
text: Did you knowthat the Sturmtrupp-Pfadfinder , founded in 1926, was the first coed Scout association in Germany, and that they had strong ties to Scouts in the United States, Great Britain, the Netherlands and Scandinavia?
text: Did you knowthat Sir James Hutchison , known as the " Pimpernel of the Maquis " for his liaison work with the French Resistance , was so well known to the Gestapo that he had plastic surgery before being parachuted into France after D-Day?
text: Did you knowthat despite its northern location, the Ahr produces more red wine from grapes like Pinot noir than any other wine region in Germany ?
text: Did you knowthat Pearson's Candy Company , a Saint Paul, Minnesota confectioner , once produced the Seven Up Bar and the Chicken Dinner Bar?
text: Did you knowthat upon his 1915 arrest from the lines of the 12th Cavalry at Meerut , Vishnu Ganesh Pingle is said to have had enough explosives to blow up an entire regiment?
text: Did you knowthat Ælfwynn became the second woman to rule the Mercians when her mother Æthelflæd died in 918 , but was deposed by King Edward the Elder and sent into exile in December of that year?
text: Did you knowthat when Rudolf Rocker became the editor of the short-lived Yiddish anarchist newspaper Dos Fraye Vort , he did not speak Yiddish?
text: Did you knowthat the amino acid glutamine can be broken down to produce glutamate , aspartate , carbon dioxide , pyruvate , lactate , alanine and citrate ?
text: Did you knowthat James Duncan helped co-found both the American Federation of Labor and the International Labor Organization ?
text: Did you knowthat the Warsaw Armoured Motorized Brigade of the Polish Army during the German invasion in 1939, was commanded by Stefan Rowecki , who later became the first commander of the Polish resistance Armia Krajowa ?
text: Did you knowthat during the American Civil War, Indiana , a Northern state, saw one township secede from the Union?
text: Did you knowthat the West India Fruit and Steamship Company ' s ferries carried cars and rail freight between the United States and Cuba until the American embargo on trade with Cuba ?
text: Did you knowthat children 's TV show Supernormal was developed by the creators of the controversial internet cartoon Happy Tree Friends ?
text: Did you knowthat the 1951 Polish-Soviet territorial exchange was one of the biggest border corrections in Europe after 1945?
text: Did you knowthat although South African rugby union player Werner Greeff scored only four tries , one of them was named his country's try of the year in 2002?
text: Did you knowthat the Canadian Order of Military Merit has three different classes?
text: Did you knowthat Siam Park , a water park under construction in Adeje , Tenerife , will have the world's largest collection of Thai buildings outside Thailand ?
text: Did you knowthat, despite being added to California's state highway system in 1933, the portion of State Route 190 over the Sierra Nevada remains unconstructed?
text: Did you knowthat in addition to the 22 suspects listed by the Los Angeles District Attorney in the notorious unsolved Black Dahlia case of 1947, about 60 people confessed to the crime?
text: Did you knowthat the Genoese troubadour Simon Doria was podestà of both Savona and Albenga ?
text: Did you knowthat New Zealand rugby union footballer Ali Williams did not start playing until he was aged 17, but earned three international caps before he was 22?
text: Did you knowthat John "Jack" Frost , the highest-scoring South African Air Force ace of World War II , went missing in action, and his body and plane have never been found?
text: Did you knowthat the 49th Hutsul Rifle Regiment of the Polish Army destroyed a large part of the SS Germania Regiment, in a night bayonet attack during the Polish September Campaign ?
text: Did you knowthat Czech figure skater Petr Barna was the first to successfully land a quadruple jump in Olympic competition, at the 1992 games ?
text: Did you knowthat in Greek mythology , Dorus is the name of the son of Hellen who was the eponymous founder of the Dorians ?
text: Did you knowthat Colorado state representative Cherylin Peniston won two Fulbright Scholarships while a public school teacher?
text: Did you knowthat coach Harry Kipke had to travel to the home of All-American Maynard Morrison in 1930 to seek his father's permission to switch Morrison from a fullback to a center ?
text: Did you knowthat the Roman emperor Probus may have introduced Syrah vines to the Côte-Rôtie wine region with cuttings from the Sicilian province of Syracuse ?
text: Did you knowthat the first major international chess tournament took place in London in 1851?
text: Did you knowthat California State Route 174 , which includes a historic 1924 bridge, was not designated a State Scenic Highway due to opposition by residents concerned about their property rights ?
text: Did you knowthat Helen Abbott Michael , originally trained as a pianist , became a plant chemist and earned her MD after a chance purchase of Helmholtz's Treatise on Physiological Optics on a trip to Europe?
text: Did you knowthat Yvon Pedneault is the only person to have worked full-time for all three Montreal daily papers, as well as every television station that has carried Montreal Canadiens games?
text: Did you knowthat Lód , the most recent book by Polish science-fiction writer Jacek Dukaj , is an alternate history novel of over 1000 pages?
text: Did you knowthat a trio of pet Mexican Spinytailed Iguanas released on Gasparilla Island , Florida by a resident in the 1970s has led to a current population explosion of over 12,000 lizards ?
text: Did you knowthat the Soviet 16th 'Lithuanian' Rifle Division had more enlisted Jews than any other division in the Red Army ?
text: Did you knowthat Lilstock church only holds one service a year, and the last marriage held there was in 1834?
text: Did you knowthat Ben Finney , one of the Polynesian Voyaging Society founders who designed, built, and sailed the Hokulea on its first voyage from Hawaii to Tahiti , wrote his thesis on surfing for his M.A. degree?
text: Did you knowthat the ticket lottery site for the December 2007 Ahmet Ertegün Tribute Concert featuring Led Zeppelin , crashed due to over a billion page views of fans seeking to purchase the 20,000 tickets on sale?
text: Did you knowthat yards from scrimmage , total offense , all-purpose yardage , and return yards are all American and Canadian football statistics to measure advancement of the football ?
text: Did you knowthat the testament of Bolesław III Krzywousty , High Duke of Poland , in 1138, led to the fragmentation of Poland which lasted for 200 years?
text: Did you knowthat the Soviet 383rd Rifle Division was originally comprised completely of miners from the Ukrainian Donets Basin ?
text: Did you knowthat the Caltech hacker who used a remote control to alter the scoreboard at the 1984 Rose Bowl received college credit for the prank?
text: Did you knowthat radio broadcaster Scruff Connors hosted a continuous 36-hour program to raise funds for cancer research in 1980?
text: Did you knowthat the marketing campaign for the reality television series Paranormal State featured the first commercial use of directional audio in a billboard?
text: Did you knowthat only 42 players have scored five or more goals in an NHL game since the league started in 1917?
text: Did you knowthat Hilf al-Fudul was a 7th-century alliance created by various Meccans , most notably Muhammad , to establish fair commercial dealing?
text: Did you knowthat the 1929 film The Surprise of a Knight is the earliest known gay , hardcore pornographic film in American cinematic history ?
text: Did you knowthat the Byzantine Empire and the Mongol Empire formed an alliance in 1263, and 4,000 Mongol soldiers were dispatched in 1282 to help defend Constantinople ?
text: Did you knowthat, according to the martyrology , the early 4th century Christian martyr Aedesius of Alexandria was tortured and drowned for striking a judge who had been forcing consecrated virgins to work in brothels ?
text: Did you knowthat the Midwestern United States territory band leader Nat Towles ' fear of losing his best musicians kept him from striving for national prominence in the 1930s and 40s?
text: Did you knowthat Oxford economist Włodzimierz Brus could not return to his homeland, Poland , in the 1990s, because his wife Helena Wolińska faced charges for her involvement in the execution of General Fieldorf ?
text: Did you knowthat the thirteen episodes of the Rental Magica anime were shown in a nonlinear order, meaning that the order the episodes were aired in is different from the episodes' chronological order?
text: Did you knowthat although Horse-eye jack ( Caranx latus ) generally fear scuba divers , schools of them have been known to swarm divers because they are attracted to the bubbles a person exhales?
text: Did you knowthat despite never surpassing 2,500 copies in circulation, the Jewish anarchist journal Germinal had a readership on four continents as a result of Eastern European Jewish migration?
text: Did you knowthat the BBC 's Bitesize online study resource has sections in Welsh and Gaelic ?
text: Did you knowthat All-American fullback Bill Daley is the only person ever to win Little Brown Jug games playing for both Minnesota and Michigan ?
text: Did you knowthat in Frendak v. United States the court ruled that a competent defendant , who experts testified was probably insane when he committed the crime , cannot be forced to use the insanity defense ?
text: Did you knowthat many streets in Coconut Grove , Northern Territory , Australia are named after victims of the shipwreck of SS Gothenburg off the coast of Queensland in 1875?
text: Did you knowthat the German Agricultural Society sets the assessment scale for the German wine classification system?
text: Did you knowthat due to a lack of freight crossings of the Hudson River , trains must take a 280-mile (450 km) detour,  the Selkirk hurdle , to cross into New York City from the south or west?
text: Did you knowthat the Vlaamse Druivenveldrit Overijse , a cyclo-cross race held in Overijse , Belgium , was won 11 consecutive times in the 1980s by former four-time world champion Roland Liboton ?
text: Did you knowthat the sources of William Shakespeare's Hamlet lie in legends which may trace to an Indo-European origin?
text: Did you knowthat Nigerian John Ezzidio , who was freed from a slave ship and landed in Freetown , Sierra Leone in 1827, became the city's mayor eighteen years later, in 1845?
text: Did you knowthat Nicholas Medforth-Mills , grandson of King Michael of Romania , is third in the line of succession to the defunct throne of Romania , and future Head of the Romanian Royal Family ?
text: Did you knowthat some animals interrupt their hibernation a couple of times during winter so that they can sleep ?
text: Did you knowthat the U.S. Navy and NSF Plateau research station on the Antarctic Plateau , though operational for only three years from 1966 to 1969, measured the coldest average monthly temperatures on Earth?
text: Did you knowthat besides a mobile library , the Mobile Public Library also operates a system of libraries with eight branches and a local history and genealogy division with permanent addresses in Alabama ?
text: Did you knowthat State Route 70 , a National Scenic Byway through California 's Feather River Canyon , was constructed using an access road laid out by the Utah Construction Company when it built the Western Pacific Railroad in the canyon?
text: Did you knowthat the B-24 Liberator in which Air Marshal Sir Peter Drummond was travelling when lost at sea in 1945 had previously been the personal transport of Winston Churchill ?
text: Did you knowthat Yve Lavigueur , who initially became famous as a member of a family that won the biggest lottery jackpot in Canadian history in 1986, later published a book in 2000 on how they lost it all?
text: Did you knowthat the atmosphere of Triton produces a surface pressure only 1/70,000th of that on Earth?
text: Did you knowthat the 1920 French film Le Menage Moderne Du Madame Butterfly is the earliest known hardcore pornographic film to depict bisexual and homosexual intercourse?
text: Did you knowthat businessman Petr Kellner is the wealthiest man in the Czech Republic with an estimated net worth of US$ 6 billion?
text: Did you knowthat Peter Shergold is currently Australia 's most senior public servant ?
text: Did you knowthat the Marion, Illinois tornado outbreak in 1982 killed ten people and extensively damaged the town of Marion, Illinois ?
text: Did you knowthat the main opposition party of Zambia , the United National Independence Party , boycotted the 1996 Zambian Presidential election after their leader was prevented from standing?
text: Did you knowthat Russian lawyer Vasily Aleksanyan was imprisoned just five days after his promotion to the position of Executive Vice-President of Yukos oil company?
text: Did you knowthat German - American inventor Philip Diehl invented the ceiling fan in 1887 using a sewing machine motor?
text: Did you knowthat the Emir of Katsina in northern Nigeria Usman Nagogo played polo with the highest handicap of any African?
text: Did you knowthat a legend says that when Philip de Braose irreverently spent the night in a church dedicated to Saint Afan , he was struck blind the next morning and his hunting dogs went mad?
text: Did you knowthat in attempting to stop U-30 from sinking the SS Fanad Head , two Blackburn Skuas managed to cripple themselves with their own bombs, causing them to crash?
text: Did you knowthat after Bernard Natan directed and acted in hardcore heterosexual and bisexual pornographic films from 1920 to 1927, by 1929 he owned the giant French movie studio Pathé and later helped develop the anamorphic film lens ?
text: Did you knowthat while neighboring Bordeaux estates were still looking for a cure to heal their infected grapevines , Château Pavie-Macquin was one of the first to begin grafting phylloxera resistant American rootstock on their vines?
text: Did you knowthat the question before the U.S. Supreme Court in Stogner v. California was whether ex post facto laws should also apply to sex offenders victimizing minors ?
text: Did you knowthat Eddie Hill was the first drag racer to hold the land and water quarter mile speed records simultaneously?
text: Did you knowthat Turkish Prime Minister Adnan Menderes survived the 1959 Turkish Airlines Gatwick crash almost uninjured, but was executed by hanging a year and a half later?
text: Did you knowthat Ukrainian realist artist Apollon Mokritsky played the significant role of introducing the former serf and talented artist Taras Shevchenko to the Ukrainian and Russian intelligentsia ?
text: Did you knowthat Jerry Mathers , as The Beaver , was one of the few stars of the classic TV series Leave It to Beaver who appeared in the pilot It's a Small World , which never aired as an episode within the series?
text: Did you knowthat Flight Lieutenant Eric Lock was the most successful British ace during the Battle of Britain , shooting down 16.5 German aircraft over the course of the 17-week long battle?
text: Did you knowthat the Peruvian playwright Juan de Espinosa Medrano wrote plays both in Spanish and in Quechua during the 17th century?
text: Did you knowthat college football 's 2007 Holiday Bowl featured a bizarre play, involving a non-player staff member of the Texas Longhorn team ?
text: Did you knowthat until the French Revolution , the Belgian village of Moorsel was divided into two distinct sections?
text: Did you knowthat one of the music scores depicted by Caravaggio in his painting The Lute Player is by Franco-Flemish composer Jacquet de Berchem ?
text: Did you knowthat Dennis Robbins , formerly a member of the rock band The Rockets , was the first artist signed to Giant Records ' country music division?
text: Did you knowthat the Society of the Friends of Peasants had significant influence on the Danish Constitution of 1849 ?
text: Did you knowthat the Battle of Kansas was the crash program initiated by U.S. Army Air Force General Hap Arnold to expedite construction of the B-29 Superfortress at Boeing 's massive plants in Wichita, Kansas ?
text: Did you knowthat British police detective Walter Dew was involved in hunting both Jack the Ripper and Dr Crippen ?
text: Did you knowthat Sicilian Mafia boss Giuseppe Falsone has been on the list of most wanted fugitives in Italy since January 1999, a list of criminals considered extremely dangerous by the Polizia di Stato ?
text: Did you knowthat slain Canadian Mi'kmaq activist Nora Bernard was responsible for the largest class-action lawsuit in Canadian history?
text: Did you knowthat during the Bisbee Deportation , Phelps Dodge Corporation executives seized control of the town's telegraph and telephones to prevent news of the kidnappings from being reported?
text: Did you knowthat the Dewoitine D.33 was an aircraft built in 1930, set a long distance record in that year, and was used extensively by Air France ?
text: Did you knowthat Italian aeronautical engineer Corradino D'Ascanio developed a record-setting early helicopter in 1930 and designed the original Vespa motor scooter in 1946?
text: Did you knowthat Tang Chinese scholar Yao Silian was the lead author of the official histories of both Liang and Chen Dynasties ?
text: Did you knowthat the " Poème sur le désastre de Lisbonne ", based on the 1755 Lisbon earthquake , exhibits Voltaire 's rejection of optimism and Providence and is considered an introduction to his famous work Candide ?
text: Did you knowthat Hurricane Rick of 1997 caused coffee prices on the New York Coffee, Sugar and Cocoa Exchange to jump 4.7%, because it threatened coffee crops at a time when they were vulnerable to winds blowing them down?
text: Did you knowthat Tabasco sauce heir Edward Avery McIlhenny was an arctic explorer who, in 1897 and 1898, helped to rescue over a hundred whaling fleet sailors stranded at Point Barrow , Alaska ?
text: Did you knowthat, although former Michigan Wolverines wide receiver Marquise Walker was selected in the third round of the 2002 NFL Draft , he was Jon Gruden 's first draft pick as Tampa Bay Buccaneers head coach ?
text: Did you knowthat the Boy Rangers of America was an early scouting program in the United States for boys ages 8 through 12, a precursor to the Cub Scouting program of the Boy Scouts of America ?
text: Did you knowthat Elise Primavera , author and illustrator of the 1999 book Auntie Claus , says she gets her best ideas in the shower?
text: Did you knowthat the Taiwan Cypress (Chamaecyparis taiwanensis) is treated as a species by Taiwanese botanists, and as a variety of the Hinoki cypress (C. obtusa) in the Occident?
text: Did you knowthat Cuban politician Raúl Chibás defected to the United States via motor boat to Miami after initially supporting Fidel Castro and the Cuban Revolution ?
text: Did you knowthat through directing , Delta Sigma Theta Sorority founder Osceola Macarthy Adams helped to start careers of Sidney Poitier and Harry Belafonte ?
text: Did you knowthat LPI Media is the largest publisher of gay and lesbian material in the United States with its magazines alone having more than 8.2 million copies distributed each year?
text: Did you knowthat during the Spanish Civil War , Eduard Pons Prades forged his age so that he could join the Republican army at age 16?
text: Did you knowthat, after eluding capture for three months when his B-25 bomber was shot down behind enemy lines in World War II , Bob Chappuis was the MVP of the Rose Bowl 60 years ago?
text: Did you knowthat Jose R. Velasco ' s research on the coconut was instrumental in him becoming a National Scientist of the Philippines ?
text: Did you knowthat Ade Schwammel of the Oregon Agricultural College football team was part of the 1933 " Pyramid Play ", where a player stood on the shoulders of two others to block a kick, a ploy since banned?
text: Did you knowthat Dohäsan , last undisputed Principal Chief of the Kiowa people, was battlefield leader in the First Battle of Adobe Walls , one of the largest ever fought between the Plains tribes and the U.S. Army ?
text: Did you knowthat the Battle of Kostiuchnówka during the Brusilov Offensive in summer 1916 is considered the largest and most vicious of the battles involving the Polish Legions ?
text: Did you knowthat scientist and concert pianist Manfred Clynes used principles of neuroscience to develop SuperConductor, a computer program that can "perform" classical music with its own expressive intonation ?
text: Did you knowthat French adventurer Marie-Charles David de Mayréna was supposed to negotiate treaties with the local people in an 1888 expedition to present-day Vietnam , but instead formed a new Kingdom of Sedang with himself as the king ?
text: Did you knowthat the Ballarat Botanical Gardens in Victoria features a collection of busts of all 25 predecessors of the recently elected Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd ?
text: Did you knowthat when the Chicago and South Side Rapid Transit Railroad opened to the public in 1892 it took 14 minutes to travel the 3.6 mile (5.8 km) route?
text: Did you knowthat French anarchist Theodule Meunier , responsible for several bombings in Paris in 1902, was featured as a Sherlock Holmes antagonist in René Réouven's L'Assassin du Boulevard ?
text: Did you knowthat Ukrainian impressionist Ivan Trush painted a number of portraits of famous Ukrainians, among them Vasyl Stefanyk , Lesya Ukrainka , Mykhailo Drahomanov , Mykola Lysenko , and Ivan Franko ?
text: Did you knowthat portrait painter John Michael Wright painted both Charles II and the daughter of Oliver Cromwell ?
text: Did you knowthat quarterbacks Billy Joe Tolliver and David Archer were teammates as backups in the National Football League , but competed against each other as starters in the Canadian Football League ?
text: Did you knowthat the capture of King Louis IX during the Seventh Crusade prompted as many as 60,000 young shepherds in France to participate in the Shepherds' Crusade in 1251?
text: Did you knowthat Pulitzer Prize -winning journalist Sylvan Fox was a classically trained pianist who attended, but never graduated from, the Juilliard School ?
text: Did you knowthat Pampa Sarovar , the place in Hindu mythology where Shiva 's consort Parvati performed penance to show her devotion to him, is a lake in Karnataka ?
text: Did you knowthat Cuban economist Felipe Pazos was ordered to be executed by Raúl Castro in 1959, but was ultimately spared and allowed to leave the country?
text: Did you knowthat despite its name, the Chicago, Kalamazoo and Saginaw Railway connected neither to Chicago nor Saginaw ?
text: Did you knowthat the first episode of talk show Shomoyer Kotha drew media attention when a former U.S. Ambassador to Bangladesh jokingly commented that Bangladeshis sometimes tend to be conspiratorial?
text: Did you knowthat an Anglo-Allied army of 23,000 men failed to capture the Spanish port of Tarragona from a small Franco-Italian force of 1,600 during the Peninsular War , sending the losing general to a court-martial afterwards?
text: Did you knowthat the tallest building in Tulsa , Oklahoma is the 667- foot (203 m ) BOK Tower ?
text: Did you knowthat Patricia Kirkwood was the first woman to have her own series on BBC TV ?
text: Did you knowthat the Soviet Armenian biochemist Norair Sisakian was considered as one of the founders of space biology ?
text: Did you knowthat United States Navy Rear Admiral Charles A. Curtze qualified for the 1936 Summer Olympics as a gymnast , but the State Department prohibited him from traveling to Nazi -ruled Germany ?
text: Did you knowthat, in November 2002, autonomous regions replaced departments as the first-level administrative subdivisions of Peru in an attempt to achieve an effective decentralization of the country?
text: Did you knowthat the Prospect Mountain Veterans Memorial Highway is the only reference route in New York owned by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation ?
text: Did you knowthat ancient jousting battles near Smisby in Derbyshire provided the inspiration for a similar scene in the book Ivanhoe ?
text: Did you knowthat Bill Jenkins ' dragsters were known as "Grumpy's Toys"?
text: Did you knowthat excavations of earthworks conducted in the 19th century revealed evidence of possible Belgic fortifications at the site of Sharsted Court , a manor house near Newnham, Kent , England ?
text: Did you knowthat Jan IV Oświęcimski , the duke of Oświęcim from 1445 to 1456, harassed the King of Poland so much that he was paid a debt that was promised him four years earlier?
text: Did you knowthat the German 15 cm sFH 18 was the first field gun to use Rocket Assisted Projectiles ?
text: Did you knowthe divergent conclusions in the Krulak Mendenhall mission to South Vietnam led John F. Kennedy to ask his staff if Joseph Mendenhall and Victor H. Krulak had visited the same country?
text: Did you knowthat as the result of a deal before the 2000 general election , Paul Bérenger became the first non- Hindu Prime Minister of Mauritius in 2003 ?
text: Did you knowthat a platoon of the 614th Tank Destroyer Battalion was the first segregated African-American unit of the US Army to receive a Distinguished Unit Citation ?
text: Did you knowthat Wythenshawe Aerodrome was Manchester 's first purpose-built municipal airfield, but was closed after one year due to the completion of Barton Aerodrome ?
text: Did you knowthat Christian anarchist Dave Andrews was excommunicated from the parachurch Youth With A Mission ?
text: Did you knowthat the Caribou Inuit people are defined by their fur clothing, use of sled dogs and their snowhouses ?
text: Did you knowthat gay screenwriter Marco Pennette was outed in front of his parents on the People's Choice Awards red carpet by a colleague who asked him about his boyfriend?
text: Did you knowthat the Hindu serpent goddess Manasa , the "destroyer of poison", is worshiped mostly in the rainy season when the snakes are most active?
text: Did you knowthat the region of Cieszyn Silesia was in 1920 divided by the Spa Conference between Poland and Czechoslovakia and remains divided to date?
text: Did you knowthat the Hoover Dam is an arch-gravity dam , combining the load-bearing features of a gravity dam and an arch dam ?
text: Did you knowthat the final text of the Durban Declaration produced by the governments meeting at the World Conference against Racism 2001 does not contain the language that caused the Israeli and United States delegations to withdraw halfway through?
text: Did you knowthat former Michigan Wolverines football player Keith Bostic was elected by his teammates as the toughest guy on the National Football League Houston Oilers defense?
text: Did you knowthat the Western Islands Planning Area in Singapore houses the world's third largest refining centre, located in Jurong Island ?
text: Did you knowthat in 1386, Georgia was invaded by Tamerlane and his Turco-Mongol forces , who sacked Tbilisi and captured the Georgian king Bagrat V ?
text: Did you knowthat when Gyo Obata designed Great American Insurance Building at Queen City Square , he was inspired by Princess Diana 's tiara for the top of the building?
text: Did you knowthat Cliff Mapes , a Major League outfielder who played only three full seasons, was the starting right fielder for the New York Yankees ' first of five consecutive world championships, in 1949 ?
text: Did you knowthat National Scientist Dr. Fe del Mundo was the first Filipina enrolled in Harvard Medical School and the only female student at that time?
text: Did you knowthat a PRR Class E6 steam locomotive powered train equipped with a mobile darkroom for developing newsreels en route , delivered footage from Washington to New York faster than a chartered plane ?
text: Did you knowthat All-American Bump Elliott and his brother Pete Elliott played halfback and quarterback for the Michigan football team that beat the USC Trojans 49-0 in the Rose Bowl 60 years ago on 1 Jan. 1948?
text: Did you knowthat in 1999, Song Il-gon became the first Korean filmmaker to win an award at the Cannes Film Festival ?
text: Did you knowthat the name of Stob Choire Claurigh in Scotland translates from Gaelic as “Peak of the Brawling Corrie”, referring to the roaring of the stags inhabiting the corries of the mountain during the breeding season ?
text: Did you knowthat wine made from the Italian grape Refosco dal Peduncolo Rosso was praised by Pliny the Elder and a favorite of Caesar Augustus ' wife Livia ?
text: Did you knowthat the Brocard points , the Brocard circle and the Brocard triangle are named after French geometer Henri Brocard , who spent most of his life studying meteorology with no notable original contributions to the subject?
text: Did you knowthat Ernest Dynes , best known as an English cricketer in the 1920s and 1930s, served as Aide-de-camp to Queen Elizabeth II between 1955 and 1957, for which he was awarded the CBE ?
text: Did you knowthat William W. Bedsworth , a judge at the California Courts of Appeal , is also a goal judge with the National Hockey League ?
text: Did you knowthat prior to the emergence of anarcho-pacifism at the outbreak of World War II , there was a general agreement among anarchists that violence was inevitable?
text: Did you knowthat Campanula gelida , an endemic species of a bellflower , grows in nature only on one rock in the Czech Republic ?
text: Did you knowthat the 2007 film 10 MPH documents a 100-day, 4,064-mile journey across the United States on a Segway scooter?
text: Did you knowthat Danish-American artist Antonio Jacobsen was called the " Audubon of Steam Vessels" for the scope, breadth and intricate details in the 6,000 works of sail and steam ships he painted?
text: Did you knowthat the Stora Istad wind park had to reduce its power output to below 10 MW in order to comply with Swedish law?
text: Did you knowthat Soviet sculptor Sergey Merkurov was the author of the three biggest monuments of Joseph Stalin erected in the USSR during the period of Stalinism ?
text: Did you knowthat U.S. Route 199 is numbered as a spur of U.S. Route 99 , which no longer exists?
text: Did you knowthat carbonate hardgrounds were most commonly formed during calcite sea intervals in the Ordovician and Jurassic periods in Earth 's history, but were virtually absent from the aragonite seas of the Permian era?
text: Did you knowthat The Faun , a rare sculpture by Paul Gauguin , displayed for a decade by the Art Institute of Chicago and the van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam was actually a fake by British forger Shaun Greenhalgh ?
text: Did you knowthat according to the Books of Kings , ancient Egyptians captured and burnt down the Canaanite town of Gezer and gave it as a dowry to the Pharaoh 's daughter?
text: Did you knowthat Baseball Hall of Fame manager John McGraw said that Bill Monroe "was the greatest infielder he had ever seen"?
text: Did you knowthat the Hennepin , which transported construction aggregate around the Great Lakes early in the 20th century, was the first self-unloading bulk carrier in the world?
text: Did you knowthat Mohammed Atif Siddique was sentenced to imprisonment after being charged with collecting online files related to the War on Terror and encouraging classmates to watch videos of beheadings ?
text: Did you knowthat short draw is a hand spinning technique that produces yarn suitable for weaving but not knitting ?
text: Did you knowthat Quoc An Temple in Huế was founded by a Zen monk from China , whose disciple lineage covers most of the Buddhists in southern Vietnam ?
text: Did you knowthat Harry Blackmun 's colleagues on the U.S. Supreme Court felt his long history of baseball in the Flood v. Kuhn majority opinion was beneath the Court's dignity?
text: Did you knowthat Vogel State Park is one of the two oldest in the State of Georgia ?
text: Did you knowthat former Drexel University president Hollis Godfrey was an advisory member of Woodrow Wilson 's Council of National Defense ?
text: Did you knowthat a blue line marks where Pogue's Run once ran through downtown Indianapolis ?
text: Did you knowthat the 1976 Football League Cup win made Tony Book the first to do so as both a player and manager ?
text: Did you knowthat Hillary Rodham called children's rights a "slogan in need of a definition"?
text: Did you knowthat in 1261 , Caesar Alexios Strategopoulos reconquered Constantinople from the Latins , thereby restoring the Byzantine Empire ?
text: Did you knowthat Tran Cao Van 's plot to install Duy Tan as the independent boy Emperor of Vietnam happened only after he bribed the boy's chauffeur into allowing him access?
text: Did you knowthat Stieg Larsson 's posthumously published Swedish crime novel The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo , was a best-seller critically compared with War and Peace ?
text: Did you knowthat Bordeaux wine merchants in the Middle Ages , concerned about the competition from nearby regions , prohibited trading access to Bordeaux until most of their wine was sold?
text: Did you knowthat blind Nguyen Dinh Chieu 's writings praising Vietnamese revolutionary Truong Dinh saw him regarded as the leading revolutionary poet in the south?
text: Did you knowthat the author Amulya Malladi , an expatriate Indian , said that when she first moved to Denmark that " Danish sounded to me like the buzzing of bees"?
text: Did you knowthat 13 years after his death in 1875 ,  the future Royal College of Art found a letter from the widow of Richard Burchett , headmaster for over 20 years, asking for a pension?
text: Did you knowthat the Buddha statue of Long Son Pagoda in Nha Trang , Vietnam is a major vantage point over the city?
text: Did you knowthat Grits Gresham , the former host of ABC 's The American Sportsman , revealed that Ronald Reagan used a gun to rescue a nurse from a mugging ?
text: Did you knowthe Trim and Fit weight loss programme targeting obesity in Singaporean schoolchildren resulted in its participants suffering from teasing and stigmatization ?
text: Did you knowthat squab is the meat from a young domestic pigeon ?
text: Did you knowthat the formulas John Knox and Harlan J. Brothers came up with to calculate e were no more difficult than college-level calculus ?
text: Did you knowthat uprisings broke out in 1916 over the jailing of Phan Xich Long , who declared himself Emperor of Vietnam and tried to arm his rebels with magic potion that supposedly made them invisible?
text: Did you knowthat people from County Carlow in Ireland are nicknamed " scallion -eaters" because, in the early 19th century, Carlow town supplied most of the onions in Leinster ?
text: Did you knowthat Dada artist Marcel Duchamp 's Bottle Rack was mistakenly thrown away as garbage?
text: Did you knowthat Captain Rosemary Bryant Mariner was the first military woman to command an operational naval aviation squadron ?
text: Did you knowthat the Lithuanian Electricity Organization , a planned energy holding company , will be responsible for building a new nuclear power plant in Ignalina in 2015?
text: Did you knowthat Hödekin , a house spirit of German folklore , is best known for saving the wife of a man of Hildesheim from committing adultery ?
text: Did you knowthat the Indiana Medical History Museum is the oldest surviving pathology laboratory in the U.S.?
text: Did you knowthat the advice of Nguyen Thanh helped to form the partnership between Prince Cuong De and Phan Boi Chau in working against French rule of Vietnam ?
text: Did you knowthat 7% of electricity in New Zealand is generated by geothermal power ?
text: Did you knowthat Douglas Fraser 's lobbying and member mobilization were critical in convincing U.S. Congress to provide $1.2 billion in loans to a near- bankrupt Chrysler in 1979?
text: Did you knowthat Pierre Galet is considered the "father of modern ampelography "?
text: Did you knowthat Gregg Nations made his Lost writing debut with the episode " Eggtown " after being the script coordinator for over two seasons?
text: Did you knowthat the Siege of Candia in the Cretan War (1645-1669) , lasted almost 22 years?
text: Did you knowthat under the Vijayanagara empire , Kannada literature made major progress due to the development of its native metres ?
text: Did you knowthat according to TV critic Gareth McLean , none of the Britons featured in the Channel 4 documentary series New Hero of Comedy are "Heroes"?
text: Did you knowthat the Greater Lynchburg Transit Company doubled its patronage by providing Liberty University 's shuttle bus service?
text: Did you knowthat naval heroes Peter Tordenskjold and Niels Juel are buried in Copenhagen 's Church of Holmen ?
text: Did you knowthat Nguyen Quyen , principal of the Tonkin Free School , got his first teaching job by default?
text: Did you knowthat Jefferson Davis conceded the American Civil War at the Burt-Stark Mansion ?
text: Did you knowthat Basil W. Duke became the chief consul and lobbyist for the L&N Railroad after the American Civil War , even though he led many efforts in destroying their property during the war?
text: Did you knowthat a papabile was asked during the papal conclave of 1572 by a representative of King Philip II of Spain to withdraw his candidacy in order to maintain peace in Italy ?
text: Did you knowthat Anstey Hill Recreation Park in Adelaide, South Australia contains ruins of what was the largest plant nursery in the Southern Hemisphere ?
text: Did you knowthat the Imperial Russian Navy operated the Satakundskaya Flotilla , a gunboat unit on a Finnish lake during World War I , without ever actually firing a gun?
text: Did you knowthat construction for the bobsleigh, luge, and track to be used for the 2014 Winter Olympics has been delayed due to high downhill grades and location near a World Heritage Site , including near an endangered species of brown bear ?
text: Did you knowthat two of North Carolina 's most prominent authors, Thomas Wolfe and O. Henry , are buried near each other in the Riverside Cemetery in the Montford Area Historic District in Asheville ?
text: Did you knowthat John Duncan , a Scottish Presbyterian theologian and missionary ,  was affectionately known as "Rabbi", due to his knowledge of Hebrew and his passion for the Jewish people?
text: Did you knowthat softball pitcher Vicki Morrow was named Big Ten Player of the Year in 1987 after winning 26 games, including 18 shutouts, and striking out 446 batters?
text: Did you knowthat the 1945 Prime Minister's Resignation Honours included peerages for the heads of the British armed services of World War II and the first awards of the newly inaugurated Defence Medal ?
text: Did you knowthat The Monkees ' 1967 hit " Pleasant Valley Sunday " was named for a street in West Orange, New Jersey , where the song's authors, Gerry Goffin and Carole King , lived?
text: Did you knowthat a study by the University of Salford concluded that the high density of high-rise buildings in Salford has "a dramatic influence on the region's weather patterns", in particular by encouraging drizzle ?
text: Did you knowthat the 1918 Treaty of Brest-Litovsk was a peace treaty between the Ukrainian People's Republic and the Central Powers that helped clear Bolshevik forces from Ukraine ?
text: Did you knowthat Nguyen Than Hien and Nguyen Thuong Hien were among the leaders of the Quang Phuc Hoi , the first anti-colonial revolutionary group to advocate a republic for Vietnam ?
text: Did you knowthat Sariputra , one the two chief disciples of Gautama Buddha , is frequently featured in the Jatakas alongside Mahamoggallana and the Buddha in their past lives ?
text: Did you knowthat Frederic A. Godcharles served as a Pennsylvania Representative and Senator , as director of its state library and museum , and wrote twelve volumes on its history ?
text: Did you knowthat prior to Interstate 410 and the Interstate Highway System , Texas State Highway Loop 13 was the primary loop around San Antonio ?
text: Did you knowthat since 1967 the state of Tamil Nadu in India has been ruled by Dravidian parties ?
text: Did you knowthat photos of the rogue wave encountered by the MS Stolt Surf contributed to the growing evidence of their presence in the deep ocean?
text: Did you knowthat there is a disagreement on whether Hurricane Emilia was a Category 5 hurricane ?
text: Did you knowthat Jakub Wejher , one of 17th century Poland 's richest magnates , founded the town of Wejherowo ?
text: Did you knowthat writer Charles Hamilton 's estate complained to the BBC that the character played by Peter Stephens in The Celestial Toymaker too closely resembled Hamilton's Billy Bunter ?
text: Did you knowthat the Joint Communique in 1963 to end South Vietnam 's Buddhist crisis broke down in one day, after a scuffle between Buddhists and police?
text: Did you knowthat the hiring of Tom Jurich by the University of Louisville was dubbed "the most significant day in the recent history of college sports in Kentucky "?
text: Did you knowthat Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama was buried in St. Francis Church in India ?
text: Did you knowthat the Swedish American Line was the first transatlantic shipping company to operate a diesel-engined ocean liner ?
text: Did you knowthat Indiana 's White River Park were the first state games to feature regional qualifiers instead of tryouts?
text: Did you knowthat David Owen Dodd was a 17-year-old boy hanged as a Confederate spy in the American Civil War ?
text: Did you knowthat more than one million people in China invested in the Yilishen Tianxi Group Ponzi scheme , which involved breeding ants to be used as ingredients in traditional Chinese medicine ?
text: Did you knowthat the upcoming Paramount Pictures film G.I. Joe , based on the toy line , had its development delayed because of the Iraq War ?
text: Did you knowthat Lithuanian supermarkets offered cheaper beer, chocolate and soap to those who voted in the 2003 Lithuanian European Union membership referendum ?
text: Did you knowthat the origins of Cabernet Sauvignon were likely an accidental crossing of Cabernet franc and Sauvignon blanc ?
text: Did you knowthat the Philadelphia Election Riot of 1742 between the Anglicans and the Quakers of Philadelphia was caused by their inability to agree on who would supervise the election?
text: Did you knowthat John Story , the first Regius Professor of Civil Law at the University of Oxford , was elected to parliament , gaoled , exiled , re-elected , kidnapped , put in the Tower , tortured , hanged, drawn and quartered , and finally beatified ?
text: Did you knowthat Ben Chapman , the actor who portrayed the Gill-man in Creature from the Black Lagoon , was a veteran of the Korean War ?
text: Did you knowthat springs are the main source of water supply in rural Rwanda ?
text: Did you knowthat the Ferry County Carousel in Republic, Washington has 24 jumping horses with colors ranging from Appaloosa to Red Sorrel ?
text: Did you knowthat psychoanalytic literary critics blame Volumnia , a character in Shakespeare 's play Coriolanus , for her son Coriolanus' aggressive behavior?
text: Did you knowthat the relatively advanced age and poor health of Pope Paul III contributed to his successful election to the papacy in 1534?
text: Did you knowthat the trial of Satanta and Big Tree was the first time Native American war chiefs were tried for acts committed during a war party?
text: Did you knowthat Frederick Law Olmsted planned for The Dorchesterway to extend his Emerald Necklace park system all the way to Boston Harbor ?
text: Did you knowthat at 1,328 feet (405 m) above sea level, Brockway Mountain Drive in Michigan 's Upper Peninsula is the most elevated road between the Rockies and Alleghenies ?
text: Did you knowthat, despite being blinded and dismissed for attempting to depose Byzantine emperor Andronikos II Palaiologos , General Alexios Philanthropenos was later recalled to service?
text: Did you knowthat Kinkri Devi waged a war on illegal mining and quarrying in her native Indian state of Himachal Pradesh despite her illiteracy?
text: Did you knowthat Nina Bang was one of the world's first female government ministers?
text: Did you knowthat British MP Peter Thomas was the first Conservative politician to serve as Secretary of State for Wales and the first Welshman to become party chairman ?
text: Did you knowthat the country music group Carter's Chord comprises three sisters, whose parents were in Waylon Jennings ' band The Waylors?
text: Did you knowthat Kochi in Kerala , India is the only place where Chinese fishing nets are used outside of China ?
text: Did you knowthat the final section of the Chemins de Fer du Calvados was closed by damage from the 1944 D-Day ?
text: Did you knowthat the cutter HMS Entreprenante was the smallest British warship at the Battle of Trafalgar ?
text: Did you knowthat Morarji Desai is India 's only Finance Minister to have tabled the Union budget twice on his birthday?
text: Did you knowthat the First Presbyterian Church of Chester , New York, has worshipped in three different buildings, all in different locations, in its history?
text: Did you knowthat Douglas Barton Osborne Savile showed that the coevolution of rust fungi and their host plants could be used as an aid to plant taxonomy ?
text: Did you knowthat the US Supreme Court ruled a defendant has a fundamental right not to be tried in court if he lacks a rational and factual understanding of the charges against him?
text: Did you knowthat the psychiatric hospital of Denmark 's Capital Region treats about 35,000 patients with mental disorders every year, which is about 40% of the nation's total?
text: Did you knowthat French geography professor Henri Enjalbert theorized that Albania , the Ionian islands and southern Dalmatia were the only European regions with grapevines following the last Ice Age ?
text: Did you knowthat in 1909, New Zealand gifted a new battlecruiser to Britain ?
text: Did you knowthat disappointment is one of two primary emotions involved in decision-making ?
text: Did you knowthat the railcar that ran on the Shimoga-Talaguppa railway in India had to be reversed on a turntable , so that it could start its return journey?
text: Did you knowthat synchronized swimmer Ruth Pickett Thompson received the AIAW 's 1979 and 1980 Broderick Awards ?
text: Did you knowthat Douglas Henshall and Daniel Craig were originally considered for the roles of Gordon Brown and Tony Blair in 2003 film The Deal ?
text: Did you knowthat the Memorial Tunnel along the West Virginia Turnpike was the first tunnel in the U.S. to have closed-circuit television monitoring?
text: Did you knowthat Bradford City Football Club blamed their FA Cup exit in the 1919–20 season on a pre-game trip to Fry's chocolate works ?
text: Did you knowthat swimmer Ann Colloton , the University of Michigan 's Female Athlete of the Decade for the 1980s, was inducted into the school's Hall of Honor in February 2008?
text: Did you knowthat the Battle of Pogue's Run was done to prevent Democrats from rising against the American Civil War in Indiana ?
text: Did you knowthat opera singer Rosemary Kuhlmann was an assistant to the international vice-president of PepsiCo for 16 years from the age of 56, despite intending to stay for only four months?
text: Did you knowthat the United Breweries ' chairman Vijay Mallya , named his Bangalore Royal Challengers , an Indian Premier League cricket team, after his liquor brand?
text: Did you knowthat the black locust trees planted in 1767 when Cornelius Wynkoop's house was built along Main Street in Stone Ridge, New York , are part of its historic character?
text: Did you knowthat 32 is a desirable score in darts because it is divisible by 2 many times ?
text: Did you knowthat after sinking the British ocean liner SS Dwinsk in June 1918, the German submarine U-151 remained in the area and used the survivors in seven lifeboats as a lure in order to try to sink additional Allied ships?
text: Did you knowthat the Israeli documentary Paper Dolls followed the lives of five health care providers from the Philippines who perform as drag queens ?
text: Did you knowthat Willis Adcock , a Canadian-American chemist , helped create the first atomic bomb , the silicon transistor , and the integrated circuit ?
text: Did you knowthat replacing firewood with coal as the main fuel in early modern England led to many problems for the local glass industry ?
text: Did you knowthat four-star admiral Maurice E. Curts was replaced as commander-in-chief of the United States Pacific Fleet after only two weeks?
text: Did you knowthat wine writer Alexis Lichine developed a separate ranking of Bordeaux wine estates, including both Left and Right Banks , while advocating a revision of the original 1855 classification ?
text: Did you knowthat Sir Yuet-Keung Kan is Hong Kong 's longest serving Justice of Peace ?
text: Did you knowthat the ghost town of Ajax, Utah was centered on an 11,000 square foot (1,000 m²) department store lying entirely underground?
text: Did you knowthat William Henry Emerson was the first dean of the Georgia Institute of Technology ?
text: Did you knowthat after suing to gain Marc Hall permission to take his boyfriend to a Catholic high school 's prom , David Corbett was appointed Canadian Superior Justice?
text: Did you knowthat Libris Mortis , a comprehensive overview of undead within the Dungeons & Dragons universe, details the use of mummies and vampire spawn as player characters ?
text: Did you knowthat six-year-old Antonietta Meo could soon become the youngest saint not a martyr canonized by the Roman Catholic Church ?
text: Did you knowthat four Indiana counties gave land to create Whitewater Memorial State Park as a memorial to fallen American soldiers of World War II ?
text: Did you knowthat Château Pape Clément , first planted in 1300 by the future Pope Clement V , is the oldest wine estate in Bordeaux ?
text: Did you knowthat according to Christianity Today , the Born Again Movement and its spinoff new religious groups have nearly twice the size of the government-sanctioned Christian church in China ?
text: Did you knowthat James Redfern 's statues for Bristol Cathedral are now on a Yorkshire church because they were too " papist "?
text: Did you knowthat speed limits on Guam Highway 1 may differ depending on which side of the road you are on?
text: Did you knowthat after a year as Assistant Secretary to the Treasury under Franklin D. Roosevelt , James H. Douglas, Jr. left the government and founded a committee opposing Roosevelt's monetary policies?
text: Did you knowthat The Star of Poland , the biggest balloon in the world, burned in 1938 during an attempt to beat the high- altitude world record?
text: Did you knowthat tennis pro Martina Navratilova lived with vaudeville actress Frances Dewey Wormser and her husband when she arrived in the United States in the 1970s?
text: Did you knowthat the production of visual art in Cambodia nearly ceased during the Khmer Rouge period ?
text: Did you knowthat Mitch Daniels became the first Republican Governor in 16 years in the 2004 Indiana gubernatorial election ?
text: Did you knowthat Italian-American aerospace engineer Enea Bossi, Sr. designed a pioneering human-powered aircraft and the first aircraft used by the NYPD ?
text: Did you knowthat the biggest tax investigation in modern Germany currently targets hundreds of individuals for possible tax evasion by moving assets to Liechtenstein ?
text: Did you knowthat Paul Feyerabend 's autobiography Killing Time contains descriptions of his careers as an officer in the Wehrmacht , an operatic tenor , and a philosopher of science ?
text: Did you knowthat the Cottonmouth jack is so named because of its pure white tongue and mouth?
text: Did you knowthat the Israel Prize was set up in 1953 at the initiative of Israeli Minister of Education Ben-Zion Dinur , who then went on to win the prize in 1958, and again in 1973?
text: Did you knowthat Summerlin Parkway , a freeway in Las Vegas , was initially constructed by the Summerlin homeowners' association ?
text: Did you knowthat Romanian avant-garde writer and classical violinist Grigore Cugler publicly criticized Communist Party politician Ana Pauker and resigned his diplomatic post, living the rest of his life in Peru ?
text: Did you knowthat American novel After This by Alice McDermott was included in the New York Times ' 100 Most Notable Books of the Year?
text: Did you knowthat Thomas Tilling , whose company grew into a major bus operator in Britain by the first half of the 20th century, entered the transport business with a horse and carriage in 1846?
text: Did you knowthat scholarly journal Anarchist Studies was attacked by Stewart Home as a "sad and reactionary 'academic' journal" incapable of engaging in critical debate?
text: Did you knowthat Hiram Straight was the foreman of the jury in Oregon City, Oregon , that sentenced five Native Americans to hang for the Whitman Massacre ?
text: Did you knowthat proteins are often broken down into smaller fragments by in-gel digestion before they are analysed by mass spectrometry ?
text: Did you knowthat in 1922 , Erich von Stroheim 's silent film Foolish Wives was the most expensive ever produced?
text: Did you knowthat when 74-year old Irish politician Pól Ó Foighil was told he was too old to be an election candidate, he challenged the younger man to twenty press ups ?
text: Did you knowthat Bhushan Steel , the largest manufacturer of auto-grade steel in India , is expanding its capacity to 12 million tonnes annually?
text: Did you knowthat Hurricane Hernan was the second of three Category 5 Pacific hurricanes in the 2002 hurricane season ?
text: Did you knowthat in 1916, footballer Bob Benson volunteered to replace an absent Arsenal team-mate just before a game, only to collapse and die during the match?
text: Did you knowthat the centerfire revolver cartridge .44 Russian , despite its name, was developed by an American handgun manufacturer, Smith & Wesson ?
text: Did you knowthat the East Timor political party Association for the Integration of Timor into Indonesia quickly changed its name to Timorese Popular Democratic Association to improve public relations ?
text: Did you knowthat in More Demi Moore , Demi Moore appeared on the cover of Vanity Fair eight-months pregnant and wearing only a diamond ring ?
text: Did you knowthat the first book on Buddhism in Dutch was written in 1879?
text: Did you knowthat future four-star admiral Frank H. Brumby was accused of technical incompetence by the Naval Court of Inquiry investigating the accidental sinking of the submarine S-4 ?
text: Did you knowthat Clark State Forest was Indiana 's largest Civilian Conservation Corps cantonment ?
text: Did you knowthat the ghost town of Melmont, Washington was only populated for twenty years?
text: Did you knowthat the award-winning Turkish restaurant Changa in Istanbul is being supervised by the Kiwi chef Peter Gordon ?
text: Did you knowthat forced labor of Hungarians in the Soviet Union was dubbed malenkij robot ( corrupted Russian for "a little work") in Hungary ?
text: Did you knowthat a dispatcher training simulator is a computer-based training system which simulates the behaviour of an electrical power grid ?
text: Did you knowthat before his 40th birthday Gus Stager swam for an NCAA championship team and coached three high school championship teams, four NCAA championship teams, and the 1960 U.S. Olympic team?
text: Did you knowthat the year 2008 is the 90th Anniversary of the Republic of Estonia ?
text: Did you knowthat the Scottish investment company Alliance Trust was formed in 1888 from companies providing loans to immigrant farmers in Oregon ?
text: Did you knowthat the work of make-up artist and body painter Joanne Gair , whose works include the 1992 Vanity Fair cover of Demi Moore , has been featured in ten consecutive Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issues ?
text: Did you knowthat in 1907, the Inlet of Vårby in Lake Mälaren became one of the first maritime environments in Sweden to suffer the crayfish plague ?
text: Did you knowthat Lee Embree took the first air-to-air photographs of the 1941 Attack on Pearl Harbor from an unarmed B-17 Flying Fortress , which arrived in Hawaii 30 minutes after the beginning of the attack?
text: Did you knowthat the current series of banknotes in Singapore feature the portrait of Yusof bin Ishak , the first President of Singapore ?
text: Did you knowthat future Canadian Senator John Gilbert Higgins hung black crêpe paper on his door in mourning the day that Newfoundland joined Canada ?
text: Did you knowthat in the forthcoming Bollywood film Krazzy 4 , actor Hrithik Roshan performed an " item number " for the first time?
text: Did you knowthat Jeff Robinson , who played nine seasons in Major League Baseball , was the thirteenth pitcher in the National League to strike out three batters on nine pitches ?
text: Did you knowthat a study of 930 patients with fatigue -like symptoms showed 62% testing MELISA-positive to metal allergy ?
text: Did you knowthat in 2006, Tsering Chungtak became the first Tibetan ever to participate in a major international beauty pageant ?
text: Did you knowthat F. Scott Fitzgerald was furious when he read his wife Zelda 's first novel, Save Me the Waltz , because she had used material which he was planning to use in Tender Is the Night ?
text: Did you knowthat while Nicholas Fitzherbert was abroad, two priests were arrested in his father's house and hanged, drawn, and quartered ?
text: Did you knowthat fluoride varnish can be applied to tooth surfaces to prevent tooth decay , but is currently underutilized for the purpose?
text: Did you knowthat the Ngoc Lu is regarded as the most important drum of the Dong Son culture of the Bronze Age , whose artefacts have been found at Co Loa Citadel , Chau Can , Lang Ca , Lang Vac , Xuan La and Viet Khe ?
text: Did you knowthat the first person in England to become a Bahá'í was Mary Thornburgh-Cropper in 1898, the year now regarded as the founding of the British Bahá'í community ?
text: Did you knowthat geology professor Lawrence Wager was an Arctic explorer and mountaineer who in 1933 reached the highest point yet climbed on Mount Everest ?
text: Did you knowthat the Chalk Tunnels under Chełm , Poland are thought to total up to 15 km (9.3 mi) in length?
text: Did you knowthat although Gather Together in My Name , the second book in Maya Angelou 's six autobiographies , was not as critically acclaimed as the first one, it continues the same themes of racism and sexism ?
text: Did you knowthat many of the 250,000 foreign laborers in Dubai live in conditions described by Human Rights Watch as being "less than human"?
text: Did you knowthat alleged paranormal activity at the Andrew Bayne Memorial Library in Bellevue, Pennsylvania reportedly peaked in 1998, when a 400-year-old elm tree on the property was dying of Dutch elm disease ?
text: Did you knowthat Wetsens station on the North Friesland Railway , which served a sparsely populated part of Friesland , Netherlands , closed in 1902, less than eight months after opening?
text: Did you knowthat the great earthquake in 365 CE destroyed nearly all towns in Crete ?
text: Did you knowthat Dutch Catechism , a bestseller with translations sold globally, was issued by bishops of the Netherlands to make the message of Jesus "sound as new as it is"?
text: Did you knowthat only about fourteen of the Tramcars in the National Tramway Museum are operational?
text: Did you knowthat Hurricane Darby 's remnants caused the Space Shuttle Columbia 's landing at the end of STS-50 to be postponed for a day?
text: Did you knowthat African-American Lemuel A. Penn , murdered by the Ku Klux Klan on suspicion of being a civil rights activist , was actually a career soldier and Bronze Star recipient?
text: Did you knowthat the President of Latvia said the result of the 2003 Latvian European Union membership referendum wiped out the divisions of Europe created by the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact of 1939?
text: Did you knowthe geneivat da'at principle in Jewish law has been used to forbid false advertising , insider trading , cheating on the Regents exams , and the failure to cite secondary sources ?
text: Did you knowthat Labworth Café , built in 1932, is the only example of the architectural design of Ove Arup and was made a Listed building in 1996?
text: Did you knowthat the wreck of the scallop dredger Solway Harvester was discovered by the Royal Navy 's minehunter HMS Sandown ?
text: Did you knowthat The Casuarina Tree short stories set in the 1920's Malaya by W. Somerset Maugham came out of travels he paid for by working as a British spy ?
text: Did you knowthat Iceland was the first country to recognize Lithuania 's re-established independence in 1991?
text: Did you knowthat Hartford, Connecticut 's Webster Theater , opened in 1937 as a movie theater, is now a music venue where Incubus and No Doubt performed when they were barely known?
text: Did you knowthat the Arthur Middleton class attack transport USS George Clymer saw service in four major wars and earned a total of fifteen battle stars ?
text: Did you knowthat Polish poet and political activist Apollo Korzeniowski was the father of novelist Joseph Conrad ?
text: Did you knowthat the Premier League 's proposal to play some matches outside England has been condemned by the Football Supporters' Federation as "outrageous desecration of the national game"?
text: Did you knowthat Gordon Parks High School , an alternative school in Saint Paul , Minnesota , is named after the famous photographer ?
text: Did you knowthat two years after masterminding the murders of backpackers , Sam Bith was made a general in the Cambodian Army ?
text: Did you knowthat the Western State Normal Railroad is the only known railroad built by a university and the only funicular operated in Michigan ?
text: Did you knowthat despite not being present at the Battle of Trafalgar , Richard Strachan was among those rewarded for the victory?
text: Did you knowthat the US military 's adoption of Eagle Cash stands to save them millions of dollars , and eliminate thousands of wasted man-hours, during the War in Iraq ?
text: Did you knowthat Sir James Lithgow played a prominent role in restructuring the British shipbuilding industry in the 1930s?
text: Did you knowthat a rumour that Kylie Minogue had written a song for Hot Chip 's recent album, Made in the Dark , was started by the band itself?
text: Did you knowthat Francie Kraker Goodridge , who set a world indoor record in the 600-yard run, did not receive a varsity letter or sports scholarship and had to work as a waitress to put herself through college?
text: Did you knowthat Dr. Charles A. Stafford , a flight surgeon , was awarded a Silver Star and a Purple Heart , and the U.S. Army had a hospital ship re-named after him during World War II ?
text: Did you knowthat the coal strike of 1981 was the first against Cape Breton Development Corporation since their nationalization in 1967?
text: Did you knowthat Laurence C. Jones , the founder of the Piney Woods Country Life School near Jackson, Mississippi , once convinced a white mob not to lynch him by telling them about his educational mission?
text: Did you knowthat the Central Park Mall leading to the Bethesda Terrace provides the only purely formal feature in the naturalistic original plan of Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux for Central Park , New York ?
text: Did you knowthat the ocean liner SS Shalom accidentally rammed and bisected the Norwegian tanker Stolt Dagali , sinking the bow of the tanker but not the stern ?
text: Did you knowthat at the time of construction Interstate 70 in Colorado featured the world's highest road tunnel?
text: Did you knowthat Ellyse Perry played both cricket and soccer for Australia at the age of sixteen?
text: Did you knowthat Italian painter Perugino had probably finished his altarpiece The Virgin appearing to St. Bernard by the time Raphael became his apprentice ?
text: Did you knowthat the Valley View Ferry , Kentucky's oldest business, is seven years older than the state itself?
text: Did you knowthat the Olive python , Australia 's second largest snake, can eat prey as large as a wallaby ?
text: Did you knowthat the Indonesian occupation of East Timor claimed over 100,000 lives and was characterized by torture , forced disappearance , and starvation ?
text: Did you knowthat orchidologist Henry Frederick Conrad Sander 's magnum opus depicted life-sized orchids in volumes over 20 inches (63 cm) tall?
text: Did you knowthat M-209 was the shortest state highway in Michigan at a half-mile until 1996, serving as a connection to a former Coast Guard station?
text: Did you knowthat when Galway Councillor Fintan Coogan was re-elected in 1999, the Irish Times reported his victory under the headline "City's Lazarus claims resurrection status as he defeats provider of fish"?
text: Did you knowthat François de Troy was admitted into the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture with a reception piece called Mercury cutting off the head of Argus ?
text: Did you knowthat the Satellite Transit System at the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport is the second oldest airport people mover system in the U.S.?
text: Did you knowthat till the 17th century, the Bordeaux wine region of the Haut-Médoc was a vast expanse of salt marshes ?
text: Did you knowthat California 's four-lane Bayshore Highway , now a freeway , was built to high standards in the 1920s and '30s, but was called "Bloody Bayshore" because of the number of crashes ?
text: Did you knowthat British actress Anastasia Griffith spoke only in an American accent while auditioning for an American character on Damages ?
text: Did you knowthat a significant number of Iraqis have emigrated to Russia as early as the 1990s?
text: Did you knowthat the people of Uniontown, Alabama were surprised that Phillip Henry Pitts built such a large house in 1853, so it is now known as " Pitts' Folly "?
text: Did you knowthat paperback rights to Gay Talese 's 1971 non-fiction novel about the Bonanno crime family , Honor Thy Father , sold for more money than the paperback rights to Mario Puzo 's The Godfather ?
text: Did you knowthat the economy of Ohio includes the world's largest plants for processing yogurt , soup , ketchup and frozen pizza ?
text: Did you knowthat multiple-award winning Indian film Vanaja , which could not be screened in India because it found no takers, was the Master of Fine Arts thesis of its director, Rajnesh Domalpalli ?
text: Did you knowthat former England under-21 goalkeeper Lee Grant has been described by Owls manager Brian Laws as "probably the most outstanding keeper" in the Championship ?
text: Did you knowthat Sparrenberg Castle in Bielefeld , Germany , was built before 1250 by the counts of Ravensberg ?
text: Did you knowthat 2008 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue model Melissa Haro was the youngest fashion model contestant on the first season of Project Runway ?
text: Did you knowthat although London and South Western Railway passenger trains first arrived in Plymouth , England in 1876, its Plymouth Friary railway station terminus was not opened until 1891?
text: Did you knowthat Oregonian newspaper co-founder William Chapman served in the first session of the Oregon Territorial Legislature and was Iowa Territory 's first delegate to the U.S. Congress ?
text: Did you knowthat moss of the genus Polytrichum has adapted to trap moist air between rows of lamellae ?
text: Did you knowthat after a recent shooting at Northern Illinois University , a report of a possible gunman on campus was posted on the school's website within 20 minutes?
text: Did you knowthat the Jnanpith Award for modern literature in India has been awarded to more writers of Kannada literature , than those of any other Indian language ?
text: Did you knowthat the American tennis player Michael Leach gained national rankings in doubles playing with his father?
text: Did you knowthat four countries are working together with Israelis and Palestinians to create a range of new cooperative economic projects to foster peace, in the Valley of Peace initiative ?
text: Did you knowthat Family Moving Day was the last entry in Beechwood Bunny Tales , a series of children's books written by French author Geneviève Huriet , to be translated into English?
text: Did you knowthat the Heywood class attack transport USS William P. Biddle rescued survivors from four US Navy troopships torpedoed during Operation Torch ?
text: Did you knowthat the Islamic prophet Muhammad, while in Mecca , was a merchant involved in trade between the Indian Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea ?
text: Did you knowthat the 9,000 ton McCawley -class attack transport USS McCawley was accidentally sunk during the Solomons campaign in 1943 by friendly fire ?
text: Did you knowthat after bad reviews, the distributors of the 1992 animated film The Princess and the Goblin used enthusiastic comments from children in its promotional material?
text: Did you knowthat Oregon judge William Gilbert opposed Joseph McKenna 's nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court after the two had served together on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ?
text: Did you knowthat computer simulation techniques were used to review the design of One Marina Boulevard in Singapore ?
text: Did you knowthat the England national football team has only had fifteen managers since the position was made a full-time post in 1946?
text: Did you knowthat Tony Spear , a leader of the Mars Pathfinder project, is now working to pursue the Google Lunar X Prize ?
text: Did you knowthat the white kunzea was among the first Australian plants introduced to cultivation in England ?
text: Did you knowthat the U.S. Supreme Court case Holloway v. United States sought to establish whether the Federal carjacking law applies to crimes committed with the "conditional intent" of harming drivers who refuse a carjacker's demands?
text: Did you knowthat De brief voor de koning ( The Letter for the King ) by Tonke Dragt was chosen in 2004 by the judges of the Gouden Griffel as the best Dutch children's novel of the past fifty years?
text: Did you knowthat Brest Fortress in Belarus was belatedly honoured by the USSR as a Hero Fortress in 1965 for its resistance to the Nazi invasion in 1941?
text: Did you knowthat Romany Marie 's café was a bohemian hangout in Greenwich Village for artists, authors, explorers, scientists, visionaries , and other intellectuals from the 1910s through the 1950s ?
text: Did you knowthat three Queens of England and several British nobles were beheaded in Tower Green , a space within the Tower of London ?
text: Did you knowthat 2008 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue model Quiana Grant served for four years as her mother's eyes while the latter underwent a series of corrective surgeries for chorioretinitis ?
text: Did you knowthat the second movement of Symphony No. 21 in A major by Joseph Haydn has a mirror recapitulation , which is unusual for both a work of Haydn's and a symphony ?
text: Did you knowthat the sQuba , developed by Swiss company Rinspeed , is the world's first car that can be driven both on land and under water?
text: Did you knowthat the battle of the Dukla Pass was one of the bloodiest battles in Slovakia 's history?
text: Did you knowthat Tibbia College , with 84 patents in herbal medicine , is the only medical institution in India to offer education and training in two ancient systems of medicine, Ayurveda and Unaani ?
text: Did you knowthat U.S. politician William Waldo served as a county judge in Oregon after his younger brother served on the Oregon Supreme Court ?
text: Did you knowthat the plot of the Lost episode " The Economist " was compared to the Book of Daniel , the TV series Alias , and the film Assassins ?
text: Did you knowthat Martin Corry , a Fianna Fáil TD for over 40 years, once suggested in the Dáil the use of poison gas to end the Partition of Ireland ?
text: Did you knowthat white nose syndrome has caused a mortality rate of over 90% of bats in some caves ?
text: Did you knowthat Singaporean artist Chua Ek Kay ’s ink paintings blended traditional Chinese painting forms and Western art theories and techniques?
text: Did you knowthat four of the five ships operated by the Hamburg Atlantic Line and their successors were named Hanseatic at some point of their tenure in the company?
text: Did you knowthat Archduke Felix of Austria was once barred from entering Austria , and he held a news conference to announce his illegal arrival the day after sneaking in from Germany in 1996?
text: Did you knowthat the Vermejo Park Ranch in New Mexico is the largest privately owned , contiguous tract of land in the United States , making its owner Ted Turner the biggest private land owner in the country?
text: Did you knowthat cleaning up Quassaick Creek convinced Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. to make environmental law his lifelong work?
text: Did you knowthat as a protest against what they call " Imperial Manila ", the local government of Cebu Province forced all of its schools to sing the Philippine National Anthem in Cebuano instead of Tagalog ?
text: Did you knowthat two 79th Academy Award Best Visual Effects nominees employed mathematician Ronald Fedkiw 's model for their special effects ?
text: Did you knowthat, at a debate on evolution in 1860 , Bishop Wilberforce allegedly asked Thomas Huxley if it was through his grandfather or his grandmother that he claimed his descent from a monkey ?
text: Did you knowthat the U.S. Navy 's Harris -class attack transports Leonard Wood , Joseph T. Dickman and J. Franklin Bell were all named after U.S. Army generals ?
text: Did you knowthat Most Rev. S. Arulappa , Archbishop of Hyderabad , was the youngest to be consecrated as a Roman Catholic Archbishop in India ?
text: Did you knowthat South Korean screenwriter and director Byeon Seung-wook spent five years working on the scenario for his 2006 directorial debut film, Solace ?
text: Did you knowthat before becoming mayor of Erie, Pennsylvania in 1862, Prescott Metcalf started two railroads , numerous manufacturing firms , and was the director of a canal ?
text: Did you knowthat according to Lapsiporno.info , a blacklist of websites compiled by the Finnish National Bureau of Investigation included those containing legal pornography ?
text: Did you knowthat Penny Neer , 1982 AIAW discus champion and one of the top U.S. discus throwers, also blocked 64 shots for the University of Michigan women's basketball team?
text: Did you knowthat the Eneabba Stone Arrangement is an Aboriginal stone arrangement once thought to have been associated with survivors of the Vergulde Draeck , a Dutch galleon wrecked on the coast of Australia in 1656?
text: Did you knowthat forthcoming Tamil film Aegan , starring Ajith Kumar , marks the directorial debut of choreographer Raju Sundaram ?
text: Did you knowthat the bobsleigh and luge track used for the 1992 Winter Olympics has 80 km (50 mi) of ammonia refrigeration piping and 40 km (25 mi) of electrical conduit running though its 6,500 m 3 (8,500 cu yd ) of concrete ?
text: Did you knowthat Dương Quỳnh Hoa , who socialized with Saigon elites during the Vietnam War , was a communist spy?
text: Did you knowthat Shirazi wine from the Persian city of Shiraz was white and has nothing to do with the Shiraz grape used to make wine today?
text: Did you knowthat Francis Bok , who was held as a slave in northern Sudan for ten years, now works as an abolitionist for the American Anti-Slavery Group ?
text: Did you knowthat Red Plague , a poem of Józef Szczepański , commander of Batalion Parasol during the Warsaw Uprising , was banned in the People's Republic of Poland due to its anti-Soviet sentiments?
text: Did you knowthat Momoko Ueda became the youngest golfer in Japan LPGA Tour history to finish first on the money list?
text: Did you knowthat the artillery of the Nguyen Lords was so strong that cannons were placed at 4 m intervals along a 12 km defensive wall to repel the rival Trinh Lords of Vietnam ?
text: Did you knowthat Jeff Groscost oversaw the passing of an alternative fuels bill in Arizona whose cost ballooned from $10 million to $140 million?
text: Did you knowthat Sergeant James Graham was declared the "bravest man at Waterloo " for closing the North Gate at Hougoumont , an act which Wellington claimed saved the battle?
text: Did you knowthat the origins of Pak Khlong Talat , the primary flower market in Bangkok , Thailand , date to the 1700s?
text: Did you knowthat Olympic gold medal -winning swimmer Gail Neall was initially so bad that her coach filmed her as an example to other swimmers of what not to do?
text: Did you knowthat Otte Wallish calligraphed Israel's Declaration of Independence in 1948 and helped design its first coins , but since it as yet had no name, he sketched the first postage stamps for a country called Yehudah ?
text: Did you knowthat of the original 28.9 miles (46.5 km) operated by the Grand Rapids, Belding and Saginaw Railroad , less than 2 miles (3.2 km) remain in use?
text: Did you knowthat Vietnamese politician and dissident Hoang Minh Chinh was jailed twice after criticizing the Communist Party ?
text: Did you knowthat the rooflines of the newest school in the Cornwall Central School District mimic the surrounding hills in Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York ?
text: Did you knowthat the film crew of the forthcoming Tamil film , Kanthaswamy adopted two villages near Madurai to give film profits to?
text: Did you knowthat Australian General George Vasey regretted to have sent a small unit too far without adequate support for the Battle of Kaiapit during World War II and considered himself lucky to have won?
text: Did you knowthat in March 2007, about five thousand workers were evacuated from Hong Leong Building in Singapore after tremors originating from Sumatra were felt?
text: Did you knowthat the Port of Mainz was an important war harbour for the Roman fleet from which Roman ships patrolled the Rhine ?
text: Did you knowthat official mail stamps were first introduced into the U.S. by the USPOD , due to an 1872 Republican election plan , to abolish free franking that 31,933 people were entitled to at a cost of US$ 5 million?
text: Did you knowthat the " sweaty saddle " aroma associated with Shiraz from the New South Wales wine region of the Hunter Valley is actually a wine fault ?
text: Did you knowthat University of Michigan Hall of Honor inductee Al Renfrew was the first person to play on a NCAA championship college hockey team and later coach a national champion?
text: Did you knowthat " Palestinian archaeology " can refer to a field of archaeological inquiry known as Syro-Palestinian archaeology , and more recently, to archaeological research conducted by Palestinians themselves?
text: Did you knowthat in 1940, the USS American Legion transported a Norwegian Princess to the safety of America , along with a vital Bofors 40mm gun to be used as a mass production prototype ?
text: Did you knowthat Kumarakom Bird Sanctuary in Kerala , India , receives migratory birds from far away Siberia ?
text: Did you knowthat many cellular phone ringtones use Music Macro Language , developed in the 1980s as a means of programming music on personal computers and video game consoles ?
text: Did you knowthat U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates has expanded the Human Terrain Team program to match anthropologists with every brigade in Iraq and Afghanistan ?
text: Did you knowthat " quickfire ", a form of arson employed in Scandinavian blood feuds , was punishable by death only if the perpetrator was caught in the act and killed at the scene of the crime?
text: Did you knowthat the fifth growth Bordeaux wine estate of Château Cantemerle was not included in the original maps from the Bordeaux Wine Official Classification of 1855 ?
text: Did you knowthat the USS Hunter Liggett (APA-14) ran hazardous support missions to the American garrison on the bitterly contested island of Guadalcanal for over 14 months?
text: Did you knowthat Holocaust survivor Miles Lerman immigrated to the United States in 1947 and became a major figure behind the establishment of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. ?
text: Did you knowthat Hans Thomsen , the German Chargé d'Affaires in Washington, D.C. immediately prior to World War II , directed an effort to influence the foreign policy platform of the 1940 Republican National Convention ?
text: Did you knowthat Burrabazar , in Kolkata , expanded from a yarn and textile market into a large wholesale market?
text: Did you knowthat, in December 2007, the Canadian bobsleigh duo of Pierre Lueders and Justin Kripps were the first people to slide down the bobsleigh, luge, and skeleton track that will be used for the 2010 Winter Olympics ?
text: Did you knowthat trains to London ran eastwards from Devonport Kings Road railway station when it opened in 1876, but from 1890 they ran westwards?
text: Did you knowthat Bill Orwig hired Bob Knight as basketball coach at Indiana and has been inducted into the athletic halls of fame at three universities — Indiana, Michigan and Toledo ?
text: Did you knowthat about three-quarters of the Oroville-Chico Highway (now Route 149) in California 's Sacramento Valley has been absorbed by realignments of Routes 70 and 99 ?
text: Did you knowthat when Shiv Chowrasia , a former caddie , won the 2008 Indian Masters golf tournament , he became the third Indian to win a European Tour event?
text: Did you knowthat Marie Hartwig , faculty member at the University of Michigan from 1930–1976, was a lifelong advocate for women's sports and one of the first women inducted into the school's Hall of Honor ?
text: Did you knowthat the Valens Aqueduct was the major water-providing system of medieval Constantinople and Ottoman Istanbul ?
text: Did you knowthat eighteen fallen Confederate soldiers were moved when the Confederate Monument in Georgetown was dedicated?
text: Did you knowthat the first Douglas DC-9 jet airliner to crash was West Coast Airlines Flight 956 in 1966?
text: Did you knowthat ' HMS Incomparable was a design for a mammoth battlecruiser , proposed by British Admiral Jackie Fisher in 1915, but never built?
text: Did you knowthat Odd Nansen , son of the famed scientist and explorer Fridtjof Nansen , founded Nansenhjelpen to help Jewish refugees escape the German invasion of Czechoslovakia to Norway , then survived Sachsenhausen himself?
text: Did you knowthat Crookham, a village in England , dates as far back as the Domesday Book , but that it split into Crookham Village and Church Crookham upon the founding of the nearby Christ Church in 1840?
text: Did you knowthat after Secretary of the Air Force Sheila Widnall resigned, F. Whitten Peters served as acting Secretary of the Air Force for 19 months?
text: Did you knowthat according to John of Ephesus , in 583, Empress Constantina , consort of Maurice , gave birth to the first heir born to a reigning Byzantine Emperor in over 100 years?
text: Did you knowthat the art critic Charles-Nicolas Cochin was a designer and engraver to King Louis XV 's Menus-Plaisirs du Roi ?
text: Did you knowthat Academy Award - winning film Thirty Seconds over Tokyo was adapted from a book by the pilot of " The Ruptured Duck ," one of 16 USAAF bombers in the Doolittle Raid on Japan during World War II ?
text: Did you knowthat the World War II -era Crescent City class attack transports USS Crescent City and USS Calvert each received ten battle stars and a Navy Unit Commendation ?
text: Did you knowthat Qabala treasures , monetary treasure troves discovered in Azerbaijan , contain drachmas of Alexander the Great and denarii of four Roman Emperors ?
text: Did you knowthat historian J. Bowyer Bell was tear gassed in Belfast , held hostage in Jordan , shot at in Lebanon , kidnapped in Yemen and deported from Kenya ?
text: Did you knowthat the oldest black church in Kentucky is the Second Christian Church in Midway, Kentucky's historic district ?
text: Did you knowthat early plans for Washington, D.C. had the White House facing a convergence of radial avenues centered on the present-day North Lawn , with gardens descending to Tiber Creek in the present-day South Lawn ?
text: Did you knowthat Satoru Kobayashi , one of Japan 's most prolific directors , wrote and directed the first pink film in 1962 ?
text: Did you knowthat Lambda Sigma , a college sophomore honor society originally founded for women only, was required to disband due to Title IX and was reestablished under its current name in 1975?
text: Did you knowthat the murder of Solomon P. Sharp was the inspiration for a number of literary works, including Edgar Allen Poe 's Scenes From 'Politian' ?
text: Did you knowthat most of Petroleum Road , a privately owned asphalt road in the Golan Heights , is marked on maps as inaccessible to traffic because of poor road quality?
text: Did you knowthat film editor Sam O'Steen collaborated on twelve films by Mike Nichols , earning Academy Award editing nominations for Silkwood and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? ?
text: Did you knowthat "are you other?" or "are you other being?" are Inuktitut translations of the name of Ahimaa Cave, hollowed out of a massive cliff by Qamanirjuaq Lake ?
text: Did you knowthat the U.S. Supreme Court held in NLRB v. Mackay Radio & Telegraph Co. that although employees cannot be fired for exercising their right to strike , they can be "permanently replaced" by strikebreakers ?
text: Did you knowthat the Pine Creek Rail Trail , a 65 mile (105 km) rail trail along Pine Creek in Pennsylvania , was named one of "10 great places to take a bike tour" in the world by USA Today ?
text: Did you knowthat the official cause of the Great Fire of 1811 , which lasted for three days and burned down the whole Podil neighborhood of Kiev , was children playing with fire?
text: Did you knowthat traditional Chinese phoenixes in carved reliefs of the Qianling Mausoleum are modeled on ostriches ?
text: Did you knowthat halfback Chuck Ortmann punted 24 times in the famed 1950 Snow Bowl , having decided the best strategy was to keep the slick ball on the other side of the field in the opponents' hands?
text: Did you knowthat the Ormsby -class attack transports USS Ormsby and USS Sheridan earned six battle stars for WWII service apiece, and were both scrapped after accidents in 1969?
text: Did you knowthat architect Otto Königsberger illustrated his uncle Max Born 's popular physics book?
text: Did you knowthat textile arts are those arts and crafts that use plant , animal , or synthetic fibers to construct and decorate objects such as clothing , carpets , and curtains ?
text: Did you knowthat the fictional character " Thirteen " in the FOX medical drama House is referred to as such on the show's daily call sheets to further propagate an inside joke within the show's narrative ?
text: Did you knowthat Lactarius helvus , a mushroom whose smell has been likened to Maggi instant soup or fenugreek , was implicated in the poisoning of 418 people near Leipzig , Germany ?
text: Did you knowthat William Bambridge , the father of England Football international Charles Bambridge was a member of the Te Waimate mission , New Zealand who became official photographer to Queen Victoria ?
text: Did you knowthat NASCAR official Robin Pemberton ' s decision concerning the final outcome of the 2007 Daytona 500 resulted in his brother's team finishing second instead of first?
text: Did you knowthat the 1989 Malta Summit between the United States and Soviet Union was held onboard SS Maxim Gorkiy , a Soviet cruise ship that had partially sunk near Svalbard less than six months before?
text: Did you knowthat Annie Fargé , who played a scatterbrained French wife to an American architect in the 1960 CBS sitcom Angel , was described by Time as "easily the brightest newcomer to situation comedy" though the series folded after one season?
text: Did you knowthat a poster in the 2003 Estonian European Union membership referendum called on Estonians to vote yes "for access to millions of sexier men"?
text: Did you knowthat Dr. John Roberton proposed "medical police" and advocated use of cantharides whilst another Dr. John Roberton was a pioneer of obstetrics ?
text: Did you knowthat most of the American Civil War events in Midway, Kentucky , including that which the Martyrs Monument in Midway commemorates, involved the stealing of horses ?
text: Did you knowthat the Atlantic Marine ecozone , with its dense fog and massive icebergs , has been feared by mariners who have dubbed its northern extent "Iceberg Alley"?
text: Did you knowthat Narmada Bachao Andolan , a NGO in India , was the main reason for World Bank to conduct its first-ever independent review of any of its projects?
text: Did you knowthat the 20-year tenure of District Attorney Joe Rubio, Jr. was marred by corruption which led to his father having spent more than three years in U.S. federal prison for conspiracy and extortion ?
text: Did you knowthat key donors of land to Louisville, Kentucky 's 26-mile (42-km) parkway system included a veteran of the Confederate Army and a notorious political boss ?
text: Did you knowthat the old block of the Bank of China Building in Singapore was the tallest building in the central business district , Raffles Place , from 1954 till 1974?
text: Did you knowthat the kiss between Luke Snyder and Noah Mayer on As the World Turns is the first kiss between gay male characters on a daytime American soap opera ?
text: Did you knowthat Saint-Bris is the only appellation out of 150 in the French wine region of Burgundy where the wines may contain the grape variety Sauvignon blanc ?
text: Did you knowthat Edgar Allan Poe satirized the concept of a self-made man in his story " The Business Man " using a character that makes his fortune cutting the tails off cats?
text: Did you knowthat every year 70,000 to 80,000 migratory birds visit Raiganj Wildlife Sanctuary , an artificially created forest in West Bengal , India ?
text: Did you knowthat judge Michael W. Mosman was involved in U.S. Supreme Court justice Lewis F. Powell 's voting to uphold Georgia 's sodomy law in Bowers v. Hardwick while working as his law clerk ?
text: Did you knowthat the small private rooms called cabinets gave rise to the political sense of cabinet , after English monarchs began to discuss matters of state in these settings?
text: Did you knowthat the postage stamps of the Palestinian National Authority have featured many well-known figures, but those with Pope John Paul II might be fake illegal stamps ?
text: Did you knowthat many villages in Tajikistan received only one to two hours of electricity per day during an on-going energy crisis in Central Asia ?
text: Did you knowthat Miś Uszatek , a children's cartoon about a bear and his friends, is one of the best-selling export products of Polish TV?
text: Did you knowthat the charitable Sheffield Town Trust funded a cricket match which aimed to "prevent the infamous practice of throwing at cocks "?
text: Did you knowthat Robert Parker 's newsletter The Wine Advocate was the first to widely adopt the 50–100 scale wine rating scale, using it as parallel to the American educational grading system ?
text: Did you knowthat Bill Keightley is one of only two people who have never played for nor coached the Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball team to have their jerseys retired by the University of Kentucky ?
text: Did you knowthat the ocean liner SS Leonardo da Vinci was constructed in 1960 with provisions to be nuclear-powered ?
text: Did you knowthat an ongoing strike by Gaelic footballers and hurlers in County Cork , Ireland , has led to Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern asking for the players and the county board to resolve their dispute?
text: Did you knowthat Equine Hippique Canada , Canada 's official equestrian federation, describes itself as a "little known and hardly recognized" entity, despite selecting the Olympic teams?
text: Did you knowthe world's longest tunnel system is the two parallel tunnels at the Atatürk Dam of Şanlıurfa in southeastern Turkey ?
text: Did you knowthat vin jaune , from the French wine region of Château-Chalon , is made with a layer of yeast that grows on top of the wine while in the barrel ?
text: Did you knowthat the rivalry between Leeds United and Manchester United football clubs has its roots in the 15th century English civil war , the Wars of the Roses ?
text: Did you knowthat John "Willy" Williams , the Australian World War II air ace who later took part in the " The Great Escape ", became a POW merely three days after being promoted to command No.450 Squadron RAAF ?
text: Did you knowthat in a college prank televised across the United States , spectators at the 1961 Rose Bowl unknowingly displayed the word " CALTECH " in an altered card stunt instead of the nickname of one of the teams on the field ?
text: Did you knowthat TenneT , the Dutch transmission system operator , is a joint owner of the ±450 kV, 580 km (360 mi) NorNed , the longest high- voltage undersea power line in the world?
text: Did you knowthat Seattle pioneer David Denny married his own stepsister, made and lost a fortune worth US$ 3 million, and survived an axe-blow to his head at age 67?
text: Did you knowthat the European fungus Ramaria formosa , found under beech trees, resembles a yellow-tipped pink piece of many-branched coral ?
text: Did you knowthat English publishers John Stockdale and his son John Joseph Stockdale were involved in separate lawsuits decades apart, which led to changes in the law in 1792 and in 1840 , respectively?
text: Did you knowthat the Mauch Chunk and Summit Hill Switchback Railroad , the second railroad built in the United States , was a major precursor to the roller coaster ?
text: Did you knowthat Michiko Maeda , the first Japanese actress to appear nude in a mainstream film, was banned from Japanese cinema for 42 years for disobeying a director?
text: Did you knowthat the French wine region of Châteauneuf-du-Pape has a wine law banning the overhead flying, landing or taking off of flying saucers ?
text: Did you knowthat before he became involved in the Ituri conflict , alleged war criminal Mathieu Ngudjolo Chui was a nurse?
text: Did you knowthat the Great Phenol Plot of 1915 was to divert phenol from U.S. explosives production to prop up German Bayer 's aspirin business?
text: Did you knowthat rubrics were originally anything written in red letters in a manuscript , but now most often mean instructions, especially for officiating clergy , or scoring tools for tests in education?
text: Did you knowthat Wally Weber , football player, coach and broadcaster at Michigan for 45 years, was renowned for his "polysyllabic fluency" and sounding like an "an educated foghorn"?
text: Did you knowthat British Labour MP James Lamond was criticised in the 1980s as an apologist for the Soviet Union because he defended the invasion of Afghanistan ?
text: Did you knowthat Tunisian Railways operates a standard gauge network in the North and a meter gauge network in the South of Tunisia ?
text: Did you knowthat financier Gurdon Wattles was responsible for building the historically significant Wattles House in Omaha and the Wattles Mansion in Hollywood ?
text: Did you knowthat Juliusz Wertheim , a Polish pianist , conductor and composer , was a mentor of Arthur Rubinstein , considered one of the greatest piano virtuosi of the 20th Century?
text: Did you knowthat the WWII -era Windsor -class attack transport USS Queens (APA-103) was sunk as an artificial reef off Texas in 2007?
text: Did you knowthat Jake Simmons, Jr. was the most successful African-American entrepreneur in the history of the petroleum industry ?
text: Did you knowthat the New Zealand Railways Department 's experimental RM class Westinghouse railcar was the first railcar to enter revenue service in New Zealand ?
text: Did you knowthat Sir Neville Francis Fitzgerald Chamberlain , head of the Royal Irish Constabulary from 1900 to the aftermath of the 1916 Easter Rising , is credited with inventing the game of snooker ?
text: Did you knowthat Independent Operational Group Polesie , composed of mostly reserve and second line troops, was nonetheless the last  regular unit of the Polish Army to capitulate during the German invasion of Poland in 1939?
text: Did you knowthat USOC president Doug Roby initially took no action against Tommie Smith and John Carlos after their Black Power salute at the 1968 Olympics , but expelled them after an IOC threat to expel the entire U.S. track team?
text: Did you knowthat while Isko Moreno was running for vice mayor in Manila in 2007, posters were distributed of him wearing only swimming briefs ?
text: Did you knowthat William Hogarth 's prints Beer Street and Gin Lane contrast the misery of gin drinkers with the happiness and good health of those who drink beer ?
text: Did you knowthat Swiss watchmaker Parmigiani Fleurier made the Bugatti 370 – a $200,000 watch in honour of the supercar Bugatti Veyron – which won the 2006 "Watch of the Year" Award from the Japanese press?
text: Did you knowthat the CPF Building , which houses the Central Provident Fund Board , was the site of a silent protest by four people demanding greater transparency and accountability in Singapore ?
text: Did you knowthat tais weaving in East Timor is performed solely by women, using techniques passed down through generations in an oral tradition ?
text: Did you knowthat Heimir was a Gothic hero who evolved into a traitor through centuries of story-telling?
text: Did you knowthat the tide of the Texas-Indian Wars was turned at the Battle of Bandera Pass when six-shot revolvers were used for the first time against the Comanches ?
text: Did you knowthat Avenue Charles de Gaulle in N'Djamena is a rare street in Chad to have retained its French name despite President François Tombalbaye 's Authenticité Africanization program?
text: Did you knowthat state senator Mike Kopp is the only Gulf War veteran currently serving in the Colorado General Assembly ?
text: Did you knowthat two members of No. 450 Squadron , Royal Australian Air Force , were among the 50 Allied POWs murdered by the Gestapo , following The Great Escape in 1944 ?
text: Did you knowthat Keith Munyan, Jr. , the Los Angeles photographer who has done publicity shots for Hilary Duff , Cindy Crawford , Jessica Simpson , and other celebrities is himself a former model ?
text: Did you knowthat during the later stages of World War II , the Bordeaux wine estate Château Lascombes served as a headquarters for the Allied forces ?
text: Did you knowthat John Percival , when headmaster of Rugby School , gained the nickname "Percival of the knees" because he was concerned about "impurity" and insisted that boys secure their football shorts below the knee with elastic?
text: Did you knowthat Cullen Football Club played on a golf course when they were first formed in 1890?
text: Did you knowthat about 12 million people were forced laborers in Nazi Germany during World War II , and less than 2 million received direct compensation after the war?
text: Did you knowthat after the New Zealand Railways Department 's RM class Thomas Transmission railcar was written off in 1925, the railcar 's body was used as a private dwelling?
text: Did you knowthat Margaret Downey 's first major public activism for atheism was in response to the Boy Scouts of America refusing to renew her son's membership due to his professed atheism?
text: Did you knowthat the first bank in Oregon was co-founded by William S. Ladd who had previously built the first brick building in Portland, Oregon ?
text: Did you knowthat Thaddeus Radzilowski , a Polish-American historian, is a cofounder of the Piast Institute ?
text: Did you knowthat dozens of tornadoes were produced during a two-day tornado outbreak in 1997, killing at least 27 people in Arkansas , Mississippi and Tennessee , USA?
text: Did you knowthat 6 Battery Road , a high-rise in Singapore , was on completion the largest building for the Standard Chartered Bank Group worldwide, and represented the largest single investment by a British company?
text: Did you knowthat a 1907 mansion in Hollywood, California known as Jualita was the location for scenes from the film Rain Man and the TV show The O.C. ?
text: Did you knowthat while repelling Soviet advances across the frozen Lake Suvanto , Finland managed to capture 12 anti-tank guns , 140 machine guns , 200 light machine guns and 1500 rifles in the Battle of Kelja in 1939?
text: Did you knowthat after surviving the battles at Badoeng Strait and Midway , the Japanese destroyer Asashio was sunk in the Battle of the Bismarck Sea while picking up survivors from her sister ship, the Arashio ?
text: Did you knowthat Louisville's Union Station was the largest such facility in the southern United States ?
text: Did you knowthat Herbert Armitage James , who was headmaster of Rugby School for 14 years, had one of the best stamp collections in England?
text: Did you knowthat when Indian Agent Robert Neighbors was introduced to Comanche Chief Old Owl , the Comanches were so pleased with the agent’s generosity that they proposed adopting him into their tribe?
text: Did you knowthat the lead ship of the Frederick Funston class , the USS Frederick Funston (APA-89) , was named after a US Army General lampooned by Mark Twain ?
text: Did you knowthat vineyard owners in the Provence wine region of Cassis used to hire prostitutes from Marseilles to assist with picking grapes at harvest time?
text: Did you knowthat Raymond Jacobs maintained to have been the last surviving member of the original party of Marines who raised the first flag on Mount Suribachi during the Battle of Iwo Jima ?
text: Did you knowthat French actuary Maurice Princet is known as "the mathematician of cubism " for the role he played in birth of the art movement?
text: Did you knowthat the Peachtree Road Race , held annually on July 4 ( U.S. Independence Day ) in Atlanta , Georgia , is the world's largest 10 kilometer road race with 55,000 runners participating in 2007?
text: Did you knowthat Colorado state senator Chris Romer has proposed using a wiki -like web site to involve citizens in drafting legislation ?
text: Did you knowthat the two parts of California State Route 139 were constructed by a joint highway district of Lassen and Modoc Counties and by the U.S. federal government before being turned over to the state ?
text: Did you knowthat at 2,300 miles (3,700 km) long the Missouri River Valley drains one-sixth of the United States , and is the longest river valley on the North American continent?
text: Did you knowthat the Michigan Railroad Commission twice condemned the St. Joseph Valley Railroad because of the poor condition of the latter's line?
text: Did you knowthat the death of Orvil Dryfoos , publisher of The New York Times from 1961 to 1963, was attributed to stress from a 114-day strike by his staff?
text: Did you knowthat award-winning biographer Jenny Uglow described her dictionary of women's biographies as "a mad undertaking, born of a time when feminists wanted heroines and didn't have Google "?
text: Did you knowthat the physical and chemical properties of water are markedly different when it is heated under pressure at temperatures between 100 and 374°C?
text: Did you knowthat during the 2004-2005 vintage , the European Union wine growing zones accounted for nearly 70% of worldwide wine production?
text: Did you knowthat Ancient Tondo became so prosperous that the Kingdom of Brunei had to attack it and set up a rival settlement to keep it in check?
text: Did you knowthat Academy Award -nominee Tamara Jenkins spent time at Yaddo , the artists' colony in Saratoga Springs, New York , to write her screenplay for The Savages ?
text: Did you knowthat the first Styxosaurus fossil to be discovered had about 250 stones in its stomach that it probably swallowed for ballast ?
text: Did you knowthat the Owyhee Dam near Adrian, Oregon , was the tallest dam of its type in the world when it was completed in 1932?
text: Did you knowthat the SIA Building , a skyscraper in Singapore , is the flagship building of Singapore Airlines ?
text: Did you knowthat Sir George Everest , after whom Mount Everest was named, is buried at St Andrew's Church, Hove , despite being born in Wales , dying in London and having no apparent connection with the church or town?
text: Did you knowthat the case of Styllou Christofi , the penultimate woman to be hanged in Britain, failed to cause a public outcry because she, in the opinion of her executioner Albert Pierrepoint , was not very glamorous?
text: Did you knowthat the environment of Florida supports the breeding of 34 species of non-native fish , a higher number than any other place on earth?
text: Did you knowthat Master of Wines , David Peppercorn and his wife Serena Sutcliffe questioned the authenticity of Imperial bottles of Château Pétrus owned by Hardy Rodenstock , inciting a controversy?
text: Did you knowthat the 1996 TV film Hidden in America reminded viewers that on any given night, up to five million children in America go to bed hungry?
text: Did you knowthat the Tumblagooda sandstone contains the earliest record of animals walking on the land?
text: Did you knowthat while only three Avro Chinooks , Canada 's first jet engine design, were ever built, they led to the very successful Orenda design that followed?
text: Did you knowthat swimming Hall of Famer Harry Holiday won 6 NCAA championships, and set 7 world and 18 American records in the mid-1940s but never competed in the Olympics due to World War II ?
text: Did you knowthat passing the Level 4 diploma program from the Wine & Spirit Education Trust is strongly encouraged before taking the Master of Wine examination?
text: Did you knowthat despite a requirement from the Michigan Legislature it connect three counties within ten years of its founding, after 21 years the St. Joseph Valley Rail Road had completed only 7.5 miles (12.1 km) of track, all in St. Joseph County ?
text: Did you knowthat American trauma surgeon Tom Shires operated on both Texas governor John Connally and gunman Lee Harvey Oswald after the assassination of John F. Kennedy ?
text: Did you knowthat the Pickering Operations Complex , a high-rise telecommunication hotel in Singapore , has eight refrigerating plants each with a capacity of 300 tons, and 16 control centres?
text: Did you knowthat Lepoglava prison ( Croatian : Kaznionica u Lepoglavi ) is the oldest and largest prison located in Croatia ?
text: Did you knowthat Gay Talese 's The Kingdom and the Power from 1969, about the personalities that shaped The New York Times , is credited with beginning the trend of books that report about the media ?
text: Did you knowthat the first Hillsboro Public Library that opened in 1914 was the only Carnegie library built in Washington County, Oregon ?
text: Did you knowthat Chiquibul National Park surrounds the ancient Mayan site of Caracol ?
text: Did you knowthat Flora Solomon pioneered staff benefits programs at Marks & Spencer that influenced the development of the British National Health Service and Labour's concept of the welfare state ?
text: Did you knowthat Billy Mercer became caretaker assistant manager of Sheffield Wednesday in October 2006, having previously played for rivals Sheffield United ?
text: Did you knowthat SGX Centre , a twin building development in Singapore , was built at a location to be the gateway to the new downtown ?
text: Did you knowthat the international ice hockey career of Art Berglund spanned five decades?
text: Did you knowthat 1-methylcyclopropene , a synthetic plant hormone , is used to keep produce from ripening prematurely and to keep cut flowers from wilting ?
text: Did you knowthat the U.S. Supreme Court has held that an employer lockout during a whipsaw strike is not an unfair labor practice under the National Labor Relations Act ?
text: Did you knowthat Thomas Mullins was cashiered in 1815 for failing to have his regiment pick up fascines and ladders , contributing to the British defeat at the Battle of New Orleans ?
text: Did you knowthat Caesars Indiana ' s The Glory of Rome is the largest riverboat in North America , and the largest riverboat casino in the world?
text: Did you knowthat Spanish anarchist Joan Peiró served as Minister of Industry in the Spanish government , and was later executed by the government of Francisco Franco ?
text: Did you knowthat the USA 's first locally designed jet engine , the Lockheed J37 , spent ten years in development but was never used on a production aircraft?
text: Did you knowthat Murray Klein , the co-owner of Zabar's food market, sold Beluga caviar at a loss rather than lose a high profile publicity and price war with archrival Macy's , which was later dubbed the "Beluga caviar war" by the press?
text: Did you knowthat ethnographer Eric Mjöberg , leader of the first Swedish scientific expedition to Western Australia's Kimberley region, smuggled out indigenous human remains and that 90 years later, Sweden returned all 18 boxes of them?
text: Did you knowthat the first post-war survey of sympathy for Nazism in Germany was conducted in 1947 by the Allensbach Institute ?
text: Did you knowthat the Bradshaw Trail is a historic overland stage route and the first road connecting Riverside County, California USA to the Colorado River ?
text: Did you knowthat with the 2008 bird flu outbreak in West Bengal , 16,000 birds were destroyed in Itahar , but health workers retreated from villages that refused to kill their birds?
text: Did you knowthat a New York appeals court recently ruled that Sneha Anne Philip died in the collapse of the World Trade Center even though she had been missing since the night before the attack ?
text: Did you knowthat the Kaimai Tunnel running through the Kaimai Ranges is the longest rail tunnel in New Zealand ?
text: Did you knowthat butterfly motifs in the textiles of Oaxaca reflect pre-Christian spiritual beliefs among the Mazatec people?
text: Did you knowthat Tomotley , a Native American historic site in Monroe County, Tennessee , is currently submerged by an artificial lake ?
text: Did you knowthat Charlie Fonville broke a 14-year-old shot put world record by almost 12 inches (30 cm) at the 1948 Kansas Relays but was not allowed to stay with the other athletes because he was African-American ?
text: Did you knowthat Bion J. Arnold designed an experimental single-phase alternating current electric locomotive for the Lansing, St. Johns and St. Louis Railway , but a fire destroyed it before it could be tested?
text: Did you knowthat just three years after it was founded, the Spanish labor union Solidaridad Obrera became the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo ?
text: Did you knowthat Hofstra University named its business school after former NASDAQ director Frank G. Zarb ?
text: Did you knowthat the fungus Boletus luridus may cause nausea and vomiting if consumed with alcohol, or if not thoroughly cooked?
text: Did you knowthat outspoken British judge Melford Stevenson once described a case before him as a "pretty anaemic kind of rape" because the victim was the accused's ex-girlfriend?
text: Did you knowthat Donald Cameron ('Taillear Dubh na Tuaighe') ("Black Tailor of the Axe") got his nickname after killing the rival Scottish Highlands clan chief in battle with a Lochaber axe ?
text: Did you knowthat Japanese submarine I-17 was the first Axis ship to shell the United States mainland in World War II triggering an "invasion" scare along the West Coast?
text: Did you knowthat Thomas E. Latimer , a one-term mayor of Minneapolis , also played a key role in the landmark freedom of the press case Near v. Minnesota ?
text: Did you knowthat after being captured from the French, HMS Donegal went on to capture two French ships at the Battle of San Domingo ?
text: Did you knowthat Prince Gabriel Konstantinovich was saved from execution during the Russian Revolution by the writer, Maxim Gorky ?
text: Did you knowthat in 1802 John Francis Rigaud published a translation of Leonardo da Vinci 's Treatise on Painting ?
text: Did you knowthat publication of comics in Hungary largely stopped during World War II due to Nazi pressure?
text: Did you knowthat over nine percent of ballots were rejected for both questions in the British Columbia recall and initiative referendum, 1991 ?
text: Did you knowthat among the students of Polish pianist Aleksander Michałowski was Jerzy Żurawlew , who founded the International Frédéric Chopin Piano Competitions in 1927?
text: Did you knowthat Skerryvore , off the west coast of Scotland , considered by some to be the world's most graceful lighthouse, was built by an uncle of Robert Louis Stevenson ?
text: Did you knowthat American film maker John Korty ’s studio in Marin County inspired George Lucas and Francis Ford Coppola to establish studios in the San Francisco Bay Area ?
text: Did you knowthat Omaha, Nebraska pioneer gambler Dan Allen was buried with his madam girlfriend under a concrete slab with columns resembling bedposts?
text: Did you knowthat the Athina B became a temporary tourist attraction after becoming beached at an English seaside town ?
text: Did you knowthat two-time Olympic diving gold medalist Bob Webster won his first collegiate diving title for a junior college with no pool, training off a board in his coach's back-yard sand pit?
text: Did you knowthat, at his death, Charlesworth Samuel was one of only two sitting Members of Parliament who attended the first session of the Parliament of Antigua and Barbuda in 1981?
text: Did you knowthat voice announcer Bob LeMond , who announced on the original, lost pilot episode of I Love Lucy , had to re-record his original lines for the show once the episode was rediscovered in the early 2000s ?
text: Did you knowthat leading Canadian human rights activist Kalmen Kaplansky died in 1997 on International Human Rights Day ?
text: Did you knowthat Noble Ellington , a veteran member of both houses of the Louisiana State Legislature from Winnsboro in the northeastern portion of his state, is involved in legal action so that his wife may continue to serve as his legislative secretary ?
text: Did you knowthat Jesse Lowe , the first mayor of Omaha, Nebraska , is credited with naming the city after the local Native American Omaha Tribe ?
text: Did you knowthat the only New Deal housing project with spacious, wide-open areas was Lockefield Gardens ?
text: Did you knowthat the Santa Cruz sheep breed numbers less than 200 individual animals?
text: Did you knowthat Russian critics considered Armenian actor and poet Petros Adamian one of the best tragedians of the world for his interpretations of Hamlet and Othello ?
text: Did you knowthat Boletus pulcherrimus , a large red and brown pored mushroom from California and New Mexico , stains dark blue when cut or bruised?
text: Did you knowthat award-winning financial analyst Dana Telsey was first hired at a mutual fund company after her mother met a former neighbor on the street and asked him "Can you give Dana a job?"
text: Did you knowthat sparkling wine was produced in the Languedoc wine region of Limoux long before it was produced in Champagne ?
text: Did you knowthat an engineer for the Michigan United Railways devised a special shoe which allowed the motorman to cut ice build-up on the third rail , in response to Michigan 's harsh winters?
text: Did you knowthat the tilted trees in Canada's Taiga Shield , caused by repeated freezing and thawing of the shallow soil's permafrost , have been likened to a " drunken forest "?
text: Did you knowthat American Judge Herbert Jay Stern , who served on the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey , presided over a jury trial in the U.S. court for Berlin , Germany , which was the subject of the book and movie Judgment in Berlin ?
text: Did you knowthat director Li Yu 's Fish and Elephant is often considered the first lesbian-themed film to come out of mainland China?
text: Did you knowthat the Sumter -class attack transports USS Warren (APA-53) and USS Wayne (APA-54) collectively earned 11 battle stars for WWII service and were both converted postwar into container ships ?
text: Did you knowthat Arsenio Lacson was the first person to be elected to three terms as mayor of Manila ?
text: Did you knowthat Czar Peter I of Russia not only stayed as a blacksmith's personal houseguest at what is now called the Czar Peter House in Zaandam , but also paid a widow boarding there to move out so there would be room for him?
text: Did you knowthat Barton Academy in Mobile was the first public school in the U.S. state of Alabama ?
text: Did you knowthat Canadian biochemist Archibald Macallum used measurements of ionic concentrations in blood sera to argue for the ancient marine origin of all vertebrates ?
text: Did you knowthat Leonard Skierski was one of fourteen Polish generals to be murdered by the NKVD in the Katyn massacre of 1940?
text: Did you knowthat the network of railways in Plymouth , England , once served 28 stations, but today just six stations remain in use?
text: Did you knowthat the first Lutheran church in Omaha, Nebraska became the largest Lutheran congregation in the United States by the 1920s?
text: Did you knowthat visitors to James Whitcomb Riley's boyhood home inspired Riley to write many of his poems, including Little Orphant Annie ?
text: Did you knowthat Pandora Jewelry ' s charm bracelets feature a patented thread system that allows beads to be evenly spaced across the band?
text: Did you knowthat the disappearance of jellyfish from Kāne'ohe Bay has generated concerns about maintenance of the local yellowtail scad population?
text: Did you knowthat the construction of the James Whitcomb Riley Museum Home was paid for by the owner's contract to supply hardtack to Union troops in the American Civil War ?
text: Did you knowthat Gregorio Perfecto High School is named after the politician, Gregorio Perfecto , who signed the 1935 Constitution of the Philippines with his own blood ?
text: Did you knowthat Thomas Masterman Hardy's first command was HMS Mutine , a ship he had himself captured at the Battle of Santa Cruz de Tenerife ?
text: Did you knowthat, according to legend, the Northumbrian princess and saint Osana ' s grave is said to have trapped the concubine of the priest of the church in which she was buried?
text: Did you knowthat Leonard McEwan , in an unusual move, stepped down from the Wyoming Supreme Court in 1974 to become instead a district court judge in Sheridan , where he had earlier practiced law ?
text: Did you knowthat model Anna Loginova founded a women bodyguard firm in Russia because male bodyguards are sometimes made to wait outside restaurants while the client is inside?
text: Did you knowthat the Gough Map , housed at the Bodleian Library in Oxford , is the oldest surviving road map of Great Britain and is believed to date from sometime between 1355 and 1366 ?
text: Did you knowthat although clansmen or clanswomen of a Scottish clan may wear a Scottish crest badge , the actual crest and motto within the badge are the sole property of their chief ?
text: Did you knowthat the Black jack , Caranx lugubris , was first described in 1860 by Cuban zoologist Felipe Poey in his two-volume work Historia Natural de la Isla de Cuba , or "Natural History of the Island of Cuba"?
text: Did you knowthat Panagbenga Festival was not only created to celebrate Baguio's flowers and culture but also to prove that the city has recovered from the 1990 Luzon earthquake ?
text: Did you knowthat the Soviet Leningrad Front was subject to a 28 month long blockade in World War II ?
text: Did you knowthat the 1973 Rose Bowl holds the attendance record in American college football bowl games at 106,869?
text: Did you knowthat Khwaja Ahsanullah and his son Khwaja Salimullah clashed over the latter's Islamic fundamentalism ?
text: Did you knowthat famed Hoosier poet James Whitcomb Riley would regularly supply the children of the Lockerbie Square with candy on his walks?
text: Did you knowthat Kimberly Crest House and Gardens , a Victorian mansion and California historic landmark donated to the city of Redlands for a botanical park, is a mirror image of the Magic Castle ?
text: Did you knowthat the Meusebach-Comanche Treaty was concluded between private citizens and the Comanche , then recognized by the United States , and opened 3,000,000 acres (12,140 km²) to settlers?
text: Did you knowthat in the Ukrainian-Soviet War (1917-1922) the Ukrainians fought for their independence first from the Russian Empire , and then the Soviet Union ?
text: Did you knowthe first chief justice of the Australian Capital Territory Richard Arthur Blackburn heard the first significant Aboriginal Land Rights case in Australia ?
text: Did you knowthat Dick Kimball , University of Michigan diving coach 1958–2002, won national championships both as a springboard diver and trampoliner ?
text: Did you knowthat Votan , a legendary figure from Mesoamerica , has been erroneously identified with the Norse god Odin and the Mayan ruler Pacal the Great , among others, despite a lack of evidence?
text: Did you knowthat British Columbia 's Creston Valley , the province's first Wildlife Management Area, is a Ramsar wetland of international importance and a global Important Bird Area ?
text: Did you knowthat 3–5.5 million OST-Arbeiters , slave laborers from Eastern Europe , worked in Nazi Germany during WWII ?
text: Did you knowthat Connecticut Route 136 is one of only two state highways in Connecticut that has a gap in state maintenance?
text: Did you knowthat Multinational Division Central-South , part of the Multinational Force Iraq , has been under the Polish command since its creation in 2003?
text: Did you knowthat the wetlands of the Hudson Plains are "notorious for their large populations of biting insects "?
text: Did you knowthat Cape Leeuwin , the most south-westerly point of the Australian continent , is named after the Dutch galleon Leeuwin ?
text: Did you knowthat when Jean-Paul Sartre 's classic first novel Nausea appeared in 1938, it was reviewed by Albert Camus , still a journalist in Algeria  working on his own later-classic first novel, The Stranger ?
text: Did you knowthat the indigenous Nambikwara language of Brazil has a special implosive consonant used only by elderly people?
text: Did you knowthat tradition has it that Warren Hastings hunted with elephants in the jungle in Chowringhee , now a business district in Kolkata , India ?
text: Did you knowthat Tiggy Legge-Bourke was the nanny of Prince William of Wales and his brother Prince Harry ?
text: Did you knowthat due to the change from the Julian to the Gregorian calendar in 1582, English letter writers often used two dates on their letters, a practice known as dual dating ?
text: Did you knowthat despite denouncing Fidel Castro 's 1953 attack on the Moncada Barracks , politician Carlos Rafael Rodríguez became one of Castro's most trusted allies after the 1959 revolution and served as Vice President?
text: Did you knowthat the Grey-faced Sengi is the first living species of elephant shrew to be described in over a century?
text: Did you knowthat a discontinued 1980s hockey helmet by sporting goods manufacturer Cooper Canada Ltd. is today used in making a particular puppet ?
text: Did you knowthat University of Michigan All-American softball player Jenny Allard has led Harvard University to its first four Ivy League softball championships since taking over as coach in 1995?
text: Did you knowthat the strength of the Ukrainian People's Army fell from 300,000 to just 15,000 after five months of war with Soviet Russia ?
text: Did you knowthat the name of Whangaroa Harbour , an inlet on the northern coast of the Northland Region of North Island , New Zealand , comes from the Māori lament "Whaingaroa" or "What a long wait" of a woman whose warrior husband had left for a foray to the south?
text: Did you knowthat American luger Tony Benshoof set the fastest recorded luge speed at the bobsleigh, luge, and skeleton track used for the 2002 Winter Olympics when he reached 86.6 mph (139.5 km/h) in October 2001?
text: Did you knowthat Indiana state governor Frank O'Bannon stayed at Fort Harrison State Park while the governor's mansion was being made handicapped-accessible?
text: Did you knowthat Group 13 was a notorious group of Jewish Nazi collaborators within the Warsaw Ghetto , known as the Jewish Gestapo ?
text: Did you knowthat local boyars protested against the Russian annexation of Bessarabia after the Russo-Turkish War in 1812, arguing that the Ottoman Empire had no right to cede a Moldavian territory?
text: Did you knowthat epidemiologist Brian MacMahon showed for the first time that women who give birth early in life have a lower risk of breast cancer ?
text: Did you knowthat in the late 1860s, the soprano Euphrosyne Parepa-Rosa and her husband Carl Rosa founded the Parepa-Rosa English Opera Company, which introduced opera to places in the United States that had never staged it before?
text: Did you knowthat the Matsés language of Peru has undergone some mixing with other indigenous languages because the Matsés people previously had the custom of capturing women from neighboring tribes?
text: Did you knowthat George Schlatter was the manager of the comedy club where Dan Rowan and Dick Martin performed before going on to produce their Emmy Award winning TV show Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In ?
text: Did you knowthat Abraham Gancwajch was one of the most prominent Jewish Nazi collaborators and criminals in the Warsaw Ghetto ?
text: Did you knowthat publishing an illustrated edition of David Hume's The History of England was a financial disaster for Robert Bowyer ?
text: Did you knowthat the USS Garrard (APA-84) , like other ships in her class , had an active service life of less than two years?
text: Did you knowthat George Nicol organized the 42-day book auction which inspired the influential Roxburghe Club ?
text: Did you knowthat Polish duke Władysław the White gained a nickname of King Lancelot due to his adventurous life?
text: Did you knowthat Lewis Call developed an account of post-anarchism based on the work of philosophers such as Friedrich Nietzsche and cyberpunks such as William Gibson ?
text: Did you knowthat Marian Gołębiewski , a clerk and elementary school teacher, would become one of the elite Polish commandos during WWII and later, a member of the anti-communist resistance in Poland ?
text: Did you knowthat the easternmost part of California State Route 20 follows a branch of the historic California Trail , parts of which have been preserved as a National Recreation Trail ?
text: Did you knowthat Timoteo Viti was probably responsible for part of the training of Raphael in Urbino , and many years later worked under his direction in Rome?
text: Did you knowthat residents of Indianapolis came to the aid of Confederate prisoners of war at Camp Morton , providing food, clothing, and nursing?
text: Did you knowthat the Petit Pont in Paris , France has been destroyed at least 13 times since its construction in the Roman era?
text: Did you knowthat Dzhigit is a reference to a skillful and brave equestrian in the Caucasus , and the derived term "Dzhigitovka" means the special style of trick riding , which originated in the Caucasus and Central Asia , and is also popular with Russian Cossacks ?
text: Did you knowthat the German four-mast sailing ship Herzogin Cecilie , under Finnish flag after 1920, won the "grain race" from Australia around Cape Horn to Europe four times from 1926 to 1936?
text: Did you knowthat Scottish music publisher Robert Bremner disagreed with Francesco Geminiani 's opinion on vibrato , and removed a passage advocating its use from a reissue of one of Geminiani's publications?
text: Did you knowthat after spending fifteen years building the largest telescope in the world, scientists in the Soviet Union were dismayed to find that BTA-6 performed much worse than the Hale telescope it was designed to beat?
text: Did you knowthat John B. Harman , father of the current deputy leader of the British Labour Party , was the defence's main witness in the 1957 trial of suspected serial killer John Bodkin Adams ?
text: Did you knowthat the Mansfield, Coldwater and Lake Michigan Rail Road owned two non-contiguous railway lines, each in a different U.S. state , and each leased by a different company?
text: Did you knowthat over Edouard Deville ’s  lifetime, his method of photogrammetry was used to map mountainous regions in Canada roughly the size of the United Kingdom ?
text: Did you knowthat the Pensacola Convoy , which in 1941 carried the first United States soldiers to be based in Australia , was planned initially to reinforce Allied forces defending the Philippines ?
text: Did you knowthat Marlon Brando 's disinherited Tahitian grandson Tuki Brando became famous as a model for Italian men's Vogue at 16 and the face of Versace in 2007?
text: Did you knowthat the USS Cortland (APA-75) was the object of a failed Nazi sabotage attempt in World War II ?
text: Did you knowthat herring scad (Alepes vari) from the Red Sea has high levels of luminescent bacteria living symbiotically with the fish as part of the fish's gut flora ?
text: Did you knowthat screening and treatment with antibiotics are recommended for asymptomatic bacteriuria during pregnancy ?
text: Did you knowthat Jacob Piatt Dunn in 1886 wrote the first scholarly history concerning the Indian Wars ?
text: Did you knowthat because Fr. Joseph Strub believed the Irish were not seen to be as hard-working as Germans , he specifically requested that Fr. William Power not be selected as the first rector of the Pittsburgh Catholic College ?
text: Did you knowthat in recent years the alcoholic beverage ouzo has been subject of intense scientific study ?
text: Did you knowthat Indianapolis' Garfield Park Conservatory was the first glass and welded-aluminum conservatory in the United States?
text: Did you knowthat production of Lost: Missing Pieces (short mobisodes / webisodes spun-off from the TV series Lost ) was delayed several times due to contractual issues with the actors , writers and directors guilds?
text: Did you knowthat William Revelli , director of the University of Michigan Marching Band for 36 years, was the first to synchronize music and movement, in place of traditional rigid military-style formations?
text: Did you knowthat U.S. Route 50 in California was the route traveled by many '49ers and the Pony Express , and later became California's first state highway and a branch of the Lincoln Highway ?
text: Did you knowthat Oregon U.S. District Court Judge William G. East ordered Robert F. Kennedy to explain why the U.S. government should not pay fees to a private attorney who was ordered to defend a criminal defendant?
text: Did you knowthat Association Footballer Billy Mosforth was a leading exponent of the screw shot, which allows players to bend the ball's trajectory?
text: Did you knowthat Omaha pioneer real estate agent Byron Reed was one of the greatest collectors of the 19th century , with a collection currently valued at almost $8,000,000?
text: Did you knowthat despite being unfinished, the Lazaro Cardenas Dam successfully protected the Mexican towns of Gómez Palacio and Torreón from possible flooding triggered by Hurricane Naomi in 1968?
text: Did you knowthat in 2002 the Western New York and Pennsylvania Railroad bought 41½ miles (66.8 km ) of track between Meadville and Corry, Pennsylvania for $ 1?
text: Did you knowthat the 1982 release of the album Juju Music by the Nigerian band King Sunny Adé and His African Beats has been credited with launching the World Beat movement in the United States?
text: Did you knowthat the Polish Astronomical and Meteorogical Observatory , located on the peak of Pop Iwan (2022 meters above sea level) in Chornohora , was the highest located permanently inhabited building in interbellum Poland?
text: Did you knowthat women in Rome were forbidden to drink wine , under penalty of death or divorce ?
text: Did you knowthat presidential candidate Barack Obama 's chief of staff, Pete Rouse , came to be known as "the 101st Senator" due to his savvy on Capitol Hill ?
text: Did you knowthat the Tang Dynasty chancellor Zhang Jianzhi , despite a long civil service career, did not become a chancellor until age 79, and a year later took part in overthrowing the only female emperor in Chinese history, Wu Zetian ?
text: Did you knowthat Paul's walk , the central aisle of Old St Paul's Cathedral , was a grapevine for London gossip and news during the 16th and 17th centuries?
text: Did you knowthat John William Hansen , a member of International Cricket Council 's Code of Conduct Commission, is a New Zealand High Court justice ?
text: Did you knowthat before the bobsleigh track in Cortina d'Ampezzo , Italy was shortened to its current configuration in 1981 , it was used as part of the film For Your Eyes Only ?
text: Did you knowthat Biglow Canyon Wind Farm is the largest planned wind farm in the U.S. state of Oregon ?
text: Did you knowthat David Suzuki: The Autobiography is actually David Suzuki 's second autobiography ?
text: Did you knowthat Israeli scholar Charles Liebman pioneered contemporary scholarship on American Orthodox Judaism and argued that "religious extremism is the norm" in Israel?
text: Did you knowthat Charles R. Brayton , as political boss of Rhode Island , pushed through legislation called the Brayton Act that limited the state's governor to appointing little more than his own private secretary?
text: Did you knowthat the radio station of North Community High School in Minneapolis, Minnesota is the official broadcaster for traffic reports in the area?
text: Did you knowthat German philosopher Leo Frobenius thought that all non-European culture in Africa had to be the result of a white civilization which he called the African Atlantis ?
text: Did you knowthat Kenneth Summers pastored four Assemblies of God churches before being elected to the Colorado House of Representatives in 2006?
text: Did you knowthat Charles-Edward Amory Winslow was the founding professor of the Yale School of Public Health and the first editor-in-chief of the Journal of Bacteriology ?
text: Did you knowthat the Roman fort Longovicium has one of the best preserved ancient aqueducts in Britain ?
text: Did you knowthat Crispin Sanchez , a pioneer of education and athletics among Mexican Americans in South Texas , turned down an opportunity to play baseball for the St. Louis Cardinals in order to attend college?
text: Did you knowthat a higher H-point in an automobile design would lead to more legroom in the vehicle?
text: Did you knowthat numerous wells and springs were dedicated to Saint Quirinus of Neuss , who was invoked against the bubonic plague , smallpox , gout , and a siege of the city of Neuss during the Burgundian Wars ?
text: Did you knowthat in Medellín v. Texas , the U.S. Supreme Court held that, absent an act of Congress or Constitutional authority, the U.S. President lacks the power to enforce decisions of the International Court of Justice ?
text: Did you knowthat Robert Mondavi recommended that Christian Moueix establish his Dominus Estate winery in the Napa Valley ?
text: Did you knowthat Dauer Sportwagen converted Porsche 962C racing cars into street-legal road cars , then converted them back into race cars in order to exploit a rulebook loophole and win the 1994 24 Hours of Le Mans ?
text: Did you knowthat Swedish–Ukrainian relations have long traditions and that the Swedish king Charles XII was named protector of Ukraine in the first Ukrainian constitution of 1710 and that Hetman Pylyp Orlyk lived in Sweden 1716–1720?
text: Did you knowthat the practices of the Followers of Christ church in Oregon , United States , which include faith healing and forbid medical treatment , prompted a 1999 state law making parents liable if their children are harmed by a lack of treatment?
text: Did you knowthat Georgia Tech professor Rebecca Grinter supervised a 2005 study which found that iTunes users in the workplace experience " playlist anxiety"?
text: Did you knowthat Firestar's Quest , a book in the Warriors fantasy novel series, has been translated into Russian ?
text: Did you knowthat Captain Michael Heck was an American B-52 pilot in the Vietnam War who became a conscientious objector and refused to continue  bombing North Vietnamese targets during the Christmas operation of 1972?
text: Did you knowthat Acorn Antiques The Musical was directed by Trevor Nunn and opened at the Theatre Royal Haymarket with a three month sell-out run?
text: Did you knowthat footballer Graham Lewis was nearly prevented from making his début for Belper Town F.C. when the referee and assistant referee failed to spot his name on the team sheet?
text: Did you knowthat Tony Dungy is the winningest coach, among Tampa Bay Buccaneers head coaches ?
text: Did you knowthat Thomas Rawson Birks , Cambridge Professor , used science and theology to reason that other stars did not have their own planets ?
text: Did you knowthat, inspired by Sylvester Stallone 's experience selling the script for Rocky , actor/screenwriter J. P. Davis refused to sell his script for the film Fighting Tommy Riley unless he was guaranteed to play the lead?
text: Did you knowthat the steamboat Flyer , which by 1930 had covered more miles than any other dedicated inland vessel, had an imperfectly sealed hull , causing it to list to port throughout its working life?
text: Did you knowthat the Haitian military leader and former slave Lamour Desrances allied with the enemies of Haitian Revolutionary hero Toussaint Louverture in the War of the Knives ?
text: Did you knowthat when Demi Moore appeared nude on the cover of Vanity Fair in the body painting / photograph Demi's Birthday Suit , it commemorated More Demi Moore ' s one-year anniversary?
text: Did you knowthat Shaw University ’s Leonard Hall housed the first class of four year African-American medical students in the United States ?
text: Did you knowthat jazz drummer Butch Ballard was hired by Duke Ellington as a backup drummer due to the excessive drinking of his regular drummer Sonny Greer ?
text: Did you knowthat Evergreen Lutheran High School lost its lease in DuPont, Washington in 1988 and has been looking for another site while sharing land at a local church?
text: Did you knowthat wine writer André Simon had only two magnums of claret in his cellar when he died in 1970, believing that "a man dies too young if he leaves any wine in his cellar"?
text: Did you knowthat Hindus believe that god Vishnu falls asleep in the cosmic ocean of milk on the cosmic serpent , for a period of four months on the day of Shayani Ekadashi ?
text: Did you knowthat Gloria Shayne Baker and Noel Regney co-wrote the Do You Hear What I Hear? Christmas carol as a plea for peace during the Cuban Missile Crisis ?
text: Did you knowthat Reginald Turvey, "The Father of the Baháʼís of South Africa ", spent 13 years unaware that there were fellow believers in the Baháʼí Faith in his country?
text: Did you knowthat before the Second World War , the Synagogue in Chachmei Lublin Yeshiva apart from religious functions, was also used as a lecture hall for Chachmei Lublin Yeshiva ?
text: Did you knowthat stems and sheaths of Korthalsia palm trees , named after Dutch botanist P. W. Korthals who first collected them from Indonesia , can be made into rope ?
text: Did you knowthat Native American Thomas Wakeman organized the first Sioux Indian YMCA at Flandreau, Dakota Territory on April 27 1879 ?
text: Did you knowthat the incompleted Montana -class battleships would have had a heavier broadside than the Yamato -class battleships ?
text: Did you knowthat it took Midvinterblot , a controversial painting from Sweden , 82 years and a detour to a Japanese collector before it could finally be installed where it was intended to be?
text: Did you knowthat Captain Frederick Lewis Maitland received the final surrender of Napoleon Bonaparte aboard his ship HMS Bellerophon after the Napoleonic Wars ?
text: Did you knowthat ITV Network Centre did not want to broadcast the first series of Cold Feet at 9 p.m. because that was a timeslot traditionally reserved for programmes that viewers could do their ironing to?
text: Did you knowthat the proposed WALLY commuter rail line in southeast Michigan would run over track first laid over one hundred years ago?
text: Did you knowthat a Carley float was a liferaft fashioned from a large ring of copper tubing surrounded by cork and canvas ?
text: Did you knowthat Kitty Kielland had to take private landscape painting lessons from Hans Gude because she was a woman?
text: Did you knowthat Andrei Kravchuk gave up his almost-completed master's degree in Mathematics to study film after Aleksei German offered him a job as a director's assistant?
text: Did you knowthat Isaac Moores, Sr. served in the Oregon Territorial Legislature , with his son Isaac Moores, Jr. later serving in the Oregon State Legislature ?
text: Did you knowthat the hero of the Loch Ard disaster, Tom Pearce, lost one of his sons when the Loch Vennachar was wrecked off Kangaroo Island in 1905?
text: Did you knowthat Richard Nixon credited Tony Mazzocchi with being the primary force behind enactment of the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970?
text: Did you knowthat Theophilus Browne disagreed with his congregations at Cambridge and Warminster and he was paid to leave the Octagon Chapel in Norwich in 1809?
text: Did you knowthat the oldest steam locomotive in Switzerland is an Engerth locomotive , a form of articulated locomotive ?
text: Did you knowthat the Tlaxcaltec forces led by Xicotencatl II "The Younger" had nearly defeated the army of Hernán Cortés when he was ordered to ally with them instead?
text: Did you knowthat the founder of Byzantine studies in Germany is Hieronymus Wolf who, approximately 100 years after the fall of Byzantium , began to edit and translate Byzantine literature ?
text: Did you knowthat the influence of wine critic Robert Finigan declined when he panned the 1982 Bordeaux vintage , which Robert Parker described as one of greatest of the century?
text: Did you knowthat East Smithfield was given to the Knighten Guild by King Edgar , after they each performed three combats—one above the ground, one below, and one on water?
text: Did you knowthat the sinking of the ferry Greycliffe with the loss of 40 lives in 1927 was the deadliest shipping accident ever in Sydney Harbour , Australia ?
text: Did you knowthat the Przemyśl fortress was the site of one of the largest sieges of the First World War , the Siege of Przemyśl ?
text: Did you knowthat the Forum Against Islamophobia and Racism is a Muslim advocacy group which monitors media coverage of Islam and Muslims in the U.K. ?
text: Did you knowthat Jeremy Doner was the first student at Harvard University to write a screenplay as a creative thesis?
text: Did you knowthat according to Inca mythology , lunar eclipses are caused by animals attacking Mama Quilla , the goddess of the moon ?
text: Did you knowthat American four-star admiral Lynde D. McCormick became NATO 's first Supreme Allied Commander Atlantic despite opposition from British prime minister Winston Churchill ?
text: Did you knowthat the Roman Baths of Strand Lane were featured in David Copperfield ?
text: Did you knowthat Chen Chi-mai received the flag of the World Games and officially made Kaohsiung the host city of World Games 2009 ?
text: Did you knowthat production of the cervelat , the Swiss national sausage , is set to cease in 2008, causing a public upset in Switzerland ?
text: Did you knowthat Polish Countess Delfina Potocka served as muse to both Romantic poet Count Zygmunt Krasiński and composer Frédéric Chopin —who both wrote works in her honor?
text: Did you knowthat the title of the film Woman Is the Future of Man comes from a line in a poem by Louis Aragon that the director Hong Sang-soo saw printed on a French postcard?
text: Did you knowthat John Blackner , who wrote a history of Nottingham in 1815, explained why the anti-industrial group was called Luddites ; a group he may have been a member of?
text: Did you knowthat when the commander of the German forces in the Dodecanese came to surrender aboard HMS Kimberley , he did so aboard a captured British Motor Launch ?
text: Did you knowthat the Occupational Safety and Health Act went into effect in the United States on April 28 , 1971 , the same day as Workers' Memorial Day ?
text: Did you knowthat William M. Bass , a forensic anthropologist at the University of Tennessee , established the " Original Body Farm " in 1971 to study decomposition in cadavers ?
text: Did you knowthat Oregon State athletic director Percy Locey claimed that the Philadelphia Athletics stole John Leovich from the college, yet he ended up playing only one major league game?
text: Did you knowthat the Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers International Union called off a merger with the United Mine Workers just two hours before the unions planned to announce the agreement?
text: Did you knowthat one of Kentucky 's first two judges , James John Floyd , was once a privateer ?
text: Did you knowthat Drew Goddard described writing the fourth-season episode titled " The Shape of Things to Come " as possibly his best experience while working on the television show Lost ?
text: Did you knowthat a replica of the château from the Bordeaux wine estate Château Beauregard was constructed for the Guggenheim family on Long Island , New York ?
text: Did you knowthat traditional artisans in one village in the Bagmundi area of Purulia district in West Bengal make the masks used in Chhau dance ?
text: Did you knowthat a curse supposedly placed on Írgalach mac Conaing by Saint Adomnán for the killing of Niall mac Cernaig Sotal was said to be linked to Conaing's death in battle a year later?
text: Did you knowthat Katie Sierra was accused of treason and suspended from high school in October 2001 for attempting to start an anarchist club?
text: Did you knowthat Germany still held 1.2 million Russian prisoners of war in December 1918, nine months after the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk obliged it to release them?
text: Did you knowthat " The Unicorn and the Wasp " will be the first comedic episode in the science fiction television series Doctor Who since the 1966 serial The Gunfighters ?
text: Did you knowthat the number of recognized species of palm trees in the genus Hydriastele has jumped from 9 to 48 in the last four years?
text: Did you knowthat bad advice from Flaithbertach mac Inmainén , abbot of Scattery Island and chief adviser to King Cormac mac Cuilennáin , is said to have caused a war in which Cormac and many others died?
text: Did you knowthat The Curse of Steptoe , a 2008 television play based upon the making of the BBC sitcom Steptoe and Son , gained the highest audience figures to date for BBC Four ?
text: Did you knowthat the Battle of Beaune-la-Rolande resulted in the death of the French impressionist painter Frédéric Bazille whilst leading his unit in the attack?
text: Did you knowthat although he is famous for inventing the Crampton locomotive , Thomas Crampton was also responsible for the world's first international submarine telegraph cable ?
text: Did you knowthat scriptwriter Richard Baer 's writing credits for television included twenty-three episodes of Bewitched and five episodes of The Munsters ?
text: Did you knowthat in February 1944, the retreating forces of Nazi Germany razed the Gdov Kremlin almost entirely with only its walls remaining?
text: Did you knowthat Leon Greenman was reportedly the only Englishman sent to Auschwitz ?
text: Did you knowthat Carl Størmer , "the acknowledged authority" on aurorae and the motion of charged particles in the magnetosphere , began his academic career inventing formulae for π ?
text: Did you knowthat Quite Interesting Limited provides the research for UK TV programme QI and The Museum of Curiosity ?
text: Did you knowthat the Somers Hamlet Historic District in Westchester County, New York includes the Elephant Hotel , considered the birthplace of the American circus ?
text: Did you knowthat after Edward Phelan was acquitted of murder, indicted on perjury charges and killed by companions in self-defense , one of the largest lakes in Saint Paul, Minnesota was named after him?
text: Did you knowthat apart from blowflies , some flesh-eating beetles can also be used by forensic entomologists in determining the time of death of a corpse ?
text: Did you knowthat Artie Wilson , who hit .402 in 1948 with the Birmingham Black Barons of the Negro Leagues , is often considered the last professional major league baseball player to bat over .400 for a season?
text: Did you knowthat the Palestinian town of Jifna , believed to be the biblical Gophna , was a Roman regional capital and considered the second most important town in Iudaea after Jerusalem ?
text: Did you knowthat photographer Stewart Shining has shot photos for the covers of both the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue and the People Magazine Most Beautiful People issue?
text: Did you knowthat the Church of St James the Great, Haydock , Merseyside was built with timber framing because its flexibility would provide greater protection against possible mining subsidence ?
text: Did you knowthat the presence of certain insects in a corpse may be indicators of elder or child abuse ?
text: Did you knowthat photographer Raphael Mazzucco has had images on the cover of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue in each of the last four years?
text: Did you knowthat Invicta was the steam locomotive built by Robert Stephenson and Company after building the Rocket ?
text: Did you knowthat in the 1934 film Evergreen the actress Jessie Matthews played both mother and daughter?
text: Did you knowthat drag racer Al Hofmann had to get a friend to come over to start his first Funny Car ?
text: Did you knowthat Collected Cases of Injustice Rectified by Song Chinese investigator Song Ci documents some of the earliest work in forensic entomology ?
text: Did you knowthat the earliest full-length portrait of Elizabeth I by Tudor court painter Steven van der Meulen , was auctioned by Sotheby's in 2007 for £2.6 million, more than twice its expected maximum?
text: Did you knowthat Children and Youth Sports Schools , which originated in the Soviet Union , continue in Russia , and form the basis of the modern system in the People's Republic of China ?
text: Did you knowthat the Nokomis Community Library , named for Nokomis in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 's The Song of Hiawatha , is the only library in the Minneapolis Public Library System to be named for a fictional character?
text: Did you knowthat despite being appointed to the usually profitable post of comptroller to Prince Charles in 1616, John Vaughan, 1st Earl of Carbery later claimed that serving the Prince had cost him £20,000?
text: Did you knowthat the steam locomotive thought for many years to be Timothy Hackworth's Bradyll may, in fact, be Thomas Richardson's Nelson ?
text: Did you knowthat journalist Néstor Mata was the sole survivor of the 1957 Cebu Douglas C-47 crash which killed Philippine President Ramon Magsaysay and 24 others?
text: Did you knowthat the French once had an outpost called La Belle, where Louisville now stands?
text: Did you knowthat John Orloff was inspired to write his own screenplay when his wife, working for the HBO network, continually brought home "awful" scripts?
text: Did you knowthat when the 1987 America's Cup was raced off Fremantle, Western Australia it was the first time for 132 years that the regatta had not been hosted by the New York Yacht Club ?
text: Did you knowthat activist Michael Mansell convinced Libyan leader Muammar al-Gaddafi to recognise an Aboriginal Australian passport to draw world attention to the issue of Aboriginal land rights?
text: Did you knowthat the St. Paul A.M.E. Church in Raleigh , North Carolina , founded in 1884, was the first independent African-American church in Raleigh?
text: Did you knowthat Merril Sandoval did not reveal to his family that he had served as a Navajo Code Talker in the United States Marines during World War II until records of the unit were declassified in 1968?
text: Did you knowthat the Lackham campus of Wiltshire College created a "virtual farm" in 2005 to avoid limitations to practical teaching caused by foot and mouth disease ?
text: Did you knowthat the Confederate States of America bought fast steamboats from Edward Harland 's company Harland & Wolff during the American Civil War so they could outrun the Union blockade ?
text: Did you knowthat the Polish interbellum organization Maritime and Colonial League‎ promoted Polish colonies and settlements in Africa and South America ?
text: Did you knowthat John Jacobs was expelled from the Weatherman organization after the Greenwich Village townhouse explosion for advocating the "military error" of violent revolution?
text: Did you knowthat Israel 's future Prime Minister , Yitzhak Shamir , and its future President of the Supreme Court , Meir Shamgar , were both interned in Africa by British Mandate authorities for membership in Lehi and Irgun ?
text: Did you knowthat Erkki Karu founded both Suomi-Filmi and Suomen Filmiteollisuus , the two largest film production companies during the 'Golden Age' of Finnish cinema ?
text: Did you knowthat U.S. Route 12 was extended into Washington in 1967, taking over most of the routing of U.S. Route 410 ?
text: Did you knowthat Laurence Fox was cast in the British TV detective drama Lewis after his co-star Kevin Whately caught the last 10 minutes of a film he was in?
text: Did you knowthat video sharing website YouTube has held two YouTube Awards , which honor the best videos on the site, as voted by the YouTube community?
text: Did you knowthat the petioles of some species of Eugeissona palm trees can be used as darts in blowgun hunting?
text: Did you knowthat Home of Truth, Utah was a religious utopian community in the 1930s whose leader claimed to receive divine revelations through her typewriter ?
text: Did you knowthat 2006 novel Apex Hides the Hurt by Colson Whitehead , was featured among The New York Times ' 100 Most Notable Books of The Year?
text: Did you knowthat a rock edict of Emperor Ashoka found at Maski in the Indian State of Karnataka in 1915, was the first one to refer him by the name Asoka ?
text: Did you knowthat the Stalingrad Madonna was flown out on the last transport plane to leave the trapped Sixth Army during the Battle of Stalingrad ?
text: Did you knowthat a spite house is a house built to annoy and aggravate someone, usually a neighbor?
text: Did you knowthat the discovery of antennae swords at Kallur in the Indian state of Karnataka , was the first instance of the Copper Hoard culture being found in South India ?
text: Did you knowthat systems art is an art movement from the 1960s influenced by systems theory , which reflects on natural systems, social systems and social signs of the art world itself?
text: Did you knowthat the oldest known lemon squeezers were found in Kütahya , Turkey and date to the first quarter of the 18th century?
text: Did you knowthat Sinnott Memorial Observation Station is a sheltered viewpoint built into the caldera cliff 900 feet (270 m) above Crater Lake in Oregon ?
text: Did you knowthat the voter turnout of the 2006 DPP chairmanship election in Taiwan was only 19.96%?
text: Did you knowthat Saint Foutin was a syncretic amalgam of the first bishop of Lyon , France and pre- Christian Gaulish phallic worship ?
text: Did you knowthat the Russian composers Peter Tchaikovsky , Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov , and Serge Rachmaninoff used Ukrainian folk melodies in their works?
text: Did you knowthat Ho people , in Jharkhand , India , have a literacy rate of 39.2%, lower than the state average which is amongst the lowest literacy rates in India ?
text: Did you knowthat the San Francisco -based electro-acoustic improvisation music ensemble Maybe Monday features a traditional Japanese musical instrument , the koto ?
text: Did you knowthat St. Thomas , the apostle of Jesus Christ , established the Church in India in 52 AD?
text: Did you knowthat Conall Guthbinn continued the feud begun when his father, Suibne mac Colmáin , was killed by Áed Sláine by killing two of Áed's sons, Congal and Ailill ; soon after he was killed by Diarmait , a third son of Áed?
text: Did you knowthat the larvae of primary screw-worm flies feed on living tissue, but secondary screw-worm flies feed only on necrotic tissue ?
text: Did you knowthat Polish–Ukrainian relations have been steadily improving since the fall of communism , and both countries now have a strong strategic relationship?
text: Did you knowthat a song about the 1973 Mountjoy Prison helicopter escape topped the popular music charts in the Republic of Ireland despite being banned by the government?
text: Did you knowthat as National Secretary for Students for a Democratic Society , Michael Klonsky advocated revolution in the U.S. , but now focuses on education reforms such as creating small schools?
text: Did you knowthat following the collapse of Renaissance Cruises in late 2001, MS R Two and five of her sister ships were laid up together, first at Gibraltar and later at Marseille ?
text: Did you knowthat Pollyanna , a 1920 melodrama/comedy starring Mary Pickford , grossed $1.1 million, equivalent to about $10 million in 2008?
text: Did you knowthat football (soccer) became the last Olympic sport to sign up to the World Anti-Doping Agency code, when FIFA ratified it in 2006?
text: Did you knowthat the blue bottle fly (Calliphora vicina) , the green bottle fly (Lucilia illustris) , the hairy maggot blowfly (Chrysomya rufifacies) , the black blow fly (Phormia regina) and the coffin fly (Megaselia scalaris) are useful tools to forensic entomologists in determining the time of death of a corpse ?
text: Did you knowthat the cruise ship MS Columbus C. sank in Cádiz harbour after accidentally ramming the harbour's breakwater in 1984?
text: Did you knowthat African American artist James W. Washington, Jr. first gained visibility in 1938 working with the WPA in his native Mississippi , but was later associated with the Northwest School ?
text: Did you knowthat the olive tree is the ultimate symbol of sumud , a key ideological theme among Palestinians since the 1967 war ?
text: Did you knowthat since 2006 Beijing has had a legal limit of one dog per family ?
text: Did you knowthat the career of Tiia Piili , four-time FISAF World Champion in sport aerobics , was threatened when she got food poisoning attending a competition in Morocco ?
text: Did you knowthat the Intelligencer Journal of Lancaster, Pennsylvania , established in 1796, is one of the oldest newspapers in the United States ?
text: Did you knowthat the 2003 documentary Prisoner of Paradise is a chronicle of the life of Kurt Gerron , a German Jewish actor who was forced to make a Nazi propaganda film and later murdered in a Nazi concentration camp ?
text: Did you knowthat the shot tower of the Colonial Ammunition Company is the only surviving tower of its kind in New Zealand ?
text: Did you knowthat there are hints of political opposition to the land acquisition for the Special Economic Zone and industrial hub at Saltora in the "neglected" Bankura district in India ?
text: Did you knowthat the U.S. Department of Defense pays the owners of the MV Baffin Strait (T-AK W9519) US$ 12,550 per day to carry cargo from Singapore to Diego Garcia ?
text: Did you knowthat Vaux-de-Cernay Abbey in Ile-de-France , founded in 1118, had a saintly abbot , was bought by a Rothschild and is now a hotel?
text: Did you knowthat Fahmida Mirza is the first female Speaker of the National Assembly of Pakistan ?
text: Did you knowthat Peter Carl Fabergé crafted the Czarevich Fabergé egg in 1912 as a tribute to Czarevich Alexei after his survival from a hemophilia -related illness?
text: Did you knowthat Roman Catholic priests afflicted with alcoholism or other ailments can use unfermented grape juice , known as mustum , in place of sacramental wine during the Eucharist ?
text: Did you knowthat the American southern gospel group The Dixie Nightingales at one time included future Temptations lead singer David Ruffin among its ranks, and later evolved into the secular Stax Records soul group "Ollie & the Nightingales"?
text: Did you knowthat Walter of Pontoise was the last person to be canonized in Western Europe by someone other than the Pope ?
text: Did you knowthat chef and restaurateur Suzanne Goin won the 2006 James Beard award for Best Chef in California as well as being a five time James Beard foundation award nominee?
text: Did you knowthat Bhutan has a low crime rate and is the first nation in the world to ban tobacco sales?
text: Did you knowthat Helen Bee identified that people make both an inner and outer journey through adulthood ?
text: Did you knowthat according to the old hexachordal principle, the sixth aria of Hexachordum Apollinis should have been in B-flat major , but the composer Pachelbel wrote it in 1699 as an F minor ?
text: Did you knowthat Clarence Lightner was the first African-American elected mayor of any metropolitan Southern United States city ?
text: Did you knowthat Hans Gude replaced Johann Schirmer as the professor of landscape painting at the Düsseldorf school , even though as a professor Schirmer had told Gude to give up painting?
text: Did you knowthat the Rev. James Hackman , Rector of Wiveton in Norfolk , was hanged for the murder of Martha Ray , mistress of the fourth Earl of Sandwich ?
text: Did you knowthat the Eva archaeological site in Tennessee was inhabited from about 6000 to 1000 BC, but it is now below water?
text: Did you knowthat three-foot-tall stone slabs were placed every five miles to mark the boundary between Kentucky and Tennessee ?
text: Did you knowthat 1050 AM ESPN Radio in New York City was launched by American politician Rob Astorino ?
text: Did you knowthat Edgar Allan Poe wrote " The Raven " while living at what is now called Edgar Allan Poe Cottage in the Fordham section of The Bronx in New York City ?
text: Did you knowthat after the Aztec Coatlicue statue was discovered, it was buried again to prevent it becoming the object of a cult ?
text: Did you knowthat the only black college to field a NCAA lacrosse team is the Morgan State University Lacrosse Bears?
text: Did you knowthat after Norwegian film maker Odd F. Lindberg made a documentary exposing inhumane Norwegian seal hunting methods, the hostile reaction encouraged him to emigrate?
text: Did you knowthat the script for the Lost episode " Meet Kevin Johnson " was completed on the day that the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike began?
text: Did you knowthat one of Catherine de' Medici's court festivals featured an artificial whale that spouted red wine when harpooned?
text: Did you knowthat the Anekāntavāda philosophy of Jainism encourages its adherents to consider the beliefs of their rivals and opposing parties?
text: Did you knowthat four of the fifteen head coaches of the Green Bay Packers are in the Pro Football Hall of Fame ?
text: Did you knowthat the Rose bedeguar gall was used as a cure for baldness , colic and toothaches ?
text: Did you knowthat Scripps marine chemist Edward D. Goldberg suggested using mussels to measure the amount of pollution in the oceans ?
text: Did you knowthat when built in 1868, Louisville 's Fourteenth Street Bridge was the longest iron bridge in the United States?
text: Did you knowthat Polish novelist Bolesław Prus , who had been a young soldier in the Polish 1863–65 Uprising , wrote a short story, " Fading Voices ", whose protagonist had served in the 1830–31 Uprising ?
text: Did you knowthat English sculptor Henry Weekes ' monument to Percy Bysshe Shelley , modelled on Michelangelo 's Pietà , includes realistic touches such as seaweed wrapped around the drowned poet's arm?
text: Did you knowthat microorganisms in the Archaea domain produce antimicrobial protein toxins known as archaeocins ?
text: Did you knowthat the Da Ming Hun Yi Tu ‎ Chinese world map (pictured) , painted on silk in 1389, includes the earliest surviving depiction of the Drakensberg mountains in southern Africa ?
text: Did you knowthat General Benjamin Tupper 's horse was killed under him at the Battle of Monmouth during the American Revolutionary War ?
text: Did you knowthat the Zamość Uprising was one of the major operations of the Polish resistance movement in World War II , and succeeded in significantly delaying German plans to evict the Polish inhabitants and colonize the region ?
text: Did you knowthat several private homes in the Los Cerritos neighborhood of Long Beach, California have been used in movies, including depicting the Bueller family's Chicago home in the 1986 comedy film Ferris Bueller's Day Off ?
text: Did you knowthat Joseph Canyon was named after Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce tribe, who was born in a cave at the mouth of the canyon?
text: Did you knowthat in 1962 doctors went on strike in Saskatchewan for 23 days in an unsuccessful attempt to stop the introduction of universal health insurance ?
text: Did you knowthat homoclines are tilted rock structures that can form ridges ?
text: Did you knowthat John Tavener 's " Song for Athene ", sung at the funeral of Princess Diana , combines texts from the Orthodox funeral service and Shakespeare 's Hamlet ?
text: Did you knowthat after discovering a suitcase with US$ 800,000 in Maletinazo , policewoman Maria de Lujan Telpuk appeared on the cover of the Argentine and Venezuelan editions of Playboy ?
text: Did you knowthat the British Expeditionary Force in 1914 included 90% of the British Army units normally based in the United Kingdom , leaving less than a division of regular soldiers for home defence?
text: Did you knowthat in the days immediately following the revelation of her role in the Eliot Spitzer prostitution scandal , the MySpace page of Ashley Alexandra Dupré was viewed over 9 million times?
text: Did you knowthat in the 1944 Battle of Murowana Oszmianka , the Polish resistance Armia Krajowa dealt a significant defeat to the Nazi-Lithuanian Lithuanian Territorial Defense Force ?
text: Did you knowthat despite its name, the Togian White-eye , a species of bird endemic to the Togian Islands of Indonesia , lacks the white eye rings typical of its genus ?
text: Did you knowthat after being diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease , former President Ronald Reagan established the Ronald and Nancy Reagan Research Institute to work toward a cure for Alzheimer's?
text: Did you knowthat the Virginian Railway Passenger Station in Roanoke was named to the Virginia Landmarks Register and the National Register of Historic Places after it was extensively damaged in a fire?
text: Did you knowthat actor Daniel Dae Kim was arrested for driving under the influence just days before shooting " Ji Yeon ", an episode of Lost ' s fourth season?
text: Did you knowthat Van Nuys Boulevard , running through the heart of LA 's San Fernando Valley , was a center of teenage cruising from the 1950s through the 1970s?
text: Did you knowthat Cymric Oil Field has the fastest-growing production of any oil field in California ?
text: Did you knowthat  the Upper Brook Street Chapel in Manchester , designed by Sir Charles Barry shortly before he designed the Palace of Westminster , is said to be the first neogothic Nonconformist chapel ?
text: Did you knowthat Hamilton Disston purchased four million acres of land—larger than the state of Connecticut —for just $1 million in 1881 in a failed attempt to drain the Everglades ?
text: Did you knowthat  the discovery of horse bones at the archaeological site of Hallur in south India refuted the theory that horses were introduced to this region as part of the Indo-Aryan migration ?
text: Did you knowthat Sixty Rayburn , a 44-year member of the Louisiana State Senate who died in 2008, was the driving force behind the establishment of the Louisiana State University School of Veterinary Medicine ?
text: Did you knowthat Sami Hadawi , author of works on the land rights of Palestinian refugees , was exiled by Israel in 1948 and denied permission to have his remains returned to his native Jerusalem for burial in 2004?
text: Did you knowthat Still Restless , a 2004 album by country band Restless Heart , was their first album of all-new material in fourteen years?
text: Did you knowthat Stanislav Konopásek lost five years of his ice hockey -playing career when he was imprisoned for allegedly trying to defect from Czechoslovakia in 1950?
text: Did you knowthat the Eurymedon vase has been cited as evidence of Ancient Greek sexual mores?
text: Did you knowthat Labour Party politician Hugh Brown was a British negotiator with Iceland during the third Cod War in the 1970s?
text: Did you knowthat Tajikistan was one of the deadliest countries for journalists in the 1990s , with dozens of journalists killed , including Belarusian documentary filmmaker Arcady Ruderman and Bukharan Jewish journalist Meirkhaim Gavrielov ?
text: Did you knowthat Virgil Johnson , the lead singer of the doo wop group The Velvets , retired from his career as a school principal and is now a deejay in Lubbock, Texas ?
text: Did you knowthat in 1964, units of No. 81 Wing RAAF were deployed to Darwin, Northern Territory as contingency in the event of an air attack on Australia during the Indonesia–Malaysia confrontation ?
text: Did you knowthat the inbred villagers of Stoccareddo in Italy are a medical phenomenon, with unusually low frequencies of hypertension , strokes and heart attacks despite a high- cholesterol diet ?
text: Did you knowthat Thursday of the Dead is a springtime feast day shared by Muslims and Christians in the Levant that involves colouring eggs, visiting the cemetery and distributing food to the poor?
text: Did you knowthat the Māori name for the New Zealand Agency for International Development is Nga Hoe Tuputupu-mai-tawhiti , which means 'the paddles that bring growth from afar'?
text: Did you knowthat Samuel Lines ' art lessons in Birmingham started at 5 a.m.?
text: Did you knowthat a skyscraper in Croydon has been nicknamed the 50p Building because it resembles a pile of 50p coins ?
text: Did you knowthat, before signing to Career/ Arista Records in 1996 and charting three singles, country singer and pianist Tammy Graham was a regular performer at Caesars Palace ?
text: Did you knowthat Robert H. Pruyn , the second American Minister to Japan , was instrumental in negotiating reparations over the 1863 Bombardment of Shimonoseki ?
text: Did you knowthat chemist Ernest Beaux created Chanel No. 5 perfume?
text: Did you knowthat The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency is the first major film or television production to be shot on location in Botswana ?
text: Did you knowthat the military theories of the 18th-century Welsh soldier Henry Lloyd were studied by George Washington and George S. Patton ?
text: Did you knowthat despite being involved in high school theatre, Darla Vandenbossche only decided to pursue acting when she reached the age of 36?
text: Did you knowthat the Central Library in Portland, Oregon was one of the first libraries in the United States to feature an open plan design?
text: Did you knowthat Filipino jazz singer Katy de la Cruz was once a top-billed performer at the famed Forbidden City nightclub in San Francisco ?
text: Did you knowthat the writer Mikhail Mikhalkov , brother of Sergei Mikhalkov , who wrote the Soviet anthem , was an NKVD agent acting in Nazi Germany and later a GULAG inmate?
text: Did you knowthat cell-free protein array technology attempts to simplify protein microarray construction by using cells from sources such as E. coli , rabbit reticulocytes and wheat germ ?
text: Did you knowthat Eugene, Oregon 's The Register-Guard is the second largest newspaper in Oregon ?
text: Did you knowthat the Joseon Korean official Choe Bu wrote a travel diary about his shipwrecked stay in Ming China that eventually became widely printed in Korea and Japan during the 16th century?
text: Did you knowthat about 63 dams with a capacity of over 100 million cubic metres account for 95% of the water storage capacity of Mexico ?
text: Did you knowthat 2007 Colorado Buffaloes ' starting quarterback Cody Hawkins was on ESPNU 's reality show Summer House ?
text: Did you knowthat Cassià Maria Just was one of the Catholic Church members in Spain who showed their opposition to Francisco Franco ?
text: Did you knowthat some Norton, Massachusetts residents complain they have trouble selling their homes because Lake Winnecunnett is  "a weed - infested , mosquito breeding swamp "?
text: Did you knowthat television pioneer Thomas T. Goldsmith, Jr. became the inventor of the video game when he took out a video game patent in 1948?
text: Did you knowthat the 2002 surge of the Kolka Glacier resulted in deaths of at least 125 people?
text: Did you knowthat the Concessionary Bus Travel Act 2007 entitles all persons in England who are over the age of 60 or disabled to free bus travel throughout the country during off-peak hours?
text: Did you knowthat Johnson Creek , one of the few free-flowing streams in the Portland , Oregon area, overflowed its banks 37 times between 1971 and 2006?
text: Did you knowthat Major League Baseball player Sparky Adams was part of the St. Louis Cardinals team in 1930 when every single regular player had a batting average over .300, the only time in history this has happened?
text: Did you knowthat the original Victoria Dam constructed in 1891 was the first dam in Western Australia , and it stood for almost 100 years before being replaced with the current dam?
text: Did you knowthat in 1745, Daniel Juslenius , a Finnish Fennoman , finished the first formal Finnish dictionary?
text: Did you knowthat the Emberá in Panama use the hard, durable trunks of Dictyocaryum palms to construct coffins ?
text: Did you knowthat Finnish film director Valentin Vaala was reportedly so disappointed with his first film that he dumped the original camera negatives into the sea?
text: Did you knowthat over 90% of Lithuanian Jews perished in the first few months of Operation Barbarossa in the Holocaust in Lithuania ?
text: Did you knowthat Max Noether , called "one of the greatest mathematicians of the nineteenth century", learned advanced mathematics mostly through self-study ?
text: Did you knowthat rock edicts of Emperor Ashoka , found at Brahmagiri in the present-day Karnataka state of India , indicated the southernmost extent of the Mauryan Empire ?
text: Did you knowthat Mike Menosky , a probation officer who was a former baseball player, helped to dismiss a court case by proving the defendant could not have thrown a rock 250 feet (76 m)?
text: Did you knowthat Kenneth Woollcombe , a former Bishop of Oxford , was a member of the Court of Ecclesiastical Causes Reserved when it granted a faculty for the controversial altar by Henry Moore ?
text: Did you knowthat Japan Steel Works is the only company in the world which can make the central part of a nuclear reactor 's containment vessel in a single piece, and a backlog may lead to a global delay in constructing nuclear power plants?
text: Did you knowthat the practice of slavery in Wallachia and Moldavia lasted until the 1850s, and is what forced many local Roma people into sedentism ?
text: Did you knowthat Xue Ji was considered one of the four great calligraphers of the early Tang Dynasty ?
text: Did you knowthat the Baháʼí community in Brazil was established when Leonora Holsapple Armstrong, the first Baháʼí permanent resident in South America , arrived in Brazil in 1921?
text: Did you knowthat Mohamed Camara 's 1997 film Dakan was the first West African film to explore homosexuality ?
text: Did you knowthat the Landing Vehicle Tracked was developed after future admiral Edward C. Kalbfus showed a magazine article about an amphibious rescue vehicle to a Marine Corps general at a party?
text: Did you knowthat the history of aspirin has been marked by fierce competition, patent and trademark battles, and even an international conspiracy known as the Great Phenol Plot ?
text: Did you knowthat the contemporaries of Jean-Étienne Liotard regarded The Chocolate Girl as the artist's masterpiece?
text: Did you knowthat hard bop jazz drummer Roy Brooks , who played with Horace Silver and Max Roach , was sentenced to four years in prison for assault at age 62?
text: Did you knowthat, as a protection against abuses by a temporary majority , any two members of a deliberative assembly may postpone action to another day with a motion to reconsider and enter on the minutes ?
text: Did you knowthat Ron Arias , a senior writer and correspondent for People magazine and People en Español , was influenced by twentieth-century Latin American literature ?
text: Did you knowthat Alexander Solzhenitsyn composed his 12,000-line-long poem Prussian Nights while imprisoned in a GULAG camp, writing down each day a few lines on a bar of soap?
text: Did you knowthat the 1940 Battle of France forced 72-year-old British engineer William Binnie to work for his passage home as a cook's assistant on a collier ?
text: Did you knowthat Stonehenge in its landscape , described by one reviewer as "one of the more important British archaeological publications this century", had a print run of just 800 copies?
text: Did you knowthat Bess Thomas , a former Australian librarian, became the first female to be given the position of "Chief Librarian" in New South Wales ?
text: Did you knowthat, during a conflict which split the Romanian far right , the antisemitic newspaper Sfarmă-Piatră oscillated between the fascist Iron Guard and the corporatist National Renaissance Front ?
text: Did you knowthat the indemnity money paid to the U.S. after the Boxer Rebellion was used to fund a scholarship program which led to the founding of Tsinghua University in Beijing ?
text: Did you knowthat former Chilean presidential spokesman Ricardo Lagos Weber was the main organizer of the 2004 APEC annual meeting held in Santiago, Chile that year, and the president of APEC's Senior Officials Meeting II?
text: Did you knowthat King Lugaid mac Lóegairi was said by the Vita tripartita Sancti Patricii to have been struck dead by lightning because he mocked Saint Patrick ?
text: Did you knowthat a 1970 bomb caused US$ 170,000 worth of damage at City Hall in Portland, Oregon , but no one was ever arrested for the crime?
text: Did you knowthat the current Northam Bridge in Southampton , England was the first major road bridge to be built using prestressed concrete in the United Kingdom ?
text: Did you knowthat Archbishop John Ireland refused to allow the Irish in Saint Paul, Minnesota to have a Saint Patrick's Day parade due to previous celebrations turning into what he called "midnight orgies"?
text: Did you knowthat physicists Herbert Anderson , Eugene Booth , G. N. Glasoe , John Dunning , Francis Slack and Enrico Fermi worked on splitting atoms in the basement of Pupin Hall , Columbia University in 1939?
text: Did you knowthat Thomas Clarke Luby and James Stephens took the oath as founding members of the Irish Republican Brotherhood on Saint Patrick's Day , 1858?
text: Did you knowthat Chris Levesque was studying for an exam when the Vancouver Canucks signed him to an emergency one-game National Hockey League contract?
text: Did you knowthat members of the Senegalese rap group Daara J were hired by campaigners in the Senegalese election of 2000 to edit their speeches?
text: Did you knowthat Sir William Langhorne, 1st Baronet established the Madras Record Office, the oldest record office of the British East India Company and one of the oldest archival institutions in the world?
text: Did you knowthat a passenger train ran away backwards for over three miles (5 km) following a collision in Torquay railway station ?
text: Did you knowthat when Drake University basketball player Adam Emmenecker was named 2008 Missouri Valley Conference Player of the Year, the conference called him "perhaps the most improbable Player of the Year" in its history?
text: Did you knowthat the Kentucky Irish American counted among its subscribers Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry Truman ?
text: Did you knowthat the Albatros was the last sailing ship in European waters carrying commercial cargo?
text: Did you knowthat 150 Irish from Indianapolis participated in the Fenian raids , an attempt to invade Canada from Buffalo, New York in 1866?
text: Did you knowthat Kiz, Utah , now a ghost town , was named for the first woman to settle in the area?
text: Did you knowthat French comics artist Patrice Killoffer was in 2005 the first foreigner to design stamps for the Swiss Post ?
text: Did you knowthat on the festival celebrated in the month of Toxcatl the Aztecs sacrificed , flayed and ritually cannibalized a young man who had been impersonating the god Tezcatlipoca for an entire year?
text: Did you knowthat, according to Tirechán 's life of Saint Patrick , King Lóegaire mac Néill refused to be baptised by Patrick, as his father Niall of the Nine Hostages had said that he must be buried in the walls of his fort on the hill of Tara ?
text: Did you knowthat Senegalese hip hop group Positive Black Soul 's name abbreviation, PBS, is a play on that of the Parti Démocratique Sénégalais , PDS?
text: Did you knowthat the earliest known athletics competition in Australia took place in Sydney in 1810 ?
text: Did you knowthat Maharam's Synagogue in Lublin , Poland was burnt down during the Cossack – Muscovite invasion in 1655?
text: Did you knowthat the Gaiety Girls in shows produced by George Edwardes at the Gaiety Theatre were so popular that the restaurant where they dined became the centre of nightlife in London during the Victorian era ?
text: Did you knowthat the 2007 documentary film Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience was based on a collection of writings by U.S. soldiers who have served in Afghanistan and Iraq ?
text: Did you knowthat Oakmere Hall in Cheshire was built for John and Thomas Johnson of Runcorn but they became bankrupt before it was completed and the house was sold to a Liverpool merchant?
text: Did you knowthat jazz saxophonist John Coltrane 's song " Ogunde " is based on the Afro-Brazilian folk song "Ogunde Varere", which translates to "Prayer of the Gods"?
text: Did you knowthat Alice Spencer Geddes Lloyd , who founded Alice Lloyd College in Kentucky , appeared on the TV show This is Your Life in 1955 to raise money for the college?
text: Did you knowthat the ethics guidelines for Israeli broadcasting have been revised four times since their introduction in 1972, and are now four times their original length?
text: Did you knowthat Garry Lake and the Christian cross are both translated as Hanningajuq in the local Inuktitut language?
text: Did you knowthat excavations at Chandravalli in the Indian state of Karnataka have unearthed coins of Roman emperor Augustus and Chinese Han emperor Wu Ti ?
text: Did you knowthat more than half of the United Kingdom 's specialist victim recovery dogs were used during the search for nine-year-old Shannon Matthews ?
text: Did you knowthat neoclassical Italian sculptor Giuseppe Ceracchi portrayed George Washington with a Roman haircut and a toga ?
text: Did you knowthat Slindon Cricket Team was the winning team recorded on the earliest surviving cricket scoresheet?
text: Did you knowthat Gran Paradiso National Park is Italy 's oldest national park ?
text: Did you knowthat quarterback Jack Crabtree of the Oregon Ducks football team was named Most Valuable Player of the 1958 Rose Bowl even though his team lost the game?
text: Did you knowthat French mycologist René Maire wrote a work on the local flora of the Haute-Saône in the Franche-Comté region of northeastern France when he was only 18 years old?
text: Did you knowthat several US Navy WWII troop transports , such as USS Hermitage , USS Monticello and USS Lejeune , were former ocean liners that were seized from the enemy?
text: Did you knowthat the same spectacular mountain, Kriváň , links a Polish rock band , a King of Saxony , and the Slovak national movement from the 19th century?
text: Did you knowthat the Hillel Yaffe Medical Center in Hadera , Israel , is named after Hillel Yaffe , a doctor who served nearby Jewish settlements in the early 20th century?
text: Did you knowthat Maria , the Finnish form of Mary , is the most popular Finnish name used during the modern era?
text: Did you knowthat Robert D. Knapp 's squadron failed to see any action in World War I because the propellers for their Handley Page O/400 bombers arrived late?
text: Did you knowthat Lake Piso , a brackish water lake in western Liberia , is the largest in the country?
text: Did you knowthat the final decades of Visigothic rule in Spain have been labelled " protofeudal " by Spanish historians , but this label has been largely rejected in English historiography ?
text: Did you knowthat Wesley L. McDonald was the last admiral to hold the Allied Atlantic Command and the U.S. Atlantic Command , and lead the U.S. Atlantic Fleet at the same time?
text: Did you knowthat after retiring, former Premier League footballer Adrian Whitbread worked in four different clubs as assistant coach for Martin Allen ?
text: Did you knowthat Jonathan Swift 's " A Description of a City Shower " is considered by many, including Swift himself, to be his best poem ?
text: Did you knowthat Nurul Izzah Anwar , daughter of Malaysia 's de facto opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim , defeated a three-term minister incumbent in her first contest for a parliament seat in Lembah Pantai ?
text: Did you knowthat oil tanker MV Transpacific is currently under contract to transport fuel for the U.S. Defense Department for US$ 18,848 a day?
text: Did you knowthat Te Kopuru once had the largest sawmill in New Zealand ?
text: Did you knowthat writer - director Zoe Cassavetes appeared in her late father 's film Minnie and Moskowitz at the age of one?
text: Did you knowthat Salem First United Methodist Church is the tallest building in Salem, Oregon and is also the oldest Methodist church west of the Rocky Mountains ?
text: Did you knowthat A Walk to Beautiful , a film about five Ethiopian women with childbirth injuries , was picked by the International Documentary Association as the best feature documentary of 2007 ?
text: Did you knowthat " Spieprzaj dziadu! " ( Polish for "Piss off, old man!"), said by current Polish President Lech Kaczynski , has become one of the most famous phrases in modern Poland ?
text: Did you knowthat English writer Anne Brontë is buried in Scarborough , and not in Haworth with all her family?
text: Did you knowthat Cumberland was a short-lived rugby league team in the inaugural NSW premiership season in 1908?
text: Did you knowthat the Mitchell Recreation Area near Bly , Oregon , is the only location in the continental U.S. where Americans were killed during World War II as a direct result of enemy action?
text: Did you knowthat Honoré de Balzac 's novel Louis Lambert contains many autobiographical elements relating to his time at an Oratorian school in Vendôme ?
text: Did you knowthat only one of the twenty-six tunnels on the Blue Ridge Parkway is in Virginia ?
text: Did you knowthat Knut Rød , a Norwegian police inspector who arranged the deportation of over 500 Jews to Auschwitz in 1942, was acquitted after the war although no one denied he did it?
text: Did you knowthat St John the Evangelist's Church in the village of Sandiway , Cheshire , was designed by John Douglas who had been born in the village and who was lord of the manor of Sandiway?
text: Did you knowthat the town of Gratiot, Wisconsin is named after French–American U.S. Indian Agent Henry Gratiot ?
text: Did you knowthat most of the land that makes up the Santiam State Forest today was acquired by Oregon authorities because of delinquent taxes or purchases at minimal costs prior to foreclosure during the Great Depression ?
text: Did you knowthat Dennis Letts , who began acting at the age of fifty, made his Broadway theater debut in December 2007 in August: Osage County , which was written by his son, Tracy Letts ?
text: Did you knowthat the 2007 Texas Longhorns football suspensions involved seven players, including one of the highest-ranking recruits for the Texas Longhorns college football team?
text: Did you knowthat Nazi Germany's animal protection laws were the first in the world to place the wolf under protection?
text: Did you knowthat after having over 912 million barrels of oil pumped out since the late 19th century, the Coalinga Oil Field , the eighth-largest oil field in California , is close to exhaustion?
text: Did you knowthat Norwegian Parliament member Kjell Bondevik was the uncle of Norwegian Prime Minister Kjell Magne Bondevik ?
text: Did you knowthat mole rats home through their large burrows using the Earth's magnetic field ?
text: Did you knowthat Messina , Italy , known as Messene during the Sicilian Wars , was sacked by the Carthaginians in 397 BC in retaliation for the attack on Motya by Dionysius I of Syracuse ?
text: Did you knowthat Grey's Anatomy writer Gabrielle Stanton appeared as the character "Gabrielle" in the 1998 film Free Enterprise ?
text: Did you knowthat the palm Actinorhytis calapparia is widely cultivated in Southeast Asia and Malesia , where local villagers attribute it magical or medicinal powers?
text: Did you knowthat Paul Simon 's ballad " Rene And Georgette Magritte With Their Dog After The War " portrays Belgian surrealist painter René Magritte as a secret admirer of doo-wop music ?
text: Did you knowthat Naulakha pavilion , situated in Lahore Fort , was the inspiration behind Rudyard Kipling 's novel The Naulakha and his house Naulakha ?
text: Did you knowthat the 2003 Insight Bowl , won by California 52–49 on a last-second field goal, was the second-highest-scoring regulation-length college football bowl game in history?
text: Did you knowthat Polish novelist Bolesław Prus 's tomb at Warsaw 's Powązki Cemetery was designed by his nephew, the sculptor Stanisław Jackowski ?
text: Did you knowthat the RMS Sylvania was built for the transatlantic trade but spent only the first 10 years of her 46-year career in that role?
text: Did you knowthat the Sydenham Hill Wood and the adjacent Dulwich Wood in South London form the largest remaining tract of The King's Wood ?
text: Did you knowthat Ismat ad-Din Khatun was the wife of two important medieval Muslim princes, Nur ad-Din and Saladin ?
text: Did you knowthat the Edinburgh Phrenological Society started its own journal to promote phrenology in 1824, after the Royal Medical Society refused to publish the results of a debate about the subject?
text: Did you knowthat Ólchobar mac Cináeda , king of Munster and abbot of Emly , may be the "king of the Irish" who sent an embassy to Charles the Bald announcing Irish victories over the Vikings in 848?
text: Did you knowthat garden plant Grevillea 'Peaches and Cream' , a hybrid of G. banksii from humid subtropical Queensland and G. bipinnatifida from the Mediterranean climate of Western Australia , tolerates the climates of both its parents?
text: Did you knowthat the Stabler-Leadbeater Apothecary Shop was owned by the same family for over 140 years, and served two American presidents and Robert E. Lee ?
text: Did you knowthat Gaffney Ridge, an undersea ridge in the South China Sea , was named for Paul G. Gaffney II , President of Monmouth University and a former United States Navy Vice Admiral ?
text: Did you knowthat the original arcade cabinet of the shooter game The Typing of the Dead used two QWERTY keyboards?
text: Did you knowthat the Battle of Shaizar in 1111, between King Baldwin I of Jerusalem 's Crusader army and a Seljuk army led by Mawdud bin Altuntash of Mosul , ended in a tactical draw?
text: Did you knowthat the edible mushroom Boletus barrowsii is popular with maggots , who often beat mushroomers to their goal?
text: Did you knowthat according to Ukrainian folklore , the girl who finds Chervona Ruta , " Red Rue " in Ukrainian , on Ivan Kupala Day , will be happy in love?
text: Did you knowthat British Columbians will get a second chance to vote on replacing the winner-takes-all election system with a single-transferable-vote system?
text: Did you knowthat the Telugu film Amma Cheppindi was inspired by the science fiction story Flowers for Algernon ?
text: Did you knowthat American football head coach Skip Holtz is the son of the famed college football coach Lou Holtz ?
text: Did you knowthat novelist Joseph Conrad was strongly influenced by his uncle and mentor Tadeusz Bobrowski , who is himself remembered in Poland as a notable memoirist ?
text: Did you knowthat the U.S. Supreme Court case Radovich v. National Football League , which held professional football subject to antitrust law, began with a brief drafted on the back of a napkin ?
text: Did you knowthat Funny Car drag racing pioneer Jack Chrisman set a class record at 188 mph , only to have the engine blow up two weeks later and the car burn to the ground?
text: Did you knowthat L. Ron Hubbard , the founder of Scientology , wrote the story for the 1938 Columbia movie serial The Secret of Treasure Island ?
text: Did you knowthat Keewassee , a Potowatomi warrior, attempted to destroy a dam built by settler William Davis and was severely beaten with a hickory rod when caught?
text: Did you knowthat Marzieh Meshkini 's 2000 film The Day I Became a Woman depicts three stages in the lives of Iranian women, focusing on a nine-year-old girl, a married woman, and an elderly widow?
text: Did you knowthat Portland Trail Blazers guard Brandon Roy won the 2007 Rookie of the Year Award by a near-unanimous vote despite missing almost a third of his first season in the NBA due to injuries?
text: Did you knowthat rumored use of lard or tallow , offensive for religious reasons, to lubricate paper cartridges was one of the causes of the Indian Rebellion of 1857 ?
text: Did you knowthat John Knatchbull was the first person to plead moral insanity in Australia ?
text: Did you knowthat over 120,000 cubic yards of asbestos -containing sediment from an active, slow moving landslide is deposited into Swift Creek , Washington each year?
text: Did you knowthat critics from the Los Angeles Times and Entertainment Weekly have described " The Other Woman " as the worst episode yet of the fourth season of the television show Lost ?
text: Did you knowthat Kashmir Singh , an Indian spy , was released last week after 35 years of captivity in Pakistan ?
text: Did you knowthat the Nagasaki National Peace Memorial Hall for the Atomic Bomb Victims uses 70,000 fiber optic lights to represent the number of people killed by the atomic bomb ?
text: Did you knowthat film composer Mateo Messina has written a benefit symphony concert for the Seattle Children's Hospital each year for the past decade?
text: Did you knowthat George Stanhope , Dean of Canterbury , helped organise the building of fifty new churches to replace those lost in the Great Fire of London ?
text: Did you knowthat the wood of Myoporum sandwicense , a shrub -like plant known as "bastard sandalwood ", was used by the early Hawaiians as log frames for thatched houses and torches for night fishing?
text: Did you knowthat gothic Trinity College Kirk , a 1460 memorial to King James II of Scotland , was demolished in 1848 to make way for Edinburgh's Waverley Station ?
text: Did you knowthat Epigraphia Carnatica , compiled by Benjamin L. Rice , contains a study of about 9000 inscriptions found in the Old Mysore region of India ?
text: Did you knowthat the American Loyalist surveyor Augustus Jones fled to Canada, where he raised families by a Mohawk wife and a Mississauga mistress?
text: Did you knowthat Padfield in Derbyshire belonged to William the Conqueror , but was given away by his heirs, firstly Henry I , then Henry II and then Henry VIII ?
text: Did you knowthat Russian musician Vassily Vassilievich Andreyev is considered the father of the academic folk instrument movement in Eastern Europe?
text: Did you knowthat the Australian common Leaf curling spider is unusual in that pairs cohabit in the same leaf, though at opposite ends, even before mating at maturity?
text: Did you knowthat Arthur A. Denny , one of Seattle 's founders and a lifelong teetotaler , had customers buy their liquor from sea captains so he could stay out of the transactions?
text: Did you knowthat Soviet scholars coined the term ‘ democratic satire ’ to describe the three-century old Russian tale of Frol Skobeev ?
text: Did you knowthat the Indiana state constitution specifically states that Indianapolis' Military Park can never be sold?
text: Did you knowthat Nalknad Palace in the Indian state of Karnataka was the final refuge of Chikka Veerarajendra , the last king of Kodagu ?
text: Did you knowthat David Beckham and Victoria Adams were given a replica of Cheshire 's Rookery Hall as a cake at their engagement party?
text: Did you knowthat 16 people died when the top two floors of the Northridge Meadows Apartments on Reseda Boulevard collapsed in the 1994 Northridge Earthquake ?
text: Did you knowthat despite his complete lack of mountaineering experience, the English adventurer Maurice Wilson reached an elevation of 22,700 feet (7,450 m) on his doomed solo attempt to climb Mount Everest in 1934?
text: Did you knowthat American late model dirt track racer Scott Bloomquist races at selected high money events instead of in national touring series?
text: Did you knowthat Canterbury Music Hall , which opened in 1852, was the first purpose-built tavern music hall ?
text: Did you knowthat Vietnamese -born artist and photographer Binh Danh has created leaf images called chlorophyll prints, using the negatives of photographs ?
text: Did you knowthat Bishop George Algernon West , the Lord Bishop of Rangoon 1935–1954, became for two months the Bishop of Atlanta , Georgia while the Japanese occupied Burma ?
text: Did you knowthat the author of The Strange Death of Tory England advises UK Conservatives to learn from the conservatism of the socialist George Orwell ?
text: Did you knowthat Western Brook Pond , a landlocked fjord in Gros Morne National Park on the island of Newfoundland , was the site of a 30 m (98 ft) tsunami in the early 20th century?
text: Did you knowthat the water managed by the Southwark and Vauxhall Waterworks Company of London was once described by a microbiologist as "the most disgusting I have ever examined"?
text: Did you knowthat Union Army Paymaster General Benjamin Brice changed the recruitment of deputy paymasters from being political nominees to ones who passed examinations?
text: Did you knowthat the Yokohama Museum of Art has Pablo Picasso , Paul Cézanne , Salvador Dalí and Henri Matisse represented in its collection?
text: Did you knowthat Endel Puusepp became a Hero of the Soviet Union after flying a Soviet delegation over the front line from Moscow to Washington and back to negotiate the opening of the Western Front ?
text: Did you knowthat the Willamette Collegian , the college newspaper of Willamette University in Oregon , was named an all-star publication by the National Pacemaker Awards a record 16 times in a row?
text: Did you knowthat Eugenio Perez was the Speaker of the Philippine House of Representatives when the Philippines became independent from the United States in 1946 ?
text: Did you knowthat Arthur Sullivan 's Boer War Te Deum was written to celebrate the expected British victory in the Boer War , but because the war dragged on for almost two more years, both Sullivan and Queen Victoria had died before the piece premiered?
text: Did you knowthat the 1951 film Where No Vultures Fly is a fictionalised account of the work of the conservationist Mervyn Cowie ?
text: Did you knowthat before Danish director Bille August made his Oscar -winning Pelle the Conqueror , he had great domestic success with the children's television series and movie Busters verden ?
text: Did you knowthat part 6 of the Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007 was rushed through, which enabled the Russian government to allow Matisse 's painting of The Dance into the UK ?
text: Did you knowthat the book Description of Africa by the Muslim slave Joannes Leo Africanus was an important source of information on the North African Islamic civilization during the European Renaissance ?
text: Did you knowthat in his easy re-election in the 2004 North Dakota gubernatorial election John Hoeven was endorsed by the state teachers' union , which normally supports Democrats ?
text: Did you knowthat Broad Clyst railway station attracted residential development in the immediate area and even today the area around the former station is known as "Broadclyst Station"?
text: Did you knowthat the Kaipara Harbour of Northland , New Zealand , was named at a hāngi on the Pouto Peninsula , at which the para fern ( Marattia salicina ) was served?
text: Did you knowthat Pope Pius XII Church policies after World War II involved global reconstruction of war-damaged Catholic institutions?
text: Did you knowthat in 999, Bishop Bernard of Gaeta had to seek help from an aide of the Emperor Otto III to force the diocese's slaves to work?
text: Did you knowthat Alex , the Stroh's dog that would fetch and pour beer, died of cancer?
text: Did you knowthat the South Carolina secessionists had to relocate from their original meeting site at Columbia 's First Baptist Church , due to a smallpox outbreak?
text: Did you knowthat the Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations required all 241 UK work-related deaths in 2006/7 to be reported — even if the victims take a year to die?
text: Did you knowthat current Venezuelan Deputy Foreign Minister and ambassador to the OAS Jorge Valero , a vocal spokesman for the Chavez government, fell out with his brother Hidalgo, an anti-Chavez activist?
text: Did you knowthat the Calhoun Beach Club building in Minneapolis, Minnesota has served as a social club, a TV studio , a hotel , apartments , a home for the elderly, and most recently as a sports and social club?
text: Did you knowthat the Digital Switchover (Disclosure of Information) Act 2007 will allow social security information to be passed to the BBC ?
text: Did you knowthat the insect hormone bursicon hastens the tanning of the cuticle and hardens it?
text: Did you knowthat Operation Himmler was a Nazi Germany false flag operation, intended to create an appearance that the German invasion of Poland was a defensive war provoked by a Polish attack on Germany?
text: Did you knowthat Maturinus was the patron saint of jesters , comic actors, and clowns during the Middle Ages ?
text: Did you knowthat a papillary fibroelastoma , typically involving one of the valves of the heart , is the third most common type of primary tumors of the heart ?
text: Did you knowthat the Eve of Destruction , named after a protest song and on display at the U.S. Army Transportation Museum , is the only surviving example of a Vietnam era gun truck ?
text: Did you knowthat Swami Rama Tirtha was one of the first Hindu swamis to teach Vedanta in the West?
text: Did you knowthat whilst both Richard Kirkby and George Walton were present at the Action of August 1702 , Walton went on to be an Admiral , whilst Kirkby was executed for cowardice?
text: Did you knowthat under the 2002 Andean Trade Preference and Drug Eradication Act the United States eliminated tariffs on 6,300 products from Bolivia , Colombia , Ecuador , and Peru ?
text: Did you knowthat the Kannada writer Kirtinath Kurtakoti died of cardiac arrest just hours after his wife's death?
text: Did you knowthat the Murat Centre is the only Shrine temple with a French name, and is the largest Shrine temple in North America ?
text: Did you knowthat television writer Josh Senter rarely watched television until he was fourteen because of his parents' fundamental Christian beliefs?
text: Did you knowthat the Wärtsilä Turku shipyard in Finland built five state-of-the-art cruiseferries for the Black Sea Shipping Company, Soviet Union , in 1975–1976?
text: Did you knowthat Karol Szajnocha , one of Poland 's leading 19th century historians, was self-taught as he was expelled from university?
text: Did you knowthat retreating glaciers of the Himalayas produce vast and long-lived supraglacial lakes , many kilometres in diameter and scores of metres deep?
text: Did you knowthat the proposed Doncaster railway line, Melbourne , first planned in 1890, would cost around ten times as much to build now as the A$ 41 million estimated in 1972 when the route was decided?
text: Did you knowthat Scottish nurse and serial killer Colin Norris is thought to have killed his four geriatric victims because he had "a real dislike of elderly patients"?
text: Did you knowthat most urban water service providers in Peru can be considered bankrupt as water bills are often not paid?
text: Did you knowthat Mrs Sherwood 's evangelical story The History of Little Henry and his Bearer was in print for 70 years after its publication in 1814 and was translated into eight languages?
text: Did you knowthat after being paralyzed in a car accident in 1964, Davina Ingrams, 18th Baroness Darcy de Knayth was made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1996 for her services to disabled people?
text: Did you knowthat Banduan and Manbazar in West Bengal , India , are located in an area of violent political activities by Maoists ?
text: Did you knowthat Cornelio Villareal and Jose Laurel, Jr. were the last two Speakers of the House of Representatives before the Philippine Congress was abolished by Ferdinand Marcos in 1972?
text: Did you knowthat the discovery of gold by Custer's 1874 Expedition triggered the gold rush that precipitated the Black Hills War ?
text: Did you knowthat the Town Hall in Słupsk , Poland , was built on land reclaimed from a lake?
text: Did you knowthat The Queen producer Andy Harries was fired as a newsreader for speaking too fast in a broadcast?
text: Did you knowthat Larrys Creek in Lycoming County , Pennsylvania has 42 named tributaries in its watershed , including one named "Little Dog Run"?
text: Did you knowthat the Hertford East Branch Line , a railway line in the United Kingdom , used to link to the Hertford Loop Line but was severed due to the Beeching Axe ?
text: Did you knowthat medieval cycles of the Life of the Virgin could have as many as 53 scenes before reaching the Annunciation of her pregnancy ?
text: Did you knowthat The Portage to San Cristobal of A.H. is a controversial 1981 novella by George Steiner in which Hitler is found alive in the Amazon jungle and claims to be the Jews ' benefactor?
text: Did you knowthat the Elk Hills Oil Field in San Joaquin Valley is the largest natural gas -producing oil field in California , and has produced over 2 trillion cubic feet (60 billion m³) of gas since its discovery in 1911?
text: Did you knowthat the 1989 Spanish film If They Tell You I Fell was nominated for seven Goya Awards ?
text: Did you knowthat the main opposition party Fidesz supported the 2003 Hungarian European Union membership referendum but warned that up to 100,000 jobs could be lost?
text: Did you knowthat as New York 's General Counsel , Michael C. Finnegan ended a century-old debate over New York City 's water supply when he brokered the New York City Watershed Agreement ?
text: Did you knowthat Bhanbhagta Gurung returned to his farm in Nepal in 1946, after receiving a Victoria Cross for his actions while serving with the 3rd Battalion of the 2nd Gurkha Rifles in Burma ?
text: Did you knowthat the troop transport USS Wakefield , a former luxury liner , operated in World War II as a "lone wolf" by relying on her speed to avoid Nazi U-Boats?
text: Did you knowthat Scottish footballer Kevin Bremner scored for five different teams in the Football League during the 1982–83 season ?
text: Did you knowthat the Julian Price Memorial Park , developed in Julian Price 's honor, and the Moses H. Cone Memorial Park are the largest developed recreational areas on the Blue Ridge Parkway ?
text: Did you knowthat state representative Dianne Primavera ,  a breast and cervical cancer survivor, sponsored legislation for the Colorado Breast and Women's Reproductive Cancers Fund?
text: Did you knowthat because of its dorsal fin , Carolus Linnaeus first described the Permit as Labrus falcatus , with the latter part  of the scientific name meaning "armed with scythes ?"
text: Did you knowthat former football player and manager Alan Brown quit Huddersfield Town and became a policeman for two and a half years before rejoining the club?
text: Did you knowthat in 1955, black promoter Thurman Ruth booked the Selah Jubilee Singers ,  to perform in a music venue , New York 's Apollo Theater ,  the first gospel group to play commercially?
text: Did you knowthat Robert DeBlieux , a former mayor of Natchitoches , Louisiana , was the local advisor when the film Steel Magnolias was shot in the city?
text: Did you knowthat Lieutenant Commander Willis Lent and his submarine the USS Triton fired the first United States Navy torpedo to be used against the Japanese during World War II ?
text: Did you knowthat Pope Innocent XIII was not elected till the seventy-fifth ballot at the papal conclave in 1721 ?
text: Did you knowthat the first Dutch satellite , the Astronomical Netherlands Satellite , had the Main Belt asteroid 9996 ANS named after it?
text: Did you knowthat the Willhire 24 Hour race became the first 24 hour endurance race to take place in the United Kingdom in 1980?
text: Did you knowthat singer Irvan Perez was considered to be one of the last performers of the traditional Isleño décimas of Louisiana , since there are few members of that community who still know how to sing the songs?
text: Did you knowthat Canada's first urban Indian reserve was established in 1981 at Kylemore, Saskatchewan ?
text: Did you knowthat nearly a decade before the official Bordeaux wine classification was released, the directory Cocks & Féret published their own ranking of Bordeaux wine estates?
text: Did you knowthat the Best Bakery case is a legal case involving the killing of 14 people in Vadodara , India , during the 2002 Gujarat violence ?
text: Did you knowthat 75 people in the Soviet Union were awarded the Order of the Red Banner , with their names published in Pravda , for the successful mass deportations out of the Baltic States in 1949?
text: Did you knowthat the establishment of the quaestura exercitus by Byzantine Emperor Justinian I helped to economically secure the lower Danube region?
text: Did you knowthat Malheur Reservation in Oregon was set aside for Native Americans in 1872 and opened to European American settlement by Ulysses S. Grant in 1876?
text: Did you knowthat the Kapodistrias Museum in Corfu , Greece , donated by Maria Desylla-Kapodistria the first female Greek mayor , was dedicated to the memory of the first Greek governor , Ioannis Kapodistrias ?
text: Did you knowthat Gamma , a gamma-ray telescope , was launched in 1990, 25 years after it was originally conceived?
text: Did you knowthat botanist Henry Lyte's Niewe Herball of 1578 was an English translation of the 1564 Cruydeboeck of Rembert Dodoens printed in Antwerp with the woodcuts of the original edition?
text: Did you knowthat Mosida, Utah was a failed planned community whose developers tried to irrigate the desert with water pumped from Utah Lake ?
text: Did you knowthat Eastern Christians believe that the tomb on the Mount of Olives is the Tomb of Mary ?
text: Did you knowthat the ten cannons of Fort Guijarros , built in 1797 as the first defensive fortifications for San Diego Bay , California , have been fired in action only twice since?
text: Did you knowthat Florence J. Harriman , an American socialite , suffragist , diplomat and author , was credited with arranging for the safe evacuation of members of the Norwegian royal family when Germany invaded Norway in 1940?
text: Did you knowthat if all the video games traded at Goozex in 2007 were stacked on top of each other, the resulting pile would reach 2,132 feet (650 m), more than 450 feet (137 m) taller than Taipei 101 ?
text: Did you knowthat Socialist Paulina Veloso , exiled during Pinochet's rule in Chile , has served in the governments of all four post-Pinochet presidents , including holding the cabinet-level presidential Chief of Staff position from 2006 to 2007?
text: Did you knowthat Sultanahmet Jail in Istanbul , Turkey , which served mostly as a prison reserved for intellectual dissidents , is today a five-star hotel ?
text: Did you knowthat Baxter v. United States determined that since poker was a game of skill, poker winnings should be treated as earned income instead of unearned income ?
text: Did you knowthat the original name of Euphemia , empress consort of Justin I of the Byzantine Empire , was 'Lupicina', which led historian Alexander Vasiliev to associate her with she-wolves and prostitution ?
text: Did you knowthat while one naval historian praised Richard Lestock for his "zeal and attention", another declared he "ought to have been shot"?
text: Did you knowthat the Bordeaux wine estate Château Beau-Séjour Bécot was demoted in the Saint-Émilion classification amidst controversy, only to be later re-instated?
text: Did you knowthat the Söflingen Abbey in Ulm , Baden-Württemberg is the oldest nunnery of the Order of Poor Ladies in Germany ?
text: Did you knowthat both William Wentworth, Earl of Strafford and his wife were painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds ?
text: Did you knowthat antiepileptic drugs have been shown to prevent early post-traumatic seizures but not post-traumatic epilepsy ?
text: Did you knowthat the earliest surviving ensenhamen (an Occitan didactic poem ) was written by the troubadour Garin lo Brun around 1155?
text: Did you knowthat hawkers in Kolkata , numbering 275,000, occupy pavements and generate annual business worth around 2 billion dollars?
text: Did you knowthat Professor Lalit Goel of Nanyang Technological University in Singapore became an internet celebrity after footage of his lectures were uploaded to YouTube ?
text: Did you knowthat the briefly popular " I'm Backing Britain " campaign in 1968 suffered embarrassment when a number of t-shirts bearing the slogan were found to be made in Portugal ?
text: Did you knowthat the Marshall Field and Company Building has three separate atria ?
text: Did you knowthat the Persian political-philosophical treatise, the Siyasatnama , provides evidence for the survival of pre-Islamic traditions within the Seljuq empire?
text: Did you knowthat in Toolson v. New York Yankees , the U.S. Supreme Court first considered a player's challenge to Major League Baseball 's reserve clause ?
text: Did you knowthat the Basilica of the Birth of the Virgin Mary in Chełm , Poland, now a Catholic church, was formerly an Orthodox one?
text: Did you knowthat the first psychosurgery in the United Kingdom was performed in Bristol in December 1940?
text: Did you knowthat Hugh Ruttledge led the 1933 Mount Everest expedition on which Andrew Irvine 's ice axe was discovered?
text: Did you knowthat on 28 November 1968 the Finnish ferries MS Ilmatar and MS Botnia collided in the Åland archipelago, resulting in the death of six people?
text: Did you knowthat during World War II , the Roosevelt Community Library in Minneapolis held storytimes for children, partly to help reduce juvenile delinquency in the Standish neighborhood?
text: Did you knowthat as he lay dying, the American Presbyterian theologian J. Gresham Machen declared that there is no hope without the active obedience of Christ ?
text: Did you knowthat Israeli agricultural output is now 16 times what it was at independence in 1948, which means that it has risen three times more than the population growth rate?
text: Did you knowthat while in charge of the MESAN political party, President for Life Jean-Bédel Bokassa appointed Elisabeth Domitien to serve as the prime minister of the Central African Republic , making her Africa 's first female head of government?
text: Did you knowthat Japanese American journalist Bill Hosokawa and his family were released from the Heart Mountain War Relocation Center in 1943 in order to take a job as a copy editor with The Des Moines Register ?
text: Did you knowthat Tanaz Eshaghian 's film Be Like Others explores the experiences of transsexuals in Iran , a country that outlaws homosexuality but sanctions sex-reassignment surgery ?
text: Did you knowthat Robert Oxnam , who wrote a memoir describing his dissociative identity disorder , was president of the Asia Society for over a decade?
text: Did you knowthat the original Roanoke Street Railway Company streetcar tracks were removed from the Memorial Bridge during its 2002–03 restoration?
text: Did you knowthat British industrialist Sir Maurice Laing was the first president of the Confederation of British Industry ?
text: Did you knowthat despite much preparation by Prussia , Toruń Fortress , one of the largest defence complexes in Central and Eastern Europe , did not play a significant role in World War I ?
text: Did you knowthat the 1940 Czortków Uprising was a failed attempt by anti- Soviet teenagers to free Polish soldiers?
text: Did you knowthat Flat Top Manor , built by textile industrialist Moses H. Cone in 1900, gets nearly 250,000 visitors annually as the main feature of the Moses H. Cone Memorial Park in North Carolina ?
text: Did you knowthat the author of the best-selling book Misha: A Mémoire of the Holocaust Years , who claimed to be a Holocaust survivor, admitted her memoir was a hoax ?
text: Did you knowthat lawyer James A. MacAlister was the first president of Drexel University ?
text: Did you knowthat with over 370 officers and ratings , HMS President is one of the largest " stone frigates " of the Royal Naval Reserve ?
text: Did you knowthat according to historian Rev. H B Kendall , five Camp Meetings which led to the establishment of Primitive Methodism as a denomination in 1811 were held in Ramsor in Staffordshire ?
text: Did you knowthat the conservative Thai Social Action Party was founded in 1974 by politician and former Prime Minister of Thailand Kukrit Pramoj ?
text: Did you knowthat the Chelembra Bank Robbery , one of the biggest bank robberies in Kerala , was quickly solved by the Kerala Police and the stolen goods recovered?
text: Did you knowthat writers Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse were careful not to create a paradox in the plot of " The Constant ", a fourth season episode of Lost that features time travel ?
text: Did you knowthat free MMS were sent out to all 5.5 million mobile phone subscribers in Singapore to alert them of the prison break of ISA detainee Mas Selamat bin Kastari ?
text: Did you knowthat Evagrius Scholasticus , John of Ephesus , Gregory of Tours and Paul the Deacon all accused Byzantine Emperor Justin II and his empress consort Aelia Sophia of greed?
text: Did you knowthat treated wastewater from Kern River Oil Field , the fifth-largest U.S. oil field , is used to irrigate crops in the San Joaquin Valley in California ?
text: Did you knowthat the hazaj meter was the most popular meter for Iranian romantic epics in the 11th century?
text: Did you knowthat artist Chryssa constructed The Gates to Times Square , a 10 ft (3 m) cube of neon , acrylic glass and stainless steel through which museum visitors may walk?
text: Did you knowthat Sir Ralph Howell , farmer and Conservative MP for North Norfolk for 27 years, argued for the adoption of a " workfare " system of unemployment benefits in the UK ?
text: Did you knowthat the 2004 Montana gubernatorial election saw the first bipartisan ticket since the constitution required Governors and their Lieutenants to run as a team?
text: Did you knowthat Christopher Tin is the first Fulbright scholar for film scoring ?
text: Did you knowthat former Arsenal and Sheffield Wednesday footballer Brian Hornsby trekked to Machu Picchu with musician Tony Hadley in aid of Action Medical Research ?
text: Did you knowthat Frank Winder , one of the leading Irish rock-climbers of the 1950s and 60s, started climbing to search for rare plants and insects?
text: Did you knowthat in two decades Australian record producer , audio engineer and mixer Tim Whitten has worked with artists including Powderfinger , The Go-Betweens , and Hoodoo Gurus ?
text: Did you knowthat the song " Vodka " will represent Malta at Eurovision Song Contest 2008 ?
text: Did you knowthat Stockport County physio Rodger Wylde formed a rock group with  player Tom Bennett whilst treating his broken leg?
text: Did you knowthat Nihon Go Gakko , a Japanese language school in Tacoma, Washington , later became a gathering point for Japanese residents during World War II , being sent to internment camps ?
text: Did you knowthat Adam Franz Lennig organized the first Katholikentag in Mainz in 1848?
text: Did you knowthat the Tang Dynasty chancellor Cui Shi was believed to have risen to power through affairs with Shangguan Wan'er and Princess Taiping ?
text: Did you knowthat the final streetcar to service Roanoke, Virginia went from Grandin Road Commercial Historic District to downtown on July 31 , 1948 ?
text: Did you knowthat Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer made their sitcom debut with their 1992 Channel 4 pilot The Weekenders ?
text: Did you knowthat American rockabilly musician Bobby Lee Trammell nearly fell off a radio broadcast tower during a botched practical joke ?
text: Did you knowthat Joyce Carlson , designer of the Disney theme park attraction " It's a Small World ", was the first female employee to achieve a fifty-year service record with Disney ?
text: Did you knowthat the 1917 Pinar del Río hurricane is the third most intense cyclone to make landfall in Cuba , with a low atmospheric pressure reading of 928 mbar (27.40 inHg )?
text: Did you knowthat Sherefudin's White Mosque , where the mihrab , minbar and minarets have a folk art character subtly enhanced by the avant-garde geometries of their setting, won the 1983 Aga Khan Award for Architecture ?
text: Did you knowthat the 13th-century troubadour Guilhem de Montanhagol encouraged the conversion of the Cathars to Catholic orthodoxy by persuasion and opposed their violent suppression by the Albigensian Crusade ?
text: Did you knowthat Tews Fall, located within the Spencer Gorge / Webster's Falls Conservation Area , is the tallest of 96 waterfalls found in Hamilton, Ontario ?
text: Did you knowthat the Rolls-Royce Conway , a turbofan engine ,  was the first commercial aero engine to be awarded clearance to operate for periods up to 10,000 hours between major overhauls?
text: Did you knowthat St James's Hall , London 's principal concert hall and home of the Philharmonic Society in the 19th century, had annual seasons of blackface minstrelsy ?
text: Did you knowthat Heba Kotb , Egypt 's first licensed sexologist , hosts a call-in show named The Big Talk where she gives Qur'anic advice?
text: Did you knowthat Interstate 37 is one of the few limited-access hurricane evacuation routes away from the Texas coast?
text: Did you knowthat wig wearing and addressing judges as "My Lord" or "Your Lordship" in Singapore courts was abolished by Chief Justice Yong Pung How in 1990?
text: Did you knowthat Africans from the last known illegal shipment of slaves to the U.S. formed their own community of Africatown near Mobile, Alabama after the Civil War ?
text: Did you knowthat a group of Philippine congressmen were named after the Spice Girls ?
text: Did you knowthat upon his death, Lolita author Vladimir Nabokov told his son to destroy his final novel, The Original of Laura , but the manuscript remains in a Swiss Bank vault , its fate uncertain?
text: Did you knowthat the 11th century Duke Yaropolk Izyaslavich is an Eastern Orthodox saint ?
text: Did you knowthat as a non-military form of conscription , a Finnish rescue authority official is entitled to order anyone in the municipality to assist in a rescue operation?
text: Did you knowthat a poem by William Newton led to an end to gibbeting corpses in Derbyshire ?
text: Did you knowthat Italy 's Cantieri Riuniti dell' Adriatico shipyard built two ocean liners named MS Stockholm for the Swedish American Line between 1936 and 1941, neither of which operated commercially?
text: Did you knowthat during the Chicago Federation of Labor 's 1903 convention, seven major brawls broke out, hospitalizing one man?
text: Did you knowthat Kjesäter , a Swedish manor , was later the main assembly point for up to 50,000 refugees from German-occupied Norway during World War II ?
text: Did you knowthat Interstate 80 in Nevada crosses the Forty Mile Desert, the most dangerous part of the California Trail ?
text: Did you knowthat the butterfly Heliconius heurippa may be a separate species from—but a hybrid of—the species Heliconius cydno and Heliconius melpomene , a possible example of hybrid speciation ?
text: Did you knowthat Times Square Stores , which went bankrupt in 1989, was once considered Long Island 's most prominent discount department store chain?
text: Did you knowthat John Roby ignored some Lancashire oral traditions in writing about the boggart of Clegg Hall ?
text: Did you knowthat Democrat Bob Holden was the first incumbent Missouri Governor to lose a primary ?
text: Did you knowthat despite being a National Historic Landmark and the site of Washington 's oldest known human remains, the Marmes Rockshelter was submerged after the Lower Monumental Dam construction?
text: Did you knowthat HMS Bonaventure became the first ship to re-enter service with the Clan Line after the end of the Second World War , having spent five years as a submarine depot ship ?
text: Did you knowthat Abby and Julia Smith fought for women's suffrage by refusing to pay taxes to the Town of Glastonbury, Connecticut and almost lost their property Kimberly Mansion ?
text: Did you knowthat the Maltese European Union membership referendum saw the lowest support for joining, and highest turnout , of any of the states that held referendums on joining in 2003?
text: Did you knowthat the Blessed Martyrs of Nowogródek were Sisters of the Holy Family of Nazareth who offered their lives during the Holocaust in exchange for the release of citizens of Nowogródek ?
text: Did you knowthat much of Glencoe, Oregon , was relocated to the new town of North Plains after the railroad bypassed the old town?
text: Did you knowthat the Dix of the Puget Sound Mosquito Fleet , a steamboat which sank and drowned over 45 people after a collision off Duwamish Head , Washington in 1906, was twice refused a seaworthiness certificate?
text: Did you knowthat the first medical missions in China began in part because the missionary Robert Morrison wanted to discover whether the Chinese pharmacopoeia could cure disease in the West?
text: Did you knowthat French geometer Émile Lemoine proposed a system of five operations to measure the "complexity" of compass and straightedge constructions ?
text: Did you knowthat the Brindavan Gardens in Karnataka is a Mughal style garden having a design similar to that of Shalimar Gardens in Kashmir ?
text: Did you knowthat in the post- WWII era, the Zidell family business based in Portland, Oregon became the largest shipbreaking operation in the U.S. ?
text: Did you knowthat the broadhead catfish , a carnivore , can be fed with rice bran ?
text: Did you knowthat French cardinals in the Papal conclave of 1758 vetoed the candidature of cardinal Cavalchini when he was only one vote short of being elected to the papacy ?
text: Did you knowthat Royal Navy captain Kenneth Dewar was controversially court-martialled in 1928 for criticising his flag officer , an event the press described as a mutiny ?
text: Did you knowthat in 1956 the Pidhirtsi Castle in Lviv Oblast , Ukraine burned for three weeks costing US$ 12 million in damages?
text: Did you knowthat Adolf Hitler never thought much of the Columbus Globe for State and Industry Leaders despite its iconic status in the U.S.?
text: Did you knowthat the Chinese government had no objections when the Eastern Orthodox Church canonized Metrophanes, Chi Sung and other martyrs of the Boxer Rebellion , but did object to canonizations by the Roman Catholic Church ?
text: Did you knowthat the K'iche' Kingdom of Q'umarkaj in Central America were conquered when the Kaqchikel people allied with a Spanish force ?
text: Did you knowthat the 2008 Lincolnshire earthquake was the largest earthquake to hit the UK for over twenty years?
text: Did you knowthat the Maratha Ditch was excavated around Calcutta , India , as a protection against attacks by Marathas , who, however, never attacked?
text: Did you knowthat seeds of the water lily Euryale ferox may be toasted and eaten like popcorn ?
text: Did you knowthat the Augustaion , named after the Augusta Helena , was the main public square in medieval Constantinople ?
text: Did you knowthat the monk responsible for the current state of Thuyen Ton Temple in Vietnam lived to 102 years?
text: Did you knowthat the "Sound of Insanity" in Powderfinger 's 2008 single " Who Really Cares (Featuring the Sound of Insanity) " is simply a sitar with synthesised effects overlaid?
text: Did you knowthat pig fat , cannabis oil, fish , scorpions and hot sand were used in various offensive weapons in ancient and medieval warfare ?
text: Did you knowthat restaurant Beyti in Istanbul , famous for its Beyti kebab , once catered U.S. president Richard Nixon 's Air Force One ?
text: Did you knowthat Truc Lam Temple is named after the Zen sect founded by Emperor of Vietnam Tran Nhan Tong , who abdicated the throne to become a monk ?
text: Did you knowthat the Sheffield Improvement Act 1818 required all owners of steam engines in the Yorkshire town to "consume" the engine's smoke?
text: Did you knowthat Filipino poet José García Villa was known for his extensive use of commas , which made him known as the "Comma Poet"?
text: Did you knowthat the Telugu film Anasuya was said to be inspired by the Hollywood film The Silence of the Lambs ?
text: Did you knowthat Randi Weingarten , the openly gay president of the United Federation of Teachers , has been called one of the 25 most powerful women in New York City business?
text: Did you knowthat Denmark's debut in the Eurovision Song Contest took place in 1957, when the country finished third and would be the most successful debutant until 1994?
text: Did you knowthat General Anthony Bacon , hero of Waterloo , resigned his commission in protest when the colonelcy of the 17th Lancers was purchased by Lord Lucan ?
text: Did you knowthat Konrad Bartelski is the only British alpine ski racer to finish on the podium in a World Cup downhill race?
text: Did you knowthat a large number of Rwandans converted to Islam after the 1994 Genocide ?
text: Did you knowthat New York Assemblyman Gregory R. Ball proposed a measure offering free education for United States military veterans ?
text: Did you knowthat eight well preserved Maronite mummies dating back to the 13th century were uncovered by speleologists in the Qadisha Valley , Lebanon ?
text: Did you knowthat author Ken Kesey taught a course at the University of Oregon where he and thirteen students collaboratively wrote Caverns ?
text: Did you knowthat Ngo Duc Ke advocated the adoption of the Romanised quoc ngu to replace the chu nom script used in Vietnam for writing?
text: Did you knowthat the young leaves and flowering stems of Senecio congestus can be made into a " sauerkraut "?
text: Did you knowthat the Midway-Sunset Oil Field contains an estimated 584 million barrels of oil , which amounts to 18% of California 's total estimated reserve ?
text: Did you knowthat Inteco , a Russian company owned by Yelena Baturina , controlled 20% of the construction in Moscow ?
text: Did you knowthat the law professor Boudewijn Sirks has written on papyrology , food distribution in ancient Rome , and Sailing in the Off-Season with Reduced Financial Risk ?
text: Did you knowthat the current configuration of Sun Pass State Forest in Oregon was the result of a land swap between the state government and the federal forest service ?
text: Did you knowthat J.R.R. Tolkien was so incensed by the adaptation of proper names in the Dutch translation of The Lord of the Rings that he wrote a guide to advise future translators?
text: Did you knowthat the abbot of Linh Son Pagoda , one of the tourist attractions in Da Lat , Vietnam , has held the post for more than forty years?
text: Did you know that Palestinian nationalist poet Ibrahim Touqan wrote the poem Mawtini , which has been the national anthem of Iraq since 2003?
text: Did you know that the Shell Quiz is the longest-running television programme in Thailand , being broadcast since 1965?
text: Did you know that a Balzac comedy was inspired by an academic squabble over the claim that Spaniard Blasco de Garay built the first steam powered ship in 1543?
text: Did you know  that Kiev Governorate was one of the first eight other governorates of the Russian Empire ?
text: Did you know that a scandal arose when African-American actor Lorenzo Tucker , known as the "Black Valentino", playing a pimp in a play, kissed Mae West , playing a prostitute ?
text: Did you know that Pierre the penguin is the first bird to don a custom-made wetsuit?
text: Did you know that a building fire destroyed the first designs for the South Australian National War Memorial ?
text: Did you know that the endowment by Edmund Meyrick , a Welsh cleric and philanthropist who died in 1713, is still awarding scholarships to students at Jesus College , Oxford in England after nearly three centuries?
text: Did you know that British author Bernard Newman , an authority on spies , gave more than 2,000 lectures throughout Europe during the Interbellum ?
text: Did you know that the February 4, 1998 Afghanistan earthquake , in which nearly 4,000 people were killed and 15,000 homes destroyed, was also felt at Tashkent and Dushanbe ?
text: Did you know that Kenyan public health advocate Miriam Were and British biomedical researcher Brian Greenwood are the inaugural laureates of the Hideyo Noguchi Africa Prize ?
text: Did you knowthat the Thich Ca Phat Dai Buddhist temple in Vung Tau has a prominent lookout over the city?
text: Did you knowthat George W. Woodbey was the sole African American delegate to the Socialist Party of America conventions in 1904 and 1908?
text: Did you knowthat during hot greenhouse periods in Earth's history, the tropics appeared to be cooler than they are today?
text: Did you knowthat Lieutenant-General Sir Maurice Johnston was made an Honorary Freeman of the Borough of Swindon in 2004?
text: Did you knowthat the Capitol Center has been the tallest commercial building in Salem, Oregon , since its completion in 1926?
text: Did you knowthat instead of voting to determine the site of a proposed hydroelectricity dam , tens of thousands of Tasmanians protested by writing "No Dams" on their ballot papers in the 1981 power referendum ?
text: Did you knowthat after unsuccessfully standing for the National Socialist German Workers Party in the 1925 German presidential election , Erich Ludendorff left the party to found the Tannenbergbund ?
text: Did you knowthat the government of Malaysia has been alleged to be behind Project IC , which involves the systematic granting of citizenship to hundreds of thousands of immigrants to alter the demographic and voting pattern in their favour?
text: Did you knowthat priest Benjamin Pâquet was such a controversial figure in 19th-century Quebec that his possible nomination to bishopry was rejected for three different dioceses ?
text: Did you knowthat Detroit Tigers pitcher Denny Bautista is the second cousin of New York Mets pitcher Pedro Martínez ?
text: Did you knowthat Norwegian politician Helge Seip was succeeded by Helge Rognlien both as Minister of Local Government and Regional Development and later as leader of the Liberal Party ?
text: Did you knowthat veterinarian Martha Kostuch linked reproductive and immunological problems among cattle to sulphur dioxide emitted in the oil and gas industry in Alberta ?
text: Did you knowthat the Hideyo Noguchi Africa Prize , for achievements in medical research and services to combat diseases in Africa , is named after a Japanese scientist whose portrait can be found on recent ¥1000 banknotes ?
text: Did you knowthat Ronald J. Rábago became the first Hispanic American to be promoted to the rank of Rear Admiral in the United States Coast Guard ?
text: Did you knowthat Sailor's Creek Battlefield State Park 's Hillsman House still has bloodstains on its floor dating to its use as a hospital after the Battle of Sayler's Creek in April 1865?
text: Did you knowthat the seeds of Trillium grandiflorum are dispersed by ants , who interpret the seeds as corpses?
text: Did you knowthat Ringle Crouch Green , Sandhurst was the only five-sailed corn mill in Kent ?
text: Did you knowthat the first wife of Arizona Territorial Governor A.P.K. Safford printed notices accusing him of having venereal disease ?
text: Did you knowthat the Sembawang , discovered in 1909, is the only natural hot spring on the main island of Singapore ?
text: Did you knowthat the Camp Dump Strike in Omaha was Nebraska 's first organized labor strike and the first to receive national attention?
text: Did you knowthat the former Indian Deputy Prime Minister LK Advani famously promoted a Indo-Pakistani confederation , asserting that the partition was mutually harmful?
text: Did you knowthat Johann Myburgh , a South African cricketer playing in New Zealand , broke Graeme Pollock 's mark for the fastest first-class double century ?
text: Did you knowthat children are more vulnerable to pulmonary contusion because their chest walls are more flexible?
text: Did you know that the National Courtesy Campaign was the first government campaign in Singapore to adopt a mascot ?
text: Did you know that after attempting to bribe a teammate to lose a game during the 1876 season , George Bechtel of the Louisville Grays became one of the first players banned for life from Major League Baseball ?
text: Did you know that Academy Award -nominated screenwriter Nancy Oliver considered leaving show business shortly before being offered her first full-time position writing for Six Feet Under ?
text: Did you know that merkhets were Ancient Egyptian timekeeping devices that tracked the movement of certain stars over the meridian in order to ascertain the time during the night, when sundials could not function?
text: Did you know that after competing for many years on a world-class level in the 400 metres hurdles , German athlete Heike Meißner tried competing in the 800 metres ?
text: Did you know that Hollywood 's Blessed Sacrament Church was the site of Bing Crosby 's wedding and funerals for John Ford and Mack Sennett ?
text: Did you know that the Royal Air Force designed the rotabuggy as a combination autogyro / jeep ?
text: Did you knowthat a recent report released by the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform has shown an increase in felony waivers by U.S. military recruiters ?
text: Did you knowthat young shoots of the ornamental Australian tree Alphitonia excelsa give off an odour of sarsaparilla when broken?
text: Did you knowthat Canada 's largest dry-bulk shipping company, The Fednav Group , has a fleet of over eighty ships ?
text: Did you knowthat construction of the stupa of Giac Lam Pagoda was halted for 18 years after the Fall of Saigon ?
text: Did you knowthat Kikuchi lines , formed in diffraction patterns by diffusely scattered electrons , are useful tools in electron microscopy of crystalline and nanocrystalline materials?
text: Did you knowthat unlike other sampradayas in Hinduism , which insist that the clergy lead an ascetic's life , the clergy in most Rudra sampradaya sects are expected to marry and live a worldly life with their family?
text: Did you knowthat Mary K. Shell , the first woman mayor of Bakersfield, California , chided NBC 's Johnny Carson for his jokes about "beautiful downtown Bakersfield" and invited Carson to visit the city to see its improvements?
text: Did you knowthat anti-German and anti-Chinese sentiments have motivated two riots in the history of Calgary ?
text: Did you knowthat the World Bank says that investment commitments in Chile's water and sanitation sector reached US$ 5.7 billion in 1993–2005?
text: Did you knowthat gallery owner Victoria Miro described Jake Chapman —now famous for art which includes explicit and distorted mannequins—as an "adorable" baby sitter?
text: Did you knowthat hexachlorobutadiene , a colorless solvent commonly used for chlorine -containing compounds, is a potent herbicide , but this use has been discouraged because it is too toxic ?
text: Did you knowthat both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama refused to hand out street money , a political tactic common in Philadelphia , during the 2008 Pennsylvania primary ?
text: Did you knowthat Tuoba Gui , the prince of Northern Wei , crushed Later Yan forces at the Battle of Canhe Slope , leading to Later Yan's decline and Northern Wei's rise?
text: Did you knowthat Julian Sturgis , the novelist, poet, librettist and lyricist, was the first American to play for the winning team in an English FA Cup Final in 1873 ?
text: Did you knowthat environmental stress cracking accounts for around 15–30% of all plastic-component failures in service?
text: Did you knowthat Ukrainian poet Yevhen Hrebinka helped purchase fellow poet Taras Shevchenko 's freedom from serfdom in 1838?
text: Did you knowthat John Caldwell was originally given the name at birth of George Washington Caldwell because he was born on the Fourth of July?
text: Did you knowthat the 1938 western Rawhide was baseball great Lou Gehrig 's only feature film appearance?
text: Did you knowthat the European Union is an example of a security community , in which war has become unthinkable?
text: Did you knowthat the cost of building the base of the Great Mill , Sheerness was so great that the mill was left unfinished for over two years before being completed?
text: Did you knowthat Australian cabaret singer, stage actor, dancer and comedienne Toni Lamond was nicknamed "Lolly-Legs Lamond" after being voted as having the second-best pair of legs in television while doing In Melbourne Tonight ?
text: Did you knowthat Sid Gillman is the only head coach in the San Diego Chargers to make it into the Pro Football Hall of Fame ?
text: Did you knowthat the Greek musical group C:Real sang only in English before the arrival of lead vocalist Irini Douka in 2002, which led them to focus on Greek language songs?
text: Did you knowthat Papa II , an Indian detention centre once infamous for reports of torture , is now the official residence of senior state politician Mehbooba Mufti ?
text: Did you knowthat the Confederate Monument of Glasgow, Kentucky honors Confederate soldiers of Glasgow and Barren County, Kentucky , who won more Southern Crosses of Honor than those from any other Kentucky county?
text: Did you knowthat Hong Kong director Ann Hui 's 1982 award-winning film Boat People depicting life in communist Vietnam was banned in Taiwan because it was filmed in communist China ?
text: Did you knowthat Swiss dissident Ami Perrin was the leader of the Libertine faction which rebelled against John Calvin 's theocratic rule of Geneva in 1551?
text: Did you knowthat Mark Twain's daughter Clara Clemens was saved from being dragged over a cliff by a horse by her future husband, the Russian-born concert pianist Ossip Gabrilowitsch ?
text: Did you knowthat it was at the urging of Pei Mian and Du Hongjian that Emperor Suzong of Tang China claimed the throne, despite the fact that his father Emperor Xuanzong was still alive?
text: Did you knowthat Kettle Falls , known to native peoples as Shonitkwu (" roaring or noisy waters "), lies silenced beneath the waters of Lake Roosevelt trapped behind the Grand Coulee Dam ?
text: Did you knowthat when the RAF 's High Speed Flight won the Schneider Trophy in perpetuity in 1931, there were no other teams competing against them?
text: Did you knowthat Josef Smrkovský boasted he had kept American units away from Prague in 1945, allowing the liberation of the city by the Red Army , and then in 1968 he and Dubček became the most popular politicians of the Prague Spring ?
text: Did you knowthat Igor Stravinsky agreed to compose the musical score for the ballet Circus Polka only under the condition that the elephants performing it be very young?
text: Did you knowthat Cardinal Mahony petitioned Rome to name Padre Serra Church after Junipero Serra despite controversy over his treatment of California Indians ?
text: Did you knowthat William Glanville calculated the size of explosives required for Operation Chastise and was portrayed by Colin Tapley in the 1955 film The Dam Busters ?
text: Did you knowthat Sheesh Mahal ("Palace of Mirrors" in English) in Lahore Fort was originally decorated with frescoes that were later replaced with pietra dura and convex glass and mirror mosaic ?
text: Did you knowthat Martial van Schelle fought as an American soldier in World War I , but was executed as a Belgian citizen during World War II ?
text: Did you knowthat Allumette Island , the largest island in the Ottawa River , was once called One-Eyed Island because Algonquin chief Tessouat had only one eye?
text: Did you knowthat mutations in the CNDP1 gene may cause carnosinemia , a rare metabolic disorder with diverse neurological problems, such as hypotonia , tremors and seizures , neuronal degeneration and mental retardation ?
text: Did you knowthat the John Coltrane Home is where the saxophonist composed many of his later works including the masterwork, A Love Supreme ?
text: Did you knowthat the first printing press in Sierra Leone was destroyed by the French before it could be used?
text: Did you knowthat Paul Auster 's Leviathan is named after the biblical whale used by Thomas Hobbes as a metaphor for the State in his own book of that title ?
text: Did you knowthat from 1787 to 1793, American music printer John Aitken was the only publisher of sheet music in the United States?
text: Did you knowthat the first ever tea in Russia was a gift from Mongolian ruler Altyn Khan to Tsar Michael I ?
text: Did you knowthat Ukrainian Nazis have been blamed for the 1944 Huta Pieniacka massacre of Polish civilians?
text: Did you knowthat the National Library of Wales was established in Aberystwyth instead of the capital, Cardiff , partly because its founder regarded Cardiff as having "a non- Welsh population"?
text: Did you knowthat Mahendralal Sarkar , an allopath -turned- homeopathic physician , was the founder of the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science , the first national science association of India?
text: Did you knowthat photographer Burt Glinn was at a New Year's Party when Fidel Castro took over Cuba , and he arrived at the scene before dawn?
text: Did you knowthat mental conditioning coach Paddy Upton helped cricketers Gary Kirsten and Jacques Kallis overcome personal crises and helped Virender Sehwag stay focused as he scored 319 in the 2008 Chennai Test ?
text: Did you knowthat the healthcare system in France was ranked number one in the world by the World Health Organization in 1997 and 2000?
text: Did you knowthat the San Ardo Oil Field is the 13th-largest oil field in California , and of the top twenty California oil fields in size, it is the most recent to be discovered?
text: Did you knowthat Lower Mill, Woodchurch , a smock mill in Kent , is a Scheduled Ancient Monument ?
text: Did you knowthat Kaash was the last Hindi film in which Kishore Kumar did playback singing ?
text: Did you knowthat David Goodstein 's book Out of Gas: The End of the Age of Oil rejected the notion that after peak oil alternative energy will be able to keep industry supplied?
text: Did you knowthat Boston Red Sox pitcher Mike Nagy was selected as American League rookie pitcher of the year in 1969 , but never pitched another full season due to injury?
text: Did you knowthat Monk Estill, who was captured by the Wyandot prior to the Battle of Little Mountain and escaped during the battle, was the first slave to be freed in the state of Kentucky ?
text: Did you knowthat at one point during his chancellorship , Yang Guozhong simultaneously served in over 40 posts?
text: Did you knowthat guests on the American PBS television series Soul! (1967–1971) included Stevie Wonder , African musician Hugh Masekela , and Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan ?
text: Did you knowthat the 2008 film Forever the Moment is based on the real life story of South Korea 's women's handball team which won silver at the 2004 Summer Olympics , and is also the first film to revolve around the sport of handball?
text: Did you knowthat after losing to Tiger Woods in the 1994 U.S. Amateur Championship , amateur golfer Trip Kuehne pursued a career in finance in lieu of professional golf?
text: Did you knowthat San Sebastian Church , the only all-steel church in Asia , is threatened by rust caused by the salty sea breeze from nearby Manila Bay ?
text: Did you knowthat Lt. John Weston Brooke , a veteran of the Second Boer War and an explorer with the East African Syndicate, was the first Englishman to gain an audience with the Dalai Lama , in 1906?
text: Did you knowthat the first U.S. patent , numbered X 000001, was issued to Samuel Hopkins on July 31 , 1790 for "the making of pot ash and pearl ash "?
text: Did you knowthat the inscription eulogising Kappe Arabhatta , a 7th century Chalukya warrior, records the earliest example of Kannada poetry metre Tripadi ?
text: Did you knowthat the court appointment of valet de chambre , nominally as a personal servant, was given to a wide range of artists, musicians, poets and others, including the first air crash fatality ?
text: Did you knowthat Enfield Old Park contained 207 fallow deer in April 1620, of which 73 were antlered males?
text: Did you knowthat Major League Baseball catcher Ellie Rodríguez caught the fourth of Nolan Ryan 's seven career no-hitters ?
text: Did you knowthat William Godwin 's philosophical work Political Justice (1793) argues that the existence of governments indicates that people are not yet ready to rely on their reason to regulate their conduct?
text: Did you knowthat Davison's Mill , Stelling Minnis , was the last windmill in Kent working commercially by wind when it closed in the autumn of 1970?
text: Did you knowthat the Tang Dynasty chancellor Chen Xilie first endeared himself to Emperor Xuanzong by explaining the Tao Te Ching and the I Ching to Emperor Xuanzong?
text: Did you knowthat the Chigi vase is the earliest representation of the ancient Greek hoplite phalanx ?
text: Did you knowthat " 4 Mots sur un piano ", which deals with the theme of a romantic relationship between two men and one woman, was the fifth best-selling single of 2007 in France ?
text: Did you knowthat Kevin O'Brien , an Independent Baptist minister in Lubbock, Texas , was among the founders of the fundamentalist Heartland Baptist Bible College in Oklahoma City ?
text: Did you knowthat sprinter Jaysuma Saidy Ndure holds both the Gambian and Norwegian records in both the 100 and 200 metres ?
text: Did you knowthat the Ellsworth Street Bridge in Albany, Oregon , was designed by Conde McCullough who was both a bridge engineer and an attorney?
text: Did you knowthat Sarre Windmill was the first windmill in Kent to have a steam engine installed as auxiliary power?
text: Did you knowthat at 15 years and 156 days, Albert Geldard became the youngest player to appear in The Football League in 1929?
text: Did you knowthat Annie Armstrong , for whom the Southern Baptist Easter collection for domestic missions is named, resigned from the missionary organization she founded vowing never to serve the SBC again?
text: Did you knowthat Magat Dam was at one time Southeast Asia 's largest multipurpose dam ?
text: Did you knowthat in May 1899, less than 18 months after he led the Australian cricket team to an Ashes victory over England in 1897–08, Australian Test cricket captain Harry Trott was committed to a psychiatric hospital ?
text: Did you knowthat Platt Fields Park in Manchester , England , was used as a country park for over 400 years before being converted for public use in 1908–1910?
text: Did you knowthat certain flies such as the Cayman crab fly Drosophila endobranchia live solely in and on land crabs ?
text: Did you knowthat in the 2000 offseason Matt Lytle , a former American football quarterback , played for the Rhein Fire of NFL Europe who won World Bowl VIII ?
text: Did you knowthat the titular planet in the Doctor Who episode " Planet of the Ood " is in the same planetary system as the Sense-Sphere, the location for the 1964 serial The Sensorites ?
text: Did you knowthat during the Shuliavka workers' uprising of 1905 , groups of 150 armed men patrolled the streets of the Shuliavka neighborhood in Kiev to clean the area of any resistors to their movement?
text: Did you knowthat architect John Desmond was able to design the acclaimed Louisiana State University Student Union building in Baton Rouge so that it could be built without disturbing a canopy of stately oak trees ?
text: Did you knowthat Edgar Allan Poe's 1831 short story " Bon-Bon " features an amateur philosopher who meets a soul -eating devil ?
text: Did you knowthat Siegfried Kasche , the Third Reich 's ambassador to Croatia from 1941 to 1945, was tried for "complicity in deportations and murders" by a Yugoslav court and executed in June 1947?
text: Did you knowthat the first organochromium compound was described by German scientist Franz Hein in 1919?
text: Did you knowthat American pioneer John Bowman , granduncle of Kentucky University founder John Bryan Bowman , presided over the first county court held in Kentucky ?
text: Did you knowthat Cryptosporidium hominis , an obligate parasite usually spread through fecal -contaminated drinking water , is responsible for a seasonal increase in cases of cryptosporidiosis in the Netherlands in autumn ?
text: Did you knowthat nineteenth-century Irish portrait painter Richard Rothwell is buried next to the Romantic poet John Keats in the Protestant cemetery in Rome ?
text: Did you knowthat as Kid Galahad , The Furze recorded " Stealin’ Beats " which featured on the PlayStation 2 game Dancing Stage MegaMix ?
text: Did you knowthat BY Draconis , a multi-star system in the constellation Draco , includes a binary star system with an orbital period of only 5.98 days?
text: Did you knowthat the cultures of the Western Mexico shaft tomb tradition not only considered dogs  to be soul guides for the dead, but a major source of protein as well?
text: Did you knowthat despite Al Gore 's efforts to appease Congressman Jesse Jackson, Jr. and Jesse Jackson , at the 2000 Democratic National Convention they agreed that endorsing Gore was like taking castor oil ?
text: Did you knowthat modern historians still debate on whether or not the Ming Dynasty of China had sovereignty over Tibet ?
text: Did you knowthat Lesotho is the only country in the world that lies entirely over 1,000 metres (3,300 ft) above mean sea level ?
text: Did you knowthat the recent Typhoon Neoguri was the earliest tropical cyclone on record to affect China ?
text: Did you knowthat Percy Hoskins was the only journalist working for a national British newspaper to defend suspected serial killer Dr. John Adams when he was arrested for murdering patients in 1956?
text: Did you knowthat the Washington Irving sidewheeler , the biggest passenger-carrying riverboat ever built, sank after colliding with an oil barge in 1926?
text: Did you knowthat legal experts consider the YouTube divorce video posted by British playwright Tricia Walsh-Smith be the first of its kind?
text: Did you knowthat Eliza Tibbets planted the first two navel orange trees in California?
text: Did you knowthat Filipe Nhussi , the current defence minister of Mozambique , was president of the top-division football club Clube Ferroviário de Nampula ?
text: Did you knowthat American diplomat Elbridge Durbrow was one of the 730 delegates who attended the Bretton Woods conference in July 1944?
text: Did you knowthat the inscription on King Ahiram 's sarcophagus housed in the National Museum of Beirut is the earliest known example of alphabetical writing?
text: Did you knowthat Carl Agar developed new techniques for flying helicopters by flying high in the Canadian Rockies ?
text: Did you knowthat the Saskatchewan Ministry of Highways and Infrastructure employs 1,476 employees diversified amongst 105 communities, maintaining 198,239 kilometres (123,180.0 mi) of roads and highways?
text: Did you knowthat American photojournalist Daniel Smith was once kidnapped by members of the Mehdi Army and taken to meet Muqtada al-Sadr ?
text: Did you knowthat Po-on and the rest of the Rosales Saga novel series by F. Sionil José resemble the story-telling tradition found in the U.S.A. trilogy by John Dos Passos ?
text: Did you knowthat Lincoln's Lost Speech may have been so provocative that it was intentionally suppressed?
text: Did you knowthat Grand Duke Boris Vladimirovich , cousin of Nicholas II of Russia , was called "the terror of jealous husbands as well as of watchful mothers"?
text: Did you knowthat the Winchester Bible , the largest surviving 12th-century English Bible , incorporated the skins of 250 calves?
text: Did you knowthat water privatization in Brazil began under Brazil's post-colonial Empire Pedro II of Brazil ?
text: Did you knowthat, although he wrote most of his work in Romanian , Romanian poet Panait Cerna is thought to have had a better grasp of his native Bulgarian ?
text: Did you knowthat founder Maria Weston Chapman was able to persuade Elizabeth Barrett Browning to submit anti-slavery poetry twice to the abolitionist fundraising gift book The Liberty Bell ?
text: Did you knowthat two US Presidents, Thomas Jefferson and William Henry Harrison , are responsible for the layout of the Old Jeffersonville Historic District ?
text: Did you knowthat when the YMCA of Berwick was incorporated in Pennsylvania in 1883, the majority of the organization's trustees were current executives of Jackson and Woodin Manufacturing Company ?
text: Did you knowthat Sir John Betjeman wrote of Joan Jackson (née Hunter Dunn) being "Furnish'd and burnish'd by Aldershot sun"?
text: Did you knowthat Commodore Cruise Line was the first Florida -based company to operate week-long cruises around the year?
text: Did you knowthat in his first major league appearance, Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher Jim Nelson struck out Willie Mays and got Willie McCovey to hit into a double play?
text: Did you knowthat although spoken by less than 18,686 people, the Kulung language has eight dialects and covers the " Mahakulung " ethno - linguistic area?
text: Did you knowthat Juan Garcia Abrego , in 1995, was the first drug trafficker to be listed on the FBI 's Top Ten Most Wanted List ?
text: Did you knowthat in 2006 Austrian alpine style mountain climber Christian Stangl went up the northeast ridge route of Everest from Camp III (elev. 6,500 m) to the summit (elev. 8,848 m), alone and without an oxygen tank, in the record time of 16h 42min?
text: Did you knowthat L. B. Henry of Pineville , overcame a missing forearm at birth to become a plumber - businessman and then a statewide figure in Louisiana parish government ?
text: Did you knowthat Wilf Hurd , a former member of the British Columbia Legislative Assembly , resigned less than a year after being re-elected?
text: Did you knowthat cyber law author and professor Jonathan Zittrain co-founded StopBadware.org to distribute the task of collecting data about malware to Internet users at large?
text: Did you knowthat the Main Building of Peace College was first used as a Confederate military hospital and regional headquarters for the Freedmen's Bureau ?
text: Did you knowthat John Madden has most wins of any Oakland Raiders head coach ?
text: Did you knowthat despite winning the 1989 World Indoor Championships , West German 400 metres sprinter Helga Arendt failed to reach the final round at the European Championships one year later?
text: Did you knowthat Stewart White has presented the regional BBC News programme Look East for 24 years?
text: Did you knowthat Tori Amos got the melody for her song " 1000 Oceans " from a "dark angel" singing to her in a dream?
text: Did you knowthat at the height of its popularity, New York 's Easter Parade drew crowds of over a million?
text: Did you knowthat John Dick , the high scorer in the first-ever NCAA men's basketball championship , would later command the U.S. Navy supercarrier USS Saratoga ?
text: Did you knowthat Lionel Monckton , the most popular musical theatre composer of the Edwardian period , after dropping into obscurity by the end of the 20th century, recently has had two albums of his music released?
text: Did you knowthat over 25% of Brazil's electricity is generated by a hydroelectric plant at Itaipu on the Paraná River ?
text: Did you knowthat state senator Larry George sued Senate President Peter Courtney in an attempt to prevent an experimental session of the Oregon Legislature ?
text: Did you knowthat a Muslim fundamentalist beheaded a statue of the Virgin Mary at St. Augustine 's and carted a statue of Father Serra to a nearby mosque in October 2001?
text: Did you knowthat Vasyl Krychevsky , a Ukrainian artist , designed the state emblem of the National Republic at the request of Mykhailo Hrushevskyi ?
text: Did you knowthat Sheenboro, Quebec , started as a trading post on the Ottawa River and has retained its character as a "Little Corner of Ireland "?
text: Did you knowthat John Percy Farrar recommended George Mallory for inclusion on the 1921 British Reconnaissance Expedition to Mount Everest ?
text: Did you knowthat the Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science , founded in 1853, was edited for 68 years by the Lankester family?
text: Did you knowthat the Tang Dynasty chancellor Li Linfu , because of his treachery, was described in Chinese idiom as having honey in his mouth and a sword in his belly?
text: Did you knowthat Anglican archdeacon Kay Goldsworthy will be Australia 's first woman bishop when she is consecrated on 22 May 2008 ?
text: Did you knowthat in medieval Europe , a town clockkeeper would often be well-paid to monitor and regulate the town clock?
text: Did you knowthat Charles Inglis , past-president of the Institution of Civil Engineers was expected to die during birth and was hurriedly baptised in his father's drawing room?
text: Did you knowthat several songs from Michelle Williams 's debut album, Heart to Yours , are tribute to the September 11, 2001 attacks ?
text: Did you knowthat villagers in the drought-prone Ranibandh area in West Bengal 's Bankura district migrate to neighbouring districts in the harvesting season?
text: Did you knowthat many of the lines for the Three Witches in Shakespeare's Macbeth are copied word for word from the 1577 work Holinshed's Chronicles ?
text: Did you knowthat Sha'arai Shomayim Cemetery was established by Alabama 's first Jewish congregation and one of the oldest Reform Jewish congregations in the US ?
text: Did you knowthat Omaha, Nebraska has a history of riots and civil unrest beginning just twenty years after the city was founded?
text: Did you knowthat Johan Teterisa was recently sentenced to life in prison for waving the banned secessionist flag of the so-called Republic of the South Moluccas in front of Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono during a nonviolent protest?
text: Did you knowthat a proposed strategic road link through Bangladesh and its capital Dhaka will reduce the travel distance between the Indian cities of Agartala and Kolkata from 1,700 kms to 400 kms?
text: Did you knowthat Fritz Schilgen was the final torchbearer for the first Olympic torch relay at the 1936 Summer Games ?
text: Did you knowthat the Japanese manga series Soul Eater by Atsushi Okubo has been developed into an animated television series that plans to adopt the source material over fifty-one episodes ?
text: Did you knowthat the Iraq Veterans for Congress group includes the son of U.S. Congressman and former presidential candidate Duncan Hunter ?
text: Did you knowthat Mulaut Abattoir provides Islamic-sanctioned slaughtering facilities to local Bruneian farmers and butchers?
text: Did you knowthat Oregon’s first Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor and Industries , O. P. Hoff , was in charge of the first minimum wage law in the U.S. that was enforceable?
text: Did you knowthat Pullmantur Cruises is the largest Spain -based cruise line ?
text: Did you knowthat a diary attributed to Jose Enrique de la Peña claims that Davy Crockett surrendered at the Battle of the Alamo and was executed on the orders of General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna ?
text: Did you knowthat Hurricane Cosme in 2007 helped relieve a persistent drought in Hawaii ?
text: Did you knowthat Cognos Reportnet is compatible with multiple databases including Oracle , SAP , Teradata , Microsoft SQL server , and Sybase ?
text: Did you knowthat Secretary of War Robert Todd Lincoln sent the Secret Service and Pinkerton's detectives to find and capture convicted embezzler Capt. Henry W. Howgate ?
text: Did you knowthat Moti Masjid , built by Mughal emperor Shah Jahan , was turned into a gemstone repository during the Sikh rule of Punjab ?
text: Did you knowthat archbishop Joseph Signay cited the man's poor eyesight to delay Michel-Édouard Méthot 's tonsuring ?
text: Did you knowthat while James Howard was Mayor of Bedford in 1864, he entertained Giuseppe Garibaldi , who planted a Giant Sequoia that was later struck by lightning ?
text: Did you knowthat the Rab battalion was a Yugoslav partisans unit of Jewish survivors of Rab concentration camp ?
text: Did you knowthat George Steiner 's 1975 book on language and translation , After Babel , was the first comprehensive study of the subject?
text: Did you knowthat the Poughkeepsie Trust Company building  has been described as the Hudson Valley 's first modern skyscraper despite being only six stories high?
text: Did you knowthat the Pontiac Pacific Junction Railway to Waltham, Quebec was completed in 1888, but not opened until 1894, stopped in 1959, and finally was removed in 1984?
text: Did you knowthat despite being one of the strongest tropical cyclones to make landfall on Western Australia , Cyclone Glenda caused minimal damage and no deaths?
text: Did you knowthat broken remains of three medieval high crosses were found in 1874 during the construction of Barnes Hospital in Cheadle, Greater Manchester , but the location of only one is known today?
text: Did you knowthat the Delhi-Lahore Bus , a symbol of Indo - Pakistani friendship, continued running during the 1999 Kargil War ?
text: Did you knowthat actor Jason Beghe became best friends with John F. Kennedy, Jr. and David Duchovny when they attended Collegiate School in New York City ?
text: Did you knowthat Children At Risk , a Houston -based non-profit, publishes a biannual report, Growing Up In Houston , which tracks 130 Quality of Life Indicators?
text: Did you knowthat the mine countermeasures ship USS Scout used her sonar to locate hazardous sunken debris off the Louisiana coast after Hurricane Katrina ?
text: Did you knowthat Chillenden Windmill was the last post mill built in Kent , replacing a mill that had blown down in 1868, and that it was itself blown down in 2003?
text: Did you knowthat Reuben Gaylord , the recognized leader of missionary pioneers in Omaha City , Nebraska Territory , has been called the "father of Congregationalism in Nebraska "?
text: Did you knowthat many gift books , decorative anthologies published annually just before the holidays to be given as gifts, featured popular authors of the day such as Dickens , Wordsworth and Poe ?
text: Did you knowthat Poughkeepsie 's Market Street Row includes one of the oldest houses in the city?
text: Did you knowthat the southern terminus of the first suburb-to-suburb commuter rail in the United States is Wilsonville Station in Oregon ?
text: Did you knowthat Richard Devlin , the majority leader of the Oregon State Senate , has faced Republican Bob Tiernan three times, in races for two offices?
text: Did you knowthat despite being dominated by the military elite, the Guatemalan Institutional Democratic Party was ousted from power in 1978 by a military opposition?
text: Did you knowthat film director Brett Simon taught film history , film theory and video production at the University of California, Berkeley while completing two degrees there?
text: Did you knowthat the Nez Perce thought they gave nicer gifts to the Lewis and Clark Expedition than they received at a meeting in the Weippe Prairie in 1805?
text: Did you knowthat John Lavarack was the first person born in Australia to be an Australian State Governor ?
text: Did you knowthat the exposed bedrock of the Duluth Complex was formed from magma emitted when the North American plate began to split apart in the Midcontinent Rift ?
text: Did you knowthat even though his predecessor was a Republican , Democrat Kurt Schrader faced no Republican opponent in his 2002 run for the Oregon State Senate ?
text: Did you knowthat police patrolled Incarnation Church during the 2000 funeral of a Hispanic youth killed by Armenian-Americans ?
text: Did you knowthat Booksfree is the first online book rental company in the U.S. to offer flat rate rental-by-mail to its customers?
text: Did you knowthat Joe Shell , the conservative Republican who challenged Richard Nixon for the 1962 California governorship was a champion football halfback in 1939 and 1940?
text: Did you knowthat Carl Hans Lody was the first German spy to be executed in the United Kingdom during World War I ?
text: Did you knowthat the Battle of Mataquito , part of the Arauco War , was lost by the Mapuche after disaffected local Indians betrayed their location to the Spanish ?
text: Did you knowthat the Wrawby Junction rail crash involved a locomotive supposedly renumbered after a psychic predicted a locomotive with the original number would be involved in a crash?
text: Did you knowthat the Tang Chinese government of Emperor Xuanzong achieved considerable savings from reforms implemented by Chancellor Pei Yaoqing ?
text: Did you knowthat Old Catholic Cemetery was created for Roman Catholics after a yellow fever epidemic struck Mobile, Alabama in the 1830s?
text: Did you knowthat before working as biomechanist to the Indian cricket team , Ian Frazer helped Australian cricketer Greg Chappell develop a patented cricket training program?
text: Did you knowthat tourism in Zanzibar is the top income generator for the islands, out-earning the lucrative spice industry?
text: Did you knowthat Helen Yglesias , best known for writing the 1981 novel Sweetsir , died one day before her 93rd birthday?
text: Did you knowthat New Zealand cricketer and Test match captain Merv Wallace has been called "the most under-rated cricketer to have worn the silver fern "?
text: Did you knowthat the Fifteen Guinea Special , one of the last British Rail steam services before the steam ban of 1968, was so called because of the high prices from popular demand for it?
text: Did you knowthat East German sprinter Sabine Günther won three gold medals in 4 x 100 metres relay at three different European Championships ?
text: Did you knowthat rugby union footballer Farah Palmer captained the Black Ferns to three consecutive Women's Rugby World Cup titles?
text: Did you knowthat Harlow Row was named for and designed by a former mayor of Poughkeepsie ?
text: Did you knowthat Maseru , the capital of Lesotho , was founded in 1869 as a police camp?
text: Did you knowthat anti-conscription activist Ivan Toms served as the only physician for approximately 60,000 people in a Cape Flats shanty town during South Africa 's Apartheid era?
text: Did you knowthat the Hebron glass industry goes back to at least the thirteenth century ?
text: Did you knowthat current International Bobsleigh and Tobogganing Federation president Robert H. Storey survived a 1966 four-man bobsleigh crash that took the life of one teammate and severely injured another ?
text: Did you knowthat St. Finbar Church in Burbank , faced with a dwindling flock and changing demographics , was one of the first U.S. parishes to offer Spanish language Mass ?
text: Did you knowthat British international rally driver Tony Ambrose was given an MG sports car by his father for winning a scholarship to Jesus College, Oxford ?
text: Did you knowthat the Maitreyi Express was launched on Pohela Baisakh in 2008 to revive the railway link between India and Bangladesh that had been closed for 43 years?
text: Did you knowthat like building a better mouse trap , there is still a challenge for inventors to produce a kinder and more gentle scallop dredge ?
text: Did you knowthat A. V. Meiyappan produced India 's first dubbed film, Harischandra , in 1944 ?
text: Did you knowthat Cyclone Gamede in February 2007 was among the wettest tropical cyclones on record , dropping more than 5.5 metres (18 ft) of precipitation in a nine day period on Réunion island?
text: Did you knowthat John Heisman , namesake of the Heisman Trophy , played for the Brown Bears before eventually transferring to the University of Pennsylvania ?
text: Did you knowthat the original specimen of the mauve splitting waxcap , a fungus from eastern Australia , found its way from Melbourne to Budapest but disappeared during the First World War ?
text: Did you knowthat there was an element of eroticism concerning death in Viking culture , and that the dead were often described as being received by a lady?
text: Did you knowthat the world's largest factory trawler , the 144 metres (472 ft) long Atlantic Dawn , is able to process 350 tonnes of fish a day?
text: Did you knowthat when St. Andrew's Church in Pasadena was built in the 1920s, it was compared to "a jeweled crown on the head of a Byzantine queen"?
text: Did you knowthat reputed 25-year-old gangster Nicodemo Scarfo, Jr. was the victim of a notorious mob hit by a gunman wearing a Batman mask on Halloween in 1989?
text: Did you knowthat Kevin Reiman , a MLS footballer for Real Salt Lake , helped Maryland U. win an NCAA title, then transferred after their addition of Robbie Rogers ?
text: Did you knowthat the papal election, 1292–1294 was the last election of a pope which did not take the form of a conclave ?
text: Did you knowthat the Tang Chinese chancellor Zhang Jiuling offered a five-volume historical work that he authored as a birthday gift to Emperor Xuanzong ?
text: Did you knowthat  neither the far right Lizard Union nor the communist Armia Ludowa , both parts of the Polish resistance in World War II , recognized the Polish Underground State ?
text: Did you knowthat having moved to South Africa to start his missionary work at age 22, Joseph Gérard died at age 83 in Lesotho without ever returning to his home country of France ?
text: Did you knowthat Italian Jesuit priest Sabatino de Ursis moved to China in 1607 to assist Matteo Ricci in his astronomical research, and attempted to reform the Chinese calendar ?
text: Did you knowthat migrants from India form over 40% of the total population of the United Arab Emirates ?
text: Did you knowthat East German athlete Henry Lauterbach competed on an international level in both high jump and long jump ?
text: Did you knowthat the Hasbrouck House is an unusually large Romanesque Revival dwelling for a city the size of Poughkeepsie ?
text: Did you knowthat future ice hockey stars Brett Hull and Dominik Hašek participated in the Calgary Cup , a preview event for the 1988 Winter Olympics ?
text: Did you knowthat screenwriter Tim Calpin says he picked up most of his writing experience from the television series South Park , despite never being part of the writing staff?
text: Did you knowthat Egypt had an active national cricket team before World War II , but only one player was a native Egyptian ?
text: Did you knowthat English cricketer Roger Davis was once struck so hard on the head by a ball that his heart and breathing stopped, and he had to be revived by a doctor from the crowd?
text: Did you knowthat Jean Follain was a corporate lawyer , magistrate and award-winning author and poet who wrote the poem "Death of the Ferret "?
text: Did you knowthat " The Fires of Pompeii " is the first Doctor Who episode since the television show 's revival where the cast filmed abroad?
text: Did you knowthat AT&T engineer Otto Zobel helped to establish that electronic noise cannot be completely eliminated from radio and cable transmissions?
text: Did you knowthat Louis XIV of France employed a native Chinese librarian , Arcadio Huang , to organize the royal library 's collection of Chinese books?
text: Did you knowthat coal mining in Nigeria , for which the Nigerian Coal Corporation had a monopoly until 1999, peaked in the 1950s, then suffered from the use of oil and the Nigerian Civil War afterwards?
text: Did you knowthat Thomas R. Kimball gutted the central part of the Burlington Headquarters Building in Omaha to make it resemble the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad headquarters in Chicago ?
text: Did you knowthat when Gui de Cavalhon besieged Castelnaudary in the fall of 1220 he requested assistance from friend and fellow troubadour , Bertran Folcon d'Avignon , in a poem?
text: Did you knowthat river miles measure distances along a river from its mouth and are used to reference locations and to name islands?
text: Did you knowthat the Rev. Teddy Boston was immortalized as "the Fat Clergyman" in The Railway Series of children's books by the Rev. W. V. Awdry ?
text: Did you knowthat Stabilimento Tecnico Triestino was the largest naval shipbuilding firm of the Austro-Hungarian Empire ?
text: Did you knowthat although Norman Rockwell felt Freedom of Speech and Freedom to Worship were the most successful of his Four Freedoms painting series, Freedom from Want has had the most enduring success?
text: Did you knowthat Muhamed , a German horse , seemed to extract cube roots and tap out the answer with his hooves ?
text: Did you knowthat in 1933 , Ed Walsh (Jr.) , son of Hall of Famer Ed Walsh , stopped Joe DiMaggio 's minor league record 61 game hitting streak?
text: Did you knowthat the headquarters for Crater Lake National Park are in the Munson Valley Historic District near the summit of the Cascades where average annual snowfall is 533 inches (1,354 cm)?
text: Did you knowthat mutations in the FLNB gene cause boomerang dysplasia , a lethal congenital disorder in which the limbs' long bones malform into the shape of a boomerang ?
text: Did you knowthat incendiary ammunition may be used against tanks , as it can penetrate armor and spread phosphorus through the compartment, burning the crew and depleting their oxygen ?
text: Did you knowthat filming on The Office episode " Dinner Party " was interrupted for over four months due to the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike ?
text: Did you knowthat the 1943 Greater East Asia Conference praised Pan-Asianism and condemned Western colonialism but did not produce plans for the region's development?
text: Did you knowthat George Francis Train promoted Columbus, Nebraska as "the new center of the Union and quite probably the future capital of the U.S.A." in order to sell Credit Foncier land there?
text: Did you knowthat in the 1830s, anticipating construction of the Long Island Rail Road , land developer Ambrose George purchased a large tract of land between Bethpage and Hardscrabble in Suffolk County?
text: Did you knowthat, besides smuggling and distributing Colombian cocaine and Mexican and Southeast Asian heroin , Sinaloa Cartel produces its own opium and marijuana ?
text: Did you knowthat the 2008 Hillsong United album The I Heart Revolution: With Hearts as One was released as a USB flash drive containing the MP3 files of the songs, embedded into a rubber wristband?
text: Did you knowthat Which Moped with Chrome-plated Handlebars at the Back of the Yard? , a comedic novella by Georges Perec , has an index of rhetorical devices used, including anadiplosis and metalepsis ?
text: Did you knowthat Spanish artifacts excavated at Citico , Tennessee suggest that the historic Native American site may have been the village of "Satapo" visited by the Juan Pardo expedition in 1567?
text: Did you knowthat the automated tank cleaning machine used to clean oil tankers after discharging cargo was patented by Arthur Butterworth in 1920?
text: Did you knowthat lumpenbourgeoisie , a neologism formed from lumpenproletariat and bourgeoisie , is used to describe colonial and neocolonial elites in Latin America ?
text: Did you knowthat Hemerdon Mine in Devon , England is one of the world's largest sources of tungsten and tin , but has not been mined since World War II ?
text: Did you knowthat Camling is an ancient and endangered Kiranti language , spoken by only about 10,000 people in eastern Nepal , Bhutan and India ?
text: Did you knowthat the polska —the Swedish word for Polish —is the signature music and dance form in Swedish folk music ?
text: Did you knowthat Jewish screenwriter Barry Levy has taught Hebrew at Temple Israel California in between writing jobs?
text: Did you knowthat My Brother, My Executioner , a 1970s novel by F. Sionil José , is a narrative about two half-brothers with opposing Filipino ideologies?
text: Did you knowthat Frank Morse once outsourced the research for a speech on globalization to a company in India ?
text: Did you knowthat the British colonials employed Indian agents called gomasthas to obtain goods from local weavers and fix their prices ?
text: Did you knowthat American actor Vincent Piazza was coached for a Puerto Rican accent by a woman who usually did the opposite?
text: Did you knowthat in 1582 Ursula Kemp confessed to using familiar spirits to kill her neighbours and was later hanged for witchcraft ?
text: Did you knowthat on a 1922 expedition to Everest , Howard Somervell entertained fellow climbers by reading Shakespeare in the tents?
text: Did you knowthat Quirinus Kuhlmann , a German poet who called himself "son of the Son of God ", was denounced as theologically and politically dangerous, and burnt at the stake for heresy in Moscow in 1689?
text: Did you knowthat the Militia of the Faith of Jesus Christ was founded to defend the lands of Amaury de Montfort , leader of the Albigensian Crusade ?
text: Did you knowthat the Tang Dynasty chancellor Yuwen Rong was known in traditional history to have served for 100 days—even though he only served 99 days?
text: Did you knowthat before the Toronto Maple Leafs of the National Hockey League adopted its current name, they had already won two Stanley Cups by defeating the Vancouver Millionaires in 1918 and in 1922 ?
text: Did you knowthat the Palace Hotel in Perth, Western Australia was described at its opening as "one of the most beautiful and elegant hotels in Australasia"?
text: Did you knowthat Palwankar Shivram , brother of the Dalit cricketers Baloo and Vithal , was a spin bowling all-rounder who represented the All-India cricket team that toured England in 1911?
text: Did you knowthat the pastor of Burbank 's St. Bellarmine Church was a World War I chaplain who modeled the campus on Monticello and Independence Hall ?
text: Did you knowthat Douglas Hadow slipped on the descent after the first ascent of the Matterhorn , dragging Lord Francis Douglas , Charles Hudson and Michel Croz to their deaths?
text: Did you knowthat some species of Vireo , a genus of passerines , bind their nests with spider silk and ornament them with spider eggs?
text: Did you knowthat Hugh Daily , a pitcher with only one arm, once struck out 19 batters in a Major League Baseball game?
text: Did you knowthat Bob Kames was given his stage name when an announcer on Armed Forces Radio could not pronounce his real name?
text: Did you knowthat Section 171 of the Criminal Code of Cyprus , which prohibited homosexual acts between men, was repealed just eight days before a May 29, 1998 deadline set by the Council of Europe ?
text: Did you knowthat the Order of the Faith and Peace , founded by the Archbishop of Auch c. 1230 for the defence of the peace in Gascony , was patronised by Gaston VII of Béarn ?
text: Did you knowthat the sound of fingernails scraping chalkboard may not be the world's most unpleasant sound ?
text: Did you knowthat the palm tree Ptychococcus lepidotus is used in the New Guinea highlands to make bows and arrows ?
text: Did you knowthat medieval Perpendicular Gothic Somerset Towers typically feature pinnacles , lacy tracery windows and bell openings, gargoyles , arches, buttresses , merlons , and external stair turrets ?
text: Did you knowthat the American mathematician Anna Johnson Pell Wheeler married a former professor, who was actually a Russian double agent named Sergei Degaev?
text: Did you knowthat David Powel compiled and published the first printed history of Wales in 1584, which popularized the legend that Prince Madoc discovered America in about 1170?
text: Did you knowthat Hero of the Soviet Union Ivan Sidorenko , a World War II Soviet sniper, destroyed a tank and three tractors, in addition to killing five hundred Wehrmacht soldiers?
text: Did you knowthat the Omaha and Council Bluffs Railway and Bridge Company was among the earliest and the last major electric streetcar systems in the United States ?
text: Did you knowthat Fred Walker boosted sales of his new spread Vegemite , now an Australian cultural icon , by giving away free jars?
text: Did you knowthat only about 10% of Brazil 's water resources is located in the southeast , the agricultural and industrial heartland of the country, where 73% of the population lives?
text: Did you knowthat revolution in the Kingdom of Poland , part of the Russian Revolution , included a three-year-long school strike against the russification of the Polish educational system?
text: Did you knowthat nationalists seek a Greater Nepal that extends into Uttar Pradesh , Himachal Pradesh , Uttarakhand and Sikkim in India ?
text: Did you knowthat Rondel was the first racing team founded by current McLaren chairman and CEO Ron Dennis ?
text: Did you knowthat British politician Jock Stallard was expelled from the Labour Party in the 1950s for flying the red flag from St Pancras town hall, but later served as a Labour MP and life peer ?
text: Did you knowthat Ermita are all namesakes for a character, a place , and a novel by Filipino author F. Sionil José ?
text: Did you knowthat the asymmetrical monoplane BV 141 is one of many military aircraft designed by Richard Vogt ?
text: Did you knowthat Max Weber argued that the increasing rationalization of human life traps individuals in an "iron cage" of rule-based, rational control?
text: Did you knowthat Otoman Zar-Adusht Ha'nish , founder of the Mazdaznan religion, claimed to have been sent as a child to a secret society of Zarathustrians ?
text: Did you knowthat Royal Brunei Catering , a wholly-owned subsidiary of Royal Brunei Airlines , was named as Best Regional Caterer 1995/1996 by Singapore Airlines ?
text: Did you knowthat Pei Guangting , a chancellor of the Tang Dynasty , traced his ancestry to officials serving several dynasties, including the Han Dynasty ?
text: Did you knowthat Abraham Esau was the head of the physics section of the Reich Research Council , Nazi Germany 's centralized planning institution for almost all basic and applied research?
text: Did you knowthat although the 1996 Tropical Storm Arthur made landfall in North Carolina , total damage amounted to only $1 million?
text: Did you knowthat former Anglican clergyman and Liberal Party life peer Tim Beaumont was the only Green Party representative in the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1999 until his death in 2008 ?
text: Did you knowthat Alojzy Ehrlich ate rolls and a Polish sausage while playing a table tennis match in which neither he nor his opponent scored for over an hour?
text: Did you knowthat rumors of the beating of a teenage shoplifter set off a race riot in 1935 in Harlem , New York ?
text: Did you knowthat despite the recorded influence of American Sign Language , Filipino Sign Language has a history that can be traced from the works of European missionaries in the Philippines as early as the 1600s?
text: Did you knowthat William Whitaker introduced orange groves to Florida ?
text: Did you knowthat besides being the first president of the International Luge Federation , Bert Isatitsch was also a special education teacher ?
text: Did you knowthat Palwankar Vithal became the first Dalit cricketer to captain the Hindus team in the Bombay Quadrangular cricket competition, a milestone in the Hindu society 's struggle against caste discrimination ?
text: Did you knowthat Lualhati Bautista ’s Tagalog novel, Bata, Bata… Pa’no Ka Ginawa? became a film starring Vilma Santos , an actress turned first female governor of Batangas of the Philippines ?
text: Did you knowthat Gilbert Patten , the author of the Frank Merriwell dime novels , managed a semi- professional baseball team in Camden, Maine during the 1890–1891 season?
text: Did you knowthat although it is used in aquaculture , there are only two known cases of Palometa being traded as aquarium fish over a five-year period?
text: Did you knowthat George Rea was the first paid president of the "New York Curb Exchange," now known as the American Stock Exchange ?
text: Did you knowthat Ingmar Bergman 's film The Virgin Spring is based on the medieval Swedish ballad " Töres dotter i Wänge " ?
text: Did you knowthat pioneer Omaha physician George L. Miller served as president of the Nebraska State Historical Society after being labeled a "raving maniac " by the press ?
text: Did you knowthat Su Huan-chih is the second member of the Democratic Progressive Party to ever hold the position as Tainan County magistrate?
text: Did you knowthat although the damages by Hurricane Dennis in Mississippi in 2002 were mostly minor, 41 counties in the state were declared federal disaster areas ?
text: Did you knowthat a subsidiary of Royal Brunei Airlines operates restaurants in Brunei including two halal Chinese restaurants?
text: Did you knowthat in order to cut costs, Olau Line re-flagged their cruiseferry Olau Hollandia to Luxembourg in January 1993, but were forced to revert the ship to German flag only a month later?
text: Did you knowthat Ronnie Thompson , the first Republican to have served as mayor of Macon, Georgia in the 20th century, also had a career as a singer of gospel and country music ?
text: Did you knowthat Brad Avakian , Oregon 's recently appointed Labor Commissioner , previously worked as a civil rights attorney, and was honored by two unions during his time in the Oregon Legislative Assembly ?
text: Did you knowthat although the Czech Republic village of Blevice has a Jewish cemetery it has no matching community?
text: Did you knowthat František Kriegel was the only political leader of Czechoslovakia deported to Moscow in 1968 who refused to sign the Moscow Protocol dictated by Brezhnev ?
text: Did you knowthat Fabian de la Rosa was not only mentor to the Filipino painters Fernando and Pablo Amorsolo , but a leading painter in his own right?
text: Did you knowthat the chief purpose of the military order the Militia of Jesus Christ was to combat heresy?
text: Did you knowthat the Norwegian black / death metal band Cor Scorpii cites inspiration from classical composers such as Prokofiev , Grieg , Rachmaninov , and Satie ?
text: Did you knowthat the SS Blairspey was hit by at least three torpedoes from two different U-boats , but still managed to reach port because her cargo of timber kept her afloat?
text: Did you knowthat Opération 14 juillet , a French mission to rescue Ingrid Betancourt from FARC guerrillas, was launched without the knowledge of the French president ?
text: Did you knowthat Gregory XV was acclaimed as the new pope in the papal conclave of 1621 even though Cardinal Robert Bellarmine had received the most votes in the ballot?
text: Did you knowthat Levi Todd , the grandfather of Mary Todd Lincoln , wrote the first and last contemporary accounts of the Battle of Blue Licks , one of the last battles of the American Revolutionary War ?
text: Did you knowthat only two days before Payment on Demand was scheduled to open at Radio City Music Hall , RKO executive Howard Hughes called the director and the two leads into the studio to film a new ending?
text: Did you knowthat the Draco Dwarf spheroidal galaxy is one of the faintest companions of the Milky Way and the most dark matter dominated object known?
text: Did you knowthat the Church of Scientology purchased Castle Kyalami , formerly a tourist attraction near Johannesburg , to serve as an advanced Scientology spiritual retreat in South Africa ?
text: Did you knowthat Theodorus van Capellen was appointed a vice-admiral in the Dutch navy in 1814 even though he had previously been cashiered and sentenced to banishment for life for his role in a mutiny ?
text: Did you knowthat the medieval Swedish ballad " Stolt Herr Alf " contains an unusual name for the Norse god Odin ?
text: Did you knowthat the Pentecostal Union of Romania has experienced rapid growth in recent years due to conversions and high birthrates, with some families having up to 18 children?
text: Did you knowthat 17th-century actress Julia Glover was sold in marriage by her father for £1,000?
text: Did you knowthat Heitsi-eibib is a life-death-rebirth figure in the Khoikhoi mythology and as a result, his funeral cairns can be found in many locations in southern Africa?
text: Did you knowthat after Norman Rockwell 's Four Freedoms were published in the Saturday Evening Post ,  25 million people bought posters of them?
text: Did you knowthat Haraprasad Shastri discovered the Charyapada , poems written in the earliest-known precursor to the Indo-Aryan languages ?
text: Did you knowthat Polish war correspondent Melchior Wańkowicz was charged with " slandering the People's Republic of Poland ", for criticizing the state in a private letter?
text: Did you knowthat Unabomber for President was a 1996 write-in campaign to elect Theodore Kaczynski as President of the United States ?
text: Did you knowthat two people, including a 15-year-old boy, were killed during the 2008 Egyptian general strike ?
text: Did you knowthat the brother of Australian rugby player Dean Mumm was assistant coach to the Fijian rugby team , whilst their grandfather played for the All Blacks ?
text: Did you knowthat a novel human polyomavirus is associated with Merkel cell carcinoma , a rare and highly aggressive form of skin cancer ?
text: Did you knowthat Thaba Bosigo , a Basotho stronghold in Lesotho , was the only fortress to remain impregnable during the Free State–Basotho Wars ?
text: Did you knowthat political opponents of Kentucky governor Thomas Metcalfe nicknamed him "Old Stone Hammer" because they felt his previous work as a stonemason was a background unbecoming a governor?
text: Did you knowthat the SS Assyrian started life as a German merchant ship in the First World War and ended it as British merchant in the Second World War ?
text: Did you knowthat despite being called the " Aladdin's Castle of George Francis Train ," the Cozzens House Hotel in Omaha operated for only four years before sitting empty for several more?
text: Did you knowthat 39% of Israeli schoolchildren watch the educational television program Bli Sodot in their classroom?
text: Did you knowthat the Adipose in the Doctor Who episode " Partners in Crime " were based on a stuffed toy that writer Russell T Davies owned?
text: Did you knowthat the Ligonier Valley Railroad 's reliance on verbal orders resulted in a head-on collision between a freight train and a train carrying partygoers?
text: Did you knowthat Jessie Vasey was helping Australian war widows before she became one herself when her husband, George , died in an air crash?
text: Did you knowthat the Samnite gladiator type likely went out of fashion in Ancient Rome when the people of Samnium , whom it was intended to mock, became assimilated into the Roman Empire ?
text: Did you knowthat Irish computer programmer Gavin Walsh owns the world's largest collection of Sex Pistols records and memorabilia ?
text: Did you knowthat the use of multiple strains of rhizobacteria as composite microbial inoculants has been shown to benefit the cultivation of crops such as rice and barley ?
text: Did you knowthat the Birhor people are a tribal forest people, traditionally nomadic , living primarily in the Indian state of Jharkhand ?
text: Did you knowthat the Blank family , the maternal ancestors of Vladimir Lenin , were relatives to Nazi field marshal Walter Model , archeologist Ernst Curtius , and President of Germany Richard von Weizsäcker ?
text: Did you knowthat Charles Starr and Bruce Starr were the first father and son to serve at the same time in the Oregon State Senate ?
text: Did you knowthat William Thomas Havard , who was bishop of two Welsh dioceses ( St Asaph , then St David's ), once represented Wales in an international rugby union match?
text: Did you knowthat, with an estimated 308,000 members as of 2005, the Bahá'í community in Kenya constitutes 1% of the country's population?
text: Did you knowthat Naats'ihch'oh National Park Reserve takes its name from a Dene phrase meaning  "stands like a porcupine "?
text: Did you knowthat despite peaking at 38 in the UK Albums Chart , seven-year-old child singer Connie Talbot 's debut album Over the Rainbow was rated gold in Britain shortly after its release?
text: Did you knowthat the Spanish -introduced limestone house of the Ivatans was designed to withstand typhoons?
text: Did you knowthat English printer Thomas Adams published John Dowland 's The Third and Last Booke of Songes or Aires out of his shop in St. Paul's Churchyard ?
text: Did you knowthat the Mill Mountain Zoo is host to three endangered species: the Red Panda , Snow Leopard and White-naped Crane ?
text: Did you knowthat Black Grace , an internationally-touring New Zealand contemporary-dance company, melds Maori and Pacific Islander indigenous dance with modern dance and hip hop ?
text: Did you knowthat "the light arises in the East", an apparently pro- Soviet slogan coined by Romanian writer Mihail Sadoveanu in 1945, is seen by some as a coded warning to his fellow Freemasons about communization ?
text: Did you knowthat the discovery of Lazarussuchus showed that choristoderes , a type of aquatic reptile, had not gone extinct in the Eocene , but persisted for millions of years after?
text: Did you knowthat in 1989, the Popular Front of Moldova was initially backed by a range of ethnic groups, but quickly lost support from Russian speakers and Gagauz ?
text: Did you knowthat Australian veterinary student Barry Larkin carried a fake Olympic Flame in the 1956 Summer Olympics as a protest, because he thought the flame was given too much reverence?
text: Did you knowthat film producer Neil Kopp stood in as a location scout , location manager , assistant director and grip while filming Old Joy ?
text: Did you knowthat the second-largest mobile operator in Slovenia , Si.mobil , was one of the first worldwide to offer EDGE ?
text: Did you knowthat Jeremy Dalton was suspended , and later expelled, from the British Columbia Liberal Party caucus in the provincial legislature ?
text: Did you knowthat the Emperor of Russia , Alexander III bought the art of Ukrainian realist painter Volodymyr Orlovsky ?
text: Did you knowthat twenty out of the thirty five merchant ships of convoy SC-7 were sunk by German U-boats ?
text: Did you knowthat Canadian band Article One took their name from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights after hearing about it on U2 's Vertigo Tour ?
text: Did you knowthat Josiah Failing became the fourth mayor of Portland, Oregon less than three years after moving there from New York City ?
text: Did you knowthat actress Anna Kendrick was nominated for a Tony Award at the age of twelve, making her the youngest-ever Tony nominee as of 2008?
text: Did you knowthat, on D-Day , attorney and U.S. Army Ranger Leonard Lomell managed to destroy five concealed, long-range German guns pointed at the landing beaches even though he had been wounded by machine gun fire?
text: Did you knowthat the Taipei Metro C301 cars were built in the former Otis plant in Yonkers, New York , which was the first elevator factory in the world?
text: Did you knowthat the Biographicon aspires to be an online directory of biographies for "all the people of the world"?
text: Did you knowthat after becoming Bishop of Brechin at the instigation of the Earl of Argyll , Alexander Campbell of Carco , still only a minor , handed most of his bishopric's lands over to the earl?
text: Did you knowthat the 1937 Western fiction book Buckskin Brigades was Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard 's first published novel ?
text: Did you knowthat Emperor Xuanzong of Tang , impressed with Zhang Jiazhen but forgetting his name, almost made Zhang Qiqiu chancellor instead of Zhang Jiazhen?
text: Did you knowthat the Shoshone was the first of only two steamboats to be brought down through Hells Canyon , North America's deepest gorge , to the lower Snake River ?
text: Did you knowthat Princess Margaret of Prussia had her jewels stolen by American soldiers in the aftermath of World War II ?
text: Did you knowthat Jacqueline Audry was the first commercially successful woman film director of post-war France ?
text: Did you knowthat his son's infection with polio in 1930 led electrical engineer Reinhold Rudenberg to develop an electron microscope as a tool to study the poliovirus ?
text: Did you knowthat Jewish American surfer Doc Paskowitz helped bring surf boards to Gaza to help promote peace in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict ?
text: Did you knowthat Dutch topologist Johannes De Groot is the academic grandfather , great-grandfather, and great-great-grandfather of his namesake via four different paths of academic supervision?
text: Did you knowthat, between 1945 and 1947, correspondent John Roderick spent seven months living with Mao Zedong and other Chinese Communist leaders in the caves of Yan'an ?
text: Did you knowthat Dory Dean of the 1876 Cincinnati Reds was the first pitcher to include turning his back to the hitter in his delivery before pitching the ball?
text: Did you knowthat Rev. Thomas Dyche is credited with writing the first book in English published in Asia ?
text: Did you knowthat the Battle of Sugar Point was the last major battle fought between Native Americans and the United States Army ?
text: Did you knowthat Cyclone Jokwe killed 16 people in Mozambique and left at least 55,000 homeless?
text: Did you knowthat the Alabama-Huntsville Chargers ice hockey team is the only Division I collegiate hockey team located south of the Mason-Dixon Line ?
text: Did you knowthat kimchi bokkeumbap is a Korean fried rice made with kimchi and any available ingredients?
text: Did you knowthat Quilceda Creek Vintners Cabernet Sauvignon is the first American wine from outside California to earn perfect 100-point score reviews from wine critic Robert M. Parker, Jr. in The Wine Advocate ?
text: Did you knowthat a horreum was a type of public warehouse used in Ancient Rome to store foodstuffs such as grain and olive oil ?
text: Did you knowthat despite writing a full action-and-dialogue screenplay for his film Raising Victor Vargas , Peter Sollett never showed the actors a script, so as to encourage authenticity through improvisation when filming?
text: Did you knowthat the Chronicle of Man claimed William Russell to have been the first Bishop of the Isles consecrated by the pope , even though he was not consecrated by the pope, and even if he had been, he would not have been the first?
text: Did you knowthat the Danville 97s minor league baseball team name of 97s was selected as a tribute to the victims of the Wreck of the Old 97 train accident?
text: Did you knowthat Banaag at Sikat , a novel by Lope K. Santos , was once considered the “Bible of Filipino laborers”?
text: Did you knowthat the name of Lake Burrumbeet , a large but shallow eutrophic lake in Victoria , Australia , derives from the local aboriginal word burrumbidj , meaning "muddy or dirty water"?
text: Did you knowthat The Guardian newspaper was founded 189 years ago in Manchester , England as a direct response to the Peterloo Massacre ?
text: Did you knowthat Adrianne Calvo is the youngest chef to have cooked for the United Nations ?
text: Did you knowthat in 1998, the Hopi Dictionary: Hopìikwa Lavàytutuveni , the first comprehensive Hopi language dictionary, was almost prevented from being published for fear of having non-Hopis learning the language?
text: Did you knowthat real-life medical cases in the book The Medical Detectives , by Berton Roueché , inspired many of the medical mysteries on the television show House ?
text: Did you knowthat Johanne Sørensen became the first Bahá'í in Denmark in 1925, and the only Bahá'í in her country till 1947?
text: Did you knowthat Moseley Wanderers represented Great Britain and Ireland at Rugby Union in the 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris , winning the Silver medal despite losing their only game?
text: Did you knowthat the US National Park Service is funding improvements to county road H-58 , the main access road to the Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan ?
text: Did you knowthat the Madras Bank, India 's oldest Western-style banking institution, was established in 1683 by William Gyfford , the Agent of Madras at the time?
text: Did you knowthat despite its bitter taste, the heart of the palm tree Plectocomiopsis geminiflora is a delicacy in Borneo ?
text: Did you knowthat Pullen Memorial Baptist Church is the first Baptist church in the Southern United States to have chosen an openly gay lead cleric ?
text: Did you knowthat Titanium La Portada is expected to briefly become the tallest skyscraper in Chile , before being overtaken by Torre Gran Costanera of the Costanera Center complex?
text: Did you knowthat Beinn an Tuirc windfarm in Scotland is trying to repel Golden Eagles from their turbines by reintroducing Mountain Hares ?
text: Did you knowthat New York writer and socialite Anthony Haden-Guest is both son of the 4th Baron Haden-Guest and the brother-in-law of actress Jamie Lee Curtis ?
text: Did you knowthat Shelby Place Historic District was begun due to the woodworking industries that revitalized New Albany, Indiana ?
text: Did you knowthat despite its name, the Badminton Library of Sports and Pastimes does not contain a volume about badminton ?
text: Did you knowthat when Norman Rockwell 's model for his World War II Willie Gillis series enlisted, The Saturday Evening Post demanded that Rockwell continue the character?
text: Did you knowthat seven whaling ships escaped the Whaling Disaster of 1871 , but were forced to abandon their catch in order to accommodate 1,219 people from 33 other ships trapped in ice off the Alaskan coast?
text: Did you knowthat Etta Palm d'Aelders , whose salon in Paris was frequented by Jean-Paul Marat , François Chabot and other prominent political figures during the French Revolution , might have been an agent for the Dutch government?
text: Did you knowthat when the senior officials Yuan Qianyao , Song Jing , and Zhang Shuo were commissioned with new offices in 729, Emperor Xuanzong of Tang held an elaborate ceremony, with music and food from the imperial kitchen?
text: Did you knowthat Polyandrococos , a genus of palm trees endemic to Brazil , is so named partly because of its hairy tomentum ?
text: Did you knowthat Alojz Rebula is a Slovene author who wrote extensively about the philosophy of Jacques Maritain ?
text: Did you knowthat natural gas in the Marcellus Formation could increase United States energy reserves by one trillion U.S. dollars ?
text: Did you knowthat the USS Mount Vernon , a control ship in the cleanup of the Exxon Valdez oil spill , was destroyed off the coast of Hawaii in 2005?
text: Did you knowthat New Albany, Indiana 's Cedar Bough Place is the only "private street" in a city near Louisville, Kentucky ?
text: Did you knowthat compression of the duodenum by the aorta and the overlying superior mesenteric artery may lead to nausea , bilious vomiting , abdominal pain and weight loss ?
text: Did you knowthat turquerie became popular in Europe and America primarily due to the writings of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu ?
text: Did you knowthat as a result of a 1972 referendum , the boundary between time zones in British Columbia ended up being different from the provincial boundary?
text: Did you knowthat the C-Leg microprocessor -controlled prosthetic leg records the motion of the user?
text: Did you knowthat the Hawai`i Institute of Marine Biology is the only research center in the world built on a coral reef ?
text: Did you knowthat among the effects of Hurricane Dennis in Georgia was the death of a Decatur man from a tree that fell on his bedroom?
text: Did you knowthat the Gens de Terre River in Quebec , Canada , has a 25 km (15.5 mi) section with continuous whitewater while flowing through 25 m (80 ft) high cliffs?
text: Did you knowthat in 1985, overflowing from the Adolfo Ruiz Cortines Dam in Sonora, Mexico resulted in the evacuation of 20,000 people?
text: Did you knowthat books by the writer of romantic fiction Denise Robins sold more than one hundred million copies ?
text: Did you knowthat the barnacle Megabalanus can reach 7 cm (2.8 in) in length?
text: Did you knowthat in 1128 Geoffrey , Prior of Christ Church , Canterbury , became the first Abbot of Dunfermline ?
text: Did you knowthat nearly US$1 million worth of tickets were sold during the week following the first New York Times ad announcing Elizabeth Taylor 's appearance in the 1981 Broadway revival of Lillian Hellman 's The Little Foxes ?
text: Did you knowthat Thurston Rostron is the fourth-youngest player in the history of the England national football team ?
text: Did you knowthat the name of Mohrland, Utah was formed as an acronym from the surnames of the principal investors in its coal mining company?
text: Did you knowthat no governing party in British Columbia has won a provincial by-election since 1981?
text: Did you knowthat Audrey Stubbart worked until age 105, becoming the oldest verified full-time employee ever in the United States ?
text: Did you knowthat despite Herodotus 's claim that the sundial was invented in Babylonia , the oldest known example is from Egypt ?
text: Did you knowthat during a period of widespread family ownership in the industry, the Falstaff Brewing Corporation was one of the few publicly-traded breweries in the United States?
text: Did you knowthat Elm Yellows is a disease of elm trees caused by mycoplasma -like organisms infecting the phloem ?
text: Did you knowthat English printer John Day raided the printing premises of his son, Richard Day , after the latter had pirated his father's works and illicitly published his own versions?
text: Did you knowthat Antley-Bixler syndrome is a rare but severe congenital malformation disorder with symptoms that include flat forehead , closure of cranial sutures and fused bones in the limbs?
text: Did you knowthat New York Governor David Paterson 's press secretary Errol Cockfield Jr. was previously Albany bureau chief of Newsday ?
text: Did you knowthat the Financial Stability Forum consists of officials from ministries and central banks of a dozen countries, who coordinate international financial stability?
text: Did you knowthat when Ahmad Said was appointed as Chief Minister of the Malaysian state Terengganu by King of Malaysia Mizan Zainal Abidin , it was against the wishes of Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi ?
text: Did you knowthat the economy of Omaha, Nebraska has expanded to embrace the burgeoning information technology sector since the city was labeled the "Motor Mouth City" by The New York Times ?
text: Did you knowthat the 1990 Strangeways Prison riot at 25 days was the longest British prison riot?
text: Did you knowthat the Taipei Metro Xinbeitou Branch Line , consisting of two stations, was severely restricted due to complaints of noise pollution ?
text: Did you knowthat 16 of the 72 fiction authors with at least 100 million copies of their works in print did not write in English , and 16 of the 72 are women?
text: Did you knowthat the acquisitions of Joseph Smith , British consul in Venice , formed the basis of the drawings collection in the Royal Collection and the "King's Library" of George III at the British Library ?
text: Did you knowthat Charles J. O'Byrne , Secretary to Governor David Paterson of New York , is a former priest who officiated at the marriage of John F. Kennedy Jr. and Carolyn Bessette in 1996 and presided over their funeral in 1999?
text: Did you knowthat City of Truro was the first railway locomotive to exceed 100 mph (160 km/h) while hauling a train near Wellington station on the Reading to Plymouth Line in England ?
text: Did you knowthat residents of 22½ St. in Minneapolis petitioned the City Council and changed the street's name to Milwaukee Avenue because the '½' made them feel as if they lived in an alley?
text: Did you knowthat the Bordeaux winery Château Quinault was planned for destruction to build a new housing development?
text: Did you knowthat soon after John Gabriel Jones helped convince the Virginia General Assembly to create Kentucky County , he was killed in an ambush led by Mingo chieftain Pluggy ?
text: Did you knowthat Lee Bible had no experience in driving at land speed record speed when he was hired to drive the White Triplex in an attempt to take the record back from Henry Segrave ?
text: Did you knowthat Don Starkell and his son Dana paddled from Winnipeg, Manitoba to Belem, Brazil by canoe , a trip covering more than 12,000 miles (19,000 km)?
text: Did you knowthat in 1877 the 4,000-seat Queen's Theatre staged a spectacular and expensive production of The Last Days of Pompeii that flopped: the earth did not quake, the volcano did not erupt, and acrobats fell onto the cast?
text: Did you knowthat the Islamic Emirate of Bari in Southern Italy was conquered in 871 by Frankish and Lombard ground forces under Louis II of Italy , together with a Croatian fleet?
text: Did you knowthat Kot Filemon is the hero of a Polish animated TV series by Academy Award -winning studio Se-ma-for ?
text: Did you knowthat antiquarian Antonio Francesco Gori is alleged to have stolen Galileo 's finger when the scientist's remains were transferred in 1737 to Santa Croce , Florence ?
text: Did you knowthat Gibraltar passports are full British passports which are particularly issued to Gibraltarians and only differ in some wording?
text: Did you knowthat the 1901 Royal Norwegian Navy torpedo boat HNoMS Sæl was sunk by three German Schnellboots in 1940?
text: Did you knowthat of Andrea Palladio 's grand design for Palazzo Porto in Piazza Castello, Vicenza , ca 1571, only two bays were ever completed?
text: Did you knowthat Major General Douglas Alexander Graham was once rescued by Victoria Cross recipient Henry May ?
text: Did you knowthat sunflowers have been used in rhizofiltration to remove radionuclides from contaminated water?
text: Did you knowthat Vice-Admiral Samuel Story was forced to surrender his Batavian fleet to the British navy without a fight in August 1799 because his officers started a mutiny ?
text: Did you knowthat KILI-FM started broadcasting in 1983 as the first Native American -owned radio station in the United States ?
text: Did you knowthat the United Kingdom House of Commons serves an English white wine called Fumé , produced by Wickham Vineyards ?
text: Did you knowthat Mavia was an Arab queen who in 378 AD  personally led her troops out of southern Syria in revolt against Roman rule ?
text: Did you knowthat the 1979 Dechmont Woods Encounter in West Lothian , Scotland , is the only UFO sighting in the United Kingdom to have become the subject of a criminal investigation ?
text: Did you knowthat according to his hagiography , Saint Severus of Naples temporarily brought a man back from death in order to testify on the size of his debt and save his widow from slavery?
text: Did you knowthat despite inundating Omaha, Nebraska for more than 26 days the Great Flood of 1881 killed only two people there?
text: Did you knowthat Moses , the first Arab Orthodox bishop , administered his duties while journeying with a nomadic confederation of Arabs in the fourth century?
text: Did you knowthat Cuban First Lady Marta Fernandez Miranda de Batista became a contributor to Miami 's Jackson Memorial Hospital while in exile in Florida ?
text: Did you knowthat during the English Civil War , the Crown Inn in Nantwich , Cheshire was used as a place of worship, as the church was used as a prison?
text: Did you knowthat Alene B. Duerk , head of the Navy Nurse Corps , was the first woman in the U.S. Navy to be promoted to the rank of Rear Admiral ?
text: Did you knowthat some legislatures resort to literally stopping the clock in order to meet constitutional or statutory deadlines?
text: Did you knowthat despite dramatically improving the quality of education at Transylvania University , Horace Holley was forced to resign as the university's president over doctrinal differences with the Presbyterian Church?
text: Did you knowthat the effects of Hurricane Dennis in Alabama included $127 million dollars (2005 USD ) in damage and three injuries?
text: Did you knowthat the history of winemaking in Luxembourg , primarily in vineyards overlooking the Moselle River , goes back to Ancient Roman times?
text: Did you knowthat Edward Cocker 's Arithmetick was such a popular textbook of mathematics that over 100 editions were published over a period of more than a century?
text: Did you knowthat, when the Comintern appointed him general secretary of the Romanian Communist Party , Alexander Danieliuk-Stefanski was still a member of the Communist Party of Poland and could not speak Romanian ?
text: Did you knowthat television critics have speculated as to how the 30 Rock episode " MILF Island " will avoid explaining the meaning of " MILF " since the last letter stands for an obscene word ?
text: Did you knowthat the Azov Cossack Host was the only Cossack Unit in the Russian Empire that had a naval role?
text: Did you knowthat legendary Polish boxing champion Antoni Czortek fought for his life in boxing matches while at Auschwitz ?
text: Did you knowthat Puslinch Lake is the largest kettle lake in North America ?
text: Did you knowthat the authorship of the Declaration of Arbroath has been attributed by some to Bernard the Abbot of Arbroath ?
text: Did you knowthat the postmodernist Romanian writer Ruxandra Cesereanu retold Arthurian legends and co-authored poems through e-mail with the American Andrei Codrescu ?
text: Did you knowthat the cabinet of former Norwegian Prime Minister Thorbjørn Jagland resigned following a 1.9% drop in the popular vote ?
text: Did you knowthat Stalag fiction was a genre of Israeli pornography about concentration-camp imprisonment, brutalization by female SS guards, and the prisoners' revenge?
text: Did you knowthat the traditional Scottish folk song Ye Jacobites by Name was re-written by Robert Burns around 1791?
text: Did you knowthat Amaranthus brownii , an endangered species of pigweed endemic to the Northwestern Hawaiian Island of Nihoa , was discovered in 1923, but has not been seen in the wild for twenty-five years?
text: Did you knowthat although Desmond Lardner-Burke , Minister of Justice in Rhodesia , died in the 1980s, his name appeared on the electoral roll for the Zimbabwean parliamentary election, 2008 ?
text: Did you knowthat mutations of the ATN1 gene result in dentatorubral-pallidoluysian atrophy , a neurological disorder with diverse problems as dementia , ataxia , seizures and obstructive sleep apnea ?
text: Did you knowthat after being captured by the rebel ruler An Lushan , the Tang Dynasty general Geshu Han offered to write letters to persuade other Tang generals to surrender to An?
text: Did you knowthat the Roanoke Building sits on the site of a former building by the same name that was once an official climate site for the National Weather Service ?
text: Did you knowthat Karl Schnibbe was one of a group of three Hamburg teenagers arrested by the Gestapo in Nazi Germany during World War II for distributing anti- Hitler pamphlets?
text: Did you knowthat Cuban Colonel Ramón Barquín , who unsuccessfully attempted to overthrow Fulgencio Batista in 1956, later founded Atlantic College and several other educational institutions while in exile in Puerto Rico ?
text: Did you knowthat after making the first ascent of the remote Mount Lucania , Robert Bates was forced to survive on squirrels and mushrooms during his 156-mile (251 km) trek out of the wilderness?
text: Did you knowthat slate and stylus were invented by Louis Braille and Charles Barbier for blind people to write braille ?
text: Did you knowthat dairyman Henry W. Jeffers , a founder of Plainsboro Township, New Jersey , invented a bacteriology counter, a feed calculator, and an automated cow-milking system?
text: Did you knowthat Manitoba Provincial Road 373 became famous after a band from Norway House won an award for an album named after the highway?
text: Did you knowthat Scottish footballer John Cushley was a modern-languages graduate who acted as translator when Celtic F.C. attempted to sign Real Madrid striker Alfredo Di Stéfano in 1964?
text: Did you knowthat the 1944 Appalachians tornado outbreak was the worst tornado outbreak in the history of West Virginia ?
text: Did you knowthat the edible mushroom Marasmius alliaceus tastes and smells like garlic ?
text: Did you knowthat scientists are unsure why Lake Phalen , in Saint Paul, Minnesota , is home to a population of rainbow darters , a fish normally found in fast-moving streams?
text: Did you knowthat 50 years after winning A£ 100 in a fridge-decorating competition, Australian artist Robert Dickerson commands from A$ 80,000 for a painting today?
text: Did you knowthat approximately half of the distributed water in Ghana is lost as non-revenue water due to leakage and illegal connections?
text: Did you knowthat the Comer Strait in the Canadian Arctic , and the Gallinula comeri , the flightless moorhen of Gough Island , were both named after whaling Captain George Comer ?
text: Did you knowthat Ince Manor and Saighton Grange Gatehouse are the only two surviving monastic manorial buildings in Cheshire , UK ?
text: Did you knowthat the Tang Dynasty general Wang Zhongsi was raised inside the palace of Emperor Xuanzong of Tang after Wang's father was killed in battle in army service when he was still young?
text: Did you knowthat the Congolese artist Bodys Isek Kingelez was a restorer of African tribal masks before he began to create his models of fantasy cities?
text: Did you knowthat due to its economic growth , Taiwan served as a showcase for Japan's propaganda on the colonial efforts throughout Asia, as displayed during the 1935 Taiwan Exposition?
text: Did you knowthat Miller's Court in Dorset Street was the location of the last murder by Jack the Ripper on 9 November 1888 ?
text: Did you knowthat Omaha, Nebraska 's Peony Park became famous after the Lawrence Welk Band made it their official headquarters during the Great Depression ?
text: Did you knowthat the Frédéric Chopin monument in Warsaw , Poland , was designed by Wacław Szymanowski in 1907, erected in 1926, destroyed by the Germans in 1940, and reconstructed in 1958?
text: Did you knowthat a year after Richard William Briginshaw entered the House of Lords as a life peer , he wrote a pamphlet calling for it to be abolished?
text: Did you knowthat Japanese film tycoon Haruki Kadokawa built a full-size replica of Columbus' flagship Santa Maria which sailed from Barcelona to Japan?
text: Did you knowthat the Temple of Divus Augustus was a major temple in imperial Rome dedicated to the first Roman emperor , Augustus , and completed by his adoptive grandson Caligula ?
text: Did you knowthat Hans P. Kraus claimed he was the only bookdealer to have owned both a Gutenberg Bible and the two Mainz Psalters?
text: Did you knowthat the Bahá'í Faith is one of only a few non-Christian religions recognised by the government of Cameroon ?
text: Did you knowthat Governor of New York David Paterson chose Jon Cohen as his Chief Advisor, although Cohen briefly ran against him for Lieutenant Governor ?
text: Did you knowthat "Maphriyono" ( Maphrian ) meaning, "to make fruitful", or "one who gives fecundity" is another term for Catholicos of India ?
text: Did you knowthat Dodge Street in Omaha, Nebraska is often erroneously said to be a namesake of Union Pacific Railroad chief engineer Grenville Dodge , when it was actually named for Iowa Senator Augustus C. Dodge ?
text: Did you knowthat a biography of Saladin , the 12th-century sultan of Egypt and Syria , written by his friend and confidant Baha ad-Din ibn Shaddad , is still in print after seven centuries?
text: Did you knowthat Herm Doscher and his son Jack were the first pair of father and son to have both played Major League Baseball ?
text: Did you knowthat Saint Paul , Minnesota was once known as "Pig's Eye"?
text: Did you knowthat during the Third American Karakoram Expedition's attempt to climb K2 , Pete Schoening saved the lives of six falling climbers?
text: Did you knowthat Flora Sandes , who served with the Serbian Army, was the only British woman to officially enrol as a soldier in World War I ?
text: Did you knowthat Sara Larraín , who finished in fifth place in the 1999 Chilean presidential election , was a founder and the first director of Greenpeace in Chile ?
text: Did you knowthat the Australian states of New South Wales and Queensland both set rainfall records in 1950 ?
text: Did you knowthat Mary Meader , best known for taking more than 1,000 aerial pictures, was also a major philanthropist , once giving US$4 million to Western Michigan University ?
text: Did you knowthat Chai Trong-rong , a Taiwanese legislator, was unable to return to Taiwan while studying abroad because he was placed on the Kuomintang 's black list ?
text: Did you knowthat Myrialepis paradoxa , a species of palm trees native to Southeast Asia , is used to make thatched baskets ?
text: Did you knowthat, on a per capita basis, foreign aid donated by Saudi Arabia is one of the highest in the world?
text: Did you knowthat at a cost of US$ 7.9 billion, Meghna Bridge in Bangladesh is the single largest project with Japanese assistance in the world?
text: Did you knowthat Brazilian singer Maria Bethânia released her first recording the same year as her brother Caetano Veloso , even though he was four years older?
text: Did you knowthat  in a Maranao myth, the Agus River was constructed to prevent Lake Lanao from becoming an ocean?
text: Did you knowthat the Malay kite , a model of kite used for hundreds of years in the Far East and introduced to the West in 1894, provided the inspiration for the now widespread and popular "Eddy" kite design?
text: Did you knowthat Portland , Oregon –based evangelical minister Luis Palau has collaborated with government leaders, and 500 Christian pastors, to rally volunteers to address homelessness ?
text: Did you knowthat the Colonel Wright was the first steamboat to run on the Snake River ?
text: Did you knowthat at the height of Wally Phillips ' radio career , roughly half the entire Chicago listening audience , or about 1.5 million listeners, tuned into his show?
text: Did you knowthat at the Council of Acre in 1148, the decision was made to attack Damascus , leading to the failure of the Second Crusade ?
text: Did you knowthat Scottish actor Russell Hunter was so concerned about being identified with "Lonely", the anxious, smelly sidekick he played in the 1960s spy series Callan , that he took pains to smell nice?
text: Did you knowthat of the twenty-five clipper ships owned by the Loch Line , which operated between the United Kingdom and Australia , seventeen were lost at sea?
text: Did you knowthat Pasquale Condello of the Calabrian 'Ndrangheta , recently captured by Italian police in February 2008, was previously sentenced in absentia to four life prison terms plus another 22 years in jail?
text: Did you knowthat the utility of heavy water as a moderator in a nuclear reactor was demonstrated by Klara Döpel and her husband Robert in the 1940s?
text: Did you knowthat Montreal Canadiens forward Maurice "Rocket" Richard was named the three best players of a National Hockey League playoff match, earning himself all three stars ?
text: Did you knowthat Emperor Xuanzong of Tang had the eunuch Gao Lishi strangle Consort Yang Yuhuan to prevent a rebellion by the imperial guards angry at her?
text: Did you knowthat Gustav Christian Schwabe decided to finance Thomas Henry Ismay 's venture, the White Star Line , during a game of billiards ?
text: Did you knowthat in the 2007 documentary film Autism: The Musical , five autistic children in Los Angeles develop and star in an original stage production?
text: Did you knowthat the Palazzo Filangeri-Cutò , featured in Giuseppe di Lampedusa 's novel The Leopard and the Luchino Visconti film of the same name, was almost totally destroyed in a 1968 earthquake?
text: Did you knowthat Lytocaryum weddellianum , an endangered species of palm trees endemic to Brazil , may be saved from extinction as it has become a common potted plant in Europe ?
text: Did you knowthat the ancient Egyptians set up hundreds of ka statues in Abydos so the dead could participate in religious festivals?
text: Did you knowthat the decision of a Pennsylvania provincial court in 1764, The King v. Haas , is one of the first attempts to apply the writ of habeas corpus in the Thirteen Colonies ?
text: Did you knowthat when Masashi Kishimoto was creating the characters of the Naruto manga , he used other shōnen manga as references, including Akira Toriyama 's Dragon Ball ?
text: Did you knowthat the former Australian Supreme Court justice and barrister , Sir John Vincent Barry , qualified as a lawyer after graduating from an articled clerk course ?
text: Did you knowthat the yellow livery of the German postal service was decreed by the Allied Control Council in 1946?
text: Did you knowthat during a Viking funeral (pictured) , human sacrifice was performed with sexual rites?
text: Did you knowthat Woodside, Utah is a ghost town with a roadside cold water geyser ?
text: Did you knowthat Groucho Marx joined Hillcrest Country Club even though it was willing to have him as a member?
text: Did you knowthat footballer Henry Martin scored on his début against Liverpool and again the next day against their neighbours Everton ?
text: Did you knowthat Retired Rear Admiral Roberta L. Hazard , once the highest-ranking woman in the U.S. military , was a history teacher ?
text: Did you knowthat every receipt issued by Taiwanese businesses, known as the Uniform Invoice , is also a lottery ticket?
text: Did you knowthat part of the northern Oklahoma State Highway 92 is named after country singer Garth Brooks ?
text: Did you knowthat Judge James Yates resigned from the New York State Supreme Court to be General counsel to the Governor of New York David Paterson ?
text: Did you knowthat Don Nicholson was so dominant that critics predicted the demise of the new Funny Car "craze"?
text: Did you knowthat the New Guinean mouse Pseudohydromys germani is one of two rodent species to have only two molars in each jaw ?
text: Did you knowthat more than a dozen artists have recorded live albums in the back room of McCabe's Guitar Shop , including Tom Waits , Beck , and R.E.M. ?
text: Did you knowthat Gustav Wilhelm Wolff was nicknamed Teutonic in the British House of Commons after a steamship built by his company Harland & Wolff ?
text: Did you knowthat the Michigan Wolverines ' practice of parading their live mascot Biff before matches was stopped as the animal grew larger and more ferocious?
text: Did you knowthat Viet Nam Vong Quoc Su , a history text by Vietnamese nationalist Phan Boi Chau , changed the style of prose used in Vietnamese writing ?
text: Did you knowthat St Stephen's Church in Macclesfield Forest , Cheshire still practises a rush -bearing ceremony, largely abandoned in the 17th century?
text: Did you knowthat John Latenser, Sr. , an early architect in Omaha, Nebraska , designed more than 12 buildings on the National Register of Historic Places ?
text: Did you knowthat Michigan State University , which gave technical assistance to South Vietnam from 1955 to 1962, provided cover for the CIA ?
text: Did you knowthat the globe in the initial release of the NT$ 1,000 fifth series of the New Taiwan Dollar banknote was mirror-reversed?
text: Did you knowthat the Hatfield Government Center light rail station in Hillsboro, Oregon , was the busiest on the Westside MAX extension within a year of opening?
text: Did you knowthat Giampietro Campana financed his collection of Roman sculpture , Greek vases and Etruscan and Greek gold jewelry in part by embezzling money from the Papal pawnbroker ?
text: Did you knowthat the fact that no one has been arrested for the murder of Indian ex-parliamentarian Ehsan Jafri is seen as evidence of government complicity?
text: Did you knowthat Stone Bridge in Saint Petersburg , Russia was so steep, that in the 19th century bus passengers had to disembark in order for the bus to go over it?
text: Did you knowthat attractions at Indianapolis, Indiana 's White City Amusement Park included baby incubators and a Mount Vesuvius reenactment?
text: Did you knowthat the Veterans for Peace erect a memorial called Arlington West every Sunday at Santa Monica Beach consisting of a cross in the sand for each U.S. military person who has died in the Iraq War ?
text: Did you knowthat since as early as the 10th century, Nabulsi soap , a traditional olive oil -based soap , has been exported across the Arab world and even to Europe ?
text: Did you knowthat prior to screening The Round-Up in Cannes , in order to appease the Hungarian government, director Miklós Jancsó had to declare the film was not an allegory of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 ?
text: Did you knowthat Wiener sausages are named after the mathematician Norbert Wiener ?
text: Did you knowthat the winner of the Ernie Awards is the person who gets the loudest boos from the audience?
text: Did you knowthat the 31-mile (50 km) West Rim Trail along the Grand Canyon was selected by Outside Magazine as the best hike in Pennsylvania ?
text: Did you knowthat although presidents of Russia , Ukraine and Kazakhstan have been requested to give technical advice about software patches in open-source computer operating systems , only the Ukrainian president did so?
text: Did you knowthat James Garner sent two of his associates  into a room filled with toxic chlorine gas ?
text: Did you knowthat Jan Wils won a gold medal in architectural design in art competitions at the 1928 Summer Olympics for his design of the Olympic Stadium in Amsterdam ?
text: Did you knowthat John F. Kennedy was shot dead in an ambush by government agents who had foreknowledge of his whereabouts?
text: Did you knowthat in a few villages and towns of southern France and Spain it is illegal to die , and that there are attempts to have the same law in a town in Brazil ?
text: Did you knowthat Weber kettle grills were actually made out of buoys cut in half?
text: Did you knowthat men are able to be insured against alien impregnation ?
text: Did you knowthat Ben Affleck died while shoveling snow outside of his house, leaving behind an unexpectedly small estate speculated to be worth as little as US$ 20,000?
text: Did you knowthat American entrepreneur Timothy Dexter defied the popular idiom and actually made a profit when he sold coal to Newcastle ?
text: Did you knowthat six latrines at Black Moshannon State Park in Pennsylvania are listed on the National Register of Historic Places ?
text: Did you knowthat physicist Siegfried Flügge collaborated with Fritz Houtermans , Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker , and others in an effort to create an atomic weapon for Nazi Germany ?
text: Did you knowthat the Berlin Rules adopted in 2004 is the authoritative summary of all customary international law applicable to waters and the relevant international standards for environmental and humanitarian laws?
text: Did you knowthat Kentucky Governor Joseph Desha pardoned his son Isaac after he had twice been convicted of murder?
text: Did you knowthat the Carrikeri Harlequin Frog , a critically endangered toad endemic to northern Colombia , was recently rediscovered after an absence of 14 years?
text: Did you knowthat the Great Platte River Road through the Nebraska Territory is considered today to be an early superhighway in the American Old West ?
text: Did you know that the Gazette Building in Little Rock , Arkansas served as headquarters for the 1992 Bill Clinton presidential campaign ?
text: Did you know that Weeb Ewbank coached the most games in New York Jets franchise history?
text: Did you know that the Norwegian lake Lutvann leaked 1,000 liters of water per minute into the railway tunnel Romeriksporten during its construction in 1997?
text: Did you know that Isfield railway station , now the terminus of a preserved railway line , was used during the First World War to take German prisoners of war to work in nearby woodland?
text: Did you know that the Martinican Communist Party became the largest political party in the French département d'outre-mer of Martinique in the 1960s?
text: Did you know that the emotional, agitated figures depicted in the 9th-century Ebbo Gospels bear a striking resemblance to illustrations in the Utrecht Psalter ?
text: Did you know that Poole Stadium , a former football ground now used for greyhound racing and speedway , was the venue for the 2004 Speedway World Cup final?
text: Did you know that, although projects for restoration of the Everglades are the most comprehensive attempts at environmental repair in history, they are in danger of being eliminated?
text: Did you know that Carlos Minc , the current Brazilian Minister of Environment, was one of the founding members of the Green Party ?
text: Did you know that Maryland 's Frederick High School can trace its roots back more than a century, and has won over 35 state championships in various sports since the late 1950s?
text: Did you know that in 1880 the United States Congress adjourned so members could watch the single scull race on the Potomac River between Charles E. Courtney and Ned Hanlan ?
text: Did you know that the 1881 children's novel Toby Tyler; or, Ten Weeks with a Circus by James Otis was made into a 1960 Disney film ?
text: Did you know that Georgian footballer Georgi Kiknadze won five consecutive league championships with Dinamo Tbilisi ?
text: Did you know that the Seaboard Air Line Railroad was the first to provide streamlined passenger trains from New York to Florida, beginning with the Silver Meteor in 1939?
text: Did you know that by the time Fort Scott was completed, it was already obsolete?
text: Did you know that General Ziauddin Butt , former head of the Pakistani intelligence agency , was nominated to head the army in 1999?
text: Did you know that during the War of 1812 , Laura Secord went to DeCou House to warn James FitzGibbon and his British troops about the surprise American attack now known as the Battle of Beaver Dams ?
text: Did you know that in Victor Hugo 's novel Les Misérables , Cosette 's wedding gown was made of Binche lace because Hugo remembered it from his youth as being a lace of beauty?
text: Did you know that land agent Timothy Dwight Hobart from 1886 to 1924 supervised the stringing of hundreds of miles of barbed wire and the digging of hundreds of wells topped by windmills to settle the Texas Panhandle ?
text: Did you know that Islam: The Straight Path by John L. Esposito is an introductory text on Islam that devotes half its content to the development of Islam in modern and reformist times?
text: Did you know that in 1866, French chessplayer Napoleon Marache published one of the first chess books in the United States , which also discussed strategy for backgammon and dominoes ?
text: Did you know that Fountains Fell , a mountain in the Yorkshire Dales , England , is named after Fountains Abbey whose monks grazed sheep there in the 13th century?
text: Did you know that Mark Goffeney , nicknamed "Big Toe", is a professional guitarist who plays with his feet because he was born without hands ?
text: Did you know that the Gibraltar Football Association had their UEFA membership application blocked by Spain due to their claim on the territory ?
text: Did you know that North 24th Street in Omaha, Nebraska , considered the heart of the city's African American community , has not fully recovered since several riots destroyed businesses along the strip in the 1960s?
text: Did you know that 1999 book Gone with the Wind in the Vatican narrated alleged scandals in Vatican City using pseudonyms from Gone with the Wind ?
text: Did you know that Mary Augusta Dickerson found it inspirational to write her children's books inside a Pickle Barrel House ?
text: Did you know that neurologist Derek Denny-Brown introduced British anti-Lewisite as a treatment for the copper overload disorder Wilson's disease ?
text: Did you know that the oldest firehouse still standing in Louisville , Kentucky was once a church?
text: Did you know that a free trade agreement made effective in 2000 strengthened Indo-Sri Lankan relations and quadrupled bilateral trade , which grew to US$ 2.6 billion by 2006?
text: Did you know that 17th-century French buccaneer Montbars the Exterminator attacked Spanish settlements in the New World , after reading about conquistador atrocities?
text: Did you know that despite being considered "much too far away" to affect weather in California , Hurricane Liza of 1968 caused US$ 5,000 in damage and the closure of a portion of Ocean Boulevard in Long Beach ?
text: Did you know that some pulvinones have shown anticoagulant activity in rats , whilst other pulvinone derivatives are patented antibiotics for use in animals?
text: Did you know that the Golden Age Passport has been replaced by the "Senior Pass" of the new pass series now called "America the Beautiful - National Parks and Federal Recreational Lands Pass"?
text: Did you know that the presidential campaign of Bob Barr began following a successful draft effort on Facebook ?
text: Did you know that in a major improvement in bilateral ties since it blocked Bangladesh 's entry in the U.N. in 1972, China offered to help Bangladesh construct its first nuclear plant ?
text: Did you know that Native American actor and director James Young Deer and his wife were an "influential force" in the production of one-reel Westerns during the early silent film era?
text: Did you know that torchon lace is one of the oldest bobbin laces and has strictly geometric patterns?
text: Did you know that Philippine National Artist Amado V. Hernandez wrote his masterpieces while being imprisoned in the New Bilibid Prison ?
text: Did you know that the Rio Napo Screech-Owl is part of a group of owls that have been reclassified three times since 1850?
text: Did you know that A Stillness at Appomattox by Bruce Catton won the 1954 Pulitzer Prize in history?
text: Did you know that the Young Religious Unitarian Universalists protested against Victoria's Secret for allegedly printing their catalogues with paper sourced from endangered forests?
text: Did you know that the yuja hwachae , Korean traditional fruit punch made with Korean pear and yuja , is often served with flower pancakes made of chrysanthemum ?
text: Did you know that mathematician Nathan Mendelsohn was on the first Putnam Competition -winning team in 1938, but also won second prize in an International Brotherhood of Magicians contest?
text: Did you know that the Webster ruling is a legal precedent clarified by the Court of Arbitration for Sport in 2008, which extends to professional footballers in Europe the same contractual freedom of movement as workers in other industries?
text: Did you know that Zaha Hadid 's architectural design won an international competition for the upcoming Vilnius Guggenheim Hermitage Museum ?
text: Did you know that father and son James E. Bolin and Bruce M. Bolin both served in the Louisiana House of Representatives and as a state district court judge – thirty-eight years apart in each case?
text: Did you know that after serving three terms in the Norwegian Parliament for the Conservative Party , Georg Apenes took over as director of the Norwegian Data Inspectorate ?
text: Did you know that John Kempthorne defeated an attack by seven Algerine corsairs on his single ship, HMS Mary Rose ?
text: Did you know that Dwight Eisenhower's home cost more than six times to renovate than it did to purchase, due to union labor and Mamie Eisenhower 's whims?
text: Did you know that German chemist Albert Niemann became the first person to isolate cocaine in 1859?
text: Did you know that the U.S. suspended the Commercial Import Program to South Vietnam after concluding that President Ngo Dinh Diem was using the funds to repress Buddhists rather than communists ?
text: Did you know that Cornelia Adair , during World War I , invited Belgian refugees to stay at her Glenveagh Castle in County Donegal , Ireland ?
text: Did you know that the Museum at Bethel Woods is devoted mostly to the Woodstock Festival , and located on its site?
text: Did you know that the remnants of defensive walls and stone shelters built by shipwreck survivor Wiebbe Hayes and his men on West Wallabi Island in 1629, are Australia 's oldest known European structures?
text: Did you know that Gerobatrachus is considered to be a missing link that supports the hypothesis offered by cladistics , that frogs and salamanders had a common ancestor?
text: Did you know that Ngo Dinh Diem 's presidential visit to Australia saw him receive the Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George , one of the highest British imperial honours bestowed on a non-British subject?
text: Did you know that the Cosmographia by Sebastian Münster from 1544 is the earliest German description of the world?
text: Did you know that soldiers from Fort Benning patrolled the woods around the Little White House during World War II ?
text: Did you know that Bishop Hannington Memorial Church in Hove , England , is dedicated to a missionary killed in Uganda on King Mwanga II 's orders?
text: Did you know that in his book A More Perfect Union: Advancing New American Rights , U.S. Congressman Jesse Jackson, Jr. proposed eight constitutional amendments ?
text: Did you know that the Sperrgebiet , a diamond mining area closed to the public, makes up 3 percent of Namibia 's surface area?
text: Did you know that the oddly-named Saints' Roost Museum in Clarendon, Texas refers to the town having been a prohibition settlement in the 1880s that cowboys referred to as where the "saints roost"?
text: Did you know that the Academic Gymnasium Danzig , along with similar schools in Elbląg and Toruń , transformed Royal Prussia into a center of classical studies in the 16th century?
text: Did you know that Texas rancher Montie Ritchie was the photographer on a British Alpine Club expedition in 1949 to the Baffin Islands in the Canadian Arctic ?
text: Did you know that the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation is proposing a regional free trade area that would account for almost half of world trade ?
text: Did you know that Jack Christiansen and Bill Walsh are the only San Francisco 49ers head coaches in the Pro Football Hall of Fame ?
text: Did you know that boundary surveyor Joseph Smith Harris climbed a ship's mast to direct mortars during the Civil War Battle of Forts Jackson and St. Philip ?
text: Did you know that Petubastis III led a revolt in Egypt against Persian rule circa 522 BCE?
text: Did you know that the Coffee Creek Correctional Facility is the only women's prison in Oregon ?
text: Did you know that Walter Emden designed London theatres and music halls in the late 19th century, including the Palace Theatre , the Duke of York's , the Garrick and the Royal Court ?
text: Did you know that John Aspinall was the first recipient of the James Watt International Medal ?
text: Did you know that QUIET , an astronomy experiment due to start observing in 2008 at the Llano de Chajnantor Observatory , Chile , will make measurements of the polarization of the cosmic microwave background radiation ?
text: Did you know that prehistoric people used the same 89 °F (32 °C) warm springs that Franklin Delano Roosevelt would use in the 20th century?
text: Did you know that Kaunas University Hospital , the largest medical institution in Lithuania , was designated a cultural monument in 2008?
text: Did you know that Nielluccio , Sciacarello and Vermentino are the three leading grape varieties for making Corsica wine ?
text: Did you know that the Web Site Administration Tool simplifies the creation of an authentication and authorization system in an ASP.NET website?
text: Did you know that in 1968 , The Detroit Wheels recorded " Linda Sue Dixon ", a thinly-veiled paean to the illicit hallucinogenic drug LSD ?
text: Did you know that the Wawelberg Group was a Polish special-forces unit which began the 1921 Third Silesian Uprising by blowing up seven rail bridges linking Upper Silesia with the rest of Germany ?
text: Did you know that Richard Neutra 's Jardinette Apartments building in Hollywood is considered one of the first Modernist buildings in America?
text: Did you know that before the release of the Japanese visual novel Sora o Tobu, Mittsu no Hōhō , there was a similarly based manga series by Kensha Shimotsuki ?
text: Did you know that a cat named " Room 8 " was the subject of a book, a documentary, a song by Leo Kottke , and obituaries that appeared in papers from the Los Angeles Times to the Hartford Courant ?
text: Did you know that the Red Cross with Imperial Portraits Fabergé egg commemorates the work of women from the House of Romanov for the Red Cross during World War I ?
text: Did you know that American physicist Hugh Bradner developed the first neoprene wetsuit but was unable to patent it?
text: Did you know that the present Cape Rachado Lighthouse , erected in 1863 in Malacca , Malaysia , includes an additional concrete tower that was completed in 1990 to house a MEASAT radar ?
text: Did you know that Calsoyasuchus valleyceps , an extinct crocodile relative from the Early Jurassic , has a deep groove in its skull from which its species name , "valley head", derives?
text: Did you know that in 1847 Thomas Huling sold the town of Zavala, Texas for US$ 1,000 and 5,000 boxes of "Green Mountain Vegitable Ointment"?
text: Did you know that Rachel Wall was the first American-born female pirate , and the last woman to be hanged in Massachusetts ?
text: Did you know that in a major improvement in bilateral relations in 2008, Pakistan proposed sharing nuclear technology with Bangladesh ?
text: Did you know that the Captain Andrew Offutt Monument barely mentioning Sherman's March to the Sea makes it only one of two Civil War related monuments in Kentucky to stress strong Union sentiment?
text: Did you know that Étienne-Théodore Pâquet defeated a man twice his age to become one of the youngest ever members of the Legislative Assembly of Quebec ?
text: Did you know that Jeb Bush became the first Republican Governor of Florida to be re-elected to a second term after winning the 2002 Florida gubernatorial election ?
text: Did you know that the Philadelphia Phillies were the last of the original 16 Major League Baseball franchises to win the World Series ?
text: Did you know that aviation historian Randy Acord was awarded the Alaska – Siberian Lend Lease Award for his role in improving Russian – North American relations during World War II ?
text: Did you know that mathematician Paul Erdős called the Hadwiger conjecture , a still-open generalization of the four-color problem , "one of the deepest unsolved problems in graph theory "?
text: Did you know that the 1975 film Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris starred theater and cabaret stars Elly Stone and Joe Masiell in their only film performances?
text: Did you know that more than 5 million people died of starvation or disease in the Southern India famine of 1876–78 ?
text: Did you know that neo-Nazi politician and member of the Bundestag Fritz Rössler , who resembled Adolf Hitler , had a habit of attending parliament drunk?
text: Did you know that Muscatatuck State Park was the first Indiana state park to need no additional financial assistance, even though it never charged admission?
text: Did you know that Paris -based Naye Prese was the sole Yiddish -language communist daily newspaper in Europe during the interbellum period?
text: Did you know that the Crown Point Light , constructed as a conventional lighthouse , was rebuilt in 1912 as a monument to Samuel de Champlain 's explorations?
text: Did you know that the discovery of a celt with Indus script in Tamil Nadu in 2006 was regarded by epigraphist Iravatham Mahadevan as the "greatest archaeological discovery of a century in Tamil Nadu "?
text: Did you know that Russian right-wing politician Nikolai Markov tried to convince Germany to contribute to a conspiracy to re-instate the House of Romanov after the post-World War I revolutions?
text: Did you know that the first live television broadcast viewed on a moving train was on October 7 , 1948 , when passengers on the B&O Railroad 's Marylander saw the second game of the 1948 World Series ?
text: Did you know that the 1994 Bolivia earthquake was the largest earthquake ever recorded with a focal depth greater or equal to 300 km (190 mi)?
text: Did you know that Bucks point lace is a bobbin lace from the East Midlands in England with both floral and geometric designs?
text: Did you know that paleoecologist Heinz Lowenstam discovered that living organisms can produce magnetite within their bodies?
text: Did you know that the Omaha Star building housed the DePorres Club after they were asked to leave Creighton University because of their activism in Omaha's civil rights movement ?
text: Did you know that English musician and poet Robert Wydow is the earliest known recipient of a Bachelor of Music degree from Oxford University ?
text: Did you know that the 2003 earthquake that killed more than 2,200 was the strongest to hit Algeria since 1980?
text: Did you know that the Rohm and Haas Corporate Headquarters ' main architectural feature is the use of sunscreens on the facade made of their principal product, Plexiglas ?
text: Did you know that Kenyan lawyer Gitobu Imanyara was reported to have died after he was rumored to have been slapped by Kenyan first lady Lucy Kibaki ?
text: Did you know that the cap and sails of Shiremark Mill were blown off in 1886?
text: Did you know that historian Lon Tinkle demanded that he not be credited as historical advisor of John Wayne 's 1960 film The Alamo because he felt the film misrepresented the Battle of the Alamo ?
text: Did you know that Bangladesh declined to renew its 1972 Friendship Treaty with India , criticizing it as unequal and an imposition of excessive Indian influence ?
text: Did you know that when John Stanley recreated one of his covers for Little Lulu for the cover of the Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide in 2005, both editions sold out within three days?
text: Did you know that during the Battle of Ridgefield in April 1777, Benedict Arnold escaped unharmed after being pinned to the ground when his horse was shot?
text: Did you know that the city of Nairobi , Kenya , averages about ten vehicle hijackings per day?
text: Did you know that Joshua Packwood is the first white man to graduate as valedictorian of the all-male HBCU , Morehouse College , an overwhelmingly African American university in Atlanta, Georgia ?
text: Did you know that the Bedouin villagers of al-Sayyid developed their own form of sign language in response to the high rate of deafness amongst their tribe?
text: Did you know that Stave Puzzles makes a 44-piece jigsaw puzzle named Champ that can be put together 32 different ways but has only one correct solution?
text: Did you know that in 1898, the Egyptian government appointed Maurice Fitzmaurice as their chief resident engineer for the construction of the Aswan Dam ?
text: Did you know that the Confederate Monument in Danville , Kentucky was built on grave plots local citizens had given up to fallen soldiers?
text: Did you know that Mukti Bahini guerrillas were absorbed into the ranks of regular military officers and enlisted personnel upon the formation of Bangladesh's armed forces ?
text: Did you know that the Greasestock festival in New York showcases green technologies , such as vegetable-powered vehicles , solar vehicles , and organic farming exhibits?
text: Did you know that World War II flying ace Franz Barten is credited for shooting down a total of 55 enemy aircraft?
text: Did you know that The Metros , a five-piece punk pop band from Peckham , London , were formerly known as The Wanking Skankers?
text: Did you know that a poem by Edward Coote Pinkney , a failed lawyer and former Navy midshipman , was used by Edgar Allan Poe to woo Sarah Helen Whitman ?
text: Did you know that a 2007 treaty significantly modified Indo-Bhutanese relations by reducing India 's guiding role over Bhutan 's foreign policy ?
text: Did you know that the Champlain Valley Transportation Museum in Plattsburgh , New York is home to the only known Type 82 Lozier in existence?
text: Did you know that Zygmunt Rumel , a Polish poet and soldier of the Bataliony Chlopskie , was tied to four horses and ripped apart in 1943 during the Massacres of Poles in Volhynia ?
text: Did you know that The Locusts , an early 19th-century house in New Paltz, New York , has no fireplaces ?
text: Did you know that British Army officer Sir William Horrocks confirmed Sir David Bruce 's theory that Malta fever was spread through goat 's milk ?
text: Did you know that during Hossain Mohammad Ershad 's rule, chiefs of Bangladeshi intelligence agencies were amongst his closest advisers?
text: Did you know that a film director hired independent film actress Tanna Frederick when she praised a film of his—one she had not seen?
text: Did you know that Banya: The Explosive Delivery Man is a Korean action comic that combines the styles of Mad Max , Dune and The Lord of the Rings ?
text: Did you know that the Dictionary of Information Security by Robert Slade has five forewords , each by an expert in the field of information security ?
text: Did you know that the 1820 children's story Maurice by Mary Shelley was lost until 1997?
text: Did you know that the 9th century Navalinga temple in Karnataka , India , is a cluster of nine Hindu temples , each containing a Shiva linga ?
text: Did you know that in an uncommon job for women, Mary Herwerth was appointed lighthouse keeper at Bluff Point Light on Valcour Island upon the death of her husband while on duty in 1881?
text: Did you know the British MI6 tried to hire the Austrian - German physicist Josef Schintlmeister as a spy in the Soviet Union , where he had worked for ten years?
text: Did you know that a collection of 247 tiles illustrating children's books are installed on the Story Book Wall at the Alamogordo Public Library in New Mexico ,  U.S.?
text: Did you know that the first regular British light infantry regiment, the 52nd Regiment of Foot , awarded the title "Valiant Stormer" to those who survived the Forlorn Hopes at Ciudad Rodrigo and Badajoz ?
text: Did you know that after preaching Baptist ideas in the 1760s, Toliver Craig, Sr. and his sons were imprisoned by colonial authorities?
text: Did you know that Antwerp lace is also known as "Pot Lace" because of its repeated flowerpot motifs ?
text: Did you know that the 1945 loss of German U-boat U-864 during Operation Caesar , a secret mission to deliver technology to Japan , is the only known incident of one submerged submarine sinking another?
text: Did you know that Fire Station No. 19 in Minneapolis, Minnesota is the birthplace of kittenball , a forerunner of modern softball ?
text: Did you know that the Jabalpur and the Mandla districts in Madhya Pradesh were the worst affected districts in the 1997 Jabalpur earthquake ?
text: Did you know that the percussion instruments the txalaparta and kirikoketa originated as pieces of equipment from a Sagardotegi ?
text: Did you know that famous Hispanics in the United States Navy include the country's first full admiral , David Glasgow Farragut ?
text: Did you know that the population dynamics of fisheries is a discipline used by fisheries scientists to determine sustainable yields ?
text: Did you know that the US government took control of the Alaska Steamship Company 's fleet during World War II ?
text: Did you know that the Nootka Crisis of 1789–90 marked the beginning of the end of the Spanish Empire ?
text: Did you know that Maharajbagh zoo in Nagpur , India , has been built on the garden of Bhonsle , Maratha rulers of the Nagpur kingdom ?
text: Did you know that future Admiral John Moore joined the Royal Navy when he was just 11 years old?
text: Did you know that in the primaries for the 2002 Oregon gubernatorial election , candidates included one who called himself the "flying governor"?
text: Did you know that Nona L. Brooks , a founder of the Church of Divine Science and leader in the New Thought religious movement, was the first woman pastor in Denver ?
text: Did you know that Canadian broadcaster Linden MacIntyre wrote his memoir during a fifty-day lockout at the CBC ?
text: Did you know that on September 23 , 1868 , the Revolutionary Committee of Puerto Rico led a revolt in Lares , declaring it the "Republic of Puerto Rico"?
text: Did you know that according to one account, after Thomas Attwood accused fellow composer Charles Edward Horn of plagiarizing a song, Horn helped clear himself in court by singing his version and that of Attwood's?
text: Did you know that the church of St. Barlock at Norbury has a monument to the "lewd and vile" wife of its thirteenth Lord?
text: Did you know that Aston Villa 's Bob Chatt scored an FA Cup Final goal 30 seconds after kick-off?
text: Did you know that the Catalan municipality of Alcanar is officially stated as being founded in 1252, despite having a charter signed in 1239?
text: Did you know that Thomas Jefferson Ramsdell built the opera house where James Earl Jones started his career?
text: Did you know that the 12th-century All Saints Church, Patcham , largely unchanged since the 14th century, was rebuilt or restored four times in a 74-year period from 1824?
text: Did you know that former Israeli politician and Speaker of the Knesset Shlomo Hillel was in charge of an underground ammunition factory disguised as a laundry facility during the British Mandate of Palestine ?
text: Did you know that Alexander Wilkinson managed to play 74 more first-class cricket matches despite an injured hand that almost had to be amputated after World War I ?
text: Did you know that caste -based communal reservations in Tamil Nadu were introduced by the government of the Raja of Panagal in August 1921 ?
text: Did you know that the Rotunda Museum houses one of the foremost collections of Jurassic geology on the Yorkshire Coast?
text: Did you know that Time magazine covers have featured self-portraits of film director and artist Matt Mahurin , who has portrayed himself as Sigmund Freud , a caveman and an Abu Ghraib prisoner ?
text: Did you know that the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings was surprised to learn of the existence of Buckland Windmill , the only wind sawmill in the United Kingdom ?
text: Did you know that Clan Campbell of Cawdor is a Scottish clan which currently does not have a recognised clan chief ?
text: Did you know that the Hotel Monaco in Washington, D.C. is located inside a National Historic Landmark building that was patterned after the Roman Temple of Jupiter ?
text: Did you know that the First Congress of Vienna was held three hundred years before the more famous 1815 Congress ?
text: Did you know that Ernie Fletcher became the first Republican Governor of Kentucky in thirty-two years after winning the 2003 Kentucky gubernatorial election ?
text: Did you know that between 1920 and 1929 the Canadian Pacific Steamships vessel SS Prinz Friedrich Wilhelm bore six different names, but sailed under only four of them?
text: Did you know that computer security expert Dan Kaminsky demonstrated a security vulnerability by setting up Rickrolls on Facebook and PayPal ?
text: Did you know that Hall of Fame basketball coach Clarence "Big House" Gaines originally planned to become a dentist before taking on a temporary coaching job that lasted 47 years?
text: Did you know that Action Hyacinth was an operation of the Polish communist police , carried out in the years 1985–1987, whose purpose was to create a national database of Polish homosexuals ?
text: Did you know that Narciso Bassols founded Mexico 's first systematic sex education program while Secretary of Public Education ?
text: Did you know that " Uncommon Sense " by Hal Clement received a Hugo Award for Best Short Story 51 years after it was first published?
text: Did you know that Len Boyd , captain of Birmingham City F.C. in the 1950s, once played four games with a fractured leg?
text: Did you know that actor Buck Taylor , though he still appears in mostly Western films , is also a prolific artist of the American West ?
text: Did you know that Troubled Island is an opera about the Haitian revolution leader Jean-Jacques Dessalines , who crowned himself emperor after independence was declared?
text: Did you know that the Section of Painting and Sculpture , a New Deal federal art program operated by the United States Department of the Treasury , commissioned more than 1300 murals and 300 sculptures, most of which were placed in U.S. post offices ?
text: Did you know that the famine of 1873–74 in Bihar , India was less severe than had originally been anticipated, and 100,000 tons of grain was left unused at the end of the relief efforts?
text: Did you know that the Jewish War Veterans of the United States of America , represented by the American Civil Liberties Union , were plaintiffs in a lawsuit seeking the removal of the Mount Soledad cross ?
text: Did you know that the Frieze of Parnassus on the Albert Memorial was inspired by Hippolyte Delaroche 's Hémicycle des Beaux Arts ?
text: Did you know that the supreme god of the southern African Bushmen is Cagn , a trickster who shapeshifts into a praying mantis ?
text: Did you know that an April Fool's Day "news story" which suggested that bull sharks had been found in Minneapolis 's Minnehaha Creek drew almost 1,000 hits a day to the Nokomis East Neighborhood Association 's website?
text: Did you know that 1944 film Haridas was the last completed work of Kollywood icon M. K. Thyagaraja Bhagavathar prior to his arrest in the Lakshmikanthan Murder Case?
text: Did you know that the Master of Anthony of Burgundy was one of the Flemish miniature painters of the late 15th century, and may have made the first engravings for books?
text: Did you know that Margie ( ABC , 1961 – 1962 ) is one of the few network programs set during the Roaring Twenties , complete with jalopies , raccoon coats , period music, and references to flappers ?
text: Did you know that the two-inch-tall people of The Teenie Weenies were a Chicago Tribune comic strip written by William Donahey for over 50 years?
text: Did you know that the Northern Irish marilyn Slieve Gallion is a volcanic plug ?
text: Did you know that Page Cortez , a Republican member of the Louisiana House of Representatives , gained vital name recognition in part from television ads promoting his furniture store?
text: Did you know that Ashby's windmill in Brixton worked by steam rather than wind power after 1902?
text: Did you know that Russian writer and activist Zoya Krakhmalnikova 's baptism in 1971 resulted in her dismissal from her job and from the USSR Union of Writers , which effectively banned her from publishing?
text: Did you know that Henriade , an epic poem by French Enlightenment writer Voltaire , was written in honour of the life of Henry IV ?
text: Did you know that much of the interior of the 19th-century St Patrick's Church, Hove has been rebuilt as a night shelter which includes a variation on the 1970s " sleep capsule " concept?
text: Did you know that a Brazilian music expert noted Caetano Veloso 's uncertain sexual orientation in his 2006 album cê ?
text: Did you know that California v. Byers was the 1971 U.S. Supreme Court decision holding that providing one's own information in a vehicle accident does not violate the privilege against self-incrimination under the Fifth Amendment ?
text: Did you know that the Palestinian town of Tuqu' is the birthplace of the Hebrew prophet Amos ?
text: Did you know that Radha Ramana is the only image of Krishna that remained in Vrindavana during the 17th-century raids by Islamic king Aurangzeb ?
text: Did you know that Camille Le Mercier d'Erm and his colleagues formed the Breton Nationalist Party in 1911 to advocate the independence of Brittany from France ?
text: Did you know that the Colored Soldiers Monument in Frankfort, Kentucky is the only one dedicated to Black Union soldiers in Kentucky ?
text: Did you know that nine riparian countries along River Nile launched the Nile Basin Initiative in 1999 to better manage their common water resources ?
text: Did you know that 19th-century English architect John Foulston was responsible for the construction of Union Street across marshland ?
text: Did you know that the Chief Minister of the Eastern Province of Sri Lanka , Sivanesathurai Chandrakanthan joined the Tamil Tigers as a child soldier at the age of fourteen?
text: Did you know that Victoria Hotel in Darwin , Australia , has survived three major cyclones and Japanese air raids during World War II ?
text: Did you know that Blonde lace was made out of two different thicknesses of thread to create greater contrast between the pattern and the ground?
text: Did you know that U.S. First Lady Laura Bush serves as ambassador of The Heart Truth awareness campaign?
text: Did you know that Captain Richard Whitaker Porritt was the first British Member of Parliament to be killed in World War II ?
text: Did you know that the ancient Greek city of Psophis was said to have been ravaged by the Erymanthian Boar ?
text: Did you know that Hazel Dolling , the châtelaine of Lissan House , always kept a chainsaw in her car while driving, in case trees had fallen on her mile-long avenue?
text: Did you know that Yolngu aboriginal leader Raymattja Marika was Northern Territory 's Australian of the Year in 2006?
text: Did you know that the Atlantic bumper is only found in the Atlantic Ocean because its ecological niche is filled by the only other member of its genus elsewhere?
text: Did you know that director Goran Dukić chose only songs by musicians who had committed suicide to accompany his 2007 film Wristcutters ?
text: Did you know that after a chest injury , air can escape from the lungs and travel to the subcutaneous tissue of the skin , causing subcutaneous emphysema ?
text: Did you know that Oladevi , a deity whose worship may have originated in the Indus Valley Civilization , was honoured and feared as the goddess of cholera in rural Bengal ?
text: Did you know that Reigate Heath Windmill is the only windmill in England that has been consecrated as a church ?
text: Did you know that the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service paid for the establishment of Muscatatuck National Wildlife Refuge , along the Muscatatuck River , by selling waterfowl stamps ?
text: Did you know that the Seaway Trail Discovery Center is one of the few attractions in the North Country, New York , that is open year-round?
text: Did you know that German mathematician Friedrich Heinrich Albert Wangerin wrote an important two-volume treatise on potential theory and spherical functions in 1909 and 1921?
text: Did you know that a Confederate scouting party entered Indiana in June 1863 dressed as an Union army patrol searching for deserters?
text: Did you know that British Conservative MP Alan Gomme-Duncan , despite being strongly unionist , did not want the Stone of Scone returned to Westminster Abbey after Scottish nationalists stole it in 1951?
text: Did you know that the Coalition of Workers, Peasants, and Students of the Isthmus was the first elected socialist municipal government in Mexico ?
text: Did you know that Malinda Cramer , a founder of the Church of Divine Science and an early influence in the New Thought movement, died in the 1906 San Francisco earthquake ?
text: Did you know that Republican Monty Warner called on his Democratic rival Joe Manchin to endorse George Bush for re-election during the 2004 West Virginia gubernatorial election ?
text: Did you know that the Polish-Lithuanian union of Lublin in 1569 marked the beginning of centuries of struggle between Poland and Russia over Central and Eastern Europe ?
text: Did you know that the colonial ghost town of Brunswick, North Carolina was named after Braunschweig , Germany , the birthplace of Great Britain's King George I ?
text: Did you know that a large part of the first vintage from the Spanish winery Dominio de Pingus was lost in 1997 when the transporting ship disappeared?
text: Did you know that Nathan Daboll wrote the mathematics textbook most commonly used in American schools during the first half of the 19th century?
text: Did you know that the forced removal of 700,000 people from slums in Zimbabwe in 2005 was called "a crime against humanity " by the UN ?
text: Did you know that Juniper Valley Park in New York City used to be a swamp owned by Arnold Rothstein , who in the 1920s tried to sell it to the city for use as an airport?
text: Did you know that Indo-Iraqi relations improved considerably after Iraq supported India 's 1998 nuclear tests and its stand on the Kashmir dispute ?
text: Did you know that Sir William Edge , a Liberal MP , once raced against a flock of homing pigeons from London to Leicestershire by car and train, but lost the race by two minutes because the train was delayed?
text: Did you know that the 1964 CBS sitcom Many Happy Returns featured character actor John McGiver managing the complaints division of a fictitious California department store ?
text: Did you know that New Zealand currently has free trade agreements with Australia , Singapore , Thailand , Brunei , Chile and China ?
text: Did you know that Harvard Japanologist Susan Pharr was recently awarded the Order of the Rising Sun by the Japanese government ?
text: Did you know that the town of Melattur in Tamil Nadu , India is famous for its Bharatanatyam , a classic South Indian dance ?
text: Did you know that the Wallingford Tornado of 1878 was the deadliest tornado in Connecticut history, and the second-deadliest to strike New England ?
text: Did you know that Fidler Point on Lake Athabasca is named for Peter Fidler , a map-maker , fur trader and explorer who worked for the Hudson's Bay Company ?
text: Did you know that Bolton Hall , the community center for a Utopian community formed in 1913 in the foothills north of Los Angeles , was later used as a jail?
text: Did you know that the 1948 Tamil film Chandralekha had the longest sword-fight sequence in any Indian film ?
text: Did you know that Equality North Carolina was successful in getting the 2008 edition of the State Personnel manual to prohibit discrimination based on sexuality and gender identity ?
text: Did you know that English musician and composer Charles Frederick Horn served as personal music tutor to Queen Charlotte ?
text: Did you know that the City of Los Angeles has 186 sites listed on the National Register of Historic Places ?
text: Did you know that the Welsh Tractarian priest John David Jenkins , known as the "Rail men's Apostle", became President of the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants ?
text: Did you know that international airport project MIHAN in Nagpur is the biggest economic development project currently underway in India in terms of investment?
text: Did you know that ATF undercover agent William Queen infiltrated the Mongols motorcycle gang so successfully that he was elected treasurer and vice-president of his chapter?
text: Did you know that the new Maoist -led government seeks to scrap Nepal 's 1950 treaty with India , which sought to build strong Indo-Nepal relations to counter perceived threats from China ?
text: Did you know that water supply and sanitation in Uganda are recognized as key issues under the government's 2004 national " Poverty Eradication Action Plan"?
text: Did you know that Kentucky 's Livermore Bridge starts and ends in McLean County , but passes over two rivers and Ohio County to reach its destination?
text: Did you know that The Town Talk , the principal newspaper of Central Louisiana , was established by Irish immigrants on St. Patrick's Day in 1883 ?
text: Did you know that the only items found in the burial chamber of the Pyramid of Neferefre upon excavation were mummy fragments and broken canopic jars ?
text: Did you know that eleven U.S. presidents stayed at the Portland Hotel , a Queen Anne-style , Châteauesque hotel which opened in Portland , Oregon in 1890?
text: Did you know that the game between FC Bayern Munich and 1860 Munich on 23 April 1945 in the Gauliga Bayern , ending 3–2, was the last official football game played in Nazi Germany ?
text: Did you know that Indiana's state parks were initially designed to preserve their natural state, but gradually began to include recreational activities?
text: Did you know that the Wallowa-Whitman National Forest in Oregon is home to a small population of wolverines , which are rare within the United States?
text: Did you know that Outwood is the oldest working windmill in the United Kingdom, having been built the year before the Great Fire of London ?
text: Did you know that US-CERT developed the Einstein program that monitors and protects the computer networks of U.S. departments and agencies ?
text: Did you know that sociology was banned as a bourgeois science by the Polish government in the Stalinist period 1948–1956?
text: Did you know that Henry Failing won his second term as mayor of Portland , Oregon with only five dissenting votes?
text: Did you know that Thomas Garrigus of Oregon was a silver medalist for the 1968 U.S. Olympic Team at the Summer Games in Mexico City ?
text: Did you know that the armed merchant cruiser HMS Hector was in the process of being decommissioned when she was sunk in the Easter Sunday Raid ?
text: Did you know that the oldest courthouse west of the Allegheny Mountains is in the historic district of Greensburg, Kentucky ?
text: Did you know that the Saharan silver ant has several unique adaptations that led it to be called "one of the most heat-resistant animals known"?
text: Did you know that Edmund Graves Brown , a member of the Louisiana Ewing newspaper family, was a U.S. Army officer in the Battle of the Bulge in 1944?
text: Did you know that G1.9+0.3 is the youngest known supernova remnant in the Milky Way ?
text: Did you know that the only peacetime George Cross won by a woman was awarded to Barbara Jane Harrison as a result of her actions during the fire on board BOAC Flight 712 in 1968?
text: Did you know that the WF01, the first racing car built by Embassy Racing , was named after team founder Jonathan France's recently born son?
text: Did you know that Haley Barbour became only the second Republican Governor of Mississippi since Reconstruction after winning the 2003 Mississippi gubernatorial election ?
text: Did you know that 22-year-old Ling Ling was the oldest panda in Japan at the time of his death in April 2008?
text: Did you know that the Hooper-Bowler-Hillstrom House features an indoor well pump , but a five-hole, two-story outhouse connected to the house via a skyway ?
text: Did you know that John Benjamin Murphy was an early advocate of appendectomies as an intervention for signs of appendicitis ?
text: Did you know that the Gauliga was a German football league system introduced by the Nazis after they took over the country in 1933?
text: Did you know that the Oregon Korean War Memorial was not built until nearly 50 years after the Korean War began?
text: Did you know that makers of Chantilly lace were guillotined during the French Revolution because they were seen as protégés of the royals?
text: Did you know that despite being the first hot blast iron furnace in Centre County, Pennsylvania , Bellefonte Furnace was idle for more than six of its first ten years of existence?
text: Did you know that by the end of the Second World War 60,968 ratings had passed through the Royal Navy stone frigate HMS Ganges ?
text: Did you know that Run, Buddy, Run , a 1966 CBS sitcom , featured Jack Sheldon fleeing from the mob after he overhears a gangster during a steam bath plotting a murder?
text: Did you know that for 25 years, Jack O'Brien conducted two parallel directing careers: Broadway musicals in New York City and Shakespeare in San Diego ?
text: Did you know that Welsh lawyer Edward Wynne was, in 1714, the first landowner to grow turnips on Anglesey ?
text: Did you know that the ethnic population of Omaha, Nebraska , including new and first generation immigrants , comprised fifty percent of that city's population in the 1920s ?
text: Did you know that in 1876, British historian Edwin Pears , as correspondent of The Daily News , sent letters home describing Ottoman atrocities in Bulgaria during the April Uprising which aroused demonstrations in England led by William Gladstone ?
text: Did you know that a 2003 medical study by Peter Pronovost , an intensive care physician at Johns Hopkins Hospital , on the use of simple checklists helped save 1500 lives and US$100 million?
text: Did you know that the Irish in Omaha, Nebraska were singled out by the American Protective Association for exclusion from public office in the 1890s?
text: Did you know that music printer Robert Birchall published the first English edition of Johann Sebastian Bach 's Well-Tempered Clavier in 1810?
text: Did you know that attempts to merge Cardiff Rugby Football Club and Cardiff Cricket Club to form Cardiff Athletic Club began as early as 1892, but were unsuccessful until 1922?
text: Did you know that although an engineer's report proposing the draining and development of the Everglades in 1912 was riddled with errors, it was still promoted by real-estate developers?
text: Did you know that Project Runway Australia will air on Arena , which was recently re-branded to the American Project Runway 's first station, Bravo ?
text: Did you know that Malcolm Baker won a national championship in rowing as a freshman at Brown University although he never rowed in high school?
text: Did you know that a year after conducting rival nuclear tests , India and Pakistan issued the 1999 Lahore Declaration , committing to develop safeguards to prevent nuclear conflict ?
text: Did you know that Aaron Lopez , who was denied citizenship in Colonial Rhode Island because he was Jewish , later became Newport 's wealthiest resident?
text: Did you know that before 1 January 2008 , milk with a fat content of 1 or 2% could not be labelled as milk in the United Kingdom ?
text: Did you know that Orlando Magic general manager Otis Smith founded a children's charity in his native Jacksonville which ran for two decades?
text: Did you know that the Musselburgh and Fisherrow Co-operative Society created headlines when it began a process of demutualization after 140 years as a co-operative ?
text: Did you know that the Caprock Chief was a proposed passenger train which would have connected Fort Worth, Texas and Denver, Colorado via the Texas Panhandle ?
text: Did you know that William Henry Leonard Poe wrote a short story about the failed relationship of his younger brother Edgar Allan Poe with Sarah Elmira Royster ?
text: Did you know that Jimmy Doolittle commanded a 22 plane demonstration celebrating the opening of Henderson, Kentucky 's Audubon Memorial Bridge in 1932?
text: Did you know that British Major-General Eric Cole , who helped plan the invasion of Normandy , was born in Malta and once played cricket with the Egypt national cricket team ?
text: Did you know that the New York Times wrote that W. S. Gilbert 's play Creatures of Impulse was a " burletta of the stamp that was in vogue a hundred years ago, resembling Midas "?
text: Did you know that Kuxa Kanema is a documentary about the Mozambique government’s first attempts to create a national cinema ?
text: Did you know that Kentucky 's Union County largely supported the Confederacy in the Civil War and built a monument to its Confederate dead afterwards?
text: Did you know that Whitney Ellsworth became associated with Major Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson 's fledgling company National Allied Publications , later known as DC Comics ?
text: Did you know that 6 of the Top 8 players at the 2002 Magic: The Gathering World Championship used Psychatog decks?
text: Did you know that by 1901, £ 4m of shares in the Suez Canal bought by Benjamin Disraeli in 1875 during his premiership were rising in value by £2m per year and yielding an annual dividend of £880,000?
text: Did you know that during World War I , aerial warfare expert Philip Roosevelt , first cousin once removed of Theodore Roosevelt , helped the United States Army plan its first air-land battle?
text: Did you know that Brussels lace is made in pieces, with the design made separate from the ground, unlike Mechlin lace or Valenciennes lace , and is known for its delicacy and beauty?
text: Did you know that the Soviet Union won a medal at every single Ice Hockey World Championships competition in which it participated?
text: Did you know that Are you a True Scotsman ? is part of Scottish military ritual determining that a kilted soldier is not wearing undergarments?
text: Did you know that Verna Arvey got her first break as an opera librettist after poet Langston Hughes left his libretto for the production Troubled Island unfinished?
text: Did you know that although the first Callawayasaurus fossil was discovered in 1962, it was not until 1999 that they were recognized as a separate genus ?
text: Did you know that Ayesha Omar sparked controversy in Pakistan when she painted two semi- nude self-portraits?
text: Did you know that Operation Facelift unified the United Kingdom's co-operative retailers with a single logo in 1968 , reinforcing The Co-operative brand ?
text: Did you know that Georgia Moffett was selected for the eponymous role in the Doctor Who episode " The Doctor's Daughter ", but not because her father is Peter Davison , the Fifth Doctor ?
text: Did you know that the 1911 Confederate Dedication Day ceremony key speakers at the Battle of Tebb's Bend Monument were former Union officers ?
text: Did you know that the African mustard Subularia monticola can be found forming a dense mat on sometimes flooded muds in a lake on Mount Elgon at 4,150 meters (13,620 ft) high?
text: Did you know that the unsolved murder of Mary Rogers was fictionalized as " The Mystery of Marie Roget " by Edgar Allan Poe ?
text: Did you know that the town of La Balize, Louisiana , at the mouth of the Mississippi River , was rebuilt several times after 1699 because of hurricanes before it was destroyed and abandoned around 1860?
text: Did you know that Erik Möller , Deputy Director of the Wikimedia Foundation , helped to develop both Wikinews and Wikimedia Commons ?
text: Did you know that the St. Philip's Church Ruins include the graves of two North Carolina governors and an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court ?
text: Did you know that Pythagoras , a sculptor from Samos in the 5th century BCE, was credited with the innovation of sculpting athletes with visible veins ?
text: Did you know that serial killer Nathaniel White claimed his first murder was inspired by a scene in RoboCop 2 ?
text: Did you know that Ichitaro Kanie grew Japan 's first tomatoes in 1899, founding the ¥ 157 billion Kagome tomato empire?
text: Did you know that the Confederate-Union Veterans' Monument in Morgantown, Kentucky was built due to the feelings of reconciliation following the Spanish-American War ?
text: Did you know that the Gottlieb Storz House in Omaha, Nebraska is home to the Astaire Ballroom, which is the only memorial to Adele and Fred Astaire in their home city?
text: Did you know that the 1999 Chamoli earthquake in India , in which 103 people died, was also felt in the Baitadi , Dadeldhura and Kanchanpur districts in Nepal ?
text: Did you know that former Detroit Red Wings head coach Jacques Demers is the only coach in the National Hockey League to have won the Jack Adams Award twice with the same team?
text: Did you know that Hoi Khanh Temple in Thu Dau Mot was once used as a meeting place by Vietnamese independence activists, including Ho Chi Minh 's father?
text: Did you know that A Bayou Legend by William Grant Still was the first opera composed by an African American to be broadcast on television?
text: Did you know that Israeli actress Hanna Maron lost her leg after a grenade was thrown at her airplane, but resumed her acting career a year later?
text: Did you know that Jordan 's Municipality of Salt derives its name from the Latin saltus meaning valley of trees as there is much greenery in the area?
text: Did you know that Harold Clapp 's "fiendish efficiency" in improving Victorian Railways ' train reliability was credited with losing Melbourne commuters "another excuse for being late for work in the mornings"?
text: Did you know that the Japanese visual novel Yotsunoha allows the player to navigate in a top-down perspective similar to a console role-playing game ?
text: Did you know that before Homer Plessy challenged the Separate Car Act leading to Plessy v. Ferguson , Daniel Desdunes had challenged it but had his charges dropped?
text: Did you know that the Orton Plantation near Wilmington, North Carolina , was attacked by Native Americans , used as a military hospital, and once owned by a Colonial governor?
text: Did you know that Brazilian actress Carmen Silva was diagnosed with the same illness, multiple organ dysfunction syndrome , as actor Oswaldo Louzada , who played her husband on the Brazilian telenovela , Mulheres Apaixonadas ?
text: Did you know that scholars disagree on whether the name of the Viking chieftain Jakun means either "blind" or "the handsome one"?
text: Did you know that Safi Faye 's 1975 film Kaddu Beykat was the first commercially distributed feature film made by a Sub-Saharan African woman?
text: Did you know that six governments have jurisdictional boundaries at Four Corners ?
text: Did you know that French top-ten single " Nuit " by the trio Fredericks Goldman Jones was penned in just a few hours?
text: Did you know that the Nashville Predators actually increased their team payroll by 44.30% between the 2003–04 NHL season and 2005–06 season , despite a league-wide drop of −22.73% after a salary cap was implemented?
text: Did you know that Speaking in Strings is a 1999 documentary film about classical violinist Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg , whose emotional concert performances have alienated some critics?
text: Did you know that CMKC Group will construct and retain 30-year management rights over 1500 km of new and 512 km of renovated railway in the Republic of the Congo ?
text: Did you know that although she was born in Argentina , Renata Fronzi pursued a successful acting career in theater , film and telenovelas in the neighboring country of Brazil ?
text: Did you know that while the New York Vauxhall Gardens drew in colonial New Yorkers with a wax museum and outdoor theater , a copycat competitor attracted them with ice cream ?
text: Did you know that the khutbah is the sermon delivered before the Muslim congregational Friday prayers and after the congregational prayers on each of the two annual Muslim festivals ?
text: Did you know that the second major land reform in Romania took place in 1921, following a promise made by King Ferdinand to the troops during World War I ?
text: Did you know that Major League Baseball pitcher Dom Zanni was once knocked unconscious in the seventh inning , yet went on to finish pitching the game and earn the win for the Chicago White Sox ?
text: Did you know that the Tamil film Nam Iruvar featured songs written by Indian nationalist Subramania Bharati ?
text: Did you know that San Diego 's El Cortez Hotel , site of the world's first outdoor glass elevator and moving sidewalk , became a school for evangelists in the 1970s?
text: Did you know that in his first murder case, real estate and divorce specialist Frederick Geoffrey Lawrence saved suspected serial killer Dr John Bodkin Adams from being hanged?
text: Did you know that in her 1992 documentary film Nitrate Kisses Barbara Hammer filmed an elderly lesbian couple having sex as part of an exploration of the repression and marginalization of LGBT history?
text: Did you know that railway transport in Nagpur started in 1867 when the Nagpur railway station was constructed using locally found pink sandstone ?
text: Did you know that the track "Hell's Angels" from Roy Harper 's 1970 album Flat Baroque and Berserk features an acoustic guitar played through a wah-wah pedal ?
text: Did you know that the theory of camouflage led the Special Air Service to use pink as the primary color on the desert camouflaged Land Rover Series IIA patrol vehicles, leading to the nickname The Pink Panthers ?
text: Did you know that the assembly location Arkils tingstad may have been made to Christianize the Vikings who lived in its vicinity?
text: Did you know that the first roadside park in the world was in 1919 at Iron River, Michigan ?
text: Did you know that the Polish minority in Ireland is the country's largest minority group apart from British people ?
text: Did you know that the Master of the Saint Bartholomew Altarpiece was among the leading painters in Cologne at the beginning of the sixteenth century ?
text: Did you know that astronauts have a patch of velcro inside their helmets that acts as a nose scratcher and that the manufacturing process used to create silent velcro for the U.S. Army is a military secret?
text: Did you know that a timber in Nutley Windmill , an open trestle post mill in Sussex , England , has been dated by dendrochronology to 1738–70, and the main post is even older, dating to 1533–70?
text: Did you know that former University of Texas at Austin President William S. Livingston also chaired the committee that established the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs ?
text: Did you know that The Janus Man , a thriller concerning espionage and betrayal, is the fourth book in the "Tweed and Co." series, for which Colin Forbes published a book every year from 1982 to his death in 2006?
text: Did you know that the 40th Grey Cup in 1952 was the first time this Canadian football championship was broadcast on television?
text: Did you know that Gilberto Gil describes his 2006 album Gil Luminoso as being religiously themed, although he is an agnostic ?
text: Did you know that the historic Golden Gate Theater was saved by a stop-work order after demolition crews had begun to dismantle the walls?
text: Did you know that Sam Cowan is the only footballer to have represented Manchester City in three FA Cup finals?
text: Did you know that after writing Confederates in the Attic , Tony Horwitz was sued for calling Alberta Martin 's husband a deserter in the book?
text: Did you know that DePauw Avenue Historic District , New Albany, Indiana , was once the summer estate of the man who owned two thirds of the plate glass business of the United States ?
text: Did you know that a report criticizing senior Pakistani leaders—including General Abdul Hamid Khan —over their conduct during the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War , was long suppressed by the Pakistani government?
text: Did you know that Harley Parker , in 1973 , was selected to be the first William A. Kern Institute Professor of Communications at the Rochester Institute of Technology , in Rochester, New York ?
text: Did you know that the cargo ship MV Virginian , now under contract to Military Sealift Command , was accidentally hit by an Exocet missile while unloading cargo in Iraq in 1986?
text: Did you know that the Madhu school bus bombing was one of a number of attacks on civilian buses in Sri Lanka in early 2008?
text: Did you know that prior to his election to the Oregon State Senate , Rick Metsger was best-known as a sportscaster for a Portland, Oregon television station?
text: Did you know that the idiopathic inflammatory lung disease diffuse panbronchiolitis has the highest incidence among Japanese , Korean , Chinese and Thai cases, indicating a genetic predisposition among East Asians ?
text: Did you know that Dr Arthur Henry Douthwaite 's testimony in court against suspected serial killer Dr John Bodkin Adams is said to have cost him the presidency of the Royal College of Physicians ?
text: Did you know that Daddy Cool’s 1971 single " Eagle Rock " remained at #1 on the Australian National charts for a record ten weeks before being replaced by the single "Daddy Cool" by another band cashing in their success?
text: Did you know that Italy 's newly appointed Minister for Equal Opportunity, Mara Carfagna , used to be a showgirl and a glamour model ?
text: Did you know that the 1952 Pittsburgh Pirates , the worst Pirates team of the 20th century , were so bad that their catcher Joe Garagiola later said "In an eight-team league , we should've finished ninth"?
text: Did you know that the highest temperature ever recorded in Ireland , where the climate is temperate oceanic , was 33.3ºC (91.9ºF) at Kilkenny Castle on 26 June , 1887 ?
text: Did you know that the Kaleva Bottle House was built using over 60,000 bottles ?
text: Did you know that S.A. Swaminatha Iyer protested the British salt tax in India at the first session of the Indian National Congress in 1885 ?
text: Did you know that after months of work, future Canadian impresario Samuel Gesser made only $200 from his first production, a 1953 Pete Seeger concert?
text: Did you know that Methodist minister Ephraim Kingsbury Avery is amongst the first clergymen known to have been tried for murder in the United States ?
text: Did you know that Safi Faye is a Senegalese film director whose work is better known in Europe than in her native Africa ?
text: Did you know that England 's Auditor of the Imprests , an office responsible for auditing the accounts of public officials such as the Paymaster of the Forces , became a lucrative sinecure before being abolished in 1782?
text: Did you know that after being found not guilty of murdering her ex-husband, Mary Leonard became the first woman in Oregon allowed to practice law?
text: Did you know that Ulysses S. Grant sent his family to live in the Licking Riverside neighborhood of Covington, Kentucky in 1862?
text: Did you know that Michigan Limestone and Chemical Company is the world's largest limestone quarry?
text: Did you know that The Reverend John H. Taylor served as post- Chief of Staff for former United States President Richard Nixon from 1979 to 1994?
text: Did you know that association footballers Jimmy Willis and Steve Finnan are the only players to have scored in the top five divisions of English league football ?
text: Did you know that Lakshmisha 's 16th century Kannada writing, the Jaimini Bharata , focuses on the horse sacrifice chapter of the Hindu epic Mahābhārata ?
text: Did you know that in addition to providing cargo service to Ascension Island , the freighter MV Ascension also helped researchers study its green sea turtle population?
text: Did you know that in 1838, Philip Kelland became the first English-born and wholly English-educated mathematician to hold the chair of Professor of Mathematics at the University of Edinburgh ?
text: Did you know that American manufacturing executive Chris J. Lee left the business of making air springs , elastomers , rate controls , rope isolators and solenoid valves to run for Congress ?
text: Did you know that the largest post mill in Sussex received the largest Heritage Lottery Fund grant for an individual windmill in the United Kingdom?
text: Did you know that J. Evetts Haley , the historian of the American West who ran in 1956 for governor of Texas , told Duval County political boss George Parr that "it will be my pleasure to lock you up"?
text: Did you know that in a VFL game against North Melbourne , Fitzroy player Frank Curcio famously stated "hit me as hard as you like, but don’t hurt my fingers"?
text: Did you know that Gibraltarian degree-level students studying in a UK university receive a full scholarship from the Government of Gibraltar ?
text: Did you know that Omaha pioneer Andrew J. Hanscom started a large-scale fight in the Nebraska Territory House of Representatives over the location of the territorial capital?
text: Did you know that Van Hanh Zen Temple is the base of a team of Buddhist scholars who are producing a Vietnamese translation of the Pali Canon ?
text: Did you know that the effects of tides can affect ice sheet dynamics up to 100 km (60 miles) inland?
text: Did you know that the author of Captain Lindley Miller's 1864 " Marching Song of the First Arkansas " has only recently been determined?
text: Did you know that dissidents within the Polish community in Omaha burnt down a church in the Sheelytown neighborhood in 1895 rather than relinquish control to the local Roman Catholic bishop ?
text: Did you know that Heinrich Barbl , an SS - Rottenführer , helped install piping for the gas chambers at Sobibór extermination camp ?
text: Did you know that in 1892, George Brann became only the third cricketer to score two centuries in a match, after W. G. Grace and William Lambert ?
text: Did you know that Sac Tu Tam Bao Temple was used by Vietnamese revolutionaries as a munitions factory by in the 1916 Cochinchina uprising ?
text: Did you know that the Tinh Xa Trung Tam Buddhist temple in Ho Chi Minh City is regarded as the spiritual birthplace of the khất sĩ tradition?
text: Did you know that Elvia Carrillo Puerto founded the first feminist leagues to provide family planning programs with legalized birth control in the Western Hemisphere ?
text: Did you know that Hall of Fame goaltender Glenn Hall ended his record -setting 502 consecutive-games streak in the National Hockey League as a Chicago Black Hawk during the 1962–63 season ?
text: Did you know that British actress Jacqueline Voltaire won a "most bizarre sex scene" award in 2005 for her performance in the Mexican film Matando Cabos ?
text: Did you know that the Kh'Leang Temple in Soc Trang is a Khmer Theravada building from 1533—predating Vietnamese settlement—which incorporates Greek architecture ?
text: Did you know that screenwriter Allan Loeb 's agent dropped him the day he began writing the script that saved his career?
text: Did you knowthat fire is one of the most important forming processes of the geography and ecology of the Everglades ?
text: Did you knowthat the barrack at Aghavannagh , which was primarily built so that British forces could more easily track rebels of the 1798 rebellion , became a youth hostel during the 1900s?
text: Did you knowthat sportswriter and Green Bay Packers employee Lee Remmel was one of twelve people to cover the first forty Super Bowls ?
text: Did you knowthat to preserve national unity, Polish king Stefan Batory restored the city of Danzig 's economic and religious privileges after an uprising ?
text: Did you knowthat the Silver Snoopy award is presented to recipients personally by astronauts ?
text: Did you knowthat Israeli writer Eli Amir called for more Israeli literature to be translated into Arabic to promote understanding?
text: Did you knowthat Bobby Hull became the third player in NHL history to score 50 goals in a season during the 1961–62 Chicago Black Hawks season ?
text: Did you knowthat the main hall of Tay An Temple contains around 200 Buddhist statues?
text: Did you know that as a college athlete, Detroit Tigers outfielder Matt Joyce played in an exhibition game against the Tigers three years before his Major League debut with them?
text: Did you know that Belgian filmmaker Armand Denis , who became famous for his wildlife documentaries with his wife Michaela in the 1950s, began his career working as a scientist and inventor?
text: Did you know that the rural settlement of Mount Mee, Queensland , gets its name from the local Indigenous Australian word mia-mia , meaning "lookout"?
text: Did you know that a young black aspiring actor by the name of James Earl Jones had his beginnings at the Ramsdell Theatre in Manistee, Michigan ?
text: Did you know that Sri Lankan Tamil Nationalism was a concept adapted by the same people who earlier thought that this concept was suicidal?
text: Did you know that Kitch-iti-kipi is Michigan's largest freshwater spring and a major tourist attraction?
text: Did you know that sanfedisti irregulars, led by Cardinal Fabrizio Ruffo , toppled the Parthenopaean Republic in 1799, restoring the monarchy of Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies ?
text: Did you know that Barzillai Quaife has been described both as " New Zealand 's first public anti- racist " and " Australia 's first philosopher "?
text: Did you know that the Pond Eddy Bridge , built in 1904, is the only artery to access 22 homes in Pennsylvania ?
text: Did you know that because it reflects Hungarian phonology , the original middle name of singer and comedian Ioan Gyuri Pascu was misspelled on his Romanian -issued birth certificate ?
text: Did you know that Devil's Den gully , located within the Heber Down Conservation Area , was so named because the local inhabitants believed that the Devil was holding court there?
text: Did you know that Chris Garneau 's debut album Music For Tourists has a hidden track that is a cover of an Elliott Smith song?
text: Did you know that the Reverend Henry Tibbs was accused of calling Winston Churchill a drug addict in 1940?
text: Did you know that Birely, Hillman & Streaker was the only Philadelphian manufacturer of wooden ships to survive the post- Civil War slump?
text: Did you know that Odd With , member of the Norwegian Parliament for the Christian Democratic Party , was the grandfather of 2006 Pop Idol victor Aleksander Denstad With ?
text: Did you know that the US Navy 's Casco -class monitors , long delayed due to the exacting standards of Chief Engineer Alban C. Stimers , proved barely able to float on debut and were quickly withdrawn from service?
text: Did you know that the Vondelpark in Amsterdam , Netherlands annually attracts around 10 million visitors?
text: Did you know that the Nebraska Republican Party nabbed Democratic candidate Max Yashirin 's namesake domain name and posted unflattering photos of him there after he stood for Nebraska's 1st congressional district ?
text: Did you know that Milorg resistance member Osmund Faremo later served as member of the national parliament and local mayor for the Norwegian Labour Party ?
text: Did you know that the last old-Kannada grammar , authored by Bhattakalanka Deva in circa 1604 CE, followed the model of Sanskrit grammar?
text: Did you know that US abolitionist Robert Purvis had two grandparents who were English , a grandmother kidnapped at twelve from Morocco and enslaved in Charleston , and a grandfather who was German Jewish ?
text: Did you know that in Holy Trinity Church, Warrington , is a brass chandelier which formerly hung in St Stephen's Chapel in the British House of Commons ?
text: Did you know that publisher Gopal Raju , considered a pioneer of ethnic media in the United States , founded India Abroad , which claims to be the oldest Indian American newspaper in North America ?
text: Did you know that the Klaipėda Geothermal Demonstration Plant in Klaipėda , Lithuania , constructed during the late 1990s and early 2000s, is the first geothermal heating plant in the Baltic Sea region?
text: Did you know that the military prowess of the Tulunid dynasty of Arab Egypt was due to its multi-ethnic army composed of Turkish people , Sudanese , and Greek soldiers?
text: Did you know that a nuclear bomb test that significantly fails to produce its estimated yield is called a fizzle ?
text: Did you know that the Yan emperor Shi Chaoyi committed suicide to avoid capture, and that after his death, his head was delivered to the Tang Dynasty capital Chang'an ?
text: Did you know that Theodore O'Hara 's Bivouac of the Dead , popularized in American Civil War memorials , was actually written for fallen Kentucky soldiers in Latin America a decade before the War?
text: Did you know that William Miles Maskell was a New Zealandic farmer and entomologist who advocated biological pest control ?
text: Did you know that Harold Dow Bugbee of Texas sought to become the premier artist of the South Plains , as Charles M. Russell became for the northern Great Plains ?
text: Did you know that Rajah Sir Muthiah Chettiar was the first Mayor of Chennai Corporation , after the mayoralty was reinstated in 1933?
text: Did you know that U.S. shipping company Sealift Incorporated has been awarded over US$ 400,000,000 in government contracts since the start of the 2000 fiscal year ?
text: Did you know that Bahá'í Faith in Niger began during a period of wide scale growth in the religion across Sub-Saharan Africa near the end of its colonial period ?
text: Did you know that Albert Kidd scored two goals in the last 10 minutes of the 1985-86 Scottish football season to deny Hearts the championship , despite having not scored in the whole season until then?
text: Did you know that the Champion passenger train connected New York City and St. Petersburg, Florida for forty years before Amtrak consolidated it with its former rival the Silver Meteor ?
text: Did you know that the book Fear by Jan T. Gross has been a subject of significant controversy in Poland ?
text: Did you know that the Central Eurasian Studies Society is the first society for Central Asian scholars based in North America?
text: Did you know that De Doctrina Christiana , identified as John Milton 's attempt to define his own particular Christian theology , was suppressed by the government of the day and not published until 150 years after his death?
text: Did you know that Valda Cooper became the first female managing editor of any daily newspaper in New Mexico ?
text: Did you know that Louisville, Kentucky 's first rock and roll venue, in Lake Dreamland , may have been burned down by an angry resident?
text: Did you know that in 1686 Michael Shen Fu-Tsung , a Jesuit convert from Nanking , arrived at the court of James II and became the first recorded Chinese person to visit Britain ?
text: Did you know that in the Jilava Massacre , perpetrated in Romania in 1940, 64 prisoners were shot to death, including a former prime minister, justice minister, and chief of secret police?
text: Did you know that Indian film director Nitin Bose , who directed the blockbuster Ganga Jamuna in 1961, had introduced playback singing in Indian cinema in 1935?
text: Did you know that during the Liberian Civil Wars over 5,000 artifacts were looted from the Liberian National Museum but a 250-year-old dining table given as a gift from Queen Victoria to Liberia 's first President remains?
text: Did you know that Raleigh Springs Mall in Memphis, Tennessee lost three of its four anchor stores ( JCPenney , Dillard's and Goldsmith's ) all in the same year?
text: Did you know that Flaithbertach Ua Néill , king of Ailech in Ireland , was called Flaithbertach an Trostáin, Flaithbertach of the Pilgrim's staff, as a result of his pilgrimage to Rome in 1030?
text: Did you know that besides training its own officers, the Pakistan Naval Academy has trained over 2000 officers of allied navies including the Chief of Naval Staff of the Qatar Emiri Navy?
text: Did you know that the United States Forest Service and Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife partnered with the Paisley, Oregon community to restore the Chewaucan River habitat for native redband trout ?
text: Did you know that French Jesuit missionary and mathematician Guy Tachard was involved in embassies to Siam , which came as responses to embassies sent by the Siamese King Narai to France in order to obtain an alliance against the Dutch?
text: Did you know that the Schweizer SGP 1-1 glider was launched by an elastic bungee cord , originally pulled by children and later by a Ford Model A car?
text: Did you know that Governor of Italian Libya Italo Balbo brought 20,000 Italians to Libya in 1938, founding 26 new villages for them, in an attempt to colonise it?
text: Did you know that bouclé is a type of novelty yarn that uses special plying techniques to obtain its charateristic loopy appearence?
text: Did you know that tourism in Kenya is the country's second largest source of foreign revenue?
text: Did you know that the Buckeye is the only U.S. breed of chicken known to have been created by a woman?
text: Did you know that the TARDIS broke while filming the final scene of the Doctor Who episode " The Poison Sky "?
text: Did you know that a story in Janna 's 13th-century Kannada classic Yashodhara Charite deals with sadomasochism and transmigration of the soul ?
text: Did you know that the land acquisitions for the Southern Railway's Spencer Shops in 1896 were secretly done to prevent land speculation ?
text: Did you know that anthropologist Therkel Mathiassen described Comer's Midden as the only substantial find of pure Thule culture in Greenland ?
text: Did you know that the revitalized Historic District of Apex, North Carolina has been described as a " Gucci Mayberry "?
text: Did you know that legendary princess Yennenga , the "mother" of the Mossi people, was such a great warrior that her father refused to allow her to marry?
text: Did you know that publication of Malaysian newspaper Makkal Osai was suspended following its printing of a caricature of Jesus holding a cigarette and a can of beer?
text: Did you know that Simbolul was a Romanian literary magazine published by Tristan Tzara and Marcel Janco , later two of Dadaism 's founders, while they were still in high school?
text: Did you know that the Chicago Blackhawks , with the longest active Stanley Cup drought in the National Hockey League , last won the Cup in the 1960–61 season ?
text: Did you know that as a result of dog shows, dog fanciers established stud books and began refining breeds from the various types of dogs in use?
text: Did you know that although Lookdown are common in tropical Atlantic waters, they are rarely seen in the Greater Antilles ?
text: Did you know that Ronald Joy was an English cricketer , who played eight County Championship matches in the 1928 season ?
text: Did you know that the Indian Coast Guard estimates more than 100 fishing boats and an unknown number of fishermen annually stray across the territorial waters of India and Pakistan ?
text: Did you know that the most popular tourist attraction in Omaha has been voted the best zoo in America , with the largest cat complex in North America ?
text: Did you know that Joseph M. Street , a 19th century American pioneer, was present at the signing of the peace treaty ending the Winnebago War ?
text: Did you know that following the Darwin Rebellion of December 1918, HMAS Encounter was sent to Darwin to protect Administrator John Gilruth and his family?
text: Did you know that troops of Tadayoshi Sano , a lieutenant general for the Imperial Japanese Army , were reported to have committed atrocities against civilians in Hong Kong and British prisoners of war ?
text: Did you know that, during a Fersommling , the only language spoken is Pennsylvania Dutch and that anyone who speaks English has to pay a fine for each word?
text: Did you know that the French stormed the Bagration flèches eight times during the Battle of Borodino in 1812?
text: Did you know that Canadian radio broadcaster Clyde Gilmour hosted a weekly national show for more than 40 years, presenting from his substantial personal music collection?
text: Did you know that in 1789 Spain seized the British sloop Princess Royal , nearly causing a war , then used the vessel to explore the Strait of Juan de Fuca , finding the San Juan Islands and the entrances to Puget Sound and the Strait of Georgia ?
text: Did you know that the obscure mealybug , a pest of vineyards in New Zealand and California , is believed to have been introduced from Australia or South America ?
text: Did you know that the present-day city of Davenport, Iowa is named after George Davenport , a 19th century American frontiersman, trader and US Army officer?
text: Did you know that the Tamil film Thyagabhoomi is the only Indian film banned by the British Raj for propagating the cause of India's freedom struggle ?
text: Did you know that Daniel Carter Beard 's boyhood home was a nurses' dormitory when it became a National Historic Landmark ?
text: Did you know that it was rumored that some seals escaped Minneapolis 's Longfellow Zoological Gardens into nearby Minnehaha Creek ?
text: Did you know that the forthcoming Tamil film Guru En Aalu , starring Madhavan and Mamta Mohandas , is a remake of the 1997 film Yes Boss ?
text: Did you know that Bradford City footballers Geoff Smith and George Mulholland each played more than 200 consecutive appearances for the club during the 1950s?
text: Did you know that Salt Lake City -based robotics firm Sarcos is developing a military powered exoskeleton allowing wearers to easily lift 200 pounds (91 kg)?
text: Did you know that in 1847 French Admiral Jean-Baptiste Cécille sent a captain to attack Vietnam to obtain the release of a bishop , not knowing the bishop had already been freed?
text: Did you know that a riot reportedly instigated by writer André Breton broke out during the 1923 premiere of Tristan Tzara 's Le Cœur à gaz , a play written as a nonsensical dialog between human body parts?
text: Did you know that in 1994 Martin Doherty became the first person to be killed in the Republic of Ireland by loyalist paramilitaries since 1975?
text: Did you know that inscriptions found on a stone pillar in the village of Talagunda in India describe the rise of the Kadamba dynasty?
text: Did you know that the Silky Sifaka is a white, diurnal rainforest sifaka found solely within a small area of northeastern Madagascar ?
text: Did you know that Andayya 's 13th century Kannada work Kabbigara Kava is considered important for its strict adherence to the indigenous Kannada language?
text: Did you know that the sacrifice of Jean Cadieux on behalf of his companions during an Iroquois attack in 1707 is still commemorated by the inhabitants of Calumet Island ?
text: Did you know that Lena Guerrero , who became a Texas state legislator at twenty-five, was the first non- Anglo person to have served on the Texas Railroad Commission ?
text: Did you know that Robert the Devil , an operatic parody by W. S. Gilbert of Meyerbeer's opera Robert le diable , ends with the devil being punished by becoming part of the exhibit at Madame Tussaud's ?
text: Did you know that VFL footballer Charlie Moore , the first Australian to die of gunshot wounds in the Boer War , played in the 1898 VFL Grand Final against Stan Reid , who died in the same war six weeks later?
text: Did you know that the Stöðulög laws of 1871 declared Iceland an inseparable part of Denmark ?
text: Did you know that the 18th century American soldier Isaac Bowman , his father George Bowman , and his grandfather Jost Hite were all prominent pioneers in the Colony of Virginia ?
text: Did you know that Shabdamanidarpana , a comprehensive and authoritative work on the grammar of the Kannada language , was written in the 13th century by the Indian linguist and poet Kesiraja ?
text: Did you know that the 1927 disappearance of the French biplane The White Bird ( L'Oiseau Blanc ), in an attempt to make the first nonstop transatlantic flight from Paris to New York , is one of the great unexplained mysteries of aviation ?
text: Did you know that English football full back Alfred Bower was the last amateur player to captain the English national team in 1927?
text: Did you know that screenwriter Daniel Knauf 's polio -afflicted father was the inspiration for his television series Carnivàle ?
text: Did you know that a majority of the 114 killed in the 1994 Gowari stampede at Nagpur were women and children crushed to death under the crowd’s feet?
text: Did you know that according to Brunei folklore Nakhoda Manis disrespected his mother, which caused a storm to sink his ship in the Brunei River , transforming the ship into the rock known as Jong Batu ?
text: Did you know that Elizabethan mathematician and cartographer Edward Wright is said to be "the only Fellow of Caius ever to be granted sabbatical leave in order to engage in piracy "?
text: Did you know that Kim Swoo Geun , a leading South Korean architect, was referred to as " Lorenzo de Medici of Seoul " by Time for his contributions to Korean culture ?
text: Did you know that the Bevier House Museum in Marbletown, New York includes the earliest known land grant map for Ulster County ?
text: Did you know that the lawsuit Motte v. Faulkner in 1735 was a legal dispute over the right to publish Jonathan Swift 's complete works and its outcome was viewed by Swift as another example of English oppression?
text: Did you know that although there is no commercial mining in Equatorial Guinea , 200 kilograms (440 pounds) of gold were retrieved in 2006?
text: Did you know that Swedish soldier Charles F. Henningsen participated in civil wars and independence movements in Spain , Nicaragua , Hungary and the United States , but died without ever winning any of the causes for which he fought?
text: Did you know that the distribution company Bunzl once held a virtual monopoly on the manufacture of cigarette filters in the U.K. ?
text: Did you know that Dr. Seuss's The Seven Lady Godivas is one of his few books written for adults, and though it was initially a failure when first published in 1939, original editions have sold for upwards of US$ 300?
text: Did you know that L'Insoumis , a film noir alluding to the Algerian war , was Alain Delon 's first real failure despite his acclaimed performance?
text: Did you know that the Pinchot Sycamore , a centuries-old American sycamore , is the largest tree in Connecticut ?
text: Did you know that ablative brain surgery , which involves destroying brain tissue by heat or freezing, was used until recently in the People's Republic of China to treat people with schizophrenia ?
text: Did you know that Winkhurst Kitchen and Titchfield Market Hall, which are now at the Weald and Downland Open Air Museum , Singleton , Sussex , have been dismantled and re-erected twice?
text: Did you know that the Congressional Bowl is one of two new college football bowl games that will be played in the United States this year?
text: Did you know that Rosetta Genomics Ltd. is a molecular diagnostics company that uses micro-ribonucleic acid biomarkers to develop diagnostic tests designed to differentiate between various types of cancer ?
text: Did you know that the first public library in Covington, Kentucky was built by its Trinity Episcopal Church ?
text: Did you know that at only five weeks old, Flocke the polar bear cub from Nuremberg Zoo was touted by Bild to be the future "Mrs. Knut "?
text: Did you know that when the first indigenous people of the Everglades region arrived in southern Florida 15,000 years ago, the region was an arid sandy landscape?
text: Did you know that visiting Cistercian monks could extend the hospitality of Stratford Langthorne Abbey , near London , by supplying wine and beer for themselves and oats and hay for their horses?
text: Did you know that the Mark Eden bust developer , a product claimed to enlarge women's breasts , actually worked by increasing the pectoral and back muscles?
text: Did you know that the Galena Historic District in Illinois , USA , includes more than a thousand historic properties and occupies as much as 85 percent of the city of Galena ?
text: Did you know that in Claude Ashton 's only international appearance for the English national football team , he captained the squad?
text: Did you know that the 12th century Kannada poet Harihara was initially an accountant in the Hoysala court?
text: Did you know that restoration of the Old Savannah School House was the first project undertaken by the National Trust for the Cayman Islands after its creation?
text: Did you know that the Knickerbocker Baseball Club of New York used the first recorded baseball uniform in 1849 ?
text: Did you know that as General Secretary of the Mexican railroad workers union, Demetrio Vallejo renounced his salary of 20,000 pesos a month, requesting it be turned over to the railway union treasury?
text: Did you know that the 1842 Lombard Street Riot capped thirteen years of recurring racial violence in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania ?
text: Did you know that after Roche MacGeoghegan , Bishop of Kildare , died in 1644, his library was divided between his diocese and the Dominican Order ?
text: Did you know that excavations of the Cherokee town Tallassee , burnt down during the Chickamauga Wars and submerged by an artificial lake since 1957, uncovered evidence of habitation as early as the Woodland period ?
text: Did you know that Kisan Kanya made by Ardeshir Irani in 1937 is India 's first indigenously made color film ?
text: Did you know that Omaha's zoo was renamed in honor of longtime Omaha World-Herald publisher Henry Doorly in 1963?
text: Did you know that forces of the Dutch West India Company captured Axim in present-day Ghana and signed a treaty with the local West Africans in 1642 to become the major European power in the Gold Coast region ?
text: Did you know that Frank Ford , an organic food farmer in Deaf Smith County, Texas , was the chief advertising spokesman for the health foods industry during its founding decades of the 1960s and the 1970s?
text: Did you know that Lithuanian nobleman Feodor Ostrogski was a governor of Volhynia , a region of Ukraine ?
text: Did you know that the Ilmin Museum of Art is an art museum of South Korea , located on Sejongno , Jongno-gu , central district of Seoul where royal palaces and gates of Joseon dynasty are also situated?
text: Did you know that some scholars believe that John Wannuaucon Quinney was the originator of the term Native American ?
text: Did you know that China and Peru are expected to sign a free trade agreement during the 2008 APEC summit ?
text: Did you know that the tiny Dinkey Train of only a passenger coach and dummy engine went to Mammoth Cave ?
text: Did you know that in February 2008, rugby league player Dan Dempsey was named in the list of Australia's 100 Greatest Players ?
text: Did you know that eight buildings in Newport, Rhode Island 's Bellevue Avenue Historic District are designated as National Historic Landmarks , in addition to the district itself?
text: Did you know that HNoMS Honningsvåg was a German fishing trawler captured in the Norwegian Campaign and served the Royal Norwegian Navy throughout World War II ?
text: Did you know that Spanish American cardiologist Valentin Fuster is the only cardiologist to receive all four major research awards from the world's four major cardiovascular organizations?
text: Did you know that the May 30, 1998 Afghanistan earthquake was also felt at Samarkand in Uzbekistan , Islamabad in Pakistan , and Dushanbe in Tajikistan ?
text: Did you know that the late actress and theatrical producer , Madeline Lee Gilford , who was blacklisted during the McCarthy Era , is scheduled to appear in the forthcoming 2008 film, Sex and the City ?
text: Did you know that Sabr is the Islamic virtue of patience and endurance ?
text: Did you know that the Roanoke Apartments , which opened as Roanoke 's largest apartment complex, are an example of Streamline Moderne architecture?
text: Did you know that Mathilde Ludendorff , a leader in the German Völkisch movement , claimed astrology was part of a Jewish effort to enslave the Germans?
text: Did you know that an uncle of Christopher Columbus served as a keeper of Genoa 's Torre della Lanterna ?
text: Did you know that the spirits of a wealthy rancher and his Indian wife have been seen and heard since the 1920s at Leonis Adobe , according to TV show Most Haunted ?
text: Did you know that a shrew's fiddle was used to punish women who were caught fighting or arguing in Germany and Austria , often until both women agreed to stop bickering?
text: Did you know that a 150 year-old weeping beech tree , considered to be the source of weeping beeches in the United States and declared a landmark in 1966, was located in Weeping Beech Park at Kingsland Homestead in Queens , New York ?
text: Did you know that in February 2008, rugby league player Brian Hambly was named in the list of Australia 's 100 Greatest Players ?
text: Did you know that Samuel Johnson failed to get a job at Brewood Grammar School because headmaster William Budworth was concerned with Johnson's head movements?
text: Did you know that Lopez and Pico Adobes , built near the San Fernando Mission , are the oldest residences in San Fernando Valley , California ?
text: Did you know that the Denver Broncos , who made the National Football League playoffs seventeen times between 1977 and 2005 , did not make the playoffs at all in their first seventeen seasons ?
text: Did you know that the Old Stone House is the oldest standing building in Washington, D.C. ?
text: Did you know that despite nine hundred Roman Catholic churches being built in England in the fifty years after 1791 , St John the Baptist's Church in Brighton was only the fourth to be consecrated since the Reformation ?
text: Did you know that U-boat commander Heinrich Bleichrodt refused to wear his Knight's Cross until his subordinate, Reinhard Suhren received one as well?
text: Did you know that NASCAR took away the first win for its all-time winningest driver at Lakewood Speedway after his father protested the scoring?
text: Did you know that despite never making landfall, remnant moisture from Hurricane Madeline in 1998 contributed to severe flooding in central Texas which killed 32 people?
text: Did you know that the annual Chembuduppu festival at St. George Orthodox Church, Chandanapally is held in commemoration of non- Christians bringing rice to feed hundreds of voluntary labourers during its construction?
text: Did you know that Breed Street Shul , now vacant in a Hispanic part of Los Angeles , was the largest Orthodox synagogue in the western United States from 1915 to 1951?
text: Did you know that " Guten Tag " , the first single of German band Wir sind Helden featured a video which was a self-ironic statement against commercial music?
text: Did you know that Raghavanka , a 12th century writer of Kannada literature , penned five classics just to expiate a sin his guru felt he had committed?
text: Did you know that Omaha University was first located in the Redick Mansion of North Omaha 's once-affluent Kountze Place suburb?
text: Did you know that An Qingxu killed his father An Lushan , the Emperor of Yan , because he feared that his father would kill him and make his brother crown prince ?
text: Did you know that the first East Lake Community Library in Minneapolis was called a "reading factory" because it looked like a storefront?
text: Did you know that Tamil politician E. V. K. Sampath , nephew of Periyar , co-founded the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam party?
text: Did you know that the pumpman is the person aboard an oil tanker who maintains the liquid cargo system?
text: Did you know that screenwriter Jamie Linden interpreted his winning of US$ 5,000 on game show The Price Is Right as a sign to relocate to Hollywood , California ?
text: Did you know that the G.A.R. Monument in Covington, Kentucky is the only American Civil War monument in the Bluegrass state shaped like a sarcophagus ?
text: Did you know that Russell B. Cummings , as a member of the Texas House of Representatives in the 1960s, was credited with procuring passage of his state's open beach and kindergarten access laws?
text: Did you know that the Japanese virtual 3D massively multiplayer online social game Ai Sp@ce will launch in summer 2008 featuring interaction with bishōjo game characters?
text: Did you know that Cormac mac Cuilennáin , bishop and king of Munster , later considered a saint , was killed in battle in 908 while leading an invasion of Leinster ?
text: Did you know that the Zimbabwe Open University is the largest university in Zimbabwe and the only distance education university in the country?
text: Did you know that the Veteran's Monument in Covington in Kentucky is the state's only Civil War platform memorial and also the only one referring to that conflict as the "War Between the States"?
text: Did you know that Frederick II of Prussia was elated by the First Partition of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth ?
text: Did you know that the 27th U.S. President William Howard Taft 's boyhood home almost became a funeral parlor ?
text: Did you know that male prostitutes in Pakistan generally range from fifteen to twenty-five years of age?
text: Did you know that, in a bid to remain in power, Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos asked his Labor Minister Blas Ople to reach out to the Soviet Union ?
text: Did you know that Raymond Berry is a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame , having been inducted in 1973, eleven years before he became the Patriots' head coach ?
text: Did you know that Shnaim Ohazin was an Israeli Educational Television show that taught basic concepts from the Talmud with fictionalized time travel segments?
text: Did you know that councilman Larry Gossett works in an office at the King County Courthouse in King County, Washington , located exactly where he was jailed for unlawful assembly after a 1968 sit-in ?
text: Did you know that English engineer Roy Lunn was responsible for the development of the Ford Mustang I and the first American 4WD cars?
text: Did you know that the main tourist attractions of Botswana are its game reserves?
text: Did you know that despite over 85% of American Indian students giving it their support, the mascot controversy at Humboldt High School in Saint Paul, Minnesota resulted in the abandonment of its Indians mascot ?
text: Did you know that some Bahá'í prayers have been translated into more than five hundred languages?
text: Did you know that Cheryl Dunye 's 1996 film The Watermelon Woman was the first feature film to be directed by a black lesbian?
text: Did you know that the Failing Office Building in Portland, Oregon is named after a mayor of Portland and built by a locally prominent architecture firm?
text: Did you know that the flora of Scotland includes the world's tallest hedge , a yew which may be Europe 's oldest tree, and Dughall Mor ("big dark stranger") – Britain 's tallest tree?
text: Did you know that the dialogues for the Tamil film Parasakthi were penned by M. Karunanidhi who later became the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu ?
text: Did you know that a scrapped demolition proposal for the Baytown Tunnel in Baytown, Texas would have utilized former pieces of its structure in the creation of an artificial reef in the Gulf of Mexico ?
text: Did you know that the first organized postal system in India was established between the British East India Company factories at Madras and Calcutta during the tenure of Edward Harrison ?
text: Did you know that Maher Arar was deported to Syria and tortured after being wrongly identified as an "Islamic Extremist" by Project O Canada ?
text: Did you know that wildlife biologist Olaus Murie was the first American Fulbright Scholar to study in New Zealand ?
text: Did you know that Clarence Hailey Long , a ranch foreman in the Texas Panhandle , was the inspiration for the original Marlboro Man advertising campaign  by Philip Morris ?
text: Did you know that prison contemplative programs like meditation were used in 19th century Pennsylvania as an early prison reform ?
text: Did you know that after 12 years of legal tussling over delays and cost overruns on the Taipei Metro Muzha Line , the Taipei City Government was ordered to compensate its contractor Matra for US$50 million?
text: Did you know that Minneapolis businessman Robert "Fish" Jones drove Ulysses Grant and William T. Sherman down Nicollet Avenue in downtown Minneapolis on their post-war tours?
text: Did you know that the Doctor Who episode " The Sontaran Stratagem " is the first appearance of the eponymous aliens since the 1985 serial The Two Doctors ?
text: Did you know that the Lynchburg Ferry in Lynchburg, Texas is the oldest operating ferry service in Texas ?
text: Did you know that Ben Gold was just 14 years old when he was elected assistant shop chairman by his local union during the first furriers' strike in the United States?
text: Did you know that the Abyssinian slave Jamal-ud-Din Yaqut was a close adviser and speculated to be the lover of Razia Sultana , the first and only female Sultan of Delhi ?
text: Did you know that by using the Bevatron and nuclear emulsion technique, Sulamith Goldhaber was the first person to observe nuclear interactions of the antiproton ?
text: Did you know that Durum wheat was used to make al-fidawsh , a dry pasta popular in Muslim Spain ?
text: Did you know that the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company was the second largest steel manufacturer in the USA before it merged with U.S. Steel in 1907?
text: Did you know that the ground living warblers in the genus Tesia appear to almost lack a tail and have very long legs?
text: Did you know that the people of the planet Krikkit are the main antagonists in the Douglas Adams novel, Life, the Universe and Everything ?
text: Did you know that within the Special Economic Zone SEEPZ , Mumbai lies an abandoned Portuguese church built in 1579?
text: Did you know that Jane Addams , Mother Jones and Abe Fortas have all made notable contributions to the history of children's rights in the United States ?
text: Did you know that the Piliyandala bombing of April 25 , 2008 was the deadliest attack on a commuter bus in Sri Lanka since the January 16 Buttala attack ?
text: Did you know that the Tregenna Castle Hotel in St Ives, Cornwall was the Great Western Railway 's first holiday destination hotel?
text: Did you know that the Transition Towns movement inspired Totnes , England to introduce their own town-wide currency redeemable only in local shops?
text: Did you know that anarchist Internet archive Spunk Library was once falsely accused of collaborating with the terrorist guerrilla outfit Red Army Faction ?
text: Did you know that in Grosvenor Park , in the city of Chester , is an archway which had been in the city's St Michael's Church ?
text: Did you know that Anna Maria Garthwaite , the daughter of a Lincolnshire clergyman , became the leading designer of flowered fabrics for the Spitalfields silk - weaving trade in 18th century England ?
text: Did you know that Wade Phillips holds the best coaching record for the Atlanta Falcons , winning two out of the three games he coached?
text: Did you know that Ratnakaravarni , the noted 16th-century Kannada poet of the Vijayanagara times, was an expert on erotic writings?
text: Did you know that a fossil plesiosaur skull named Kimmerosaurus may be  the missing head of a Colymbosaurus ?
text: Did you know that Richard Honaker , Bush nominee for U.S. District Judge in Wyoming , washed dishes in a work-study program while studying at Harvard University with future comedian Al Franken ?
text: Did you know that in 2007 the Royal Australasian College of Physicians revoked the teaching accreditation of Shellharbour Hospital due to a lack of senior staff?
text: Did you know that Norwegian sociologist Ingrid Eide was also a United Nations official and a politician for the Norwegian Labour Party ?
text: Did you know that the first refuge from malaria that residents of Memphis, Tennessee had in 1878 was Bowling Green, Kentucky's Louisville and Nashville Railroad Station ?
text: Did you know that Heinrich Böll 's humorous short story Anekdote zur Senkung der Arbeitsmoral was written for a May Day broadcast on the Norddeutscher Rundfunk ?
text: Did you know that Marie Studholme , one of the popular postcard beauties of Edwardian musical comedy , was wooed by her wealthy second husband under an assumed name?
text: Did you know that Norsk Transport has operated four railway ferries on Lake Tinnsjå in Norway ?
text: Did you know that in 1885, Bug Holliday became the first baseball player to make his Major League debut in post-season play?
text: Did you know that American actress Kim Stanley was cast in the starring role of the 1964 British film Séance on a Wet Afternoon after Deborah Kerr and Simone Signoret turned down the part?
text: Did you know that Rupprecht Gerngroß is considered the leader of the only successful putsch against Adolf Hitler in Nazi Germany ?
text: Did you know that the Vadigo , a species of carangid fish, is believed to be expanding its range in the Mediterranean Sea ?
text: Did you know that William D. Washington became the first faculty member of the Virginia Military Institute to die during his tenure there?
text: Did you know that 17th-century French lawyer Antoine Le Maistre gave up a promising career and established a Jansenist group of ascetics known as Les Solitaires , the Hermits?
text: Did you know that the Halegannada , literally "old Kannada", is an ancient form of the Kannada language ?
text: Did you know that the Hortus conclusus or "enclosed garden" was both a title and attribute of Mary and a type of actual garden?
text: Did you know that minor league baseball pitcher Kyle Pearson ’s 17 losses with the Hickory Crawdads tied him for the all-time team lead?
text: Did you know that the term Sindhology as a subject of knowledge about Sindh was first coined in 1964?
text: Did you know that after moving to Los Angeles, California in 1912 as a widow with two daughters, Florence Casler became a pioneering woman real estate developer , constructing more than 60 buildings?
text: Did you know that a Bird Flu pre- pandemic vaccine called Pandemrix is the first to be approved by the EU for the inoculation of populations in the early stages of a bird flu pandemic?
text: Did you know that the musical group The Wiggles ' first album was dedicated to their general operations manager Paul Field 's infant daughter, whose death ultimately led to the formation of the group?
text: Did you know that the town of Ollantaytambo , which dates back to the Inca Empire , has some of the oldest continuously occupied dwellings in South America ?
text: Did you know that one critic describes Christopher Smart 's The Hilliad as the "loudest broadside" of the Paper War of 1752-1753 , a literary dispute involving Henry Fielding , John Hill , and many others?
text: Did you know that the 1.3-mile (2.1 km) avenue of trees leading to Marchmont House in Scotland was begun 24 years before the house itself was built, with the planting of 10,000 Dutch elms ?
text: Did you know that most of the illuminated manuscripts created by William de Brailes in Oxford in the 13th century are about the size of a modern paperback ?
text: Did you know that Sancaktar Hayrettin Mosque had been an Eastern Orthodox monastery until it was converted after the Fall of Constantinople ?
text: Did you know that the Iowa Blue breed of chicken is not actually blue according to poultry standards?
text: Did you know that Karl Wahl , the leader of the Nazi Gau Schwaben , was the only Bavarian Gauleiter without a university degree ?
text: Did you know that tricho-hepato-enteric syndrome is a rare disease presenting as intractable diarrhea , facial abnormalities and woolly, brittle hair in infants with growth retardation in the womb ?
text: Did you know that in the 2000–01 National Basketball Association playoffs , Allen Iverson played an average of 46.2 minutes a game, leading the Eastern Conference ?
text: Did you know that lyric tenor Evan Gorga , who created the role of Rodolfo in the original production of Giacomo Puccini 's opera La bohème , reprised the role in several productions, then retired at the age of 34?
text: Did you know that the design of the first-generation Ford Taurus was so ahead of its time that it was chosen to be used in the 1987 science fiction film RoboCop ?
text: Did you know that drag entertainer José Sarria was the first openly gay candidate for public office in the United States , garnering some 6,000 votes in his 1961 campaign for the San Francisco Board of Supervisors ?
text: Did you know that the Mississaugas of the Credit Mission sent Chief Peter Jones to England where he petitioned Queen Victoria directly for title deeds to their lands?
text: Did you know that Maurice Durand designed the lighthouses at the Île d'Yeu and the Pointe du Grouin du Cou in France to replace earlier structures that had been destroyed during World War II ?
text: Did you know that Bruno Fonseca 's paintings The War Murals , inspired by violence in Eastern Europe , have been called "the most powerful statement of their kind since Picasso 's great Guernica "?
text: Did you know that British and American mountain men who met at Mountain Green, Utah in 1825 argued over rights to the land, which was actually Mexican territory?
text: Did you know that the statue The Naked Truth , in Compton Hill Reservoir Park , was made of bronze instead of white marble to deemphasize the nudity ?
text: Did you know that the dates of birth and death of the Ukrainian music theorist and composer Nikolay Diletsky remain unknown?
text: Did you know that with an area of deep convection near the center, Hurricane Ivo reached peak intensity of 80 miles per hour (130 km/h ) on September 20 , 2007 ?
text: Did you know that the 1971 Turkish coup d'état was carried out by a memorandum rather than direct intervention by the military?
text: Did you know that Radio Londres , a Free French radio broadcast from London to Nazi occupied France , read Paul Verlaine 's poem Chanson d'automne as a code to inform the resistance that Operation Overlord was about to take place?
text: Did you know that the 1914 film In the Land of the Head Hunters was the first feature-length film whose cast was composed entirely of Native North Americans ?
text: Did you know that in On the Sphere and Cylinder , Archimedes expressed the volume contained in a sphere in terms of that of a cylinder ?
text: Did you know that Cardinal Uberto Crivelli was elected Pope Urban III in the papal election in 1185 within the few hours after the death of his predecessor Lucius III ?
text: Did you know that Polish resistance courier Maria Kotarba became an "Angel of Auschwitz " by smuggling food and medicine, caring and cooking for Jewish prisoners in hiding?
text: Did you know that the Erie Railroad bought the Dodge-Greenleaf House in Otisville, New York for US$ 5 and sold it two years later for US$1?
text: Did you know that the extensive use of social networking in the Philippines allowed the Cebu City police to identify two murder suspects by checking into their Friendster profiles?
text: Did you know that New Mexico philanthropist Addie Peed Swearingen was a beautician for 28 years in Santa Fe before she and her husband made a fortune in petroleum and natural gas leases?
text: Did you know that Nagpur Improvement Trust , a local civic government body of Nagpur , India established in 1936, is not an elected body and continues to work along side Nagpur Municipal Corporation ?
text: Did you know that the sailing-ship Lwów was the first ship under Polish banner to cross the equator ?
text: Did you know that television commercials for the furniture company Walter E. Smithe have included parodies of Star Wars and The Apprentice ?
text: Did you know that Indian scholar Śāntarakṣita is believed to have been instrumental in the introduction of Buddhism to Tibet ?
text: Did you know that American Revolutionary war officer Anthony Wayne 's bones are buried at St. David's Episcopal Church in Pennsylvania , while the rest of him is buried hundreds of miles away in Erie, Pennsylvania ?
text: Did you know that the Jordan River Foundation was founded by Queen Rania al-Abdullah of Jordan ?
text: Did you know that the birth of public radio broadcasting was a live concert from the Metropolitan Opera House with Enrico Caruso as one of the opera singers?
text: Did you know that with the inception of the Gauliga Ostmark in 1938, clubs from outside of Vienna were for the first time permitted to take part in Austria 's premier football division?
text: Did you know that the birth rates of the Southern Woolly Lemur are affected by the degradation level of their habitat ?
text: Did you know that American children's literature author Howard Pease , who often set his stories on tramp freighters , himself shipped out when he needed new material?
text: Did you know that Noah W. Cross , sheriff of Concordia Parish , Louisiana , from 1944 – 1973 , was forced to resign upon a perjury conviction in U.S. District Court in Alexandria ?
text: Did you know that Franz Kafka started his Diaries 1914 with this entry: January 2. A lot of time well spent with Dr. Weiss ?
text: Did you know that Williamsport Bills minor leaguer Dave Bresnahan was thrown off the team for substituting a potato for a baseball ?
text: Did you know that Price Hill is one of the oldest outlying settlements of Cincinnati, Ohio ?
text: Did you know that Christopher Columbus 's letter recounting his first voyage , the  first written description of America, was so popular it went through nine printed editions?
text: Did you know that in 1963, entertainment manager Bob Marcucci got a recording contract for John D'Andrea , leading D'Andrea to a regular spot on Shindig! ?
text: Did you know that in 2001, American screenwriter William Monahan pseudonymously wrote a comic serial narrative at New York Press titled Dining Late with Claude La Badarian ?
text: Did you know that Norsk Hydro Rjukan , an industrial facility in Tinn , Norway , produced 30 million tonnes of fertilizer from its opening in 1911 to its closing in 1991?
text: Did you know that philanthropist and civic leader Marion Jorgensen died at St. John's Health Center , the very place where she volunteered her time for many years?
text: Did you know that China has helped Nigeria launch the NigComSat-1 satellite and pledged to invest USD 4 billion in oil and infrastructure development?
text: Did you know that Percival Goodman , described as "the most prolific architect in Jewish history" by The Forward , was also an urban planning theorist who criticized Robert Moses ' ideas for parkways in New York City ?
text: Did you know that Your Name is Justine , Luxembourg 's submission for the 79th Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film , was rejected due to insufficient creative contributions from Luxembourg in the film?
text: Did you know that Frank Leslie Walcott , the first Barbadian ambassador to the United Nations , was also an exceptional cricket umpire ?
text: Did you know that the Dalecarlian runes was a runic script that was in use until the 20th century?
text: Did you know that the British franchisee of Domino's Pizza 's almost decade-long sponsorship of The Simpsons ended with a 2007 Ofcom ban on advertising junk food to children?
text: Did you know that eight of the nine Priori of the Signoria were chosen from the guilds of Florence ?
text: Did you know that it took just over 20 years to finish developing the Lamona breed of chicken , but it was nearly extinct by the 1980s?
text: Did you know that Ted Mack auditioned contestants for the Original Amateur Hour in the 400-seat theatre at Irvington, New York 's village hall ?
text: Did you know that many localities on the coast of Great Britain developed their own type of fishing boat adapted to local fishing and sea conditions, and the nobbies are examples of this?
text: Did you know that the largest herbarium in the world is housed by the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle in Paris ?
text: Did you know that Confederate president Jefferson Davis had a young ward named Jim Limber‎ ?
text: Did you know that during the Agra famine of 1837–38 in the North-Western Provinces of India , approximately 800,000 people died of starvation and an even larger number of livestock perished?
text: Did you know that the volcano Piton de la Fournaise , a tourist attraction in Réunion , is one of the most active volcanoes in the world?
text: Did you know that in 1883, former British diplomat Sir William Lane Booker became Consul-General of eleven US states ?
text: Did you know that the Chittagong Hill Tracts Peace Accord ended the 20-year conflict and insurgency in 1997 and allowed more than 50,000 displaced peoples to return home?
text: Did you know that Strawhead is a 1982 play by American writer Norman Mailer about Hollywood icon Marilyn Monroe that takes its title from Monroe's real-life code name?
text: Did you know that Nobile Teatro di San Giacomo di Corfù‎ , founded in 1720, was the first modern opera theatre in Greece ?
text: Did you know that the New York-based mock metal / glam metal band Satanicide replaced their bassist when they became aware that he "secretly liked Billy Joel "?
text: Did you know that Samuel Gray was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly on behalf of three different electoral districts ?
text: Did you know that the nationalist activities of India House in the early 1900s led Valentine Chirol to describe it as the "most dangerous organisation outside India "?
text: Did you know that Ernest O. Thompson , a Texas businessman , politician , and petroleum expert, received a battlefield promotion during World War I for developing improved machine gun tactics ?
text: Did you know that there was a monument to British philanthropist John Howard in a hall of Russia 's Kresty Prison ?
text: Did you know that having won three of the first five races, Anne Margrethe Hausken is currently leading this year's World Cup in orienteering ?
text: Did you know that the LSR Preserve in Grand Teton NP was a former dude ranch and Rockefeller family retreat, and the first LEED certified property in Wyoming ?
text: Did you know that businessperson and Norwegian Parliament member Peter Bøyesen has been described as a predecessor of the Liberal Party of Norway ?
text: Did you know that in Puerto Rico , a Piragua is a frozen treat made of shaved ice, covered with fruit-flavored syrup ?
text: Did you know that when 20,000 Mennonites immigrated to Mexico from Canada in 1922, they were given freedom from taxation for 100 years so long as they supplied cheese to northern Mexico?
text: Did you know that Odo J. Struger is known as the "father of the programmable logic controller ," an electronic device used in nearly every automated factory worldwide today?
text: Did you know that the 104th Company of Syndicalists was a military unit created by the Union of Polish Syndicalists , which participated in the Warsaw Uprising ?
text: Did you know that Pakistani pop band Strings is the first South Asian band to endorse Gibson Guitars ?
text: Did you know that the book Goodnight Bush , a parody of Goodnight Moon satirizing the presidency of George W. Bush , was written by two former employees of U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld ?
text: Did you know that all of Beekman Park in Amenia, New York , was once the site of a freshwater lake?
text: Did you know that V.D. Savarkar wrote The Indian War of Independence , a nationalist history of the 1857 uprising , in response to British celebrations of the 50th anniversary of its suppression?
text: Did you know that Edward Sagarin was titled "father of the homophile movement "?
text: Did you know that U.S. Routes within Washington state currently make up about 1,800 miles (2,900 km) of the Washington highway system ?
text: Did you know that Tang Dynasty general Li Siye once bared his upper body and battered fleeing soldiers with his staff to stop a general panic?
text: Did you know that five detached human feet have been discovered on British Columbian beaches since August 2007, with no confirmed explanation?
text: Did you know that the 6th-century musician Yared introduced the concept of sacred music to the Ethiopian Orthodox Church services?
text: Did you know that the owners of a Californian memorial park tried to buy St Margaret's Church, Rottingdean , England , dismantle it and rebuild it there, but built a replica instead when permission was refused?
text: Did you know that Frank McEncroe , a boilermaker from rural Victoria , invented the Chiko Roll ?
text: Did you know that India established its diplomatic representation in Nigeria in 1958, two years before Nigeria's independence from British rule ?
text: Did you know that administering a strong solution of coffee through the rectum by means of a Murphy drip was alleged to have been a treatment for shock at the Battle of Midway ?
text: Did you know that Herman Farr , an African American clergyman from Shreveport , Louisiana , single-handedly desegregated the historic Strand Theatre during the heyday of the civil rights movement ?
text: Did you know that the Foguang Temple 's East Hall is the third oldest wooden building in China , dating from 857 AD?
text: Did you know that Ride the Lobster is an 800-kilometer long unicycle race around Nova Scotia ?
text: Did you know that Liverpool actor and guitarist Ozzie Yue used to flick pieces of paper at Paul McCartney in art class when they attended the Liverpool Institute High School for Boys ?
text: Did you know that the Pakistan -based Institute of Sindhology is a research institution working on the history , culture , and literature of Sindh ?
text: Did you know that when Peter Perez Burdett went to Karlsruhe , leaving his wife and debts behind, he took his portrait by Joseph Wright of Derby ?
text: Did you know that improving Indo-South African relations have led to phenomenal growth in bilateral trade , rising from US$ 3 million in 1992-93 to US$4 billion in 2005-06 and targeting US$12 billion by 2010?
text: Did you know that the Sir John Maynard who used Elize Hele 's money to create The Maynard School for girls in 1658 is not the same Sir John Maynard — Henry Maynard 's son—who attended Charles I 's trial?
text: Did you know that in his book In Defense of Anarchism , anarchist Robert Paul Wolff argues that the incompatibility of state authority and individual autonomy means that all states are morally illegitimate ?
text: Did you know that near the summit of Sir Lowry's Pass in South Africa , you can still see the ruts left by ox-wagons being dragged over the Hottentots-Holland mountains before the current pass was built?
text: Did you know that the Engkanto , a Philippine mythical creature , might be based on early encounters with European friars ?
text: Did you know that the South Presbyterian Church in Dobbs Ferry, New York , is the only known work of architect Julius Munckowitz, despite his later career with New York City's parks ?
text: Did you know that had the Endeavour Strait not prevented the Dutch from proceeding further southward, they might have found the eastern coast of Australia 150 years before James Cook did?
text: Did you know that In All Languages is the first and only compilation album released by industrial metal band Godflesh ?
text: Did you know that Burkina Faso contains the most elephants in West Africa, with Deux Balés National Park containing 400?
text: Did you know that Ferrante Pallavicino was the anonymous author of Il Divortio celeste (1643), a satire wherein Jesus Christ asks God for a divorce from his eternal bride , the Roman Catholic Church ?
text: Did you know that fans at the UEFA Euro 2008 reportedly prefer The White Stripes ' " Seven Nation Army " to the official anthem, Enrique Iglesias ' " Can You Hear Me "?
text: Did you know that M. P. T. Acharya is associated with Indian Nationalism and communism , as well as the anarchist movement?
text: Did you know that an estimated 73 percent of what and how much all children eat is determined by nutritional gatekeepers ?
text: Did you know that Sir John Hussey , Chief Butler of England under King Henry VIII , was executed for treason ?
text: Did you know that in Norse mythology , the goddesses Þorgerðr Hölgabrúðr and Irpa defeated a Danish fleet by shooting arrows from their fingertips?
text: Did you know that Bristol and South Wales Union Railway was actually two separate railway lines with a ferry crossing of the River Severn between?
text: Did you know that Matsuura Takanobu was an early host and patron to the Jesuits , whom he hoped would influence an increase in trade between European traders and Japan ?
text: Did you know that California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger , who played Conan the Barbarian in the 1982 film , proposed a law in 2007 for regulating the sales of violent video games such as Conan ?
text: Did you know that John Paul, Sr. and his son became the first father-son duo to win an IMSA Camel GT race, hours after the former was married on the track infield?
text: Did you know that Major League Baseball player Alex Rodriguez led the entire 2007 all-star game voting ballot with 1,404,001 votes?
text: Did you know that average people use subpersonalities to allow them to cope with certain types of psychosocial situations?
text: Did you know that India and Pakistan have expanded cross-border road and rail transport links , including across the disputed region of Kashmir ?
text: Did you know that Bette Midler 's back-up trio The Harlettes once included the actress Katey Sagal , better known for her role as Peggy Bundy on the television series Married...with Children ?
text: Did you know that Scotland 's Lothian, Borders & Angus Co-operative Society was founded in 1839, five years before the Rochdale Pioneers ?
text: Did you know that Gray Barker 's 1956 book They Knew Too Much About Flying Saucers introduced the concept of the Men in Black to UFO lore?
text: Did you know that the historic floodplains of Oregon 's Willamette Valley ecoregion rarely function today, due to dams in the Upper Willamette Basin?
text: Did you know that all eleven stories in Australian Patrick White 's The Burnt Ones have a real or metaphorical reference to burning?
text: Did you know that though Captain Edward Mallory was wounded by shot, saber , and bayonet , he and his men forced the enemy to retreat at the Skirmish at Waters Creek ?
text: Did you know that between 1861 and 1869, Wolfgang Wenzel Haffner was Norwegian Minister of the Navy and Postal Affairs on three non-consecutive occasions?
text: Did you know that growing Indo-Singaporean relations include extensive military cooperation and diverse bilateral trade , which is expected to rise from USD 9–10 billion in 2006 to USD 50 billion by 2010?
text: Did you know that April FitzLyon 's biography of Mozart 's librettist Lorenzo Da Ponte debunked his unreliable memoirs?
text: Did you know that the Pythagorean theorem can be proven without words ?
text: Did you know that human rights activist Chiang Peng-chien was the first chairperson of the Democratic Progressive Party in Taiwan ?
text: Did you know that the girls of St Mary's School, Calne , are divided into five Companies, each named after local bishops ?
text: Did you know that after his Major League Baseball career, Baseball Hall of Famer Dan Brouthers once led the Hudson River League in batting average at the age of 46?
text: Did you know that the Minkébé National Park in Gabon is believed by the WWF to have one of the largest forest elephant populations in Africa ?
text: Did you know that George E. Johnson, Sr. , who was born in a Mississippi shack and dropped out of high school, founded the first Black -owned company ever traded on the American Stock Exchange ?
text: Did you know that most of the deaths that result from abdominal trauma are preventable?
text: Did you know that Christopher Smart 's The Hop-Garden is a long 18th century georgic poem that teaches how to farm hops in order to produce alcohol ?
text: Did you know that Haim Yosef Zadok was Israel 's first secular Minister of Religious Affairs?
text: Did you know that Richard Lenski 's long-term evolution experiment with E. coli has been tracking genetic changes in bacteria for over 20 years?
text: Did you know that Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen described China as his country's " most trustworthy friend "?
text: Did you know that an early record of the insult "I have forgotten more than you will ever know" attaches to Salathiel Lovell , a Recorder of London who became known as the "Obliviscor" (forgetter)?
text: Did you know that the 2008 Georgia sugar refinery explosion resulted in thirteen deaths and the first major shutdown of a US sugar refinery since Hurricane Katrina ?
text: Did you know that Indian film director Mohan Krishna Indraganti won eleven awards including the National Film Award and Nandi Award for his first directorial venture?
text: Did you know that the Mormon practice of polygamy was first inspired in 1831 when Joseph Smith said Jesus wished his followers to marry Native Americans to make their descendants white?
text: Did you know that residents of Changureh, Iran threw stones at the car of a government minister in anger following the 2002 Iran earthquake ?
text: Did you know that Murphy Bell , a civil rights attorney in Baton Rouge , represented the since imprisoned black radical H. Rap Brown on gun violation charges in 1972?
text: Did you know that the medieval Battle of Sparrsätra is held to have deeply changed Swedish society ?
text: Did you know that Linda Finch is the first person to complete Amelia Earhart 's unfinished final flight using the same aircraft type, a Lockheed L-10 Electra ?
text: Did you know that the murder of Celia Douty was the first murder in Australia to be solved using DNA profiling , after remaining unsolved for 18 years?
text: Did you know that Frank W. Preston invented the furnace which made Corelle glassware possible and worked to establish Moraine State Park in Pennsylvania ?
text: Did you know that the collapse of more than 7,000 schools in the 2008 Sichuan earthquake , while nearby buildings stood, has led to allegations of corruption involving contractors and government officials?
text: Did you know that in 2003, Church of Scientology board member and Office of Special Affairs executive Kurt Weiland accompanied actor Tom Cruise in a private meeting with the U.S. Deputy Secretary of State ?
text: Did you know that the Groffdale Conference Mennonite Church , whose members still use horse-drawn carriages , was formed when another Mennonite church split after a 17-year dispute over the use of automobiles ?
text: Did you know that Fred Forman scored two goals in England's 13–2 win over Ireland in 1899—the highest-scoring match involving England in international football history ?
text: Did you know that several years after Henry Wadsworth Longfellow published " The Village Blacksmith ", a chestnut tree mentioned in the poem was made into a chair for the poet?
text: Did you know that Rick Rhodes won six Emmy Awards for his work on Santa Barbara , Another World and The Guiding Light ?
text: Did you know that shukr is the Islamic virtue of gratitude ?
text: Did you know that of the major historic Snake River salmon stocks in the Blue Mountains ecoregion , the coho and sockeye are extinct , the chinook are threatened, and the summer steelhead are in decline?
text: Did you know that American singer Elly Stone was Barbra Streisand ’s understudy in the 1962 Broadway musical I Can Get It for You Wholesale ?
text: Did you know that the Brigham Young University Museum of Art contains more than 170 images of Jesus , showing how his portrayal in Christian art has changed?
text: Did you know that Dr. Maressa Orzack at Harvard Medical School stated that 40 percent of World of Warcraft players were addicted ?
text: Did you know that Dizzy Gillespie may have been inspired to write the jazz standard " Groovin' High " by a film serial he saw as a child?
text: Did you know that Pakistani model Vaneeza Ahmad was one of the select few celebrities to carry the Olympic torch at the relay in Islamabad ?
text: Did you know that Nguyen Van Linh , General Secretary of the Communist Party touted as the "Vietnamese Gorbachev " for reforming Vietnam 's communist economy , later regretted many of the effects of his policies?
text: Did you know that plants in some parts of the Klamath Mountains ecoregion in Southern Oregon and Northern California have evolved to grow in potentially toxic and nutrient-poor serpentine soils ?
text: Did you know that oudist Ali Sriti 's first public performance was at age eleven, when he sang Ya chiraan waraa dajla yajri by Mohamed Abdel Wahab ?
text: Did you know that The New York Times said the 1944 Laurel and Hardy film The Big Noise "has as much humor in it as a six-foot hole in the ground"?
text: Did you know that one of Russian President Vladimir Putin 's first state visits was to Mongolia , aimed at rebuilding their bilateral relations in the post- Cold War era?
text: Did you know that John Boylan , who won an acting award in the play On the Harmful Effects of Tobacco , eventually died of lung cancer ?
text: Did you know that the Japanese visual novel Sakura Sakura allows the player to navigate in a profile side-view perspective similar to a two-dimensional platform game ?
text: Did you know that irrigation canals in the Treasure Valley and Magic Valley have dramatically transformed the Snake River Plain ecoregion in southern Idaho ?
text: Did you know that in 1984, during the internal conflict in Peru , members of the Peruvian Army massacred 123 men, women and children in the town of Putis ?
text: Did you know that zooming in from satellite view, one can see the outlines of Wilcox Octagon House and most of the 82 octagon houses listed on the U.S. National Register ?
text: Did you know that Norwegian politician Jacob Aall described Hans Eleonardus Møller, Sr. as "one of Norway's most active and skillful merchants"?
text: Did you know that the Pumice Plateau in the Eastern Cascades Slopes and Foothills ecoregion of Southern Oregon is covered by a thick layer of volcanic ash from Mt. Mazama ?
text: Did you know that the Srinagar-Muzaffarabad Bus runs across the Line of Control to connect the capitals of the Indian and Pakistani parts of the disputed region of Kashmir ?
text: Did you know that about ten percent of the value of gift cards is not redeemed?
text: Did you know that C. W. Thornthwaite , an expert in the field of climatology , wrote his doctoral thesis in an unrelated topic in urban geography ?
text: Did you know that WayForward Technologies developed a video game remake of the 1951 Warner Bros cartoon Duck Amuck ?
text: Did you know that Khalid bin Barghash fought a 38-minute war with the British during his two-day rule as Sultan of Zanzibar ?
text: Did you know that Norwegian merchant and banker Simon Karenius Høegh was also mayor of both Brevig and later Porsgrund ?
text: Did you know that the public library system in Riverside County, California was the first in the US to turn over its entire operation to a private company?
text: Did you know that when Test cricket twins Mark and Steve Waugh played together in their first ever match , they both scored ducks ?
text: Did you know that since normalizing Sino-Mongolian relations , bilateral trade has risen to US$ 1.13 billion and China has become the largest trading partner and foreign investor in Mongolia ?
text: Did you know that after George Lansbury lost the Bow and Bromley by-election, 1912 , where he stood for re-election on a platform of women's suffrage , he declared "Never Resign!"?
text: Did you know that Norwegian philology professor Peter Olrog Schjøtt interrupted his academic career in 1888 in favor of a fifteen-month career in politics ?
text: Did you know that the Air Combat Group contingent of the RAAF was created when the Tactical Fighter Group and Strike Reconnaissance Group were merged?
text: Did you know that Orange County Route 9 in New York is, by itself, longer than five of the county's state highways ?
text: Did you know that Otto Zobel described a method of using prototype filters that does not use the frequency domain to represent their transfer function ?
text: Did you know that the Canadian television series The John Allan Cameron Show featured different traditions of folk music from Celtic to blues ?
text: Did you know that India and Vietnam plan to sign a free trade agreement to bolster bilateral relations and further expand trade , which is expected to reach US$ 2 billion in 2008?
text: Did you know that Hurricane Charley was the first storm that made landfall in South Carolina at hurricane intensity since Hurricane Hugo in 1989?
text: Did you know that Hamburg 's Rotherbaum quarter is the site of the Am Rothenbaum tennis stadium ?
text: Did you know that, angry that he had been accused of treason, the Tang Dynasty general Pugu Huai'en submitted a complaint to the emperor sarcastically referring to his major contributions as crimes?
text: Did you know that the oil and gas exploration company WAPET struck Australia 's first flowing oil in 1953, and Western Australia 's first commercial natural gas field in 1964?
text: Did you know that American doctor George E. Moore discovered the link between chewing tobacco and mouth cancer ?
text: Did you know that the Spanish Leopard 2E is the most expensive Leopard 2 tank built to date?
text: Did you know that Kieran Prendergast was the British Ambassador to Turkey before serving as United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs ?
text: Did you know that spring soup is popular largely because it includes fresh ingredients not seen for a while by the consumer?
text: Did you know that Francis Howard was an unpopular Crown Governor of Virginia in the 17th century despite brokering a peace treaty with Iroquois tribes?
text: Did you know that extinguishment is one way to get out of a legal contract ?
text: Did you know that the Orloff breed of chicken is named for a Russian count , but in fact originated in Persia ?
text: Did you know that during World War II , Ferdynand Arczyński produced hundreds of false IDs, work cards, service attestations, birth, and marriage certificates, distributed free to Jews hiding outside the Ghetto ?
text: Did you know that the Living Planet Index is one of the indices used in sustainability accounting ?
text: Did you know that Charlotte Badger , despite being from Great Britain , is widely considered the first Australian female pirate ?
text: Did you know that in Treasure Valley , on the borders of Oregon and Idaho , is the largest community of Basques outside of Europe?
text: Did you know that as Speaker of the House of Commons , John Puckering was heavily involved in the decision to execute Mary, Queen of Scots ?
text: Did you know that, when completed, a relocated JCPenney at Ashland Town Center in Ashland, Kentucky will be the largest department store in Kentucky, and one of three prototypes in the U.S.?
text: Did you know that the Dana Nature Reserve is the largest nature reserve in Jordan ?
text: Did you know that Vincenz Priessnitz established a hydrotherapy spa town in Jeseník (then Austrian Empire , now Czech Republic ) where Nikolai Gogol was a guest twice?
text: Did you know that the basalt underlying the Columbia Plateau ecoregion in Washington and Oregon can be up to 2 miles (3 km) thick?
text: Did you know that the Flying Super Saturator was the world's first roller coaster allowing riders to dump payloads of water on other amusement park attendees?
text: Did you know that Lloyd E. Lenard , a Shreveport businessman and author , was a leader in the fight to establish a two-party system in his native Louisiana ?
text: Did you know that although building India 's first overseas military base in Tajikistan strengthened Indo-Tajik relations , bilateral trade remained low at USD 12.09 million in 2005?
text: Did you know that 1801 California Street , a 709-foot (216 m) skyscraper in Denver , Colorado , was once home to the world's brightest signs on a high-rise building?
text: Did you know that Kermit the Frog was named after Kermit Scott , a childhood friend of Muppets creator Jim Henson ?
text: Did you know that after paying £500 in 1623 for a pardon, John Nutt was arrested in England and convicted for piracy regardless?
text: Did you know that the anti-communist Indonesian killings of 1965–66 resulted in more deaths than any other event in Indonesian history ?
text: Did you know that most of the Sitka spruce in the Coast Range ecoregion of Washington and Oregon has been logged and replaced with Douglas-fir plantations?
text: Did you know that Ulrik Frederik Cappelen was County Governor of both Finnmark and Vestfold , and was elected to the Norwegian Parliament once from each district?
text: Did you know that the Millennium Stadium Charitable Trust's income comes from a levy that is paid on every ticket that is purchased for public events at the Millennium Stadium in Wales ?
text: Did you know that one of the first recorded Japanese-Siamese contacts occurred in 1593?
text: Did you know that Genevieve R. Cline was the first American woman to be appointed as a federal judge , despite objections based on her gender from many members of the Senate ?
text: Did you know that the Hindu Munnani is a Hindu nationalist organization based in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu ?
text: Did you know that Colt Wynn won his first bodybuilding tournament as a wheelchair athlete less than three years after breaking his back in an accident?
text: Did you know that the Battle of Yellow House Canyon in 1876 marked the last battle between Texans and hostile Native Americans on the High Plains of Texas ?
text: Did you know that the Anif declaration , issued by the Bavarian King Ludwig III on 12 November 1918 , ended the 738-year rule of the House of Wittelsbach over Bavaria ?
text: Did you know that jazz bassist Esperanza Spalding became one of the youngest faculty members in the history of Berklee College of Music almost immediately after her graduation?
text: Did you know that the original East End Light was the first lighthouse erected in the Cayman Islands ?
text: Did you know that Rhipsime and her companions are venerated as the first Christian martyrs in Armenian history?
text: Did you know that Andrew Johnson National Cemetery , part of Andrew Johnson National Historic Site , was bequeathed to the public by Andrew Johnson 's daughter?
text: Did you know that Jan Willems was present at Roatan in 1683 for one of the largest " Brethren of the Coast " pirate gatherings?
text: Did you know that tracheobronchial injury was considered fatal until a survivor was reported in 1927?
text: Did you know that the Pitchfork Ranch , established east of Lubbock , Texas in 1883, is one of the few modern ranches larger than it was at the time of its founding?
text: Did you know that the Nazi leader Theodor Habicht was briefly involved with the communists after World War I before joining the Nazi Party in 1926?
text: Did you know that the Alvarado Terrace Historic District includes a church built in 1912 that was the LA home of Jim Jones ' Peoples Temple before the group's 1977 mass suicide in Jonestown ?
text: Did you know that the stones at Nuits in Ardsley-on-Hudson, New York are so finely cut that a penknife cannot fit between them?
text: Did you know that Sergeants Jose and Francisco Diaz were two brothers in the Puerto Rican Militia who helped defeat Sir Ralph Abercromby and defend Puerto Rico from a British invasion in 1797?
text: Did you know that the real-life Hollywood Tower is often cited as the inspiration for the Twilight Zone Tower of Terror attractions at Disney themeparks in California, Florida, and France?
text: Did you know that the president of Żegota , Julian Grobelny , was famous for saving Jewish children from the Holocaust by entering the Warsaw Ghetto from the Aryan side and walking out with them?
text: Did you know that Daniel Chester French was never fully paid for his work on the Washington Irving Memorial in Irvington, New York ?
text: Did you know that the list of bills sponsored by Barack Obama (131 items) includes measures for biofuels and synthetic fuels , veterans' health bills, divestiture from Iran , and tariff exemptions for herbicides ?
text: Did you know that in 1909 at the age of 17, New Zealand pianist Frank Hutchens became the youngest-ever subprofessor appointed to London 's Royal Academy of Music ?
text: Did you know that the affair known in Israel as " the dirty trick " included the only successful vote of no confidence issued against an Israeli government to date?
text: Did you know that Japanese Governor Murayama Tōan led a failed invasion of Taiwan in 1616?
text: Did you know that the North West Shelf Venture liquefied natural gas project is Australia 's largest resource development?
text: Did you know that former Executive Director of the American Jewish Congress Henry Siegman served as a chaplain in the Korean War , where he was awarded a Bronze Star and a Purple Heart ?
text: Did you know that the Canadian Ballet Festival is credited for Canadian dancers finding paid work in television?
text: Did you know that despite facing a bankrupt family business and the loss of both parents at the age of fifteen, Norwegian Jørgen Wright Cappelen went on to found an enduring publishing company ?
text: Did you know that Strike , directed by Sergei Eisenstein and acted by the Proletcult Theatre , was intended to be one part of a seven-part series?
text: Did you know that 894 of the 5,000 recorded aftershocks of the 1983 Coalinga, California earthquake had a magnitude of 2.5 or larger?
text: Did you know that Anton Reinthaller , the first leader of the post- World War II Freedom Party of Austria , had been a Nazi politician and Undersecretary in Nazi Germany 's Ministry of Food and Agriculture?
text: Did you know that a Chicago championship basketball team from Wendell Phillips Academy High School was drafted to form the nucleus of the original Harlem Globetrotters ?
text: Did you know that the British government commissioned a report on the British West Indian labour unrest of 1934–1939 , but its findings were so damaging that they were suppressed until 1945?
text: Did you know that five thousand people went to Eugene V. Debs' home to attend his funeral sermon in 1926?
text: Did you know that the Tagish Lake meteorite that impacted Canada on January 18 , 2000 may be a broken off piece of the 773 Irmintraud asteroid that orbits between the planets Mars and Jupiter ?
text: Did you know that despite being set in New York , All Good Things has been filmed mostly in Connecticut , partly because of the state's "scenic and period locations"?
text: Did you know that Jabal Amman is one of the seven original hills that Amman , Jordan was built on during the Neolithic period?
text: Did you know that it was largely the zeal of Bishop Russell McVinney of Providence that reestablished the American College of the Immaculate Conception in Belgium in 1952?
text: Did you know that after being auctioned at Christie's for over £100,000, the 16th-century Sapieha beaker was presented as a gift to Lithuania by the Ortiz brothers?
text: Did you know that a USAAF B-17 Flying Fortress aircraft crashed shortly after take-off at Bakers Creek, Queensland in 1943, killing 40 of the 41 service personnel on board and making it Australia 's worst aviation disaster?
text: Did you know that Muhammad al-Shaybani , a jurist of the Hanafi school of thought , was the student of Abu Hanifa and Abu Yusuf ?
text: Did you know that the Franconian derby between 1. FC Nuremberg and SpVgg Greuther Fürth is the most played football match in Germany with over 250 games between the two sides?
text: Did you know that Australian artist Ben Shearer says blindness in his right eye that resulted from an injury while playing cricket was a reason he began to paint?
text: Did you know that Opoku Ware II , King of the Ashanti people from 1970 to 1999, worked as a building inspector , a surveyor , a lawyer , and an ambassador prior to his enthronement?
text: Did you know that the Palestinian village of al-Fasayil is the site of the ancient village of Phasaelis founded by Herod the Great in dedication to his brother Phasael ?
text: Did you know that the Indian politician Jamuna Nishad was dropped as cabinet minister after being named in the murder case of a police constable ?
text: Did you know that a memorial honoring U.S. soldiers who died in the deadliest air disaster in Australian history is located at the Embassy of Australia in Washington, D.C. ?
text: Did you know that Pete Young declined to sign with the Cincinnati Reds after being selected in the 1986 minor league baseball draft, but signed with the Montreal Expos three years later?
text: Did you know that the Government of Bangladesh and the Parbatya Chattagram Jana Sanghati Samiti promulgated the Chittagong Hill Tracts Peace Accord in 1997?
text: Did you know that the first major work published by American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow , Outre-Mer: A Pilgrimage Beyond the Sea , was a book of prose sketches inspired by Washington Irving ?
text: Did you know that because it is frequently accompanied by serious injuries, sternal fracture is associated with a mortality rate of 25–45%?
text: Did you know that Jenny Wiley State Resort Park is named after a woman who escaped from Cherokees after her three-month-old child was killed by tomahawk ?
text: Did you know that the banknote exhibit at the Banknote Museum in Corfu , owned by Alpha Bank , is the first such collection in Greece to be put on public display?
text: Did you know that Samuel Pepys 's former clerk Paul Lorrain more than quadrupled his prison income by publishing dubious Confessions of the condemned at Newgate Prison ?
text: Did you know that less than an acre remains of the original 400-acre (160 ha) property of the Zachary Taylor House , built by Richard Taylor ?
text: Did you know that the East Roman general Comentiolus was briefly imprisoned for being insolent towards the khagan of the Avars ?
text: Did you know that the Shrine of Hazrat Ali , said to be the burial place of Ali , also gave the city of Mazari Sharif its name?
text: Did you know that the total cultivable area of Seychelles is only about 400 hectares?
text: Did you know that HMS Ontario , an 80-foot sloop of war recently discovered at the bottom of Lake Ontario , is the oldest shipwreck and the only fully intact British warship ever found in the Great Lakes ?
text: Did you know that before the 17th century , penetrating trauma was treated by pouring hot oil into wounds to cauterize damaged blood vessels ?
text: Did you know that the Mosque of the Cloak of the Prophet Mohammed , in Kandahar , has been described as the "heart of Afghanistan "?
text: Did you know that the Parbatya Chattagram Jana Sanghati Samiti launched an armed struggle to achieve autonomy for the people of the Chittagong Hill Tracts ?
text: Did you know that Virginia City was the prototype for future urban/industrial boomtowns ?
text: Did you know that approximately 90 percent of the buildings were destroyed at Maumere , the hardest hit town of the 1992 Indonesia earthquake ?
text: Did you know that Australian fishermen often refer to the Western school whiting as "bastard whiting" because its presence in the catch reduces the presence of targeted species ?
text: Did you know that Ukranian president Viktor Yushchenko criticized the country's 2008 coal mine collapse as a failing of Ukraine's government policy?
text: Did you know that problem sets are a common form of assignment in most university science courses ?
text: Did you know  that a United States district court decision against the Omaha Horse Railway Company allowed cable car tracks to be installed in Omaha, Nebraska ?
text: Did you know that Alén Diviš painted illustrations for nineteenth-century Czech ballads after spending the Second World War in La Santé Prison and several internment camps?
text: Did you know that the 1960 – 1961 NBC Western series Klondike featured James Coburn as con man Jeff Durain in the Alaskan gold rush town of Skagway ?
text: Did you know that André Devigny , a member of the French Resistance , escaped the allegedly escape-proof Fort Montluc Gestapo prison using a safety pin, a spoon, a rope, and a grappling hook?
text: Did you know that an exploding cigar was at the heart of an alleged plot by the Central Intelligence Agency to assassinate Fidel Castro ?
text: Did you know that Kirori Singh Bainsla leads a protest movement that recently attempted to bring Delhi to a standstill?
text: Did you know that actor George Takei 's autobiography To the Stars was featured on display for a month at the Bill Clinton Presidential Library ?
text: Did you know that after three years of absence, the juniors' team of the Mapúa Institute of Technology , which is the winningest basketball team in the Philippine NCAA , will return in the 2008–09 season ?
text: Did you know that the Union Pacific Railroad made the Herndon House its headquarters 12 years after celebrating the launch of construction on the First Transcontinental Railroad there?
text: Did you know that Fortified Area Silesia were Polish fortifications constructed along the interbellum border of Poland and Germany in the area of Upper Silesia ?
text: Did you know that Christian musician Francesca Battistelli said she knew she would spend her life performing after seeing the musical The Secret Garden on Broadway at the age of six?
text: Did you know that the town of Morris, Connecticut is named in honor of coeducation pioneer Major James Morris , who served in the Continental Army with George Washington ?
text: Did you know that there are seven known subspecies of Keeltail needlefish , each being found in a specific region?
text: Did you know that The Fourth Tower of Inverness is a radio drama that combines Americana and old-time radio with past life regression , Sufi wisdom , Tibetan Buddhism and shamanism ?
text: Did you know that with Cambodian-Vietnamese relations improving after the Cambodian-Vietnamese War , both nations set a target to increase bilateral trade to USD 2.3 billion by 2010?
text: Did you know that the United States owns all of Zachary Taylor National Cemetery , except where Zachary Taylor and his family are actually buried?
text: Did you know that of the eleven Japanese films accepted as nominees for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film since its inception, none have won it?
text: Did you know that Church of Scientology International official Leisa Goodman went on a six-month mission to investigate the treatment of Scientologists in Germany ?
text: Did you know that the tourist industry in Seychelles was born with the completion of the Seychelles International Airport in 1971?
text: Did you know that the first exhibition at the Boeing Galleries was a series of photographs taken from helicopters and hot air balloons ?
text: Did you know that Pope Benedict XVI received George W. Bush this month in a medieval tower where Pope John Paul II resided temporarily while his papal apartments were being remodeled?
text: Did you know that for helping endow a professorship of botany at the University of Oxford , James Sherard was granted a doctorate in medicine by the university in 1731?
text: Did you know that there were 18 lieutenant generals in the Confederate States Army ?
text: Did you know that the Prague pneumatic post system is the last remaining of its kind in the world?
text: Did you know that the presidential campaign of Chuck Baldwin began only two weeks before the 2008 Constitution Party Convention yet still edged the campaign of political veteran Alan Keyes in the delegate count?
text: Did you know that Israel and China were cultivating military cooperation well before the establishment of diplomatic relations in 1992?
text: Did you know that Christopher Smart 's The Parables of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ was mocked for its dedication to a three-year-old child?
text: Did you know that Yukon storyteller Angela Sidney was awarded the Order of Canada for contributions to ethnography ?
text: Did you know that Y1 , a strain of tobacco containing twice as much nicotine , was developed by Brown & Williamson so they could make low-tar cigarettes without reducing the nicotine content?
text: Did you know that most of the water in the 267 acre (1.08 km²) Lake Delton emptied out in two hours after heavy rains caused it to overflow its banks?
text: Did you know that after agreeing to a prisoner exchange following the 1799 Siege of Mantua , the Austrians reneged by arresting soldiers of the Polish Second Legion as " deserters "?
text: Did you know that Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard composed the music for Space Jazz – a concept album companion to his science fiction novel Battlefield Earth ?
text: Did you know that while some Esperanto profanity consists of informal neologisms , much of it is generated from the fundamental vocabulary ?
text: Did you know that Eugene C. Barker ' s 1925 work The Life of Stephen F. Austin has been described as the best single piece of scholarship on a Texas topic?
text: Did you know that the Symmachi–Nicomachi diptych , intended to celebrate traditional Roman paganism , was incorporated into a Christian reliquary for almost 500 years?
text: Did you know that Indian Agent James Givins worked with Mississauga leader Peter Jones to establish the Credit Mission, which became an example for the Reserve System in Canada?
text: Did you know that Tarrytown 's Foster Memorial AME Zion Church is the oldest continuously-used black church in Westchester County, New York ?
text: Did you know that Irish architect Thomas Duff designed St. Patrick's School in Belfast , believed to be the city's last surviving gothic building?
text: Did you know that in his 1971 book Post-Scarcity Anarchism , Murray Bookchin anticipated the importance of cybernetic technology to the development of human potential over a decade before the origin of cyberpunk ?
text: Did you know that Jørgen Aall , one of the founding fathers of the Norwegian Constitution in 1814, went out of business as a ship-owner only four years later?
text: Did you know that two members of the country music group One Flew South met while starring in a production of the Broadway musical The Civil War ?
text: Did you know that the Prairie Habitat Joint Venture in Canada has received nearly $ 200 million of funding from the United States federal government ?
text: Did you know that British model Daisy Lowe began her modelling career at the age of two?
text: Did you know that writer Neil Gaiman invented the fiction that Shakespeare wrote A Midsummer Night's Dream to ensure that humans never forgot Faerie ?
text: Did you know that the Golf Club Managers' Association represents over 65% of all golf courses in the United Kingdom ?
text: Did you know that in 1939 René Pleven stated "Politics do not interest me", only to join the Free French exile government in 1941 and thus launch a long political career?
text: Did you know that anthropologist John Buettner-Janusch sent a batch of poisoned candy to Judge Charles L. Brieant Jr. after he was convicted of running an illegal drug lab?
text: Did you know that most historians believe stories about Dutch shipwreck survivors of the Concordia , settling at a desert oasis in Australia in 1708, were a hoax ?
text: Did you know that the fluted black elfin saddle is actually a mushroom that appears in woodlands and lawns in North America and Europe?
text: Did you know that GRU colonel Vladimir Kvachkov won second place in by-elections to the State Duma , while imprisoned due to his suspected attempted murder of Russian politician Anatoly Chubais ?
text: Did you know that Taylorsville Lake State Park is the most heavily stocked lake in Kentucky ?
text: Did you know that when Tang Dynasty general Li Guangbi repeatedly disobeyed imperial directives, subordinate generals began to disobey Li Guangbi?
text: Did you know that Black Panther Party co-founder Huey Newton said the Brampton Jail in Brampton , Ontario was "worse than any jail in Cuba "?
text: Did you know that the Timexpo Museum in Waterbury, Connecticut includes a forty-foot high replica of an Easter Island statue?
text: Did you know that MP Sir Anthony Kershaw returned leaked documents about the sinking of the General Belgrano , resulting in the prosecution of Clive Ponting ?
text: Did you know that as part of Cuba-Venezuela relations , 50,000 Venezuelans went to Cuba for free eye treatment?
text: Did you know that Erik Fankhouser is the first West Virginia native to become a professional bodybuilder ?
text: Did you know that Karakore was the epicenter of the most destructive earthquake of 20th-century Ethiopia , which destroyed one town and left 5,000 people homeless?
text: Did you know that Minnie Lou Bradley , a Texas Panhandle rancher , was the first woman ever to head the American Angus Association?
text: Did you know that the SS Carsbreck survived being torpedoed by Heinrich Liebe 's U-38 in 1940, but was sunk by Reinhard Suhren 's U-564 in 1941?
text: Did you know that Canadian supermodel Yasmeen Ghauri was the daughter of an Islamic cleric who opposed his daughter's career?
text: Did you know that the Vermont Square , Lincoln Heights , and Cahuenga Branches are the only surviving Carnegie libraries in Los Angeles ?
text: Did you know that Bob Beck led the effort to capture and breed the remaining wild Guam Rails , Micronesian Kingfishers and other endangered Guamanian native birds in captivity ?
text: Did you know that Christopher Smart 's Hymns for the Amusement of Children were finished by the author while in debtors' prison and that he died before receiving notice that the work was a success?
text: Did you know that Widtsoe, Utah was made a ghost town in 1936 by the federal Resettlement Administration , a New Deal program that bought out indebted landowners?
text: Did you know that the Czech castle of Hauenštejn is private property of a descendant of the so-called "Father of the Nation" František Palacký ?
text: Did you know that the Church of Daniel's Band , based in Michigan , chose its name from the title of a sermon delivered by Charles Spurgeon in London ?
text: Did you know that in 1926 Skabo Jernbanevognfabrikk produced a firewood-powered snow melter?
text: Did you know that the Persian walled city of Ray was a military objective so frequently that, starting in the late 12th century , its inhabitants gradually moved out to an undefended village nearby called Tehran ?
text: Did you know that Joseph Hugh Allen was a member of the so-called reform "Dirty 30" of the Texas House of Representatives who pushed for ethics legislation in light of the Sharpstown banking scandal?
text: Did you know that one of the humanoid robots created by Japanese roboticist Tomotaka Takahashi was listed in Time ’s Coolest Inventions in 2004?
text: Did you know that the winners of the Twenty20 Champions League , a tournament between Twenty20 cricket champions from Australia , England , India and South Africa , will collect a prize estimated at £2.5 million?
text: Did you know that Marcus J. Ranum suggested that the U.S. government register whitehouse.com long before it was registered by an adult entertainment site?
text: Did you know that St Mary and St Abraam Coptic Orthodox Church, Hove , one of nine Coptic churches in the British Isles , has an iconostasis which is believed to be the tallest in the world?
text: Did you know that since its establishment in 1986, the North American Waterfowl Management Plan has spent $ 4.5 billion to protect wetlands used by migratory birds in North America ?
text: Did you know that Arthur Hartley developed the Fog Investigation and Dispersal Operation which is credited with safely landing 2,500 aircraft during World War Two ?
text: Did you know that McDonald's Cycle Center in Chicago, Illinois provides lockers, showers, a snack bar, bike repair, and bike rental to bicycle commuters ?
text: Did you know that after being shipwrecked on Malé Atoll in 1973, Tony Hussein Hinde pioneered surfing in the Maldives , which was previously unknown in the country?
text: Did you know that the North Vietnamese Foreign Minister Xuan Thuy was first arrested at age sixteen and sent to a penal colony at eighteen, as a member of the underground communist anti-colonial movement?
text: Did you know that Walter Brennan starred in the 1964–1965 ABC sitcom The Tycoon as an eccentric chairman of the board of the fictitious Thunder Corporation?
text: Did you know that the Espada Cemetery was the first formally sanctioned burial ground in Havana, Cuba ?
text: Did you know that Hall of fame coach Al Arbour coached the New York Islanders of the National Hockey League three different times?
text: Did you know that Christopher Smart 's Hymns and Spiritual Songs were composed in a mental asylum where the author was held for "religious mania"?
text: Did you know that Madagascar 's unique wildlife, such as the Red-bellied Lemur , is one of the country's main tourist attractions ?
text: Did you know that the Latham Confederate Monument of Hopkinsville, Kentucky was supposed to honor both Confederate and Union soldiers?
text: Did you know that the 7th District Police Station , on Maxwell Street in Chicago, Illinois , was used as the picture of the precinct house in the opening credits of Hill Street Blues ?
text: Did you know that Romanian businessman Gheorghe Ştefănescu was executed for selling large quantities of adulterated wine ?
text: Did you know that in addition to its bus services, Louisville 's Transit Authority of River City operates diesel -powered, rubber-tired trolleys to service downtown hotel and shopping districts?
text: Did you know that French architect Jean-Baptiste Vallin de la Mothe designed the structure that initially housed the Hermitage Museum and the palace where Grigory Rasputin was murdered?
text: Did you know that Iran and Cuba have been seeking to strengthen their relationship in recent years?
text: Did you know that the L & N Railroad depot in Hopkinsville, Kentucky 's commercial district was a popular stop on the Louisville and Nashville Railroad due to the fact that one could legally purchase alcohol there?
text: Did you know that Eleanor King was a principal dancer and choreographer in the early days of American modern dance ?
text: Did you know that the Yūshūkan , a Japanese military and war museum owned and operated by Yasukuni Shrine , has been at the center of an international controversy ?
text: Did you know that Ryan Fleck produced his short film Gowanus, Brooklyn as a sample feature to attract potential financiers to its extended feature film screenplay , Half Nelson ?
text: Did you know that the Hungarian Communist Party , despite losing badly in the 1945 election and doing just slightly better in 1947 , held absolute power by 1949 ?
text: Did you know that the statue of Daniel Webster that sits on top of the Daniel Webster Memorial in Washington, D.C. was a gift by the founder of the Washington Post ?
text: Did you know that instead of discarding runes in favour of the Latin alphabet , the Scandinavians developed the extended medieval runes ?
text: Did you know that Johan Santana led Major League Baseball in 2006 with an earned run average of 2.77?
text: Did you know that the Roman-Parthian War of 58–63 over Armenia ended with a compromise that saw the Arsacid dynasty established on the Armenian throne?
text: Did you know that Arthur Byron Coble 's classic 1929 monograph Algebraic geometry and theta functions was still being published by the American Mathematical Society as late as 1982?
text: Did you know that half of all Quebec 's program spending for the Eastern Habitat Joint Venture is devoted to the nationally significant wetlands in the biosphere reserve and region of Lac Saint-Pierre ?
text: Did you know that Edward Cawston made his first-class cricket debut for Sussex whilst he was still at school?
text: Did you know that the North Exelon Pavilions are the first structures in Chicago, Illinois to use building integrated photovoltaic cells?
text: Did you know that as a poet, Antoni Edward Odyniec was a mediocre imitator of his friend, the Polish poet Adam Mickiewicz , but left colorful memoirs describing Mickiewicz's private life ?
text: Did you know that Sir Archibald Bodkin banned James Joyce 's Ulysses for containing "a great deal of unmitigated filth and obscenity" even though he had read only a few pages?
text: Did you know that Platte Mound M , maintained by students from the University of Wisconsin-Platteville , is believed to be the largest letter "M" in the world?
text: Did you know that ship-owner and Norwegian Parliament member Hans Eleonardus Møller has been described as the "father of Norwegian marine insurance "?
text: Did you know that the Conscript Fathers were senators drafted for the ancient Roman Senate much like conscription is a military draft?
text: Did you know that in a toll dispute between residents of Bandar Mahkota Cheras and the Cheras-Kajang Highway concessionaire, a barrier blocking a shunpike was repeatedly torn down and rebuilt?
text: Did you know that Philip Cochran was the inspiration for the character "Flip Corkin" in the comic strip Terry and the Pirates by Milton Caniff ?
text: Did you know that Odell McBrayer , an unsuccessful Republican candidate for Governor of Texas in 1974, proposed the televising of executions to deter violent crime?
text: Did you know that Indo-Maldivian relations grew stronger after India responded to Maldives ' request for help and thwarted a militant plot to overthrow the government in 1988?
text: Did you know that Edward, Prince of Wales stayed at Perry Belmont's House in Washington D.C. at the behest of President Woodrow Wilson ?
text: Did you know that Indonesian journalist , S. K. Trimurti , who often used a pseudonym in her reporting to avoid arrest by Dutch colonial authorities , later became the country's first minister of labor ?
text: Did you know that critical reception to Hogarth's Sigismunda mourning over the Heart of Guiscardo was so harsh the artist was forced to remove the painting from exhibition?
text: Did you know that the initials of John Hathorn and his wife carved into brick on their house in Warwick, New York show the influence of Germanic building traditions ?
text: Did you know that Marathi film Shwaas was India 's official entry to the 2004 Oscars but faced financial problems to showcase and promote the film?
text: Did you know that William Bragge donated his 1,500 volume Miguel de Cervantes collection to the Birmingham library in 1873, but many of the books were destroyed during a fire?
text: Did you know that the record for the most named tropical storms to form in a month in East Pacific history since reliable records began dates back to 1968?
text: Did you know that E.S. Richardson , a Louisiana educator for whom the E.S. Richardson Elementary School is named, ended his career as an administrator of the wartime Office of Price Administration ?
text: Did you know that the Bahá'í population in the United Arab Emirates is estimated to be the second-largest in the Middle East ?
text: Did you know that there are more than twenty runestones on the Isle of Man ?
text: Did you know that Hopkinsville, Kentucky 's tribute to Confederate veterans was a public drinking fountain ?
text: Did you know that Indian Space Research Organisation chairman G. Madavan Nair declared at the Raman Science Centre , Nagpur that India would have astronauts in space by 2015?
text: Did you know that Desdamona won the Minnesota Music Award for Best Spoken Word Artist every year from 2000 to 2006, except 2001 and 2002, when nobody won?
text: Did you know that Mishmar David was the first kibbutz to be privatised ?
text: Did you know that No Escape: Male Rape in U.S. Prisons , a 2001 report by Human Rights Watch , blamed feigned ignorance by prison officials for the allegedly widespread prison rape in the United States?
text: Did you know that Mieszko Bolesławowic could have become a king of Poland , if he had not been poisoned?
text: Did you know that the Hillsboro Central light rail station had the only library located at a mass transit station in the western U.S. when it opened?
text: Did you know that British folk rock singer Sandy Denny liked the string arrangements on her final album Rendezvous so much that she called them her "fur coat"?
text: Did you know that of the 30 covered bridges that once stood in Sullivan County, Pennsylvania , only Forksville , Hillsgrove , and Sonestown remain, all of which were built in 1850?
text: Did you know that Indian actress Kamalinee Mukherjee 's poem was selected for an international poetry contest in Washington, D.C. just before she began her acting career in the Telugu film industry ?
text: Did you know that Hurricane Huko had effects in all three North Pacific tropical cyclone basins ?
text: Did you know that Roy Agnew has been described as the most outstanding Australian composer of the early 20th century?
text: Did you know that the American Fork Railroad stopped 4 miles (6.4 km) short of the Forest City, Utah smelter it was built to serve?
text: Did you know that after the Mendiola massacre on January 22 , 1987 , the Filipino Government banned all public demonstrations on Mendiola Street in Manila ?
text: Did you know that Morris W. Turner , as a city council member and then the mayor of Lubbock , was among those charged with rebuilding the downtown after the West Texas city faced devastating tornadoes in May 1970?
text: Did you know that Cuba-Pakistan relations were strengthened due to Cuba 's assistance after the 2005 Kashmir earthquake ?
text: Did you know that William Rankin is the only person to survive a parachuting descent through a thunderstorm cloud ?
text: Did you know that in Norse mythology , the Æsir-Vanir War between two tribes of gods resulted in the unification of the tribes?
text: Did you know that Steven Spielberg originally cast Tony Award nominee Julyana Soelistyo as Pumpkin in the film Memoirs of a Geisha ?
text: Did you know that although both Hebrew and Arabic texts are written from right to left, the question mark is mirrored in Arabic (؟) but not in Hebrew punctuation ?
text: Did you know that U.S. Presidents Lyndon B. Johnson and Harry S. Truman once lived in the Kennedy-Warren Apartment Building ?
text: Did you know that Bruno Sacco , the Italian -born head of styling at Daimler-Benz between 1975 and 1999, considers his design of the 1991 Mercedes-Benz S-Class luxury car to be four inches (10 cm) too tall?
text: Did you know that Frank Lloyd Wright 's textile block work, Storer House , was restored in the 1980s by Joel Silver , producer of the films Die Hard and The Matrix ?
text: Did you know that the 1992 Nicaragua earthquake was the first "tsunami earthquake" to be captured on modern broadband seismic networks?
text: Did you know that Matthew Bruccoli , a scholar on F. Scott Fitzgerald , owned a collection of Fitzgerald memorabilia valued at US$2 million?
text: Did you know that Roujin Z is a 1991 Japanese anime film about a computerized hospital bed with its own built-in atomic power reactor ?
text: Did you know that the Louisville and Nashville Railroad built a separate spur just for Western Kentucky University 's Heating Plant ?
text: Did you know that Swiss illustrator Albert Lindegger was responsible for murals at the headquarters of the cantonal police and the crematorium in Berne ?
text: Did you know that in 1928, the Mayo Beach Light tower was removed from its site on Cape Cod and re-erected in California as the Point Montara Light ?
text: Did you know that as a result of the 2008 Karnataka state assembly elections the Bharatiya Janata Party formed its first state government in southern India ?
text: Did you know that 14th-century explorer Ibn Battuta visited the Mali Empire during the reign of Mansa Suleyman ?
text: Did you know that Atlanta Braves pitcher Pete Smith threw three of his four career shutouts in 1988 , the season after his rookie year?
text: Did you know that prior to colonial times , written literature was virtually absent from Burkina Faso , with the country's first novel not published until 1962?
text: Did you know that although allies during the Vietnam War , bilateral relations between China and Vietnam deteriorated due to disputes over the Gulf of Tonkin and Cambodia , resulting in the Sino-Vietnamese War of 1979?
text: Did you know that Carlisle Floyd decided to adapt Olive Ann Burns ' novel Cold Sassy Tree into an opera after his sister gave him a copy?
text: Did you know that the horses in the Minneapolis Police Department mounted patrol commute to Minneapolis from a nearby ranch?
text: Did you know that the Horse Grenadier Guards were a unit of the British Household Cavalry until 1788, originally serving as mounted infantry to reinforce the Horse Guards Regiment ?
text: Did you know that Manabendra Narayan Larma was a major political leader of the Chakma people and other tribes of the Chittagong Hill Tracts and founder of the Shanti Bahini militia?
text: Did you know that writer Robert W. Peterson , whose seminal 1970 book Only the Ball was White called attention to the overlooked history of Negro league baseball , was also a prolific writer of magazine articles for the Boy Scouts of America ?
text: Did you know that the original owner of the Embassy of Uzbekistan in Washington, D.C. building died during the sinking of the RMS Titanic ?
text: Did you know that 13 separate churches served the German population of Louisville in the 19th century?
text: Did you know that the Cathedral Church of the Prince of Peace, the episcopal see of the bishop of the Christ Catholic Church founded by Karl Pruter , is said to be the smallest cathedral in the world?
text: Did you know that the 2006 visit by King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia to India was officially described as "heralding a new era in Indo-Saudi Arabian relations "?
text: Did you know that the jazz album To the Stars by Chick Corea was inspired by Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard 's science fiction novel of the same name ?
text: Did you know that the third, fourth, and fifth highest mountain peaks in Africa are located in Rwenzori Mountains National Park in Uganda ?
text: Did you know that the lifting of the Siege of Hull in 1643 was marked by an annual public holiday in Hull , England , until the Restoration ?
text: Did you know that employee uniforms at the Topaz Hotel in Washington, D.C. have been described as "punk Buddhist "?
text: Did you know that the Thomas T. Gaff House is the residence of the Colombian ambassador to the United States ?
text: Did you know that Dulcie Holland 's Trio for Violin, Cello and Piano , described as "one of the greatest treasures of Australian music ", waited 47 years for its first public performance?
text: Did you know that Ringeriksbanen railway would reduce rail travel from Oslo to Bergen , Norway by 60 km (37 mi)?
text: Did you know that Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard 's SF novel To the Stars was nominated for a 2001 "Retro" Hugo Award ?
text: Did you know that Saudi Arabia promised to supply 50,000 barrels of free oil per day to help Pakistan if economic sanctions were imposed after its 1998 nuclear tests ?
text: Did you know that Albert Tozier rang the bell at a church in Hillsboro, Oregon , on New Year's Eve for 64 straight years?
text: Did you know that in 1784, Abel Buell published the first map of the new United States created by an American?
text: Did you know that India 's USD 650–750 million aid for Afghanistan has bolstered bilateral relations and made it the largest regional provider of aid since overthrow of the Taliban ?
text: Did you know that Irish journalist Doireann Ní Bhriain was given one of the final Jacob's Awards in 1993 to commemorate her career with RTÉ Radio 1 ?
text: Did you know that a bipartisan commission was established by law in 2003 with the mandate to study prison rape in the United States ?
text: Did you know that French singer Patricia Kaas ' 1990 album Scène de vie was certified Diamond in France , Double-platinum in Switzerland and Platinum in Canada ?
text: Did you know that the only time a Confederate flag was displayed in Nevada during the American Civil War was over a saloon ?
text: Did you know that Down Among the Z Men (1952) is the only film starring all four original members of The Goons : Peter Sellers , Spike Milligan , Harry Secombe and Michael Bentine ?
text: Did you know that Mel Krause lost his job as head coach of the University of Oregon 's baseball team when the university cut its century-old baseball program in 1981?
text: Did you know that Otto Soemarwoto ’s work as director of the Institute of Ecology has been cited as a primary influence on the resettlement strategy during Indonesia 's Saguling Dam project?
text: Did you know that amateur footballer Lee Todd is in the Guinness Book of World Records for the quickest sending off in a match, playing for just two seconds?
text: Did you know that Helen J. Frye was the first woman to serve on Oregon 's sole federal district court ?
text: Did you know that the Dunbar Hotel was the heart of LA 's jazz scene with visits by Duke Ellington , Billie Holiday , and Louis Armstrong ?
text: Did you know that when Hibernian F.C. applied to join the Scottish Football Association , the SFA told them that the SFA were catering for Scotsmen , not Irishmen ?
text: Did you know that in 1977 , L. Ron Hubbard wrote a SF film screenplay called Revolt in the Stars which is very similar to his Xenu story from the Scientology space opera theology ?
text: Did you know that a German Empire was first proclaimed on 28 March 1849 with the so-called Paulskirchenverfassung , or Constitution of the German Empire ?
text: Did you know that Lawrence Wroth wrote the definitive book on the American colonial period printing trade while working as a librarian at Brown University ?
text: Did you know that Hermann Neubacher was the leader of the Austrian branch of the German Nazi Party ?
text: Did you know that a 2007 accident on the Rampe de Laffrey killed 26 Polish pilgrims , but was not the worst ever seen along the road?
text: Did you know that in optics and acoustics , the transfer-matrix method is used to analyze the propagation of electromagnetic or acoustic waves through a layered medium?
text: Did you know that Indian actor Sikandar Kher was still in high school when he assisted director Sanjay Leela Bhansali in making the 2002 film Devdas ?
text: Did you know that compared to standard pistols , the pistols used in the ISSF 10 m Air Pistol event are allowed to be larger and have lower trigger pull weight?
text: Did you know that F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote his debut novel This Side of Paradise in a successful attempt to convince Zelda Sayre to marry him?
text: Did you know that the British Army during the Napoleonic Wars increased in size from 40,000 regular troops to over 250,000?
text: Did you know that Western Kentucky University 's Van Meter Hall is said to be haunted by the ghost of a worker who died due to seeing an airplane for the first time?
text: Did you know that Mary's Point in New Brunswick , Canada has the world's highest density of Corophium volutator , a crustacean which is a food source of millions of Semipalmated Sandpipers ?
text: Did you know that Pakistan's ties with Turkey have been influenced by president Pervez Musharraf 's admiration for Turkey 's model of modernism and secularism ?
text: Did you know that the builder of Centinela Adobe traded his 2,200-acre (880 ha) ranch encompassing the modern city of Inglewood for a keg of whisky and a small home in Los Angeles ?
text: Did you know that the German Reichsflotte Navy was founded on 14 June 1848 , before the German Empire was proclaimed on 28 March 1849 , and that it fought only in the Battle of Heligoland on 4 June against Denmark ?
text: Did you know that a bobsled from the 1932 Olympic Games , which had been missing for more than sixty years, was donated to the Lake Placid Winter Olympic Museum in 2002?
text: Did you know that the Guglers , mercenary knights invading Switzerland in 1375, were so named because of their headwear ?
text: Did you know that the Archdiocese of the Old Catholic Church of America has taken the  official position that all Christians must support nuclear disarmament , even if it is unilateral?
text: Did you know that Lorin Maazel was 75 years old when his first opera, 1984 , had its world premiere in 2005?
text: Did you know that the steel beams of Opaekaa Road Bridge , in Kapa'a , Hawaii were forged in 1890 in Motherwell , Scotland ?
text: Did you know that Mihail Moruzov , Romania 's first modern espionage chief, was shot as part of the Jilava Massacre , while his successor Eugen Cristescu died in prison?
text: Did you know that Indiana 's Morgan-Monroe State Forest features gold panning ?
text: Did you know that renowned Holocaust scholar Robert Jan van Pelt says that the first Holocaust deniers were the Nazis themselves?
text: Did you know that Pakistan established bilateral relations with Nepal in 1962-63 and agreed to provide free trade access and transport facilities to Nepal at the Chittagong Port ?
text: Did you know that the novel Final Blackout by Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard is seen as an early classic of the Golden Age of Science Fiction ?
text: Did you know that Walter Livsey kept wicket so well in his debut cricket match in 1913 that the opposing team only scored three runs from his mistakes?
text: Did you know that Bristol, Quebec , had Canada 's first horse-drawn railroad and Quebec's first iron ore pelletizing plant?
text: Did you know that Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and a majority of Israel 's population support future enlargement of the European Union to incorporate Israel?
text: Did you know that the 2001 film adaptation of Shakespeare 's Richard II was filmed at an abandoned Civil War -era fort on an island in Boston Harbor ?
text: Did you know that a dendrochronological study suggests the Corlea Trackway , a kilometre -long corduroy road in County Longford , Ireland , was built around 148 BC?
text: Did you know that Melomani , the first self-styled Polish jazz ensemble , was created in 1951 when jazz music was officially forbidden in Poland ?
text: Did you know that in 1885, Jimmy Forrest was the first professional footballer to appear for the England national football team ?
text: Did you know that Engine Co. No. 27 served a dual function as a movie location and an operating firehouse serving the Hollywood studios ?
text: Did you know that Swiss voters rejected a proposal to hold popular votes on applications for citizenship in the June 2008 Swiss referendum ?
text: Did you know that French singer Patricia Kaas ' 1997 album Dans ma chair was certified Platinum by the SNEP ?
text: Did you know that Frank T. Norman , a Louisiana Democrat , was among the first members of his party to lose a general election to a Republican opponent, as the two-party system began to sprout in the American South ?
text: Did you know that the 2008 Indian film Woodstock Villa marked the debut of veteran Bollywood actor Anupam Kher 's son, Sikandar Kher ?
text: Did you know that oil and natural gas extraction and exploration will cease by 2017 in Hay-Zama Lakes , an inland wetland in Alberta , Canada , and the province's only site for the re-introduction of Wood Bison ?
text: Did you know that Karin Pouw 's statements about the book Tom Cruise: An Unauthorized Biography prompted the niece of Scientology leader David Miscavige to publicly criticize the Church of Scientology online?
text: Did you know that Lurie Garden is the focal nature component of what is perhaps the world's largest green roof ?
text: Did you know that Oskar Sosnowski , professor of architecture at Warsaw Tech , was wounded by Germans while trying to save archives containing details of Polish historic buildings?
text: Did you know that in the 1996 football match between England and Scotland , Uri Geller claimed that he caused Scotland's Gary McAllister to miss a penalty by the power of his mind ?
text: Did you know that charcuterie , derived from the French words for flesh ( chair ) and cooked ( cuit ), is the branch of cooking devoted to prepared meat products primarily sourced from pork ?
text: Did you know that Charles Leavitt researched the diamond industry thoroughly for the film Blood Diamond 's screenplay , since he could potentially be sued by mining corporations?
text: Did you know that the first known specimen of the Soringa whiting was caught by accident in 1982 during a taxonomic survey of ladyfish in the Indian Ocean ?
text: Did you know that Chadian president François Tombalbaye was the first international leader to officially recognize the Bokassa government after the 1965–1966 Central African Republic coup d’état ?
text: Did you know that bodybuilding champion Victor DelCampo was inspired to pump iron by the Incredible Hulk comic books?
text: Did you know that a mediaeval ditch running along the centre of Gerechtigkeitsgasse , an ancient street in Berne , Switzerland can now be seen again following renovation work in 2005?
text: Did you know that the constant k filter was invented by George Campbell but named by Otto Zobel , the inventor of the m-derived filter – both used in composite image filters ?
text: Did you know that the 1997 Women's Cricket World Cup saw a record eleven teams playing 32 matches in 25 different stadia?
text: Did you know that the 1950s Canadian science-fiction television series Space Command featured William Shatner and James Doohan who later appeared on Star Trek ?
text: Did you know that the Tang Dynasty imperial prince Li Tan was forced to commit suicide due to false accusations that he planned to kill his brother Li Chu , the later Emperor Daizong?
text: Did you know that the Chantecler , the only breed of chicken native to Canada , was developed by a Trappist monk?
text: Did you knowthat the 2001 documentary film Scottsboro: An American Tragedy retold the story of the Scottsboro Boys , one of the most controversial courtroom pursuits of racism in U.S. history?
text: Did you know that in spite of their poor formal education, William Tinsley and his brother Edward founded the Victorian publishing firm Tinsley Brothers, which brought out Thomas Hardy 's first novels ?
text: Did you know that when Yves Saint Laurent launched a perfume in 1977 named Opium , it led to accusations that he was condoning drug use?
text: Did you know that the Dead Plane EP is one of five limited edition singles and EPs released on five different labels by No Age on the same day, March 26 , 2007 ?
text: Did you know that the University of Bristol 's gowns are said to have been designed by its first Vice Chancellor in the colour of the rocks of the Avon Gorge after rain?
text: Did you know that Australian composer Raymond Hanson , a teacher of music composition at the Sydney Conservatorium , was himself largely self-taught ?
text: Did you know that the 1944 German film Große Freiheit Nr. 7 was banned in Nazi Germany and only permitted by the Allies in late 1945?
text: Did you know that Darryl Brinkley , the first Northern League baseball player to bat .400 , lost his chance to play in the majors due to the September 11, 2001 attacks ?
text: Did you know that the 1990 Spanish film ¡Ay Carmela! takes its title from the favorite song of the Republican soldiers and of the International Brigade during the Spanish Civil War ?
text: Did you know that the recent Tropical Storm Arthur was the first Atlantic tropical storm that formed during the month of May since 1981?
text: Did you know that Jane S. Richardson developed the ubiquitous ribbon diagram method of representing proteins ?
text: Did you know that Time Banking is an alternative economic system which uses units of time as currency ?
text: Did you know that improving Indo-Taiwanese relations have led to bilateral trade rising to USD 2.26 billion by 2005, even though India has not accorded diplomatic recognition to Taiwan ?
text: Did you know that the Berezan' Runestone is the only runestone discovered in Eastern Europe ?
text: Did you know that Hoosier tradition holds that Christopher Harrison exiled himself from his native Maryland due to failing to court the future wife of Jérôme Bonaparte successfully?
text: Did you know that the first public anti-smoking campaign in modern history was launched in Nazi Germany ?
text: Did you know that in 1979, Joseph C. Howard, Sr. , whose mother was Sioux and father was African American , became the first African American named to the United States District Court for the District of Maryland ?
text: Did you know that there has been a windmill in Mountnessing since 1477?
text: Did you know that a revolution in 1688 in the Kingdom of Siam (modernday Thailand ) severed virtually all ties with the Western world for nearly two centuries?
text: Did you know that rock climber Peter Harding developed the art of hanging from one hand jammed into a crack, while smoking a cigarette with the other?
text: Did you know that Factorum ac dictorum memorabilium libri IX is a collection of nearly 1,000 ancient historical anecdotes written by Valerius Maximus ?
text: Did you know that Wrigley Square 's Millennium Monument is a near replica of a monument destroyed in 1953 that stood in almost the exact same location in Chicago, Illinois ?
text: Did you know that Captain Juan de Amezquita defended Puerto Rico from an invasion by the Dutch in 1625?
text: Did you know that each chapter of the 2005 chick lit romantic comedy novel The Thing About Jane Spring begins with a quote from a Doris Day film?
text: Did you know that Viking warrior Šimon is honoured in the cave monastery of Kiev ?
text: Did you know that the 1900 Carpenter Gothic Wadsworth Chapel has separate Catholic and Protestant chapels under one roof?
text: Did you know that T. V. Sundaram Iyengar laid the foundation for the motor transport industry in South India , when he started a bus service in Madurai , Madras Presidency in 1912?
text: Did you know that having reached peak windspeed on September 6 , 1959 , Hurricane Patsy is the earliest known Category 5 Pacific hurricane ?
text: Did you know that while serving in World War II , baseball player Eddie Kazak spent 18 months in hospitals recovering from a bayonet wound to his left arm and his right elbow being shattered by shrapnel ?
text: Did you know that the Eimsbütteler TV , a German football club, failed to advance in the national championship finals in 1934 and 1935 despite beating the later champion, FC Schalke 04 , in both years?
text: Did you know that Pulau Merambong is located within the largest seagrass bed in Malaysia ?
text: Did you know that in 1795 John Billingsley advocated straightening sections of the rivers Brue , Axe and Parrett , to increase reclamation of the Somerset Levels ?
text: Did you know that Skinnand is a deserted medieval village in Lincolnshire , and that its Norman church was probably burned down by Oliver Cromwell in the English Civil War ?
text: Did you know that Valium is the prescription most often dispensed by the Vatican Pharmacy ?
text: Did you know that in 1656, German violinist Thomas Baltzar helped premiere The Siege of Rhodes , thought to have been the first all-sung English opera ?
text: Did you know that the Franklin County Courthouse incorporates the walls and columns left after Confederate forces burned the previous courthouse during the American Civil War ?
text: Did you know that sumo wrestler Keisuke Itai caused controversy by claiming that the outcomes of up to 80 percent of his matches were fixed ?
text: Did you know that Penedo, a small town in Brazil was colonized by immigrants from Finland ?
text: Did you know that although Portland, Oregon 's 140-mile (225 km) long greenway system, the 40 Mile Loop , is far from complete, it has been described as "one of the most creative and resourceful greenway projects" in the U.S.?
text: Did you know that Indian coracles , which probably existed since the prehistoric times, have recently been used for giving tourists rides on the Kaveri River ?
text: Did you know that fighter ace Hartmann Grasser , who is credited for shooting down 103 enemy aircraft during World War II , later worked as an adviser for the Syrian Air Force ?
text: Did you know that the Skyline Towers apartment building in Saint Paul, Minnesota is often referred to as a " ghetto in the sky"?
text: Did you know that the Japanese visual novel 5 has been described by its development team as a "noisy northern province love comedy "?
text: Did you know that Royal Navy seaman Harry Price recounted in a memoir how he once instigated a minor mutiny , only to end it when it reached "ugly proportions"?
text: Did you know that India 's "Look East" policy aims to establish extensive relations with Asian countries to project its influence as a counterweight to that of the People's Republic of China ?
text: Did you know that Australian composer and ABC broadcaster William G. James dedicated his Six Australian Bush Songs to Dame Nellie Melba ?
text: Did you know that the role of alpha-synuclein in Parkinson's disease was discovered by genetic studies of a family from Contursi Terme in Italy , which had 61 members with Parkinson's?
text: Did you know that Hardy Lake is Indiana 's smallest reservoir at 741 acres of surface area?
text: Did you know that, during the 1989 Revolution , Romanian actor Victor Rebengiuc appeared on television with a toilet paper roll, as a symbol of "wiping out" the communist regime 's traces?
text: Did you know that a 1974 provincial Order-in-Council has prohibited hunting on the Grand Codroy Estuary , the "most important wetland" on the island of Newfoundland ?
text: Did you know that the Battle of Sena Gallica , fought in 551 AD, was the last major naval battle to take place in the Mediterranean Sea for more than a century?
text: Did you know that Frank Gehry used a hollow design for the BP Pedestrian Bridge in order to reduce the load on underground parking garages that support the bridge?
text: Did you know that UnrealIRCd is used on the largest number of IRC servers?
text: Did you know that before Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie selected it for a retreat from paparazzi , the Château Miraval, Correns-Var was already well-known as a Provençal vineyard ?
text: Did you know that China sought to strengthen Sino-Nepalese relations by supplying arms to the Nepalese monarchy against the country's Maoist insurgents ?
text: Did you know that Zac Efron and Claire Danes claim they saw a ghostlike figure while filming Me and Orson Welles at Gaiety Theatre on the Isle of Man ?
text: Did you know that stained glass from Judson Studios is found not only in churches, but also in Frank Lloyd Wright houses, the U.S. Capitol and the Tropicana Casino ?
text: Did you know that Mary Shelley 's verse drama Midas is a commentary on both Ovid 's Metamorphoses and Chaucer 's The Wife of Bath's Tale ?
text: Did you know that the sociology of the Internet is a newly emerging branch of sociology concerned with issues such as the digital divide , online social capital and the public sphere ?
text: Did you know that the Tang Dynasty eunuch Li Fuguo , whose assassin had cut off his head and one of his arms, was buried with a wooden head and a wooden arm?
text: Did you know that between 1970 and 1984 the WE Seal of approval program aided in an estimated US$ 100,000 in restitution being made to collectors of comics and other memorabilia victimized by mail fraud ?
text: Did you know that deforestation in Staffordshire inspired contributions from Erasmus Darwin and Anna Seward to a book of poetry about Needwood Forest by Francis Mundy ?
text: Did you know that a heckling comb is used when hand processing flax to comb out and clean the fibers?
text: Did you know that goalkeeper Bob Roberts was the first West Bromwich Albion player to win an international cap ?
text: Did you know that the meandering Maryland and Pennsylvania Railroad line took 77.2 miles (124 km) to connect Baltimore, Maryland and York, Pennsylvania although the two cities are only 45 miles (72 km) apart in a straight line?
text: Did you know that Clarendon is known as the heartland of Anglo-Saxon Protestantism in western Quebec , Canada , because its founder required that all settlers be Protestant?
text: Did you know that the Tang Dynasty 's Empress Zhang , during her husband Emperor Suzong 's illness, used her blood to write Buddhist sutras in order to seek blessings for him?
text: Did you know that the namesake of the Paxton Hotel in Downtown Omaha , William A. Paxton , was also instrumental in founding the Omaha Stockyards , the Omaha Driving Park and the South Omaha Land Company ?
text: Did you know that Oregon 's Devils Punch Bowl State Natural Area has a naturally eroded bowl carved in the rock by swirling ocean waves?
text: Did you know that the Luxembourgian football club FV Stadt Düdelingen won the German Gauliga Mittelrhein in 1942 and went on to the German championship finals, losing 0–2 to FC Schalke 04 ?
text: Did you know that the sinking of the Nantucket Lightship LV58 on December 10 1905 was the first time that an American ship transmitted a distress signal by radio ?
text: Did you know that the Central University Library of Cluj-Napoca in Romania was formed from two separate collections housed and operated independently in the same building for 50 years?
text: Did you know that Thelma Keane was not only the inspiration for "Mommy" in The Family Circus , but also headed the negotiations in which her husband, cartoonist Bil Keane , regained full copyrights to the comic strip ?
text: Did you know that Juozas Urbšys was the last Foreign Minister of independent interwar Lithuania ?
text: Did you know that at 1,237-metre (4,060 ft) elevation, the highest point on the Norwegian railways is the Finse Tunnel ?
text: Did you know that Soviet test pilot Vladimir Kokkinaki set twenty aviation world records?
text: Did you know that Samuel H. Boardman State Scenic Corridor contains a 367-acre (149 ha) land gift made in 1950 by Borax Consolidated, which was the first non-domestic donation to the Oregon Parks commission ?
text: Did you know that Vancouver 's tallest completed building has been called "the crowning achievement" of the Ukraine -born businessman Peter Wall ?
text: Did you know that the veldamai were released from their duty to pay taxes to the state by the privileges of the Grand Dukes of Lithuania ?
text: Did you know that some claim World War II German fighter ace Walter Zellot was killed in September 1942 by friendly fire ?
text: Did you know that Japanese mangaka Ken Akamatsu received Kodansha 's Freshman Manga Award for his debut manga Hito Natsu no Kids Game ?
text: Did you know that the Welshmen Edward Edwards , Griffith Griffith , Owen Owen , Richard Richards , Robert Roberts and Thomas Thomas (and his son Thomas Thomas ) were all educated at Jesus College, Oxford ?
text: Did you know that the Denny Chimes features a Walk of Fame of former captains of the Alabama Crimson Tide football team at its base?
text: Did you know that Gibraltarian pop rock band Taxi is made up of three of Melon Diesel 's former members and write songs in Spanish only despite their being British ?
text: Did you know that after ten years as an outlaw in the American Southwest in the 1890s, Nathaniel "Texas Jack" Reed became an evangelist and sold copies of his memoir on life as a bandit?
text: Did you know that after the overthrow in the 9th century of the Sailendra dynasty in Java , its leader Balaputra became maharaja of Srivijaya ?
text: Did you know that in January 2006, British Paralympic sprinter John McFall 's racing prosthesis was stolen, but anonymously returned a week later?
text: Did you know that in a 1998 bilateral agreement , China pledged to respect the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Bhutan even though they have never established diplomatic relations ?
text: Did you know that Angela James , once called the " Wayne Gretzky of women's ice hockey ," was amongst the first three women inducted into the International Ice Hockey Hall of Fame ?
text: Did you know that legend has it that anyone who spends a night at Tinkinswood on the evenings before May Day , St John's Day ( 23 June ), or Midwinter Day would either die, go mad, or become a poet?
text: Did you know that some Aleutian natives were still enslaved in Alaska as late as 1903?
text: Did you know that Australian James Blair introduced laws to protect children by establishing a children's court , and by preventing unjust disinheritance in parents' wills , before he became chief justice of Queensland ?
text: Did you know that despite being the first official Atlantic hurricane season on record, the 1851 Atlantic hurricane season included a hurricane that is tied for the longest on record for the period prior to 1870?
text: Did you know that the Charing Cross, Euston & Hampstead Railway , one of London's early underground "tube" railway lines, was built with finance raised by American Charles Yerkes ?
text: Did you know that the genus Melampitta is a taxonomic mystery, having been considered at one time either belonging to the pitta , babbler , logrunner , bird of paradise , or cinclosomatid families ?
text: Did you know that the Port Oneida Rural Historic District is the largest historic agricultural community fully protected by government ownership in the United States ?
text: Did you know that China has sought to cultivate strong ties with Burma by providing extensive aid and vetoing a UN resolution proposed in 2007 condemning Burma for human rights violations?
text: Did you know that The Reenactment , a 1968 film by Romanian director Lucian Pintilie , was banned by the communist regime because it showed the authorities engaged in tormenting young delinquents?
text: Did you know that with the Philippine Basketball Association 's acceptance of Solar Sports ' bid to cover the league, the games will be aired again to the network that originally aired the games in the inaugural 1975 season ?
text: Did you know that the Clarence Islands were discovered and charted as a group of three Arctic islands by James Clark Ross , then re-charted with fictional additions totaling nine islands by his uncle, John Ross ?
text: Did you know that Vuestar Technologies in Singapore claims to own patents for hyperlinking a visual image to webpages, and plans to bill virtually all websites for its use?
text: Did you know that the lyrics of Naer Mataron , a black metal band from Greece , are  influenced by Greek mythology ?
text: Did you know that James H. Howard was the only fighter pilot to be awarded the Medal of Honor —the U.S. military 's highest decoration—in the European Theater of Operations during World War II ?
text: Did you know that the Villa Medici del Trebbio was one of the first of the Medici villas outside Florence ?
text: Did you know that the One-armed bandit murder , the first gangland killing in North-East England , inspired the novel on which the film Get Carter was based?
text: Did you know that the Missoula floods deposited a 40-ton rock atop a 250-foot tall hill at what is now the Erratic Rock State Natural Site in Oregon ?
text: Did you know that the Pasco-Kennewick Bridge in Washington was the first of its size to be financed entirely by sales of stock ?
text: Did you know that cholesterol embolism may result from common medical procedures such as coronary catheterization , and can cause kidney damage ?
text: Did you know that the church tower for the Fourth Universalist Society of New York is the "high-tech command center" for NBC 's coverage of the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade ?
text: Did you know that Leurospondylus ultimus was so named as it was originally thought to be the last occurrence of a plesiosaur ?
text: Did you know that the Huckleberry Trail takes its name from the former Virginia Anthracite & Coal Railroad, nicknamed the Huckleberry, on whose abandoned railbed this rail trail was constructed?
text: Did you know that Miriam Ben-Porat was the first woman appointed to the Supreme Court of Israel and the first woman to serve as Israel 's State Comptroller ?
text: Did you know that Winston Churchill was an Honorary Colonel in the "Queer Objects On Horseback"— better known as the Queen's Own Oxfordshire Hussars ?
text: Did you know that Tunisia's tourist industry is said to benefit from its Mediterranean location and its "tradition of low cost package holidays from Western Europe "?
text: Did you know that W. Jasper Blackburn , a Republican newspaper publisher in Louisiana , was acquitted by a one-vote margin—and thus spared execution—of having printed counterfeit Confederate currency ?
text: Did you know that the 1974 film Lost in the Stars , set in apartheid -era South Africa , was actually shot in Oregon ?
text: Did you know that over fifty surrendered U-boats were gathered at HMS Ferret awaiting disposal in Operation Deadlight ?
text: Did you know that Howlin' Dave was credited with introducing Filipino rock music to Filipino radio listeners?
text: Did you know that Oregon 's Collier Memorial State Park has a logging museum with equipment dating back to 1880 including ox-drawn " high wheels ", steam-powered " donkey engines ", and antique saw mill machinery?
text: Did you know that anaesthetic pioneer Joseph Thomas Clover anaesthetised Florence Nightingale , Napoleon III and the future king Edward VII during his career?
text: Did you know that a movie set built for the 1961 Rat Pack film Sergeants 3 is often mistaken for the ghost town of Paria, Utah ?
text: Did you know that Tunisian writer, actor, and director of theatre Mohamed Driss paid tribute to the historian Ibn Khaldoun by writing an opera in his honor?
text: Did you know that the Minden Press-Herald , a daily newspaper in Minden, Louisiana , was not established until 1966 though an earlier Minden Herald dates to 1849?
text: Did you know that in Korean cuisine , dishes made by steaming vegetables stuffed with seasoned fillings are called Seon ?
text: Did you know that the Pike Place Fish Market is a Seattle, Washington fishmonger known for throwing fish to customers?
text: Did you know that on December 12 , 1996 , India and Bangladesh signed a 30-year treaty resolving the long-standing dispute over the sharing of Ganges Waters ?
text: Did you know that the New Jersey Library Association , the oldest library organization in New Jersey , began in 1890 with 39 members and currently has over 1,600?
text: Did you know that Shih Chih-wei was the first player of the La New Bears to receive a monthly Most Valuable Player award in the Chinese Professional Baseball League in Taiwan ?
text: Did you know that British TV presenter Dermot O'Leary once played as a punt returner for the Colchester Gladiators ?
text: Did you know that the SC Johnson & Son -produced film To Be Alive! was the first non-theatrical production to receive an award from the New York Film Critics Circle ?
text: Did you know that Lady Elsie Mackay , socialite, actress and interior designer, died in 1928 with WWI ace Walter G. R. Hinchcliffe , attempting to be the first woman to fly across the Atlantic ?
text: Did you know that in its last completed season in 1943–44, out of twelve clubs in the Gauliga Pommern , five belonged to the German Luftwaffe (Air Force), one to the Kriegsmarine (Navy) and one to the Heer (Army)?
text: Did you know that author Laura Vernon Hamner , informally known as "Miss Amarillo", lived over thirty years in an Amarillo, Texas hotel?
text: Did you know that the Nankin bantam breed of chicken is classified as critically endangered by the American Livestock Breeds Conservancy ?
text: Did you know that the 17th-century Buu Phong Temple in Vietnam has exactly 100 hillside steps from the road up to its entrance?
text: Did you know that Louisiana politician Earl Williamson was a confidant of Governor Earl Kemp Long , who shared his interest in buttermilk , horse racing , and politicking?
text: Did you know that Mevlüde Genç, a Turk living in Germany who had lost five of her family members to Neo-Nazi violence in the Solingen arson attack of 1993 , went on to advocate tolerance between Turks and Germans?
text: Did you know that Albert J. Hofstede was Minneapolis 's first Catholic mayor?
text: Did you know that Circle of Chalk , a Yuan Dynasty play, is still being performed in European versions set in 14th-century China , Soviet Georgia and East Germany ?
text: Did you know that Coirpre mac Néill is said to have been cursed by Saint Patrick so that none of his descendants would be High King of Ireland ?
text: Did you know that the Florida state comptroller refused to pay Lieutenant Governor Edmund C. Weeks his salary because he was not elected?
text: Did you know that the 1966–68 Liga Leumit season was played over two years in an effort to rid Israeli football of corruption and violence, which included riots on the field?
text: Did you know that Kari Blackburn , daughter of Irish educationist Robert Blackburn , taught in a primary school in Tanzania before joining the BBC ?
text: Did you know that the Soviet Union made its debut at the 1954 ISSF World Shooting Championships in Caracas and won 20 of the 30 gold medals?
text: Did you know that Native American activist Jay Morago was the first Governor of the Gila River Indian Community , Arizona ?
text: Did you know that the burial of John Mildenhall at Agra in 1614 is the oldest recorded burial of an Englishman in India?
text: Did you know that the Pierce Stocking Scenic Drive was originally a route called the Sleeping Bear Dunes Park?
text: Did you know that twin brothers David and Peter Jackson played together for seven clubs in English football ?
text: Did you know that Penelope Boothby was painted by Henry Fuseli and sculpted by Thomas Banks , as well as being the subject of a book of poetry by her father Sir Brooke Boothby, Bt ?
text: Did you know that Doge Andrea Vendramin of the Republic of Venice has what is generally agreed to be "the most lavish funerary monument of Renaissance Venice " in the basilica of Santi Giovanni e Paolo ?
text: Did you know that The Paperboys are an award-winning Canadian folk music band that blends Celtic folk with Bluegrass , Mexican , Eastern European , African , zydeco , soul and country influences?
text: Did you know that India has developed close bilateral relations with Burma with the aim of countering China 's growing influence and to elevate itself as a regional power ?
text: Did you know that Murray Jarvik and Jed Rose, who invented the nicotine patch , could not get approval to conduct their research on human subjects and performed the initial tests of the patch on themselves?
text: Did you know that the canine teeth of male baboons —which can be up to four times as long as those of females—are an example of a sexual dimorphism ?
text: Did you know that Barbette , a female impersonator aerialist , served as inspiration to such artists as Jean Cocteau , Man Ray and Alfred Hitchcock ?
text: Did you know that at least 37 people have died in the ongoing caste violence in Rajasthan , India ?
text: Did you know that French writer Honoré de Balzac 's 1831 novel La Peau de chagrin was the last book read by Sigmund Freud before he committed suicide?
text: Did you know that the proposed Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement would allow security officials at some international borders to randomly search travelers' MP3 players , laptops , and cell phones for copyright-infringing music files?
text: Did you know that Vinh Trang Temple in southern Vietnam has been severely damaged by both French military action and extreme weather?
text: Did you know that Bill Flemming called over 600 events as a broadcaster for the ABC Sports ' Wide World of Sports during his career?
text: Did you know that the 1994 French – Romanian film An Unforgettable Summer depicts the persecution of Bulgarians by Romanian Army personnel, in a metaphor of the Yugoslav wars ?
text: Did you know that the state of Indiana in 1972 set aside 6,000 acres (2,400 ha) of Hoosier National Forest just for the purpose of reintroducing wild turkey to the Hoosier state?
text: Did you know that the Young Australia League was initially formed in 1905 to promote Australian rules football ?
text: Did you know that an original 35 mm film print of the 1987 film A Month in the Country was only rediscovered in 2004 due to the efforts of a fan?
text: Did you know that Henry A. Smith became the dominant landowner in what is now Interbay , Seattle , Washington by buying when so many others were selling during an 1855–56 Indian War ?
text: Did you know that the St Nicholas Priory in Exeter is being restored with the same methods that were used 500 years ago?
text: Did you know that Sebastian Hardie were Australia 's first symphonic rock band and released their debut album Four Moments in 1975?
text: Did you know that in order to force certain officials to leave office, Arizona Territorial Governor Lewis Wolfley‎ had their salary payments withheld?
text: Did you know that 80% of all British banknotes are contaminated with drugs ?
text: Did you know that Australian ophthalmologist Sir Norman McAlister Gregg discovered the link between rubella and congenital disorders in newborn infants after overhearing several of his patients discussing their illness during pregnancy ?
text: Did you know that Congregation Beth Israel of New Orleans, Louisiana , severely flooded after Hurricane Katrina in 2005, was flooded again in 2007?
text: Did you know that the source of the bomb that brought down Canadian Pacific Airlines Flight 21 near 100 Mile House, British Columbia in 1965, taking the lives of all 52 aboard, was never determined?
text: Did you know that session steel guitarist Lloyd Green played professionally in night clubs starting at age ten?
text: Did you know that original stained glass from the Miller and Herriott House was removed to a restaurant near Disneyland , prompting one writer to compare the new glass to the wooden leg on Sarah Bernhardt ?
text: Did you know that the Guarijío of Mexico prepare an herbal tea , malo en el cuerpo (pain in the body), from Wimmeria mexicana , chamomile , and cilantro ?
text: Did you know that at WWE 's No Mercy (2005) pay-per-view, Randy Orton and his father, "Cowboy" Bob Orton , kayfabe locked The Undertaker in a casket and set it on fire?
text: Did you know that the sexual script is a sociological analysis of what leads up to sexual intercourse ?
text: Did you know that young Heliobolus lugubris lizards scare off predators by imitating certain acid -squirting ground beetles ?
text: Did you know that the New York Mets traded Mike Welch to the Philadelphia Phillies for Hector Mercado , a player who was drafted and traded the same day, only for him to play against the Mets on his major league debut?
text: Did you know that Japanese director Kei Kumai 's Sandakan No. 8 lost the 1975 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film to a film by another Japanese director, Akira Kurosawa 's Dersu Uzala ?
text: Did you know that International Association of Athletics Federations ' third president, Adriaan Paulen , was part of the Dutch resistance during World War II ?
text: Did you know that during the Great Depression , violence in Seattle 's Smith Cove between longshoremen , strikebreakers and police ultimately resulted in the loss of much of the city's maritime traffic to the Port of Los Angeles ?
text: Did you know that the 1932 Southern German football championship final between Eintracht Frankfurt and Bayern Munich was halted seven minutes before the end due to Bayern supporters invading the pitch ?
text: Did you know that Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 's second novel Half of a Yellow Sun won the 2007 Orange Prize for Fiction ?
text: Did you know that Archbishop Desmond Tutu has called for a campaign of disinvestment from Israel ?
text: Did you know that there are over three thousand miles of interstate highways and U.S. Routes in the state of Utah ?
text: Did you know that the BEL Weapon Locating Radar was developed after engineers noticed that the Rajendra Radar could unexpectedly detect and track artillery shells ?
text: Did you know that Drukair flights between Kathmandu, Nepal and Paro, Bhutan pass close to Mount Everest ?
text: Did you know that Dustin Lance Black is the only writer on Big Love , a drama about Mormon fundamentalists , who was raised in the Mormon faith?
text: Did you know that despite his winning the 1916 election by 43 votes, court rulings removed George W. P. Hunt as Governor of Arizona for nearly a year?
text: Did you know that the Revolt of the Comuneros against Charles V was partly provoked by the taxes raised in order to bribe prince-electors to elect him Holy Roman Emperor ?
text: Did you know that one of the owners of Woodlawn Farm in Slate Hill, New York used the wild teasel from his fields to card wool at his nearby hat factory?
text: Did you know that South Vietnamese politician Truong Dinh Dzu once put his wife up as collateral ?
text: Did you know that snakes were a favorite remedy of the medieval monk and healer Nicholas of Poland ?
text: Did you know that the General Board of the United States Navy was an advisory body of the United States Navy , effectively a naval general staff ?
text: Did you know that philanthropist Lorry Lokey has donated US$ 132 million to the University of Oregon ?
text: Did you know that Samuel Johnson 's first published poems, Messiah and London , were directly inspired by the writings of Alexander Pope ?
text: Did you know that Stream Cliff Farm is the oldest herb farm in Indiana ?
text: Did you know that Anne Aghion won an Emmy Award in 2005 for her documentary film In Rwanda We Say…The Family That Does Not Speak Dies , which examined the situation in post- genocide Rwanda ?
text: Did you know that the Narikuravas who reside in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu speak an Indo-Aryan language called Vagriboli?
text: Did you know that Royal Spring Park may have been the site of the first bourbon whiskey production?
text: Did you know that Sozin's Comet: The Final Battle , the two-hour finale for Avatar: The Last Airbender , was the most-watched cable television broadcast in the week of its transmission?
text: Did you know that Childress , a small city in the Texas Panhandle , is named for George Campbell Childress , the author of the Texas Declaration of Independence ?
text: Did you know that Sir Murray Maxwell , a celebrated Royal Navy officer, once spent weeks marooned on an island under attack from pirates following the loss of HMS Alceste in 1817?
text: Did you know that the brittlegill mushroom Russula betularum grows under birch , while the closely related Russula emetica is found under conifers ?
text: Did you know that on the very same day that baseball player Hector Mercado was drafted by the Philadelphia Phillies , he was traded to the New York Mets for Mike Welch ?
text: Did you know that the Fujairah power and desalination plant in the United Arab Emirates is one of the largest operational hybrid desalination plants in the world?
text: Did you know that early 20th-century immigrants to the United States are said to have seen New York for the first time from the decks of the ferryboat Yankee ?
text: Did you know that Jacob Kielland , one of the richest persons in Norway in the 1860s, was also the grandfather of novelist Alexander Kielland ?
text: Did you know that the Harwich Force , under Commodore Reginald Tyrwhitt , oversaw the surrender of German U-boats at the end of the First World War ?
text: Did you know that in 1992, baseball player Steve Rodriguez was named one of the West Coast Conference 's top fifty athletes of all time?
text: Did you know that the dark purple-brown mushroom Russula caerulea is edible and mild-tasting, although the cap skin is bitter if chewed?
text: Did you know that in the early 1990s, Surət Hüseynov successfully led a military coup d'état in Azerbaijan to become the Prime Minister ?
text: Did you know that Buffalo Gap Historic Village contains fifteen outdoor structures and other artifacts which document West Texas life in the late 19th and early 20th centuries?
text: Did you know that non-heterosexual is an umbrella term , describing people who do not or no longer identify as heterosexual ?
text: Did you know that Norwegian Parliament member, Minister of the Navy and Counter Admiral Henrik Steffens Hagerup was also the father of later Norwegian Prime Minister Francis Hagerup ?
text: Did you know that in the 1981 Nepalese national election , one candidate was elected with just 3,137 votes, less than ten percent of what the top candidate received?
text: Did you know that the diporus subspecies of the Bothrops neuwiedi pitviper is one of the main causes of snakebite injury in Argentina ?
text: Did you know that ice hockey goaltender Hap Holmes won the Stanley Cup four times, with four different teams, in four different leagues?
text: Did you know that Elaine Stritch 's appearance as Colleen Donaghy , in the 30 Rock episode " Hiatus ", earned her a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series ?
text: Did you know that in 2003, North Korea became the first state to withdraw from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty since it came into force in 1970?
text: Did you know that Congregation Beth Israel , a Conservative synagogue in Lebanon, Pennsylvania , was designed by Percival Goodman to mirror the barns of nearby Pennsylvania Dutch farmers?
text: Did you know that Francisco de Borja , a cardinal-nephew of Pope Alexander VI , died before learning of his excommunication by Pope Julius II ?
text: Did you know that the margin of victory in the 1994 Alaska gubernatorial election was the smallest in Alaska's history ?
text: Did you know that the design of the flag of Tunisia was altered slightly in its 1999 codification ?
text: Did you know that abolitionist George Bradburn was with Frederick Douglass on an 1843 anti-slavery lecture tour in Indiana , when they were attacked?
text: Did you know that exhaled nitric oxide can be measured in a breath test for asthma and airway inflammation ?
text: Did you know that Mason County, Michigan 's courts used an old farmhouse until the county courthouse was built?
text: Did you know that though first deemed too young for the part, Aksel Hennie won a "Best Actor" Amanda Award in the title role of the Norwegian film Jonny Vang ?
text: Did you know that the papal conclave of 1294 was the only papal conclave celebrated during the lifetime of the preceding Pontiff ?
text: Did you know that the 2008 film Fifty Dead Men Walking is based on an autobiography by British secret agent Marty McGartland , who was later shot six times in an assassination attempt by the IRA ?
text: Did you know that the Florida Railroad was the first railroad to connect the east and west coasts of Florida and the longest railroad to be completed in Florida before the start of the American Civil War ?
text: Did you know that the screenplay for the upcoming film Maya , starring Tamil actress Namitha , was written by Indian film historian Randor Guy ?
text: Did you know that Royal Marine Matthew Croucher was awarded the George Cross for diving on a live hand grenade ?
text: Did you know that pioneer aviator Bill Lancaster died in the Sahara desert exactly one year after the death of the man he was accused of murdering?
text: Did you know that cerebral vasculitis , an inflammatory condition of the blood vessels in the brain, is so rare that there are disagreements on how it should be diagnosed ?
text: Did you know  that Polish writer Gustaw Przeczek was a member of the Cultural Committee of the National Assembly of Czechoslovakia in the 1950s?
text: Did you know that Seattle, Washington 's  3.7-mile (6.0 km) Queen Anne Boulevard is designated as a city landmark , but no street sign carries that name?
text: Did you know that Samuel Jackman Prescod became the first person of African descent elected to the Parliament of Barbados ?
text: Did you know that Quang Nhuong Huynh 's autobiography The Land I Lost won seven awards and was translated into four languages other than English ?
text: Did you know that two games after returning from injury in 2000 , Reggie Taylor became the second-ever Scranton baseball player to collect five hits in a game?
text: Did you know that Sphodromantis viridis , the Giant African Mantis, is kept worldwide as a pet ?
text: Did you know that The Bryson , featured in Raymond Chandler 's The Lady in the Lake and the neo-noir film The Grifters , has become a symbol of LA 's film noir past?
text: Did you know that Noel Moore was the civil servant responsible for managing the decimalisation of the United Kingdom 's currency?
text: Did you know that " Fart Proudly " is an essay about flatulence written by Benjamin Franklin ?
text: Did you know that in Burkina Faso , Bwa people use masks made of leaves to represent their god Dwo in performative rituals?
text: Did you know that a low side window in the 12th-century St Helen's Church, Hangleton , may have been used as a hagioscope by lepers wanting to listen to services without entering the building?
text: Did you know that the semi-arid , mostly agricultural Cuyama Valley was once one of the most productive oil regions of California ?
text: Did you know that a Bulgarian choir and the Irish singer Joanne Hogg contributed to the soundtrack of the video game Xenogears ?
text: Did you know that former Iowa Governor Tom Vilsack began his US presidential campaign in November 2006, nearly two years before the 2008 presidential election ?
text: Did you know that in the 1920s and '30s, various countries such as Mexico , Brazil and Chile issued Art Deco stamps ?
text: Did you know that film director Jens Lien said he was unable to sleep after first reading the script for the dystopian film Den brysomme mannen ?
text: Did you know that while the 2003 Norwegian film Buddy was described as "simple" in the Norwegian press, a U.S. reviewer called it "overly plotted"?
text: Did you know that Nevada City 's Nevada Theatre is the oldest existing theater building in California ?
text: Did you know that William Hayter was secretary of the UK delegation to the Potsdam Conference , later Ambassador to the Soviet Union , and then Warden of New College, Oxford ?
text: Did you know that the residents of Kasungu , Malawi , live in houses made from handmade bricks and straw roofing?
text: Did you know that John Liston 's portrayal of the character Paul Pry was so popular, the image was stamped into butter ?
text: Did you know that Juan de Borja Lanzol de Romaní, el mayor , the first of ten cardinal-nephews of Pope Alexander VI , crowned Alfonso II of Naples , the future father-in-law of Lucrezia Borgia ?
text: Did you know that Lubbock attorney Warlick Carr filed some thirty civil suits within 24 hours against the Pecos , Texas , financier Billie Sol Estes ?
text: Did you know that almost the entirety of the Australian stout whiting catch is exported to various Asian countries?
text: Did you know that Lithuanian artist Vytautas Kazimieras Jonynas designed interiors for over sixty churches in the United States , Europe and Australia ?
text: Did you know that according to the official English account of the Battle of Skerries in 1316, the English army suffered only one casualty , yet lost the battle?
text: Did you know that Laila Goody has been called " Norway 's most awarded young actress"?
text: Did you know that the Crawford-Gilpin House is alleged to have once changed owners due to being lost as a wager in a poker game?
text: Did you know that Merten de Keyser printed the first complete French and English Bibles in Antwerp ?
text: Did you know that the Stephen Downing case , also known as the Bakewell Tart murder , has been described as the longest miscarriage of justice in British legal history ?
text: Did you know that MLB player Jim Adduci was traded to the San Francisco Giants by the Milwaukee Brewers , only to be returned one week later?
text: Did you know that the first amateur radio operator in India was licensed in 1921?
text: Did you know that Martynas Jankus , Lithuanian journalist and "Patriarch of Lithuania Minor ", was penalized around forty times by Prussian authorities for his public activities?
text: Did you know that the Masonic Widows and Orphans Home , founded by the Grand Lodge of Kentucky , is the oldest Masonic Home foundation in North America ?
text: Did you know that India 's Defence Attaché Brigadier Ravi Datt Mehta was killed in the suicide bombing on the Indian Embassy in Kabul and is being considered for the Kirti Chakra ?
text: Did you know that in August 1934, Dillinger gang member Homer Van Meter was gunned down by police officers in Frogtown ?
text: Did you know that the Blade of the Immortal manga authored by Hiroaki Samura was adapted into an anime series by Bee Train , Production I.G and Pony Canyon ?
text: Did you know that the 30 Rock episode " Somebody to Love " was the first scripted series, which aired during the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike , to actually make reference to the strike?
text: Did you know that 29 percent of the population of Birds Landing, California can speak Spanish ?
text: Did you know that Herman Bagger , a Danish immigrant to Norway , became a member of the Norwegian Parliament and mayor of Gjerpen and Skien ?
text: Did you know that the Purple-crowned Lorikeet is colloquially known as the "Zit Parrot" from its shrill tsit call?
text: Did you know that the 17th-century Chinese world map Shanhai Yudi Quantu was derived from the work of Father Matteo Ricci of the Jesuit China missions ?
text: Did you know that Viktor Nogin , mayor of Moscow during the Bolshevik Revolution , is buried in the Kremlin in Red Square , Moscow?
text: Did you know that in the Texas Revolution battle of Lipantitlán , Texian insurgents captured in 30 minutes a Mexican fort they described as a "second-rate hog pen"?
text: Did you know that aviator Jack De Garis faked his own suicide by drowning before being the subject of an Australia -wide search in 1925?
text: Did you know that a 15th-century bell from the Gokoku-ji Buddhist temple in Japan was sent to the U.S. in 1854 and rung when the Naval Academy at Annapolis won the annual Army-Navy football game ?
text: Did you know that John Palmer instigated a major reform of the British postal system in 1784, when his experimental mail coach run from Bristol to London took only 16 hours instead of 38 hours?
text: Did you know that South Ockendon Windmill had a pair of millstones powered by a waterwheel ?
text: Did you know that Emperor Peter III of Russia was deposed by his wife Catherine and her friend Ekaterina Dashkova after he had made public his plans to divorce Catherine and marry Ekaterina's sister Elisabeth ?
text: Did you know that comedian Al Madrigal ’s first television series , The Ortegas, was dropped from the Fox Network schedule in 2003 before any episodes were broadcast?
text: Did you know that Norwegian politician Christian Birch-Reichenwald was brought in as a government minister by then- Crown Prince Charles in 1858, only to be provoked by the same person to resign three years later?
text: Did you know that the Friend to Friend Masonic Memorial depicts the historical event of an Union officer aiding a Confederate officer at the Battle of Gettysburg , due to both being Freemasons ?
text: Did you know that architect / engineer Sir Owen Williams returned part of his design fee for the Dollis Hill Synagogue because the congregation was unhappy with the finished structure?
text: Did you know that the buildings with the sign Silver Dew Winery described by Pat Conroy in his autobiographical book The Water is Wide were once part of the Bloody Point Range Lights on Daufuskie Island, South Carolina ?
text: Did you know that Mark Christensen was a dancer, a pilot, a skateboarder, and a musician before making his filmmaking debut with Box Head Revolution in 2002?
text: Did you know that Quang Nhuong Huynh was the first Vietnamese to write fiction and non-fiction in English ?
text: Did you know that Riley Hern was the first professional ice hockey goaltender to play on a Stanley Cup -winning team?
text: Did you know that the College of Letters and Science is the largest college of the University of Wisconsin-Madison ?
text: Did you know that Pierre Abraham Lorillard was the first man to make snuff in North America ?
text: Did you know that Ukrainian Cossack Grégoire Orlyk was a spy of the French king Louis XV , fought in the Seven Years' War , received a title of a comte and was promoted to the general's rank of Maréchal de camp ?
text: Did you know that monocopters can have one rotating wing or have only one fixed wing and rotate entirely?
text: Did you know that English headmistress Olive Willis founded Downe House School , where her chauffeur - architect - engineer slept in her bathroom?
text: Did you know that the Condon Committee report into the Lakenheath-Bentwaters UFO incident in 1956 concluded it was likely that at least one genuine UFO was involved?
text: Did you know that following Australia's failure to win the 2003 Rugby World Cup , British pie retailer Square Pie produced a "humble pie" filled with kangaroo meat?
text: Did you know that the sixth emergency special session of the UN General Assembly ended with a call for the total withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan so its people could freely choose their political system?
text: Did you know that the Romanian poet Anatol E. Baconsky , who debuted as a socialist realist , came to depict the communist regime as an " anti-utopia " shortly before dying in the 1977 earthquake ?
text: Did you know that a grand jury found Arizona Territory 's "Thieving Thirteenth" legislature exceeded a US$ 4,000 legal limitation for operating expenses by US$46,744.50?
text: Did you know that Reinhard von Werneck gave Munich 's Englischer Garten much of its current form by almost doubling its area and by creating a new lake, the Kleinhesseloher See?
text: Did you know that the world's first successful demonstration of laser surgery was held at Melrose-Wakefield Hospital in Melrose , Massachusetts ?
text: Did you know that when playing at the 2008 NME Awards in support of their triple-nominated single " Flux ", indie rock band Bloc Party were stunned by the scale of the gig?
text: Did you know that 30-year Seattle City Council member David Levine served as Seattle 's acting mayor on over 250 occasions?
text: Did you know that diaphragmatic rupture can allow abdominal organs to herniate into the chest cavity and interfere with breathing?
text: Did you know that lobbyist Stephen Payne was caught on hidden camera in July 2008 offering access to senior U.S. officials in return for a US$250,000 donation to the George W. Bush Presidential Library ?
text: Did you know that in 2005, 20-year-old Kevin Nee became the youngest person to reach the finals in the World's Strongest Man championships?
text: Did you know that the Srizbi botnet of 300,000 infected computers is responsible for sending 60 billion spam e-mails per day?
text: Did you know that seven-term member of the Norwegian Parliament Otto Vincent Lange later served as Minister of Finance and Customs on four non-consecutive occasions between 1855 and 1863?
text: Did you know that social interface is a term used in social sciences both in a theoretical literature, and in a practical design of computer user interfaces ?
text: Did you know that the pharmacy of former Welsh rugby union player Willie Llewellyn was saved from rioters during the Tonypandy Riot because of his past services to his country?
text: Did you know that Grant County, Indiana is placing Garfield statues throughout the county?
text: Did you know that Jean Mohr has photographed Palestinian refugees for the U.N. and International Red Cross since 1949, yet also published two books on L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande ?
text: Did you know that a memorial to "Unknown Confederate Dead" at the Fort Smith National Cemetery also commemorates James McIntosh and Alexander Steen , even though neither Confederate general was unknown?
text: Did you know that Henry Moore 's Nuclear Energy sculpture was erected and dedicated to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the first self-sustaining controlled nuclear reaction ?
text: Did you know that Rachel Dratch lost the role of 30 Rock character Jenna Maroney to Jane Krakowski , but later appeared as a maid in the 30 Rock episode The Aftermath ?
text: Did you know that Peter Lorillard may have been the first American publicly referred to as a " millionaire "?
text: Did you know that the sinking of the SS Königin Luise (pictured) was the first German naval loss of the First World War ?
text: Did you know that in his 2005 book Race Against Time , the UN Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa Stephen Lewis claimed the spread of AIDS across Africa is partly due to a succession of disastrous economic policies promoted by international financial institutions ?
text: Did you know that Prince Mihail Sturdza accepted 33 of 35 demands made by the leaders of the Moldavian Revolution of 1848 , and when the leaders stood firm proceeded to crush the revolution?
text: Did you know that Washington 's Union Station was turned into the short-lived National Visitor Center in 1976, but so few tourists used it that it closed two years later?
text: Did you know that the Quatama Station light rail stop in Hillsboro, Oregon , includes a piece of art based on an arrangement created by a Japanese Macaque at the Oregon National Primate Research Center ?
text: Did you know that the Rev. William Plenderleath 's book Memoranda of Cherhill was first published 95 years after the author's death?
text: Did you know that attacks by the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, led by Nigerian rebel Henry Okah , are believed to indirectly raise the price of oil ?
text: Did you know that British actor Terence Stamp 's brother Chris , a New York City psychodrama therapist, co-managed and produced rock band The Who from 1964 to 1975?
text: Did you know that after a painted garage door was destroyed, the Precita Eyes muralists salvaged it and merged it into a new one, said to be one of their most beautiful in San Francisco ?
text: Did you know that a picture of Cincinnati Reds pitcher Lee Grissom rowing a boat inside Crosley Field ran nationwide after the worst flood in the city 's history?
text: Did you know that Benjamin Ferguson bequeathed a fund to Chicago , Illinois that provided for seventeen of the city's most prominent sculptures?
text: Did you know that Mike Ayers coaches the smallest school in the highest division of NCAA college football ?
text: Did you know that Muphry's law states that "if you write anything criticizing editing or proofreading , there will be a fault of some kind in what you have written"?
text: Did you know that Humphrey de Bohun, Earl of Hereford was allegedly killed by a spear through the anus at the Battle of Boroughbridge in 1322?
text: Did you know that Indian Village, Chicago hosts the only 24-hour elevator operator building in Chicago , Illinois ?
text: Did you know that Polish poet Paweł Kubisz was sentenced in 1928 by Czech authorities for 13 months in prison for alleged transport of illegal literature to Slovakia and conspiring against the Czechoslovak Republic ?
text: Did you know that in rugby union , New Zealand has only lost four Test matches at Carisbrook stadium in over one hundred years?
text: Did you know that the state of emergency , enforced by the enactment of Emergency Powers Act 1939 to help maintain Irish neutrality during World War II , was not rescinded until 1 September , 1976 ?
text: Did you know that 90 percent of the United Kingdom 's pig and dairy production is sold under the Red Tractor farm assurance mark?
text: Did you know that when the Congolese village of Bogoro was attacked in 2003, survivors were imprisoned in a room filled with corpses, and women and girls were sexually enslaved ?
text: Did you know that, despite its name, the soft drink Grapico , first sold in 1914, did not contain any grape juice and used deceptive advertising to promote the product?
text: Did you know that Montreal Mayor Aldis Bernard was the first President of the Dental Association of the Province of Quebec when it was founded in 1869?
text: Did you know that the 7.9 M w Denali Fault earthquake on November 3 , 2002 was the strongest shock ever recorded in the interior of Alaska ?
text: Did you know that Benjamin Franklin 's letter Advice to a Friend on Choosing a Mistress was cited in a 1973 United States Supreme Court opinion by justice William O. Douglas ?
text: Did you know that T. Muthuswamy Iyer was the first Indian judge of the Madras High Court ?
text: Did you know that Ray Combs , host of Family Feud , was the guest announcer for a "family feud" match at the World Wrestling Federation 's 1993 Survivor Series event?
text: Did you know that Miron Merzhanov was a personal architect to Joseph Stalin from 1933–1941?
text: Did you know that Madeline Kahn made her screen debut in De Düva , an Academy Award -nominated short comedy that parodied the films of Swedish director Ingmar Bergman ?
text: Did you know that the Pseudo-Bonaventura is a name given to the authors of several medieval devotional books once wrongly attributed to Saint Bonaventure ?
text: Did you know that the United Kingdom 's entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 2003 , Cry Baby , earned no points from any of the voting countries?
text: Did you know that sociologists distinguish between general social movements and specific social movement organizations ?
text: Did you know that the parish church of Thurning, Norfolk , contains many furnishings of a destroyed chapel of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge ?
text: Did you know that Mike Karakas was the first American-born and trained professional ice hockey goaltender to play in the National Hockey League ?
text: Did you know that 209 people were killed and 41,000 houses were damaged or totally destroyed in the 1970 floods in Romania , with over a million arable acres inundated, and more than 100,000 animals drowned?
text: Did you know that transwoman actor Judiel Nieva was once sought out as a healer and visionary ?
text: Did you know that the U.S. Sheep Experiment Station is the second largest employer in Clark County, Idaho ?
text: Did you know that in 1999, the JKNC expelled Saifuddin Soz , India's current Minister of Water Resources , when he voted against the Government headed by Atal Behari Vajpayee defying the party whip ?
text: Did you know that nearly 60 years after surviving a lynching attempt, and being convicted as an accessory to murder, James Cameron founded America's Black Holocaust Museum ?
text: Did you know that the residents of Tippecanoe, Indiana in 1860 built a new school right next to a preexisting cemetery?
text: Did you know that Ivan Pyryev was the winner of six Stalin Prizes and was the Director of Mosfilm studios?
text: Did you know that 18th-century poet Christopher Smart spent seven years in mental asylums for madness but may have been imprisoned out of revenge or actions resulting from drinking too much?
text: Did you know that Rosabelle Sinclair , a native of Scotland , established the first women's lacrosse team in the United States in 1926 ?
text: Did you know that Nikolay Likhachov collected medieval coins and manuscripts , Byzantine seals , Russian icons , and cuneiform tablets?
text: Did you know that C.W. Bergstrom was the last professional wrestler to ever hold the NWA Pacific Northwest Heavyweight Championship ?
text: Did you know that the container ship Atlantic Causeway was refitted with a ski-jump to enable her to operate Sea Harriers during the Falklands War ?
text: Did you know that Sun Prairie, Wisconsin is the birthplace of American painter Georgia O'Keeffe ?
text: Did you know that Akwamu slaves in the Danish West Indies revolted in 1773 , taking control of most of the island of Saint John in the present-day U.S. Virgin Islands ?
text: Did you know that Withington Community Hospital was, at its height, the largest teaching hospital in Europe ?
text: Did you know that according to legend, Saint Palladius of Embrun made prophecies , knew angels , and defeated the Devil by crossing himself ?
text: Did you know that the football game between Offenburger FV and the SC Freiburg on 28 March 1920 lasted for over three hours?
text: Did you know that Nat Williams is the first ever African American sheriff elected in St. Helena Parish, Louisiana , where the last three elected sheriffs had been sent to jail?
text: Did you know that Boris Kovač ’s folklore music is influenced by the twenty nationalities of the Pannonian Plains ?
text: Did you know that the spray pool on Boston Common doubles as an ice-skating rink in winter?
text: Did you know that Flora Danica , a comprehensive botanical collection containing pictures of all known wild plants native to Denmark , was initiated by Georg Christian Oeder ?
text: Did you know that the Chianan Plain , the largest plain of Taiwan located at the central-southwestern region of the island, has three harvests of rice crops annually?
text: Did you know that Jason Castro , who was recently signed by the Singapore Slingers , is slated to become the first Filipino player in Australia 's National Basketball League ?
text: Did you know that the Cathedral of Freedom featured on the Slovene 0.10 € Euro coins was a parliamentary building proposed in 1947 that was never built?
text: Did you know that WWE 's The Great American Bash (2004) pay-per-view ended with The Undertaker burying his manager in cement?
text: Did you know that Carl Johan Cronstedt increased the efficiency of wood-burning stoves in the 18th century by a factor of eight?
text: Did you know that wine can be made from substances other than grapes , including marijuana ?
text: Did you know that Jurgis Bielinis and his organizations smuggled about half of all Lithuanian books printed in East Prussia during the Lithuanian press ban ?
text: Did you know that a 73- yard run during the 1949 Rose Bowl by Frank Aschenbrenner of the Northwestern Wildcats was the longest run from scrimmage in Rose Bowl history?
text: Did you know that Cardinal Lodovico Trevisan , who won several battles as Captain General of the papal army, was known as the "angel of peace"?
text: Did you know that Terling Windmill in Essex, England was featured in the film Oh, Mr. Porter! ?
text: Did you know that the German-American confectioner Charles F. Gunther claimed to own the remains of the serpent from the Garden of Eden ?
text: Did you know that Michael Ferreira was the first amateur billiards player to break the 1,000 points barrier when he scored a break of 1,149 in 1978?
text: Did you know that the first peacekeeping force, the UNEF , was approved at the first emergency special session of the UN General Assembly with 57 supports, 0 opposes, and 19 abstains?
text: Did you know that according to legend, a spring came up on all three spots where the severed head of Catholic martyr Saint Baudilus bounced after his martyrdom in Nîmes ?
text: Did you know that the excavation at Norton Priory , Cheshire , in the 1970s revealed the largest floor of mosaic tiles to be found in any modern excavation?
text: Did you know that petitions called for the firing of Ohio State athletic director Dick Larkins when he hired little-known football coach Woody Hayes in 1951 instead of Paul Brown ?
text: Did you know that Charlie Waitt was taunted and called a " sissy " by fans and teammates because he was one of the first to wear baseball gloves to protect his hands?
text: Did you know that at the Battle of Bov , Schleswig-Holstein 's senior commander did not arrive until two hours after the fighting had started?
text: Did you know that the insolvency law of Switzerland is codified in a statute that is nearly 120 years old?
text: Did you know that John Huston quit his directing job on the 1971 action film The Last Run after fighting with George C. Scott , the film’s star?
text: Did you know that the 1891 Martinique hurricane was considered to be the worst on the island since 1817?
text: Did you know that Edward P. Hurt , who coached Morgan State College to 14 CIAA football championships, was also the school's track coach and on the coaching staff at the 1964 Olympic Games ?
text: Did you know that Han Chinese Emperor Jing had Imperial Secretary Chao Cuo executed to appease various subordinate kingdoms ?
text: Did you know that the Irish Greyhound racing regulator Bord na gCon includes Viagra on its list of banned substances?
text: Did you know that Josiah and William Forster , early members of the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society , visited U.S. President Franklin Pierce to promote their cause?
text: Did you know that archaeological evidence suggest that the history of French wine began with the Celts , long before the Greeks and Romans settled the area?
text: Did you know that while working on Lipstick and Dynamite , a 2005 documentary about women's professional wrestling , Neko Case found out Ella Waldek in the film was her great-aunt?
text: Did you know that Arnaud de Pellegrue , a cardinal-nephew of Pope Clement V , led the papal army in a 1309 war against Venice ?
text: Did you know that Salvador Toscano Barragán was Mexico 's first filmmaker ?
text: Did you know that Dowlish Wake was the home of John Hanning Speke who explored Africa in the mid– 19th century in search of the source of the Nile ?
text: Did you know that Louis-Adolphe Paquet was one of the most vocal opponents of both mandatory public education and women's suffrage in early 20th-century Quebec ?
text: Did you know that the Ashtabula Harbor Light in Lake Erie was encased in ice by a storm in 1928, trapping its keepers inside for two days?
text: Did you know that the remote Aboriginal community of Jigalong in Western Australia was the venue for the world premiere of the film Rabbit-Proof Fence ?
text: Did you know that Nick Vitucci is the first goaltender inducted into the ECHL Hall of Fame ?
text: Did you know that Faker 's debut studio album Addicted Romantic includes a track written by lead singer Nathan Hudson eight years earlier?
text: Did you know that Massera's lemma , a result in stability theory and nonlinear control , can be used to construct common Lyapunov functions for switched systems?
text: Did you know that after John Huston filmed a scene from Moby Dick in front of the Seamen's Bethel in New Bedford, Massachusetts , the increase in tourism spurred the creation of the New Bedford Historic District ?
text: Did you know that Wanda Hjort Heger showed up uninvited every week at the gate of Sachsenhausen during WWII with two jars of potato salad for the Norwegian prisoners?
text: Did you know that an adrenergic storm can be caused by a cocaine overdose, use of the MAOI class of antidepressants , or a subarachnoid hemorrhage ?
text: Did you know that Maya Angelou wrote one of her characters in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings to demonstrate how she survived her childhood as a black in a white-dominated world?
text: Did you know that 25 percent of the population of Ecuador is of indigenous heritage , while another 65 percent is of mixed indigenous and European heritage ?
text: Did you know that part of the 1975 comedy film Linda Lovelace for President was shot on the campus of the University of Kansas ?
text: Did you know that according to The Gunpowder Plot: Exploding The Legend , had the plot succeeded, it would have created more persecution of English Catholics rather than less?
text: Did you know that the National Conference Center , formerly known as Xerox Document University, is one of the largest corporate training facilities in Northern Virginia ?
text: Did you know that despite being outnumbered by more than two to one, Denmark defeated Schleswig-Holstein in the Battle of Fredericia in 1849?
text: Did you know that after several gold and platinum hits, Neil Diamond and Lee Holdridge collaborated on the film score for Jonathan Livingston Seagull ?
text: Did you know that Kazakhstan-South Korea relations are strengthened by the presence of 100,000 Koryo-sarams in Kazakhstan ?
text: Did you know that former WLS-TV news anchor Joel Daly and his co-presenter Fahey Flynn popularized " Happy Talk "?
text: Did you know that the 1958 Operation Chico was the first mass evacuation in United States history in which residents were quartered away from their homes overnight?
text: Did you know that the exploration problem in robotics is that of maximizing knowledge over an area by the use of a robot ?
text: Did you know that a number of physicians and nurses at the tuberculosis sanitorium founded by Dr. Edward Livingston Trudeau in Saranac Lake, New York in 1882 were patients themselves and served without pay?
text: Did you know that Dewan Seshayya Sastri ruled the kingdom of Pudukkottai as regent from 1886 to 1894?
text: Did you know that the 1st Canadian Parachute Battalion was the first Canadian unit on the ground in France in the Invasion of Normandy on D-Day , 1944?
text: Did you know that Bette Sussman and Whitney Houston 's version of the Dolly Parton classic, " I Will Always Love You " has sold over 17 million copies?
text: Did you know that civil engineer Robert Wynne-Edwards was the first president of the Institution of Civil Engineers to be elected while still working as a contractor ?
text: Did you know that the most common victims of barodontalgia , a dental pain evoked by a change in barometric pressure , are SCUBA divers and military pilots ?
text: Did you know that Sarah Thompson was the first American countess ?
text: Did you know that Ralph Vaughan Williams ' Sea Songs is due to be played at the 2008 Last Night of the Proms to commemorate 50 years since the composer's death?
text: Did you know that the Presidio La Bahía was moved twice before being permanently located near Goliad, Texas ?
text: Did you know that Pedro Luis de Borja Lanzol de Romaní was made a priest, bishop, and cardinal —in the opposite order—by his grand uncle Pope Alexander VI ?
text: Did you know that the Istanbul landmark Mihrimah Mosque was constructed in the 16th century for Suleiman the Magnificent 's daughter?
text: Did you know that whether prosections are as effective as dissections in the teaching of medicine is an unsettled aspect of medical education ?
text: Did you know that the Greenfield Lane segment of the decommissioned New York State Route 273 is no longer part of the highway's new designation?
text: Did you know that the global media alliance Project Klebnikov is dedicated to investigating the July 2004 murder of journalist Paul Klebnikov ?
text: Did you know that the San Francisco Bay Area will have a new direct rail to ferry connection when the Hercules intermodal rail station and WETA ferry terminal is constructed?
text: Did you know that Walter Jackson Bate called Samuel Johnson 's Life of Mr Richard Savage , included in Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets , "one of the innovative works in the history of biography"?
text: Did you know that when constructed in 1906, the Baku-Batumi pipeline was the world's  longest kerosene pipeline ?
text: Did you know that American journalist Alan Cabal was one of the luminaries of New York City 's occult movement during the "occult renaissance" started in the 1960s?
text: Did you know that for many years, kibbutz Mizra 's store was the only place in Israel that sold non- kosher meat?
text: Did you know that the 1953 film Striporama features the only color footage of pin-up model Bettie Page in a speaking role?
text: Did you know that Polish poet Adolf Fierla survived Dachau and Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camps ?
text: Did you know that two former species of Oioceros , O. grangeri and O. xiejiaensis , have been recently identified as separate genera ?
text: Did you know that as a Winchester schoolmaster, Robert Lock Graham Irving introduced George Mallory to mountaineering in the Alps ?
text: Did you know that the Staten Island Peace Conference of September 11 , 1776 , only lasted three hours?
text: Did you know that John de Vere, 7th Earl of Oxford took part in both the Battle of Crécy and the Battle of Poitiers – the two main battles of the first phase of the Hundred Years' War ?
text: Did you know that only five Australians have led the general classification in the 95 editions of the Tour de France to date?
text: Did you know that Samuel Newhouse offered a US$ 50 prize to the first couple to have a baby in the silver mining town of Newhouse, Utah ?
text: Did you know that psychoanalyst Stephen Soldz publicly accused psychologists at the U.S. military base at Guantanamo Bay of developing and applying torture techniques on detainees ?
text: Did you know that the Nuremberg Transport Museum originally opened as a royal Bavarian railway museum in 1899 and is now the oldest railway museum in Germany ?
text: Did you know that in 1913, Major League Baseball pitcher Joe Boehling finished the season with 18 complete games , three shutouts , and an earned run average of 2.14?
text: Did you know that the extended Kalman filter is often considered the de facto standard in nonlinear state estimation ?
text: Did you know that while Fr. Benedict Groeschel was recovering from injuries after being hit by a car in 2004, he co-authored the book There Are No Accidents: In All Things Trust in God ?
text: Did you know that in 1986, after about 60 years of darkness, a lamp was again activated in the Haig Point lighthouse ?
text: Did you know that an Indianapolis architect was sent to Château de Malmaison to replicate a copy of it in Indianapolis' Washington Park neighborhood ?
text: Did you know that Henry Fielding praised Jane Collier , author of An Essay on the Art of Ingeniously Tormenting and The Cry , for her "understanding more than female, mixed with virtues almost more than human"?
text: Did you know that the metal finishing on more than 10,000 Olympic torches used in the torch relay for the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia was done by the Erie Plating Company ?
text: Did you know that in 1976, an 8.0 M w earthquake in Moro Gulf in the Celebes Sea in the Philippines killed at least 5,000 people and triggered tsunamis that reached as far as Japan ?
text: Did you know that Victoria Jackson-Stanley recently became the first woman and first African American mayor of Cambridge , a Maryland town devastated by race riots in the 1960s?
text: Did you know that musician Matthew West was inspired to title his album History after seeing the news headline "Matthew West Makes History"?
text: Did you know that agriculture is the primary source of livelihood for the majority of the population of Bhutan ?
text: Did you know that the Clark Memorial Home , built in 1913 as a home for single working women, has been a shooting location for Rocketeer , Twins , and Mr. Saturday Night ?
text: Did you know that the noble house of Ibelin was the primary beneficiary of the War of the Lombards , a civil war in the Kingdom of Jerusalem ?
text: Did you know that the Virginia Tech Hokies football team has played more than 1,100 games during its 116 years of existence ?
text: Did you know that Luna 2 was the first of several spacecraft to use on-board magnetometers to discover that the Moon has almost no magnetic field ?
text: Did you know that the Fair Complex MAX station in Hillsboro, Oregon , has a weather vane made with five model airplanes ?
text: Did you know that AFL club the Fitzroy Lions ' former best and fairest winner Norm Johnstone is the grandfather of current Brisbane Lions player Travis Johnstone ?
text: Did you know that there are nine known trans-Neptunian detached objects in our Solar System ?
text: Did you know that the first airmail of the United States was a personal letter from George Washington carried on an aerial balloon flight from Philadelphia by Jean Pierre Blanchard ?
text: Did you know that Willem IV van den Bergh was Stadtholder of Guelders and Zutphen until being arrested in 1583 by Elbertus Leoninus for treason?
text: Did you know that in his 2004 book The End of Oil , Paul Roberts cautioned that the price of oil might climb to US$ 60 a barrel within five years, but it took only thirteen months?
text: Did you know that journalist and art museum curator Erastus Brainerd led the publicity campaign that established Seattle 's role as the gateway to the Yukon Gold Rush ?
text: Did you know that although the Siege of Mahdia in 1390 was a military failure, the subsequent ten year armistice reduced piracy from the Barbary coast ?
text: Did you know that South American Coati males were originally considered a separate species from females due to different social habits?
text: Did you know that the 1989 New Jersey School Report Card was the first report to make statistics such as standardized test scores , student-teacher ratio , and cost of public schools available to all taxpayers in the United States?
text: Did you know that Pieter van den Broecke was one of the first Dutchmen to drink coffee when he visited Mocha, Yemen in 1614?
text: Did you know that miners living in Sego, Utah bought out the coal mine they worked for?
text: Did you know that the lob bomb is a newly developed form of airborne improvised explosive device made from a propane tank, and used by insurgents in Iraq against U.S. forces ?
text: Did you know that the work of Martin Rota as engraver to the Imperial court in Vienna included a portrait of Emperor Maximilian II ?
text: Did you know that in 2007, the National Credit Union Share Insurance Fund provided deposit insurance for nearly 87 million accounts at 8,101 credit unions in the United States?
text: Did you know that the Underground City in Beijing is a bomb shelter said to accommodate six million people?
text: Did you know that former American Geological Institute president Samuel S. Adams was son of New Hampshire Governor Sherman Adams ?
text: Did you know that the Taipei Metro Xiaonanmen Station was a target of serial vandalism in March 2006?
text: Did you know that the Vector Field Histogram (VFH) algorithm used in robotic motion planning received two major updates after its original creation in 1991, which were renamed as VFH+ and VFH*?
text: Did you know that Budweiser Bier Bürgerbräu , introduced in 1802, is offered by the Czech brewery in Europe as "Budweiser Bier", while in North America , is called "B. B. Bürgerbräu"?
text: Did you know that an owner of the DeForest Skinner House was once the youngest railroad director in the United States ?
text: Did you know that Atunda Ayenda is the first radio soap opera ever aired in Sierra Leone ?
text: Did you know that the Narragansett Turkey is a breed of domestic turkey unique to North America and named after Narragansett Bay in Rhode Island ?
text: Did you know that the Sigtuna box has a runic poem that threatens thieves, but in a metre that was usually reserved for Viking lords and kings?
text: Did you know that Temple Sinai , a Reform synagogue in Oakland, California , grew out of Oakland's Hebrew Benevolent Society in 1875?
text: Did you know that the red mushroom Russula sanguinaria , known as the "bloody brittlegill", smells fruity but is hot tasting?
text: Did you know that Hendrik van den Bergh founded the South African Bureau of State Security in 1969 to coordinate intelligence gathering and suppress anti- apartheid dissidents ?
text: Did you know that Harold's Steer-In in Indianapolis ' North Irvington Gardens Historic District was the site of a 2005 MasterCard commercial featuring quarterback Peyton Manning ?
text: Did you know that the Rum Swizzle is often called " Bermuda 's national drink "?
text: Did you know that McDonald Clarke , known as the "mad poet of Broadway ", drowned in prison after being subjected to an elaborate prank ?
text: Did you know that omnidirectional cameras have a 360-degree field of view and have been used in robotics to solve the simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) problem visually?
text: Did you know that Greek band ONIRAMA ’s name comes from the Greek phrase "Onira Mas" meaning "Our Dreams "?
text: Did you know that the first Protestant church in Korea was founded in 1884 at Sorae in present-day Ryongyon county in South Hwanghae , North Korea ?
text: Did you know that radio collars for animal tracking were first tested at the Cedar Creek Ecosystem Science Reserve ?
text: Did you know that an eclectic castle in a small village of Moszna in Poland has exactly 99 turrets and 365 rooms?
text: Did you know that the Croaking Tetra is a tropical fish that "chirps" when it comes to the surface to gulp air?
text: Did you know that the poem Płyniesz Olzo po dolinie , by Polish poet and educator Jan Kubisz , became the unofficial anthem of Cieszyn Silesia ?
text: Did you know that the German Mine Sweeping Administration , a naval mine sweeping organisation made up of former members of the Kriegsmarine of Nazi Germany , was under command of the Royal Navy ?
text: Did you know that notable residents of Colonnade Row included John Jacob Astor IV , Washington Irving and Cornelius Vanderbilt ?
text: Did you know that in 2003, Chinese scientists invented a way of producing yarn from bamboo fibre ?
text: Did you know that Dr David Moor admitted in a press interview to having helped up to 300 ill patients to die ?
text: Did you know that dozens of congressional candidates have endorsed " A Responsible Plan to End the War in Iraq " ?
text: Did you know that the Iraiyanar Akapporul ("Study of Stolen Love") contains the first major prose work written in the Tamil language ?
text: Did you know that although chaotic , the Solar System is stable enough that its planets will not collide with each other for a few billion years?
text: Did you know that the highest point on Cape Cod is not Scargo Hill in Dennis as is commonly believed,  but Pine Hill in Bourne ?
text: Did you know that the Boreray is the most critically endangered breed of sheep in the United Kingdom , according to the Rare Breeds Survival Trust ?
text: Did you know that infielder Mike Cervenak spent so much time as a member of the Norwich Navigators that residents of the town dubbed him the "Mayor of Norwich"?
text: Did you know that Watts Station was the only structure to remain intact along "Charcoal Alley" during the Watts Riots ?
text: Did you know that according to legend, water from a holy well in Penrhys , Wales , can be used to cure rheumatism and poor eyesight ?
text: Did you know that the Museum of Texas Tech University was housed in a basement for approximately thirteen years?
text: Did you know that G. S. Khaparde earned the moniker " Nawab of Berar " because of his personal and political influence in the central Indian province?
text: Did you know that the Ziegler Polar Expedition was stranded in the arctic for two years until it was rescued in 1905?
text: Did you know that "Gizzie" and "Slit" are two alternative common names for the Little Lorikeet of eastern Australia ?
text: Did you know that the Cleveland Indians traded Bob Allen to the Pittsburgh Pirates in December 1963, only to take him back four months later?
text: Did you know that Agile Mangabeys are known to contract the T-cell leukemia virus , similar to the leukemia virus that infects humans?
text: Did you know that when VOC forces led by Steven van der Hagen captured a Portuguese fort on Ambon in 1605, it was the first territory captured by the Dutch Republic in the East Indies ?
text: Did you know that the Young Romance comic book series, first published in 1947, is regarded as the first romance comic ?
text: Did you know that HMT Bedfordshire was one of 24 Royal Navy anti-submarine vessels sent to assist the United States after its entry into World War II ?
text: Did you know that Alex Perelson is the youngest professional skaterboarder in the vert field ?
text: Did you know that the relics housed within the chapel near the Church of St. Mary of Blachernae in Istanbul were credited by the Byzantines for victories against the Avars , Arabs , and Rus ?
text: Did you know that in 1837, Nathaniel Parker Willis won $1,000 from Josephine Clifton by writing Bianca Visconti for her to perform?
text: Did you know that the ABC documentary television program Our World was often assigned to students as homework, with ABC distributing 39,000 study guides a month?
text: Did you know that conceptual artist Joan Fontcuberta 's works include a hoax exhibition of bizarre animals such as winged monkeys and snakes with 12 feet, incorporating fieldnotes , photographs and X-rays?
text: Did you know that Bill Stoneman , who pitched two no-hitters for the Montreal Expos and later ran the Major League Baseball club as the general manager , first joined the franchise in the 1968 expansion draft ?
text: Did you know that from October 2008, the Norwegian digital ticketing system t:kort will be valid on Kystekspressen ?
text: Did you know that Charles Marshall chose the location where Robert E. Lee 's surrender ceremony took place near the end of the American Civil War ?
text: Did you know that in 1382, Jogaila arrested and imprisoned his 80-year old uncle Kęstutis when he arrived for negotiations during the Lithuanian Civil War ?
text: Did you know that Therefore Repent! is a 2008 graphic novel set in a post- Rapture world where fundamentalist Christian eschatology has come true?
text: Did you know that Pleistodontes froggatti , the fig wasp that pollinates the Moreton Bay fig , was intentionally introduced into Hawaii in 1921?
text: Did you know that the 2008 ILF Under-19 World Lacrosse Championships included three first-time participants Bermuda , Finland , and Scotland ?
text: Did you know that SS Catalina , after reportedly carrying more passengers than any other ship anywhere, has been stuck half-submerged in Ensenada, Mexico for more than ten years?
text: Did you know that Australian cricketer Keith Miller , while attending high school during his teenage years , had Test captain Bill Woodfull as his mathematics teacher, who gave him a zero on a geometry exam?
text: Did you know that the tablet known as Gabriel's Revelation , written in Hebrew before the birth of Christ , allegedly tells of a man killed by the Romans and resurrected after three days?
text: Did you know that Russian avant-garde poet and singer-songwriter Alexei Khvostenko is often referred to as the "grandfather of Russian rock "?
text: Did you know that fossil collectors often call Polyptychoceras vancouverensis the "paperclip ammonite " or the "candy cane", due to its shape?
text: Did you know that U.S. statesman Frederick Douglass said that George William Alexander had spent "more than an American fortune" in promoting the anti-slavery cause ?
text: Did you know that over the course of five decades, Toshio Masuda directed 16 films which made the top ten list at the Japanese box office , a record surpassed by only one other director?
text: Did you know that the 17th-century Theatrum Chemicum is a comprehensive compendium on alchemy in the western world ?
text: Did you know that Bartholomew Gilbert is responsible for the failure to establish a colony on Cape Cod in 1602 which would have been the first English colony in the Americas ?
text: Did you know that Ficus obliqua , which may reach 100 ft (35 m) high in Australian rainforests , is well suited for use in bonsai ?
text: Did you know that Francis Fox Tuckett was one of the main figures of the golden age of alpinism , making the ascent of 269 peaks and the crossing of 687 passes?
text: Did you know that instead of making a triumphant entry to Harar , Ethiopia after the Battle of the Ogaden , Italian general Rodolfo Graziani tripped and injured himself at a local church?
text: Did you know that microbial mats increase our understanding of evolution by helping to preserve soft-bodied organisms and soft parts of hard-shelled animals ?
text: Did you know that the only known surviving work of Catalan poet Pere de Queralt is a maldit-comiat in which he accuses his lady of having three lovers in a single day?
text: Did you know that A Driver for Vera , Ukraine 's submission for the 77th Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film , was rejected because too much of the production was based in Russia ?
text: Did you know that Fitzroy Football Club was so impressed by Allan Ruthven ’s potential he was given guernsey number 7, made famous by Brownlow medalist Haydn Bunton ?
text: Did you know that Korean writer Park Kyung-ni spent 25 years writing the 16-volume epic novel Land , which has been included in the UNESCO Collection of Representative Works?
text: Did you know that the largest sports research library in North America is located on the grounds of LA 's Britt House , a Colonial Revival mansion built in 1910?
text: Did you know that the Type 77 semi-automatic pistol is a common side arm used in the Chinese People's Liberation Army ?
text: Did you know that according to X-ray analysis, William Hogarth 's painting Hogarth Painting the Comic Muse originally had a dog relieving himself on a pile of old master paintings?
text: Did you know that after capturing Amba Aradam during the Second Italo-Abyssinian War , the Italians bombed the fleeing Ethiopian soldiers with mustard gas ?
text: Did you know that the red-purple coloured inedible mushroom Russula sardonia has a hot peppery taste?
text: Did you know that the 1974 film La prima Angélica reportedly created the greatest scandal surrounding any Spanish film during the Franco years?
text: Did you know that the Electrosport was a US $11,900 electric car in 1971, when gasoline was 36 cents per gallon , and the company established the “World’s First Electric Car Expressway” between Detroit and Chicago ?
text: Did you know that the public reaction after the death of Prince Wilhelm of Prussia caused Adolf Hitler to issue a decree barring all members of Germany 's former royal houses from service in the military ?
text: Did you know that Santo Alcala ’s age of 23 in 1976 made him the second youngest player on an aging Cincinnati Reds baseball team?
text: Did you know that the American Palestine Line claimed that its ship the SS President Arthur was the first ocean liner to fly the Zionist flag when it began service in 1925?
text: Did you know that Joseph Nathan Kane had personal possession of America 's first fountain pen and the 1849 patent model for America's first safety pin ?
text: Did you know that when Teddy Morgan led Wales in their national anthem before the 1905 rugby union match, it was the first time a national anthem had been sung before a sporting event?
text: Did you know that the 2001 feature film Cupid's Mistake was produced on a budget of US$ 980?
text: Did you know that shipping company Bastø Fosen operates the most trafficked car ferry route in Norway , from Moss to Halden ?
text: Did you know that Union Army officer Frank A. Haskell ’s account of the Battle of Gettysburg was hailed by historian Bruce Catton as "one of the genuine classics of Civil War literature"?
text: Did you know that much of modern theatre in Burkina Faso has developed from the need to educate rural people?
text: Did you know that the Proletarian Revolutionary Organisation of Nepal proposed a synthesis of Buddhism and Maoism in 1977?
text: Did you know that the Vorwerk is the only breed of chicken to share its name with a brand of household appliance ?
text: Did you know that Nara Bahadur Karmacharya is the sole surviving founding member of the Communist Party of Nepal ?
text: Did you know that brightly colored leheria turbans were male business attire in Rajasthan , India during the 19th and early 20th centuries?
text: Did you know that Charles Thomas Bolton was the first astronomer to prove the existence of a black hole ?
text: Did you know that the Treaty of Dubysa was never ratified as the Teutonic Knights failed to reach the agreed-upon destination due to shallow water in the Neman River ?
text: Did you know that the Boston Red Sox once traded Major League Baseball pitcher Anastacio Martínez to the Pittsburgh Pirates only to take him back in a different trade a week later?
text: Did you know that the Dogger , a type of fishing boat , takes its name from the Dogger Bank , which was itself named after an earlier type of fishing vessel?
text: Did you know that African slave Abu al-Misk Kafur ’s rise to power in 946 as the ruler of Egypt and southern Syria is one of the first examples in Islamic history of a sovereign with the lowliest of origins?
text: Did you know that Australian Test cricketer Keith Miller once broke from his air force flying formation to fly over Beethoven 's birthplace of Bonn ?
text: Did you know that the title of The West Wing episode " On the Day Before " refers to the Jewish holiday Erev Yom Kippur ?
text: Did you know that robot-assisted surgery was recently performed to treat ovarian vein syndrome , a rare condition in which a dilated ovarian vein compresses the ureter , causing pain?
text: Did you know that among other changes, the Hungarian Round Table Talks in 1989 led to a complete overhaul of the country's constitution ?
text: Did you know that Johnny Oates , the only Texas Rangers manager to make it to the postseason, won the Manager of the Year Award in 1996 ?
text: Did you know that Captain Ralph Kerr , briefly commander of the Royal Navy 's largest warship HMS Hood , had previously only commanded destroyers ?
text: Did you know that Walt Whitman and Theodore Roosevelt frequently visited Chichester's Inn in West Hills, New York ?
text: Did you know that Humphrey Littleton informed on a priest wanted in connection with the Gunpowder Plot after seeing him give mass at Hindlip Hall ?
text: Did you know that the Australian banana fig is one of the few figs known to be pollinated by more than one species of fig wasp ?
text: Did you know that Japanese mathematician Yozo Matsushima received the Asahi Prize for his research on continuous groups in 1962?
text: Did you know that every person detained by the International Criminal Court has a personal computer in his cell?
text: Did you know that in 1846, George Pope Morris was one of two founders of the periodical that would become Town & Country , which is still published today?
text: Did you know that as a Boston College freshman, current Toledo Mud Hens pitcher Chris Lambert was named Big East Conference "Pitcher of the Year" and "Rookie of the Year" in 2002?
text: Did you know that Adbot , one of the first internet advertising companies, was forced to close only seven months after opening due to the fraudulent source of its start-up funding?
text: Did you know that when Indian cricketer Sourav Ganguly scored a century on test debut at Lord's in 1996, he became the third overall and first since John Hampshire in 1969 to do so?
text: Did you know that actor Michael Sharrett played the grandson of Clovis, played by Jimmy Stewart , in the 1978 musical film The Magic of Lassie ?
text: Did you know that Lou Piniella , the only Mariners manager to lead a team into the playoffs, recorded a season with 116 wins, tying the major league record of wins in a season?
text: Did you know that Australian naturalist and botanical artist Rica Erickson wrote her first book Orchids of the West in 1951?
text: Did you know that Floyd Womack of the NFL 's Seattle Seahawks was nicknamed "Pork Chop" because his mother thought he resembled professional wrestler Porkchop Cash ?
text: Did you know that Penelope Wensley , who will become the next Governor of Queensland this month, was the first female Permanent Representative of Australia to the United Nations in New York ?
text: Did you know that the Streeterville neighborhood sits almost entirely on land that did not exist when the city of Chicago first incorporated?
text: Did you know that chemist and science policy -maker Rudolf Mentzel , head of the German Research Foundation in the 1930s and later VP of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute , was also an SS Brigadier ?
text: Did you know that four players from the Morgan State University Football Bears are in the NFL Hall of Fame ?
text: Did you know that the Zebu element in Jamaica Hope cattle comes from one Sahiwal bull?
text: Did you know that Brad Paisley 's 2008 single " Waitin' on a Woman " is a re-recording of a song that he originally recorded on his 2005 album Time Well Wasted ?
text: Did you know that Abdur Rashid Kardar , a pioneer of the Pakistani film industry in Lahore , was a calligraphist who prepared posters for foreign-made films?
text: Did you know that South Park Lofts in Los Angeles , originally an eight-story parking garage , was converted to lofts, whereupon residents complained about a lack of parking?
text: Did you know that the fungus gnat is often found around houseplants because it lays eggs in moist potting soil ?
text: Did you know that English footballer Tom Holford played professionally until he was 46, making him the sixth oldest player to have appeared in a Football League match?
text: Did you know that many traumatic brain injuries have aspects of both focal and diffuse brain injury ?
text: Did you know that Charles Mathias, Jr. is the only Republican from Maryland to be elected to three terms in the United States Senate ?
text: Did you know that the Podgórski sisters —six-year-old Helena and her teenage sister Stefania—harbored thirteen Jews for over two years in the attic of their house during the Holocaust ?
text: Did you know that gaming fads such as Bank Night contributed more than any other tactic to the resiliency of the U.S. film industry during the Great Depression ?
text: Did you know that the former general secretary of the Communist Party of Nepal , Keshar Jung Rayamajhi , turned royalist and became chairman of Nepal 's  Royal Privy Council?
text: Did you know that the name of popular Ivorian music genre Coupé-Décalé is a local slang term for cheating somebody and running away?
text: Did you know that the concept of hurricanes as "a moving vortex" was first developed by John Farrar after the Great September Gale of 1815 ?
text: Did you know that mizuna is a cold-resistant mustard green grown extensively during winter in Japan ?
text: Did you know that Thomas Kimmwood Peters was the only newsreel photographer to film the San Francisco earthquake and fire of 1906 ?
text: Did you know that in 1870, the Indian Reform Association aimed at putting into practice some of the ideas that the Brahmo leader Keshub Chunder Sen was exposed to during his visit to Britain ?
text: Did you know that the cult of Saint Chiaffredo arose after the discovery of a sarcophagus containing a mysterious skeleton near the Italian town of Crissolo ?
text: Did you know that the Dr. Nelson Wilson House is unusual for having Eastlake stickwork done in brick instead of wood?
text: Did you know that the success of the World War II bombing campaign Operation Strangle was unrelated to its original objective?
text: Did you know that Julio Vizcarrondo played a key role in the abolition of slavery in Puerto Rico in the 19th century?
text: Did you know that George Zames pioneered the H-infinity methods which have revolutionized the field of robust control ?
text: Did you know that the Nigar Awards are the oldest awards of merit in the Pakistani film industry ?
text: Did you know that Daniel Page , the second mayor of St. Louis, Missouri , helped finance the construction of the Ohio and Mississippi Railroad ?
text: Did you know that magnetic resonance neurography creates detailed medical images of nerves ?
text: Did you know that Ghulam Ahmed Chishti wrote, composed and recorded six to seven songs for the film Pheray in a single day?
text: Did you know that American President Lines was declared an industry leader in 1989 for its innovations in container transport?
text: Did you know that Hugh McCulloch became president of the Bank of Indiana without any prior experience in banking at all?
text: Did you know that Mecklenburg underwent a series of partitions, so that by the 18th century, rulers in both of its parts had identical titles?
text: Did you know that the Citadel of Saigon , a stone fortress in Vietnam , was captured during the French invasion after less than a day of battle?
text: Did you know that in his 1570 book on religious images , theologian Molanus objected to showing the infant Jesus naked, among many other things?
text: Did you know that San Francisco 's 1873 Pigtail Ordinance was deemed unconstitutional because it discriminated against Chinese immigrants ?
text: Did you know that Vaidila , depicted in the Lithuanian Chronicles as a kitchen assistant who entered nobility only through marriage, was the only Lithuanian duke known to marry a daughter of a Gediminid ruler ?
text: Did you know that Keelung City , Taiwan was briefly occupied by the French military in the late 1880s?
text: Did you know that Fort Concho , a United States Army outpost in San Angelo, Texas from 1867 to 1889, was the headquarters for the Buffalo Soldiers of the American West ?
text: Did you know that the city of Strasbourg , France is the sole or main seat of over 20 international institutions ?
text: Did you know that Dr Nigel Cox is the only doctor ever to have been convicted in Britain for attempted euthanasia ?
text: Did you know that Olvir Hnufa , a famous 9th-century Norwegian skald quoted in the Prose Edda , was the great-uncle of the Viking Egil Skallagrimsson ?
text: Did you know that children's author Aleksandra Ishimova was the last correspondent of Alexander Pushkin before his death in a duel ?
text: Did you know that according to a letter written in 1428 by President Felip de Malla to Alfonso the Magnanimous , Catalonia was devastated by an earthquake on Candlemas that year?
text: Did you know that the Higher Education Quality Council of Ontario was established by the Government of Ontario in response to a recommendation in the Rae Report ?
text: Did you know that one of the eyes of Edward Oldcorne , who was tortured into revealing his participation in the Gunpowder Plot , is kept as a holy relic ?
text: Did you know that William Cullen Bryant owned Cedarmere-Clayton Estates in Roslyn Harbor, New York where the Nassau County Museum of Art now stands?
text: Did you know that Nguyễn Trung Trực , who organized and led militia that fought against French colonial forces in the Mekong Delta in Vietnam , was a local fisherman ?
text: Did you know that Aberdeen 's Northern Co-operative Society declared a loss of £7 million in 1992, and, unable to recover, went into receivership , bringing to an end a 132-year-old business?
text: Did you know that children's book author and illustrator Christopher Manson uses traditional hand tools to create the pine woodcuts that decorate his books?
text: Did you know that the first edition of Henry Fielding 's final novel Amelia was published with 5,000 copies while his popular novel Tom Jones had only 3,500 copies for both its first and second edition?
text: Did you know that Luan Da of the Han Dynasty was granted 2,000 households to rule over due to his practice of mediumship ?
text: Did you know that ejecta from the impact that created Zunil crater in Athabasca Valles on Mars is a possible source of Martian meteorites ?
text: Did you know that German bryologist Franz Stephani was the author of "one of the most notorious publications in bryology"?
text: Did you know that the Municipal Theatre of Corfu served as the place of assembly for the Serbian Parliament in exile from 19 January 1916 to 19 November 1918 ?
text: Did you know that, at 5 ft 7 in (1.70 m) tall, Teddy Davison was considered the smallest goalkeeper to play for the England national football team ?
text: Did you know that the Nicaraguan Rice Rat is one of only two mammals endemic to Nicaragua ?
text: Did you know that Grand Duchess Anna freed her husband Vytautas the Great of Lithuania from a prison in Kreva by dressing him in women's clothes ?
text: Did you know that the Montreux Convention of 1936 is an international treaty regulating the Dardanelles and Bosporus Straits ?
text: Did you know that Anita West , one of the presenters of Blue Peter , was on the show for such a short period that no footage of her exists in the BBC archives?
text: Did you know that famous Benjamin Franklin impersonator Ralph Archbold is married to a woman who impersonates Betsy Ross ?
text: Did you know that the International Checker Hall of Fame in Petal, Mississippi was home to the world's largest checkerboard ?
text: Did you know that the first fire department in Indianapolis was established seventeen months after the first fire in the city?
text: Did you know that in 1967, Ann Pellegreno and a crew of three successfully flew a similar aircraft, Lockheed 10A Electra , to complete a world flight that mirrored Amelia Earhart 's 1937 flight plan?
text: Did you know that in the 1537 Battle of Ollantaytambo , an Inca army resorted to flooding the battlefield as a way to counter the Spanish cavalry ?
text: Did you know that David William Thomas , mayor of Minden, Louisiana who also published newspapers, practiced law, and taught at the university level, was called " Renaissance man "?
text: Did you know that Eat This Book has been criticized as "basically a book-length infomercial " for the International Federation of Competitive Eating ?
text: Did you know that actor Jiří Sovák played the role of a man who had a prophetic dream about the Velvet Revolution in the 1996 Czech film Kolya ?
text: Did you know that Long Island 's Roslyn Grist Mill is one of the few surviving Dutch colonial timber frame commercial buildings in the U.S.?
text: Did you know that a statue of French general Gustave Borgnis-Desbordes in Bamako , Mali was torn down shortly after Mali's independence in 1960?
text: Did you know that "racing baron" Fritz Huschke von Hanstein won the 1940 Mille Miglia in a BMW 328 ?
text: Did you know that gender identity disorder in children is a diagnosis formally recognized in 1980 that often involves controversial therapeutic intervention?
text: Did you know that Major League Baseballer Willis Roberts signed as a free agent to play with the Cincinnati Reds on the same day he was released by the Detroit Tigers ?
text: Did you know that Psilopterus was about the same size as the modern cariama , making it the smallest of the carnivorous prehistoric avians known as terror birds ?
text: Did you know that when Henry D. Edelman became the first president and CEO of the Federal Agricultural Mortgage Corporation in June 1989, no staff had been hired to work with him?
text: Did you know that the West Indian laurel fig tree is an introduced species in Florida where it has escaped from cultivation?
text: Did you know that the Papal conclave, 1592 was the fourth papal conclave during the year and a half after the death of Pope Sixtus V ?
text: Did you know that forensic anthropologist Arpad Vass is developing a decomposition odor analysis or DOA database to enable Human Remains Detection (HRD) dogs to help detect human remains?
text: Did you know that Ulf Sterner of Sweden was the first European player in the National Hockey League ?
text: Did you know that the Indiana Canal Company was once believed to be a front for the conspiracy of former U.S. Vice President Aaron Burr ?
text: Did you know that a pilot of 818 Naval Air Squadron flying from HMS Ark Royal , crippled the German battleship Bismarck so that she could later be sunk?
text: Did you know that Mike Scioscia , the current manager of the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim baseball club , was the first to lead the team to a World Series championship in 2002 ?
text: Did you know that the Manx Rumpy breed of chicken is not Manx at all?
text: Did you know that the children's music duo Greg & Steve started out singing to children as special education assistants?
text: Did you know that the t:kort digital ticketing for public transport in Trøndelag , Norway was launched seven years behind schedule?
text: Did you know that the construction of the Cairo Apartments , one of the tallest buildings in Washington, D.C. , prompted the U.S. Congress to pass a new law in 1899 to limit buildings to the height of the Capitol ?
text: Did you know that Eric Borel , a teenager who killed 14 people in Cuers , Var , was the most deadly mass murderer in France since 1989?
text: Did you know that the 2007 documentary film Quantum Hoops tells the story of the Caltech mens' basketball team, who had a 259-game losing streak after not winning a conference game since 1985?
text: Did you know that The Towers , a residence in Didsbury , Manchester originally built for the editor of the Manchester Guardian , is now a cotton research facility?
text: Did you know that current Toledo Mud Hens pitcher Francis Beltrán pitched the final inning of the final game played by the Montreal Expos before the club moved to Washington ?
text: Did you know that Syed Wajid Ali Shah was the longest serving President of the Pakistan Olympic Association with a tenure of 26 years?
text: Did you know that an almost-complete juvenile specimen of Ctenochelys was uncovered in 2005?
text: Did you know that Samuel Jarvis was acquitted of manslaughter after winning Toronto 's last duel on July 12 , 1817 , and married the daughter of the presiding judge the following year?
text: Did you know that when the Japanese visual novel Suika was released for the PlayStation , it was retitled as Water Summer ?
text: Did you know that Canadian actor Kevin Durand , who plays antagonist Martin Keamy in the fourth season of the television show Lost , is a former rapper and stand-up comic ?
text: Did you know that the 20-room Garbutt House in Los Angeles, California was built with concrete walls and ceilings, steel-reinforced doors and no fireplaces due to the owner's intense fear of fire?
text: Did you know that Vincent Gambi was one of several pirates associated with Jean Lafitte , and assisted him during the Battle of New Orleans ?
text: Did you know that when Daniel Elfrith became admiral of the colonies at Black Rock Fort in 1632, he warned ships of where escaped slaves might attack?
text: Did you know that a scene from " Rosemary's Baby ", an episode of 30 Rock featuring Alec Baldwin and Tracy Morgan , was described by one critic as "one of the funniest scenes ... on TV this season"?
text: Did you know that Greek – Polish singer Eleni Tzoka has been awarded the Saint Rita of Cascia prize for the act of mercy towards the killer of her young daughter?
text: Did you know that Dair Mar Elia , dating from the 6th century, is the oldest Christian monastery in Iraq ?
text: Did you know that Garry Roggenburk , after his Major League Baseball career, became a general manager for the Winter Haven Red Sox in the farm system of his former team, the Boston Red Sox ?
text: Did you know that an extension of Ferrybridge Henge in West Yorkshire was discovered when surveying an area in preparation to erect a row of houses?
text: Did you know that Miroslav Macháček spent four months in an insane asylum because he criticised the communist approach in the Prague National Theatre in 1975, two years before Charter 77 ?
text: Did you know that a World War II pilot from No. 466 Squadron , Royal Australian Air Force , escaped death when he fell onto a fellow crew member in mid-air and shared his parachute ?
text: Did you know that mass lesions in the brain stem cause coma , a severe alteration in the level of consciousness , by affecting the reticular formation ?
text: Did you know that Uncommon Friends of the 20th Century is a 1999 documentary film about businessman James D. Newton's friendships with well-known figures such as Thomas A. Edison , Charles Lindbergh and Henry Ford ?
text: Did you know that Elliott Cutler , who performed the world's first successful heart valve surgery in 1923, was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal twice for his distinguished service in the two World Wars?
text: Did you know that Dickie's Bladder-fern was first found in a yawn in Scotland , but that Victorian fern collectors may have removed every specimen from this site?
text: Did you know that during the Texas Revolution , soldiers in the Texian Army were not issued official uniforms, so many purchased US Army surplus uniforms to wear?
text: Did you know that the biography of a Douglas-fir , Tree: A Life Story , was inspired by a single tree at David Suzuki 's home?
text: Did you know that the Multi-Touch Collaboration Wall , a large multi-touch device, has been used by CNN during its coverage of the 2008 United States elections, and has been nicknamed "The Magic Wall"?
text: Did you know that El Cabrillo courtyard apartments, built in 1928 by Cecil B. DeMille and later home to transvestite actor Divine , are said to be "steeped in old Hollywood lore"?
text: Did you know that Pryor Brock Farmstead is the best representation of a farmstead, with Italianate buildings, around Zionsville, Indiana ?
text: Did you know that Lamine Guèye from Senegal was the first Black African skier to take part in the Winter Olympics ?
text: Did you know that The West Wing episode " Ways and Means " was co-written by Eli Attie and Gene Sperling , two former employees of the Bill Clinton White House ?
text: Did you know that the series of oil paintings by Nabil Kanso titled The Split of Life comprises over 80 mural -sized works?
text: Did you know that the Jamaican Blackbird has evolved to fill the ecological niche more typical of woodcreepers and woodpeckers ?
text: Did you know that Major General William P. T. Hill , Quartermaster General of the United States Marine Corps had participated in Doctor Roy Chapman Andrews ' expedition to the Gobi Desert while still a captain?
text: Did you know that the 1948 film Terri Yaad was the first feature film to be released in Pakistan after the partition of India ?
text: Did you know that the National Park Service originally rejected the application to create a second historic district in Roslyn, New York , suggesting the first one be expanded instead?
text: Did you know that the Australian Army adopted the Pentropic organisation in 1960, but returned to its previous unit structures in 1965 as the new organisation was found to be unsuited to Australia 's strategic environment?
text: Did you know that the British radio sitcom Safety Catch is built around the moral dilemmas of a man who inadvertently became an arms dealer ?
text: Did you know that the 1820 Indiana Supreme Court decision in the case of Polly v. Lasselle freed all slaves in the U.S. state of Indiana ?
text: Did you know that the Banga Sena is a separatist organization which advocates formation of a separate homeland for Bengali Hindus in Bangladesh ?
text: Did you know that no prints or negatives survive of the 1933 short film Hello Pop! , starring The Three Stooges before they began performing under that name?
text: Did you know that the organisers of the Tour de France refused to hold the race during WWII , despite the German authorities' offer to open the borders between German-occupied France and Vichy France specially?
text: Did you know that the Mineola, New York post office has no public art in its lobby , which is unusual for post offices of its size built during the Great Depression ?
text: Did you know that the biopsychosocial model was theorized by George L. Engel at the University of Rochester Medical Center and putatively discussed in a 1977 article in the journal Science ?
text: Did you know that The Legend of Chu Liu Xiang received the third-highest viewership of all television series broadcast in 2007 on CCTV-8 , even though it was released in December of that year?
text: Did you know that Admiral Herbert Sawyer had a son named Herbert Sawyer , who not only also became an admiral, but was even given his father's old command, the North American Station ?
text: Did you know that the four brothers in Christian rock band Remedy Drive were performing over 200 concerts a year before signing onto a record label ?
text: Did you know that Hibernian Park hosted the first football international match played in Edinburgh , Scotland ?
text: Did you know that the day after Nazi Germany declared war on the U.S., Adolf Hitler announced the extermination of the Jewish race to party leaders in a private meeting in the Reich Chancellery ?
text: Did you know that Riverside Drive Historic District in Covington, Kentucky marks where the first white settlers in the Cincinnati area lived?
text: Did you know that Yukiko Iwai , at 4' 11'' (150 cm), was the shortest member of the 1980s all-girl Japanese pop group Onyanko Club ?
text: Did you know that the killing of filmmaker Hugh O'Connor in 1967 came to represent the conflict between outsiders and locals in Appalachia during the War on Poverty ?
text: Did you know that the blue-green toadstool Stropharia aeruginosa is named for its similarity in colour to verdigris ?
text: Did you know that circumstances of the 1977 death of Stanisław Pyjas , a Polish student and anti-communist activist, are still a mystery?
text: Did you know that the Lafayette Afro Rock Band , although little known during their time, is now considered as one of the standout funk bands of the 1970s?
text: Did you know that Vic Aldridge , nicknamed the "Hoosier Schoolmaster", had the worst seventh game start for a pitcher in World Series history?
text: Did you know that British psychoanalyst Montague David Eder was a non-commissioned military surgeon for the Bolivian Army ?
text: Did you know that although the Collared Lory is only found in Fiji today, fossil evidence shows that it once existed in Tonga and was extirpated by human settlers?
text: Did you know that Canadian professional wrestler and promoter Bronko Lubich was influential in the careers of several wrestlers such as Mick Foley , Steve Austin and Percy Pringle ?
text: Did you know that the Kucheng Massacre was one of the worst outrages against foreigners in China prior to the Boxer Movement ?
text: Did you know that the music video for British electropop band Hot Chip 's song " Boy From School " was said to invoke the memory of the children's art series, Art Attack ?
text: Did you know that Heroes' Day in Namibia , recognized by the United Nations as Namibia Day, commemorates the fighters killed during the Namibian War of Independence annually on 26 August ?
text: Did you know that Somerset cricket captain Reggie Ingle maintained his hay fever was made worse by train journeys, and travelled in the luggage rack to avoid the dust at lower levels?
text: Did you know that St. Maria ad Gradus , a former church in Cologne , Germany , was the burial site of Richeza of Lotharingia in 1063?
text: Did you know that after basketball coaches exploited the possession arrow rule, the University Athletic Association of the Philippines amended the rules for the 2008 season ?
text: Did you know that, in spite of lobbying from New Hampshire residents, the episodes of The West Wing " Manchester Part I and Part II " were filmed in Bluemont , Virginia instead?
text: Did you know that senior GDR diplomat Gottfried Lessing had taken part in the founding and been a leading member of the illegal clandestine Communist Party in Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe ) during the 1940s?
text: Did you know that the inverted floral arrangement of Lacandonia schismatica , where the stamens are in the flower's center and are surrounded by the pistils , is unique among all known flowering plants ?
text: Did you know that R. Thomas Flynn , retired president of Monroe Community College , won an athletic scholarship to Bradley University that he later lost due to injury?
text: Did you know that René Victor Auberjonois , one of the leading Swiss painters of the 20th century, was poorly received in the Romandie , where he lived most of his life?
text: Did you know that the 2008 Western Australian gas crisis may cost the state's industries hundreds of millions of dollars?
text: Did you know that Polish writer of youth literature Alfred Szklarski often compared Polish people to Native Americans ?
text: Did you know that one of the founders of the International Time Capsule Society estimated that over 80 percent of time capsules will be lost before they are opened?
text: Did you know that Old Trail Town in Cody, Wyoming , is the second burial site of the mountain man Liver-Eating Johnson , the inspiration for the 1972 film Jeremiah Johnson ?
text: Did you know that 1984 World Sportscar Champion Stefan Bellof was killed due to a collision with 1982 and 1983 World Champion Jacky Ickx at the 1985 1000 km of Spa ?
text: Did you know that Dactylosaurus lived in the Middle Triassic period during the Anisian faunal stage of central Europe ?
text: Did you know that in February 1428, President of Catalonia Felip de Malla wrote a letter to King Alfonso V describing an earthquake that had struck Barcelona ?
text: Did you know that 19th-century archaeologist Isaiah Deck proposed pulping linen from Egyptian mummies into paper , to meet a paper shortage in America?
text: Did you know that the partition of a uterine septum can extend caudally and result in a double vagina ?
text: Did you know that in 1985, molecular biologist Richard A. Houghten developed the "tea-bag" method for peptide selection?
text: Did you know that Ad exstirpanda , promulgated in May 1252 by Pope Innocent IV , authorized the use of torture by the Inquisition for the purpose of eliciting confessions from alleged heretics ?
text: Did you know that the inspiration for the 2001 horror film Texas Night Train was the song "Moppin' the Floor with My Baby's Head"?
text: Did you know that Valri Bromfield performed stand-up comedy on the first episode of Saturday Night Live ?
text: Did you know that the flesh of the poisonous mushroom Boletus legaliae smells of chicory ?
text: Did you know that the Louisville and Nashville Railroad Office Building in Louisville, Kentucky is one of the largest commercial Beaux Arts buildings still in existence?
text: Did you know that the identity of the language or dialect of the Cançó de Santa Fe , a hagiographical poem about Saint Faith , has been debated since the 16th century?
text: Did you know that the " Australian Legends " in 2000, Walter Parker and Roy Longmore were among the last living veterans of the ANZAC who had served in World War I ?
text: Did you know that primitive weevils of the Aglycyderini , Metrioxenini and Oxycorynini tribes are believed to have evolved in the Late Cretaceous or perhaps Paleocene period , some 100-60 million years ago?
text: Did you know that Steve Adkins , on the day of his Major League debut, walked five consecutive batters, two short of the all time record of seven?
text: Did you know that " Greenzo ", an episode of 30 Rock , was part of NBC ’s Green Week that aimed at having every primetime program aired during the second week of November 2007 contain an environmental theme ?
text: Did you know that English vinegar manufacturer and Liberal member of parliament Mark Hanbury Beaufoy wrote well-known verses on gun safety ?
text: Did you know that the Oregon Imnaha Guard Station is one of the few U.S. Forest Service guard stations that have been occupied almost every summer since 1939?
text: Did you know that beetles of the Belinae subfamily prefer feeding on wood of diseased or dying plants to healthy ones?
text: Did you know that Rogers Morton was the only person in the 20th century from the East Coast of the United States to serve as Secretary of the Interior ?
text: Did you know that Cine City in Manchester , England , the third cinema to open in England in 1912 as "The Scala", has recently been demolished?
text: Did you know that George Edward Pendray coined the term time capsule and created the word laundromat ?
text: Did you know that Adolf Dietrich , one of Switzerland 's leading painters of the 20th century, had no formal training and worked for most of his life as an untrained labourer?
text: Did you know that the melody of British electropop band Hot Chip 's song, " One Pure Thought ", was said to be reminiscent of New Order ?
text: Did you know that the Erie Gauge War in 1853 was nicknamed the "Peanut War" because its outcome affected the street vendors who sold peanuts to travelers in Erie , Pennsylvania the most?
text: Did you know that Jimmy Speirs won the Military Medal while serving with the Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders , six years after his goal helped Bradford City win the 1911 FA Cup Final ?
text: Did you know that a solitary pulmonary nodule , a mass in the lung smaller than 3 cm (1.2 in) in diameter, can be an incidental finding found in up to 0.2 percent of chest X-rays and about 1 percent of CT scans ?
text: Did you know that the invention and military use of modern land mines are attributed to Brigadier General Gabriel J. Rains of the Confederate States Army ?
text: Did you know that the Doctor Who episode " The Stolen Earth " features cameo appearances by evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins and comedian Paul O'Grady ?
text: Did you know that Art Ross , the first head coach of the Boston Bruins , served four stints as head coach?
text: Did you know that 29 Norwegian civilians were shot in reprisal by the Nazi regime in Norway following the Norwegian resistance 's assassination of police chief Karl Marthinsen in February of 1945?
text: Did you know that the San Fernando Building in Los Angeles, California , recently converted into upscale lofts, was raided several times for illegal gambling operations between 1910 and 1930?
text: Did you know that the 1946 earthquake in Nankaidō , Japan caused a 6-meter (20-ft) tsunami that destroyed 2,100 homes?
text: Did you know that lyric coloratura soprano Harolyn Blackwell replaced opera diva Kathleen Battle when she famously got fired from the Metropolitan Opera ?
text: Did you know that the best result of German motorcycle rider Georg Braun , a second place, was achieved in a wet race in the 1954 Swiss motorcycle Grand Prix at Circuit Bremgarten ?
text: Did you know that the Missouri University of Science and Technology Nuclear Reactor , built in 1961, was the first nuclear reactor in the U.S. state of Missouri ?
text: Did you know that the Durga Vahini , the women's wing of the Vishva Hindu Parishad , have been accused of instigating violence against religious minorities in India ?
text: Did you know that the 2100 series of the Keihin Electric Express Railway produces a " do-re-mi-fa-so-la-ti-do " tune when its propulsion system starts up?
text: Did you know that when wrestler George Scott and his brother Sandy were in Australia , they won the IWA World Tag Team Championship three times between 1966 and 1968?
text: Did you know that units in LA 's Avenel Cooperative Housing Project , reportedly built as "a cooperative living experiment for a group of communists ", were selling for US$300,000 in 2002?
text: Did you know that San Francisco indie rock band LoveLikeFire formed as a result of a Craigslist classified advertisement?
text: Did you know that Karl Wahl , in 1954, was the first former Nazi Gauleiter to publish his autobiography after having received permission from the denazification authorities to do so?
text: Did you know that a revolution in burrowing marks the base of the Cambrian period, and is followed by the Cambrian explosion of animal diversity?
text: Did you know that Arthur Barret , the twenty-second mayor of St. Louis, Missouri , died after serving only eleven days in office?
text: Did you know that Dibeen Forest Reserve , established in 2004, is the newest nature reserve in Jordan ?
text: Did you know that at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow , basketballer Danny Morseu was the first Torres Strait Islander to represent Australia at the Olympic games?
text: Did you know that Silas D. Alben proposed a model for more efficient turbine blades based on the bumpy flippers of humpback whales ?
text: Did you know that age controversies in gymnastics once resulted in the North Korean women's team being banned from the World Championships ?
text: Did you know that the song " Shake a Fist " was almost included on the British electropop band Hot Chip 's second album, The Warning , instead of their third?
text: Did you know that Albert Anker is sometimes called the "national painter" of Switzerland because of his popular depictions of 19th century Swiss village life?
text: Did you know that the United Nations Institute for Namibia , established in 1976 in Lusaka , Zambia , sought to promote Namibian independence as well as educate Namibians for after independence was achieved?
text: Did you know that only a year after being established by car dealership owner Giuseppe Risi, the Risi Competizione team won their class at the 1998 24 Hours of Le Mans ?
text: Did you know that Toledo Mud Hens relief pitcher Ian Ostlund is one of only two people in Virginia high school history to strike out the side in every inning of a complete game ?
text: Did you know that Russula nigricans is an edible fungus which turns red, then grey, and finally black on bruising or cutting?
text: Did you know that the Valmet Nr II tram of the Helsinki tram network was redesigned to include air conditioning in the cockpit after a driver fainted in the summer heat and killed a motorcyclist in a collision ?
text: Did you know that The Voice of the Turtle , the ninth longest-running play in Broadway history, derives its name from a verse in the Bible ’s Song of Solomon ?
text: Did you know that philanthropist Bilquis Edhi , who helped save 16,000 babies, has been nicknamed "Mother of Pakistan "?
text: Did you know that International Surfing Day originated in 2004 to celebrate the sport of surfing and clean up beaches?
text: Did you know that the Calabasas, California facilities for the private elementary school New Village Academy is funded by actor Will Smith ?
text: Did you know that Buddy West was chief legislative advocate for the University of Texas of the Permian Basin at Odessa ?
text: Did you know that Castleshaw Roman fort in Greater Manchester was a Roman fort built in 79 AD replaced by a smaller fortlet before being abandoned in the 120s?
text: Did you know that Detroit Tigers pitcher Eddie Bonine played for three different colleges in three different states before he turned professional ?
text: Did you know that hundreds of political prisoners were freed in numerous raids on communist prisons in Poland between 1944 and 1946?
text: Did you know that Kemar Roach played in his first Twenty20 match against Australia and finished with the best bowling figures of the match?
text: Did you know that burials took place for almost 60 years at the site before Monfort Cemetery in Port Washington, New York was officially set aside for that purpose?
text: Did you know that Bethany Black has been described as "Britain's only goth , lesbian , transsexual comedian "?
text: Did you know that the first modern time capsule was Thornwell Jacobs ’ Crypt of Civilization at Oglethorpe University , Atlanta, Georgia , due to be opened May 28 , 8113 ?
text: Did you know that coffee production in Costa Rica in the 19th century created enough revenue to build the National Theater in the capital San José ?
text: Did you know that the title for Christian musician Matthew West ’s album Something to Say had already been decided before he knew that he would have to be vocally silent for two months?
text: Did you know that the Dorado Group is one of the richest galaxy clusters in the Southern Hemisphere and thought to be unvirialized which could explain its abundance of H I and spirals ?
text: Did you know that the painter Cuno Amiet , a pioneer of modern art in Switzerland , created more than a thousand self-portraits ?
text: Did you know that the journey described in Eat, Pray, Love , a memoir by Elizabeth Gilbert , was financed by an advance on the book she planned to write about the trip?
text: Did you know that German politician Käte Strobel broke a taboo in 1967 by promoting sex education with a school book and the government-sponsored film Helga ?
text: Did you know that almost all Pakistani pop music videos were forbidden to air on local television after Zia-ul-Haq 's military coup in 1977?
text: Did you know that Adam Raphael was named Journalist of the Year in the British Press Awards of 1973 for a Guardian series on labour conditions in South Africa ?
text: Did you know that future King Henry IV of England and Marshal of France Jean Le Maingre took part in the Lithuanian Civil War ?
text: Did you know that Ontario politician Jan Dukszta , a psychiatrist by training, took time out of his 1981 re-election campaign to treat colleague Tony Lupusella who was suffering a nervous breakdown ?
text: Did you know that Native Americans in Nebraska who live on reservations generally do not pay State of Nebraska taxes ?
text: Did you know that French cartographer Jacques Bertin was the first to provide a theoretical foundation to Information Visualization ?
text: Did you know that in the 1800s, Chichester, Quebec claimed to have the largest wooden locks in Canada , built as part of a scheme to encourage boat travel on the upper Ottawa River ?
text: Did you know that the 2008 film Meerkat Manor: The Story Begins uses "meerkats actors" to depict the Whiskers and Lazuli groups rather than using actual footage of the real meerkats ?
text: Did you know that Bert Freeman was the top scorer in the English Football League in three seasons before 1914?
text: Did you know that Hexaware Technologies Limited is ranked as India ’s 11th top IT service provider by NASSCOM since 2005?
text: Did you know that Scottish missionary Carstairs Douglas compiled the first comprehensive Amoy -English Dictionary in 1873, which, with revisions, is still in use today?
text: Did you know that in 1298, Pope Boniface VIII decreed in Periculoso that nuns "ought henceforth to remain perpetually cloistered in their monasteries"?
text: Did you know that the prosecution of Dr. Leonard Arthur for the murder of a Down's syndrome baby led to a change in British law regarding the disclosure of technical evidence?
text: Did you know that the Stonerose fossil site contains the earliest known records of Rosaceae , the rose family?
text: Did you know that velology is the study of vehicle tax discs ?
text: Did you know that all four stars of Starved , an FX sitcom about eating disorders , struggled with eating disorders themselves, a fact unknown to producers until after casting?
text: Did you know that the design of Notre-Dame-des-Missions-du-cygne d'Enghien in Épinay-sur-Seine , France was inspired by the architectural styles of five continents ?
text: Did you know that Pakistani actress Maria Wasti played a role depicting philanthropist and Lenin Peace Prize winner Bilquis Edhi ?
text: Did you know that boxer Oscar De La Hoya has been involved in efforts to redevelop the Sears, Roebuck & Company Mail Order Building in the Boyle Heights neighborhood where he grew up?
text: Did you know that Leves were Roman soldiers armed with javelins ?
text: Did you know that anthropologist David Zolotarev ’s 1930 study of the ethnic tribes of the northern Russian Lake Imandra region determined they did not understand Soviet -style "socialist construction"?
text: Did you know that the Miss Great Britain Party is a British political movement which campaigns to make politics "sexy not sleazy"?
text: Did you know that a 3D model artist for The Matrix Reloaded went on to participate in the fangame project Chrono Resurrection ?
text: Did you know that Vin americanii! ("The Americans are coming!") was a slogan used by Romanians in the 1940s and '50s to express their hope that a US intervention would topple the Communist regime ?
text: Did you know that a Jueju , a type of Chinese poem , is a quatrain with either five or seven characters per line?
text: Did you know that in the six months after the Beerhouse Act was passed in England in 1830, nearly 25,000 new licenses to open pubs , taverns and alehouses were issued?
text: Did you know that D'Oyly Carte Opera Company star Donald Adams could only perform in his own Gilbert and Sullivan for All theatre group on his nights off?
text: Did you know that the 1971 film Sentinels of Silence featured Orson Welles narrating the English version and Ricardo Montalban narrating the Spanish version?
text: Did you know that the Ralph J. Bunche House in South Los Angeles was the boyhood home of Ralph Bunche , the first person of color to receive the Nobel Peace Prize ?
text: Did you know that the extinct sea turtle Psephophorus was once mistaken as an ancient armadillo due to the specimen 's poor condition?
text: Did you know that Welsh footballer Roy Clarke played in three different divisions of the Football League in three consecutive matches?
text: Did you know that Leonide Massine wrote the choreography and the libretto for the ballet La Boutique fantasque and also danced in the lead role?
text: Did you know that, in order to prevent storage of nuclear waste in Utah 's Skull Valley , the main county road through the valley became State Route 196 in 1998?
text: Did you know that the Treaty of Salynas in 1398 marked the third time that Vytautas the Great granted Samogitia to the Teutonic Knights in 14 years?
text: Did you know that the original building of Trondheim Central Station in Norway has been preserved as a cultural heritage ?
text: Did you know that Drum Barracks were built in 1862 and 1863 at a cost of US$1 million to quell pro- Confederacy sentiments in Los Angeles ?
text: Did you know that Oman has a low crime rate compared to industrialized countries?
text: Did you know that in 1951, Martha Wright took over the role of Nellie Forbush in South Pacific on Broadway , playing the role for 1,047 performances until it closed in 1954?
text: Did you know that the 1995 Burkina Faso film Keïta! l'Héritage du griot is a retelling of the first third of Sundjata Keita 's 13th-century epic, Sundjata ?
text: Did you know that the novel The Last Coyote by Michael Connelly won the 1996 Dilys Award given by the Independent Mystery Booksellers Association?
text: Did you know that Yalo , a Palestinian Arab village depopulated during the 1967 war , was identified by Edward Robinson as the site of the Canaanite -era city of Aijalon ?
text: Did you know that McKenzie-Willamette Medical Center in Springfield, Oregon , was founded due to occasional flooding that cut off access to the only area hospital?
text: Did you know that Walter G. Alexander was the first African American to serve in the New Jersey General Assembly ?
text: Did you know that Taisto Mäki , one of the so-called Flying Finns , was the first man to run 10,000 metres in under half an hour?
text: Did you know that the 13th Earl of Derby established a private menagerie in the 19th century in the grounds of Knowsley Hall in Merseyside , where the 18th Earl opened a public safari park in the 20th century?
text: Did you know that Tiny Thompson was the first professional ice hockey goaltender to make a save by catching the puck ?
text: Did you know that the Israeli kibbutz Gvat was established in commemoration of the 35 Pinsk Jews shot by Polish soldiers during the Pinsk massacre ?
text: Did you know that, after succeeding Lai Tian, Tang Dynasty general Liang Chongyi built a temple dedicated to Lai and refrained from using Lai's old office and main hall, in order to show respect to Lai?
text: Did you know that the Cobblestone Farmhouse at 1229 Birdsey Road , in Junius, New York was built with walls of field cobbles and limestone quoins in the Greek Revival style ?
text: Did you know that Caroline Reboux was known as the Queen of the Milliners?
text: Did you know that the Pennsylvania Mutiny of 1783 was a primary reason for the creation of a separate federal district to serve as the capital of the United States?
text: Did you know that while in service as a troop transport after World War I , SS Ohioan carried two American recipients of the French Croix de Guerre , one of which was a homing pigeon ?
text: Did you know that eight-term member of the Norwegian Parliament Harald Ulrik Sverdrup was the grandfather of the oceanographer of the same name ?
text: Did you know that the 2008 Canadian listeriosis outbreak started a political debate regarding privatization of food inspection ?
text: Did you know that Misty Copeland is the first African-American ballerina to appear as a soloist with the American Ballet Theatre ?
text: Did you know that in 1865, the Sons of Vulcan won the first union contract in the iron and steelmaking industry and what may be the first union contract of any kind in the United States ?
text: Did you know that Johan Collett Falsen served as Norwegian Minister of Justice on four non-consecutive occasions between 1870 and 1879?
text: Did you know that the Conflict of the Orders which supposedly occurred in the ancient Roman Republic may not have actually happened?
text: Did you know that Darrin Winston still holds the baseball records for victories, innings pitched, and complete games at Rutgers University more than twenty years after he graduated?
text: Did you know that Scottish and British Lions rugby captain David Bedell-Sivright is said to have rugby tackled a cart horse in Edinburgh 's Princes Street ?
text: Did you know that in addition to composing orchestral and chamber music , Joseph R. Wood arranged the Chiquita Banana song for Xavier Cugat ?
text: Did you know that the sloop-of-war Victoria became the first Australian warship to be deployed overseas by fighting in the First Taranaki War ?
text: Did you know that Michel-Gaspard Coppenrath , the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Papeete for 26 years, was succeeded in 1999 by his brother ?
text: Did you know that American cargo ship SS Panaman once delivered 40,000 pounds (18,000 kg) of canned hominy to Los Angeles ?
text: Did you know that Australian politician Rick Colless ’s great-great-grandfather Richard Hargrave and great-great-uncle John Hargrave all served in the New South Wales Legislative Council ?
text: Did you know that an Estonian feature film set the absolute box office record in the history of the Soviet Union ?
text: Did you know that Mike Cather earned his first major-league win in an 11- inning Atlanta Braves ’ win, the same night the Braves earned the National League Eastern Division title?
text: Did you know that the Battle of Kokenhausen saw one of the most successful uses of the Polish hussars ?
text: Did you know that after suffering a heart attack , John G. McCullough moved to California and was elected as its Attorney General in 1863?
text: Did you know that the ferry Nobska of Nantucket Sound was America 's last coastal steamer ?
text: Did you know that George Hammond Whalley , a British Member of Parliament , once claimed that the Pope had taken control of the Royal Artillery ?
text: Did you know that some cypress trees in Louisiana 's Lake Bruin State Park predate Hernando de Soto 's explorations of the area?
text: Did you know that On the conditions and possibilities of Helen Clark taking me as her young lover , a satirical book on the Prime Minister of New Zealand , was described as a treatise of " sociology , psychoanalysis and cringe-making erotica "?
text: Did you know that following show jumper Denis Lynch 's Olympic ban for doping offences, the President of the Olympic Council of Ireland threatened to ban the equestrian team from participating in future Olympic Games ?
text: Did you know that the Mulberry Harbour built at Arromanches in 1944 by John Holmes Jellett landed two million men and four million tons of supplies for the Liberation of Europe ?
text: Did you know that the Hudson County Courthouse in Jersey City, New Jersey contains artwork by Francis David Millet , Kenyon Cox , Edwin Blashfield and Howard Pyle ?
text: Did you know that former Olympic champion Ángel Matos received a lifetime ban from the World Taekwondo Federation after attacking a referee in a bronze medal match at the 2008 Olympics ?
text: Did you know that people with kidney ailments used to crawl on all fours three times round the sarcophagus of Saint Nonnosus in Freising Cathedral ?
text: Did you know that four Mk-82 500-pound bombs are missing in the American west after the mysterious crash of an A-10 Thunderbolt aircraft piloted by Craig D. Button in 1997?
text: Did you know that more than 95 percent of the electricity generated in Paraguay is produced by two hydroelectric plants in Itaipu and Yacyretá , most of which is exported to Brazil and Argentina ?
text: Did you know that despite leaving the South West Africa People's Organization for the Congress of Democrats , Tsudao Gurirab was selected by his former party for the Pan-African Parliament ?
text: Did you know that Bailin Temple in Beijing was not pillaged by Anglo-French forces in 1860 or by the Eight-Nation Alliance in 1900 because of the superstitious fear that Tibetan Buddhism inspired in the invaders?
text: Did you know that Chika Chukwumerije had financial backing unavailable to most Nigerian athletes because of his father Uche Chukwumerije ?
text: Did you know that Washington State politician Vic Meyers once showed up for a candidates' forum dressed as Mahatma Gandhi and leading a goat?
text: Did you know that 2008 Olympic handball champion Else-Marthe Sørlie Lybekk was also selected as the pivot on the tournament's All-star team ?
text: Did you know that Maoist rebels and Nepali government forces engaged in four attacks in Sandhikharka between 2002 and 2005?
text: Did you know that Craig Gillespie almost turned down the chance to direct Lars and the Real Girl when he heard the film's pitch ?
text: Did you know that when the Lackawanna Steel Co. moved from Scranton, Pennsylvania , to New York in 1902, its relocation led to the founding of Lackawanna, New York ?
text: Did you know that Japanese anime director Rintaro has worked in animation for 50 years and co-founded the animation studio Madhouse ?
text: Did you know that the position of the President of the Republic is the only undisputed one in the Polish order of precedence ?
text: Did you know that the young Bing Crosby once tried out to sing at Seattle 's elegant Butler Hotel , but was told he needed more experience?
text: Did you know that Tang Dynasty generals Li Zhengji , Li Baochen and Tian Chengsi all ruled Chinese territories effectively independent of the imperial government?
text: Did you know that labor lawyer Thomas Geoghegan called the 1978 U.S. Supreme Court Marquette Bank decision "the most important of our lifetimes" since it opened the door to increased use of credit cards ?
text: Did you know that Henny Moan acted in the Oscar -nominated Ni liv , later named the best film in the history of Norwegian cinema ?
text: Did you know that the American Musical Theatre of San Jose 's debut at the San Jose Center for Performing Arts was delayed for three years when the ceiling collapsed?
text: Did you know that the footage filmed for the documentary film The Boys from Baghdad High had to be smuggled out of Iraq by journalists of many different news agencies ?
text: Did you know that according to the New Mexico Legislature , the Sandia Hairstreak butterfly "symbolizes the ability of New Mexican residents to thrive year-round in a semiarid climate "?
text: Did you know that Leon "Pee Wee" Whittaker , an African American trombonist from the Mississippi River delta country, played at least five instruments in a 74-year musical career?
text: Did you know  that jazz pianist Geoff Eales played the French horn with the National Youth Orchestra of Wales and piano with the BBC Big Band ?
text: Did you know that the Bell Ford Bridge was the last Post Truss covered bridge to still stand, collapsing in January 2006?
text: Did you know that four different men, including Frank W. Johnson and Sam Houston , claimed to be in charge of the Texian Army for several months during the Texas Revolution ?
text: Did you know that the Imperial Japanese Army 's Type 89 I-Go medium tank ( Otsu version) was the first diesel -powered tank to be mass-produced ?
text: Did you know that Tom Welling , who plays Clark Kent on Smallville , believes his lack of knowledge of the Superman mythology helps his performance?
text: Did you know that the 3,500 items owned by Amsterdam 's Museum of Bags and Purses make it the world's largest collection of handbags and accessories?
text: Did you know that a vitamin B - fortified beer was developed for the Philippine beer market?
text: Did you know that Bridgewater House, Runcorn , Cheshire , was built for the Duke of Bridgewater when he was supervising the building of the Bridgewater Canal in the 1760s, and is now used as offices?
text: Did you know that in 1979, Chicago White Sox pitcher Ron Schueler retired mid-season to replace his own pitching coach who had died earlier that season?
text: Did you know that the synagogue built in 1925 by Congregation Beth Israel of Milwaukee, Wisconsin is listed on the National Register of Historic Places ?
text: Did you know that Daba Modibo Keïta , 2008 Olympian for Mali , was the first Sub-Saharan African to be a Taekwondo World Champion ?
text: Did you know that a shattered goblet of Communion wine reportedly helped Saint Donatus of Arezzo convert 79 pagans to Christianity ?
text: Did you know that most strong hurricanes that have struck South Florida since 1900 have passed through one of two Hebert boxes on their way to landfall?
text: Did you know that Canadian Olympic bronze medalist Thomas Hall cites J. R. R. Tolkien as a key influence and re-reads The Lord of the Rings trilogy every year?
text: Did you know that the Chinese government revoked the manufacturer's license for diet pill Slim 10 after it was linked to several liver failures and deaths?
text: Did you know that despite being personal secretary to the Chancellor of the Exchequer , Francis Charles Lawley 's attempts at insider trading resulted in losses?
text: Did you know that the cargo ship SS Minnesotan carried five racing yachts from the East Coast to national championship races in Los Angeles ?
text: Did you know that Jack DiLauro 's 2.40 ERA is third best among New York Mets pitchers with at least 50 innings pitched?
text: Did you know that the site of the first Tubby's sandwich shop was chosen after a flat tire forced its founder to stop in front of a building that was for rent?
text: Did you know that the native copper products of the Northern Canadian aboriginal Copper Inuit were highly regarded in the Bering Strait trade network?
text: Did you know that actor Roger Moore likened his starring role in the 1958 children's TV series Ivanhoe to that of "a medieval fireman"?
text: Did you know that Froduald Karamira , sentenced to death for his role in the Rwandan Genocide in 1994, was one of the last individuals executed before capital punishment was abolished in the country ?
text: Did you know that Metolius Springs in Oregon produces 50,000 gallons/ s , enough to make the Metolius River one of the largest spring-fed rivers in the US ?
text: Did you know that the 19th-century fad of Pedestrianism started with gambling over the speed of footmen by the British aristocracy ?
text: Did you know that the neighborhood in Memphis, Tennessee surrounding the former site of the Baron Hirsch Synagogue , the largest Orthodox Jewish congregation in the United States , has become a historic district ?
text: Did you know that Voltaire 's 1730 poem about Joan of Arc , The Maid of Orleans , was banned in most of Europe ?
text: Did you know that Iraqi American scientist Ihsan Ali Al-Shehbaz is the world authority on bladderpods ?
text: Did you know that the Albert Medal was one of the awards given to Mark Addy for rescuing more than 50 people from the highly polluted River Irwell , Manchester , in the 19th Century?
text: Did you know that for the Tang Dynasty , whether to honor the general Zhang Xun for his deeds during the Anshi Rebellion was controversial due to his engaging in cannibalism ?
text: Did you know that the scandals involving the British fraud and impostor Lord Gordon-Gordon led to a major international incident between the US and Canada ?
text: Did you know that Albert White was the first person to lead the Missouri Tigers men's basketball team in rebounds , points , and assists in the same season ?
text: Did you know that patients practice preoperative fasting before an operation in order to prevent pulmonary aspiration of stomach contents?
text: Did you know that the Old Warner Brothers Studio , where the first " talkie " was filmed in 1927, has recently been the location for Judge Judy and Hannah Montana ?
text: Did you know that the 2008 Irish flash floods submerged one of the busiest roads in Northern Ireland under six metres of water ?
text: Did you know that Hubert Shirley-Smith wrote the Encyclopaedia Britannica article on bridges ?
text: Did you know the widow of Henry Coffin Nevins left a million dollars for the construction of a Home for Aged and Incurables ?
text: Did you know that WrestleMania , an annual professional wrestling pay-per-view event, has involved 94 celebrities in a 24-year span?
text: Did you know that 17th-century Italian composer Filippo Acciaiuoli was also an inventor of machines used for theatrical effects in operas and plays?
text: Did you know that Rodney Pattisson became Great Britain 's most successful Olympic yachtsman in the 1976 Montreal Olympics until Ben Ainslie bettered his two gold medals and one silver medal at the 2008 Beijing Olympics ?
text: Did you know that Fireflight took six years to write their first album but only six months to write their second album Unbreakable ?
text: Did you know that US Olympic discus throw gold medalist Stephanie Brown Trafton said that the downside of the Beijing Games was that they conflicted with the opening of hunting season in California ?
text: Did you know that The GrooveGrass Boyz , a bluegrass / funk group, had chart success in 1997 with a country version of the " Macarena "?
text: Did you know that Charles Mears was known as the " Christopher Columbus of the West Coast"?
text: Did you know that the Brazilian sex worker organization Davida created the fashion label Daspu which prostitutes presented at fashion shows , culminating in a show at the 2006 São Paulo Art Biennial ?
text: Did you know that in the Bombay Presidency , the famine of 1899–1900 had the highest mortality—at 37.9 deaths per 1000—among all famines and scarcities between 1876 and 1919?
text: Did you know that Henry S. Huidekoper received the Medal of Honor for his actions at the Battle of Gettysburg , and later helped to suppress the Great Railroad Strike of 1877 ?
text: Did you know that Adina World Beat Beverages was founded in order to keep traditional beverage recipes in third-world countries from being replaced by multinational cola distributors?
text: Did you know that Bill Ricker , one of the founders of fisheries science , developed the Ricker model , which can be used to predict how many fish are in a fishery ?
text: Did you know that Project CHLOE , a proposed system to protect airplanes from surface-to-air missiles , was named for the character Chloe O'Brian on the American television show 24 ?
text: Did you know that the tower of St. Andrew’s Anglican Church in Moscow was used as a machine gun post by Bolsheviks in a battle against troops of the Russian Provisional Government ?
text: Did you know that German -born Jewish Egyptologist Käte Bosse-Griffiths published a novel in the Welsh language ?
text: Did you know that the U.S. Congress incorporated the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad in 1866 to connect Missouri and California , but the company only completed portions at each end?
text: Did you know  that in the storming of Bristol in 1643, Royalist invaders used "fire-pikes"—rudimentary flamethrowers —against the defending Parliamentarians ?
text: Did you know that Alfred Merle Norman , whose collection of 11,086 species was acquired by the Natural History Museum in London , was awarded the Linnean Medal in 1906?
text: Did you know that the Neo-Baroque Yablanski House in Sofia , Bulgaria has been deemed one of the city's highest achievements in architecture of the 1900s?
text: Did you know that the Alamogordo Museum of History owns a rare 47-star U.S. flag , thought to have been made in 1912 to celebrate the entry of New Mexico into the United States ?
text: Did you know that pro wrestler Gregg Groothuis 's ring name "Jack Bull" was inspired by an interview with Dusty Rhodes , in which Rhodes described looking into a ring full of bulls?
text: Did you know that the Orsini podestà of Viterbo was displaced by Charles of Anjou and replaced with a magistrate willing to expel the Orsini cardinals from the papal election, 1280–1281 ?
text: Did you know that former Major League Baseball player Dan Norman was once traded with three other players for Hall of Famer -to-be Tom Seaver , as part of what New York Mets fans refer to as the Midnight Massacre?
text: Did you know that tenth-century Icelandic chieftain Olaf the Peacock was known for his extravagant clothes ?
text: Did you know that Edmond Malone said Samuel Johnson 's The Plays of William Shakespeare "threw more light on his author than all his predecessors"?
text: Did you know that after being declared defeated, Henry Overstolz successfully contested the mayoral election and unseated James Britton to become the twenty-fourth mayor of St. Louis, Missouri ?
text: Did you know that 22-year-old ski jumper Anette Sagen played the mother of 70-year-old Bård Owe in the Norwegian movie O' Horten ?
text: Did you know that Kinoautomat , a 1967 film by Czechoslovakian director Radúz Činčera, was the first to allow the audience to change the course of a film with the press of a button?
text: Did you know that at the 2008 Summer Olympics , Indian freestyle wrestler Sushil Kumar won his country's second medal in the sport since the 1952 Games ?
text: Did you know that in 2006 the Philadelphia City Council proclaimed " Edie Huggins Day" in honor of her 40th anniversary as a reporter and journalist for WCAU-TV ?
text: Did you know that Ross Jenkins played for Watford F.C. when they were both bottom and top of The Football League ?
text: Did you know that Manhattan 's Rose Hill neighborhood was the original site of Madison Square Garden , where millionaire Harry K. Thaw killed architect Stanford White over Evelyn Nesbit ?
text: Did you know that California 's Gold Country quartz- mining industry was precipitated by a quartz gold discovery on Gold Hill ?
text: Did you know that although Brendan Nash was born and grew up in Australia , he qualifies to play international cricket for the West Indies because his father, who represented Jamaica at the Olympics , is of Jamaican origin?
text: Did you know that the Kirkfield Lift Lock is located at the highest section of the Trent-Severn Waterway ?
text: Did you know that an artificial island built in 2006 in Kamfers Dam , Kimberley , has become one of six breeding colonies of lesser flamingoes in the world, and the only one in South Africa ?
text: Did you know that U.S. Army Brigadier General James Dalton II was one of only 11 US general officers killed in action during World War II ?
text: Did you know that Leon Johnson , a West Indian cricketer , captained the West Indies team at the 2006 U/19 Cricket World Cup ?
text: Did you know that when the Japanese visual novel Memories Off was released for the PlayStation Portable , it shared its opening theme song with the visual novel Memories Off 2nd for the same system?
text: Did you know that although Gretna F.C. 2008 represents the town of Gretna , Scotland in association football , it has never played there, instead playing its home games eight miles away in Annan ?
text: Did you know that the namesake of the Minnie Hill Palmer House was born there in 1886 and remained in the 1970s, still tending her garden, then located adjacent to a golf course, with an antique hand plow?
text: Did you know that 1994's Hurricane Gilma is the most intense Pacific hurricane to occur in July ?
text: Did you know that the lyrics of Kong Kristian stod ved højen mast , the royal anthem of Denmark , first appeared in an 18th-century vaudeville play by Johannes Ewald ?
text: Did you know that the Amethyst Initiative , signed by over a hundred college presidents, seeks reconsideration of alcohol drinking age laws in the United States?
text: Did you know that the underground Home Army courier, Irena Adamowicz , provided communication and moral support for the Jewish ghettos of several distant cities during the occupation of Poland ?
text: Did you know that Nollaig Ó Gadhra 's biography of Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley is regarded as one of the most comprehensive biographies ever written in the Irish language ?
text: Did you know that The Gift , the last novel written by Vladimir Nabokov in Russian , was initially poorly received and partially rejected?
text: Did you know that Hermitage Bridge is the oldest stone bridge in Saint Petersburg , Russia ?
text: Did you know that sang piao xiao is praying mantis egg case used in traditional Chinese medicine to treat impotence and premature ejaculation ?
text: Did you know that a phrase from poet Rosemonde Gérard became well-known when a jeweler engraved it on a medallion ?
text: Did you know that the Mitsubishi Type 73 Light Trucks were made bulletproof for the Japanese military deployed in Iraq following the 2003 invasion of Iraq ?
text: Did you know that Redruth railway station was only moved to its present site when a viaduct was built 61 feet (19 m) above the streets of the town?
text: Did you know that seeding trials are a marketing technique, conducted in the name of research, designed to create loyalty and advocacy towards a brand?
text: Did you know that Bagheera kiplingi , named after the black panther Bagheera from Rudyard Kipling 's Jungle Book , is the only spider species known to subsist on a mostly vegetarian diet?
text: Did you know that the King road drag , a road grader widely used across North America for grading dirt roads in the early 20th century, was invented by D. Ward King ?
text: Did you know that former Major League Baseball player Kid Durbin , who was a baker at a restaurant after his career, died only one day after his 57th birthday due to coronary thrombosis ?
text: Did you know that Mark Twain and General Custer visited P. T. Barnum in Iranistan ?
text: Did you know that Ruby Bundleflower , an abundant weed in parts of Mexico , produces beans used in salsa ?
text: Did you know that the Mt. Blanco Fossil Museum had to auction off the world's largest mastodon skull to pay a defamation judgement after the curator made disparaging Internet comments about former partners?
text: Did you know that Gabon 's national park system takes up ten percent of its land area?
text: Did you know that Joseph McGahn , an obstetrician elected to the New Jersey Senate , was eulogized by The New York Times as the "principal architect" of legislation bringing casino gambling to Atlantic City ?
text: Did you know that Augustasaurus' name comes from the mountain range of northwestern Nevada , where its fossilized bones were first discovered?
text: Did you know that João Maria de Sousa is the current Attorney General of Angola ?
text: Did you know that although routine annual medical examinations are popular with the public, there is limited evidence of their effectiveness and they are considered inadvisable by some health organisations?
text: Did you know that INSOR is the only non-government organization headed by president of Russia Dmitry Medvedev ?
text: Did you know that Kay Cannon , a writer for 30 Rock , appeared in an episode of the series " Episode 209 ", as a Human Table?
text: Did you know that while Sulla's reforms in 82BC attempted to constitutionally strengthen the Roman Senate , it was his rule by dictatorship that ultimately became the model for Imperial Rome ?
text: Did you know that after their success with the Detroit Copper Mining Company of Arizona , William E. Dodge, Jr. and his partners founded the El Paso and Southwestern Railroad ?
text: Did you know that the Supreme Court of Christmas Island once said the islanders live in a "legal twilight" because ancient Singaporean law applies to an Australian island?
text: Did you know that steel guitarist John Hughey was known for the "crying sound" of his playing, which relied heavily on the instrument's upper range?
text: Did you know that the Port of Runcorn in Cheshire , England , was an independent customs port for two separate periods before becoming part of the Port of Manchester in 1894?
text: Did you know that Allen Bares , a former member of the Louisiana State Legislature , was awarded the Medal of Merit by France for promotion of the French language ?
text: Did you know that according to Hindu tradition, donation of a kamandalu in funeral rituals ensures the deceased has ample drinking water in his after-life journey?
text: Did you know that Michael Redgrave owned White Roding Windmill during World War Two ?
text: Did you know that mathematician Harald Bohr , brother of Niels Bohr , won a silver medal in football at the 1908 Summer Olympics ?
text: Did you know that the 12-story Lincoln Tower is the tallest building in Washington County, Oregon ?
text: Did you know that the Oslo City Council bought the city's two private street tram companies in 1924, and merged them into what would become Oslo Sporveier ?
text: Did you know that the steam tugboat William C Daldy is credited with saving the partially constructed Auckland Harbour Bridge during a 1958 storm?
text: Did you know that while Bruce Springsteen 's song " One Step Up " is about a relationship breaking up, the backing vocal was sung by his future wife Patti Scialfa ?
text: Did you know that Anglo-Irish baronet Sir Thomas Chapman lived part of his life under the name of Thomas Lawrence and was the father of Lawrence of Arabia ?
text: Did you know that the 2000-seater laser auditorium at Hyderabad 's Lumbini Park is the first of its kind in India ?
text: Did you know that Steve Grilli is credited as the losing pitcher in the longest professional baseball game after he gave up a run in the thirty-third inning?
text: Did you know that a type of cast net was used by gladiators in Ancient Rome in a parody of fishing ?
text: Did you know that Uncle Tupelo 's 1990 album No Depression is so associated with alternative country that its title is sometimes used as a synonym for the genre?
text: Did you know that Prince Carl of Denmark landed at Vippetangen when he arrived in Norway to assume the throne in 1905?
text: Did you know that film producer Shauna Robertson became an assistant to filmmaker Mike Binder after meeting him at the summer camp memorialized in his 1993 film Indian Summer ?
text: Did you know that Giovanni Battista Bugatti executed 516 people between 1796 and 1865 on behalf of the Papal States ?
text: Did you know that the Major Jacob Hasbrouck Jr. House in New Paltz, New York , is the last 18th-century stone house in the area still owned by the same family that built it?
text: Did you know that Marie Heim-Vögtlin , Switzerland 's first woman physician , was required by law to have her husband 's consent in order to be allowed to work?
text: Did you know that 66th Street in the New York City borough of Manhattan was once proposed by Donald Trump as the site of a 150-story building that would have been the world's tallest?
text: Did you know that Lactarius blennius has been described by various mycologists as edible , inedible and even poisonous ?
text: Did you know that the North Baltimore Aquatic Club has produced seven Olympians , including Michael Phelps and Katie Hoff ?
text: Did you know that Sandra Stevens and Nicky Stevens have been with the British pop group Brotherhood of Man since 1973?
text: Did you know that in the 30 Rock episode " Fireworks " , series writers Kay Cannon and Dave Finkel briefly appeared as a married couple?
text: Did you know that W. Otto Miessner founded the first public high school band in the United States in Connersville, Indiana ?
text: Did you know that Tsar Alexander I of Russia was so impressed with Willem Benjamin Craan ’s map of the Battle of Waterloo he awarded the Dutch cartographer a precious ring?
text: Did you know that in the papal election, 1198 the new pope was elected per scrutinium for the first time?
text: Did you know that " Jack-Tor ", an episode of 30 Rock , was the first episode of the series to air as part of NBC 's " Comedy Night Done Right "?
text: Did you know that after New York Mets second baseman Kelvin Chapman made his Major League Baseball debut in 1979, he had to spend more than four years in the minor leagues before returning to the majors?
text: Did you know that Kristiania Elektriske Sporvei established Scandinavia 's first electric tramway in 1894?
text: Did you know that New Jersey State Senator Frank S. Farley was a key force behind the creation of the Garden State Parkway , derided by North Jersey legislators as "Farley's Folly"?
text: Did you know that Charlie Gardiner is the only goaltender to captain his team to a Stanley Cup victory?
text: Did you know that in 1935, Nicolaas Wilhelmus Posthumus founded the International Institute of Social History in the Netherlands to avoid destruction of socialist history documents by Nazi Germany ?
text: Did you know that during the unusually long 15-day track of Tropical Storm Allison , the storm attained tropical or subtropical storm status on three separate occasions?
text: Did you know that the tides at Kachemak Bay , Alaska have an average vertical difference of fifteen feet, and recorded extremes of twenty eight feet?
text: Did you know that Japanese scientists have found anticancer activity in some Brazilian traditional remedies ?
text: Did you know that pre-Columbian savanna once covered much of North America ?
text: Did you know that Kentucky Senator Archibald Dixon was primarily responsible for the repeal of the slavery restrictions of the Missouri Compromise in Nebraska Territory and Kansas Territory ?
text: Did you know that Guy de Bourgogne was violently disrobed by members of his militia upon his election as Pope Callixtus II by the papal election of 1119 ?
text: Did you know that the soundtracks to FlatOut and FlatOut: Ultimate Carnage include five songs by English rock music group No Connection ?
text: Did you know that Celebrity Bainisteoir is an Irish reality programme about managing Gaelic football clubs ?
text: Did you know that one of the works of Maya Angelou , Georgia, Georgia (1972), was the first film to be written and produced by an African American woman?
text: Did you know that to combat illegal entry by foreign nationals , India and China are currently building security barriers at their borders with Bangladesh and North Korea respectively?
text: Did you know that shrines dedicated to the Hindu sun god Surya usually face east, but the one at the Kasivisvesvara Temple in Lakkundi , Karnataka faces west?
text: Did you know that the rare fallopian tube cancer is more prevalent in carriers of the BRCA1 and 2 mutations ?
text: Did you know that the Russian Tax Code was hastened into legislation in 1998 due to a growing financial crisis ?
text: Did you know that not only did the village of Wattstown suffer two mining disasters at the same colliery , but both were explosions caused by the unauthorised use of blasting materials?
text: Did you know that the silver won at the 2008 Summer Olympics by the Singapore women's table tennis team, comprising Feng Tianwei , Li Jiawei and Wang Yuegu , is the second Olympic medal in Singapore's history?
text: Did you know that in 1965 Rankin M. Smith, Sr. paid a then unprecedented 8.5 million dollars for the ownership of the Atlanta Falcons , a team in the NFL ?
text: Did you know that Jerzy Sosnowski , a top Polish spy in Weimar Germany , caused two of his two lovers, each a German noble woman, to be executed by the axe?
text: Did you know that the U.S. and Canadian ships escorting the British merchant ships of Convoy ON-67 in 1942 had one working radar between them, lacked sufficient binoculars and had never operated together before?
text: Did you know that tax rates in Switzerland are set by voters through instruments of direct democracy ?
text: Did you know that newspaper writer Constance Drexel gained notoriety by falsely claiming that she was a member of Philadelphia 's Drexel family?
text: Did you know that the Anglo-Zanzibar War , considered the shortest war in history, lasted around forty minutes?
text: Did you know that New York State Route 192 and its suffixed route, 192A, were two of only three decommissioned routes in Franklin County 's section of Adirondack Park ?
text: Did you know that the Israeli mafia have extended their activities to foreign countries like the United States , South Africa , and the Netherlands ?
text: Did you know that Petticoat Hill , a nature reserve in Williamsburg, Massachusetts , is said to be named after laundry hung on a clothesline ?
text: Did you know that England's Tom Brittleton is the oldest footballer ever to play a competitive match for Sheffield Wednesday ?
text: Did you know that Temple Beth Israel of Niagara Falls, New York was subject to repeated attacks leading to a federal investigation?
text: Did you know that mazzatello —a method of execution employed in the Papal States in the 18th and 19th centuries—involved smashing a mallet into the head of the condemned?
text: Did you know that Pinoy is a demonym referring to Filipino people in the United States , the Philippines and around the world ?
text: Did you know that the wild mushroom Lactarius piperatus , which oozes peppery milk when cut, has been used in the treatment of viral warts ?
text: Did you know that the Archdiocese of New York fought unsuccessfully to have the National Museum of Catholic Art and History remove the word "Catholic" from its name?
text: Did you know that some lava flows at the Wells Gray-Clearwater volcanic field in British Columbia , Canada include unique, small, green nodules that come from the mantle ?
text: Did you know that the New Voices Campaign of PICO National Network is attempting to repeat at the national level the success of its California Project in giving low-income communities influence on public policy ?
text: Did you know that a feather attributed to the ancestor of the Antillean Piculet has been found in 25 million year old amber ?
text: Did you know that a show horse belonging to Rielle Hunter was killed as part of an insurance fraud scheme , and that the event was adapted as part of the novel Story of My Life ?
text: Did you know that Robert Park acted simultaneously as a professor , a college football coach, and a minister ?
text: Did you know that the sinking of the year-old American cargo ship SS Washingtonian with her $1,000,000 cargo of raw sugar in January 1915 contributed to a 9% rise in the price of sugar in the United States?
text: Did you know that Rebecca Adlington , British Olympic Gold swimmer, went to The Brunts School ?
text: Did you know that Seymour Reit , co-creator of Casper the Friendly Ghost , claimed that Da Vinci had painted two Mona Lisas , one of which was in a bank vault in New Jersey ?
text: Did you know that the 6th century Mahakuta group of temples in Karnataka , India , exhibit pan-Indian architectural forms?
text: Did you know that the discovery of 189 fossils of the mid- Cambrian Odontogriphus thrust it into the centre of a heated debate about the evolution of molluscs , annelids and brachiopods ?
text: Did you know that Operation Strikeback had the first use of single-sideband voice communications for tactical operations by the U.S. Navy ?
text: Did you know that there are Dinosaur Footprints in the Connecticut River Valley ?
text: Did you know that the 1298 collapse of the Gran Tavola papal depository bank devastated the economy of Siena for decades?
text: Did you know that Travel + Leisure named Wasque ("way-squee") on Chappaquiddick the number one beach in New England ?
text: Did you know that Joseph II of the Holy Roman Empire was allowed to enter the papal conclave, 1769 , in spite of restriction of the attendance to cardinals ?
text: Did you know that Dave and Kevin Huntley are the only father–son duo to win two NCAA Championships in their respective Division I Lacrosse careers?
text: Did you know that Tiptree Windmill has walls that are 4 feet (1.22 m) thick?
text: Did you know that a laboratory accident by S. Donald Stookey led to the invention of CorningWare ?
text: Did you know that photorejuvenation has been successfully used to improve the appearance of rosacea and reduce the redness associated with it?
text: Did you know that Ratsimilaho established the Betsimisaraka who make up 15% of Madagascar 's population?
text: Did you know that Pierre Trudeau was "known to paddle " the Kazabazua River in Quebec ?
text: Did you know that the smallest Natural Area in Pennsylvania protects a stand of box huckleberry , but another stand nearby is the oldest plant in the United States ?
text: Did you know that the Venetian Theatre in Hillsboro, Oregon , was renamed as the Town Theater in 1956 only to be renamed again as the Venetian in 2008?
text: Did you know that the Duty to God Award gets its name from passage Alma 7:22 in the Book of Mormon ?
text: Did you know that fashion designer Tory Burch , who has dated numerous celebrities and socialites, has a mother who dated Steve McQueen and a father who dated Grace Kelly ?
text: Did you know that the 1964 film Man in the 5th Dimension was shown in the 70mm Todd-AO widescreen process exclusively at the Billy Graham Pavilion during the 1964 New York World's Fair ?
text: Did you know that pseudodementia is a condition in older people where a treatable psychiatric illness such as depression may mimic dementia ?
text: Did you know that the winners of Oxford 's Gaisford Prize for Greek Verse include the fictional Duke of Dorset in Max Beerbohm 's 1911 novel Zuleika Dobson ?
text: Did you know that in 1937, Oscar Garcia Rivera, Sr. became the first Puerto Rican to hold public office in the United States ?
text: Did you know that a flower robot mimics the appearance of a common flower and contains simple sensing and home appliance functionalities, thus making it a service robot ?
text: Did you know that Harriet Burns designed the original prototype models of Disneyland 's Sleeping Beauty Castle , Pirates of the Caribbean and New Orleans Square ?
text: Did you know that urban survival syndrome can be seen as a version of the battered woman syndrome ?
text: Did you know that Sultan Mohammed IV drowned in the Agdal Gardens near Marrakesh in 1873 when his steam launch capsized in the Sahraj el-Hana (Tank of Health)?
text: Did you know that adherents of the Biblical archaeology school believe there is physical evidence for Old Testament events?
text: Did you know that James Russell Lowell's satirical poem A Fable for Critics (1848) made fun of many poets of the day, including himself?
text: Did you know that the book Passionate Minds is a novel about Voltaire and his mistress Émilie du Châtelet ?
text: Did you know that American physician John Ziegler pioneered anabolic steroids but later said "... healthy athletes are putting themselves in the same category as drug addicts . It's a disgrace. Who plays sports for fun anymore?"
text: Did you know that Dengeki Gakuen RPG: Cross of Venus is being released for the 15th anniversary of the original manga, Dengeki Bunko ?
text: Did you know that one member of the Dughlats , Mirza Abu Bakr Dughlat , conquered lands belonging to other members of the Dughlat clan?
text: Did you know that Elizabeth Howe was one of nineteen people found guilty of practicing witchcraft and executed in the Salem witch trials ?
text: Did you know that Jimmy Jack returned to his hometown of Perth after an argument with his The Black Balloon co-writer?
text: Did you know that in 2008, the German Federation of Internal Medicine awarded its highest honor to Hans Joachim Sewering‎ , a former Nazi ?
text: Did you know that Willie Mitchell won the Michigan High School basketball championship in 1992 and 1993, but lost to his future Wolverines teammate Robert Traylor in 1994?
text: Did you know that Irish television celebrity Bazil Ashmawy was born in Libya and is half Egyptian ?
text: Did you know that following Neil Dewar ’s transfer from the club, a Manchester United director was forced to resign due to his daughter eloping with the player?
text: Did you know that pomologist Ulysses Prentiss Hedrick devoted separate monographs to cherries , grapes , peaches , pears , and plums ?
text: Did you knowthat Sir William Gregory was appointed Speaker of the House of Commons in 1679 after only a year in parliament ?
text: Did you know that the sawmill in Aumond, Quebec , built in 1862, also provided electricity and remained in operation until 1989?
text: Did you know that Tropical Storm Andrew , which caused 50 deaths, was the deadliest storm of the 1986 Atlantic hurricane season ?
text: Did you know that Francis Coleman worked as a conductor , magazine editor and musical director of the Royal Winnipeg Ballet before, at age 29, producing CBC 's coverage of Elizabeth II 's coronation ?
text: Did you know that Amherst College president Arthur Stanley Pease was an " indefatigable pedestrian " and mountaineer who studied plants in the White Mountains ?
text: Did you know that Kevin Smith , a fan of the Degrassi franchise, had to cancel an appearance in the Next Generation pilot , " Mother and Child Reunion " ?
text: Did you know that ethnic Dayaks in Borneo resorted to the ancient practice of headhunting to chase away migrant Madurese during the Sampit conflict in 2001 ?
text: Did you know that Sherman Maxwell , who is believed to be the first African American sportscaster , was rarely paid for his radio broadcasts ?
text: Did you know that during the 30 Rock episode " Cleveland " , scenes set in Cleveland, Ohio were actually filmed in Battery Park City in Manhattan ?
text: Did you know that Charles T. Barney , president of the Knickerbocker Trust Company , committed suicide after the collapse of his company sparked the Panic of 1907 ?
text: Did you know that the People's Republic of China made its Olympic debut at the 1952 Summer Games , but the team arrived in Helsinki too late to compete except for one race by a single swimmer ?
text: Did you know that the election of Pope Urban VI , the last non-cardinal to become pope, by the papal conclave, 1378 precipitated the Western Schism ?
text: Did you know that E.E. Cummings was inspired to write Santa Claus: A Morality after reuniting with his daughter, Nancy?
text: Did you know that Stylianos Pattakos , a principal of the 21 April 1967 coup in Greece , after his conviction at the Greek junta trials , enjoyed amenities such as a pond with 21 goldfish while imprisoned ?
text: Did you know that Charles Sawyer Russell commanded the 28th Regiment United States Colored Troops in the American Civil War , which suffered nearly fifty percent casualties at the Battle of the Crater ?
text: Did you know that Bulgarians in Romania helped construct the Black Church in Braşov , Transylvania ?
text: Did you know that Queen Victoria had the ancient Stewart Sapphire set into the Imperial State Crown in 1838 ?
text: Did you know that  the cape of Inamuragasaki was so named for its similarity in shape to a stack of rice at harvest time?
text: Did you know that in 1895, the North Star Mine Powerhouse ' s Pelton wheel was the largest in the world?
text: Did you knowthat Edwin Thumboo 's 1979 poem Ulysses by the Merlion has influenced so many other Singaporean poets, it is joked that a true Singapore poet has to have written a " Merlion poem"?
text: Did you know that, on opening night of Samuel Johnson 's Irene , audiences cried "Murder!" after seeing the main character strangled on stage?
text: Did you know that while in Venezuela for the Winter Leagues current Detroit Tigers relief pitcher Gary Glover was robbed at gunpoint?
text: Did you know that SS Pennsylvanian , an American cargo ship , was one of the first two steamships to travel eastbound through the Panama Canal after it opened in August 1914?
text: Did you know that Eastbourne Borough is the fifth football club for which Jean-Michel Sigere and Simon Wormull have played together?
text: Did you know that the population of Conquista, Minas Gerais decreased due to falling global demand for coffee , and the need for workers to create Brasilia ?
text: Did you know that New Zealand politician John Key once promised Grey Power , a lobbyist group for people over 50, that he would resign if he ever lowered the superannuation ?
text: Did you know that Blair Fairchild , Arthur Nevin , Preston Ware Orem , Thurlow Lieurance , and Carl Busch were among the American composers associated with the Indianist movement ?
text: Did you know that although Paul Gondjout founded the Gabonese Democratic Bloc , Léon M'ba soon overthrew him?
text: Did you know that the potoos of the Neotropics have slits in their eyelids so that they can watch for danger without opening their large conspicuous eyes ?
text: Did you know that German biologist Hubert Markl , who received the Bundesverdienstkreuz in 1992, was President of the Max Planck Society from 1996 to 2002?
text: Did you know that the disappearance of Ann Gotlib in broad daylight in 1983 helped spur the creation of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children ?
text: Did you know that Alberto Bimboni and Charles Sanford Skilton received the Bispham Memorial Medal Award for American opera for their operas on American Indian subjects?
text: Did you know that medieval art from Quedlinburg was discovered in a mineshaft, and stolen by a soldier who had taken art appreciation classes?
text: Did you know that champion shooter Abhinav Bindra is the first Indian to win an individual gold medal at any Olympic Games ?
text: Did you know that the North Carolina Tar Heels men's basketball team has won 1,950 games in 98 seasons and holds the record for consecutive 20-win seasons, with 31 seasons from 1970 through 2001?
text: Did you know that French novelist and playwright Honoré de Balzac once lived in the house on the Moika River Embankment which now hosts the Consulate-General of France in Saint Petersburg ?
text: Did you know that Orthodera novaezealandiae is a praying mantis native only to New Zealand ?
text: Did you know that the roller ship was a steamship , raised above the water like a hydrofoil and moving on several large wheels ?
text: Did you know that the Creation Evidence Museum sponsors hunts for living pterodactyls in Papua New Guinea ?
text: Did you know that rising 600 feet above the surrounding plains, Double Mountain in Stonewall County, Texas is the most prominent point for 159 miles?
text: Did you know that when Andy Stern challenged Richard Cordtz for the presidency of the SEIU labor union , Cordtz fired him for insubordination ?
text: Did you know that Horatio Nelson 's first command in the Royal Navy was the brig HMS Badger ?
text: Did you know that a Western Hartebeest can run at speeds of up to 80 km/h (50 mph ), making it one of the fastest antelopes ?
text: Did you know that the Russian frigate Oryol was completed in 1669 as the first Russian naval ship, and flew the earliest recorded white, blue, and red Russian flag ?
text: Did you know that the Swiss manufacturer Synthes is the largest producer of implants to mend bone fractures ?
text: Did you know that cricketer Roger Kimpton also won an Oxford University tennis tournament and a golf blue , and was awarded a Distinguished Flying Cross as a Second World War fighter pilot ?
text: Did you know that the 30 Rock episode " Secrets and Lies " was performed live at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre to show support for the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike ?
text: Did you know that when the Common Tunnel opened in 1928 it made the Holmenkoll Line the first underground railway in Scandinavia ?
text: Did you know that the 1998 film Goodbye, 20th Century! features a sequence where a man dressed like Santa Claus attends a wake that turns violent to the sound of Sid Vicious singing " My Way "?
text: Did you know that in the 1972 census there were an estimated 580,000 Jamnapari goats in India ?
text: Did you know that Delta, Minas Gerais in Brazil , despite having a population of 6,600, had no banks as of 2007?
text: Did you know that mountaineer Ger McDonnell , the first Irish person to summit K2 , brought a hurley to the summit of Mount Everest in 2003 ?
text: Did you know that the 210-year old Gate of Mercy Synagogue is the oldest synagogue in Mumbai ?
text: Did you know that Šalata is the first neighborhood in Croatia to use digital homes ?
text: Did you know that Edgar Stillman Kelley and his wife traveled around Europe lecturing on American classical music ?
text: Did you know that in 1787–1788, Barthélemy de Lesseps traveled overland the full length of Russia to deliver reports from the La Pérouse expedition to the French Ambassador in St. Petersburg and from there continued on to Paris ?
text: Did you know that Holyhead High School , located on the Welsh island of Anglesey , was the first British comprehensive school ?
text: Did you know that an image within photosensitive glass is the most durable form of photography and will last as long as glass itself?
text: Did you know that Rogers Orchards in Southington, Connecticut has been owned and run by seven generations of the same family since 1807?
text: Did you know that Northern Irish singer Clodagh Rodgers received death threats from the IRA after performing " Jack in the Box " at the 1971 Eurovision Song Contest ?
text: Did you know that Roger Connor , whose brother Joe Connor was also a baseball player, was the first to hit an over-the-wall home run at Polo Grounds ?
text: Did you know that David Pendleton Oakerhater , a Cheyenne warrior who fought at the Second Battle of Adobe Walls , was declared a saint of the Episcopal Church in 1985?
text: Did you know that, on the day he broke Mark Spitz ' 10-year world record in the 100 meters butterfly , Joe Bottom overslept and missed his pre-race warmup swim?
text: Did you know that in building Arthur De Wint Foote ' s Foote's Crossing Road , Italian stonemasons constructed high embankment walls above the Middle Yuba River ?
text: Did you know that the colonels' group dominated the Polish government for most of the history of the Second Polish Republic ?
text: Did you know that during his days as a community organizer in Chicago , Barack Obama worked as a consultant and trainer for the Gamaliel Foundation ?
text: Did you know that the Paul MacCready -designed Solar Challenger was the first solar-powered aircraft capable of sustained, high-altitude flight?
text: Did you know that Lola ya Bonobo near Kinshasa is the world's only sanctuary for orphaned bonobos ?
text: Did you know that Arts High School in Newark, New Jersey opened its doors to students in 1931 as the first U.S. public high school specializing in the visual and performing arts ?
text: Did you know that Sir Clyomon and Sir Clamydes , an early Elizabethan stage play whose authorship is unknown, is thought to have influenced several of William Shakespeare 's plays?
text: Did you know that Vasili Blokhin , chief executioner of the Stalinist NKVD , led a company of executioners that performed more than 828,000 official executions during Joseph Stalin 's reign, including tens of thousands by his own hands?
text: Did you know that the Jolimont Workshops , part of Jolimont Yard , were built for Melbourne 's new fleet of suburban trains in 1917?
text: Did you know that as a publicity stunt , Indy 500 driver Harry Hartz drove a car backwards across the United States ?
text: Did you know that the namesake family of Fuller's London Pride ale , live in Neston Park , an English country house in Wiltshire ?
text: Did you know that proposals in the 2008 Australian Federal budget included a A$ 3 billion increase in tax on alcopops ?
text: Did you know that the Syrian poet Nizar Qabbany wanted a burial in Damascus because it was the place that gave him "the alphabet of Jasmine "?
text: Did you know that British Columbia 's Disaster Response Route network, while mostly consisting of roads, also includes marine routes?
text: Did you know that in her début at the 2008 Summer Olympics , Tao Li broke the Asian record for the 100 m butterfly twice and became the first Singaporean swimmer to enter an Olympic final?
text: Did you know that the first three residents of the John Kane House were a man nearly hanged for treason , a Patriot turned British Loyalist , and George Washington ?
text: Did you know that West Indies Power is a company developing geothermal power in Nevis , Saba and Dominica ?
text: Did you know after being headmaster of St. Bees School , George Mallaby joined the army , rose to Colonel , became High Commissioner to New Zealand , and was knighted ?
text: Did you know that international reaction to 2008 Tibetan unrest has included police protecting the Chinese embassy in Reykjavík , Iceland , from a peaceful demonstration ?
text: Did you know that in 2007 , the John Edwards 's headquarters in the online game Second Life was attacked by the griefing group the Patriotic Nigras ?
text: Did you know that the American football team the Cardinals has had 36 head coaches ?
text: Did you know that due to the American Civil War, the Bahamas saw imports increase by a factor of 23, and exports increase by a factor of 29.6?
text: Did you know that parts of the veiled stinkhorn Phallus indusiatus have been consumed by lifeforms as diverse as bees , flies , Chinese diplomats and Henry Kissinger ?
text: Did you know that Amedei Porcelana chocolate is used in a $1000 ice cream sundae ?
text: Did you know that Pedro Pizarro , a Spanish chronicler and conquistador , took part in the Spanish conquest of Peru and wrote an account of it?
text: Did you know that according to Pliny the Elder , Quintus Valerius Soranus was the first writer to include a table of contents in his works?
text: Did you know that The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four and Five , a science fiction novel by Doris Lessing , was adapted for the opera in 1997 by Philip Glass ?
text: Did you know that the Bardwell-Ferrant House in Minneapolis, Minnesota , was built in 1883 as a Queen Anne style house and then given onion-domed towers in an 1890 Moorish Revival makeover?
text: Did you know that taxis in Brunei have license plates with white letters on a green background to distinguish them from private vehicles?
text: Did you know that the FC Büsingen , a German football club formed in 1924, had a nut tree in its playing field penalty area until 1927, when it was cut down?
text: Did you know that law professor and anti-tobacco activist John F. Banzhaf III started his career as an electrical engineer ?
text: Did you know that the Ryazan miracle in 1959 was an apparent tripling of agricultural production in the Soviet Union ?
text: Did you know that the Barcol hardness test was developed during World War II for the U.S. Army Air Corps to check that airplane rivets had not been sabotaged?
text: Did you know that the Manila Grand Opera House also served as a theater , residence , cinema and nightclub before its original building was demolished and re-constructed as a hotel ?
text: Did you know that Union Army officials offered US$ 5,000 for the scalp of Confederate Cherokee William Holland Thomas ?
text: Did you know that delay certificates issued by railway companies in Japan and Germany to passengers for tardy trains are considered valid reasons by superiors for reporting late to school or work?
text: Did you know that when the namesake of Yardley, Pennsylvania , William Yardley , moved from England to Pennsylvania in 1682, he took with him 40 pounds (18 kilograms ) of shoes?
text: Did you know that Marilyn Roman was the first female Mayor of Jersey City, New Jersey ?
text: Did you know that the Melaka Zoo is the second-largest zoo in Malaysia ?
text: Did you know that the sudden collapse of the Pemberton Mill was one of the worst industrial accidents in American history ?
text: Did you know that young people are more literate in Hakha Chin than their elder counterparts?
text: Did you know that in 1922, the Chicago Police Department attempted to frame local labor leader Fred Mader for murder ?
text: Did you know that the Least Killifish is the smallest fish found in North America ?
text: Did you know that Steve Brye , in his first and only season as a starting outfielder in Major League Baseball , led the Minnesota Twins in doubles ?
text: Did you know that Abraham Lincoln called the Beefsteak Raid "the slickest piece of cattle-stealing " he ever heard of?
text: Did you know that Puerto Rican journalist Héctor Feliciano has shed light on an estimated 20,000 works of art stolen by the Nazis during World War II ?
text: Did you know that after two previous buildings burned down , the Town of Southeast, New York , built its 1896 town hall of less flammable material?
text: Did you know that female Redtail Splitfin nourish their unborn young through organs known as  trophotaeniae that function similar to umbilical cords in mammals ?
text: Did you know that Georgia Cayvan was the first person to wear a glass dress?
text: Did you know that Ireland 's reality show Fáilte Towers takes its name from the BBC sitcom , Fawlty Towers ?
text: Did you know that there are over 2500 miles of interstate and U.S. highways in Washington ?
text: Did you know that Mal Cochrane is the hooker in the New South Wales Rugby League 's " Indigenous Team of the Century"?
text: Did you know that during the Great Depression , the New Order of Cincinnatus , accused by its opponents of fascist tendencies, successfully placed three candidates on the Seattle City Council ?
text: Did you know that the Saffron Parasol is actually a small orange mushroom found throughout temperate regions of Europe and North America ?
text: Did you know that the New Orleans -based family of master plasterer Earl Barthé has specialized in historical and decorative plasterwork since 1850?
text: Did you know that The Sunday Times art critic, Frank Rutter , sheltered suffragettes released from prison under the Cat and Mouse Act , sometimes helping them to flee abroad?
text: Did you know that the last Confederate general to surrender, Stand Watie , did so in Oklahoma ?
text: Did you know that the scientific name of Longnose trevally ( Carangoides chrysophrys ) means "golden eyebrow"?
text: Did you know that an episode of 30 Rock , " Jack the Writer " , contained a reference to Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip , which both revolve around the off-camera happenings on a sketch comedy series?
text: Did you know that the boiler was the only part of the British steam locomotive 60163 Tornado that could not be made in Britain, and was instead built by the Meiningen Steam Locomotive Works in Germany?
text: Did you know that Brookesia minima may be the smallest species of chameleon ?
text: Did you know that Kay Chorao ' s Cathedral Mouse was considered one of 1988's best picture books by the New York Times ?
text: Did you know that unlike Jesus , the Avignon popes did not object to the close proximity of religious centers and the Avignon Exchange ?
text: Did you know that the "Howell Code", the legal code enacted by the 1st Arizona Territorial Legislature , was named after Judge William T. Howell ?
text: Did you know that the cartoon depiction of British model Christabel Leighton-Porter was said to have inspired the British 36th (Ulster) Division to advance six miles into Normandy in 1944?
text: Did you know that the Silver Marten rabbit likes playthings to toss around its cage ?
text: Did you know that National Cleavage Day was started in South Africa in 2002?
text: Did you know that the British ship of the line HMS Colchester , launched in August 1744, was wrecked just two months later after running aground on her first commissioned voyage?
text: Did you know that Jan de Baen was a popular portrait painter during the Dutch Golden Age ?
text: Did you know that eighteen years ago, medical schools in the US "covered" sleep medicine in an average total teaching time of just two hours?
text: Did you know that although the Chapel Royal, Brighton was built to encourage the Prince Regent to attend church while in Brighton , he stopped worshipping there after being offended by a controversial sermon ?
text: Did you know that the last living veteran of the Civil War in Idaho died in 1952?
text: Did you know that the Pomeranian Goose was developed by Northern German farmers centuries ago, but only officially recognized as a breed in 1912?
text: Did you know that on May 29 , 1913 , Johnny Beall was traded to the minor-league Milwaukee Brewers , only to return to his original major league team a month later?
text: Did you know that the Ingolstadt-Kralupy-Litvínov pipeline does not start in Ingolstadt and does not run to Kralupy and Litvínov ?
text: Did you know that the 1910 American cargo ship SS El Oriente was chartered by the Red Cross and was one of fourteen ships that sailed under the Swiss flag during World War II ?
text: Did you know that the natural habitats of the Short-tailed Emerald are moist lowland forests and montanes and heavily degraded former forests in Colombia , Peru , and Venezuela ?
text: Did you know that the Walter Brewster House is the only Greek Revival home with a two-story colonnade in Putnam County, New York ?
text: Did you know that enemies of Viking chieftain Tryggve the Pretender claimed he was the bastard son of a priest ?
text: Did you know that the 10th Festival of Pacific Arts , concluded 2 August 2008 in American Samoa , brought together about 2,000 artists from 27 countries across Oceania ?
text: Did you know that Pisanosaurus , from 228 to 216.5 million years ago, is the oldest known ornithischian dinosaur ?
text: Did you know that after the First National Bank of Brewster , New York , closed in 1964 the Town of Southeast made the building its new town hall?
text: Did you know that only one of the cardinal electors in the papal conclave, 1304–1305 , which elected Pope Clement V , who began the Avignon Papacy , was French ?
text: Did you know that chemosynthesis , the process enabling deep sea invertebrates to survive without sunlight , was discovered by Colleen Cavanaugh ?
text: Did you know that Walter Scott and T. S. Eliot declared The Vanity of Human Wishes as Samuel Johnson 's greatest poem?
text: Did you know that in 1899 , Bill Lange , a popular Major League Baseball player, retired during the prime of his career to marry a woman whose father forbid her to marry a baseball player?
text: Did you know that the protracted papal conclave, 1314–1316 , the first of the Avignon Papacy , was mediated by three incumbent and future French monarchs in succession?
text: Did you know that Union general John A. Logan seized a Confederate general's house as his headquarters in Columbia, South Carolina in 1865?
text: Did you know that the name of Kazabazua in Quebec comes from the Algonquin word kachibadjiwan , meaning "underground river", and refers to the Kazabazua River which disappears underground?
text: Did you know that ancient herds of White Park , a rare breed of horned cattle , have been preserved in Great Britain from the Middle Ages ?
text: Did you know that blues musician Henry Gray is credited as helping to create the distinctive sound of the Chicago blues piano ?
text: Did you know that pink tide is a term for the growing influence of left-wing politics in Latin America ?
text: Did you know that hula master George Na'ope was designated a "Living Golden Treasure" by the state of Hawaii ?
text: Did you know that Central African general Jean-Bédel Bokassa claimed that he seized his country's power to prevent Jean Izamo from doing the same?
text: Did you know that Akersbanerne was founded in 1917 to build suburban tramways between Kristiania and Aker , Norway ?
text: Did you know that Dharmachari Aryadaka was the first paid Buddhist prison chaplain in Washington state ?
text: Did you know that Dutton-Waller Raised Tybee Cottage is one of few surviving historic raised cottages on Tybee Island, Georgia ?
text: Did you know that on July 11 , 2008 , the Kayelekera mine in Karonga , Malawi celebrated 1.5 million hours of accident-free uranium mining ?
text: Did you know that John S. Preston was sent by South Carolina to convince Virginia to secede from the United States ?
text: Did you know that John Dorewood was Speaker of the House of Commons for the first parliaments of both Henry IV and Henry V of England ?
text: Did you know that Odd Lot Theory held that you could make money by finding small, and hence uninformed, stock market investors and simply making the opposite investment?
text: Did you know that the historic Oak Grove-Freedman's Cemetery in Salisbury, North Carolina was periodically violated causing destruction to all of the headstones and some of the bodies ?
text: Did you know that Johanna Brandt detailed spying for the Boers with her mother in her book Petticoat Commando ?
text: Did you know that Peruvian artist Jorge Eielson is considered a precursor of conceptual art for his quipus , reinterpretations of an ancient Andean device?
text: Did you know that over 96% voted in a referendum in Latvia for a constitutional amendment that would allow voters to initiate a referendum to dissolve parliament ?
text: Did you know that Larry Gowell ′s baseball in the Baseball Hall of Fame was his first and only major league hit ?
text: Did you know that the developers of the video game Chocolatier took the guided tour of Scharffen Berger Chocolate Maker 's factory to see how chocolate is made?
text: Did you know that The Johnson Gang are believed to have committed the largest ever domestic burglary in the United Kingdom worth tens of millions of pounds?
text: Did you know that Little Miss Sunshine producer David T. Friendly is the son of former CBS president Fred W. Friendly ?
text: Did you know that Armant is a breed of dog which originated in Egypt ?
text: Did you know that Clyde Barnhart was second on his team with 114 runs batted in for the 1925 World Series winner Pittsburgh Pirates ?
text: Did you know that Andronikos Kontostephanos was the leading general of Byzantine emperor Manuel I Komnenos , and that his career took him from Hungary to Egypt ?
text: Did you know that SS El Sol was the first of four sister ships launched by Newport News Shipbuilding for the steamship line of the Southern Pacific Company ?
text: Did you know that Côte d'Ivoire once quasi-monopolised the world market on fresh pineapples ?
text: Did you know that the Minnesota Twins franchise has had four managers elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame ?
text: Did you know that Émile Boga Doudou was killed on September 19 , 2002 in Abidjan in the worst outbreak of violence in Cote d'Ivoire since a military coup d'etat in 1999?
text: Did you know that the Berlin Circle in New Jersey was eliminated at a cost of $73 million after it was described as one of "South Jersey's worst traffic nightmares"?
text: Did you know that Northern Irish housewife Sarah Conlon ' s campaign to clear the names of her wrongfully-convicted husband and son led to an apology from then British Prime Minister Tony Blair ?
text: Did you know that the New York City Fire Department lost 12 firefighters in the 23rd Street Fire in 1966, the department's largest loss of life in a single incident until 343 officers were killed on September 11, 2001 ?
text: Did you know  that Charles Dickens once wrote that in Civil War-era Montana , a town was to be named after Varina Davis , the first lady of the Confederate States of America ?
text: Did you know that Bad Blood (2003) , a professional wrestling pay-per-view event, was offered free of charge to members of the U.S. military returning from the Iraq war ?
text: Did you know that " Fight Fiercely, Harvard " is a satirical college fight song written by a mathematician ?
text: Did you know that Reed Memorial Library is the oldest library building in Putnam County, New York ?
text: Did you know that the Kaliningrad Nuclear Power Plant will be the first Russian nuclear power plant with foreign shareholding ?
text: Did you know that 36 tropical and subtropical cyclones have formed outside the normal boundaries of an Atlantic hurricane season ?
text: Did you know that Archie McCardell , the business executive who led both Xerox and International Harvester , later owned and subdivided the farm which gave Pepperidge Farm its name?
text: Did you know that it took over 50 years to complete the foundation of Jesus College, Oxford , as one Principal lost the draft statutes and the next one kept the replacement copy in his study for several years?
text: Did you know that the C.E. Toberman Estate was used as the "trophy" house of Vincent Chase on the first two seasons of HBO 's Entourage ?
text: Did you know that the Brühl , a single street in Leipzig , accounted for one-third of the world trade of furs in the 1920s?
text: Did you know that the Fire Station No. 1 in Roanoke , Virginia was modeled after Philadelphia 's Independence Hall ?
text: Did you know that the Endicott Pear Tree , located in Danvers , Massachusetts , is thought to be the oldest living cultivated fruit tree in North America ?
text: Did you know that the funerary art on the gravestones at Gilead Cemetery in Carmel, New York , illustrates changes in Protestant views of the role of death in the later 18th century?
text: Did you know that the Choctaw Hog is a "critically rare" breed of pig found in the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma ?
text: Did you know that Max von Stephanitz , creator of the German Shepherd dog breed, also founded the Verein für Deutsche Schäferhunde ?
text: Did you know that the Norfolk Biffin apple appears in the works of Charles Dickens and was sent from Norfolk to London for Sir Robert Walpole ?
text: Did you know that in 1967 the Ku Klux Klan bombed both Beth Israel synagogue of Jackson, Mississippi and the house of its rabbi?
text: Did you know that the SC Jülich 1910 , record winner of the now defunct German amateur football championship , was the feature of a German television documentary ?
text: Did you know that the Convento Building is the largest adobe building in California and the largest original building at any of the Spanish missions in California ?
text: Did you know that Jean Ralaimongo came to prominence in 1929 after 3,000 demonstrated following speeches in a cinema in Madagascar ?
text: Did you know that D. W. Griffith bought a house for his mother that had been used as a funeral home ?
text: Did you know that the Heights of Buildings Act of 1910 restricts the height of buildings in Washington D.C. to 20 ft (6 m ) taller than the width of the street they face?
text: Did you know that the Sultan Bayezid II Mosque is the oldest surviving Ottoman imperial mosque complex in Istanbul , Turkey ?
text: Did you know that although it twice elected Abraham Lincoln , New York in the American Civil War had his prominent Democrat critic, Horatio Seymour , as its governor?
text: Did you know that Huta Stepanska , one of the largest Polish defense centers during the Massacres of Poles in Volhynia , was abandoned due to lack of ammunition?
text: Did you know that Rob Morris's first home in La Grange, Kentucky was burned to the ground, and his books had to be saved by the Union army ?
text: Did you know that in 1923 , University of Nebraska running back Dave Noble scored the first touchdown in Memorial Stadium ?
text: Did you know that the "Red Tower" of the Hackensack Water Company Complex completed in 1883 in Weehawken, New Jersey , combined offices and a 165,000-gallon water tank in a single 175-foot-high structure?
text: Did you know that the Roanoke City Market in Downtown Roanoke is the oldest continuously operating farmers' market in the Commonwealth of Virginia ?
text: Did you know that Kenny Chesney 's 2008 single " Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven " was initially recorded by George Strait , who had planned to include it on his 2008 album Troubadour ?
text: Did you know that after previously competing at the 2004 games in Athens , Brooklyn -bred Erinn Smart and her brother Keeth are again part of the U. S. Olympic fencing team at Beijing ?
text: Did you know that in spite of not participating in the planning of the 1964 Gabon coup d'état , Jean-Hilaire Aubame was sentenced to ten years of hard labor and ten years in exile?
text: Did you know that the widow-owner of the Durfee Mansion died in 1976 at age 99, leaving an untouched wine cellar stocked with vintage wines and whisky dating to the 1890s?
text: Did you know that video sculpture is a medium that offers performing artists a chance to have a more permanent artistic forum?
text: Did you know that Lydia Becker , founder of the Women's Suffrage Journal , was also an amateur botanist and friend of Charles Darwin ?
text: Did you know that after Harvard was defeated in the 1921 Centre vs. Harvard football game —one of the greatest upsets in college football history— MIT students celebrated the win by tearing down Harvard's goalposts?
text: Did you know that Art Stewart , who was recently inducted into the Kansas City Royals Baseball Hall of Fame , was responsible for the drafting of 70 people who eventually became Major League Baseball players?
text: Did you know that the bright red mushroom Hygrocybe miniata is found in rainforest and eucalypt forest in Australia and meadows in Europe and North America ?
text: Did you know that Michigan 's Ludington Public Library was claimed as the library that will last a thousand years?
text: Did you know that Zambian laws concerning homosexuality have largely remained unchanged since the country gained independence from the British Empire in 1964?
text: Did you know that Das Königsprojekt was the first of three science fiction novels written by the German author Carl Amery ?
text: Did you know that Tim Morehouse , a member of the U.S. fencing team at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing , originally took up fencing in order to be excused from his high school gym class?
text: Did you know that the latest opera by composer Andy Vores is a 2008 chamber opera adaptation of Jean-Paul Sartre 's No Exit ?
text: Did you know that the Dundas Valley Conservation Area contains a trailhead of Canada 's first interurban multi-use trail system?
text: Did you know that the Haas Lola Formula One team's cars were not built or designed by Lola Cars International , but were entered as Lolas because Carl Haas was their official importer to the United States?
text: Did you know that the Unlearned Parliament was so called because lawyers were forbidden to attend as Henry IV felt they were "troublesome"?
text: Did you know that Pope Pius VI was not elected till the 265th ballot at the papal conclave of 1774–1775 ?
text: Did you know that two Romanian cathedrals inspired by foreign models include Sibiu's , based on Hagia Sophia , and Iaşi's , which resembles Trinità dei Monti ?
text: Did you know that the Virginids meteor shower can sometimes last between January and May each year?
text: Did you know that philanthropist Harriet Nevins left an animal shelter , a fountain , and a John LaFarge stained glass window to the people of Massachusetts ?
text: Did you know that the sales of the "miracle drug" Energon , consisting of calf brain, sugar and milk, were able to establish Pharmacia as a major pharmaceutical company in Sweden in the early 1900s?
text: Did you know that cargo ship El Occidente fought off two German submarines in World War I , only to be sunk by one in World War II ?
text: Did you know that the niece of the Armenian Patriarch of Constantinople , Sirarpie Der-Nersessian , became the first woman to be awarded the Order of St. Gregory the Illuminator by the Catholicos of Armenia ?
text: Did you know that the Terminal Annex Post Office was LA 's central mail processing facility for 50 years and became a filming location when it closed?
text: Did you know that the television adaptation of Ellis Peters ' novel The Rose Rent , set in 12th-century England , was actually filmed in Hungary ?
text: Did you know that since hard suction hose is designed for fire engines drafting water , it is the only type of fire hose tested under suction instead of pressure ?
text: Did you know that in 1929, BSEIU President Jerry Horan offered US$ 125,000 to bootlegger Roger Touhy in exchange for protection from Al Capone and the Chicago Outfit ?
text: Did you know that Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry was founded as Deutsche Forschungsanstalt für Psychiatrie by King Ludwig III of Bavaria in 1917?
text: Did you know that pixel artists are featured in an annual juried art show, "Into the Pixel", at the E3 trade show for computer and video game industries ?
text: Did you know that the CAFE Foundation holds races in which general aviation aircraft compete for performance efficiency?
text: Did you know that a yett is a latticed iron gate used in place of a portcullis in many Scottish castles and tower houses ?
text: Did you know that Michigan 's Mason County District Library is an umbrella entity that administers two libraries?
text: Did you know that Anna Borkowska , the mother superior of a Polish convent of Dominican Sisters in World War II , was the first to smuggle in grenades for the Vilnius Jewish ghetto insurgents ?
text: Did you know that many types of car bomb use a tilt fuse , a tube-like device not dissimilar to a medical pill bottle, to trigger the explosion?
text: Did you know that " Brilliant Disguise " and " Tunnel of Love " gave Bruce Springsteen two consecutive #1 singles on Billboard 's Mainstream Rock Tracks chart from the Tunnel of Love album?
text: Did you know that according to Le Monde , Central African Republic Lieutenant Colonel and politician Alexandre Banza was killed in circumstances "so revolting that it still makes one's flesh creep"?
text: Did you know that the title roles in the 1974 blaxploitation film The Black Six were played by six then-current National Football League stars?
text: Did you know that when Lepreum was attacked during the period of the Olympic truce , the Spartan attackers were given a fine equal to 200,000 times that of a skilled worker's daily wage rate?
text: Did you know that the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Jones v. United States that a person found not guilty by reason of insanity of a misdemeanor crime can still be committed indefinitely to a mental institution ?
text: Did you know that Filipino indie rock band Taken by Cars had two singles that reached the top of Manila 's local radio charts before getting signed in a major record label ?
text: Did you know that Kentucky judge John Milton Elliott was murdered by a fellow judge after adjudicating in a case involving the latter's sister?
text: Did you know that Sabu to Ichi Torimono Hikae , a manga about a blind samurai , won the 1968 Shogakukan Manga Award ?
text: Did you know that U.S. Navy transport ship USS Henry R. Mallory (ID-1280) successfully avoided a torpedo attack in World War I , only to be sunk by the same method during World War II ?
text: Did you know that a wheelhouse in archaeology is a prehistoric structure from the Iron Age found in Scotland that was neither a wheel, nor perhaps a house?
text: Did you know that upcoming film Calvin Marshall 's producers hired a casting director before they had raised enough funding to hire a well-known actor to attract further financiers?
text: Did you know that Open Access movement , a social movement in academia dedicated to the principle of open access — information sharing for the common good —traces its history to 1960s or earlier?
text: Did you know that child actress Jillian Clare has been nominated for five Young Artist Awards , winning twice?
text: Did you know that the Carey Mission was a headquarters for settlers and a point from which the American frontier was extended?
text: Did you know that confraternities , a type of Nigerian university student organization started by Nobel Prize laureate Wole Soyinka , are now linked with organized crime ?
text: Did you know that feminist Jo Freeman was moved from Mississippi by the SCLC in 1966 after the Jackson Daily News published her photo and denounced her as a professional agitator?
text: Did you know that the Phylax Society , the first German Shepherd Dog club, disbanded because members could not agree whether the dogs should be bred for working or appearance?
text: Did you know that the Patrick Tavern, built in 1793, is the oldest building in New York 's Aurora Village-Wells College Historic District ?
text: Did you know that Thyrocopa is a genus of flightless moth endemic to Hawaii ?
text: Did you know that plans to build the Belarusian Nuclear Power Plant in the vicinity of Minsk were halted after the Chernobyl accident ?
text: Did you know that Michigan Wolverines men's basketball has a 16–0 record at Crisler Arena , its home stadium, during the National Invitation Tournament ?
text: Did you know that the potato disease Zebra chip has cost the Texas economy over US$ 125 million and threatens similar economic harm across the U.S. and Guatemala ?
text: Did you know that the National Youth Orchestra of Wales has the distinction of being the first national youth orchestra in the world and is Europe 's longest-standing national youth orchestra?
text: Did you know that the Woodard Bay Natural Resource Conservation Area is the location of a new type of habitat conservation program focused on restoring the native Olympia oyster ?
text: Did you know that although Harold McCarter Taylor was a theoretical physicist and mathematician who worked with Ernest Rutherford , he is best known for a three-volume work on Anglo-Saxon architecture ?
text: Did you know that for many years, Municipal Warehouse No. 1 at the Port of Los Angeles stored the railcar that carried Winston Churchill 's body to burial?
text: Did you know that L'Année philologique ( The Year in Philology ) annually gathers scholarly work related to ancient Greece and Rome from approximately 2,000 sources?
text: Did you know that after being kept indoors at an Illinois zoo for about three decades, a citizens' campaign secured Ziggy the elephant a new home?
text: Did you know that the Polish Club Class glider SZD-59 "Acro" is competitive in both unlimited aerobatics and cross-country flying ?
text: Did you know that Edward Harrison was the first person to perform a concerto for maraca soloist with symphony orchestra ?
text: Did you know that iOffer , an online trading community launched in May 2002, had nearly one million users by February 2008?
text: Did you know that there are over 3,500 miles of state highways in Utah , with the shortest one being only 0.086 mi (138 m) long?
text: Did you know that Scottish botanist Robert Kaye Greville has a mountain named after him in Queensland , Australia ?
text: Did you know that Roger de Busli deliberately built Tickhill Castle directly on the Nottingham - Yorkshire border as he had authority in both?
text: Did you know that, in Norse mythology , Urðarbrunnr is an important well located beneath the world tree Yggdrasil ?
text: Did you know that entrepreneur Joe Dudley 's multi-million dollar hair and skin care business began with a mere US$ 10 investment in a sales kit in 1957?
text: Did you know that the 125th Napier's Rifles of the Indian Army were named after General Napier , who had commanded them at the Battle of Miani in 1843?
text: Did you know that the Heinsbergen Decorating Company Building was built in 1928 with bricks salvaged from the old Los Angeles city hall?
text: Did you know that Cortinarius semisanguineus , whose common name is "Surprise Webcap", is a mushroom that smells of radishes ?
text: Did you know that the citizens of Carmel, New York , felt that "Shaw's Pond" was too modest a name for a local body of water, so they appointed a committee that renamed it Lake Gleneida ?
text: Did you know that Paul Thomson , co-founder of the California Rare Fruit Growers Association , grew the first successful mammee apple crop in the state's history?
text: Did you know that the Sakuradamon Incident of 1932 was an unsuccessful assassination attempt against Emperor Hirohito of Japan by a Korean nationalist ?
text: Did you know that scapular fracture can be caused by forceful muscle contractions due to a seizure or electrical shock ?
text: Did you know that The Corporate Center in Danbury , Connecticut is an innovative structure built on 5,000 pillars, some up to 40-feet (12 m) tall, to accommodate the hilly terrain?
text: Did you know that So Amazin' , the third studio album by singer Christina Milian , was produced mainly by hip hop producers Cool & Dre ?
text: Did you know that the pink mushroom Gomphidius roseus appears to be parasitic on the related Suillus bovinus ?
text: Did you know that six of the seven candidates in the 1999 Algerian presidential election withdrew less than 24 hours before the election?
text: Did you know that the town of Kent, New York , dealt with an excess Canada goose population around Lake Carmel by rounding them up while they were molting and distributing the meat to the poor?
text: Did you know that Swedish musician Hans Wärmling , co-writer of " Strange Little Girl ", left The Stranglers while en route to a gig in North London ?
text: Did you know that despite the company's claims, SummerSlam 1992 has the largest verified attendance of any World Wrestling Entertainment event?
text: Did you know that although male Kashmir Gray Langurs are usually protective of infants, they sometimes engage in infanticide ?
text: Did you know that magazines like the Southern Bivouac and the Southern Historical Society Papers helped to spread the belief of the Lost Cause of the Confederacy ?
text: Did you know that in 1938, the Raja of Aundh voluntarily handed over rule of his Indian state to the people in what became known as the Aundh Experiment ?
text: Did you know that American Olympian John Lysak was banned from the gymnasium of the ship that took him to the 1936 Summer Olympics after he destroyed much of its equipment?
text: Did you know that the Australian vine Hoya australis , a popular garden plant, attracts butterfly species such as the Common Crow ?
text: Did you know that Paul T. Jordan became the youngest mayor in the history of Jersey City only three years after graduating from medical school ?
text: Did you know that in 1979, the Tobacco Institute disputed claims by the Surgeon General of the United States about the dangers of smoking ?
text: Did you know that British fencer Mary Glen-Haig was the first female member of the International Olympic Committee ?
text: Did you know that the U.S. Third Fleet sank all of Japan 's remaining undamaged battleships and heavy cruisers during the bombing of Kure in July 1945?
text: Did you know that Q-Flex is the world's largest LNG carrier type currently in service?
text: Did you know that the Plaza Historic District was the historic center of Los Angeles in the days of Spanish and Mexican rule?
text: Did you know that satirist Stephen Colbert has a species of spider called Aptostichus stephencolberti named after him?
text: Did you know that Skaga stave church was built in the 1130s to Christianise the area , but was demolished in 1826 as a stronghold of remaining Norse paganism ?
text: Did you know that after winning a bronze medal at the 1997 World Championships in Athletics , German shot putter Stephanie Storp began playing basketball ?
text: Did you know that Fulton County Route 112, the continuation of New York State Route 309 , was once the site of an old Indian trail in the Adirondacks ?
text: Did you know that the world's largest LNG carrier Q-Max Mozah was named by and after Mozah Nasser al-Misnad , Sheikha of Qatar ?
text: Did you know that alternative rock musician Maynard James Keenan owns and operates his own winery , Caduceus Cellars , in rural Arizona ?
text: Did you know that William C. Grimes , who served as Acting Governor of Oklahoma Territory for ten days, helped to establish Kingfisher College ?
text: Did you know that the Shiseibyō Confucian temple in Naha, Okinawa contains the first educational institution in Okinawa, which later became the first public school in the prefecture?
text: Did you know that John Koethe was the first poet laureate for the city of Milwaukee, Wisconsin ?
text: Did you know that the 2008 Tanana Valley flood brought the Tanana River in central Alaska to its highest level since August 1967?
text: Did you know that John Quincy Adams II , Ralph Waldo Emerson , and William Gordon Weld helped form the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals ?
text: Did you know that the "most generous man in Liverpool " was John Cropper ?
text: Did you know that the Long-legged Bunting , an extinct species of Bunting , was one of the few flightless species in the Passerines order?
text: Did you know that during the American Civil War, Pittsburgh made the world's first 21-inch caliber gun ?
text: Did you know that after accusing Mauritian judges of involvement in slavery , Sir John Jeremie was honoured in 1836 by the Anti-Slavery Society ?
text: Did you know that LA 's Exposition Park Rose Garden has more than 20,000 rose bushes and 200 varieties of roses?
text: Did you know that Horand von Grafrath is credited with being the first German Shepherd Dog ?
text: Did you know that according to his memoir My Grandfather's Son , Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas had his credit card cut up by a car rental clerk?
text: Did you know that after switching sides multiple times during the American Civil War , Benjamin Anderson committed suicide, saying he "would prefer being dead than disgraced"?
text: Did you know that the cultivation of biofortfied food crops has occasionally faced resistance because they sometimes have different characteristics, such as unusual colours?
text: Did you know that the neighborhood of Elm Park in Winnipeg , Canada , was originally a park created by the Winnipeg Street Railway Company to increase trolley use?
text: Did you know that although the first type of wind turbine , the panemone , is one of the least efficient designs it is also one of the most commonly reinvented and patented?
text: Did you know that country singer Philip Claypool 's greatest chart success was a cover version of Bad Company 's " Feel Like Makin' Love "?
text: Did you know that the arcade game Heiankyo Alien was originally designed as a personal computer game by the University of Tokyo 's Theoretical Science Group?
text: Did you know that as of May 2008, the International Harvester strike of 1979–1980 is the fourth-longest national strike in the history of the UAW and the longest in the history of International Harvester ?
text: Did you know that the Marshall Islands , Montenegro , and Tuvalu will all be making their first Olympic appearance at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing ?
text: Did you know that the episode of 30 Rock entitled " Sandwich Day " was actress Johnnie May's second appearance in the series, after playing a blood donations nurse in the episode " Tracy Does Conan "?
text: Did you know that Ivorian politician Jean Konan Banny invented a non-alcoholic drink he described as "a wine [made] from pineapples "?
text: Did you know that author Michael Connelly got the idea for his novel The Concrete Blonde from an actual case in a professional forensic book?
text: Did you know that James Carlile introduced an educational system in 1830s Ireland whereby children of different denominations could attend the same school?
text: Did you know that residential lots in the Drake Park Neighborhood Historic District of Bend , Oregon —with views of the Deschutes River and the Cascades Mountains —originally sold for US$ 100 to US$250?
text: Did you know that the final twenty minutes of the 1941 documentary film Kukan shows an air attack by Japanese bombers against Chongqing , the World War II capital of China ?
text: Did you know that in the 2008 baseball season , Randy Ruiz got a hit in 24 consecutive games, the longest hitting streak by a Rochester Red Wing player since 1979?
text: Did you know that Science, Evolution, and Creationism was published by the National Academy of Sciences to address the creation-evolution controversy ?
text: Did you know that the Battle of Annaberg in 1921 was the largest battle of the Silesian Uprisings ?
text: Did you know that Jamie Howarth 's music restoration company, Plangent Process, received a Grammy award for restoration of a 1949 performance by Woody Guthrie ?
text: Did you know that unions sometimes permit local or regional variations in master contracts in order to meet special economic, competitive, or other needs of employers?
text: Did you know that the 79th Street Boat Basin , featured in the 1998 film You've Got Mail , is the only marina that allows year-round residency by Manhattan boat owners?
text: Did you know that Cinimod Studio in London , United Kingdom , designed a virtual sky ceiling for a Snog frozen yogurt outlet with clouds whose speeds and colors depend upon the time of day?
text: Did you know that novelist Lucy Jane Bledsoe , a Stonewall Book Award winner and four-time Lambda Literary Award finalist, primarily writes LGBT literature ?
text: Did you know that the Corfu Channel Incident , involving the United Kingdom and Albania , is considered one of the early episodes of the Cold War ?
text: Did you know that Spednic Lake , which forms part of the Canada – United States border , is renowned for its smallmouth bass fishing?
text: Did you know that William Chaffey , a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for 33 years, was also a U.S. Bronze Star recipient?
text: Did you know the pranksters behind the Martian Monkey hoax were fined US$40?
text: Did you know that the turnout in the 2002 Algerian legislative election was Algeria 's lowest yet since independence in 1962?
text: Did you know that jockey Ralph Neves , pronounced dead after a fall in 1936, arrived at the racetrack later the same day demanding to ride?
text: Did you know that Majdi Halabi , an Israeli Druze soldier from the village of Daliyat el-Karmel , disappeared on duty near Haifa and was formally declared to be missing in action in June 2005?
text: Did you know that the 2008 Chino Hills Earthquake shook Southern California with a magnitude of 5.4, and was felt as far away as Las Vegas, Nevada ?
text: Did you know that in 1993, police officer Bob Geary launched a successful ballot initiative in San Francisco, California to allow him to carry a ventriloquist's dummy on patrol?
text: Did you know that after a collision with the Scottish clipper Loch Earn , the French steamship Ville du Havre sank in only 12 minutes, with the loss of 226 lives?
text: Did you know that the album title Even Heroes Need a Parachute was chosen to emphasize "the common ground that all humans share"?
text: Did you know that Robert Byington Mitchell , who was Brigadier General in the Union Army during the American Civil War , served as Governor of New Mexico Territory from 1866 to 1869?
text: Did you know that Haruji Matsue was the first person to manufacture the sugar cube in Japan ?
text: Did you know that the tugboat Tuff-E-Nuff , built in 1895 by Neafie & Levy , was still working commercially in 2007 after 112 years of service?
text: Did you know that Swazi police told Gabriel Mkhumane 's mother that he would come home "wrapped in a black bag" hours before his death was reported?
text: Did you know that the mushroom fire-milk Lactarius is so named because of its acrid taste?
text: Did you know that John Harfield Tredgold who helped slaves in the Cape Colony in the 19th century, was also a chemist ?
text: Did you know that a German Shepherd named Rajah was the first police dog in New Zealand ?
text: Did you know that baseball pitcher Marc Wilkins balked on Rob Ryan 's first at bat , on the day of Ryan's major league debut, making the Arizona Diamondbacks score one run ?
text: Did you know that British athlete Stan Cox was nearly killed after being struck with a javelin while working as a judge for the British Amateur Athletic Association ?
text: Did you know that the Plan Dog memo , one of the best known documents of World War II , laid the basis for America's Europe First policy?
text: Did you know that Richard Tapper Cadbury helped his son John start a tea and coffee business that would become Cadbury plc ?
text: Did you know that Washington Block was one of the first buildings to use the isolated pier foundation technique whereby load-bearing points have separate foundations?
text: Did you know that the North German baroque organ in Örgryte Nya Kyrka‎ is the largest meantone organ in the world?
text: Did you know that Joe Allison is a former American football placekicker who won the inaugural Lou Groza Award , presented to the nation's top kicker ?
text: Did you know that the Norwegian National Rail Administration owns all 4,114 km (2,556 mi) of railways in Norway , but does not operate any trains?
text: Did you know that U.S. diplomat Pamela E. Bridgewater was the first African-American woman appointed Consul General in Durban , South Africa ?
text: Did you know that in Australia many unions and employers are working around the WorkChoices law by using side letters to reach agreement on non-workplace-related matters?
text: Did you know that scuba divers concerned about the deterioration of the Samuel P. Ely shipwreck worked underwater to install reinforcing tie rods that would hold the hull together?
text: Did you know that the upright bugle often interbreeds with its more widespread cousin, the common bugle , producing hybrid offspring ?
text: Did you know that at the Convention of 1836 , delegates approved the Texas Declaration of Independence with no debate?
text: Did you know that Polish writer Adam Wawrosz fought in the Polish Army in the Battle of Kock during World War II ?
text: Did you know that Henry Fairfield Osborn almost doubled the size of Castle Rock , his father's Garrison, New York , mansion , to accommodate his family?
text: Did you know that liver biopsy (obtaining a tissue sample from the liver ) is sometimes needed in unexplained forms of hepatitis ?
text: Did you know that the geologic features located within the Eramosa Karst are considered to be the best example of karst topography found in the Canadian province of Ontario ?
text: Did you know that before earning a B.A. at New School for Social Research , science writer Mary Batten worked as a library clerk at the New York Public Library ?
text: Did you know that the Japanese visual novel Eternal Fantasy consists of an overworld map and a combat system, typical of console role-playing games , other than its traditional visual novel gameplay?
text: Did you know that Well No. 4 in the Pico Canyon Oilfield was the first commercially successful oil well in the Western United States and the longest producing oil well in the world at 114 years?
text: Did you know that Vietnam Veterans Memorial State Park is the only state park dedicated solely to veterans of the Vietnam War ?
text: Did you know that former Virginia Tech running back Lee Suggs set the NCAA Division I -A record for consecutive American college football games with a rushing touchdown (27) in the 2002 San Francisco Bowl ?
text: Did you know that New York abstract painter Dennis Ashbaugh is one of the first artists to employ DNA marking patterns in paintings ?
text: Did you know that according to Franz Oppenheimer 's book The State , the purpose of the political state is to establish and enforce class divisions between conquerors and the dominated?
text: Did you know that James Ludington never lived in Ludington, Michigan – the town that bears his name?
text: Did you know that although the longfin trevally is a prized table fish in Thailand and Cambodia , it is overall too rare to sustain commercial fisheries ?
text: Did you know that Ronald Ribman ' s play The Journey of the Fifth Horse , based on a short story by Ivan Turgenev , won an Obie Award and starred a young Dustin Hoffman ?
text: Did you know that many slogans and several mottoes currently used in heraldry originated as war cries or battle cries ?
text: Did you know that the only trio of brothers to appear in a Major League Lacrosse game as members of the same team are Michael , Gregory , and Stephen Peyser of the New Jersey Pride ?
text: Did you know that Wilfrid Noyce forced a route up to the South Col on the first ascent of Mount Everest by the 1953 British Expedition ?
text: Did you know that the Confederate Monument in Perryville was built by the government of Kentucky to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the Battle of Perryville , and 5,000–10,000 people attended its dedication?
text: Did you know that the 1946 Mexican film Boom in the Moon starring Buster Keaton was not commercially released in the United States until 1983?
text: Did you know that what is now the southwestern United States was at one time connected to East Antarctica according to the SWEAT model ?
text: Did you know that a group of Irish publishers tried to print pirated copies of Samuel Richardson ′s final novel, The History of Sir Charles Grandison , before the actual first edition was released?
text: Did you know that the Muleshoe Heritage Center in Muleshoe, Texas , greets visitors with a 22-foot-high muleshoe which weighs 15,000 pounds and was an Eagle Scout project?
text: Did you know that the Payne-Desha House in Georgetown, Kentucky was built by a war hero from the Battle of the Thames and also was the last residence of the ninth governor of Kentucky ?
text: Did you know that future admirals Samuel Barrington , George Darby , Hugh Palliser , Thomas Pasley , Thomas Troubridge and Horatio Nelson all served aboard HMS Seahorse ?
text: Did you know that the town of Kendenup in Western Australia was featured in a classified advertisement in the New York Times in 1922?
text: Did you know that Mount Saint Mary's Convent and Academy is the only extant original orphanage in California ?
text: Did you know that John Milton (1562–1647) was so successful as a composer and scrivener that his son John Milton —author of Paradise Lost —never had to work for a living?
text: Did you know that the Okinawa Prefectural Museum was originally established under the U.S. Occupation in 1946?
text: Did you know that Italian composer Francesco Portinaro survived an outbreak of bubonic plague that killed 12,000 to become maestro di capella at Padua Cathedral ?
text: Did you know that the Neutra Office Building , once the office of Modernist architect Richard Neutra , is said to be the only commercial structure that is still intact with Neutra's original design?
text: Did you know that the first conversion of a New Caledonian to the Bahá'í Faith took place in 1961?
text: Did you know that the British Columbia mountain search and rescue organization North Shore Rescue was originally formed for responding to an urban nuclear attack?
text: Did you know that although £ 5 tickets were available for the Doctor Who Prom , tickets were touted on eBay for £250?
text: Did you know that Burr Caswell built his farmhouse in 1849 out of old driftwood and it is now a museum centerpiece?
text: Did you know that Tropical Storm Kiko , a tropical cyclone of the 2007 Pacific hurricane season , caused at least 15 deaths at sea?
text: Did you know that Diverse Harmony is the first gay-straight alliance chorus in the United States?
text: Did you know that 19 crewmen of the Russian oceanliner SS Czar received the Silver Sea Gallantry Medal from King George V of the United Kingdom for rescuing 102 survivors from a burning ship in October 1913?
text: Did you know that Lloyd Seay , described by NASCAR founder Bill France, Sr. as the "best pure race driver I ever saw", was killed by his cousin during a dispute in the family's moonshine business?
text: Did you know that there are 64 varieties of mammal in Tam Dao National Park in Vietnam and some are on the menu ?
text: Did you know that the Floating Battery of Charleston Harbor was the first floating battery to engage in hostilities during the American Civil War ?
text: Did you know that Felix Mendelssohn walked out in disgust in the middle of the 1827 premiere of his opera Die Hochzeit des Camacho , and cancelled the remaining performances?
text: Did you know that Robert Berning first introduced Trader Joe's private wine label as a way to get around California 's fair trade laws that made it illegal to sell wines at a cheaper price than branded competitors?
text: Did you know that the Rockies Express Pipeline , currently under construction, will be one of the largest natural gas pipelines ever built in North America ?
text: Did you know that Argentine adventurer Emilio Scotto had only US$ 306 when he left Buenos Aires in 1985 on his record-breaking 10-year motorcycle journey?
text: Did you know that organisations such as Unilever PLC , Tate Gallery , Penguin Books , and Prudential all have collections of Laura Ford's sculptures?
text: Did you know that through Khitan , the Islamic rite of male circumcision , Muslims are the largest single religious group to circumcise males?
text: Did you know that Achille-Louis Foville was made a professor at Charenton in 1840, filling the vacancy created by the death of his old teacher Jean-Étienne Dominique Esquirol ?
text: Did you know that the defection of Saddam and Hussein Kamel helped prompt the 1995 Iraqi presidential election ?
text: Did you know  that "Pink Fairhead" is a common name for Calocybe carnea , a small pink mushroom of grassy areas in Europe and North America ?
text: Did you know that the Union Monument in Perryville is one of only seven monuments in Kentucky dedicated to Union soldiers , and it took an act of Congress to build it?
text: Did you know that Henry Conway , nicknamed "Queen Sloane ," once showed up to a London nightclub in a horse drawn carriage ?
text: Did you know that Salem Hospital has the busiest emergency room in the state of Oregon ?
text: Did you know that Mount Bate , on Vancouver Island , British Columbia , is probably named after William Thornton Bate , a Royal Navy officer killed during the Second Opium War ?
text: Did you know that T-shirts which featured Jane Krakowski as Jenna Maroney , which were seen in a 30 Rock episode entitled " Jack Gets in the Game " , were made commercially available by NBC ?
text: Did you know that during production of the film The Natural , Robert Redford was coached by Major League Baseball pitcher Spec Shea on how to pitch in an old-time style?
text: Did you know that one of the chief motivations for anarcho-capitalist revolution is the impossibility of implementing anarchy through peaceful means?
text: Did you know that Henrik I. Christensen , a Distinguished Professor of Computer Science at the Georgia Institute of Technology , was the founder of the European Robotics Research Network (EURON)?
text: Did you know that the site of the aboriginal village of Nocoroco , near Ormond Beach, Florida ,  is marked by a large fountain sculpture, called the "Tomokie Fountain"?
text: Did you know that the Regimental Pipes and Drums of The Calgary Highlanders mistakenly wore the Royal Stewart tartan until they arrived in England during World War II and were told to stop?
text: Did you know that the Virginia Capital Trail connects three historic capitals of Virginia ( Williamsburg , Jamestown and Richmond ) with a 54-mile (87 km) long paved bicycle and pedestrian trail ?
text: Did you know that the Swansea and Welsh rugby duo Dick Jones and Dicky Owen were known affectionately as the Dancing Dicks ?
text: Did you know that the forthcoming Canadian film Smash Cut will feature a cameo appearance by filmmaker Herschell Gordon Lewis who invented the splatter film genre ?
text: Did you know that the highlight of Aliwan Fiesta is a four-kilometer dance parade of different cultural festivals of the Philippines ?
text: Did you know that the faculty of the College of Engineering , University of California, Santa Barbara boast of two Nobel Prize winners and one Millennium Technology Prize winner?
text: Did you know that the Cheonhado is a type of circular world map developed in Korea during the 17th century that displays both real and fictional places?
text: Did you know that archedictyon is a hypothetical scheme of wing venation proposed for the common ancestor of all winged insects ?
text: Did you know that " Blooddrunk " , a track by Finnish band Children of Bodom about self-destructive behaviour, debuted at number one in Finland?
text: Did you know that after a gift of candles they sent was mentioned on the Rush Limbaugh Show , sales at Wicks n' More increased fivefold?
text: Did you know that Donald Colman invented the football dugout in the 1930s while working as coach of Aberdeen ?
text: Did you know that the Smith Estate was the home of a writer on occultism , the head of a railroad, and a deputy mayor , and the shooting location for the cult film Spider Baby ?
text: Did you know that the Loire Valley estate Château de Goulaine is believed to be the oldest winery in existence and the third oldest commercial enterprise in the world?
text: Did you know that Christopher Smart 's two oratorios , Hannah and Abimelech , are based on the story of biblical women who became fertile because of their devotion to God ?
text: Did you know that the 335th and 336th squadrons are the oldest in Greece's Hellenic Air Force , having been formed as units of the British RAF in the Second World War ?
text: Did you know that the opposition Democratic Party refused to accept the results of the 2001 Albanian parliamentary election and boycotted Parliament for six months after?
text: Did you know that New Year's Revolution (2005) was the first pay-per-view event produced by World Wrestling Entertainment to be held in Puerto Rico ?
text: Did you knowthat the Seventy-fourth Oregon Legislative Assembly , convening from 2007 to 2008, was the first since 1989 in which the Democratic party controlled both houses of the state's legislature?
text: Did you know that Welsh sportsman Billy Bancroft not only played rugby for Swansea and cricket for Glamorgan at St Helens Ground but also lived there as a child and became its groundsman when he retired?
text: Did you know that the "Madame Marie" mentioned in the 1973 song 4th of July, Asbury Park (Sandy) by Bruce Springsteen was a real-life fortune teller on the Asbury Park boardwalk?
text: Did you know that while setting a Guinness World Record for distance travelled by a solar vehicle, the University of Waterloo 's Midnight Sun VII was twice mistaken for a UFO ?
text: Did you know that Sidney Weighell , General Secretary of the National Union of Railwaymen , played professional football with Sunderland for two seasons as an inside left ?
text: Did you know that David Nichtern , who wrote " Midnight at the Oasis ", is the son of the first female to win a Tony Award ?
text: Did you know that the stages-of-growth model describes the changing role of information technology in organizations ?
text: Did you know that military sociology , one of the branches of sociology , looks at issues such as gender , minorities and power in the military ?
text: Did you know that the Grand Lodge of Indiana was started at the Schofield House of Madison, Indiana's historic district on January 13, 1818?
text: Did you know that while serving aboard HMS Carcass as a midshipman on an Arctic expedition, a young Horatio Nelson is reported to have chased a polar bear ?
text: Did you know that the Laurel Valley Store in Laurel, Oregon , opened in 1893 and is still in use?
text: Did you know that John Montague of the Seattle Mariners earned the first save in team history, pitching two scoreless innings to preserve a 5–1 win against the California Angels on April 9, 1977?
text: Did you know that the 2006 film Strawberry Fields is a documentary about Palestinian farmers in Gaza facing hardships caused by the Israel – Hamas military conflict?
text: Did you know that New York State Route 146B was decommissioned after as little as 17 years after its initial designation?
text: Did you know that in 1715, Grigory Dmitriyevich Stroganov , the largest Russian landowner after the tsar , owned territories larger than modern Bulgaria or Iceland ?
text: Did you know that a tower of 2,000 wooden Schlitz beer pallets , described as "a rotting vestige of one man's egotism" that festers "like a sore on the community's body", is a Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument ?
text: Did you know that the 15th-century figure Sir John Juyn served simultaneously as Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer and Chief Justice of the Common Pleas , only relinquishing the positions when he was appointed Chief Justice of the King's Bench ?
text: Did you know that William Fox was awarded a scholarship to drama school , but only on the condition that he passed the money on to another student?
text: Did you know that the Portuguese village Cacela Velha was once the site of the Medina of Qast’alla Daraj, an Islamic town dating back to the 10th century?
text: Did you know that Sir Francis Gawdy , his father and his two older half-brothers were all baptised Thomas Gawdy, although Francis had his name changed at his confirmation ?
text: Did you know that oysters deposit pseudofeces in such amounts that they can clean up an entire estuary ?
text: Did you know that Marguerite Wilson is celebrated in the Golden Book of Cycling for holding all 16 British road records?
text: Did you know that vaporized hydrogen peroxide was used to disinfect buildings contaminated in the 2001 anthrax attacks in the U.S.?
text: Did you know that the Angel Island Chuckwalla , an Iguanidae species, was considered such an important food item to the Seri people that they translocated the species to islands within the Sea of Cortés ?
text: Did you know that International Gothic art is so called because very similar styles existed in centres as far apart as France , Bohemia , Italy and Burgundy ?
text: Did you know that English footballer Fred Geary scored the first goal at the opening of Everton 's new Goodison Park stadium in August 1892?
text: Did you know that the Korean traditional winter hat nambawi can be luxuriously adorned with gold leaf decoration for women?
text: Did you know that Mike Berniker produced Barbra Streisand 's first three albums, which were described by The New York Times as "among the most expressively uninhibited" of her career?
text: Did you know that despite its leaders being deported to remote parts of the country, the Gabonese opposition garnered 46% of the vote in a 1964 legislative election ?
text: Did you know that Greenbank Gardens near Glasgow , Scotland were built by Robert Allason, a slave trader ?
text: Did you know that Rage Software were forced to use fictitious footballer names on the PC game Microsoft International Soccer 2000 because they did not acquire a license from FIFA ?
text: Did you know that the Dome of the Prophet was built by the Ottomans on the spot where some believe Islamic prophet Muhammad prayed on the night of Isra and Mi'raj ?
text: Did you know that George Washington called Dismal Swamp a "glorious paradise" and now part of it is a North Carolina state park ?
text: Did you know that the Sołtan argument as outlined in 1982 suggests that the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy was once a quasar ?
text: Did you know that New York State Route 194 was the only state highway in Lewis County removed because of the 1980 state maintenance swaps?
text: Did you know that two sculptors from Vest-Telemark , Dyre Vaa and Anne Grimdalen , both contributed to the decoration of Oslo City Hall ?
text: Did you know that the name of Cabonga Reservoir in central Quebec is derived from the Algonquin kakibonga , meaning "completely blocked by sand"?
text: Did you know that the Cathedral of Saints Peter and Paul in Constanţa , Romania , which twice served as a parish church and twice as a cathedral, was made a monastery as well in 2001?
text: Did you know that the cause of the Svenskehuset Tragedy , where 17 men died on Svalbard in the winter of 1872–73, was until recently a mystery?
text: Did you know that Richard Wesley first won critical acclaim for his 1971 play Black Terror and financial success for his screenplays for the Cosby / Poitier vehicles Uptown Saturday Night and Let's Do It Again ?
text: Did you know that a jobawi is a Korean traditional winter cap with ear-flaps which was worn by women during the late Joseon Dynasty ?
text: Did you know that George Odgers was the last living member of the 14 historians who wrote the official history of Australia's involvement in World War II , Australia in the War of 1939–1945 ?
text: Did you know that the C. Burton Hotel may be the only Greek Revival building in Sullivan County, New York , with a recessed porch and columns ?
text: Did you know that during the Siege of Paris , French inventor and photographer René Dagron used carrier pigeons carrying microfilms to send messages across German lines?
text: Did you know that " Where do you want to go today? ", launched in November 1994, was the title of Microsoft 's first global image advertising campaign ?
text: Did you know that the 17th-century gardeners of the Izmaylovo Estate managed to grow figs , coconuts and melons but failed to breed silk worms ?
text: Did you know that after filing to run for a seat on the Oregon Supreme Court , judge Jason Lee had two cases decided against his interests in the same court before withdrawing?
text: Did you know that during the 2008 – 2009 television season , the actress Shenae Grimes has starring roles in both the eighth season of Degrassi: The Next Generation , and the first season of 90210 ?
text: Did you know that Cameroonian politician Louis-Paul Aujoulat 's thesis was named best in his faculty at the Catholic University ?
text: Did you know that in the Toronto Blue Jays seasons , they have had seven different pitchers start twice or more on Opening Day ?
text: Did you know that during the murder trial of Dr Thomas Lodwig , he claimed that he had used the poison potassium chloride to enhance the effect of painkillers rather than to kill his patient?
text: Did you know that British swimmer Heather Frederiksen won four medals at the 2008 Summer Paralympics after being told by doctors that she would never be able to swim again?
text: Did you know that the Lord Peter Wimsey novel Thrones, Dominations was started by Dorothy L. Sayers in 1936 and completed by Jill Paton Walsh over 60 years later?
text: Did you know that the Classical Academy Charter School of Clifton , a chartered middle school that requires students to learn three years of Latin and to study Literary classics , has been recognized as a Blue Ribbon School ?
text: Did you know that strong waves from Hurricane Bonnie in 1998 washed thousands of tires, part of an artificial reef, ashore in North Carolina ?
text: Did you know that the Texel Disaster of 1940 resulted in severe damage to HMS Express and the sinking of two other ships who went to her aid?
text: Did you know that Latvian basketball player Ieva Tāre suffered a serious arm injury during the qualification for 2008 Summer Olympics , but recovered in time for the actual Olympics ?
text: Did you know that Label Fandango was created by Andy Macleod and Simon Williams, the man behind debut singles from Coldplay and Keane ?
text: Did you know that George Ashley Campbell decided to use loading coils for improving telephone line quality only after he realized that the manholes were the right distance apart to allow this cheaper solution?
text: Did you know that the Schlesinger Doctrine of 1974 re-introduced the idea of flexible response to U.S. nuclear warfighting policy?
text: Did you know that San Giorgio a Cremano is so named because the residents called on their patron saint Saint George for protection from the fiery eruptions of Mount Vesuvius ?
text: Did you know that unlike most other Jewish communities in the Catskills , the congregants of Ulster Heights Synagogue were farmers rather than resort operators?
text: Did you know that The Mock Tempest was a 1674 parody of Dryden and Davenant's adaptation of Shakespeare's Tempest ?
text: Did you know that James W. Cannon co-wrote a paper suggesting that the "negatively curved" nature of microscopic growth patterns of bio-organisms is responsible for the highly folded structure of the brain tissue ?
text: Did you know that the current National Palace of Mexico , despite having been destroyed and rebuilt several times, still contains building blocks from the original palace of Aztec emperor Moctezuma II ?
text: Did you know that Sydney Deane , who narrowly missed representing Australia in cricket , was the first Australian to appear in a Hollywood film?
text: Did you know that SS Empire Simba , a British cargo ship , was severely damaged in port by a land mine dropped by a German bomber during the World War II ?
text: Did you know that the Menlo Avenue Historic District in Los Angeles reflects the transition to American Craftsman style architecture?
text: Did you know that flatwater canoer Vladas Česiūnas was forcibly returned by the KGB to the Soviet Union out of fear that he would publish a book on doping in the Soviet Union prior to the 1980 Summer Olympics ?
text: Did you know that Schools Plus , an education policy proposed by New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark , was boycotted by 15 schools?
text: Did you know that Louis Timothee was the first public librarian in the United States?
text: Did you know that Hall of Famers Don Drysdale and Don Sutton each made seven Opening Day starts for the Los Angeles Dodgers since the Dodgers moved to Los Angeles in 1958?
text: Did you know that former Thai Minister of Education M.L. Pin Malakul created a slide rule for calculating the day of week of any given date despite being required to study Sanskrit rather than mathematics?
text: Did you know that the Swaminarayan Temple in the London suburb of Willesden is in a converted church?
text: Did you know that Hyman Golden was co-founder and chairman of Snapple , which got its name from one of its early products, a carbonated apple juice that had a "snapply apple taste"?
text: Did you know that the 1991 Arctic Environmental Protection Strategy has been called a major political accomplishment of the post- Cold War era?
text: Did you know that Sir Michael Sachs was the first English solicitor to become a High Court judge , appointed in 1993?
text: Did you know that Bob Brenly led his team to the 2001 World Series and won in his first season as the Arizona Diamondbacks manager ?
text: Did you know that Bill Laxton was the winning pitcher in the first game ever won by the Seattle Mariners , a come-from-behind, 7–6 win over the California Angels ?
text: Did you know that six hours after it had been forecast to become a tropical storm , Hurricane Joyce unexpectedly dissipated?
text: Did you know that Tang Dynasty general Zhu Ci , angry that he was removed from command due to his brother Zhu Tao 's rebellion, later tried to become emperor of his own state of Qin?
text: Did you know that the members of the Canadian alternative dance band Ubiquitous Synergy Seeker met while stocking the beer fridge at a golf course?
text: Did you know that Theresa Elmendorf was the first woman president of the American Library Association ?
text: Did you know that Baghdad was under siege for more than a year during a civil war in the 9th century between Al-Amin and his brother Al-Ma'mun for the Abbasid Caliphate ?
text: Did you know that architect Andrew Rebori once referred to modern buildings as "steel and glass upside-down cakes"?
text: Did you know that Tropical Storm Gilma was, in terms of wind speed , the weakest named storm of the 2006 Pacific hurricane season ?
text: Did you know that two weeks before the 1964 bombings of the United States Embassy in Libreville , Gabon , the country had undergone an abortive coup d'etat which overthrew its president, Leon M'ba ?
text: Did you know that Farhad Reza , along with 12 other Bangladeshi cricketers , was banned from playing for 10 years after joining the Dhaka Warriors team in the unauthorised Indian Cricket League ?
text: Did you know that the papal election in 1159 that followed the death of Pope Adrian IV resulted in a papal schism , which lasted until 1178?
text: Did you know that Michael P.C. Carns , who was the Vice Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force from 1991–94, received numerous military awards and decorations such as the Silver Star ?
text: Did you know that the Instructions of Shuruppak , first attested in a tablet from Abu Salabikh , has been called "the most significant piece of wisdom literature in Sumerian "?
text: Did you know that J. Clarence Karcher invented the reflection seismograph and founded Geophysical Service Incorporated , which became Texas Instruments ?
text: Did you know that Mario Lemieux became the only rookie in National Hockey League all-star history to win game MVP honours at the 1985 All-Star Game ?
text: Did you know that the damaged and demasted brig Polly drifted over six months and more than 2,000 miles (3,200 km) across the Atlantic with its surviving crew?
text: Did you know that the Lombard duke Euin had to twice defend the Duchy of Trent from the Franks , in 584 by battle and in 591 by diplomacy?
text: Did you know that Vihar Lake , the largest in Mumbai , was created in 1860?
text: Did you know that socialite Hazel Crane 's posthumous memoirs revealed her secret criminal career, including smuggling emeralds out of South Africa in her beehive hairdo and her baby's nappy ?
text: Did you know that reforms enacted by Eleftherios Venizelos , after the 1909 Goudi coup helped bring him to power, largely forestalled the development of strong socialist and agrarian movements then seen elsewhere in the Balkans ?
text: Did you know that Diocesan School for Girls students can download whiteboard notes to their laptops?
text: Did you know that Britain 's Heather Fell , the 2008 Olympic silver medallist in modern pentathlon , had to work three part-time jobs in order to fund her training?
text: Did you know that Fateh Sagar Lake was re-created in 1888 by re-constructing an earlier earth dam which got washed away?
text: Did you know that Helga Vlahović was picked, along with Oliver Mlakar, to host the 1990 Eurovision Song Contest in Zagreb following Yugoslavia 's win at the 1989 contest ?
text: Did you know that The City Sun , a black-owned newspaper, told David Dinkins , New York City 's first African American mayor, that he was "beginning to look like a wimp"?
text: Did you know that according to recent research, the shadow trevally is one of the first fish to move in after a ship is scuttled ?
text: Did you know that Myna Potts , an historical preservationist from West Texas , converted her father's former general store into a museum dedicated to rural people of the recent past?
text: Did you know that the Cadillac Gage Peacekeeper II armoured vehicle has a 0.5-inch (13 mm) thick armour that can provide protection against 7.62mm armour piercing ammunition ?
text: Did you know that new Manchester City F.C. chairman Khaldoon Al Mubarak was also the man who negotiated the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix 's inclusion in the 2009 Formula One season ?
text: Did you know that North University Park in Los Angeles contains many well-preserved Victorian houses and was the birthplace of U.S. Presidential candidate Adlai Stevenson ?
text: Did you know that when a mutiny broke out in the absence of Tang Dynasty general Cui Ning , his concubine Lady Ren suppressed it with soldiers she had hired herself?
text: Did you know that the coastal trevally is frequently known under an incorrect Latin name because of a typo in the first volume to describe it?
text: Did you know that as well as being an Olympic competitor and World Championship bronze medallist in the multi-discipline sport of modern pentathlon , Katy Livingston also played netball at county level?
text: Did you know that in Norse mythology , Hjúki and Bil have been theorized as personifying the waxing and waning moon and, due to similarities, as connected to the nursery rhyme " Jack and Jill "?
text: Did you know that Al Jackson and Roger Craig share the worst winning percentage of the Opening Day starting pitchers for the New York Mets with a record of 0–2?
text: Did you know that Arthur Raikes was a British army officer but received honours from Zanzibar , Austria and Portugal ?
text: Did you know that the ceiling of the burial chamber in the Pyramid of Merenre has an astrological theme ?
text: Did you know that in the fictional 1977 novel The Sword of Shannara , Shea Ohmsford is the only descendant of Jerle Shannara left in the Four Lands , and therefore the only one left who can use the Sword of Shannara ?
text: Did you know that people with classical auditory agnosia cannot associate a sound (such as a motor running) with its meaning or concept (such as a car)?
text: Did you know that the largest surviving painting by 15th-century Gothic artist Master Francke is an altarpiece dedicated to Saint Thomas of Canterbury ?
text: Did you know that British canoeist David Florence failed with an application to join the European Space Agency 's astronaut training program before winning a silver medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics ?
text: Did you know that " All the Way " by Eddie Vedder is a song about the Chicago Cubs written at the request of Ernie Banks ?
text: Did you know that the Mazagon Fort in Mumbai was destroyed by Yakut Khan in 1690?
text: Did you know that photojournalist Stanley Greene 's image of a tutu -clad girl with a champagne bottle became a symbol of the fall of the Berlin Wall ?
text: Did you know that when Britain took the dispute over the sovereignty of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands to the International Court of Justice in 1955, Argentina declined to cooperate?
text: Did you know that the six home runs hit in the 1971 Major League Baseball All-Star Game were all hit by future Hall of Famers , including a 520-foot (160 m) shot by Reggie Jackson ?
text: Did you know that when Haydn Tanner and Willie Davies orchestrated Swansea rugby club 's defeat of the touring All Blacks they were both still schoolboys?
text: Did you know that the 2008 South Carolina Learjet 60 crash caused the Columbia Metropolitan Airport to be closed for a day because the other runway at the airport was also unusable since it was undergoing resurfacing?
text: Did you know that small modelli of works of art were produced for patrons to approve?
text: Did you know that British swimmer Matt Walker has won eight silver and bronze Paralympic medals in individual events, but all three of his gold medals have come in the 4×100 m freestyle relay ?
text: Did you know that " Go, Cubs, Go " was the most popular folk music digital download on iTunes in the first week of October 2007?
text: Did you know that Pandorea "Golden Showers" is a yellow-flowering variety of the Australian native plant the Wonga Wonga Vine ?
text: Did you know that in the final game of the 1926–27 Boston Bruins season , Billy Coutu 's attack on a referee caused him to be the first player banned from the National Hockey League for life?
text: Did you know that the works of German artist Erich Buchholz were labeled "degenerate" by the Nazis , and only after the end of WWII his work became appreciated?
text: Did you know that Tang Dynasty general Duan Xiushi died after an unsuccessful attempt to assassinate Zhu Ci, who was planning to dethrone Emperor Dezong of Tang ?
text: Did you know that the Pakistan Cricket Board accused Cricket Australia of double-standards when the latter expressed its willingness to tour India even while cancelling its tour to Pakistan earlier this year?
text: Did you know that Ageratina adenophora , a plant native to Mexico which has invaded Australia , India and the United States , causes respiratory  failure called "blowing disease" in horses ?
text: Did you know that before her election to the New York State Senate , Carol Berman led the ultimately unsuccessful effort to prevent the Concorde from landing at Kennedy Airport in New York City ?
text: Did you know that Azúcar Moreno 's song " Bandido " caused a stir at the 1990 Eurovision Song Contest when one of the backing tracks malfunctioned, causing the singers to storm off stage?
text: Did you know that Jack Hillman was responsible for the earliest recorded case of match fixing in football ?
text: Did you know that Admiral Sir Joseph Sydney Yorke drowned when his boat capsized returning to shore?
text: Did you know that there were several allegations of cheating during the 1994 Formula One season ?
text: Did you know that Erich Walter Sternberg was the first of a wave of professional musicians to flee Germany for Palestine prior to World War II ?
text: Did you know that Udo Zimmermann 's opera , Die weisse Rose tells the story of Hans and Sophie Scholl , a brother and sister who were guillotined by the Nazis for leading a non-violent resistance group?
text: Did you know that Half Japanese 's Greatest Hits was included in Blender 's top 100 indie rock albums?
text: Did you know that the Idangai or left-hand is the name of a faction of six castes which existed in Tamil society in ancient times?
text: Did you know that Orson Welles ' 1968 film The Immortal Story played in the U.S. as a double feature with Luis Buñuel 's Simon of the Desert ?
text: Did you know that the first library catalog was the Pinakes developed by the first bibiliographer Callimachus of Cyrene at the Library of Alexandria ?
text: Did you know that in 1998, Henry Kissinger introduced Lynn Forester to her future husband, Evelyn Robert de Rothschild ?
text: Did you know that multiple book reviews have referred to Raven: The Untold Story of the Rev. Jim Jones and His People as the definitive book on Jim Jones and the Peoples Temple ?
text: Did you know that victory in the 1904 FA Cup Final gave Manchester City F.C. their first major honour?
text: Did you know that architect Alfred Rosenheim doubted whether modern architecture could strictly be regarded as architecture?
text: Did you know that the producers of 2008 Hindi espionage thriller film Mukhbiir offered a money back guarantee for those who did not like the film, but prepared the refund for only 5,000 viewers?
text: Did you know that Sir Thomas Jones was made Chief Justice of the Common Pleas as a reward for his severity in sentencing, and then removed three years later for not being severe enough?
text: Did you know that Partenope was the first opera written by an American -born composer ?
text: Did you know that Chilean Canadian writer Carmen Rodriguez publishes much of her work in both English and Spanish , and that she herself is responsible for their translation ?
text: Did you know that one of the short stories in Sandra Cisneros ' collection Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories relates to the myth of La Llorona , who haunts the real Woman Hollering Creek in Texas ?
text: Did you know that in 1906, Scottish architect Sir Robert Lorimer built the Hill of Tarvit mansion house on an Iron Age site?
text: Did you know that as captain of the cruiser Pittsburgh , future four-star admiral John E. Gingrich managed to sail his ship 900 miles (1,400 km) to safety after a typhoon tore off its bow ?
text: Did you know that Barley Yards Brewing Company is the first brewery in the United States to brew a Riesling ale?
text: Did you know that Prussian noble Christian Ludwig von Kalckstein was kidnapped by the order of Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg , and later tried and executed for treason ?
text: Did you know that jökulhlaups , glacial bursts, from Oregon 's White River Glacier on Mount Hood have washed out a highway six times since 1926?
text: Did you know that the parish church at Penterry stands isolated in a field near Chepstow in Wales , with a nearby plague pit thought to hold the remains of many villagers who perished in the Black Death ?
text: Did you know that New York State Assembly member David Koon has pushed for full funding for E911 , a system of automatically locating 9-1-1 callers, after his daughter was abducted and brutally murdered in 1993?
text: Did you know that the Kamikaze class destroyer Shiratae was one of the few ships of the Imperial Japanese Navy to have been lost in combat during the Battle of Tsingtao ?
text: Did you know that four months after the one-time-only U.S. airing of the 1991 Disney television pilot Acting Sheriff , Disney sold bonds that promised to pay up to a 20 percent return if Acting Sheriff were syndicated ?
text: Did you know that after examining 2,500 witness statements and approximately 270,000 pages of evidence, The Shipman Inquiry concluded that doctor Harold Shipman had murdered 250 of his patients?
text: Did you know that agribusiness executive Daron Joffe used to teach horticulture and farming to incarcerated teenagers in the San Francisco area?
text: Did you know that Chief Medical Examiner Charles Hirsch , responsible for identifying remains of 9/11 attack victims, was injured while setting up a temporary morgue when the North Tower collapsed ?
text: Did you know that the lattice phase equaliser was invented by Otto Zobel , better known for his work on constant-resistance networks to equalise amplitude?
text: Did you know that the 1935 short subject Alibi Bye Bye was the last film appearance of the comedy team of Bobby Clark and Paul McCullough ?
text: Did you know that systems scientist Béla H. Bánáthy conceived of a conference where all attendees present papers, and the conference itself is an in-depth, extended conversation between all participants?
text: Did you know that the 1993 Independence Bowl was the first game in which a blocked field goal was returned for a touchdown by a Virginia Tech football player?
text: Did you know that 13th-century Armenian historian and scholar Vardan Areveltsi was a religious adviser to Doquz Khatun , the wife of Ilkhanate Mongol leader Hulagu Khan ?
text: Did you know that rock band The Waxwings took their name from a poem in Vladimir Nabokov 's novel Pale Fire ?
text: Did you know that the spectators killed in Alex Fiorio 's crash at the 1989 Monte Carlo Rally were fellow rally drivers Lars-Erik Torph and his co-driver?
text: Did you know that Biomedical Tissue Services was shut down after investigators discovered that it had harvested remains from 1,000 corpses without consent, including those of Alistair Cooke ?
text: Did you know that Charles Beattie became a British Member of Parliament despite never winning an election, and lost his seat despite never being voted out?
text: Did you know that Holler House is a century-old tavern that has the oldest bowling alley in America?
text: Did you know that survivors of the Loch Sloy disaster who made it ashore to Kangaroo Island , were eventually found with the remains of two dead penguins tied around their neck?
text: Did you know that, since 2002, the Community design has provided Europe-wide protection for designs more simply and cheaply than the previous country-by-country approach?
text: Did you know that whitewater kayaker Douglas C. Gordon died while attempting the first descent of the Tsangpo River in Tibet ?
text: Did you know that Henry Taylor Parker , a critic nicknamed "Hard-to-Please", was " Boston 's oracle on theatre and music" for 29 years?
text: Did you know that Bibliotheca universalis was the first modern bibliography of importance done by the "father of bibliography", Conrad Gesner ?
text: Did you know that in the Florida Marlins ' 16 seasons, they have had six different pitchers start twice or more on Opening Day ?
text: Did you know that Louis Réard , who invented the bikini , chose nude dancer Micheline Bernardini to model the first modern-day bikini in July 1946 at Piscine Molitor in Paris ?
text: Did you know that despite a US$ 900,000 budget, finances on the 1993 film Amongst Friends were so tight that the contents of a bag of Doritos opened in the film were replaced by yellow cardboard triangles?
text: Did you know that the via ferrata Ivano Dibona in the Cristallo in the Dolomites is a restored historical route which was used during World War I ?
text: Did you know that Herbert Mayfield , one of the Mayfield Brothers, a bluegrass band , earned his living as a welder for cattle feedlots in West Texas ?
text: Did you know that Luxembourger mathematician Joseph Neuberg founded the journal Nouvelle correspondance mathématique in honour of the earlier journal Correspondance mathématique et physique ?
text: Did you know that in 1914, the Cumberland Market Group of neo-realism painters founded in London 's Cumberland Market held only one exhibition, but was never formally dissolved?
text: Did you know that U.S. bodybuilding champion Brandon Curry was first interested in weight training when he received a pair of Hulk Hogan -branded dumbbells for his sixth birthday?
text: Did you know that St Andrew's Church, Brunswick Town, Hove , designed by Sir Charles Barry , was the first Italianate-style church in England ?
text: Did you know that the 1999 book A Great Wall: Six Presidents and China won the Lionel Gelber Prize and the New York Public Library 's Helen Bernstein Book Award?
text: Did you know that Curtis Woodhouse was a professional boxer while still playing professional football for Rushden & Diamonds ?
text: Did you know that United Copper survived a lengthy battle with Standard Oil -controlled Amalgamated Copper , backed by the wealth of John D. Rockefeller , only to collapse in the Panic of 1907 ?
text: Did you know that Edith Atkins who broke numerous British cycling records died aged 79 pushing her bike across a zebra crossing ?
text: Did you know that some believe the pictographs in Burro Flats Painted Cave were drawn by Native American maidens who slept in the cave as part of a puberty ritual?
text: Did you know that The Dave Clark Five sang London Bridge is Falling Down on Lucille Ball 's 1966 TV special Lucy in London ?
text: Did you know that Singaporean equestrienne Laurentia Tan won Singapore's first-ever Paralympic medals, two bronzes in dressage , at the 2008 Summer Paralympics ?
text: Did you know that Columbia Aircraft successfully converted the famed Lancair IV to a fixed-gear general aviation aircraft, but was purchased by Cessna in 2007 after stiff competition from the Cirrus SR22 ?
text: Did you know that Philip Marc , King John 's sheriff in Nottinghamshire , should have had his bailiwick removed under the terms of the Magna Carta ?
text: Did you know that Orson Welles shot the footage for his unfinished film The Dreamers in his Hollywood home?
text: Did you know that athlete So Wa Wai was only able to compete at the 2008 Paralympic Games after being given a job by Cantopop star and actor Andy Lau that allowed him time to train?
text: Did you know that the first mail chute was installed in the Elwood Building in Rochester, New York in 1884?
text: Did you know that Operation Mole Cricket 19 was the first time a Western air force successfully destroyed a Soviet -built SAM network?
text: Did you know that historian Maurice Isserman , known for books on the Communist Party USA and the New Left , has refocused on the history of mountaineering in the Himalayas ?
text: Did you know that African-American mezzo-soprano Muriel Smith turned down a part in the 1959 film version of Porgy and Bess , saying "it doesn't do the right thing for my people"?
text: Did you know that the first airplane flight in Norwegian history was performed by Carl Cederström at Etterstad in Oslo in 1910?
text: Did you know that American cargo ship MS West Honaker was the first diesel -powered ship to circumnavigate the globe?
text: Did you know that Paralympic gold medalist swimmers Sascha Kindred and Nyree Lewis are nicknamed the "golden couple" of disability swimming?
text: Did you know that the U.S. Supreme Court 's Prima Paint decision created the separability principle , requiring that most issues in contracts with arbitration clauses be decided by the arbitrator?
text: Did you know that Kamio Mitsuomi , an Imperial Japanese Army general, was in command of Allied ground forces at the Battle of Tsingtao in WWI ?
text: Did you know that the 18th-century James "Squire" Patton House in New Windsor, New York , is now a training facility for the city of Newburgh police K-9 unit?
text: Did you know that the Smallville version of fictional character Lex Luthor was written to be likeable and vulnerable instead of comedic?
text: Did you know that at the time of its sinking in the 1896 Anglo-Zanzibar War , HHS Glasgow was the only ship in the navy of Zanzibar ?
text: Did you know that a Saturday Night Live sketch , featuring Amy Poehler and Tina Fey as Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin respectively, was dismissed by Palin's spokeswoman as "sexist"?
text: Did you know that goalkeeper Peter Litchfield donated the man of the match award from his Football League debut to motor neurone disease in memory of former teammate Mel Holden?
text: Did you know that the 2001 film Sia, le rêve du python was inspired by a 7th-century myth of the Wagadu people of Western Africa ?
text: Did you know that New Zealand telecommunications entrepreneur Annette Presley once claimed that she would work as the CEO of Telecom New Zealand for NZ$ 1?
text: Did you know that the Mattatuck Museum Arts and History Center hosts a biennial competition for artists living or working in Connecticut ?
text: Did you know that the British failure to break through Ottoman lines in the Battle of Wadi during WWI , led to Charles Townshend 's disastrous surrender following the Siege of Kut ?
text: Did you know that the Oregon Civic Justice Center at the Willamette Law School was dedicated exactly 96 years after the building was first opened as a Carnegie library ?
text: Did you know that Kitigan Zibi , a First Nations Reserve in the Outaouais region of Quebec , is the largest Algonquin Nation in Canada, in both area and population?
text: Did you know that the Commercial & Financial Chronicle was modeled after The Economist to be the first weekly national  business newspaper in the United States?
text: Did you know that Brazilian footballer Bobô won the 1988 Campeonato Brasileiro Série A before playing three games for the Brazil national team in 1989?
text: Did you know that the 1994 film Walls of Sand was the first contemporary feature film to be webcast on the Internet ?
text: Did you know that Darryl Kile is the only Colorado Rockies starting pitcher to win twice on Opening Day ?
text: Did you know that Trawsgoed Crosswood Estate, owned by the Vaughn family since the year 1200, was home to the second largest lead mine in Britain ?
text: Did you know that when Kristin Kreuk was cast as Lana Lang in the television series Smallville , she had no idea who her character was in Superman lore?
text: Did you know that in 2005, Abdullah Wardak , a former Mujahideen commander from Afghanistan , received the " key to the city " of Evansville, Indiana ?
text: Did you know that a recent live performance of " The Robots " by Kraftwerk was disrupted by a curtain that refused to close?
text: Did you know that Lieutenant-General Robert Richardson commanded units of the British Army on three separate occasions during the Troubles ?
text: Did you know that the origin of Chicano literature , the literature of Mexican-Americans in the U.S., has been traced back as far as 1542 and the chronicle of Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca ?
text: Did you know that Tang Dynasty general Li Baozhen , in search of immortality , consumed over 20,000 pills made by an alchemist , which eventually killed him?
text: Did you know that the Cambridgeshire Cats American football team were briefly known as the "Cambridge Crunchers" following a sponsorship deal with a Seattle -based apple export company?
text: Did you know that men were forbidden to enter the Palestinian village of Ijnisinya by Helena of Constantinople to ensure that she and her maids could swim in its lake with total freedom?
text: Did you know that John G. Jackson became a contributor to influential black nationalist journal Negro World while still in high school?
text: Did you know that screenwriter Gustin Nash was inspired to write the teen film Charlie Bartlett by a group of teenagers that he spent time with while working at a mall in Burbank, California ?
text: Did you know that the 2008 Congo football riots were sparked by accusations of witchcraft ?
text: Did you know that Maxime de la Falaise , called "the only truly chic Englishwoman " by Cecil Beaton , said that "no straight man was attractive" in the 1970s' fashion industry?
text: Did you know that Controlled Demolition, Inc. was recognized with world records for its 1998 demolitions of a 1,200-foot (370 m) radio tower, the tallest structure, and a 33-floor department store, the tallest building?
text: Did you know that Negro league baseball pitcher Dave Brown disappeared in 1925 after murdering a man in a bar fight, but was rumored to have secretly resumed pitching under the alias "Lefty Wilson"?
text: Did you know that the Valluvars are the hereditary priests of the Pallars and Paraiyars of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu ?
text: Did you know that Richard Mohun was the only white survivor of a three-year expedition to lay a telegraph line from Lake Tanganyika to the River Nile ?
text: Did you know that a Japanese sea spirit named shōjō with red hair and a fondness for sake is featured in Noh and Kabuki plays?
text: Did you know that the complete, power operated, low recoil force gun turret of the Stingray light tank is used on the LAV-600 light armoured vehicle?
text: Did you know that Tang Dynasty general An Baoyu received permission to use the imperial surname Li because he did not want to share a surname with the rebel An Lushan ?
text: Did you know that audiences of the 1658 theatrical presentation The Cruelty of the Spaniards in Peru were entertained by acrobats and trained apes between the scenes?
text: Did you know that architect Elmer Grey recalled that "my health broke down completely" after he finished a major commission on a Christian Science church in Milwaukee, Wisconsin ?
text: Did you know that Songpa sandaenori is a type of Korean mask play originated in the neighborhoods of Songpa-dong of Seoul , Korea ?
text: Did you know that Australian politician Mick Clough defeated a sitting member of parliament at three different elections?
text: Did you know that Bridgeport Village , a shopping center in Washington County, Oregon , was built on the site of a former rock quarry ?
text: Did you know that despite printing only 1500 copies per issue, the journal Scrutiny helped F. R. Leavis become an influential literary critic ?
text: Did you know that in 1975 , his only full season , Stan Perzanowski 's earned run average was the lowest on the Texas Rangers ?
text: Did you know that Dictes and Sayings of the Philosophers is the first dated book printed in England ?
text: Did you know that Charles Ancliffe ' s waltz Nights of Gladness became famous enough that BBC named a whole series of programmes after it?
text: Did you know that Rudy Robbins ' since disbanded "The Spirit of Texas" was named in 1991 by the Texas State Senate as the "official Cowboy Band for Texas"?
text: Did you know that the town of Kalisz was almost completely destroyed during WWI by German forces pursuing the Schrecklichkeit policy?
text: Did you know that the United Nations Human Rights Committee found that Cameroonian investigative journalist Philip Njaru has faced repeated police brutality since 1997?
text: Did you know that Sir Edgar Speyer funded the Promenade Concerts from 1902 to 1914, but he was accused of trading with the enemy during the First World War and lost his British citizenship ?
text: Did you know that in February 1943, German General Hubert Lanz plotted to arrest Hitler during a visit to his headquarters?
text: Did you know that the yellowfin whiting is so popular for recreational fishing that recreational catches have represented nearly a third of the catch in its Southern Australian range?
text: Did you know that never having previously taken five wickets in a match, Nikita Miller managed the feat twice in the 2007–08 Carib Beer Cup final?
text: Did you know that Bellifortis is the first illustrated manual of military techology?
text: Did you know that the Kress Drachenflieger of 1901 was the first heavier-than-air machine to use an internal combustion engine in an attempt to fly ?
text: Did you know that Irish broadcaster John Creedon is set to learn a musical instrument alongside Oscar - winning actor Jeremy Irons ?
text: Did you know that New York State Route 30 is the longest of only five state highways in Hamilton County, New York ?
text: Did you know that Senegalese filmmaker Ben Diogaye Beye 's first feature film was critical of polygamy ?
text: Did you know that starting in 2009, certain biotech corn hybrid seeds will be covered by the risk management program of the U.S. Federal Crop Insurance Corporation ?
text: Did you know that although William Hogarth painted his March of the Guards to Finchley as a gift for George II , the King took great offence at the artwork and refused to keep it?
text: Did you know that the three major peaks of the Tofane were first reached in 1863, 1864 and 1865 by Austrian mountaineer Paul Grohmann ?
text: Did you know that Lydia Thompson and her troupe of "British Blondes" introduced burlesque to America in 1868?
text: Did you know that crime in Singapore includes mobile phone snatching which have in the past been the main target for robbers and snatch thieves ?
text: Did you know that the 1898 Carpenter Gothic Bardsdale Methodist Episcopal Church in California underwent extensive renovations after a portion of the ceiling fell on a parishioner during a 1982 service?
text: Did you know that French photographer Robert Demachy took hundreds of photographs and wrote more than a thousand articles on photography, but suddenly gave up the subject without any explanation?
text: Did you know that due to the important archaeological findings near the Bulgarian village of Durankulak , the area has been dubbed the "Bulgarian Troy "?
text: Did you know that Smokey Mayfield , a ranch supervisor in the Texas Panhandle , once played the fiddle as a warmup act for country performer Tennessee Ernie Ford ?
text: Did you know that Philip Zec enraged both Hitler and Churchill with his wartime cartoons and nearly had the Daily Mirror shut down?
text: Did you know that in 1935, the Supreme Muslim Council built the an-Nasr Mosque in the Palestinian city of Nablus after an earthquake in 1927 completely destroyed the previous structure on the site?
text: Did you know that the Vegas Vampire was a television horror host who stuck pins in voodoo dolls of famous politicians and celebrities?
text: Did you know that free croquet equipment and music on a Sunday afternoon are provided at the Larmer Tree Gardens in Wiltshire , England ?
text: Did you know that the biography Vita Karoli Magni on the life of Charlemagne is the first of a medieval European king?
text: Did you know that British justice Thomas Reeve was knighted at the same time he was made Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas ?
text: Did you know that Johnny Anders , mayor of Stamford in West Texas , built from spare automobile parts a 22-foot dinosaur model displayed in Stamford's city park?
text: Did you know that English director and actor Steven Berkoff featured in a two-minute film inviting the viewer to Watch Your Own Heart Attack ?
text: Did you know that at one point, the powerful Tang Dynasty eunuch Yu Chao'en was believed to be responsible for instigating the grave robbing of the general Guo Ziyi 's father?
text: Did you know that It's About Time , singer Christina Milian 's second studio album, served as her debut album in the U.S. due to the September 11 attacks ?
text: Did you know that AVIS , the association of Italian blood donors founded in 1927, was asked to include an F for fascist in its acronym by Mussolini ?
text: Did you know that after Charles W. Morse started scandals that toppled a New York City mayor and sparked the Panic of 1907 , he faked illness by eating prison soap to convince President Taft to commute his sentence?
text: Did you know that the main tourist attraction in Namaqua National Park in South Africa is the abundant spring bloom of brightly coloured wildflowers ?
text: Did you know that row houses built in the 1840s for workers at a textile mill on Olmstead Street in Cohoes, New York , are today used as federally subsidized affordable housing ?
text: Did you know that in Norse mythology , Sumarr and Vetr are the personified seasons of summer and winter ?
text: Did you know that former Louisiana GOP committeewoman Virginia deGravelles became in 1941 one of the first two whites to register Republican in Lafayette , now a Republican stronghold?
text: Did you know that Stephen's Tower in Baia Mare , Romania has had four fires in its history, three caused by lightning ?
text: Did you know that the science fiction novel The Masks of Time by Robert Silverberg , which featured a naked time traveler from the future, was a nominee for the 1969 Nebula Award ?
text: Did you know that Sir George Treby was rejected as a possible Speaker of the House of Commons of England because his eyesight was so bad he could not distinguish between different Members of Parliament ?
text: Did you know that the former General Foods Corporate Headquarters in Rye Brook, New York , have been described as an " Aztec Temple "?
text: Did you know that the Canadian-based fast food company Extreme Pita began to expand to include stores in the United States in 2003, beginning with Arizona ?
text: Did you know that Lieutenant-Colonel Jonathan Davidson used his civilian experience as a civil engineer to improve his battalion's trenches during the First World War ?
text: Did you know that the chart run for George Jones ' first chart single " Why Baby Why " was interrupted when Red Sovine and Webb Pierce released a duet cover of the same song?
text: Did you know that Polish mountaineer Tadeusz Piotrowski , one of the finest winter mountaineers of the 1970s and '80s, died during descent from K2 , after completing the first and only ascent by the "South Face"?
text: Did you know that a Japanese submarine shelled the Ellwood Oil Field during World War II , the first direct attack by an enemy power on the mainland United States since the War of 1812 ?
text: Did you know that baseball player Randy Johnson has pitched six times on Opening Day for the Arizona Diamondbacks , three more times than any other pitcher in Diamondbacks' history?
text: Did you know that Charlotte Glennie became the first New Zealand journalist to officially film in North Korea ?
text: Did you know that the 50-foot (15 m)-tall neon sign of the First National Bank Building in Saint Paul, Minnesota can be seen from 75 miles (120 km) away on a clear night?
text: Did you know that the Osvald Group , led by Asbjørn Sunde , was the dominating sabotage organisation in Norway from 1941 to 1944?
text: Did you know that the Dresden Codex is the earliest known book written in the Americas ?
text: Did you know that U.S. Navy gunners aboard SS West Cheswald during World War II were awarded a battle star after the ship was deliberately sunk during the Invasion of Normandy ?
text: Did you know that China 's Sanlu Group refused to recall contaminated infant formula until Prime Minister Helen Clark of New Zealand intervened?
text: Did you know that, in his only full Major League Baseball season , Eddie Yuhas led the National League in 1952 with a win-loss percentage of .857?
text: Did you know that Taiwan 's Guo Huaiyi Rebellion of 1652 was partially motivated by the falling price of venison ?
text: Did you know that the 2006 death of NYPD Detective James Zadroga was the first attributed to exposure to toxic dust at the World Trade Center site , though the circumstances of his death are disputed?
text: Did you know that at one time, Toronto 's Sunnyside Bathing Pavilion was the largest outdoor swimming pool in the world?
text: Did you know that in 2004, Expedition Global Eagle was the first attempt in history to circumnavigate the globe using an autogyro ?
text: Did you know that Mohammad Usman Rana , a Norwegian Pakistani student, is one of the prolific Muslim debaters in the Norwegian public sphere?
text: Did you know that when a train derailed in Painesville, Ohio , the area was evacuated for fear a liquefied petroleum gas tank might explode?
text: Did you know that the resentment generated during the Drifts Crisis indirectly sparked the Second Boer War ?
text: Did you know that the Portland, Oregon theater company Portland Center Stage was started as a branch of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival ?
text: Did you know that the 2000 PC game Crimson Skies is set in an alternate history of the 1930s in which the United States has fractured into a number of smaller, independent nation-states ?
text: Did you know that the 6.6 kilometres (4.1 mi) Canal Saint-Denis , finished in 1821, was built to provide a water route through Paris ,  other than the Seine ?
text: Did you know that the Oregon Nursery Company founded the town of Orenco, Oregon in 1908 to house its Hungarian immigrant workers?
text: Did you know that politicians have proposed replacing the red lion on the Flag of Tasmania with a thylacine or cape Barren Goose ?
text: Did you know that Historic Washington State Park near Hope includes the Block-Catts House, the oldest still-standing two-story residence in Arkansas ?
text: Did you know that after manual typewriter expert Martin Tytell accidentally inverted a key on a Burmese language typewriter he built, it became the standard even in Burma ?
text: Did you know that after 175 years in operation the Red Brick School , one of the oldest single room school houses in the U.S., closed in 2008?
text: Did you know that molecular farming is a type of genetic modification involving the use of plants , and potentially also animals , as the means to produce compounds of therapeutic value?
text: Did you know that Tang Dynasty eunuch Cheng Yuanzhen , after his fall from power, entered the capital Chang'an disguised as a woman to plot his return to power?
text: Did you know that the French one-act opera Le trompeur trompé had its première given as 14 Thermidor an VIII, since the French Republican Calendar was still in use?
text: Did you know that Buddy Fletcher ′s first experience with risk-reward tradeoff came from developing a strategy to bet on dog racing ?
text: Did you know that Vrav , a village in the northwest of Bulgaria , is inhabited by "wet Vlachs "?
text: Did you know that despite having excruciating pain in her back and knees because of the disease achondroplasia , Miranda Uhl went on to win a gold medal in the individual medley at the 2008 Summer Paralympics ?
text: Did you know that Twin-T topology can be used as a substitute for bridge topology in many electronic circuits when grounding is an issue?
text: Did you know that HMS Vidal , the ship sent to annexe Rockall , was named after Alexander Vidal , the first man to properly survey the islet ?
text: Did you know that Alex Garcia , driver of No. 98 in the NASCAR Nationwide Series , is the first Venezuelan to race in NASCAR ?
text: Did you know that the 2008 Indian film Ru Ba Ru is the cinematic adaptation of the Hollywood film If Only ?
text: Did you know that a splash dam was a temporary wooden dam used to raise the water level in streams to float logs downstream to sawmills ?
text: Did you know that Svetozar Delić was a mayor of Zagreb , Croatia for three days, but it took three more days to remove him from the city hall?
text: Did you know that singer Eva Tanguay was reportedly booed off the stage in her first appearance at Cohoes Music Hall in New York ?
text: Did you know that geophysicist Geoffrey Ballard , acknowledged as the father of the fuel cell industry, was named a "Hero for the Planet" by Time in 1999?
text: Did you know that the International High School in Paterson, New Jersey , was built with triple-pane windows to keep out noise from Interstate 80 , located just 20 feet (6 m) from the school building?
text: Did you know that Tang Dynasty imperial prince Li Chenghong carried the title of emperor for 12 days after invading Tufan forces captured the capital Chang'an and declared him emperor?
text: Did you know that startup airline Miwok Airways has been described as competing not with other carriers but the roads of Southern California ?
text: Did you know that one of the characters from the Hindi film Summer 2007 was inspired by Muhammad Yunus , the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize winner?
text: Did you know that cargo ship SS West Nohno was the first American merchant vessel to be armed for service in the Atlantic during World War II ?
text: Did you know that the expensive and ornate Royal Aquarium , which opened in London in 1876 to present art exhibits and classical music , soon turned to circus acts and music hall instead?
text: Did you know that American soap magnate Benjamin T. Babbitt held over 100 patents ?
text: Did you know that political opportunity theory explains the rise and decline of social movements by their dependence on outside, political factors?
text: Did you know that George Halpin 's Bull Wall and Bull Island , engineering works at the mouth of the River Liffey , enabled deep-draught ships to use the port of Dublin , Ireland for the first time?
text: Did you know that museum examples of sprang were misidentified as lace or knitting until archaeological discoveries brought public attention to the overlooked needlework technique?
text: Did you know that Paul "Bear" Bryant won his final game as a head coach in the 1982 Liberty Bowl , his 323rd victory?
text: Did you know that after the death of Consort Dugu , the favorite concubine of Emperor Daizong of Tang , the emperor was so saddened that he kept her casket in the palace and did not bury her until almost three years later?
text: Did you know that a logocracy is government through words?
text: Did you know that the Portland, Oregon magazine Portland Monthly was founded in 2003 and by 2006 was the seventh-largest city magazine in the United States ?
text: Did you know that from its creation in 1963 to its closure in about 2000, the Scottish Tartans Society recorded and documented about 2,700 different designs of tartan ?
text: Did you know that besides hosting the canoeing and rowing events for the 1964 Summer Olympics , Lake Sagami is also a popular recreational fishing area for black bass ?
text: Did you know that though the 2004 miniseries Category 6: Day of Destruction earned CBS the highest ratings of any show during the November sweeps week , it was generally panned by critics?
text: Did you know that artist Derek Davis met his wife at a sanatorium for tuberculosis patients?
text: Did you know that Temple Beth Israel in Eugene, Oregon was attacked by neo-Nazi members of the Volksfront in 1994 and 2002?
text: Did you know that the winning players in cricket 's Stanford Super Series take home one million dollars each, while the losing players walk away with nothing?
text: Did you know that Slipknot has been nominated for six Grammy Awards and won their first for Best Metal Performance with " Before I Forget " in 2006?
text: Did you know that George Greville, 2nd Earl of Warwick was baptized at St. Mary's , Warwick , with King George I standing as his sponsor?
text: Did you know that the seven-mile-long Ventura Mission Aqueduct , built between 1780 and 1815, has been called "an engineering marvel"?
text: Did you know that the phrase " lipstick on a pig " may have its origins in the 18th-century expression "A hog in armour is still but a hog"?
text: Did you know that the Naval Cathedral in Kronstadt , completed in 1913, was equipped with a centralised vacuum cleaning system?
text: Did you know that Whitney Darrow, Jr. had over 1,500 of his cartoons published in The New Yorker during a career with the magazine that lasted almost 50 years?
text: Did you know that underwater visibility can reach 80 metres (260 ft) in the limestone sinkholes of Australia 's Ewens Ponds ?
text: Did you know that Sudanese journalist Mahjoub Mohamed Salih was awarded the 2005 Golden Pen of Freedom , despite being from "one of the most restrictive media environments on the African continent"?
text: Did you know that the 1756 Fleming Castle is the oldest house in Flemington, New Jersey , but longstanding traditions that it housed a tavern visited by George Washington have been disproven?
text: Did you know that Egan-Sud, Quebec , a community of 508 people, is home to the largest ice rink in its regional county municipality ?
text: Did you know that Sir John Stonor was one of only two Chief Justices of the Common Pleas to be appointed on three separate occasions?
text: Did you know that the earliest fault-tolerant computer was built by Antonín Svoboda in 1951?
text: Did you know that the 1828 Hunterdon County Courthouse was the site of the "Trial of the Century" of Bruno Hauptmann for his role in the Lindbergh kidnapping and murder?
text: Did you know that there were at least five attempts by imposters to pretend to be Empress Dowager Shen , who disappeared during the Anshi Rebellion ?
text: Did you know that the Religion Newswriters Association awards scholarships for full-time journalists who wish to take college courses on religion ?
text: Did you know that London 's Novelty Theatre , built in 1882, changed its name at least five times in its first dozen years of operation?
text: Did you know that American swimmer Cynthia "Sippy" Woodhead received three gold medals and two silver medals at the 1978 World Aquatics Championships , when she was only 14 years old?
text: Did you know that 1944 was called the " year of ten victories " by the Soviet Union for ten battles the Red Army won during that year?
text: Did you know that the Indian horror film 1920 was filmed at a Yorkshire mansion that was rumored to be haunted by the spirit of a carpenter?
text: Did you know that a deductive fallacy is an argument that has true premises, but may still have a false conclusion ?
text: Did you know that Iyothee Thass was a Dalit Buddhist leader from the Indian state of Tamil Nadu after whom a hospital was named?
text: Did you know that McDynamo won the Grade 1 Breeders' Cup Grand National Steeplechase in five consecutive years, with the fifth win coming as a 10-year-old, the oldest horse running that day?
text: Did you know that in 2001, the French government announced the appointment of Henri Loyrette as the new director of the Louvre Museum ?
text: Did you know that the island of Hsiao Liuchiu off Taiwan was the scene of a massacre of 300 native inhabitants by Dutch soldiers and allied Formosan warriors in 1636?
text: Did you know that Claude Kirkpatrick , Louisiana public works director in the 1960s, joined with state officials in Texas to establish Toledo Bend Reservoir on the common Sabine River border?
text: Did you know that in the Germanic pagan Merseburg Incantation , Sinthgunt and the personified sun , Sunna , are sisters using charms to heal a wounded horse?
text: Did you know that screenwriter Dorothy Ann Purser was nominated for seven awards and won two, including a Daytime Emmy ?
text: Did you know that crime in the Maldives includes drug trafficking , which according to the UNODC is a side effect of the nation's increased exposure to the outside world?
text: Did you know that placekicker Kevin Kelly is the all-time leading scorer for the Penn State Nittany Lions ?
text: Did you know that the World War I diaries Tommy's War only came to be published after an appearance on the TV programme Antiques Roadshow ?
text: Did you know that following a 17-year campaign, Vijayabahu I successfully reunited Sri Lanka in 1070, for the first time in more than a century?
text: Did you know that the Mount Edziza volcanic complex in northern British Columbia , Canada was a source of obsidian for Tahltan people and its lava plateau has been an important cultural resource?
text: Did you know that the Fall Creek Massacre led to the first white man receiving capital punishment for the killing of a Native American ?
text: Did you know that the hair salon chain First Choice Haircutters helped launch the career of soap opera star Jacqueline MacInnes Wood ?
text: Did you know that Patrol Squadron Eight (VP-8) became the first operational P-3 Orion squadron in the United States Navy during October 1962?
text: Did you know that medieval donor portraits often showed the donor of a religious image at a completely different scale to the main figures?
text: Did you know that English-born architect John C. Austin designed several landmark buildings in Southern California , including the Griffith Observatory ?
text: Did you know that according to Interpol data, the rate of rape in Qatar decreased by 67.1% between 1995 and 1999, while the rate of robbery increased by 100%?
text: Did you know that Isis Tsunami is the first transwoman to be amongst the 14 finalists on the fashion model reality series America's Next Top Model ?
text: Did you know that the Kłodzko Fortress in present-day southwestern Poland took the Austrians and the Prussians 200 years to build?
text: Did you know that only three out of 32 football matches in the Third Round of the FA Cup 1962-63 were played on their scheduled day because of the Big Freeze of 1963 ?
text: Did you know  that Liberian Supreme Court Chief Justice Johnnie Lewis was rescued from an angry mob after a car he was in hit and killed a pedestrian?
text: Did you know that the Tampa Bay Storm has appeared in the AFL playoffs 19 of their 22 years?
text: Did you know that in 1862, Phan Thanh Gian said that France 's "wealth and strength are beyond description"?
text: Did you know  that two trains returning from the 1851 Chester races lost adhesion in Sutton Tunnel , and a third crashed into them, killing nine and injuring up to 40 people?
text: Did you know that Charlotte Guillard was the first European woman printer of history?
text: Did you know that the WWF Championship match at WrestleMania IX was between Bret Hart and Yokozuna , but Hulk Hogan won the title?
text: Did you know that the 1968 triple trawler tragedy caused the deaths of all but one member of the crews of three fishing vessels from Kingston upon Hull ?
text: Did you know that Charlie Nothing created the dingulator ?
text: Did you know that in his book The War Within: A Secret White House History (2006-2008) , author Bob Woodward alleged that a secret killing program was used by American forces in Iraq ?
text: Did you know that the Manchester and Bolton Railway was originally proposed as a replacement for the Manchester Bolton & Bury Canal but was eventually built alongside it instead?
text: Did you know that linguist Asim Peco is an expert in the language of eastern Herzegovina ?
text: Did you know that prior to statehood, negotiations with Indians in Indiana included 13 separate treaties purchasing 2,500,000 acres for white settlement?
text: Did you know that Sumerian Farmer's Almanac is the first farmer's almanac on record?
text: Did you know that the Nazi operation Gross Aktion resulted in the destruction of the Jewish population of Warsaw ?
text: Did you know that investor and philanthropist Ray Chambers helped bring the New Jersey Devils to Newark, New Jersey and was named as the United Nations Secretary-General 's Special Envoy for Malaria?
text: Did you know that the Glacial Gardens of Interstate Park in Minnesota and Wisconsin contain the greatest concentration of glacial potholes in the world?
text: Did you know that Philippe Suchard was not only the creator of Milka chocolates , but also had an influence on the discovery of a La Tène settlement dating back to 450 BC? NOTA BENE: Milka was created after the death of Philippe Suchard
text: Did you know that the Mobile Tigers , a Negro League baseball team , paid pitcher Satchel Paige "$1 when the gate was good and a keg of lemonade when it wasn't"?
text: Did you know that Quebec nationalist Walter-Patrice O'Leary was the younger brother of CBC correspondent Émile-Dostaler O'Leary ?
text: Did you know that the odour of the poisonous mushroom Inocybe geophylla has been likened to semen ?
text: Did you know that Tang Dynasty chancellor Diwu Qi ordered the minting of coins valued significantly higher than ordinary coins and was blamed for the subsequent rise in food prices ?
text: Did you know that We Need Each Other was the first Sanctus Real album to feature guest musicians?
text: Did you know that the 1961 German film The Miracle of Father Malachia was finished only seven hours before its premiere at the Berlin International Film Festival ?
text: Did you know that Louisiana piano player Allen "Puddler" Harris , whose career spanned five decades, was inducted into the Delta Music Museum Hall of Fame?
text: Did you know that a new Louvre museum is scheduled to be completed by 2012 in Abu Dhabi , UAE ?
text: Did you know that City of Peking and City of Tokio were the largest ships ever built in the United States upon their completion in 1875?
text: Did you know that actress Marion Terry , a younger sister of Dame Ellen Terry , appeared in over 125 chief roles?
text: Did you know that Bridge Island Meadows is an inaccessible nature reserve on the floodplains of the Charles River in Massachusetts ?
text: Did you know that composer Tom Scott also had a career as a folk singer known as "The American Troubador"?
text: Did you know that the Palestinians consider the East Jerusalem neighbourhood of Jabel Mukaber as the site of their future capital ?
text: Did you know that the mouth of the disgraced Tang Dynasty chancellor Yuan Zai was stuffed with  socks by the executioner when he was executed for corruption?
text: Did you know that by the time the Wye Valley Railway opened in 1876, a Welsh wireworks it was intended to serve had already closed down?
text: Did you know that Russian doctor and serial killer Maxim Petrov was caught because he took the names of his twelve victims all from the same list of patients, enabling police to predict whom he would kill next?
text: Did you know that The Owl Service , a 1969 TV adaptation of the novel , was the first fully-scripted colour production by Granada Television ?
text: Did you know that in his memoirs of the Battle of Waterloo , William Leeke claimed that the 52nd Light Infantry singlehandedly defeated 10,000 of Napoleon 's Imperial Guard ?
text: Did you know that Congress Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania served as the capitol building of the United States from 1790 to 1800?
text: Did you know that Daniel Dobbins was in charge of the building of the ships that Oliver Hazard Perry commanded in the Battle of Lake Erie ?
text: Did you know that screenwriter Melissa Rosenberg originally aspired to be a dancer, and ended up writing the 2006 dance film Step Up ?
text: Did you know that J. D. Chakravarthy 's Telugu film Homam drew inspiration from Martin Scorsese 's Oscar -winning film The Departed ?
text: Did you know that Charlie Grant nearly broke baseball's color barrier decades before Jackie Robinson when John McGraw disguised him as a Native American named "Charlie Tokohama"?
text: Did you know that Chicago 's defunct 58th station must be kept in operable condition because federal funds were used in its renovation?
text: Did you know that German-Swedish driver Freddy Kottulinsky , who won the 1980 Dakar Rally , was hired only a few days before the start?
text: Did you know that the Carnegie Art Museum in Oxnard, California originally opened in 1907 as a Carnegie library ?
text: Did you know that Armenian merchant Coja Petrus Uscan built the first ever bridge across the Adyar River in Madras ?
text: Did you know that the readership of the new Dow Jones & Company magazine, WSJ. , has average household assets of US$ 2.9 million?
text: Did you know that after Edwin E. Moise retired from mathematics research he became a literary critic of 19th-century English poetry ?
text: Did you know that cardanol , a substance obtained from a byproduct of cashew nut processing, is used to make vehicle brakes and coatings for concrete floors?
text: Did you know that the main candidate to replace Pope Callistus III died two days before the beginning of the papal conclave, 1458 ?
text: Did you know that the headmaster of Shardlow Hall , a school in Derbyshire , played soccer for England ?
text: Did you know that Tang Dynasty judge Pei Zunqing spared a group of soldiers accused of treason by pointing out they had neither money nor talent to carry out a rebellion?
text: Did you know that the Coast Range Arc is the largest continental volcanic arc fossil in the world and the largest granite projection in North America ?
text: Did you know that though small in size, the underground drug market in Bahrain is growing?
text: Did you know that Richard Lawson , a British Army officer, was nicknamed "Dick the Lionheart" for his work in the United Nations peacekeeping force during the Congo Crisis ?
text: Did you know that Stephen Fry's Podgrams are one of the top five most downloaded podcasts from iTunes ?
text: Did you know that Cyclone Graham dropped 163 millimetres (6.4 in) of rain at Telfer, Australia in one night, over half the community's annual average?
text: Did you know that musicians have recorded in the Widow Jane Mine at the Snyder Estate Natural Cement Historic District in Rosendale, New York because of the acoustics ?
text: Did you know that according to legend, the eponymous ancestor of Clan McCorquodale was awarded lands for recovering the decapitated head of Alpin , father of Kenneth MacAlpin , King of Scots ?
text: Did you know that in Personnel Administrator MA v. Feeney , the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that giving preference to veterans in hiring decisions did not unconstitutionally discriminate against women ?
text: Did you know that out of all the Norwegian TV guest appearances during the first half of 2007, Linn Skåber had the most?
text: Did you know that memiljeon is a type of Korean pancake , made with buckwheat flour and vegetables?
text: Did you know that as special counsel investigating loans made to Jimmy Carter , Paul Curran became the first lawyer to question a sitting U.S. President under oath in an investigation of that president?
text: Did you know that Washington State Route 339 is actually a ferry route?
text: Did you know that British cyclist Simon Richardson won two gold medals and one silver at the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing ?
text: Did you know that the National Cartoon Museum wandered between four homes before its acquisition by Ohio State University ?
text: Did you know that Charles II of England attended the 1667 premiere of the tragicomedy The Maiden Queen ?
text: Did you know that accountant Jack Liebowitz was not only joint owner of All-American Publications that created Wonder Woman and Green Lantern , but his companies also distributed Mad and Playboy ?
text: Did you know that roughly 300 fish species, three of which are not named, swim in the rivers of Cameroon 's Boumba Bek National Park ?
text: Did you know that the science -based panel game The What in the World? Quiz guest stars appearances from The Naked Scientists ?
text: Did you know that Steve Foley was the replacement drummer for The Replacements when Chris Mars left the band in 1990?
text: Did you know that the Wawer massacre around Christmas 1939 in occupied Poland is considered one of the first large massacres of Polish civilians by Nazi Germany ?
text: Did you know that John C. Ostlund , a Wyoming state senator and 1978 gubernatorial nominee , lost his eyesight to diabetes and penned his autobiography to benefit the training of seeing-eye dogs ?
text: Did you know that the Dublin Virginal Manuscript represents an important step in the development of secular English keyboard music ?
text: Did you know that Singaporean Paralympian Theresa Goh , who is paraplegic , won six gold medals in swimming at the 2003 ISMWSF World Wheelchair Games in 2003?
text: Did you know that comics artist Ham Fisher worked as a salesman for the McNaught Syndicate before they started distributing his comic strip Joe Palooka ?
text: Did you know that Beecher's Handmade Cheese is an artisan cheese maker in Seattle, Washington that is known for mixing combinations of cheese cultures ?
text: Did you know that actresses Jane Fonda and Liv Ullman were involved in a campaign for the release of refusenik Ida Nudel from exile?
text: Did you know that among the effects of Tropical Storm Allison in Texas was severe damage to the Baylor College of Medicine , including the loss of 60,000 tumor samples?
text: Did you know that Ralph Sandwich served as the justice at the 1305 trial of William Wallace ?
text: Did you know that there are more than 1,200 historical markers in Ohio ?
text: Did you know that Parithimar Kalaignar is best remembered for his sustained efforts to establish Tamil as a classical language ?
text: Did you know that the 2005 book Baseball Before We Knew It brought new evidence of the origins of baseball into play?
text: Did you know that King Rother is the earliest known Spielmannsdichtung heroic epic of wandering minstrels ?
text: Did you know that poet David Wagoner 's novel The Escape Artist was made into a film by executive producer Francis Ford Coppola ?
text: Did you know that the Arafura Swamp in Australia , the filming location for Ten Canoes , is an important breeding site for crocodiles ?
text: Did you know that "Woolwick" was a fictional name for Kent, Ohio in the writing of Lucien Price ?
text: Did you know that the Marsala Ship is the first warship known from archeological evidence?
text: Did you know that Greg Urwin was the first Australian and first non- Pacific Islander to become Secretary General of the Pacific Islands Forum ?
text: Did you know that MV Westward was modeled after a salmon cannery tender ?
text: Did you know that Tang Dynasty chancellor Li Kui had once referred to future chancellor Yuan Zai as the son of a water deer or a rodent , drawing Yuan's eventual retaliation?
text: Did you know that " Spirit in the Night " was the first of three songs from Bruce Springsteen 's debut album Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J. that was covered by Manfred Mann's Earth Band ?
text: Did you know that Giovanni Soro was likely the Western world 's first great cryptanalyst ?
text: Did you know that the marriage of Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson took place at Château de Candé ?
text: Did you know that although Kim Oler and Alison Hubbard's musical tracks for Little Women won the Richard Rodgers Award in 1998, those tracks did not make it to Broadway ?
text: Did you know that the Statesman Journal is the second oldest newspaper in Oregon ?
text: Did you know that in Norse mythology , Valhalla is an enormous hall located in Asgard where those that die in combat go upon death ?
text: Did you know that adults in septic shock who have low blood pressure despite adequate resuscitation can be treated with hydrocortisone if critical illness-related corticosteroid insufficiency is suspected?
text: Did you know that Mike Francesa of Mike'd Up , who co-hosted his last sports radio program, said he wouldn't have a co-host on this one?
text: Did you know that Allied aircraft, including the one that located the Bismarck , were permitted to fly across neutral Irish territory using the Donegal Corridor ?
text: Did you know that author - illustrator Polly Dunbar has been selected by The Times as one of the ten best new picture book illustrators of 2008?
text: Did you know that although Mackerel scad are found from Nova Scotia to Rio de Janeiro , they do not seem common in the Gulf of Mexico ?
text: Did you know that after the Battle of Chmielnik , a major victory for the Mongols during their invasion of Poland , inhabitants of Kraków abandoned their city?
text: Did you know that the Power Memorial Academy basketball team, led by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar in 1964, was named "The #1 High School Team of The Century" by National Sports Writers?
text: Did you know that, because Li Xian would not flatter him, the Tang Dynasty chancellor Yang Guozhong blamed torrential rains near the capital Chang'an on divine displeasure with Li Xian?
text: Did you know that Roy Staiger played for both New York Major League Baseball teams, the Mets and Yankees , but for no other Major League teams?
text: Did you know that the child duo known as the Aquatots planned to swim the English Channel in 1951 but were forbidden from attempting by both the British and French governments?
text: Did you know that the village of Anasartha , located in Western Syria and today known as Khanasser, derived its water supply until 1975 from a 12-kilometre (7.5 mi) long Byzantine -era qanat ?
text: Did you know that the Far Hills Races has hosted the Breeders' Cup Grade 1 Steeplechase , which has been called "steeplechasing's richest race"?
text: Did you know that Welsh comedienne Gladys Morgan was renowned for her toothless, ear-splitting, infectious laugh?
text: Did you know that on January 13 , 1964 , a B-52 bomber containing two 24- megaton nuclear weapons crashed on Savage Mountain in Garrett County, Maryland ?
text: Did you know that Mohan Krishna Indraganti 's 2008 Telugu film Ashta Chamma was inspired by Oscar Wilde 's play The Importance of Being Earnest ?
text: Did you know that Admiral Sir Francis Geary was a noted bellringer at St Bride's Church , London ?
text: Did you know that the Jewish community dates its presence in Eišiškės , Lithuania , back to the year 1097 or 1171?
text: Did you know that Daily Mail journalist Rodney Hallworth was questioned during the 1956 police investigation of suspected serial killer John Bodkin Adams for leaking information to two MPs ?
text: Did you know that the Footprints of Eve are the oldest known footprints of an anatomically modern human ?
text: Did you know that Rory and Paddy's Great British Adventure featured Rory McGrath and Paddy McGuinness in "strange but quintessentially British sporting events", such as cheese rolling and bog snorkelling ?
text: Did you know that Norwegian evangelical preacher Aril Edvardsen performed in a country music band in his youth?
text: Did you know that the beoseon are socks worn with hanbok , Korean traditional clothing?
text: Did you know that between 1221 and 1244, Robert of Lexinton served as a justice on Eyre on 64 occasions, acting as senior justice for 31?
text: Did you know that Gerald Champion Regional Medical Center in Alamogordo is the first military/civilian hospital in the United States ?
text: Did you know that Captain Benjamin Hallowell gave his friend Lord Nelson a coffin made from the French flagship destroyed at the Battle of the Nile ?
text: Did you know that the 2007 film The Pool was directed by Milwaukee -based Chris Smith in Hindi , a language alien to him?
text: Did you know that cricketer Major Leo Bennett was meant to have been made captain of Surrey in 1946, but a different Major Bennett was offered the position by mistake?
text: Did you know that the molybdenum mines in Knaben , Norway , were the target of a massive B-17 bombing raid in 1943?
text: Did you know that Brooke Miller , a racing cyclist and the US national criterium and road race champion , has a Ph.D in evolutionary biology ?
text: Did you know that Timothy Creasey , a British Army officer, was commander of the Sultan of Oman's Forces for three years before serving in Northern Ireland ?
text: Did you know that Archibald Russell was Bristol Aeroplane Company 's Chief Designer during his 44-year career?
text: Did you knowthat Lonar Lake was created by the only hypervelocity meteoritic impact crater on basalt rock?
text: Did you know that the critical editions of the Classics produced by Giovanni Andrea Bussi between 1468 and 1472 were criticised at the time for inaccuracy?
text: Did you know that the Gloster Grouse biplane , developed in 1922, never saw active service in the Royal Air Force ?
text: Did you know that James Lingan , officer of the Continental Army in the American Revolutionary War , was beaten to death by a mob in Baltimore , Maryland for defending the freedom of the press ?
text: Did you know that Dark They Were, and Golden-Eyed was the largest science fiction bookshop and comic store in Europe during the 1970s?
text: Did you know that Samuel Johnson 's London , his first major work , contains the beginnings of his views on literature , politics and ethics ?
text: Did you know that the Delta Music Museum in Ferriday, Louisiana , honors 16 musicians of the Mississippi delta ?
text: Did you know that Afro-Brazilian Culture is prominent in regions like Bahia, Brazil , where over 80 percent of people are of African descent ?
text: Did you know that Daniel Kievsky was the first Russian travel-writer ?
text: Did you know that in 1902, Isabel Gonzalez , a single Puerto Rican mother, challenged the United States government and helped pave the way for all Puerto Ricans to be recognized as U.S. citizens?
text: Did you know that Hindu deity Chinnamasta and Buddhist deity Vajrayogini are often depicted as drinking blood from the kapala ?
text: Did you know that Czech poet František Gellner disappeared in Galicia with the outbreak of World War I in 1914 and was never found?
text: Did you know that the 110-foot (34 m) fresco The Age of Reptiles is the largest painting on the subject of natural history in the world?
text: Did you know that Lü Yin grew up in poverty and would not have been able to become a Tang chancellor without the financial support from his father-in-law?
text: Did you know that Julius Caesar is believed to have taken a nap under the Caesarsboom yew in West Flanders ?
text: Did you know that Erkki Nghimtina , Minister of Mines and Energy of Namibia , was only reprimanded for firing a gun shot near a relative after the teenager joined the opposition Rally for Democracy and Progress ?
text: Did you know that in 1998, English writer Joyce Dunbar cycled across Cuba to raise funds for the National Deaf Children's Society , on behalf of a people with hearing impairment ?
text: Did you know that the Croatian eurodance group Colonia won the first annual Eurodance contest in 2001 with its song "Za tvoje snene oči"?
text: Did you know that the replica of a Hadrosaurus unearthed in New Jersey in 1858 was displayed at the New Jersey State Museum for decades with an incorrect skull?
text: Did you know that the 2008 Kerry bogslide was described as "one of the most frightening and overwhelming events ever witnessed"?
text: Did you know that La púrpura de la rosa is the first known opera to be written in and performed in the Americas ?
text: Did you know that The Bostonian Society was formed in 1881 to prevent the Old State House , site of the Boston Massacre , from being moved to Chicago ?
text: Did you know that CBC correspondent Émile-Dostaler O'Leary founded the International Francophone Press Union ?
text: Did you know that the Voith Corporate Group claims that its own Voith Maxima 40CC locomotive is the world's most powerful diesel-hydraulic locomotive ?
text: Did you know that Peel Park in England was the first of three public parks to be opened for the people of Manchester and Salford in 1846?
text: Did you know that Hawaiian cultural advocate Bob Worthington served as the honorary consul of the Cook Islands to the United States ?
text: Did you know that in the 1890s, Moloundou , Cameroon was considered "one of the richest rubber areas of Africa "?
text: Did you know that the Seimas of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania was officially abolished by the Union of Lublin in 1569?
text: Did you know that the monkey "Marcel" on the TV sitcom Friends was a White-headed Capuchin ?
text: Did you know that Norwegian television presenter Dan Børge Akerø started his career as a research fellow at the International Peace Research Institute, Oslo ?
text: Did you know that the 12th-century St Wulfran's Church, Ovingdean is one of only two extant churches in England with that dedication ?
text: Did you know that despite having immigrated from Poland , Dahn Ben-Amotz was often considered the epitome of the concept of the Israeli native " Sabra "?
text: Did you know that incidents of violent crime against foreign citizens are rare in Kuwait ?
text: Did you know that American writer and former Montague Bookmill proprietor David Lovelace published a 2008 memoir titled Scattershot: My Bipolar Family , about his family's battles with bipolar disorder ?
text: Did you know that Bronco Lane presented his severed toes to the National Army Museum ?
text: Did you know that Tang Dynasty official Miao Jinqing was demoted after he ranked a colleague's son, Zhang Shi, first in the imperial examinations despite Zhang's lack of knowledge?
text: Did you know that The Portraitist is a 2005 Polish television documentary film about the life and work of Wilhelm Brasse , the famous "photographer of Auschwitz "?
text: Did you know that Archibald Russell was Bristol Aeroplane Company 's Chief Designer for 25 years of his 44-year career?
text: Did you know that the massacre of the Acqui Division provided the historical context for the novel Captain Corelli's Mandolin , which later became a Hollywood film ?
text: Did you know that Hungarian fencer Pal Szekeres is the only person ever to have won medals at both the Olympic and the Paralympic Games ?
text: Did you know that Sylvester O'Halloran suggested in a 1793 book on external injuries to the head that Irish fights were often caused by drinking too much whiskey ?
text: Did you know that Commodore Nutt grew only 37 inches (94 cm) tall?
text: Did you know that Tang Dynasty chancellor Li Lin was removed from office due to the political machinations of the Emperor 's wife and the eunuch Li Fuguo ?
text: Did you know that Gibraltar 's St. Michael's Cave , prepared as an emergency hospital during World War II , at present contains an auditorium and receives almost a million visitors a year?
text: Did you know that Casey Nicholaw received three Tony Award nominations for his first two shows on Broadway as a choreographer and director: The Drowsy Chaperone (2006) and Monty Python's Spamalot (2005)?
text: Did you know that composer William Turner was kicked out of the Chapel Royal choir when his voice broke?
text: Did you know that Simon of Pattishall , Chief Justice of the Common Pleas between 1190 and 1217, had two sons, both of whom became royal administrators themselves?
text: Did you know that two-thirds of pioneers arriving in Indiana from Louisville ] used the Buffalo Trace to settle the state?
text: Did you know that there are stories of Metacomet , sachem of the Wampanoag Indians , meeting with allies near Bear's Den Falls to plan attacks on Massachusetts towns during King Philip's War ?
text: Did you know that Tang Dynasty chancellor Wang Yu was credited with incorporating the custom of burning joss paper into imperial worship ceremonies?
text: Did you know that the 2008 Indian film Tahaan was the first to be filmed in the strife-torn region of Kashmir after a gap of 18 years?
text: Did you know that Alliance for Open Society International , operator of drug rehabilitation programs for heroin addicts in Central Asia , sued the U.S. Government over the anti-prostitution pledge ?
text: Did you know that Australia 's second largest gold mine is located in Telfer, Western Australia ?
text: Did you know that Gilbert of Preston , despite serving as a royal justice since 1240, was not given a regular salary until 1253?
text: Did you know that the 1964 Liberty Bowl was played in the Atlantic City Convention Hall , making it the first indoor game telecast nationwide in the U.S.?
text: Did you know that when one of the rare recordings of " Stormy Weather " by The Five Sharps , a 78 rpm record, was broken, the blame was placed on a pet raccoon that supposedly sat on it?
text: Did you know that the new antiretroviral drug apricitabine was invented at a Canadian drug manufacturer , which was bought by the British company Shire plc , who sold the drug's development rights to an Australian company?
text: Did you know that Dick Woodson was the first baseball player to invoke the free agency clause ?
text: Did you know that Dante Alighieri shared a five-part poetic correspondence, called the duol d'amore , with Dante da Maiano ?
text: Did you know that creationist museums present a young Earth creationist view that Earth and life were created c. 6,000 years ago in six days?
text: Did you know that the Tang Dynasty chancellor Zhang Gao , prior to his civil service career, would attend feasts held by officials just for the purpose of getting drunk?
text: Did you know that the North Bloomfield Mining and Gravel Company was the defendant in the first environmental lawsuit in US legal history ?
text: Did you know that despite total defeat of the Polish forces in the Mongol invasion of Poland , the Mongols did not occupy the country?
text: Did you know that Google Chrome , a new web browser developed by Google , was launched with a comic by Scott McCloud ?
text: Did you know that the episodes of the BBC 7 sitcom Knocker have titles such as "Privinvasionacy", "Obselejectivitysence" and "Confidentialitydence"?
text: Did you know that Russian philologist Mikhail Gasparov was also a poet , but only one of his poems was published during his lifetime?
text: Did you know that worldwide resistance to the antibiotic mecillinam is remarkably low, even though it has been widely used as a treatment for urinary tract infections since the 1970s?
text: Did you know that the French ship Le Foudroyant was captured in 1758 and fought against the French Navy as HMS Foudroyant ?
text: Did you know that Hong Kong has the second highest life expectancy in the world?
text: Did you know that in Buckeye Check Cashing, Inc. v. Cardegna , the U.S. Supreme Court held that challenges to the legality of a contract must be heard by an arbitrator if the contract has an arbitration clause ?
text: Did you know that the name of Lithuania was mentioned for the first time in the Annals of Quedlinburg ?
text: Did you know that the Detroit Tigers gave the Williamsport Tigers not only their name, but also grandstand seats taken from Briggs Field in Detroit for their minor league baseball stadium in Williamsport, Pennsylvania ?
text: Did you know that Ossie Brown , a criminal defense lawyer and former district attorney in Baton Rouge , composed his high school alma mater ?
text: Did you know that Dwyer's Snake is only weakly venomous and coils into a ball when threatened?
text: Did you know that Thomas Farnolls Pritchard , an architect from Shrewsbury , England, designed the first iron bridge in the world?
text: Did you know that Rich Schroeppel , the inventor of the Hasty Pudding cipher , offers a bottle of Dom Pérignon for research on the cipher?
text: Did you know that Prince Charles was created Prince of Wales and Earl of Chester in 1958, though his actual investiture did not take place until 1 July 1969 ?
text: Did you know that Les Whitt , director of the Zoological Park in Alexandria, Louisiana , won the Dunbar Civil Service Award for his innovation and success in expanding the zoo ?
text: Did you know that a parade honoring Jack Benny was held at the Azusa Civic Center , commemorating his running gag in which a conductor called out, "Train leaving now for Anaheim, Azusa and Cucamonga"?
text: Did you know that Martin of Pattishall , Chief Justice of the Common Pleas , had served as clerk to the previous Chief Justice, and that Pattishall's clerk in turn rose to this position?
text: Did you know that the National Council of Women of Canada helped create the Victorian Order of Nurses , the Children's Aid Society , and played a vital role in declaring that women were persons ?
text: Did you know that, according to legend, each of the 66 men who laid the tile of the South Dakota State Capitol placed a blue stone in the floor as a personal signature?
text: Did you know that the Louis Arthur Grimes School of Law at the University of Liberia in Monrovia is the only law school in the nation of Liberia ?
text: Did you know that after Yuri Titov had received nine Olympic medals in artistic gymnastics from three Olympics, he served 20 years as president of the International Gymnastics Federation ?
text: Did you know that the 2008 drama Whistleblower focused on the irregular number of caesarian hysterectomies carried out by Dr Michael Neary in an Irish hospital?
text: Did you know that in 1929, the American cargo ship SS West Alsek became the first steamship powered solely by pulverized coal-fired boilers to cross the Atlantic Ocean ?
text: Did you know that France-Burma relations started as early as the 18th century?
text: Did you know that Henry Clay Fry was the first to imitate cut glass from pressed blanks?
text: Did you know that the Pomona City Stables , which housed 22 horses upon its completion in 1909, is reported to be one of the oldest municipal buildings still extant in California ?
text: Did you know that medievalist Aron Gurevich was the first in Soviet Union to defend a doctoral thesis on Viking history?
text: Did you know that visitors to the Old Talbott Tavern in Bardstown, Kentucky's historic district included King Louis-Philippe of France and Queen Marie of Romania ?
text: Did you know that I. M. Pei 's IBM Somers Office Complex has been described as a "futuristic fortress" as a result of its unique modernist architecture ?
text: Did you know that in 2002, theft was the most common crime in Saudi Arabia , accounting for 47% of the nation's crime?
text: Did you know that Charles William Bardeen , who took positions of national leadership in the National Education Association , was the grandfather of two-time Nobel Prize -winning physicist John Bardeen ?
text: Did you know that, to mark the 350th anniversary of Oliver Cromwell 's death, RTÉ and the History Channel created the multipart documentary Cromwell in Ireland ?
text: Did you know that the Copper Country Strike of 1913-1914 was a major labor strike action affecting all copper mines in the Copper Country of Michigan ?
text: Did you know that in 1482, Bartolomé Ramos de Pareja proposed a new musical temperament that achieved more consonant thirds and sixths ?
text: Did you know that Charles deGravelles and his wife, Virginia, of Lafayette , Louisiana , were in 1968 the only married couple in history to serve together on the Republican National Committee ?
text: Did you know that in the 1980s, over 35,000 Vietnamese people worked in Bulgaria ?
text: Did you know that Vernon Erskine-Crum was appointed General Officer Commanding of the British Army in Northern Ireland in 1971, during the Troubles , but was relieved within a month after suffering a heart attack ?
text: Did you know that the two attacks on Nauru Island during December 1940 were the greatest success achieved by German auxiliary cruisers in the Pacific Ocean during World War II ?
text: Did you know that Marie Ficarra is the first Coalition party woman to have been both a member of the upper and lower houses of the New South Wales Parliament ?
text: Did you know that although not a member of Nasjonal Samling , Kjeld Stub Irgens was asked by Vidkun Quisling in 1940 to persuade Haakon VII of Norway to abdicate and name Quisling Prime Minister?
text: Did you know that the larger and more distinctively coloured female Black-breasted Buttonquail mates with multiple male quails, who in turn incubate the eggs?
text: Did you know that opera singer Nell Rankin used her pet jaguar , King Tut, as a negotiating tool at the Metropolitan Opera ?
text: Did you know that the Angle, Pembrokeshire lifeboat received silver medals in 1878 rescuing the crew of the whisky laden Loch Shiel sinking off Thorn Island ?
text: Did you know that the Peshekee River Bridge was the first trunk line bridge designed by the Michigan State Highway Department?
text: Did you know that the title of the 1999 film One Day in the Life of Andrei Arsenevich is a play on Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 's novella One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich ?
text: Did you know that the longest debate in the Australian Senate was over laws to change the Wik decision ?
text: Did you know that William A. Eddy , president of Hobart College and William Smith College (1936–42), was a recipient of the Navy Cross in World War I and instrumental in the creation of the CIA in the late 1940s?
text: Did you know that General Sir Harry Tuzo ordered Operation Motorman to take back control of Irish Republican controlled areas of Northern Ireland ?
text: Did you know that Evan Royster was the Penn State Nittany Lions starting running back for the team that let head coach Joe Paterno tie the record for all-time NCAA Division I victories?
text: Did you know that the Phillips Mansion , described as having been built in the "Classic Haunted Mansion" style, was the home of the richest man in Los Angeles County from 1875 to 1900?
text: Did you know that the Lester Apartments in Seattle , originally intended to be the world's largest brothel , were destroyed when a B-50 Superfortress crashed into it in 1951?
text: Did you know that both Christians and Muslims ritually sacrifice lambs during the Feast of Saint George in the Palestinian town of al-Khader near Bethlehem ?
text: Did you know that Stanmer Churchyard contains a rare vertical donkey-wheel , an ancient mechanism for drawing water from the ground?
text: Did you know that U.S. Route 41 in Michigan including the Portage Lake Lift Bridge was the state's first Michigan Heritage Route in 1995?
text: Did you know that the Central Branch designated by the Pacific Railway Act of 1862 had a hanging end at Waterville, Kansas when the Eastern Division was rerouted to serve Denver ?
text: Did you know that the 2008 Hindi comedy film C Kkompany marks the directorial debut of scriptwriter Sachin Yardi ?
text: Did you know that Jerry Shea was the first player to achieve all four rugby scoring methods— try , conversion, penalty goal and drop goal—in a single international match?
text: Did you know that in the 1996 case Smiley v. Citibank , the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a regulation of the Comptroller of Currency declaring that late fees and other credit card penalties are interest payments?
text: Did you know that Cyril Tenison White , who authored a 42-part series on weeds , was awarded the Mueller Medal for his important contributions to Australian botanical science ?
text: Did you know that horseshoeing was among the courses taught at the Masonic University ?
text: Did you know that Frederick Mann was the first Australian -born Chief Justice of Victoria ?
text: Did you know that the International Francophone Press Union , the world's oldest Francophone organisation, has more than 3,000 members in 110 countries?
text: Did you know that Republican U.S. vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin attended Wasilla High School ?
text: Did you know that Production I.G staff was responsible for creating the PlayStation 2 game Surveillance Kanshisha , despite being developed and published by Sony Computer Entertainment ?
text: Did you know that Norwegian comedian Per Inge Torkelsen caused an international stir when as a 15-year old he placed several ancient Chinese coins in a local excavation field?
text: Did you know that swimmer Trischa Zorn of the United States is the most successful Paralympian with more than 40 gold medals reported?
text: Did you know that the Harris Theater opened to serve small performance groups such as the Luna Negra Dance Theater ?
text: Did you know that French ethnographer Henri Lhote believed that prehistoric rock art in the Sahara Desert was evidence of ancient astronauts ?
text: Did you know that while chartered to the United States Army during World War I , SS Kentuckian 's Naval Armed Guard gun crew destroyed a running German torpedo headed for another ship?
text: Did you know that the Aegean pottery known as Minyan ware was also referred to as "Orchomenos Ware" by contemporaries of Heinrich Schliemann ?
text: Did you know that the Mount Rennie rape case in the 1880s in Sydney , Australia was likened by one newspaper to the British oppression of the Irish?
text: Did you know that Franciscan friar Matfre Ermengau (d. 1322) was also a troubadour , encyclopaedist , and master of laws ?
text: Did you know that the only salut à refrains composed by a named trouvère was by Philippe de Rémi (died 1265) ?
text: Did you know that Fred L. Schiele , who managed Edwin Edwards ' Concordia Parish gubernatorial campaign in 1971–1972, was appointed by Edwards in 1973 as the parish sheriff to succeed the scandal-plagued Noah W. Cross ?
text: Did you know that historian Willard Hughes Rollings published a study of the Osage Nation entitled Unaffected by the Gospel: Osage Resistance to the Christian Invasion ?
text: Did you know that professional wrestler Antonio Pugliese was a fan of opera music and would sing opera before his matches?
text: Did you know that despite jointly murdering at least 1,000 inmates at Auschwitz , former SS - Unterscharführer Oswald Kaduk earned the nickname "Papa Kaduk" among patients at the hospital he worked at after the war ?
text: Did you know that the Drummond Nature Reserve named after botanist James Drummond has 439 species of vascular plants ?
text: Did you know that after winning a 2004 Olympic bronze medal , Cuban hammer thrower Yunaika Crawford was not in the top ten at the 2005 World Championships ?
text: Did you know that Fitchburg State College researchers in Lancaster, Massachusetts used artificial lights to mimic the bioluminescence of fireflies on Dexter Drumlin ?
text: Did you know that, besides books, in 1950 the Seattle Public Library had over 27,000 pictures and 3,500 phonograph records in its circulating collection?
text: Did you know that Alaska 's First Gentleman Todd Palin won the world's longest snowmobile race four times?
text: Did you know that it is accepted that Samuel Johnson had Tourette syndrome , after a 1967 diagnosis, a condition unknown during Johnson's lifetime ?
text: Did you know that a 20-day study reported by BirdLife International discovered 265 species of birds in Nki National Park ?
text: Did you know that Liberia College in the country of Liberia was authorized by the legislature in 1851, but did not start classes until 1863?
text: Did you know that tennis player Julie Coin , ranked 188th, defeated the #1 woman player Ana Ivanović in the second round of the 2008 US Open ?
text: Did you know that the Palomares Adobe , Casa Alvarado and Casa Primera , built between 1837 and 1855, provided a stagecoach stop, chapel, school and early homes for the 22,000-acre Rancho San Jose in Los Angeles County ?
text: Did you know that despite being the fifth fastest European of all time in the 100 metres , Ronald Pognon failed to reach the semifinals in his event at the 2008 Olympic Games ?
text: Did you know that Willamette Valley Medical Center in McMinnville, Oregon , is the only hospital in the county seat of Yamhill County ?
text: Did you know that a riot erupted at the opening night of Adelia , an opera by Gaetano Donizetti ,  because an unscrupulous promoter sold too many tickets?
text: Did you know that the first tour of the touring company of Chicago 's Black Ensemble Theater Company included a four-week run at the Apollo Theater ?
text: Did you know that despite the Vickers V-1000 jet airliner 's being canceled, it was so admired that the Boeing 707 and Douglas DC-8 were re-designed to compare with its six-abreast seating?
text: Did you know that the conspirators for the 1810 Argentine Independence movement's May Revolution had their secret gatherings at Hipólito Vieytes ′s soap factory in Buenos Aires ?
text: Did you know that the only surviving salut d'amor by a woman ( Azalais d'Altier ) was addressed to a woman, probably Clara d'Anduza ?
text: Did you know that architect Ivan Rerberg despised the title of architect, and preferred to sign his work " Engineer Rerberg"?
text: Did you know that the periodical Owl and Weasel played a key role in the development of the roleplaying and wargaming hobby industries in the UK ?
text: Did you know that the cancellation of the Skybolt missile in 1962 led to a major crisis in US-UK relations, which was solved by personal meetings and the signing of what is today known as the Nassau agreement ?
text: Did you know that Mandume Ya Ndemufayo was the last king of the Kwanyama people of Angola and Namibia ?
text: Did you know that the Abergil Crime Family is facing charges of money laundering , murder and drug trafficking , both in Israel and the United States ?
text: Did you know that Lucian Freud described the Titian paintings Diana and Acteon and Diana and Callisto as "simply the most beautiful pictures in the world"?
text: Did you know that Major League Baseball pitcher Frank Barnes scored three runs despite only having one hit in ten career at bats and having no walks , no hit by pitches and one caught stealing ?
text: Did you know that the state of Yan ended when its general Li Huaixian turned against its emperor Shi Chaoyi and forced him to commit suicide?
text: Did you know that Paulo Zucula headed the National Disasters Management Institute before he replaced Antonio Munguambe as Mozambique 's Minister of Transport and Communication in March 2008?
text: Did you know that Philadelphia Phillies prospect Andrew Carpenter pitched a perfect game against the Fort Myers Miracle in 2007 ?
text: Did you know that the book Help at Any Cost triggered hearings by the United States House Committee on Education and Labor into behavior modification techniques used by the tough love teen industry?
text: Did you know that while she was working in the billing department of a clinical laboratory firm, Lexie Fyfe became a professional wrestler at the invitation of a co-worker?
text: Did you know that 16th-century noblewoman Marguerite de La Rocque was marooned on an island in the Gulf of St Lawrence by her relative, the privateer de Roberval , as punishment for an affair?
text: Did you know that Charles Van Riper , a severe stutterer , was a pioneer in the development of speech pathology ?
text: Did you know that Mexican soprano Ángela Peralta once sang Donizetti 's opera Maria di Rohan in a theatre improvised from a disused sand pit in La Paz, Baja California ?
text: Did you know that Czesława Kwoka , a Polish Catholic child victim of the Holocaust , was the subject of a 2007 award-winning mixed-media presentation?
text: Did you know that Rob Johnson was one of four of The Star-Ledger's top 10 prep soccer players of the 1990s to play pro for the hometown MetroStars / Red Bulls ?
text: Did you know that Springfield Park was created in 1905 from the grounds of three London houses, one of which is now a cafe?
text: Did you know that the forking lemma is a lemma in cryptography first used to prove the security of a digital signature scheme in the random oracle model?
text: Did you know that the village of Strezimirovci has been bisected by the Serbian – Bulgarian border since 1919?
text: Did you know that Charles Pearson was Mentioned in Despatches 10 times for actions during the Anglo-Zulu War ?
text: Did you know that the Greek Orthodox Monastery of Temptation near Jericho was built around a cave said to be where Jesus spent forty days and nights fasting and meditating while being tempted by Satan ?
text: Did you know that blacklisted U.S. film director John Berry worked without screen credit on the 1951 Laurel and Hardy film Atoll K ?
text: Did you know that coach builder Jim Frecklington had to mortgage his house to pay for the estimated £620,000 building costs of the State Coach Britannia ?
text: Did you know that Selmo Cikotić was recently appointed Defence Minister for Bosnia and Herzegovina ?
text: Did you know that Florida 's City College paid US $11.2 million to acquire its current Fort Lauderdale campus?
text: Did you know that after six terms in the Norwegian Parliament , Olav Akselsen will take over as director of the Norwegian Maritime Directorate from October 2009?
text: Did you know that the town of Bezdonys was the site of one of the most daring and successful train robberies in history?
text: Did you know that although fortuneteller Madam Marie was "finally busted" in Bruce Springsteen 's " 4th of July, Asbury Park (Sandy) ", she was never arrested in real life?
text: Did you know that Charles Ndaxu Namoloh , now a member of the National Assembly of Namibia , used the nom de guerre of " Ho Chi Minh " during the Namibian War of Independence ?
text: Did you know that the Mangrove monitor possesses salt-excreting nasal glands , which enabled them to reach new islands and aided in its dispersal across thousands of miles throughout the South Pacific?
text: Did you know that when 15-year-old Jordon Mutch was first selected to play for Birmingham City F.C. , he had to be withdrawn only hours before the match because of child protection regulations?
text: Did you know that Rob Stewart made the 2007 documentary film Sharkwater after learning that longline fishing in the Galapagos Islands was killing the sharks?
text: Did you know that newspaper publisher Katherine Graham 's difficulties with her company's ownership of the Trenton Times led her to call it her "Vietnam"?
text: Did you know that Hall of Fame bowler Patty Costello did not begin bowling until she was sixteen?
text: Did you know that the Focometer was created in order to provide rural or economically disadvantaged populations the ability to measure spherical refractive errors ?
text: Did you know that the Rose Museum 's collection includes the trowel that was used to lay the cornerstone of Carnegie Hall ?
text: Did you know that Yang Jia , a Chinese man sentenced to death for murdering six policemen, is being hailed as a hero on Chinese internet forums?
text: Did you know that Malcolm Fraser , a severe stutterer from an early age, founded the Stuttering Foundation of America and gave it most of its US$10 million endowment ?
text: Did you know that The17 , a choir founded by former pop star Bill Drummond , never records its music, or performs for audiences?
text: Did you know that Lonnie Wright played football for two seasons for the Denver Broncos and switched to playing basketball for the Denver Rockets just weeks after the 1967 football season ended?
text: Did you know that California Gold Rush -era bandit and highwayman Jack Powers , after being run out of several cities by vigilantes , was murdered in Mexico and his body fed to hogs?
text: Did you know that the architect of Communal House of the Textile Institute in Moscow , a student dormitory completed in 1931, proposed centralized sedation of students at night?
text: Did you know that members of the Chinese Hand Laundry Alliance faced surveillance , interrogation , and harassment by the FBI ?
text: Did you know that major crimes in the United Arab Emirates include trafficking of young boys who are used as camel jockeys ?
text: Did you know that the first passenger elevator in an American hotel was installed in the Fifth Avenue Hotel facing Madison Square , New York City in 1859?
text: Did you know that although some believe that there is no cure for stuttering , others say that it can be eliminated with stuttering therapy at early age?
text: Did you know that the "K. Bridge" mentioned in the opening scene of Dostoevsky 's novel Crime and Punishment is the Kokushkin Bridge in Saint Petersburg ?
text: Did you know that Alice Arden and her son Russ Hodge are the only mother–son Olympians in American history?
text: Did you know that a play by Tekle Hawariat Tekle Mariyam using animal characters to criticize the Ethiopian court prompted Empress Zewditu to ban all theatre in the country?
text: Did you know that according to People v. Beardsley , it is not against the U.S. law for a man to not help his drinking partner, a woman who is not his wife, when she is dying of an overdose?
text: Did you know that the first woman to be executed in Western Australia murdered John Hurford ?
text: Did you know that the Ozette Indian Village Archeological Site contained over 55,000 artifacts from a Makah village inundated by a mudslide ?
text: Did you know that American lexicographer Robert L. Chapman added ecosystem and yuppie to Roget's Thesaurus ?
text: Did you know that the slimy spike-cap mushroom Gomphidius glutinosus is edible and useful for soups and stews once the layer of slime is removed?
text: Did you know that the only season that Eldridge Recasner ranked in the top ten in the NBA for three point shot field goal percentage was not his best season?
text: Did you know that when the Disley Tunnel was constructed, the navvies used 24 simultaneous working faces?
text: Did you know that biochemist Harvey Itano , who worked with Linus Pauling to determine the molecular basis of sickle cell disease , was the first Japanese American admitted to the National Academy of Sciences ?
text: Did you know that in 1881 in the village of Bakhshali in northern Pakistan , the Bakhshali manuscript , the oldest surviving example of Indian mathematics , was discovered written on birch bark ?
text: Did you know that American cargo ship SS Iowan rammed and sank two ships, one on each coast of the United States?
text: Did you know that Jōmon Sugi , located on the island of Yakushima , is the oldest specimen of Cryptomeria japonica and the largest conifer in Japan ?
text: Did you know that Sir Ian Freeland was General Officer Commanding Northern Ireland when the British Army was drawn into the beginning of the Troubles ?
text: Did you know that Harold Lloyd's Estate , called "the most impressive movie star's estate ever created," included a golf course and a 900-foot canoe stream?
text: Did you know that Georg Prahl Harbitz , a priest by education, served as President of the Norwegian Parliament for ten terms?
text: Did you know that soprano Adele Addison stepped into the role of Bess in the 1969 film version of Gershwin 's Porgy and Bess as a last-minute replacement of a singer who sounded too shrill?
text: Did you know that Matsukata Kojiro , president of Kawasaki Shipbuilding Corporation , implemented Japan's first eight-hour work day in 1919, after a strike by 30,000 workers threatened to bring down the government?
text: Did you know that thousands of Flat Daddies , life-size photo cutouts of American soldiers deployed in Iraq or Afghanistan , have been created to help families cope with their deployment?
text: Did you know that until his appointment as Demonstrator in Practical Anatomy at Queen's College, Birmingham , Balthazar Foster had given up hopes of a medical career, and had even applied for a naval commission?
text: Did you know that Dick Jones , a Wyoming Republican state legislator and gubernatorial nominee , also operated a trucking company which at its peak served thirty-eight states?
text: Did you know that Cooleemee , a plantation house in North Carolina, was built from approximately 300,000 bricks made on site?
text: Did you know that former Mayor of Auckland Colin Kay was also twice the New Zealand triple jump champion?
text: Did you know that Abandon 's music was first discovered when a record label manager was dining and got distracted by hearing them play a concert next door?
text: Did you know that phasmophobia is a fear of ghosts ?
text: Did you know that Holton Windmill did not have a fantail when it was a working mill?
text: Did you know that Halloween in the Castro , San Francisco 's gay village , started as a children's costume contest in 1948 and was attended by 500,000 people in 2002?
text: Did you know that Lars Andreas Oftedahl , member of the Norwegian Constituent Assembly in 1814, was also a renowned speaker?
text: Did you know that the Mother Shipton Moth is named after the likeness of the legendary witch Ursula Southeil on its wings?
text: Did you know that the high school quiz competition Brain Game has aired on local television in Indianapolis since 1972?
text: Did you know that in The Fairy's Dilemma , Victorian dramatist W. S. Gilbert parodied the harlequinade , a genre that had fascinated him since childhood?
text: Did you know that the wife of sawmill owner Julius Nicolai Jacobsen was said to haunt their house in Fredrikstad, Norway after she died?
text: Did you know that some types of vampire moth can bite and drink human blood ?
text: Did you know that Utu Abe Malae and the American Samoa Power Authority received an award from the Mayor of Honolulu for their policies promoting sustainable development ?
text: Did you know that millions of children participate in Halloween -related fundraising events for Trick-or-Treat for UNICEF , a program that has raised over US$188 million worldwide?
text: Did you know that using the memory of his late sister as motivation, Tyler Sloan made his National Hockey League debut on October 21 after seven years in the minor leagues?
text: Did you know that Harold Owen claimed the ghost of his brother, the poet Wilfred Owen , appeared to him on board HMS Astraea a week after Wilfred's death?
text: Did you know that candy pumpkins were placed on the seat of every U.S. Senator by the candy industry in 1985 in hopes of extending U.S. daylight saving time to cover Halloween?
text: Did you know that the Convention on the Continental Shelf codified international law relating to continental shelves during the first United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea ?
text: Did you know that The Witchery of Archery , written by Maurice Thompson in 1878, was the first book about hunting with a bow ever published?
text: Did you know that David J. Skal and Elias Savada wrote the first book-length biography of Tod Browning , who directed the films Dracula and Freaks ?
text: Did you know that the Marinens Flyvebaatfabrikk M.F.10 seaplane was a military trainer of the Royal Norwegian Navy Air Service , and served from 1929 until the 1940 German invasion of Norway ?
text: Did you know that the Dictum of Kenilworth agreed on Halloween 1266 created a reconciliation between the Barons and Henry III of England ?
text: Did you know that the Northern River Street Historic District is a well-preserved transitional neighborhood between the industrial and commercial areas of Troy, New York ?
text: Did you know that the Norwegian film Cold Prey 2 was the sequel to what was called "the best slasher flick " of 2006?
text: Did you know that Luther Prentice Bradley , a Union brigadier general in the American Civil War , was severely wounded during the Battle of Chickamauga where he commanded a brigade?
text: Did you know that Captain Abu Raed , Jordan 's submission to the 81st Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film , is the first Jordanian feature film made in over 50 years?
text: Did you know that three of the last four U.S. Presidents have been left-handed , as are both major party candidates for the 2008 election ?
text: Did you know that the Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs was re-established on 15 March 1922 , less than a month after Egypt was officially granted independence from Britain ?
text: Did you know that as founder and former chairman of Primedia , Bill Reilly built a publishing firm with more than 200 magazines , including American Baby , National Hog Farmer , Chicago and New York ?
text: Did you know that the proposed Macau security law would make treason punishable by a maximum of 25 years in prison?
text: Did you know that during the Vietnam War , the North Vietnamese Army and Viet Cong hung buckets of mud with urine in trees to thwart American people sniffers ?
text: Did you know that key relevance is a locksmithing term that refers to the measurable difference between an original key and a copy made of that key?
text: Did you know that the winner of the 2008 United States House of Representatives election in the Northern Mariana Islands will be the very first Congressional delegate from the Northern Mariana Islands ?
text: Did you know that despite being built for the Spanish Navy , the frigate Santa Margarita spent just five years in service with them, but served for nearly 60 years with the Royal Navy ?
text: Did you know that among Lexington, Kentucky's contributions to the American Civil War were residents U.S. First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln and Confederate leaders John C. Breckinridge and John Hunt Morgan ?
text: Did you know that Vince Naimoli , founding owner of the Tampa Bay Rays , contributed US$1 million in 2007 for the construction of a baseball complex at Fairleigh Dickinson University in Teaneck, New Jersey ?
text: Did you know that Põhja-Kõrvemaa Nature Reserve , now a protected area in Estonia , used to be proving grounds used by the Red Army for military training during the Soviet Era ?
text: Did you know that British actress Glynis Johns appeared in the short-lived 1963 CBS sitcom called Glynis , in which she played a mystery writer, with Keith Andes as her lawyer -husband?
text: Did you know that during the 1990 ethnic clashes in Osh between ethnic Kyrgyz and Uzbeks , 5,000 crimes were committed?
text: Did you know that no football team in Berlin was declared the winner of the Berlin Cup in 1969 because the penalty shootout was not yet introduced and the finalists were unable to schedule a re-match after a draw ?
text: Did you know that 2.2 million people participated in the U.S. 2008 Kids Pick the President event held by the Nickelodeon TV network?
text: Did you know that Süreyya Opera House in Istanbul , built in 1927 as a musical theater but used all the time as a cinema, gained its intended status only in 2007 after redevelopment?
text: Did you know that mitochondrial DNA testing of the 300 to 500-year-old Canadian "iceman" mummy Kwäday Dän Ts’ìnchi and current clans of British Columbia revealed 17 living relatives?
text: Did you know that the Apple Valley Airport near Buxton, Oregon , was built by Portland, Oregon TV personality Ramblin' Rod Anders ?
text: Did you know that the Global Health Council is an international membership alliance of public health professionals in more than 100 countries?
text: Did you know that the Russellville Historic District in Kentucky , U.S. is the site of the first documented bank robbery of Jesse James ?
text: Did you know that Russian -born Israeli mathematician Aryeh Dvoretzky is the first graduate of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem to become a full professor there?
text: Did you know that in 1953, the U.S. Army used human subjects to test decontamination methods for chemical and biological agents as part of Operation Top Hat ?
text: Did you know that painter Henrietta Rae burned Valentine Prinsep 's hat in revenge for his smearing one of her works with cobalt blue paint?
text: Did you know that Amrutanjan Healthcare Limited , an Indian pharmaceutical company specializing in Ayurvedic balm for headaches and cold , was founded by freedom fighter Kasinadhuni Nageswara Rao ?
text: Did you know that between 1874 and 1884, Norwegian politician Jens Holmboe was the head of four different government ministries , each on at least two occasions, the tenure ending with impeachment ?
text: Did you know that the Delmar post office is the only one of the 13 in New York designed by Louis Simon in the Colonial Revival style without a cupola ?
text: Did you know that an intense rivalry between composers Francisco Asenjo Barbieri and Emilio Arrieta helped rekindle the popularity of Spanish opera during the mid 19th century?
text: Did you know that USS Philippines (CB-4) and USS Puerto Rico (CB-5) were scheduled to be the fourth and fifth of six Alaska -class "large cruisers" of the U.S. Navy , but were canceled prior to construction?
text: Did you know that tin(IV) fluoride , a chemical compound of tin and fluorine , is used in toothpaste to prevent dental decay ?
text: Did you know that the largest group of Asian residents in Germany are Vietnamese , totalling 83,526 people as of 2004?
text: Did you know that Against All Odds is a video game developed by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees designed to teach players about the plight of refugees ?
text: Did you know that Dorothy Miner was acknowledged as the person "who helped establish the legal right to designate landmarks" in the U.S. for her role in Penn Central Transportation Co. v. New York City ?
text: Did you know that at any given time, the United States holds as many as 31,000 illegal immigrants in administrative detention while they await removal proceedings?
text: Did you know that in Anyang, Gyeonggi , South Korea , a road sings the nursery rhyme " Mary Had a Little Lamb " to passing car drivers on the road?
text: Did you know that at the time of her completion in 1918, American cargo ship West Lianga held the distinction of being both the fastest- launched and the fastest-constructed ocean-going ship in the world?
text: Did you know that production on the 1969 Fred Zinnemann film Man's Fate was canceled one week before shooting was to begin?
text: Did you know that Australia Post took over the postal service on Christmas Island in 1993 and promised to issue Christmas stamps ?
text: Did you know that artist Henrietta Ward claimed she gave her husband's friend Wilkie Collins the idea for his novel The Woman In White ?
text: Did you know that in 874, Byzantine admiral Niketas Oryphas hauled his ships overland over the Isthmus of Corinth in order to catch an Arab fleet by surprise and defeated it?
text: Did you know that Stanley Kubrick dismissed his 1953 film Fear and Desire as "a bumbling amateur film exercise"?
text: Did you know that in 1930/31, John Stephenson made 117 runs and took six wickets for the Europeans cricket team to guide the European side to an innings victory against the Indians cricket team ?
text: Did you know that Nettleship-Falls syndrome , the most common type of ocular albinism , may be caused by recessive mutations in the X chromosome ?
text: Did you know that in 1961, Bishop of Hamar Kristian Schjelderup ordained the first female priest in the Church of Norway ?
text: Did you know that many of the tendencies within anarchism criticized by Chaz Bufe in his pamphlet Listen, Anarchist! are thought to have stemmed from the movement's individualist , Stirnerite wing?
text: Did you know that Julio A. Garcia , called a "legal lion" by his hometown newspaper in Laredo , Texas , once broke a bone while passionately defending a client in court?
text: Did you know that up to 78 percent of 1,016 leading political figures in post-Soviet Russia have served previously in organizations affiliated with Russian intelligence services like the KGB ?
text: Did you know that former Ohio House of Representatives minority whip and current U.S. House candidate Steve Driehaus coordinated the largest U.S. professional exchange program with the "new" South Africa ?
text: Did you know that the Tamil film Meera based on the life of poetess - saint Mirabai was filmed at the actual places which Mirabai had visited on her pilgrimage?
text: Did you know that Ariel Sharon named his former party, Shlomtzion , after the newly born daughter of Amos Keinan , co-founder of the Israeli – Palestinian Council?
text: Did you know that Marinens Flyvebaatfabrikk M.F.12 , the last trainer of the Royal Norwegian Navy Air Service and the intended replacement of the 1920s Marinens Flyvebaatfabrikk M.F.8 , was only built in a prototype before the German invasion of Norway halted work?
text: Did you know that before becoming mayor of Seattle in 1912, George F. Cotterill had been instrumental in platting its piers, building its sewers , and innovating its mode of financing major utility projects?
text: Did you know that operatic soprano Celestina Boninsegna sang her first leading role at the unusually young age of 15?
text: Did you know that the unusual breeding season of the Monteiro's Storm-petrel was the first clue that led to the cryptic species ' recent discovery by scientists?
text: Did you know that in the eight seasons he played Major League Baseball , Harry Schafer played for six teams that won the league championship?
text: Did you know that the cost of operating mine ventilation fans can account for one-third of the entire electrical power cost for a typical underground mine ?
text: Did you know that prior to Singapore 's first Formula One race in 2008 , the last running of the Singapore Grand Prix was as a non-championship race run to Australian Formula Two rules in 1973 ?
text: Did you know that because Seattle 's Central Waterfront piers are not zoned as residential, the 1998 shoot of The Real World: Seattle officially treated Pier 70 as a 24-hour-a-day film set?
text: Did you know that women baring their breasts in front of higher class people and deities was considered a sign of respect in the 19th-century Travancore kingdom in South India ?
text: Did you know that Mike and Janet Huckabee became the first governor and spouse to run on the same ballot for state office in the 2002 Arkansas gubernatorial election ?
text: Did you know that Tang Dynasty chancellor Qiao Lin was both born and executed on the seventh day of the seventh month of the Chinese lunar calendar ?
text: Did you know that three of the Texas Rangers ' Opening Day starting pitchers have been inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum ?
text: Did you know that Indian indigenous tribal journalist and activist Dayamani Barla once worked as a maid to pay her way through University?
text: Did you know that although the freshwater snail Valvata piscinalis is widely distributed in some parts of North America where it is non-indigenous , it is endangered in some of its native areas?
text: Did you know that Anna Elinor Jones was jailed as an accused Confederate spy due to being involved in a dispute between Union generals George Armstrong Custer and H. Judson Kilpatrick ?
text: Did you know that Morelia spilota spilota , the Diamond python, of East Gippsland live at the highest altitude of any python ?
text: Did you know that best-selling author Laurence Leamer , author of The Kennedy Women , spent two years in Peru while researching the cocaine trade for his book Assignment ?
text: Did you know that the Supreme Court of Israel judge Yoel Zussman was awarded the Israel Prize in 1975 for his contributions to Israeli law ?
text: Did you know that Paal Brekke has been called the father of modernism in Norway ?
text: Did you know that the five-eyed predator Alalcomenaeus is one of the most common fossils in the Cambrian Burgess shale ?
text: Did you know that the Tang Dynasty official Cui Youfu had a dispute with his superior Chang Gun over whether a mother cat allowing a mouse to live with her constituted a sign of good fortune or ill fortune?
text: Did you know that USS Samoa (CB-6) was scheduled to be the last of six Alaska -class "large cruisers" built for the United States Navy , but was canceled prior to construction?
text: Did you know that during the interwar period chief of the U.S. Army's Chemical Warfare Service Amos Fries viewed chemical disarmament as a Communist plot?
text: Did you know that The Best Little Girl in the World , a 1981 film about anorexia nervosa , was back in the news in 1983 when performer Karen Carpenter died of complications from the same disorder?
text: Did you know that former Major League Baseball pitcher Juan Marichal made ten Opening Day starts for the San Francisco Giants between 1962 and 1973?
text: Did you know that the earliest references to the hill station of Kodaikanal had been made in works of Sangam literature ?
text: Did you know that a former White House media manager was hired to make the political television comedy Running Mates more realistic?
text: Did you know that Bloodhound SSC is a pencil-shaped car powered by a jet engine and a rocket being designed to travel at approximately 1,000 miles per hour (1,600 km/h )?
text: Did you know that Mickey Rooney won a Golden Globe Award in 1964 for his ABC sitcom Mickey ?
text: Did you know that Australian politician Greg Pearce was a director of Clean Up the World ?
text: Did you know that the world's shortest scheduled air route once was from Perth Airport to Rottnest Island Airport , a distance of 32 kilometres (20 mi)?
text: Did you know that actress-singer Anabela , who represented Portugal in the 1993 Eurovision Song Contest , just finished playing the role of Maria von Trapp in the Portuguese production of The Sound of Music ?
text: Did you know that U.S. Route 151 stretches 108 miles (174 km) across Iowa to the Wisconsin border?
text: Did you know that former Governor of the Bank of England and Lord Mayor of London Sir Richard Levett 's country house, Kew Palace , was subsequently sold to the Royal Family ?
text: Did you know that American Student Assistance is the oldest guarantor of student loans in the United States?
text: Did you know that Moshe Landau , who presided over the Eichmann Trial as a Supreme Court of Israel judge, later headed a commission that investigated the Israel Security Agency ?
text: Did you know that although the official government death toll of the 1997 Ardabil earthquake was given as 965 deaths, rescue workers at the scene claimed it was as much as three times higher?
text: Did you know that Tang Dynasty general Li Na was, at one point, reduced to tears when he was under siege by another general, Liu Qia?
text: Did you know that four of the candidates for either Governor or Lt. Governor in the 2008 American Samoa gubernatorial elections have ancestral ties to the Manu'a Islands ?
text: Did you know that charges of firebombing department stores against four Ecuadoreans were dismissed after the NYPD corroborated information first printed in articles by Paul L. Montgomery in The New York Times ?
text: Did you know that the author of Hollywood Undercover posed as an aspiring gay actor while investigating claims of a Church of Scientology "cure" for homosexuality ?
text: Did you know that Gorillaz received four nominations at the 2006 Grammy Awards for their song " Feel Good Inc. ", winning the award for Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals ?
text: Did you know that the Lind Coulee Archaeological Site provided the first evidence of ancient human occupation of Washington , U.S.?
text: Did you know that Ewan Crawford of the Supreme Court of Tasmania is the first Australian chief justice to stop using ceremonial court robes?
text: Did you know that three 1972 Nobel laureates affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania were each awarded an honorary Doctor of Science degree by the university in 1973?
text: Did you know that The Roy Rogers and Dale Evans Show , a western variety and comedy series , was cancelled by ABC in 1962 after 13 weeks?
text: Did you know that Danish -born jurist Bredo Henrik von Munthe af Morgenstierne was disqualified from the Norwegian Parliament in 1824, having previously accepted a personal payment from the King ?
text: Did you know that the rock band Matchbox Twenty received two Grammy Award nominations in 2004?
text: Did you know that the current Lieutenant Governor of American Samoa , Ipulasi Aitofele Sunia , is the younger brother of the late Governor Tauese Sunia ?
text: Did you know that Gwen Stefani 's 2005 song " Hollaback Girl " received four nominations from the MTV Video Music Awards , and won the award for Best Choreography ?
text: Did you know that PK Dwyer is credited with forming the first-ever street band to busk at Pike Place Market , Seattle , Washington ?
text: Did you know that the Biblioburro is a traveling library that distributes books to patrons in the Caribbean Sea hinterlands of Colombia on the backs of two donkeys, Alfa and Beto?
text: Did you know that Moshe Smoira , the first President of the Supreme Court of Israel , was wounded during the First World War while fighting for the German Empire ?
text: Did you know that the Higginbotham's , based in Chennai , is India 's oldest bookstore in existence?
text: Did you know that Bredo Henrik von Munthe af Morgenstierne , professor of law and rector of the University of Oslo , was a nephew of Norwegian Prime Minister Frederik Stang ?
text: Did you know that Akon received five Grammy Award nominations in 2008, including Best Contemporary R&B Album for his album Konvicted ?
text: Did you know that Henry Tsang was the first Asian-Australian to be Deputy Lord Mayor of Sydney ?
text: Did you know that Washington State Route 8 , which currently runs from Elma to Olympia , originally used the current route of U.S. Route 12 from Elma to Grand Mound , from 1964 until 1967?
text: Did you know that exhibition drag racer Wild Bill Shrewsberry drove the drag racing replica of the Batmobile from the popular 1966 American television series Batman ?
text: Did you know that there have been 28 New Zealand police officers killed in the line of duty due to a criminal act?
text: Did you know that the monastic goldsmith Spearhafoc became Bishop-elect of London in 1051, but absconded abroad with a large treasure after his consecration was prevented?
text: Did you know that SearchFox , a website that offers personalized RSS feeds, was co-founded by James Gibbons, a Stanford University professor and former dean of the university's School of Engineering ?
text: Did you know that Bill Cunningham 's lucky street photograph of Greta Garbo in 1978 has led to a 30-year career with The New York Times ?
text: Did you know that the Prussian state railways was the largest German company by number of employees in 1907 ?
text: Did you know that upcoming film Afterwards is shot entirely in English , despite being written and directed by Frenchman Gilles Bourdos , adapted from a French novel and co-produced by a French production company?
text: Did you know that Montserrado County is the smallest county in Liberia , but also the most populous?
text: Did you know that Quốc ngữ, the Vietnamese alphabet in general use today, was established by the 1651 trilingual Latin - Portuguese - Vietnamese dictionary Dictionarium Annamiticum Lusitanum et Latinum ?
text: Did you know that Animerica , launched in 1993, was one of the first American professional anime and manga magazines, and was one of the most popular throughout the 1990s?
text: Did you know that discontinuous gas exchange is a respiratory system used by over 50 species of insect ?
text: Did you know that Rabbi Stephen Wise founded New York City 's Free Synagogue in 1907 after turning down a position at Temple Emanu-El because its trustees would review his sermons?
text: Did you know that the Division of Altenburg in Saxony led to a war between two brothers in 1446 known as the Bruderkrieg , or Saxon Brother War?
text: Did you know that Coolio 's 1995 song " Gangsta's Paradise " was nominated at the Grammy Awards in 1996 for Record of the Year and received the award for Best Rap Solo Performance ?
text: Did you know that three Nobel laureates affiliated with the City University of New York graduated together from the City College of New York in 1937?
text: Did you know that William Shay, a ragman in New Hamburg, New York , built a duplex and warehouse/stable that were unusually ornamented for their time and region?
text: Did you know that Addison Road was the first debut Christian music act to receive a special Napster website stream of their self-titled debut album ?
text: Did you know that Vasilissa ergo gaude , the first known motet by Guillaume Dufay was to celebrate the marriage of princess Cleofa Malatesta to the Byzantine lord of Mistras ?
text: Did you know that M-69 , a state trunkline highway in Michigan , was truncated in 1960 to one-fifth of its length for 33 years?
text: Did you know that Baard Iversen , a businessman based in Trondheim, Norway , was nicknamed "the father of the Dovre Line "?
text: Did you know that former Major League Baseball pitcher Kevin Appier made six consecutive Opening Day starts for the Kansas City Royals from 1992 through 1997?
text: Did you know that Beth Groundwater 's A Real Basket Case was nominated for the Best First Novel Agatha Award in 2007?
text: Did you know that prior to the First Liberian Civil War the Mount Coffee Hydropower Project produced 35 percent of Liberia 's electricity?
text: Did you know that Admiral Henry Wolsey Bayfield had joined the Royal Navy by the age of eleven?
text: Did you know that the United States Department of War was once headquartered in the Munitions Building , a temporary structure built on the National Mall (Potomac Park) in Washington, D.C. ?
text: Did you know that P. Munuswamy Naidu , senior leader of the Justice Party in Madras Presidency , British India , supported the inclusion of Brahmins in the party?
text: Did you know that Fiji has been contributing troops to United Nations peacekeeping operations around the world since 1978?
text: Did you know that The Notorious B.I.G. , who was killed in 1997 from a drive-by shooting , received three Grammy Award nominations posthumously?
text: Did you know that the Goldenface is a small bird with bright plumage that is endemic to the hills and mountains of New Guinea ?
text: Did you know that Bulgarian television director Hacho Boyadzhiev once worked as a stoker on a Beirut – Marseille steamship ?
text: Did you know that only three novels catering to soldiers' sexual proclivities during the American Civil War are known to still exist?
text: Did you know that Cockle Creek in Tasmania is the furthest point one can drive south in Australia ?
text: Did you know that Red Corridor is a term used to describe an impoverished region in the east of India that experiences considerable Naxalite communist militant activity?
text: Did you know that of the twenty-two Nobel laureates affiliated with Washington University in St. Louis , seventeen won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine ?
text: Did you know that Barenaked Ladies has received six Juno Awards from nine nominations , including Group of the Year in 1992?
text: Did you know that Lyceum-The Circle Historic District is where James Meredith 's enrolment on October 1, 1962 integrated Ole Miss and led to riots?
text: Did you know that legend describes Fleance , a minor character in Shakespeare's Macbeth , as an ancestor of King James II of England connecting him to King Arthur ?
text: Did you know that the Newfoundland Butter Company of Newfoundland manufactured only margarine , and was the first margarine manufacturing plant allowed in Canada ?
text: Did you know that Milwaukee Brewers starting pitcher Steve Woodard received a no-decision when a 2000 game against the Cincinnati Reds was called due to rain, making it the first Opening Day tie game since 1965?
text: Did you know that Alexander M. Thompson , a socialist journalist beginning in the 1880s, became the author of lighthearted Edwardian musical comedies in the early years of the 20th century?
text: Did you know that Horatio Nelson 's legacy has been celebrated in books, paintings and monuments ?
text: Did you know that the Bulgarian village and architectural reserve Brashlyan was referenced in the " Strandzha Marseillaise ", the song The Clear Moon is Already Rising ?
text: Did you know that Phoebe Ann Patten , wife of early LDS church leader David W. Patten , served a mission to Tennessee with her husband, an assignment almost unheard of at the time?
text: Did you know that the 1997 Qayen earthquake leveled 700 homes in the village of Abiz alone?
text: Did you know that Tang Dynasty general Tian Xu designated his youngest son Tian Ji'an as his heir because his sonless wife adopted Tian Ji'an, born of a concubine , as her own?
text: Did you know that the re-education through labor penal system in the People's Republic of China was overhauled in 2007?
text: Did you know that by the time of the 1918 Meuse-Argonne Offensive , none of the soldiers of the American 1st Gas Regiment had fired chemical weapons in combat?
text: Did you know that Alfonsina Strada , nicknamed the devil in a dress , was the only female ever to compete in the Giro d'Italia ?
text: Did you know that of the thirty-two Nobel laureates affiliated with Princeton University , seventeen have won the Nobel Prize in Physics ?
text: Did you know that Hesaraghatta Lake is a freshwater lake created from the Arkavathy River in 1894 to produce drinking water for Bangalore ?
text: Did you know that Katy Perry 's song " I Kissed a Girl " was nominated for five awards at the MTV Video Music Awards in 2008?
text: Did you know that William Ernest Cooke was Western Australia 's first government astronomer?
text: Did you know that George M. Keller added US$ 1 per share at the last minute to his company's bid for Gulf Oil , providing the margin needed to win a 1984 bidding war to buy Gulf in a deal valued at US$13.3 billion?
text: Did you know that 2008 Swedish film Let the Right One In was marked for an English language remake to be directed by Matt Reeves before it was even released in U.S. cinemas?
text: Did you know that the bells of Altgeld Hall of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign play a short daily concert at 12:50pm despite not having a complete musical scale ?
text: Did you know that the name of Operation Defensive Shield , launched by the Israel Defense Forces in 2002, was taken from a song written in 1948 by Palmach songwriter Haim Hefer ?
text: Did you know that The Californians , an NBC western which aired from 1957 to 1959, featured later Jeopardy! host Art Fleming as an ambitious lawyer?
text: Did you know that some species of starfish that live in tide pools have the ability to regenerate lost arms and can regrow entire new arms in time?
text: Did you know that Julia Morton was the "poison plant center in south Florida "?
text: Did you know that rock band Guns N' Roses has been nominated for the Best Hard Rock Performance award from the Grammy Awards three times but has never won it?
text: Did you know that in 2007, archaeologists discovered that the Stonehenge Cursus is even older than Stonehenge ?
text: Did you know that in the only inning he pitched in Major League Baseball , Cal Cooper gave up five hits , a walk and five runs for a lifetime ERA of 45.0?
text: Did you know that the Ohio Solicitor General is appointed by the Ohio Attorney General to handle the office's U.S. Supreme Court , Ohio Supreme Court and 6th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals appellate work?
text: Did you knowthat many battles were fought between the Croatian medieval cities of Kaptol and Gradec over ownership of Medveščak creek?
text: Did you know that Arizona Territorial Governor Frederick A. Tritle presented Nevada 's silver spike at the ceremony celebrating completion of the First Transcontinental Railroad ?
text: Did you know that only the hero Sigurd could remove the sword that the god Odin plunged into the huge tree Barnstokkr , which stood in King Völsung 's hall?
text: Did you know that Chuck Riley 's original opponent for the November 2008 election was disqualified for living in the wrong Oregon House District ?
text: Did you know that Jens Boyesen , who in his early twenties was a secretary in the Norwegian resistance movement , later went on to become a top diplomat?
text: Did you know that motivational speaker and self-help author Shiv Khera has started a political party that opposes caste and religion-based reservation in India ?
text: Did you know that the biography My Life in Orange: Growing Up with the Guru recounts a child's experiences growing up in Bhagwah Shree Rajneesh 's Osho movement ?
text: Did you know that modern experts estimate that around 90% of the natural gas discovered in the Indiana Gas Boom was wasted in flambeau displays?
text: Did you know that Sinop Fortress Prison in Turkey , abandoned in 1997, hosts hundreds of thousands tourists yearly thanks to its featuring in popular literature , music and film?
text: Did you know that screenwriter Oliver Crawford worked to remove an anti-Communist loyalty oath from the membership application of the Writers Guild of America , a relic of the Hollywood blacklist era?
text: Did you know that the Vanuatu Labour Party first gained parliamentary representation in 2005, as the Minister for Ni-Vanuatu Business Joshua Kalsakau joined the party?
text: Did you know that Johan Christian Tandberg Castberg , father of Johan Castberg , served three terms in the Norwegian Parliament and was the first editor-in-chief of Varden ?
text: Did you know that Ne-Yo received four nominations at the Grammy Awards in 2008, winning the award for Best Contemporary R&B Album for his album Because of You ?
text: Did you know that three different emperors ruled over the German Empire during 1888, the Year of the Three Emperors ?
text: Did you know that the 15th-century Guillaume Dufay wrote a Lament of the Holy Mother Church of Constantinople for a political show banquet to propagate a crusade against the Ottoman Turks ?
text: Did you know that Robert Van Lierop is an American film director who became one of Vanuatu 's senior diplomats in the 1980s?
text: Did you know that out of the sixteen metropolitan regions of Norway , only one contains more than half a million inhabitants?
text: Did you know that the Kennedy Administration positioned John R. Reilly on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial ready to cut off Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. 's I Have a Dream speech if the rhetoric got too inflammatory?
text: Did you know that Beck has received four nominations for Best Alternative Music Performance at the Grammy Awards but only won it once, in 1997 for the album Odelay ?
text: Did you know that the first keeper of the South Bass Island Light was picked up and committed as insane on the same day that his assistant's suicide was reported in the newspaper?
text: Did you know that all of the known hurricanes in the 1854 Atlantic hurricane season made landfall?
text: Did you know that the 19th-century periodical The Eclectic Review gave its profits to the British and Foreign Bible Society ?
text: Did you know that the first speeding ticket in Norway was given to a tram driver in 1894 on the Briskeby Line ?
text: Did you know that Antonín Dvořák conducted the first performance of his oratorio Saint Ludmila at the Music Festival in Leeds ?
text: Did you know that R. J. Reynolds marketing executive Ralph Seagraves facilitated using red and white paint on American short track's walls to give the illusion of greater speed?
text: Did you know that 3-MCPD , a food contaminant sometimes found in soy sauce and oyster sauce , has male antifertility effects and may be used as a rat chemosterilant ?
text: Did you know that Sir Walter Balfour Barttelot , who was killed in action in World War I , lost his father, Sir Walter George Barttelot in the Boer War , while his son, Sir Walter de Stopham Barttelot was KIA in World War II ?
text: Did you know that Google purchased in-game advertising company Adscape for US$23 million, only five years after the company was founded?
text: Did you know that Norwegian football goalkeeper Jon Knudsen made his national team debut one month before turning 34?
text: Did you know that Window on the Plains Museum in Dumas, Texas , which preserves Panhandle history and culture, was relocated in 2001 from a former hotel to a new building?
text: Did you know that Max Blouw was chosen unanimously by Wilfrid Laurier University 's selection committee to become its seventh president?
text: Did you know that the cable channel Z Music Television was a Christian version of MTV until it closed in 2000?
text: Did you know that Avraham Herzfeld , one of the founders of the Ahdut HaAvoda party and the Histadrut , was known for his habit of bursting into song, sometimes in the middle of his speeches?
text: Did you know that Wilfrid Laurier University 's senate voted unanimously in favor of instating John A. Pollack as the university's seventh chancellor?
text: Did you know that HMS Swiftsure fought at the Nile for the British , and at Trafalgar for the French ?
text: Did you know that BuzzTracker was acquired by Yahoo! to complement its Yahoo! News product, and compete with other news aggregators including Google News and Digg ?
text: Did you know that Todd Friel performed over 1,500 times on stage as a stand-up comedian , mostly in venues in the Minneapolis – Saint Paul area in Minnesota?
text: Did you know that Tropical Storm Rosa was the first eastern North Pacific tropical storm to develop during the month of November since 2000?
text: Did you know that, when Tang Dynasty general Zhang Xiaozhong turned against the warlord Li Weiyue whom he had served and joined the imperial cause, Li killed Zhang's brothers and sons?
text: Did you know that all Nobel laureates in Economics are men?
text: Did you know that while attempting to produce malleable platinum , Pierre-François Chabaneau lost his temper and smashed all of his laboratory equipment?
text: Did you know that towards the end of World War II , British Air Marshal Douglas Evill advocated the bombing of eastern German cities to disrupt Wehrmacht reinforcements moving to the Eastern Front ?
text: Did you know that although the Round scad is considered a good food fish , it is mostly caught for use as bait ?
text: Did you know that mathematician Brian Bowditch wrote a paper solving the angel problem of John Conway , proving that the angel can win and evade the devil in the "angel game"?
text: Did you know that Robert Falcon Scott 's ill-fated 1910–13 Antarctic expedition was the inspiration for two of Doris Lessing 's novels, The Sirian Experiments and The Making of the Representative for Planet 8 ?
text: Did you know that the fourth president of Wilfrid Laurier University , John Angus Weir , helped form the university's undergraduate music therapy program?
text: Did you know that Johan Castberg became the first Norwegian Minister of Social Affairs , only to leave office after one year due to disagreements with Prime Minister Gunnar Knudsen ?
text: Did you know that the Ashtamudi Lake is the second largest and deepest wetland ecosystem in Kerala , India ?
text: Did you know that the Laughing Baby , a YouTube viral video which has expanded into a worldwide internet phenomenon , has been viewed by over 65 million people including Queen Elizabeth II ?
text: Did you know that a siruv is a contempt of court order issued by a Jewish rabbinical court that can exclude people who do not observe the court's orders from participation in religious services?
text: Did you know that The Golden Fleece , written in 1628 by Sir William Vaughan while at his colony New Cambriol , was a fanciful attempt to galvanise his colonists into hard work?
text: Did you know that ImageAmerica provided Google Earth with high resolution black and white images of New Orleans immediately after the events of Hurricane Katrina ?
text: Did you know that the arrival of Cuban doctors to Kiribati is credited with reducing the child mortality rate in Kiribati by 80%?
text: Did you know that the houses built by Abraham and Adolph Brower in New Hamburg, New York have matching porch columns and front doorways?
text: Did you know that Richard Marson , former chief editor of the BBC 's Blue Peter also worked freelance for such companies as Disney , Planet 24 and LWT ?
text: Did you know that the 1937 Tamil film Ambikapathy starring M. K. Thyagaraja Bhagavathar was made by American director Ellis R. Dungan ?
text: Did you know that one of sculptor Paul Manship 's earliest public works, "The Four Elements", is at the former AT&T corporate headquarters at 195 Broadway in Manhattan ?
text: Did you know that Saint Vigilius of Trent , stoned to death for overturning a statue of Saturn , was the first martyr canonized by a pope ?
text: Did you know that Ohio State Treasurer Richard Cordray is a five-time undefeated Jeopardy! champion and carried the Olympic Torch in 1996?
text: Did you know that Swiss billionaire Hansjörg Wyss donated US$ 125 million to Harvard University , the school's largest gift?
text: Did you know that Mary Ann Müller has been described as " New Zealand 's pioneer suffragist "?
text: Did you know that the Local Void is an empty region of space , devoid of matter , lying adjacent to our own Milky Way galaxy ?
text: Did you know that during a storm in the Dolomites , Mo Anthoine probably saved the life of Al Alvarez , who later wrote his biography ?
text: Did you know that the worst ever tram accident in the United Kingdom occurred on the Dover Corporation Tramways system in 1917?
text: Did you know that Willard L. Boyd , President Emeritus of The University of Iowa and The Field Museum , was one of the first recipients of the National Humanities Medal ?
text: Did you know that Łaski's Statute of 1505 was the first codification of Polish law ?
text: Did you know that University of Notre Dame basketball player Luke Harangody and his brother were banned from playing basketball in their backyard as children because their games regularly ended in fights?
text: Did you know that after they both appeared in the 1951 film Sailor Beware , Richard Clayton became a talent agent and represented James Dean ?
text: Did you know that the congenital disorder fibrochondrogenesis may result in dwarfism , shortened ribs with a concave appearance, a severely underdeveloped jaw , an enlarged head , and even death during infancy?
text: Did you know that Yamamoto Tatsuo , former head of the Bank of Japan , was the first businessman to become a cabinet minister in Japan ?
text: Did you know that Jingning County , in Gansu , People's Republic of China , is one of the seats of Chinese civilization , with a history dating back to the Neolithic era ?
text: Did you know that in 1913, baseball player Jim Viox set a rookie record for batting average by a second baseman that was not matched until 2007 ?
text: Did you know that for both his tenures as Norwegian Minister of Finance (1905–1906 and 1920–1921), Edvard Hagerup Bull was both preceded and succeeded by persons who at one point were Prime Ministers ?
text: Did you know that Maine produced more Union soldiers in proportion to its population than any other Union state in the American Civil War ?
text: Did you know that Tang Dynasty general Ma Sui was removed from his command due to his disastrous proposal to make peace with Tufan ?
text: Did you know that Jean-Claude Latombe 's motion planning algorithm Probabilistic Roadmap Method not only applies to robotic motion planning, but can also be used in protein trajectories simulations ?
text: Did you know that the planned community of Albany, Alabama existed for 40 years (1887 to 1927) and formed a major population center before merging with the modern city of Decatur, Alabama ?
text: Did you know that Nini Stoltenberg , the little sister of the Norwegian Prime Minister, has spoken openly about her past heroin addiction and has become an advocate for drug policy reform in Norway?
text: Did you know that salt workers in the Confederate States of America were immune from being drafted?
text: Did you know that Hungarian painter Béla Iványi-Grünwald was influenced by many French artistic movements including Symbolism , Fauvism and Impressionism , and in particular the work of Paul Gauguin ?
text: Did you know that Yitzhak Tabenkin , one of the founders of the socialist Kibbutz Movement , joined the Movement for Greater Israel after the Six-Day War ?
text: Did you know that in Shinto , yorishiro , such as sacred trees, attract spirits , give them a physical space to occupy and make them accessible to people for religious ceremonies?
text: Did you know that the 73 class were the first New South Wales Government Railways locomotives built in Queensland ?
text: Did you know that American wheelchair racer Jean Driscoll won the Boston Marathon eight times, more than any other person?
text: Did you know that STAR radio was named Liberian radio station of the year in 2008, winning a tape deck ?
text: Did you know that Tropical Storm Arlene of the 1959 Atlantic hurricane season was the earliest storm to ever make landfall in Louisiana ?
text: Did you know that Marcellus A. Stovall left West Point after one year but later became a general ?
text: Did you know that painter Sydney Curnow Vosper 's most famous work, Salem , gained widespread popularity in Britain when it was used to promote Lever Brothers ' Sunlight soap ?
text: Did you know that the Waterford Covered Bridge , in Erie County, Pennsylvania , is nicknamed the "Old Kissing Bridge?"
text: Did you know that after his ship was captured by the French, Captain Thomas Thompson complained that his captors stole his surgeon's instruments whilst he was trying to operate on the wounded?
text: Did you know that in 1962, politicians Robin Bailie and Bob Cooper launched a journal entitled Review , even though they were only able to publish a single issue?
text: Did you know that Navagunjara is a beast in Hindu mythology , composed of parts of nine different animals?
text: Did you know that Clemson University coach William "Dabo" Swinney got his nickname as an infant, when his 15-month older brother tried to enunciate "that boy"?
text: Did you know that Porlock Bay in England contains a submerged forest ?
text: Did you know that Joseph Baptista coined the phrase " Swaraj is my Birthright" that was made popular by Lokmanya Tilak during the Indian independence movement ?
text: Did you know that Dave Matthews Band received two Grammy Awards , one in 1997 for the song " So Much to Say " and another in 2004 for the song " Gravedigger "?
text: Did you know that when the Polish Eddie Borysewicz became coach of the US cycling team in 1977, he used a 12-year-old to translate his commands?
text: Did you know that the historic Slipper Chapel in Norfolk , England was used as a cow-shed and barn for almost 400 years before being rededicated as a chapel in 1934?
text: Did you know that the 1993 appointment of Bjørn Skogstad Aamo as director of the Financial Supervisory Authority of Norway drew criticism from the opposition parties?
text: Did you know that Joe Hatten was the Brooklyn Dodgers ' Opening Day starting pitcher when Jackie Robinson broke the color line in Major League Baseball on April 15, 1947?
text: Did you know that Alastair Borthwick 's adventures ranged from hitchhiking to Ben Nevis in a lorry full of dead sheep to leading 600 men behind enemy lines during World War II ?
text: Did you know that in the Canary Islands , palm syrup is made from sap collected laboriously from the crown of a date palm ?
text: Did you know that Tang Dynasty general Hun Zhen was pleased that his requests to Emperor Dezong were sometimes rejected, believing that it showed the emperor trusted him?
text: Did you know that the song " Gubben Noak " ( Songs of Fredman no 35) offended the Swedish church so much that Lund chapter attempted to collect all prints and transcripts in circulation, in 1768?
text: Did you know that United States Army officer James H. Trapier graduated one position below P. G. T. Beauregard in his class at the U.S. Military Academy and later served under him in the American Civil War ?
text: Did you know that Ronnie Boon scored all the match points for Wales when their rugby team finally broke the "Twickenham bogey", beating England at Twickenham after 21 years and ten failed attempts?
text: Did you know that Clarin Mustad , a co-heir of the industrial corporation O. Mustad & Son , was also involved in the early automotive industry ?
text: Did you know that the San Diego Padres ' first Opening Day starting pitcher was Dick Selma , who received a win against the Houston Astros in 1969 ?
text: Did you know that William Wroth founded the first independent chapel in Wales in 1639, after he refused to obey King Charles ' instruction to allow sports to be played on Sundays?
text: Did you know that Odd Karsten Tveit , foreign correspondent for the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation , was awarded the Brage Prize for non-fiction in 2005?
text: Did you know that in 1969, Major League Baseball player Kevin Collins was traded by the New York Mets with three other players for Donn Clendenon , who would be the World Series MVP that season?
text: Did you know that although having no formal medical training Anne Margrethe Strømsheim served as a nurse during the 25-day Battle of Hegra Fortress in 1940, gaining national fame in Norway?
text: Did you know that Nirvana 's 1994 song " Heart-Shaped Box " was nominated for five MTV Video Music Awards , winning two of them?
text: Did you know that the SS -physician Alfred Trzebinski , who was involved in the homicide of 20 children at the former school Bullenhuser Damm , was executed by hanging in 1946?
text: Did you know that the Larmer Tree Festival has made the shortlist for three UK Festival Awards , including Best Toilets?
text: Did you know that despite failing health, American racer Joe Shear won four of his last five races?
text: Did you know that the Alabama Confederate Soldiers Home was the only home for Confederate veterans in Alabama ?
text: Did you know that retired Israel Defense Force Major General Eitan Ben Eliyahu flew as a fighter escort during Operation Opera in 1981, which resulted in the destruction of Iraq 's Osirak nuclear reactor ?
text: Did you know that David Drake wrote his first novel, The Dragon Lord , after another author declined to develop the plot Drake had written?
text: Did you know that former Norwegian Supreme Court Justice Ferdinand Schjelderup was among the first ascenders of several mountains in Nordland county during 1910, including the 1,392-metre (4,567 ft) Stetind ?
text: Did you know that the popular statement that USS Arizona (BB-39) 's 14"/45 caliber guns were never fired in anger is a myth?
text: Did you know that the English of Selim Aga , a former slave from Sudan , was so faultless that his book was believed to be fabricated by a Briton ?
text: Did you know that more than a million NSU Quickly mopeds were sold between 1953 and 1963?
text: Did you know that Admiral Naokuni Nomura , WW2 Japanese naval attache to Berlin , returned home on U-511 , a submarine that had been presented by Adolf Hitler to Japan in 1943?
text: Did you know that Courtland Center in Burton, Michigan had three separate JCPenney stores until a new one opened in March 2008?
text: Did you know that between 1874 and 1884, Hans Mustad co-owned the industrial company O. Mustad & Son with his father Ole Hovelsen Mustad ?
text: Did you know that Empire , a 1962–1963 NBC Western dramatic series set on a New Mexico ranch , provided the first recurring role for future film star Ryan O'Neal ?
text: Did you know that Royce Pollard , the mayor of Vancouver, Washington , bought and destroyed Starbucks coffee mugs bearing Portland, Oregon logos in a media stunt to assert his city's independence?
text: Did you know that Edward Jardine , after commanding 200 Union troops in an attempt to quell the New York Draft Riots , only escaped the rioters by wearing civilian clothes?
text: Did you know that Betsy , a border collie , has intelligence greater than that of the great ape which is regarded as humans' closest relative?
text: Did you know that George Gordon Byron drew up a will leaving Nicolò Giraud , his young companion while in Greece, £ 7,000, but later changed his mind?
text: Did you know that the jeep problem is a mathematical problem in which a jeep must maximise the distance it can travel into a desert with a given amount of fuel ?
text: Did you know that Ruatara , chief of the Ngā Puhi , hosted the first Christian mission in New Zealand in 1814?
text: Did you know that the Overman Committee , led by Senator Lee Slater Overman , investigated allegations that groups such as the United States Brewers Association were promoting "un-American activities"?
text: Did you know that Eli Hurvitz , Chairman of Teva Pharmaceutical Industries , joined the company in the early 1950s as a dish washer?
text: Did you know that Czeslaw Lejewski , Polish philosopher and logician, who studied under Jan Lukasiewicz and Karl Popper , became one of the members of the Lwów-Warsaw School of Logic ?
text: Did you know that Margaret Kelly Leibovici , a French-Irish dancer, was interrogated by the Gestapo in occupied France ?
text: Did you know that 10,000 people were employed in the 1830s simply to build canals by the Indiana Mammoth Internal Improvement Act ?
text: Did you know that the liberal Jewish Folksgrupe played an important role in the 1917 Russian Provisional Government , but only obtained around 1% of the Jewish votes the same year?
text: Did you know that Court Avenue , Ohio , was the first street in the United States to be paved with concrete ?
text: Did you know that the Catedral de San Nicolás in Rionegro, Antioquia , Colombia was built because the original church was believed to have been possessed by evil spirits ?
text: Did you know that carotene can be used to alter the optical properties of carbon nanotubes ?
text: Did you know that Ntare Mwine is a Ugandan - American actor, playwright and documentarian who has appeared in Heroes and interviewed Idi Amin 's brother?
text: Did you know that the Teatro del Silenzio is an open air amphitheatre in Italy which remains silent for 364 days of the year?
text: Did you know that Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner has mandated a return to paper ballots after an extensive study as well as an experience with failing direct-recording electronic voting machines ?
text: Did you know that Swiss lawyer Georges Brunschvig was first to prove The Protocols of the Elders of Zion to be false in court?
text: Did you know that Meinong's jungle is the name given to the ontological realm in which non-existent objects such as unicorns , square circles, and golden mountains subsist?
text: Did you know that after Dale Earnhardt 's first win, his crew chief Jake Elder said, "Stick with me, kid, and we'll win diamonds as big as horse turds "?
text: Did you know that the death of Captain Henry T. Waskow in WWII was the subject of one of Ernie Pyle 's most famous columns and the basis for the Oscar-nominated film The Story of G.I. Joe ?
text: Did you know that Borgarting Court of Appeal dates back to at least 1047, at the time organized as a thing ?
text: Did you know that Henry Compton ran away from home three times before his family finally accepted his wish to become an actor?
text: Did you know that Cloudland Canyon State Park , situated on Lookout Mountain in Georgia , contains many unusual sandstone boulder formations?
text: Did you know that the enmity between Tang Dynasty general Li Sheng and chancellor Zhang Yanshang began over a military prostitute ?
text: Did you know that during the 2007 Alum Rock earthquake , over 60,000 reports of the earthquake were received?
text: Did you know that The New York Times moved in 1858 to a building at 41 Park Row , making it the first newspaper in New York City housed in a building built specifically for its use?
text: Did you know that, in his first season as a baseball player, Brian Barber 's age of 22 was the youngest on an aging St. Louis Cardinals team?
text: Did you know that a brutal rape of a Bengali child by her 35-year-old husband served as a catalyst for increasing the age of consummation to 12 in British India ?
text: Did you know that the media of the Mortal Kombat franchise not only includes the video game series which has sold 26 million copies but also two feature films, a television series, two books, and several comics books?
text: Did you know that ripple can cause wavy lines on television pictures?
text: Did you know that after serving in a number of battles of the American and French Revolutionary Wars , Captain Ralph Willett Miller was killed in an accidental explosion aboard his ship HMS Theseus ?
text: Did you know that impeachment in Norway was used six times in 1814–1845, but only twice since?
text: Did you know that Tropical Storm Kirsten of 1966 did $35.18 million (2008 USD ) in damages and caused heavy rain all the way to Phoenix, Arizona when it made landfall?
text: Did you know that historic Sleddale Hall , the filming location for Crow Crag in the 1986 cult film Withnail and I is derelict and has faced demolition in the past?
text: Did you know that offset agreements are one of the methods used to ensure a country's balance of trade ?
text: Did you know that after being rejected from HaShomer , a Jewish defense organization in Ottoman Palestine , Yosef Lishansky founded a rival group called HaMagen, operating in the south of the country?
text: Did you know that Our Man Higgins , a 1962–1963 ABC sitcom , featured Stanley Holloway of My Fair Lady as an emphatic English butler to a suburban American family?
text: Did you know that Zola Maseko was the first South African filmmaker to receive the top prize at FESPACO , the Golden Stallion of Yennenga, in 2005?
text: Did you know that when the Church of St Demetrius was built in Veliko Tarnovo , Bulgaria , a rumour was spread that the saint would come to the city?
text: Did you know that Rettamalai Srinivasan , Dalit leader from the Madras Presidency , was a brother-in-law of famous Dalit activist Iyothee Thass ?
text: Did you know that County Route 41 in Onondaga County, New York , was once part of two state highways and one turnpike ?
text: Did you know that Franciszek and Magdalena Banasiewicz , Polish Righteous among the Nations , hid 15 Jews on their farm during World War II undeterred by public execution of their Ghetto liaison?
text: Did you know that over 3,000 Nebraskans participated in the American Civil War , though only 35 were killed in action ?
text: Did you know that Orson Welles originally planned to end his film Don Quixote by having Don Quixote and Sancho Panza survive an atomic cataclysm ?
text: Did you know that Dipor Bil reportedly provides its natural resources for the livelihood of 14 indigenous villages (1,200 families) located in its wetland ecosystem in Assam , India ?
text: Did you know that the Alice Springs Reptile Centre has the largest collection of reptiles in the Northern Territory , and has twice had its animals attacked by humans?
text: Did you know that Ensign O'Toole , a 1962–1963 NBC military comedy series starring Dean Jones , was filmed aboard the USS Frank E. Evans , which was thereafter destroyed following a collision ?
text: Did you know that Bruce Voeller coined the term " acquired immune deficiency syndrome "?
text: Did you know that Kazakhstan and Turkey have sought to promote closer bilateral relations and foster close ties between Turkic nations of Central Asia ?
text: Did you know that all U.S. Presidents from Dwight D. Eisenhower through Ronald Reagan ordered glassware from Fostoria Glass Company of Moundsville, West Virginia ?
text: Did you know that " The Beast that Shouted Love at the Heart of the World " won the Hugo Award for Best Short Story in 1969?
text: Did you know that Jason Dozzell is the youngest player to have scored in the Football League First Division when he scored for Ipswich Town aged 16 years and 57 days?
text: Did you know that growing relations between Kazakhstan and People's Republic of China help China avert the establishment of U.S. military bases in Kazakhstan and harness its oil resources?
text: Did you know that alternative rock band The Strokes has been nominated for Best International Band three times from the NME Awards , winning it in 2006?
text: Did you know that the Palestinian village of Nabi Samwil , near Jerusalem , is regarded by Muslims , Jews and Christians alike as a holy site for containing the tomb of Samuel ?
text: Did you know that protests at the 2002 meeting of the World Bank in Oslo , Norway saw the police prepare for large riots, but turned out to be peaceful?
text: Did you know that the Amrita Club is one of only two brick Colonial Revival buildings in Poughkeepsie, New York ?
text: Did you know that cancer specialist Julian Aleksandrowicz , a Polish Jew , joined Polish resistance Armia Krajowa after being aided in the Kraków ghetto by one of the Polish Righteous ?
text: Did you know that former places of worship in Brighton and Hove , England , have been converted into a pub , a screen-printing factory, an art gallery and a sheltered housing complex, among other things?
text: Did you know that Pre-Raphaelite English artist John Wharlton Bunney painted a picture including the entire western facade of St. Mark's Basilica over six hundred early morning sessions?
text: Did you know that both the first forensic pathologist and the first female pediatrician in Maine used to live in the Skolfield-Whittier House , now a museum in Brunswick, Maine ?
text: Did you know that Alfred Philippe Roll was the French government's official painter?
text: Did you know that until the 1990s, the Short-beaked Common Dolphin and the Long-beaked Common Dolphin were considered the same species ?
text: Did you know that mountaineer William Woodman Graham had to abandon an expedition to Kanchenjunga when a porter accidentally burned his boots ?
text: Did you know that the 1964 Zanzibar Revolution sparked army mutinies in Kenya , Uganda and Tanganyika ?
text: Did you know that Olivia Colman bonded the cast of Beautiful People by arranging a visit from a mobile blood donor unit ?
text: Did you know that the dumbbell -shaped devices commonly seen on overhead power lines are Stockbridge dampers , used to suppress wind-induced vibrations ?
text: Did you know that the Jewish Socialist Workers Party in the Russian Empire mobilized 3,000 of its cadres in self-defense militias during 1906?
text: Did you know that footballer Peter Stringfellow suffered a dramatic decline in form, which ultimately ended his professional career, after being involved in a car crash in which a team-mate died?
text: Did you know that after his son was murdered during a study abroad program, entrepreneur Tom Petters formed a foundation to provide endowments that would benefit future students at several universities?
text: Did you know that the first person to learn what is in the United Kingdom Budget, presented by the Chancellor of the Exchequer on Budget Day , is the Queen?
text: Did you know that South Liberty Street in Poughkeepsie, New York , was renamed Garfield Place after the assassination of U.S. President James A. Garfield ?
text: Did you know that the Celts were animists who believed that all aspects of the natural world contained spirits ?
text: Did you know that New Zealand Police Commissioner Howard Broad successfully completed rewriting the policing law and the introduction of tasers to the New Zealand Police?
text: Did you know that Spiraea japonica , an invasive plant native to East Asia , was introduced in the United States as an ornamental plant ?
text: Did you know that unique versions of Percy Bysshe Shelley 's poems " Mont Blanc " and " Hymn to Intellectual Beauty " were rediscovered in a notebook 160 years after they were originally composed?
text: Did you know that France has strengthened bilateral ties with India by signing agreements allowing it to purchase French-made nuclear reactors , the Mirage 2000 fighters , and the Scorpène submarines ?
text: Did you know that despite a 600-year long tradition of being the back garden of the Zagreb cathedral , the Ribnjak neighborhood in Zagreb , Croatia is a focal point of gang violence in the city?
text: Did you know that Horatio Nelson called the captains who fought with him at the Battle of the Nile his " Band of Brothers "?
text: Did you know that Georgia Tech professor Jeff S. Shamma and his MIT Ph.D. advisor Michael Athans both received the Donald P. Eckman Award , one of the most prestigious awards in control theory ?
text: Did you know that All Saints' Church, Childwall is the only medieval church in the metropolitan borough of Liverpool , England ?
text: Did you know that American singer Becca provided the closing theme "I'm Alive!" for the episodes of the 2008 Japanese anime Kuroshitsuji ?
text: Did you know that Friston Windmill is the tallest surviving post mill in the United Kingdom?
text: Did you know that Ronn Reynolds spent parts of six seasons as a Major League Baseball catcher , despite a career batting average of just .188?
text: Did you know that the 1943 German Donbas Operations led to the destruction of 52 Soviet divisions, and the recapture of the cities of Kharkov and Belgorod from the Red Army ?
text: Did you know that Tang Dynasty general Li Huaiguang saved Fengtian, where Emperor Dezong of Tang was at the time, from falling to the rebel Zhu Ci ?
text: Did you know that the only print of Orson Welles ' 1938 film Too Much Johnson was destroyed in a 1971 fire at Welles' home outside of Madrid, Spain ?
text: Did you know that army officer and M.P. William Hacket Pain was involved in planning and organising the Larne Gun Running operation, which helped to arm the Ulster Volunteers during the Home Rule crisis of 1912 ?
text: Did you know that Haruka Tomatsu , who provides two pieces of theme music for the episodes of the Kannagi anime , is also the seiyū of one of the series' titular characters, Nagi ?
text: Did you know that William Tresham was elected as a Knight of the Shire for 12 successive parliaments?
text: Did you know that Emily McPherson College of Domestic Economy , an Australian domestic science college for women, was officially opened on April 27, 1927 by Her Royal Highness Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon ?
text: Did you know that William Trueheart was the acting U.S. ambassador to Saigon during the Vietnam Conflict, because his superior, Frederick Nolting , wanted a break from duties?
text: Did you know that cold weather kept the Montreal Expos on the road for their first 19 Opening Day games, until 1988 when Dennis Martínez became the starting pitcher of the team's first opening day home game ?
text: Did you know that Empress Wang , the wife of Emperor Dezong of Tang , was empress for only three days prior to her death in 786 AD?
text: Did you know that the Universal Edit Button is a Firefox add on supported by many websites that informs users when the web page they are viewing contains editable content?
text: Did you know that Sir Davidge Gould , who served during the American Revolutionary , French Revolutionary and the Napoleonic Wars , was promoted to the rank of Admiral in 1825?
text: Did you know that the Australian hard rock band AC/DC has never won a Grammy Award despite receiving four nominations during their career?
text: Did you know that Framsden Windmill was raised by 18 feet (5.5 m) in 1836, and worked for another 100 years?
text: Did you know that the replacement of stale chewing gum , by a sales representative, led to the U.S. Supreme Court case of the Wisconsin Department of Revenue v. William Wrigley, Jr., Co. ?
text: Did you know that Bob McLean , who is a member of the Australian Football Hall of Fame , also played first-class cricket and scored a double century in the Sheffield Shield ?
text: Did you know that the power of the Ku Klux Klan in Indiana was once so great its Grand Dragon D. C. Stephenson claimed "I am the law in Indiana "?
text: Did you know that before he became Chief Scout of South Africa , Nkwenkwe Nkomo was an anti-apartheid activist who was imprisoned on Robben Island with Nelson Mandela ?
text: Did you know that in Saskatchewan , Oban was known for having the last Interlocking tower at the CNR and CPR level crossing , until it was closed in 1990?
text: Did you know that Jock Wilson , who died at the age of 105 in September 2008, was Great Britain 's oldest D-Day veteran?
text: Did you know that India has supported Kazakhstan 's bid to create a Caspian Sea naval fleet despite Russia 's opposition?
text: Did you know that Carson Parks , who wrote the hit song " Somethin' Stupid ", was the brother of Beach Boys ' collaborator Van Dyke Parks ?
text: Did you know that Dick Trickle , billed as the winningest short track driver in history, won his first race outside of his home region at the 1966 National Short Track Championships at Rockford Speedway ?
text: Did you know that Jasper Goodwill , later a mayor in Louisiana , was given the middle initial "K" by the U.S. Army during World War I as a way to enhance identification of the soldiers?
text: Did you know that the Tugboat Spence and its barge Guantanamo Bay Express deliver cargo twice-monthly from Naval Station Mayport near Jacksonville , Florida to Naval Station Guantanamo Bay in Cuba ?
text: Did you know that during the World War II , English footballer Jimmy Boswell served in the same army unit as four other future Gillingham F.C. players?
text: Did you know that the day that British East India Company acquired a sliver of land to build Fort St. George is celebrated as Madras Day in Madras , India ?
text: Did you know that the Victorian painter William Shakespeare Burton was said to have dug a hole in the ground to stand in, so that he could paint the grass and ferns at eye level?
text: Did you know that Zac Brown Band 's single " Chicken Fried " was previously recorded by The Lost Trailers , whose version was withdrawn after Brown changed his mind about licensing the song to that record label?
text: Did you know that Georg J. Lober ′s sculpture of Hans Christian Andersen in New York City 's Central Park was funded in part by contributions from Danish and American schoolchildren?
text: Did you know that despite being of common birth, the marriage of Falkes de Breauté made him "the equal of an earl "?
text: Did you know that Germany helped India establish the Indian Institute of Technology Madras and their bilateral trade is expected to reach €30 billion by 2010?
text: Did you know that John Harber Phillips , the legal counsel who defended Lindy Chamberlain , later became the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Victoria , Australia ?
text: Did you know that the Bain Commercial Building is the only intact Second Empire - style building in Wappingers Falls, New York ?
text: Did you know that the penitential tone of John Audelay 's poetry may have been influenced by his sense of responsibility for his lord 's involvement in a fatal brawl?
text: Did you know that Spain , which placed second at the Eurovision Song Contest 1979 with " Su canción ", was rumored to have given high marks to a competitor so it would not have to host the contest the following year?
text: Did you know that Dave Levine , the president of an e-commerce company, was featured in the inaugural episode of Millionaire Matchmaker where he described the type of wife he sought?
text: Did you know that Australian politician Charlie Lynn held the New South Wales 24-hour Ultra Marathon record in 1985 and 1986?
text: Did you know that the 2008 teen comedy film Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist was Lorene Scafaria 's ninth screenplay but first novel adaptation?
text: Did you know that unlike their peers in other Australian states , physiotherapists in New South Wales are subject to discipline by a special Physiotherapists Tribunal ?
text: Did you know that having lost his father early, Norwegian Parliament member Nils Landmark was raised by Jens Stub , a founding father of the Norwegian Constitution ?
text: Did you know that among Connecticut's contributions to the American Civil War are the Henry rifle and the song " Marching Through Georgia "?
text: Did you know that the British late night satire show Up Sunday was described by one of the cast members as "aimed at dirty-minded insomniacs"?
text: Did you know that John J. Leonard , a professor at MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory , developed a vision -based simultaneous localization and mapping algorithm for mapping the RMS Titanic ?
text: Did you know that Arya Samaj spearheaded the 19th-century cow protection movement , Hindu opposition to Muslim cow sacrifice , leading to violent riots spreading all across India ?
text: Did you know that Arthur Wimperis , after a career as a songwriter and librettist for British musical comedies , became an Academy Award -winning screenwriter in Hollywood , surviving a torpedo attack to get there?
text: Did you know that pollution has risen in the Sundarijal reservoir in Nepal due to large numbers of tourists who crowd the area every weekend?
text: Did you know that Queensland lawyer Mostyn Hanger said it was "a chore" to be Chief Justice ?
text: Did you know that the SS Schenectady , an oil tanker , broke in two while sitting at the dock in calm weather?
text: Did you know that the 5th-century Palace of Lausus in Constantinople housed a vast collection of classical statues, including that of Zeus at Olympia , one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World ?
text: Did you know that Jack Montgomery , a Louisiana state senator from 1968 to 1972, was preceded and succeeded in the post by Harold Montgomery , and they were unrelated?
text: Did you know that Tam Spiva , from a family of small-town newspaper publishers , wrote scripts for such television series as The Brady Bunch and Gentle Ben ?
text: Did you know that the Japanese manga Black God was created by a manhwa team of Koreans who do not know the Japanese language ?
text: Did you know that the Oregon State Bar was the first bar association in the U.S. to provide complete access to all attorney records it keeps, but only after a lawsuit?
text: Did you know that Ole Hovelsen Mustad , namesake of the company O. Mustad & Son , also served one term in the Norwegian Parliament ?
text: Did you know that King's Mill on the River Trent was used to grind flints for the pottery industry?
text: Did you know that Swaminarayan 's biography, Satsangi Jeevan , comprises of 19,387 Shlokas among 360 chapters, in 5 volumes?
text: Did you know that virologist Harald zur Hausen is recipient of both the Gairdner Foundation International Award and the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2008?
text: Did you know that Kang Hye-jeong made her feature film debut in the 2001 science fiction film Nabi , winning Best Actress at the Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival ?
text: Did you know that the Art Building is the third oldest building at Willamette University in Salem, Oregon , but has been on campus longer than all but one other building?
text: Did you know that Captain William Mounsey , in command of the much smaller HMS Bonne Citoyenne , captured a frigate and later commanded her as HMS Furieuse ?
text: Did you know that Tropical Storm Karina is currently the shortest-lived storm in the 2008 Pacific hurricane season ?
text: Did you know that Tang Dynasty chancellor Chang Gun was demoted over Emperor Dezong 's erroneous belief that Chang had falsified signatures from his colleagues Guo Ziyi and Zhu Ci ?
text: Did you know that Future Primitive and Other Essays by anarcho-primitivist philosopher John Zerzan is regarded as an underground classic by anarchists and technophobes alike?
text: Did you know that Cubbon Park in Bangalore , India , has indigenous and exotic botanical species of 68 genera and 96 species with about 6,000 plants?
text: Did you know that Bolivian Mollo culture drinking cups included a built-in straw?
text: Did you know that Chicago Bulls and Chicago White Sox owner Jerry Reinsdorf is a C.P.A. and lawyer whose first job assignment was the delinquency of then-owner of the White Sox Bill Veeck ?
text: Did you know that in Shinto , a gongen represents a manifestation of a buddha from India to guide the Japanese people to salvation?
text: Did you know that two companies with the name Oregon Central Railroad both claimed the same federal land grants ?
text: Did you know that Tang Dynasty official Yang Wan declined a customary stipend as a senior official of his rank and distributed the stipend to his colleagues?
text: Did you know that Eduardo Galeano 's 1978 revolutionary chronicle Days and Nights of Love and War inspired anarchist collective CrimethInc. to write their manifesto Days of War, Nights of Love 22 years later?
text: Did you know that Nicholas Carr wrote a controversial article titled " Is Google Making Us Stupid? " in the July/August 2008 edition of The Atlantic Monthly ?
text: Did you know that South African Jean-Michel d'Avray played football in England and Holland before becoming the last ever National Soccer League Coach of the Year in Australia ?
text: Did you know that M-67 , a state highway in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan , has remained essentially unchanged but the highways connecting to it have changed three times since 1919?
text: Did you know that Jens Landmark , Norwegian Lieutenant Colonel and director of Kongsberg Weapons Factory , also served three terms in the Norwegian Parliament ?
text: Did you know that Julie Couillard's memoir My Story reveals confidential opinions that Canadian member of Parliament Maxime Bernier allegedly shared with her and was released eight days before Bernier is seeking re-election ?
text: Did you know that architect Sidney Eisenshtat designed a futuristic synagogue that was later a filming location for the 1991 film Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country ?
text: Did you know that anyone who has loaned or borrowed money has participated in the hypothetical loanable funds market that brings savers and borrowers together?
text: Did you know that the Welsh inventor Edwin Stevens devised the world's first wearable electronic hearing aid ?
text: Did you know that the Zionist Socialist Workers Party broke with the World Zionist Organization after the 1905 WZO congress had rejected the proposal to resettle Jews in East Africa ?
text: Did you know that an oil painting by Ryūsei Kishida was auctioned for 7.731 billion yen , the highest price ever achieved for a Japanese painting ?
text: Did you know that MTA Regional Bus Operations consolidates all bus operations formerly maintained by MTA New York City Bus , MTA Long Island Bus , and MTA Bus ?
text: Did you know that Hungarian István Réti travelled to Turin , to paint 1848 revolutionary Lajos Kossuth , who had died there recently?
text: Did you know that the plesiosaur Bathyspondylus was first described in 1982 from a specimen collected in 1774?
text: Did you know that William Long , Minister of Home Affairs in Northern Ireland at the start of The Troubles , later became the skipper of a fishing boat?
text: Did you know that only a few English churches celebrate the ancient custom of " clipping the church "?
text: Did you know that Ontario has more universities , with 22, than any other Canadian province ?
text: Did you know that Clarence D. Wiley , already a 40-year public official in Louisiana , was to have joined his parish governing council when he died in 1976 of a sudden stroke ?
text: Did you know that the 2008 Bangkok gubernatorial election campaign saw candidates bathing in a canal and punching a journalist?
text: Did you know that as Israeli military governor of the Gaza Strip , Yitzhak Pundak planned to relocate the Palestinian refugees there to a new city in the Sinai Peninsula , but met with opposition from Ariel Sharon ?
text: Did you know that unlike other Dutch Colonial stone houses in the Hudson Valley , the Wynkoop House has no stone with the builder's initials?
text: Did you know that Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz studied economics at Harvard University for two years before moving to Palo Alto , California to work on Facebook full-time?
text: Did you know that in 1793, Admiral John Gell captured a Spanish ship that contained two million dollars and goods worth over 200,000 pounds?
text: Did you know that Bümpliz-Oberbottigen , a district of Berne , Switzerland , contains rural hamlets, Baroque estates and modernist highrise satellite towns ?
text: Did you know that One Night the Moon , a 2001 Australian film depicting the search for a missing child, was inspired by indigenous police tracker Alex Riley's work in the 1930s?
text: Did you know that Tang Dynasty chancellor Du Hongjian , immediately prior to his death, undertook tonsure and formally became a Buddhist monk ?
text: Did you know that according to a survey by Reader's Digest , the Royal New Zealand Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals is New Zealand 's second most trusted charity ?
text: Did you know that Owen Thomas , managing editor of New York City -based gossip and news blog Valleywag , writes most of the website's articles?
text: Did you know that the National Debt Clock in Manhattan ran out of digits on 30 September 2008, when the United States public debt passed the $10 trillion mark?
text: Did you know that a medallion awarded by the city of Hamburg to honor "those—both Jewish and non-Jewish—who have contributed to Jewish life in Germany" is named for the Jewish First Mayor Herbert Weichmann ?
text: Did you know that Orson Welles took the role of Hastler in his 1962 film The Trial after comic actor Jackie Gleason turned down the part?
text: Did you know that, as a teenager, American Civil War Confederate brigadier general Richard Waterhouse ran away from home to fight in the Mexican–American War ?
text: Did you know that presenters Jay Burridge and Mark Speight created all of the art projects for the children's television show SMart ?
text: Did you know that after Captain George Blagdon Westcott was killed at the Battle of the Nile , Horatio Nelson gave his own medal from the battle to Westcott's family?
text: Did you know that Jack Womack 's 2000 alternate history novel Going, Going, Gone is set in two converging parallel versions of New York ?
text: Did you know that Baltic Finns are considered to be among the early indigenous inhabitants of Europe according to the Settlement Continuity Theory?
text: Did you know that Hulk Hogan lost the WWF Championship at King of the Ring 1993 after a ringside photographer's camera exploded in Hogan's face?
text: Did you know that the constitution of Cyprus broke down in 1963 when Turkish Cypriots withdrew from the government?
text: Did you know that the Adriatic LNG terminal is the world's first offshore liquid natural gas terminal ?
text: Did you know that Norwegian piano manufacturer Karl Hals was also active in politics for the Conservative Party ?
text: Did you know that British National (Overseas) was a British nationality specially created for British Dependent Territories citizens of Hong Kong in 1985?
text: Did you know that English footballer Glen Thomas came close to losing an eye in 1996 when he stumbled into a tree during a training session and was hit in the face by a branch?
text: Did you know that after six years as Inspector General of the U.S. Department of Transportation , Mary Schiavo wrote Flying Blind, Flying Safe , a book critical of air safety practices at the Federal Aviation Administration ?
text: Did you know that in 2007, the New Zealand initiative eDay saw 415 tonnes (915,000 lb) of electronic waste collected?
text: Did you know that British WWII prisoner of war John Fancy dug eight tunnels with a table knife and escaped a total of 16 times, but was always recaptured?
text: Did you know that Adobe Systems made its largest acquisition ever by purchasing rival company Macromedia for over US$ 3.5 billion?
text: Did you know that the upcoming film Sherlock Holmes revolves around Holmes and Watson , played by Robert Downey, Jr. and Jude Law , stopping a conspiracy to destroy Britain ?
text: Did you know that Modernisme architect Enrique Nieto not only designed the main synagogue in Melilla , but also the Central Mosque and several Catholic church buildings?
text: Did you know that Tate gallery director Sir Norman Reid was the son of a shoemaker ?
text: Did you know that alpine Lake Wakatipu has a unit of the Royal New Zealand Coastguard ?
text: Did you know that Hurricane Rosa caused 100-year floods at 19 locations in Texas ?
text: Did you know that analgesic nephropathy was a major cause of kidney failure until the analgesic drug phenacetin was banned from markets?
text: Did you know that the medieval motet Sub Arturo plebs has the name of its composer along with those of 14 fellow musicians, plus instructions on how to perform the piece, written into its own lyrics?
text: Did you know that the House character Detective Michael Tritter has been compared to Inspector Javert in Les Misérables ?
text: Did you know that Nonghyup , the National Agricultural Cooperative Federation of South Korea , provides 48 percent of the country's rural food marketing?
text: Did you know that General William C. Chase was awarded the Bronze Star for his successful defense against Japanese counterattacks during the Admiralty Islands campaign in World War II ?
text: Did you know that Hans Prydz came to Nittedal as a physician, but eventually served as mayor of that municipality as well as representing the district in the Norwegian Parliament ?
text: Did you know that a retired teacher Simon Vega operates the "Little Graceland " museum in Los Fresnos near Brownsville , Texas as a tribute to his Army buddy Elvis Presley ?
text: Did you know that BBC Radio 4 current affairs programme The Media Show , which looks at the current state of the media , is seen as a replacement to The Message , a similar programme axed by the BBC earlier in 2008?
text: Did you know that only twelve examples survive of the Bosom of Abraham Trinity , a uniquely English subject in late medieval religious art?
text: Did you know that the 106-kilometre (66 mi) Voss Line was converted from narrow to standard gauge in one night?
text: Did you know that Norwegian Parliament member and priest Søren Georg Abel was the father of mathematician Niels Henrik Abel ?
text: Did you know that after Moscow mayor Nikolay Alekseyev was mortally wounded by an insane gunman, he bequeathed 300,000 rubles of his personal money to a psychiatric hospital he had built?
text: Did you know that Charles Frederick Holder invented the sport of big-game fishing and was also a founder of Pasadena 's Tournament of Roses ?
text: Did you know that one of John Romney 's etchings which sold well was of The Chester and Holyhead Railway Bridge Accident which occurred in 1847?
text: Did you know that Nintendo plans to release a revised model of the Nintendo DS Lite handheld game console called the Nintendo DSi , with two built-in cameras?
text: Did you know that Krishnammal Jagannathan , one of this year's winners of the Right Livelihood Award , began her struggle for the rights of the landless after an incident in which 44 people were burnt alive by landlords ?
text: Did you know that Legacy Meridian Park Hospital in Tualatin, Oregon , was built when the city had only 750 residents?
text: Did you know that, when Tang Dynasty poet Wang Wei was set to be punished for having joined the rebel state Yan under duress, his brother Wang Jin successfully interceded for him by offering to resign as an imperial official?
text: Did you know that the Egyptian Geological Museum , established in Cairo in 1904, was the first of its kind in Africa ?
text: Did you know that although Carl Emil Krarup was originally a civil engineer , he was responsible for the first ever continuously loaded submarine telecommunication cable ?
text: Did you know that the publication of his Striking and Picturesque Delineations of the Grand, Beautiful, Wonderful, and Interesting Scenery Around Loch-Earn led to Angus McDiarmid being called "the world's worst author"?
text: Did you know that the website Techmeme , created by Gabe Rivera, searches for the most popular technology -related news on the Internet and orders them based on an algorithm that determines popularity?
text: Did you know that a 1989 Samsung commercial began the late South Korean actress Choi Jin-sil 's path to stardom?
text: Did you know that the Canadian province of Nova Scotia has 11 universities , including the University of King's College , the oldest university in British North America ?
text: Did you know that at Henry Parkyns Hoppner 's court martial , he received "no blame whatever" for his actions while commanding the HMS Fury , ice-damaged and left on Somerset Island in 1825?
text: Did you know that according to Australian bush poet Banjo Paterson 's poem " Hay and Hell and Booligal ", the town of Booligal, New South Wales is regarded as being worse than Hell?
text: Did you know that former American Idol winner Carrie Underwood holds the record for the biggest-selling American Idol album?
text: Did you know that the Historie of the Arrivall of Edward IV. in England and the Finall Recouerye of His Kingdomes from Henry VI. A.D. M.CCCC.LXXI is considered the most reliable source for those events?
text: Did you know that Nic Waal , who rescued Jewish children in Norway from the Holocaust , started her own institute for pediatric psychiatry when turned down for a job because her appearance was too messy?
text: Did you know that Meralco 's John F. Cotton Corporate Wellness Center was the first implementation of a corporate wellness program in the Philippines ?
text: Did you know that after Robert Bealknap offended the people of London before the coronation of Richard II they placed a model of his head on a water fountain so that it would vomit wine when the king walked past?
text: Did you know that the Nerepis River in New Brunswick was exposed to dioxins from the use of Agent Orange and Agent Purple during secret tests in 1966 and 1967?
text: Did you know that Mexico 's largest pawnbroker , Nacional Monte de Piedad , is legally recognized as a charity ?
text: Did you know that in 1967, Ray Miller , a Houston news director, hired future U.S. Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison as the first female television journalist in Texas ?
text: Did you know that the existence of a Stroke Belt in the southeastern United States was recognized as early as 1962, but the causes of high stroke incidence in this region have not been determined?
text: Did you know that 1970 Italian crime thriller film Città violenta was only picked up for distribution in the United States after the success of Death Wish established star Charles Bronson as a leading man ?
text: Did you know that the outback town of Tilpa, New South Wales claims to have the only cemetery in Australia with no burials?
text: Did you know that Bob Miller , signed as a " bonus baby " by the Detroit Tigers , was the youngest of three 17-year-olds to play in Major League Baseball in the 1953 season?
text: Did you know that Eelam , a Tamil name for Sri Lanka , could also mean toddy , spurge , or gold?
text: Did you know that the St. John's Lodge in Portsmouth, New Hampshire is one of the oldest continuously operating Masonic Lodges in the Americas ?
text: Did you know that during the Catalonian Civil War , three different pretenders were proclaimed against John II of Aragon ?
text: Did you know that Sir Trevor Williams of Llangybi in Wales changed sides between Royalists and Parliamentarians four times in the English Civil War , before being imprisoned for the crime of scandalum magnatum ?
text: Did you know that Typhoon Jangmi was upgraded to a category five super typhoon by the Joint Typhoon Warning Center ?
text: Did you know that architect Stiff Leadbetter 's house Elvills was the first completely new house of the Georgian Gothic revival in England ?
text: Did you know that upcoming film The Marc Pease Experience has been dubbed "the next Rushmore " as the two films share both similar character traits and Jason Schwartzman in the lead role?
text: Did you know that the song " Steal My Sunshine " by Len was almost not released because its master recording was hidden under the producer's bed?
text: Did you know that the Campbell's Covered Bridge , built in 1909, is the last remaining covered bridge in South Carolina ?
text: Did you know that Matthew T. Mason , a professor of robotics at Carnegie Mellon University , developed the first origami -folding robot in 2004?
text: Did you know that the United States Academic Decathlon National Championships have featured teams from Canada , Mexico , New Zealand , South Korea , Northern Ireland and Brazil ?
text: Did you know that in addition to teaching underprivileged youth, Giovanni Buscaglione designed such architectural works as Colombia 's Santuario Nacional de Nuestra Señora del Carmen?
text: Did you know that the butterfly Argynnis hyperbius has been threatened in New South Wales by the draining of swamps containing its natural foodplant Viola betonicifolia ?
text: Did you know that the Tang Dynasty chancellor Liu Yan had, as a child, impressed Emperor Xuanzong of Tang by writing a song dedicated to his sacrifices at Mount Tai ?
text: Did you know that after Milt Davis was rejected by the Detroit Lions because they did not have a black roommate for him, Davis won two championships in four seasons with the Baltimore Colts ?
text: Did you know that Quentin Tarantino , a longtime fan of Australian cinema , helped put together 2008 documentary film Not Quite Hollywood , examining the "Ozploitation" B movies of the 1970s–'80s Australian New Wave ?
text: Did you know that Bogdan Saltanov , the court artist of Tsar Alexis I of Russia , was born in Persia and granted Russian nobility eight years after arrival to Moscow ?
text: Did you know that Drinkstone Post Mill is the oldest surviving windmill in Suffolk , England , having been built in 1689?
text: Did you know that comedian and actor Asi Cohen performed in Mesudarim , an Israeli television show purchased by the Fox Entertainment Group ?
text: Did you know that Roy Oswalt has been the starting pitcher on six consecutive Opening Days for the Houston Astros from 2003 to 2008?
text: Did you know that after Li Xilie , who had rebelled against the Tang Dynasty , grew ill after eating beef, his general Chen Xianqi induced his physician to poison him to death?
text: Did you know that the 2004 Cairns Tilt Train derailment was the result of excessive speed which may have been caused by the driver leaving his seat?
text: Did you know that the LoPresti Fury sports plane was built based on the design of aeronautical engineer Roy LoPresti ?
text: Did you know that Anastasiu di Iaci wrote Vinuta di lu re Iapicu in Catania shortly after 1287, making it one of the earliest narrative sources for the War of the Vespers ?
text: Did you know that, according to Afrikaner nationalistic ideology, Afrikaners were seen as a chosen people ?
text: Did you know that Reuben Noble-Lazarus became the youngest footballer in the Football League when he came on as a substitute in Barnsley 's 3–0 defeat to Ipswich Town in 2008?
text: Did you know that the distinctive rustic porch trim of the Fish and Fur Club in Nelsonville, New York , which earned it a listing on the National Register of Historic Places , has since been replaced?
text: Did you know that while his father-in-law, brother and son were national politicians, Wincentz Thurmann Ihlen concentrated on entrepreneurship, establishing the railway car factory Strømmens Værksted ?
text: Did you know that southern African vine Acetosa sagittata is a weed in Australia and New Zealand , and may smother vegetation it grows upon?
text: Did you know that Tove Strand , Norwegian government minister in 1986–1989 and 1990–1992, was formerly married to fellow Labour Party politician Rune Gerhardsen ?
text: Did you know that Cress Williams portrayed a Jem'Hadar leader in the Star Trek series, in the Deep Space Nine episode " The Jem'Hadar "?
text: Did you know that the first mass transport to Auschwitz concentration camp consisted of 728 Polish political prisoners from Tarnow prison?
text: Did you know that the Japanese visual novel Twinkle Crusaders received three manga adaptations before its release?
text: Did you know that Oregon State Senator Laurie Monnes Anderson is a first cousin of The Simpsons creator Matt Groening ?
text: Did you know that Sir Robert Charleton was appointed Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas despite having no previous experience in that court?
text: Did you know that writer - director Brian Dannelly was expelled from the first grade for hitting a nun at his Catholic elementary school ?
text: Did you know that the National Shrine of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton hosts an annual event honoring girls and women named "Elizabeth" and "Elizabeth Ann"?
text: Did you know that Nakamura Yoshikoto , director of the South Manchurian Railway , sponsored his childhood friend, the famed author Natsume Sōseki on a publicity jaunt to Manchuria ?
text: Did you know that the historic monuments in the Los Angeles Harbor area include a Civil War Powder Magazine , a World War I coastal artillery battery , and the bridge of a World War II heavy cruiser ?
text: Did you know that according to John Foxe and Raphael Holinshed , the fate of Lady Jane Grey drove Richard Morgan insane?
text: Did you know that Aerosteon , a 9-metre (30 ft) long bipedal carnivorous dinosaur that lived approximately 84 million years ago, had air-sacs in its bones similar to those in the respiratory systems of modern birds?
text: Did you know that Korean composer and violinist Hong Nan-pa is best known for his song Bongseonhwa written in 1919 which was widely sung during the Japanese occupation of Korea ?
text: Did you know that the Great Mosque of Aleppo , built by the Umayyads in 717, is the oldest mosque in Aleppo , Syria ?
text: Did you know that the opening theme of the eighth season of the Bleach anime , " After Dark ", was provided by the Japanese rock band Asian Kung-Fu Generation ?
text: Did you know that in 1947, Thelma Dewitty became not just the first African American hired to teach in the Seattle Public Schools , but one of the first married women as well?
text: Did you know that a Rotarian and an active sponsor of sports Joakim Puhk was one of the richest men in pre- WWII Estonia ?
text: Did you know that in 878, the Byzantines lost Syracuse in Sicily to the Arabs because the imperial fleet was occupied with transporting marble for the construction of the Nea Ekklesia cathedral?
text: Did you know that the Virginia Civil Rights Memorial commemorates the 1951 protests started by 16-year-old Barbara Johns which helped bring about school desegregation in Virginia ?
text: Did you know that Zamosc Fortress , one of the biggest fortresses of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth , was besieged six times by various armies?
text: Did you know that in July 1530, Clan Forbes attacked Aberdeen ?
text: Did you know the Cape Spinytail iguana coexists with the giant San Esteban Chuckwalla on San Esteban Island contrary to predictions of ecological niche theory?
text: Did you know that Los Angeles police were sent to guard the remains of the 1000-year-old Encino Oak Tree , a victim of "slime flux", after it was felled by an El Niño storm in 1998?
text: Did you know that there are currently over 1,000 more international chess tournaments per year than there were in 1951?
text: Did you know that " Back 2 You / Still Grey " was simultaneously the first single by drum and bass band Pendulum to feature either a guest vocalist , or a guest instrumentalist ?
text: Did you know that in addition to being a government aide during the Vietnam Conflict , Michael Forrestal was also a mediator in international disputes between the USSR and the US?
text: Did you know that the album title Ordinary Dreamers is about doing extraordinary things with a "dreamer mentality" as an ordinary person?
text: Did you know that two summits of Potter Fell in the Lake District are mentioned in Alfred Wainwright 's The Outlying Fells of Lakeland ?
text: Did you know that musician Bruce Conforth was the first curator at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, Ohio ?
text: Did you know that the Church of Our Lady of Light in Chennai , India was built in 1516 by Portuguese missionaries?
text: Did you know that Dutch Arts and Crafts designer Peter Waals was the nephew of a Nobel Prize -winning physicist?
text: Did you know that Bangladesh Police plan to recruit 3,000 women to expand the newly-created Special Women Police Contingent across Bangladesh ?
text: Did you know that as a result of Janina San Miguel 's response to a question in the 2008 Binibining Pilipinas World pageant, the Philippine government proposed English courses for beauty pageant contestants?
text: Did you know that the 1944 Avery-MacLeod-McCarty experiment , later celebrated for showing that DNA is the genetic material , challenged the prevailing wisdom that genes were made of protein ?
text: Did you know that in 1992, when Oddny Aleksandersen was appointed Norwegian Minister of Government Administration and Labour , no male had yet held this position?
text: Did you know that the recent series of " I'm a PC " advertisements for Microsoft 's Windows Vista operating system were created using Apple Macintosh computers?
text: Did you know that Steve Souchock was possibly going to be first baseman for the New York Yankees , but instead served military service during World War II , eventually earning five battle stars and one Bronze Star ?
text: Did you know that the opera Les vêpres siciliennes (1885) by Giuseppe Verdi was based in part on the medieval Sicilian tract Lu rebellamentu di Sichilia (1290)?
text: Did you know that the Dhaka Metropolitan Police first inducted female officers in 1978?
text: Did you know that American Australian astronomer Penny Sackett has been appointed as the next Chief Scientist of Australia and will commence her duties in November 2008?
text: Did you know that the press box at the University of Wyoming is named for Larry Birleffi , who announced all Wyoming Cowboys football and basketball games from 1947–1986?
text: Did you know that former Chief Justice of Queensland Neal Macrossan 's brother and nephew were also Chief Justice as well?
text: Did you know that The Independent Journal , a New York newspaper and journal edited and published by John McLean , was the first newspaper to publish the first of the eighty-five Federalist Papers ?
text: Did you know that Roger Vanderfield , an Australian doctor, rugby union referee and administrator, was instrumental in establishing the first Rugby World Cup ?
text: Did you know that after witnessing first hand the carnage of the First World War , English artist David Bomberg lost his faith in modernism and Russian Ballet was his last work in a vorticist idiom?
text: Did you know that, during the 1994 Major League Baseball strike , umpire Larry Young refereed a match at WrestleMania XI ?
text: Did you know that San Marino debuted at the Eurovision Song Contest 2008 with " Complice ", a song performed by Miodio ?
text: Did you know that Swedish-American ornithologist Thure Kumlien was probably poisoned by preservatives used on bird specimens sent to him?
text: Did you know that publisher Irvin J. Borowsky created TV Digest , America's first television program listing, which was sold to Walter Annenberg and became part of TV Guide ?
text: Did you know that the HMS Inconstant , a Royal Navy frigate , captured three French warships during the French Revolutionary Wars ?
text: Did you know that Bob Miller lost his first 12 games with the 1962 New York Mets and played for 10 different teams in his Major League Baseball career, tying modern-day records for both that have since been broken?
text: Did you know that painter Karp Zolotaryov created a handmade Zodiac calendar for teaching then-seven-year-old Peter I of Russia ?
text: Did you know that Christopher Munch had to shoot his film The Sleepy Time Gal over an extended two-and-a-half year period due to a lack of finances?
text: Did you know that Nils Claus Ihlen served as Norwegian Minister of Foreign Affairs for seven years, but as Minister of Industrial Provisioning for only seven days?
text: Did you know that the Bangladesh Police inherits much of its structure from the police of British India and contributes to U.N. peace-keeping missions ?
text: Did you know that the Umikaze class destroyers of the Imperial Japanese Navy were the first large destroyers designed for open ocean service to be built in Japan ?
text: Did you know that John T. David , a small-town Louisiana mayor , was elected to his parish governing council in 1956, less than a year after resigning as mayor because of two bootlegging convictions?
text: Did you know that Iceland and India established diplomatic relations in 1972?
text: Did you know that William T. Kane , a physicist with Corning Incorporated , held three patents in crystallography important to the development of fiber optics ?
text: Did you know that the Supreme Court of Cocos (Keeling) Island once administered laws described as "Byzantine" in complexity?
text: Did you know that Artus de Lionne , who went to China for missionary work in 1689, played a role against Jesuits in the Chinese Rites controversy ?
text: Did you know that the ballad Mulga Bill's Bicycle by Australian bush poet Banjo Paterson was inspired by an outback worker who purchased a bicycle when drought meant there was no feed for horses?
text: Did you know that Don Ultang co-won the 1952 Pulitzer Prize for images of the Johnny Bright Incident , showing a violent hit by an Oklahoma A&M player on Drake University 's Johnny Bright that broke Bright's jaw?
text: Did you know that Dravidian parties rose to power in Tamil Nadu after the 1967 general election in India , in which they won all the seats they competed for?
text: Did you know that the Stockbridge Militia was the first Native American unit in the Continental Army ?
text: Did you know that an island purchased by Lloyd Mathews for use as a prison is now a conservation area for giant tortoises ?
text: Did you know that the television broadcast of the 2000 Sugar Bowl was watched by an estimated 18.4 million people?
text: Did you know that Tang Dynasty general Li Zhongchen , whose emperor-bestowed name meant "faithful subject," later betrayed Emperor Dezong of Tang and served the rebel Zhu Ci ?
text: Did you know that the gilt-copper Reliquary Shrine of Saint Eleutherius in the cathedral of Tournai is considered the most sumptuous surviving mid-13th century reliquary ?
text: Did you know that The New York Times published an article mentioning that MLB player Jeff Johnson had been bothered because of rumors he had heard about the New York Yankees pursuing different pitchers ?
text: Did you know that the main house on the grounds of the city-owned Orcutt Ranch Horticulture Center in Los Angeles incorporates swastikas in its architecture?
text: Did you know that the trouvère Andrieu Contredit d'Arras joined a Crusade in 1239 as a knight and minstrel ?
text: Did you know that the BTR-90 , an armoured personnel carrier in service with Russian Internal Troops , is fitted with a gun turret identical to the one used on the BMP-2 ?
text: Did you know that Robert Steinberg and John Scharffenberger experimented with the original varieties of Scharffen Berger brand chocolate in Steinberg's home kitchen ?
text: Did you know that the Niue Star , founded in 1993, is Niue 's only printed newspaper ?
text: Did you know that the Arizona Diamondbacks won the World Series in just their fourth season of Major League Baseball ?
text: Did you know that MS European Stars , built in 2002, was the last new cruise ship delivered to Festival Cruises before their bankruptcy in 2004?
text: Did you know that Bancroft Gherardi, Jr. was one of the foremost authorities in early telephone engineering , and received the IEEE Edison Medal for his work on electrical communication?
text: Did you know that during World War II , the SS -run Haidari concentration camp near Athens was so infamous that it became known as the " Bastille of Greece "?
text: Did you know that Tang Dynasty warlord Tian Yue was, along with his mother, wife, and children, killed by his cousin Tian Xu, who then took over the circuit that he governed?
text: Did you know that the original of the 1812 painting Sadak in Search of the Waters of Oblivion by John Martin was only recently discovered in Sweden and acquired by the Saint Louis Art Museum in 1983?
text: Did you know that Henry Jolles , who had played Schubert 's complete piano music in Heidelberg in 1928, escaped Nazi persecution in 1942 by fleeing from France to Brazil with the assistance of American Varian Fry ?
text: Did you know that the construction of the Storm King Highway took 22 miles (35 km) off the drive between Newburgh and West Point, New York , two cities only 10 miles (16 km) apart?
text: Did you know that Imperial Japanese Army general Takaji Wachi attempted to create a collaborationist state in Guangxi , China in the mid 1930s?
text: Did you know that the book Deadly Cults: The Crimes of True Believers was written by a former commander of the homicide branch of the Indianapolis Police Department ?
text: Did you know that the 1931 Workers Olympiad held in Vienna , organized by the Socialist Workers' Sport International , was larger than the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics both in number of participants and spectators?
text: Did you know that while growing up in Kentucky , aerobatics pilot Gene Soucy would wash and refuel airplanes at a local airport in exchange for flight time?
text: Did you know that Mary Shelley 's edition of Percy Bysshe Shelley 's Prometheus Unbound was delayed 19 years because Percy's father, Timothy Shelley , refused to allow any of his son's poetry to be published?
text: Did you know that Croatian composer Alfi Kabiljo 's plays have been produced over 2,000 times?
text: Did you know that the 1971 book Encounters with the Archdruid by John McPhee chronicles environmentalist David Brower 's confrontations with his ideological enemies?
text: Did you know that boy soprano Andrew Johnston 's debut album, One Voice , features a duet with Britain's Got Talent contestant Faryl Smith ?
text: Did you know that former California State Assemblyman Glenn E. Coolidge was the 1962 Republican congressional candidate for California 's 12th district , but died suddenly during the campaign?
text: Did you know that former Regimental Sergeant Major Harry Lapwood was known as having the loudest voice in the New Zealand House of Representatives ?
text: Did you know that a scripted argument at Royal Rumble 1995 set up a wrestling match between wrestler Bam Bam Bigelow and American football player Lawrence Taylor ?
text: Did you know that in 1951, Bulgarian politician and exile G. M. Dimitrov helped found the first Bulgarian NATO company ?
text: Did you know that the ruined Saxon St Peter's Church, West Blatchington was used as a henhouse for many years before being restored in the 19th century?
text: Did you know that Edith Killgore Kirkpatrick published a short book of favorite songs titled Louisiana Let's Sing in honor of her husband Claude 's unsuccessful candidacy for Governor of Louisiana in 1963?
text: Did you know that canal engineer Hugh Henshall was both pupil of and brother-in-law to James Brindley , the famous canal architect of the Industrial Revolution ?
text: Did you know that it took Peter Steinfeld six weeks to write the opening eleven pages of his first screenplay, Drowning Mona ?
text: Did you know that deadpan comedian Kevin Wu was one of three Asians under the age of 21 to be in the top five of YouTube 's all time most subscribed in 2008?
text: Did you know that by 1937, the Warsaw branch of the Bundist Morgnshtern was the largest sporting organisation in Poland ?
text: Did you know that art historian George Zarnecki worked with a Soviet spy for almost 30 years at the Courtauld Institute of Art ?
text: Did you know that Japanese rock band Abingdon Boys School provided one of the two opening theme tunes for the first season of the D.Gray-man anime ?
text: Did you know that Dutch cricketer Maurits van Nierop had been recalled to the Netherlands national cricket team squad for the first time in two years just two weeks before he died?
text: Did you know the loading coil saved AT&T an estimated US$100 million in the first quarter of the 20th century but Oliver Heaviside was paid nothing for the idea?
text: Did you know that after the resignation of Roman Abramovic , Roman Kopin was unanimously confirmed by local legislators to be the next governor of Chukotka Autonomous Okrug ?
text: Did you know that British architect Rodney Gordon considered running for Parliament , but could not decide which party he wanted to be in?
text: Did you know that the Willamette Law Review offices are housed in a former Carnegie library re-dedicated in a ceremony featuring U.S. Supreme Court judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg ?
text: Did you know that " The Nose " is a 1916 Japanese short story by Akutagawa Ryūnosuke about a Buddhist priest who is obsessed with his ungainly nose?
text: Did you know that Eero Saarinen 's Bell Labs Holmdel Complex was called the "The Biggest Mirror Ever" because of its unique exterior?
text: Did you know that Jacopo I da Carrara , signore of Padua , Italy , voluntarily stepped down in 1319 to save the city from Cangrande I della Scala ?
text: Did you know that ticket scalpers were arrested prior to the 2008 UAAP men's basketball finals for reselling tickets at exorbitant prices?
text: Did you know that the Bandra Fair in Mumbai , India was established to commemorate finding a statue of Mary in the Arabian Sea ?
text: Did you know that American film producer Sandy Stern 's producing partner is R.E.M. 's lead singer Michael Stipe ?
text: Did you know that Loughborough University 's Pilkington Library is cooled by an on campus combined heat and power plant which provides electricity to the rest of the university?
text: Did you know that the 2002 Battle of Nablus continued for two hours after the Palestinian fighters announced their willingness to surrender?
text: Did you know that biochemist Rollin Hotchkiss , a pioneer in bacterial transformation and molecular genetics , helped to popularize the term " genetic engineering "?
text: Did you know that the September 2008 attacks on Christians in Mangalore started in response to the allegations by Bajrang Dal that the New Life Fellowship Church was indulging in forcible conversion of Hindus ?
text: Did you know that Henry Bohlen , an American Civil War Union Brigadier General who was born in Germany in 1810, was the first foreign-born Union general in the Civil War?
text: Did you know that the High Arctic relocation of 87 Inuit people in the Cold War was called "one of the worst human rights violations in the history of Canada " by the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples ?
text: Did you know that Sadamu Shimomura , the last Army Minister of the Imperial Japanese Army , was appointed after the surrender of Japan ?
text: Did you know that the Alabama Crimson Tide college football team holds NCAA records for both bowl game appearances and victories with 55 and 31 respectively?
text: Did you know that although designed for use on light rail lines, the Valmet RM 2 trams were only ever used on traditional tram systems?
text: Did you know that computer criminal Jeanson James Ancheta was the first person to be charged for controlling large numbers of hijacked computers or botnets ?
text: Did you know that conductor gallop , the wind-induced 1 Hz oscillation of overhead transmission lines , is also known as "dancing"?
text: Did you know that British equestrian Anne Dunham won her first individual Paralympic gold medal in the 2008 Games at the age of 59?
text: Did you know that the Red Hill fire tower was the last in the Catskills to be closed down?
text: Did you know that Sir Michael Seymour was appointed to command HMS Niemen in September 1809, a ship he had captured from the French that April?
text: Did you know that at the funeral of Sir Anthony Browne , friends were given mourning rings engraved on the outside with 'Wee dye'?
text: Did you know that M3 Amphibious Rig , a self-propelled amphibious bridging vehicle, was originally developed by the German firm Eisenwerke Kaiserslautern?
text: Did you know that the first work of Texas literature in English was the 1833 book Texas by Mary Austin Holley , cousin of Stephen F. Austin ?
text: Did you know the San Esteban Chuckwalla can exceed two feet (61 cm) in length, making it the largest member of its genus, and a textbook example of insular gigantism ?
text: Did you know that Warren A. Morton , a Speaker of the Wyoming House , was the father of a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta and the son-in-law of a U.S. representative from Pennsylvania ?
text: Did you know that the Norwegian river Lysakerelven , an ecosystem of national importance, has walking and cycling trails on both banks from its source to its mouth at the Oslofjord ?
text: Did you know that Charlie Hillard was the first American to win the World Aerobatics Championship?
text: Did you know that Springfield Armory, Inc. assisted Naval Surface Warfare Center Crane Division in making the United States Navy Mark 14 Mod 0 Enhanced Battle Rifle by supplying the needed machinery to make it?
text: Did you know that according to Hansard , Northern Irish boxer Paddy Maguire once sparred with Conservative politician Colin Moynihan in a London pub?
text: Did you know that the weroance of the Appomattoc tribe, Perecute, personally led Thomas Batts and Robert Fallam on an expedition in 1671 to become the first Europeans to set foot within what is now West Virginia ?
text: Did you know that Slovenian biologist Ivan Regen is considered the founder of modern bioacoustics due to his work on cricket and katydid acoustic communication?
text: Did you know that in Mexico City 's Zócalo , 18,000 Mexicans stripped naked for the artist Spencer Tunick ?
text: Did you know that many of the pieces of the anthology Suspiria de Profundis were lost before publication, as its author Thomas de Quincey may have accidentally set them on fire?
text: Did you know that after living in the U.S. for 50 years, painter Kazys Varnelis returned to Lithuania in 1998 at the age of 81?
text: Did you know that Else Højgaard was a prima ballerina who was awarded knighthood in the Order of the Dannebrog ?
text: Did you know that the 1871 Battle of Blanco Canyon marked the first time a foreign military force had penetrated to the heart of the Comancheria since the Comanche rose to power on the Great Plains ?
text: Did you know that Gliricidia sepium is used as firewood , live fencing , fodder , coffee shade, green manure and rat poison ?
text: Did you know that Alaskan fiber artist Fran Reed was known for her distinctive baskets made from dried fish skins?
text: Did you know that Hapoel Tayibe was the first ever Arab football club to play in the top division in Israel ?
text: Did you know that A.U. Fuimaono was the first Delegate from American Samoa to the United States House of Representatives ?
text: Did you know that Brazilian nursing assistant Edson Isidora Guimaraes is thought to have killed patients in a hospital in São Paolo because a funeral home was paying him $60 a time for the relatives' contact details?
text: Did you know that in August 1936, the Matson Navigation Company cargo ship SS Mauna Loa came to the aid of a windjammer that was crewed by Sea Scouts and had been missing for two weeks?
text: Did you know that Nora Kimball co-starred with Mikhail Baryshnikov in David Gordon 's Made in U.S.A. ?
text: Did you know that the last common ancestor of bilaterian animals has been reconstructed as a tiny worm with a combined mouth and anus?
text: Did you know that the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law was named after its founder Sir Elihu Lauterpacht and his father Sir Hersch Lauterpacht ?
text: Did you know that 29 out of 40 prepared songs were excluded from the final track list of Brandon Heath 's album What If We ?
text: Did you know that following the purchase of British Energy by Electricité de France , plans for a new Hinkley Point C nuclear power station have been announced?
text: Did you know that on April 17, 1964 , Tim Harkness of the New York Mets became the first Met player to bat and the first to get a hit in the team's first game played at Shea Stadium ?
text: Did you know that the Oxford Music Hall , opened in 1861, burned down twice within its first dozen years of operation?
text: Did you know that Prussian -born American surveyor and city planner Julius Pitzman was directly responsible for the development of the private place in St. Louis, Missouri around the turn of the 20th century?
text: Did you know that Mike J. Manning was threatened with deportation from Papua New Guinea for a report criticizing corruption in the government?
text: Did you know that the United Arab Emirates has signed an agreement with the Guggenheim Foundation to build a Guggenheim museum in Abu Dhabi ?
text: Did you know that although Iván DeJesús, Jr. was selected to play in the 2008 Southern League All-star game, he instead played in the 2008 All-Star Futures Game ?
text: Did you know that the song " Another Planet " by drum and bass band Pendulum uses samples from Jeff Wayne 's musical version of The War of the Worlds ?
text: Did you know that, after the rebellious Tang Dynasty general Zhu Tao was defeated by Wang Wujun and Li Baozhen , he immediately executed two subordinates who had suggested that he battle Wang and Li?
text: Did you know that Betty Furness , a Hollywood film actress turned consumer advocate , was appointed by Nelson Rockefeller as the first chairman and executive director of the New York State Consumer Protection Board ?
text: Did you know that when Giurgiu Cathedral in Romania was inaugurated in 2006, it received a box with the relics of Saint George , but this was stolen the following year?
text: Did you know that the followers of the Socialist Workers Party in Palestine , the precursor of the Communist Party of Israel , were known as mopsim ?
text: Did you know that Double Falshood is a 1727 play by Lewis Theobald based on the "Cardenio" episode in Don Quixote ?
text: Did you know that Olympic distance runner Matt Centrowitz was the number one high school mile runner in America in 1973?
text: Did you know that Dustin the Turkey , a puppet , represented Ireland in the Eurovision Song Contest 2008 ?
text: Did you know that Gary D. McCaleb , a former mayor of Abilene , once recruited the late Benazir Bhutto of Pakistan to speak to a community gathering in his West Texas city?
text: Did you know that Cleckheaton railway station was stolen in August 1971?
text: Did you know that Supreme National Tribunal , a war crime tribunal active in Poland from 1946 to 1948, presided over seven high-profile cases, including the First Auschwitz Trial ?
text: Did you know that Morris Sullivan 's relocation of his Sullivan Bluth Studios animation company from the U.S. to Ireland , to exploit tax advantages, helped stimulate the development of Ireland's animation industry?
text: Did you know that the Red-backed Kingfisher nests in burrows in riverbanks but not near water?
text: Did you know that the Great Swamp in Putnam and Dutchess County, New York is one of the largest wetlands in the state?
text: Did you know that Richard Kessel , a consumer advocate who opposed the US$ 5.5 billion Shoreham Nuclear Power Plant , purchased the facility for one dollar as head of the Long Island Power Authority ?
text: Did you know that Ayrlies Garden has been described as the "quintessential New Zealand garden"?
text: Did you know that in 2004 , Ouaga-Saga was one of two or three films the Burkina Faso government produces in a year?
text: Did you know that Dave Needham is only one of a few British boxers to have been both a BBBC bantamweight and featherweight champion?
text: Did you know that the shagreen ray is also known as the "fuller's ray" because its spiny back resembles devices used for fulling cloth ?
text: Did you know that in 2008, the University of Arkansas Community College at Hope received a one-million-dollar gift from the AEP Southwestern Electric Power Company to fund technical and industrial programs?
text: Did you know that Bankrate monitors about 4,800 financial institutions throughout the United States?
text: Did you know that Frank Tepedino , former Major League Baseball player, lost 343 colleagues from the New York City Fire Department during the September 11 attacks ?
text: Did you know that Thorbjørn Egners lesebøker , a series of readers for the Norwegian primary school , took the author 25 years to complete, but were made largely obsolete the year the last book was published?
text: Did you know that in 1983, Rich Mountain Community College was formed as a merger of Rich Mountain Vocational-Technical School and Henderson State University 's off-campus programs?
text: Did you know that the recipe for the Tom Collins cocktail first appeared in the 1876 edition of The Bartender's Guide by noted American mixologist Jerry Thomas ?
text: Did you know that Albert Teveodjré once had a monopoly on journalism in Dahomey ?
text: Did you know that Plymouth Sound, Shores and Cliffs has units of rock showing the lower to early Middle Devonian period, laid 417–354 million years ago?
text: Did you know that American football head coach Dick Vermeil coached two NFC championship teams 19 years apart—the 1980 Philadelphia Eagles and the 1999 St. Louis Rams ?
text: Did you know that Ira Needles co-founded the University of Waterloo in 1957 with Gerald Hagey , and later served as the university's second chancellor ?
text: Did you know that seven Cornish fishermen sailed to Australia in the lugger Mystery in 1854–55, a journey which is being recreated today by the Spirit of Mystery ?
text: Did you know that Betty James came up with the name of the Slinky toy created by her husband, Richard T. James , and ran the business for decades after he left her and their six children to live in Bolivia ?
text: Did you know that Megalictis ferox , a species of extinct predatory mustelid , resembled a modern wolverine but with three times the body mass?
text: Did you know that Czech businessman František Mrázek is believed to have covertly influenced Czech politics for the 20 years before he was assassinated?
text: Did you know that Glenn Dumke was the chancellor of California State University from 1962 to 1982, during which time it became the largest system of higher education in the United States with 319,000 students?
text: Did you know that the design of the art nouveau Germania definitive stamp was personally chosen by Emperor Wilhelm II ?
text: Did you know that Tom Gish 's newspaper The Mountain Eagle was the first newspaper in eastern Kentucky to challenge the damage caused to the environment resulting from strip mining ?
text: Did you know that the 1915 Pleasant Valley earthquake caused four fault scarps that, together, measured 59 kilometres (37 mi) * ?
text: Did you know that Terrance Carroll , the grandson of a sharecropper, is slated to become the first African American ever to serve as Speaker of the Colorado House of Representatives ?
text: Did you know that in 18th-century Europe, tobacco smoke enemas were considered the most potent method of resuscitating near-drowned people?
text: Did you know that theories about the Shugborough inscription ciphertext include a love message, a biblical verse, a clue to a preserved Jesus bloodline or a reference to the Priory of Sion and the Holy Grail ?
text: Did you know that Vakkom Moulavi was the founder of the newspaper Swadeshabhimani which was banned by the Government of Travancore due to its criticisms against the government and the Diwan P. Rajagopalachari ?
text: Did you know that although Fairfield Grammar School , Bristol , expelled Cary Grant for going into the girls' lavatories, the city later erected a life-size bronze statue of him?
text: Did you know that David Hoadley restructured management of the Panama Railway so that it avoided bankruptcy and finished its track a year early?
text: Did you know that internet service provider McColo , taken down in November 2008, hosted the world's biggest botnet and was responsible for at least half of all email spam ?
text: Did you know that the death of Charles Gough was depicted in poetry and art by Walter Scott , William Wordsworth , Francis Danby and Edwin Landseer ?
text: Did you know that in 2000, the season finale of television series Survivor: Borneo had more viewers than the World Series , NBA Finals , NCAA men's basketball finals, and Grammy Awards of that year?
text: Did you know that the modern border between Iran and Iraq dates back to the Treaty of Zuhab , which concluded the Ottoman–Safavid War of 1623–1639 ?
text: Did you know that singer Christina Milian 's self-titled debut album had its U.S. release date delayed for three years, partly due to the September 11 attacks ?
text: Did you know that organisms exhibiting kleptoplasty retain active chloroplasts from the algae on which they feed, providing the new host with the products of photosynthesis ?
text: Did you know that architect Clarence W. W. Mayhew , known as an innovator of the contemporary ranch house in California , admitted copying "the underlying principle" from Japanese architecture ?
text: Did you know that English novelist Charles Dickens wrote the bestseller The Life of Our Lord for his children in 1849, but it was not published until 1934, 64 years after his death?
text: Did you know that ABC moved the Roseanne episode " December Bride ", which featured a same-sex wedding , from its usual broadcast time slot to one 90 minutes later, citing the episode's "adult humor"?
text: Did you know that General John B. Grayson died of pneumonia and tuberculosis three months after he joined the Confederate Army , without fighting a single battle?
text: Did you know that the nematode Capillaria plica is a parasite found in the urinary bladder of dogs, cats and various mammals ?
text: Did you know that Exchange Plaza , the Western Australian state headquarters of the Australian Securities Exchange , is built on land owned by a historic gentlemen's club ?
text: Did you know that James Guthrie was Abraham Lincoln 's first choice for Secretary of War , but he declined the position due to age and failing health?
text: Did you know that poetry of the Hindu female-saint Bahinabai reflects the compromise between her devotion to husband and patron-god Vithoba ?
text: Did you know that the German company Jako threatened to sue the Football Association of Ireland when referee Anthony Buttimer refused to allow Sligo Rovers to wear their kit in a League of Ireland match?
text: Did you know that in Japan during the Muromachi era , the shogun 's representative would go to Wakamiya Ōji Avenue in Kamakura once a year to walk around a certain Shinto gate seven times?
text: Did you know that, on the way to Liverpool , the engine of the diesel-powered cargo liner MV Rakaia failed and the crew had to design makeshift sails to complete the journey?
text: Did you know that Pulicat Lake , a 450 km 2 (174 sq mi) bird sanctuary , adjoins the Satish Dhawan Space Centre , launch site of India 's successful first lunar space mission, the Chandrayaan-1 ?
text: Did you know that the 1921 congress of the Marxist Left in Slovakia and the Transcarpathian Ukraine endorsed all 21 conditions of Comintern , except the one demanding use of the name "Communist Party"?
text: Did you know that Aaron Edlin , an expert in law and economics , co-founded the Berkeley Electronic Press ?
text: Did you know that most of the skeletons found at Talheim Death Pit , a mass grave in Germany dating to 5000 BC, show signs of skull trauma , and scientists have concluded that those buried there were victims of genocide ?
text: Did you know that when Jack Heslop-Harrison resigned as director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew in 1976 he was the first director to do so in the 154 years of its existence?
text: Did you know that there is no agreement as to the origin of the unusual name of Nameless , Tennessee ?
text: Did you know that Phil Ochs described " Power and the Glory " as "the greatest song I'll ever write"?
text: Did you know that following his team's loss in the 1965 Rose Bowl , Oregon State Beavers football coach Tommy Prothro was hired as head coach at UCLA , where he led the team to victory in the following year's Rose Bowl ?
text: Did you know that the Pied Tamarin , an endangered primate of the Amazon basin , is being gradually displaced by the Red-handed Tamarin ?
text: Did you know that the Woodland Opera House was the first opera house to serve the Sacramento Valley ?
text: Did you know that Byron Brown was the first African-American to be elected mayor of Buffalo, New York , even though six African-Americans had been the nominee before him?
text: Did you know that at least five mutations are known to cause diplopodia in chickens , resulting in the development of extra toes or other structural abnormalities in the hind limbs?
text: Did you know that Benjamin Hanford ran as the Socialist Party of America candidate for Vice President of the United States in 1904 and 1908?
text: Did you know that a bishop of the Church of England once won the World's Biggest Liar competition by simply stating, "I have never told a lie in my life"?
text: Did you know that Howard C. Belton lost the election to become the Oregon State Treasurer in 1948, only to be appointed to the same office 12 years later?
text: Did you know that the first episode of the third season of 30 Rock is currently the most watched episode of the series ?
text: Did you know that Howard Pyle 's 1883 children's novel The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood had a vast influence on portrayals of Robin Hood through the 20th century?
text: Did you know that almost all documentation of PZL.49 Miś , a development of advanced Polish medium bomber PZL.37 Łoś , was destroyed during the siege of Warsaw to prevent it from falling into Nazi German hands?
text: Did you know that Charles Thomas Campbell , who served as a Union Army general during the American Civil War , helped found the town of Scotland, South Dakota ?
text: Did you know that the oldest known text of the Martyrology of Tallaght is in a 12th-century manuscript now at University College, Dublin ?
text: Did you know that Democrat Paul J. Carmouche and Republican John C. Fleming face off on December 6, 2008, in one of the final two U.S. Congressional races of the year, delayed due to Hurricane Gustav ?
text: Did you know that General Charles G. Boyd , United States Air Force , is the only Vietnam War prisoner of war to later reach the 4-star rank ?
text: Did you know that a copy of Diana, Princess of Wales ' wedding dress, made by David Emanuel , sold at auction in 2005 for £100,000, twice the original estimate?
text: Did you know that Vatalanib , an anti- cancer drug currently in clinical trials , inhibits the growth of new blood vessels by selectively blocking receptors of vascular endothelial growth factors ?
text: Did you know that before becoming a general in the American Civil War , Robert Francis Catterson practiced medicine in Rockville, Indiana ?
text: Did you know that the epiphytic orchid Miltoniopsis vexillaria was discovered in 1867 by plant collector David Bowman and introduced from Colombia to England in 1873 by a fellow Veitch employee, Henry Chesterton ?
text: Did you know that Hilary Teague served as Liberia 's first Secretary of State and wrote that country's Declaration of Independence ?
text: Did you know that perfluorononanoic acid , an environmental contaminant , has been detected in polar bears in concentrations over 400 parts per billion?
text: Did you know that Snarøya , a peninsula in Bærum , Norway , was an island until the 19th century?
text: Did you know that before Korean American Tessa Ludwick became a child actress , she worked as a model , starting when she was only two and a half years old?
text: Did you know that mokomokai , the preserved heads of Māori people with facial tattoos , were traded for firearms during the early 19th century in New Zealand ?
text: Did you know that Morten Wetland was the campaign manager for Gro Harlem Brundtland when she applied for the World Health Organization directorship in 1998?
text: Did you know that Irwin Gunsalus discovered lipoic acid , an enzyme cofactor which has been proposed as a dietary supplement to prevent or delay the onset of Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases ?
text: Did you know that Jacques Rabemananjara , former Vice President of Madagascar , was also an important negritude poet and playwright?
text: Did you know that Bobby Leonard , Jack McKinney , Larry Brown and Rick Carlisle have each coached the Indiana Pacers for 328 regular season games in the NBA ?
text: Did you know that the Indian Antarctic Program has two permanent bases in Antarctica and has sent 27 expeditions to the continent since 1981?
text: Did you know that Houston attorney Joe Rollins successfully defended the city in a suit regarding cost overruns and construction delays at Bush Intercontinental Airport ?
text: Did you know that suffragette Lady Constance Lytton carved the letter "V" (for "Votes for Women") into her breast using a piece of broken enamel from a hairpin?
text: Did you know that Vivaldi 's opera Griselda is based on the folklore character Griselda as told by Giovanni Boccaccio in the The Decameron ?
text: Did you know that the 30- storey former AMP Building in Perth was the tallest building in the Western Australian city when it was completed in 1975?
text: Did you know that publisher and biographer Newman Flower was criticized by some contemporaries for sanitizing aspects of his subjects' personal lives?
text: Did you know that ATIC , a balloon-borne detector flying over Antarctica , recently found excess cosmic ray electrons that might provide evidence for dark matter consisting of Kaluza-Klein particles ?
text: Did you know that although Antonio Maria Bononcini 's 1718 opera Griselda was successful, his older brother, Giovanni Bononcini , composed a more popular version in 1722?
text: Did you know that Norwegian businessperson Anthon B. Nilsen , founder of the company of the same name , also wrote popular novels and served one term in the Norwegian Parliament ?
text: Did you know that the nematode Elaeophora sagitta is a parasite that infests the heart and blood vessels of animals such as buffaloes and kudus in Africa ?
text: Did you know that the cohort model in psycholinguistics attempts to describe the retrieval of words from the mental lexicon in terms of how speech stimulates neurons ?
text: Did you know that in 1909, the American Brass Company manufactured two-thirds of all the brass in the United States , consumed a third of all copper produced in the U.S., and was the largest fabricator of nonferrous metal in the world?
text: Did you know that Jeffrey Blitz wrote Rocket Science based on his own adolescence despite claiming to be "allergic" to autobiographical films?
text: Did you know  that Soviet submarines patrolling in the North Atlantic in the 1970s reported mysterious frog-like sounds, dubbed " quackers ", which have been classified as Unidentified Submerged Objects ?
text: Did you know that the fungus Podaxis is often used as face paint by the Australian Aborigines ?
text: Did you know that Irish journalist Willie Wilde was described by Max Beerbohm as a "dark, oily suspect" sharing the "coy, carnal smile & fatuous giggle" of his younger brother, Oscar Wilde ?
text: Did you know that Lucky Dragons have not only released 19 albums, but also run an art society called Sumi Ink Club and an internet community called Glaciers of Nice?
text: Did you know that the cave paintings at La Marche in France, which include detailed depictions of humans rather than stick figures, were met with skepticism when discovered in 1937?
text: Did you know that former Princeton Tigers Will Venable and Chris Young were the first players named first-team All- Ivy League in both basketball and baseball ?
text: Did you know that the nematode Elaeophora elaphi is a parasite that infests the hepatic blood vessels of Red Deer in Spain ?
text: Did you know that Jane Brody was at first reluctant to write the Personal Health column in The New York Times , which has since been syndicated to more than 100 newspapers in the U.S.?
text: Did you know that the 350-acre (140 ha) Mar Y Cel estate, built in the early 1900s in the foothills of California 's Santa Ynez Mountains , included an aqueduct , water works, arches, and statues?
text: Did you know that Donald Finkel , a poet who had aspired to be a sculptor as a youth, created sculptures out of found items that he called "dreckolage"?
text: Did you know that Plymouth Cathedral experienced subsidence after a Royal Navy officer fired new Turkish man-of-war guns in Plymouth Sound ?
text: Did you know that seven Caltrain stations have been listed on the National Register of Historic Places ?
text: Did you know that before becoming a famous opera singer, Ines Maria Ferraris had a career as a concert pianist beginning at the age of 12?
text: Did you know that the only known picture of the Etruscan mythological daemon Tuchulcha is on the wall in the Tomb of Orcus , a 4th-century BC hypogeum in Tarquinia , Italy ?
text: Did you know that Abell 2142 , a galaxy cluster , is one of the most massive objects in the universe?
text: Did you know that historic Bordeaux wine estate Château d'Angludet was derelict after World War II , but its fortunes were reversed when wine producer Peter Sichel noticed it during an afternoon stroll?
text: Did you know that Marc Feldmann and Ravinder N. Maini were awarded the 2000 Crafoord Prize for identification of TNF blockade as an effective therapeutic principle in rheumatoid arthritis ?
text: Did you know that according to the U.S. copyright law , musicians who accuse others of plagiarising their work must prove "access" and "similarity", in the absence of a confession?
text: Did you know that Nabi Shu'ayb , Arabic for "the Prophet Jethro ", is used in English to refer to the site where Druze tradition holds he was buried?
text: Did you know that the Territorial and Reserve Forces Act 1907 reorganised the reserves of the British Army , creating the Territorial Force ?
text: Did you know that openly gay actor Robert La Tourneaux considered his role as the gay hustler in the 1970 film The Boys in the Band to be the "kiss of death" for his career?
text: Did you know that Karl Marx called the Daily Express of Dublin "the Government organ" and accused it of "false rumours of murders committed, armed men marauding, and midnight meetings"?
text: Did you know that more than a million tourists visit the wine-producing regions in Argentina annually?
text: Did you know that Jerry Ziesmer , who delivered the line " Terminate with extreme prejudice " in Apocalypse Now , was also the film's assistant director ?
text: Did you know that, apart from inventing the saxophone , Belgian musician Adolphe Sax also devised the brass instrument saxotromba ?
text: Did you know that the character Seo Hell from the Old English Gospel of Nicodemus tells Satan to leave her dwelling, and has been compared to the female being Hel of Norse mythology ?
text: Did you know that former Detroit Tigers pitcher Pat Underwood 's first game in the major leagues was a 1-0 victory against his brother Tom ?
text: Did you know that Réseau de Transport d'Électricité , Europe's largest transmission system operator , manages a 100,000-kilometre (62,000 mi) network of high-voltage power lines ?
text: Did you know that enraged plebs burned down the home of Lucius Aurelius Avianius Symmachus because of a rumor that he would rather slake lime with wine, than sell wine at the price they wanted?
text: Did you know that many of the members of the Australian Aboriginal cricket team which toured England in 1868 were Jardwadjali men?
text: Did you know that before serving in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War , James M. Goggin worked as a cotton broker?
text: Did you know that until the former Arab village of Nabi Rubin was captured by Israel in 1948, it was the site of a large annual  religious festival with tens of thousands of Muslims participating?
text: Did you know that a 12-mile (19 km)-long railway ride was planned to be built on Dunderberg Mountain in the 19th century, but was never completed?
text: Did you know that mushrooms of the genus Calostoma are sometimes called "prettymouth" because of peristome tissue that appears on them when they expand?
text: Did you know that 1996 U.S. Vice-Presidential nominee Jack Kemp won two American Football League Championships as the quarterback of the Buffalo Bills in 1964 and 1965?
text: Did you know that the bankruptcy of property fund owner William Stern with debts of £118 million led directly to the creation of Britain's first Policyholders' Protection Act in 1975?
text: Did you know that Chicago hairstylist John Lanzendorf owned one of the world's largest collections of dinosaur -themed artwork?
text: Did you know that Swedish scientist Per-Ingvar Brånemark ’s discovery of osseointegration led to the development of titanium dental implants ?
text: Did you know that in the 1850s, the Atlantic Mutual Insurance Company was the largest marine and general insurance firm in North America?
text: Did you know that in 1903, a toll of 10 pennies (equivalent to £14.00 today) was levied to take a flock of twenty sheep across Maidenhead Bridge ?
text: Did you know that Rosetta Reitz , whose Rosetta Records focused on the women of jazz, was behind the 1980 Newport Jazz Festival tribute called "Blues is a Woman", featuring Adelaide Hall and Big Mama Thornton ?
text: Did you know that Order of the Builders of People's Poland was the highest civilian decoration in the People's Republic of Poland ?
text: Did you know that Chuck Churn won only three games in his Major League Baseball career, one of them handing Elroy Face his only loss in 1959 when he finished with an 18–1 record?
text: Did you know that during the Great Bombay Textile Strike of 1982, nearly 250,000 workers and more than 50 textile mills went on strike in Mumbai , India ?
text: Did you know that Mieczysław Jagielski negotiated the agreement which recognized Solidarity as the first independent trade union within the Eastern Bloc ?
text: Did you know that Emperor Dezong of Tang ordered the former chancellor Dou Can to commit suicide as Dou was heading to his exile in Vietnam ?
text: Did you know that when it was completed in 1976, the 32-storey Allendale Square in Perth, Western Australia , was one of the largest fully aluminium -clad skyscrapers in the world?
text: Did you know that the 1996 Orange Bowl had the lowest attendance of any Orange Bowl since 1947?
text: Did you know that when Wales national rugby union team beat Scotland in the 1952 Five Nations Championship , Rex Willis played a large proportion of the match with a broken jaw bone?
text: Did you know that at least one song written by Sonny Throckmorton was on the country music charts for almost every week between 1976 and 1980?
text: Did you know that the Lava River Cave in Newberry National Volcanic Monument is the longest known uncollapsed lava tube in Oregon , U.S.?
text: Did you know that Charles Dinsmoor invented the endless chain tractor in 1886, forerunner of the continuous track vehicle?
text: Did you know that Uncial 0212 is the first manuscript of Greek Diatessaron , a Gospel harmony , to be discovered in modern time?
text: Did you know that in 1967, Dr. Adrian Kantrowitz performed the world's second human heart transplant , in a procedure on a 19-day-old infant at Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn , New York ?
text: Did you know that there are four types of spinning , a manufacturing process for creating polymer fibers—wet, dry, melt, and gel?
text: Did you know that during the War of 1812 , Grenadier Island , Canada , housed a small military installation?
text: Did you know that U.S. President Rutherford B. Hayes considered the founding of Ohio State University one of his two greatest achievements?
text: Did you know that a proposal by James Armsey of the Ford Foundation led many major universities in the United States to integrate in the 1960s?
text: Did you know that the white horse in mythology is associated with the sun chariot, warrior-heroes, fertility or an end-time saviour?
text: Did you know that American illustrator , painter and printmaker Ella Sophonisba Hergesheimer was the great-great granddaughter of Philadelphia artist Charles Willson Peale ?
text: Did you know that validation of ocean surface wave models through hindcasts and forecasts is important to the shipping industry , which relies on them for tactical seakeeping ?
text: Did you know that Dalberg Global Development Advisors developed a ranking system to assess the quality of 20,000 NGOs and UN agencies ?
text: Did you know that the bell tower of the Bărboi Church in Iaşi , Romania , is over a century older than the present church, and once contained a private library?
text: Did you know that Fr. Finn wrote the 1890 novel Tom Playfair , telling the adventures of a 10-year-old at an all-boys Jesuit boarding school , to illustrate his ideal of a genuine Catholic American boy?
text: Did you know that footballer Tommy Magee is the only West Bromwich Albion player to have won both a League Championship medal and an FA Cup winners' medal with the club?
text: Did you know that traditionalist American art critic Royal Cortissoz denigrated the work of modern masters such as Vincent van Gogh as being the product of " egotists "?
text: Did you know that singer Robb Johnson based the album Gentle Men on the experiences of his two grandfathers during the First World War ?
text: Did you know that in a kiss scene with Kirk Cameron in Fireproof , Erin Bethea was replaced by Cameron's real-life wife, Chelsea Noble , and the scene was shot in shadows?
text: Did you know that the nematode Elaeophora poeli is a parasite that is found in the heart or aorta of various species of cattle ?
text: Did you know that the World Wrestling Federation 's first coffin match took place at Survivor Series 1992 between The Undertaker and Kamala ?
text: Did you know that the German merchant ship SS Uhenfels was captured at sea during the Second World War , and subsequently became a British merchant?
text: Did you know that when ABC 's Birmingham, Alabama , affiliate WBMA-LP refused to air the Ellen coming out episode " The Puppy Episode ", a local LGBT group sold out a 5,000-seat theatre so people could watch it via satellite?
text: Did you know that even though they were five points ahead of 1. FC Saarbrücken , SV Alsenborn were not promoted to the higher level 2nd Bundesliga Süd , due to their financial position?
text: Did you know that American abolitionist Parke Godwin criticized then-president Franklin Pierce in an essay entitled "American Despotisms"?
text: Did you know that the initial ransom demand by Somali pirates to release the MT Stolt Valor , hijacked September 15, 2008, was US$ 6 million?
text: Did you know that The Atlantic Monthly ran an article titled "Mother Doesn't Do Much" by Catherine Galbraith about her role as an ambassador's wife in India after her son wrote a school essay using those words?
text: Did you know that the edible mushroom Agaricus abruptibulbus grows better in the presence of the normally toxic element cadmium ?
text: Did you know that Henry Greathead invented the lifeboat in 1790, but never sought to patent it?
text: Did you know that Hacienda Arms on the Sunset Strip was the "most famous brothel in California " in the 1930s and now houses a celebrity-owned restaurant described by Newsweek as "so hip it hurts"?
text: Did you know that Ohaveth Sholum Congregation , Seattle 's first Jewish congregation, fell four days short of having the first synagogue in Washington ?
text: Did you know that in 1905, Fred Odwell led the National League in home runs with nine, but hit only one home run in the other three seasons he played in Major League Baseball ?
text: Did you know that local legend in Lajjun , a district center in Palestine under the Abbasids , held that the spring that served as its primary water source sprang from a stone after Abraham struck it with his staff?
text: Did you know  that when American sculptor Chester Beach was selected to the National Academy of Design , he was its youngest member?
text: Did you know that Uskmouth Power Station has been described as one of the cleanest coal-fired power stations in the United Kingdom ?
text: Did you know that by the time he graduated from medical school, Patrick David Wall had already published three papers in prominent scientific journals ?
text: Did you know that the Navy Midshipmen discontinued the football series with the Maryland Terrapins for forty years after a Terrapins' linebacker twice " flipped the bird " to the Brigade of Midshipmen during the 1964 game?
text: Did you know that after serving in U.S. embassies in Egypt and Lebanon , Edward Sheehan wrote his debut novel Kingdom of Illusion about the playboy king of a fictional Middle Eastern country?
text: Did you know that the Community Services Appeals Tribunal was the first tribunal in Australia to use alternative dispute resolution ?
text: Did you know that Ngo Dinh Diem 's presidential visit to the United States in 1957 was only the second time that Dwight D. Eisenhower had greeted a guest in person at the airport?
text: Did you know that the Sclerodermataceae , a family of fungi , contains species with common names such as "hard-skinned puffballs ", " earthstars " and " prettymouths "?
text: Did you know that Constantine Richard Moorsom was listed as having been in the Battle of Trafalgar at the age of 13, even though he was actually in school at the time?
text: Did you know that Worthy Streator never set foot in the city of Streator, Illinois , the town named for him, even though it was founded 36 years before his death?
text: Did you know that Council House in Perth , Western Australia , was built to coincide with that city's hosting of the 1962 British Empire and Commonwealth Games ?
text: Did you know that Agnieszka Pilchowa , a noted clairvoyant in the Second Polish Republic , was also a herbalist who treated Prime Minister Józef Piłsudski and President Ignacy Mościcki ?
text: Did you know that Brown Mountain forest in East Gippsland , Victoria , is home to mainland Australia 's largest marsupial carnivore, the Spotted Quoll ?
text: Did you know that the presence of indoleic acid in one's urine may indicate a pathological accumulation of the amino acid tryptophan in the blood ?
text: Did you know that Franklin M. Fisher served as the chief economic witness for IBM in the antitrust case U.S. v. IBM , and for the United States Department of Justice in United States v. Microsoft ?
text: Did you know that K-B-D , a triliteral root meaning "heavy" that is common to all Semitic languages, appears in the Old Testament 376 times?
text: Did you know that the food shortages during the winter of 1946–1947 saw British farmers using pneumatic drills to harvest parsnips ?
text: Did you know that after a plane crash killed the Governor of Oregon and the next two people in line for that office, the new governor's first act was to appoint Earl T. Newbry as Secretary of State?
text: Did you know that the 1806 settlement of Chinese in Trinidad was the first organised settlement of Chinese people in the Caribbean , preceding the importation of Chinese-indentured labour by over 40 years?
text: Did you know that Phil Johnson and Cotton Fitzsimmons are the only Sacramento Kings head coaches to have won NBA Coach of the Year ?
text: Did you know that the human bocavirus is the fourth most commonly found virus in samples collected from the respiratory system ?
text: Did you know that Michigan highway M-97 was simultaneously named both Reid Highway and Groesbeck Highway by different levels of government from 1927 until 1949, the year it was dedicated to Alex Groesbeck ?
text: Did you know that the mysterious rebel known as The Hidden claimed to be a secret prince given a divine revelation to save Spain in the Revolt of the Brotherhoods ?
text: Did you know that Indigenous Australian actor Brandon Walters had never heard of Nicole Kidman or Hugh Jackman when he signed on to co-star with them in Australia ?
text: Did you know that the park Ravnedalen in Kristiansand , Norway , was constructed by Colonel Joseph Frantz Oscar Wergeland and his soldiers?
text: Did you know that painter T. E. Breitenbach 's work Proverbidioms appeared on the TV show Beverly Hills, 90210 ?
text: Did you know that the Minatogawa Man is among the oldest complete skeletons of modern humans recovered in East Asia ?
text: Did you know that Les West 's cycle racing career spanned 47 years from 1960 to 2006, and included two victories in the Tour of Britain ?
text: Did you know that the book The Complex: How the Military Invades Our Everyday Lives explores U.S. military expenditures on items including Southern catfish restaurants and Dunkin' Donuts ?
text: Did you know that Father Goose: His Book , an 1899 collection of poetry for children and considered at the time a liberal portrayal of multi-cultural America , is now seen as stereotyped, racist and offensive?
text: Did you know that when completed in 1967, MS Finlandia was the largest ferry in the world?
text: Did you know that in its second year after scholarship probation , the 2009–10 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team has four blue chip letter of intent signees?
text: Did you know that, according to the answers Friedrich Engels gave in a Victorian Confession album , his idea of happiness was the wine Château Margaux 1848?
text: Did you know that Mahatma Gandhi participated in the recovery and treatment of the wounded in the Second Boer War at the Battle of Colenso and Battle of Spion Kop ?
text: Did you know that the captain of the SS Empire Abbey died after going thirteen days without sleep in a storm off Newfoundland in February 1945?
text: Did you know that Amazon.co.uk stopped selling The Complex: An Insider Exposes the Covert World of the Church of Scientology after receiving a legal letter from Scientology ?
text: Did you know that the Knight Foundry in Sutter Creek, California , is the last water-powered foundry in the United States?
text: Did you know that INS Tabar , a Talwar class frigate , has escorted about 35 ships through the pirate-infested waters near the Horn of Africa ?
text: Did you know that the first registered clinical use of an NK 1 receptor blocker was the treatment of nausea and vomiting induced by chemotherapy ?
text: Did you know that after serving as a volunteer during the Mexican-American War , James W. McMillan returned to private life but still became a General during the American Civil War ?
text: Did you know that Natsume Sōseki 's 1905 novel Kairo-kō is the earliest, and only major, prose treatment of the Arthurian legend in the Japanese language ?
text: Did you know that research by physician I. Bernard Weinstein investigated the cancer-causing potential of such foods as barbecued and cured meat ?
text: Did you know that four Portland Trail Blazers head coaches have spent their entire National Basketball Association coaching careers with the Trail Blazers?
text: Did you know that the recorded history of the Briolette of India dates back to the 12th century, making it possibly the world's oldest diamond on record?
text: Did you know that opera superstar Giuseppe Cremonini 's career was tragically cut short upon his sudden death at the age of 36?
text: Did you know that even though the Flettner rotor bomblet was never mass-produced, William C. Patrick III called it "one of the better devices for disseminating microorganisms "?
text: Did you know that Chief Justice of Queensland John Murtagh Macrossan also had two uncles who were chief justices as well?
text: Did you know that the success of Gay Weddings as counterprogramming to Super Bowl XXXVII led television network Bravo to develop additional LGBT -interest programming, including Queer Eye and Boy Meets Boy ?
text: Did you know that Major League Baseball manager John McGraw had 2,583 wins as the New York Giants' manager ?
text: Did you know that Dr. Jay Katz , who escaped from Nazi Germany to the U.S. in the 1930s, opposed use of data from Nazi human experimentation , because "we cannot separate the data from the way they were obtained"?
text: Did you know that Susan Crawford and Kevin Werbach have been selected by President-elect Barack Obama to lead the review of the Federal Communications Commission ?
text: Did you know that the antihypertensive drug Losartan becomes a more potent blocker of angiotensin receptors after it is metabolised in the body?
text: Did you know that artist Adam Neate left 1,000 prints , valued at £1 million, on London streets for anyone to pick up and keep?
text: Did you know that for the 1967 television documentary CBS Reports: The Homosexuals , the network concealed the identity of one of the gay interview subjects by seating him behind a potted palm tree?
text: Did you know that research done by C. Harmon Brown showed that female athletes were more loose-jointed and more prone to dislocated shoulders than male athletes?
text: Did you know that Mount Wycheproof , standing just 43 metres (141 ft) high, is the smallest registered mountain in the world?
text: Did you know that the single "Don't Tear It Down" from Spy vs Spy 's album A.O. Mod. TV. Vers. was inspired by a government agency's attempts to demolish a building the band were squatting in?
text: Did you know that after initially deciding not to air the Roseanne episode " Don't Ask, Don't Tell " because it included Mariel Hemingway kissing Roseanne Barr , ABC promoted it as "the lesbian kiss episode"?
text: Did you know that Harald N. S. Wergeland , Lieutenant General and Norwegian Minister of the Army , was raised by his uncle Nicolai Wergeland and enrolled at the Norwegian Military Academy at the age of twelve?
text: Did you know that Washington State Route 504 was damaged when Mount St. Helens erupted in 1980 and had to be rebuilt on higher ground?
text: Did you know that Cyclone Rosie was the first ever tropical cyclone to be monitored by the Tropical Cyclone Warning Center in Jakarta ?
text: Did you know that the 23 home runs hit by Johnny Rizzo in 1938 set a Pittsburgh Pirates team record at the time, and his nine RBI in a 1939 game set a single game team record that still stands today?
text: Did you know that The Blood of Jesus was the first race film added to the U.S. National Film Registry ?
text: Did you know that the abuse suffered by Nia Glassie included being left in a tumble drier for 30 minutes?
text: Did you know that Toralv Øksnevad was known as the "voice from London" during the Second World War , when listening to foreign radio was a crime punishable by death in Norway ?
text: Did you know that some anti-obesity drugs , such as Rimonabant , are chemical compounds designed to specifically block cannabinoid receptors ?
text: Did you know that Pamela Munizzi succeeded John P. Daley , the son of former Chicago Mayor Richard J. , brother of current Mayor Richard M. , in office in both the Illinois House of Representatives and the Illinois Senate ?
text: Did you know that the Catskill Escarpment is the only clearly defined boundary of the Catskill Mountains ?
text: Did you know that Meredith Burgmann claims to be the only Australian sent to prison after running onto a sports field during a major sporting event?
text: Did you know that the proposed Levenmouth rail link in Fife , Scotland , could be used by Scotch whisky distillery freight trains as well as by passengers?
text: Did you know that 2009 Michigan Wolverines football team recruit Anthony LaLota is rated among both the top ten high school offensive tackles and strong side defensive ends in the U.S.?
text: Did you know that the leader of the 2004 Palm Island, Queensland riot, Lex Wotton , ran for mayor while out on bail?
text: Did you know that the 1978 Orson Welles -directed documentary Filming Othello has never been theatrically released or presented on home video?
text: Did you know that assassinated Israeli mobster Yaakov Alperon was tied to a protection racket in which restaurant owners paid by allowing the gangsters to collect empty returnable bottles from their businesses?
text: Did you know that Papyrus 110 , a Greek manuscript copy of the Gospel of Matthew from the New Testament , may have been composed as early as the 3rd century?
text: Did you know that in addition to being a general in the Union Army , James Sanks Brisbin was also a prolific writer, and authored several works on a variety of subjects?
text: Did you know that as a result of the 2006 Pine Middle School shooting in Reno, Nevada , 14-year-old shooter James Newman was sentenced to house arrest and 200 hours of community service ?
text: Did you know that the Związek Organizacji Wojskowej , a Polish resistance group inside the Auschwitz concentration camp , provided the first intelligence about the Holocaust to the Western Allies ?
text: Did you know that former Key West mayor Captain Tony Tarracino was a subject of Cuba Crossing , a 1980 film about a plot to kill Fidel Castro , and of the 1985 Jimmy Buffett song " Last Mango in Paris "?
text: Did you know that although opera singer Rita Fornia began her career as a coloratura soprano , her voice lowered and darkened causing her to sing mostly mezzo-soprano roles?
text: Did you know that SM U-4 , commissioned in 1909, was the longest serving U-boat of the Austro-Hungarian Navy ?
text: Did you know that Tropical Storm Becky produced heavy rainfall in Tallahassee, Florida in 1970, causing flood-related losses to 104 families?
text: Did you know that John H. Kelly was the youngest Confederate Brigadier General at the time of his appointment at 23, and one of the youngest generals to die during the American Civil War at 24?
text: Did you know that there are 94 buildings with listed status in Crawley , England , including The Beehive , a circular Art Deco building that was the world's first integrated airport terminal ?
text: Did you know that Static Major featured in Lil Wayne 's 2008 hit single " Lollipop " but died before the song was released in Tha Carter III ?
text: Did you know that John B. Curtis made the first commercially available chewing gum ?
text: Did you know that during the German occupation of Norway , Astrid Løken combined entomological field research with secret photography for the resistance group XU ?
text: Did you know that the Melbourne Jazz Co-operative runs three jazz concerts a week and is the most active jazz presenter organisation in Australia?
text: Did you know that Weraroa , a genus of pouch fungi , may represent an intermediate evolutionary stage between underground and above-ground fungi?
text: Did you know that at the same time Francis "Mother" Dunn was coaching Dickinson College 's football team, he was also playing professional football for the Canton Bulldogs under Jim Thorpe ?
text: Did you know that for his 2004 film Drum , director Zola Maseko received the top prize at FESPACO , the Golden Stallion of Yennenga, in addition to a cash prize of 10 million CFA francs ( US$ 20,000)?
text: Did you know that Julian Konstantinov , the brother of Bulgarian volleyball team captain Plamen Konstantinov , is an opera singer?
text: Did you know that HMS Mahratta delivered a bathtub to Murmansk during World War II ?
text: Did you know that French racing cyclist Lucien Michard won four successive world championships and lost a fifth even though he crossed the line first?
text: Did you know that the deaths of two pirates during the November 11, 2008 incident off Somalia , are believed to be the first time since the 1982 Falklands War that the Royal Navy has killed anyone on the high seas?
text: Did you know that Arne Sunde , Norwegian Olympian, politician and World War II veteran, was President of the United Nations Security Council at the start of the Korean War ?
text: Did you know that the Interstate Income Act of 1959 prevents a U.S. state from collecting income tax on solicited sales within its borders, as long as the orders are filled or shipped outside of the state?
text: Did you know that Don Bradman , universally regarded as the greatest batsman in cricket history , made a duck in his final Test innings?
text: Did you know that the Kamchia biosphere reserve in Bulgaria is a major migratory bottleneck site where at least 60,000 White Storks pass overhead each autumn?
text: Did you know that Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient Irving Brown was dubbed "The Most Dangerous Man" by Time in 1952?
text: Did you know that Australian politician John Robertson worked as a construction worker for the New South Wales Parliament to which he was later elected?
text: Did you know that Anita Bryant 's participation in Save Our Children , a coalition working to overturn gay rights ordinances in Miami and other cities in 1977 and 1978, destroyed her career?
text: Did you know that Major League Baseball pitchers Jim Palmer and Mike Mussina each made six Opening Day starts for the Baltimore Orioles ?
text: Did you know that the rare skin disorder ichthyosis bullosa of Siemens may be caused by a spontaneous mutation in the keratin 2e gene on chromosome 12 ?
text: Did you know that actor Jesse Plemons had to get 11 stitches in his chin after offering to do his own stunts on Friday Night Lights ?
text: Did you know that Begonia boliviensis , one of the species used the production of the first hybrid tuberous begonia raised in England , was introduced from Bolivia by the Victorian plant collector Richard Pearce ?
text: Did you know that the M115 anti-crop bomb was known as the "feather bomb" because it dropped feathers laced with fungal spores in order to spread wheat stem rust ?
text: Did you know that Leo the Mathematician , called by some the cleverest man in 9th-century Byzantium , invented a system of beacons to warn of Arab raids and a fabled levitating throne for the emperor?
text: Did you know that after the Victoria Cross began to be awarded to Royal Air Force members , navy members who had won it were required to replace their traditional blue ribbons with red ones?
text: Did you know that current Colorado Rockies minor league catching instructor Marv Foley is the only baseball manager to win championships in the International League , Pacific Coast League , and American Association ?
text: Did you know that Anna Vissi , who represented Greece at the Eurovision Song Contest 2006 , has participated in the contest three times over a 26 year period?
text: Did you know that Admiral Shigeyoshi Miwa commanded Imperial Japanese Navy submarine forces during the attack on Pearl Harbor ?
text: Did you know that the Pacific Electric Railroad Bridge in Torrance, California is used as a symbol on the patch of the local police department ?
text: Did you know that when rival colleague Zhang Yanshang suggested the Tang Dynasty chancellor Liu Hun be more silent, Liu commented that his tongue would not stop even if he were decapitated ?
text: Did you know that in 2007, Vicki Berger played a major role in amending the Oregon Bottle Bill , which her own father had created 36 years earlier?
text: Did you know that inhibitors of the enzyme dipeptidyl peptidase-4 can prevent the degradation of gastrointestinal hormones that regulate insulin release from the pancreas , making them effective anti-diabetic drugs ?
text: Did you know that the white deer of the Seneca Army Depot in Seneca County, New York , is the largest herd of white deer in the world?
text: Did you know that Augustin Trébuchon , the last French soldier to die in the First World War , was shot 15 minutes before the war ended?
text: Did you know that the Confederate Monument in Owensboro, Kentucky was sculpted by a Hungarian?
text: Did you know that Tang Dynasty chancellor Li Mi declined chancellor appointments by Emperor Suzong and Emperor Daizong , eventually only accepting it under Emperor Dezong ?
text: Did you know that the Montecito Tea Fire , which destroyed more than 200 homes in California , was caused by smoldering embers from a bonfire party at an abandoned tea house?
text: Did you know that though communism was created by an atheist , communism and religion have not always had a hostile relationship?
text: Did you know that the Sayre Fire resulted in the worst loss of homes due to fire in the history of Los Angeles , surpassing the loss of 484 residences in the 1961 Bel Air fire ?
text: Did you know that by Christmas Eve 1942, the German 17th Panzer Division had only eight tanks and one anti-tank gun left after its failed attempt to break through to Stalingrad ?
text: Did you know that Carl D. Keith and John J. Mooney co-invented the three-way catalytic converter , which has cut nitrogen oxide emissions from cars by 98 percent since the 1970s?
text: Did you know that the Royal Papua New Guinea Constabulary formerly used Police Motu , a lingua franca pidgin of Motu , as its working language?
text: Did you know that the church of Valmagne Abbey in south-central France has been used as a wine cave since the abbey was confiscated and sold during the French Revolution ?
text: Did you know that Whitcomb L. Judson is recognized as the inventor of the zipper ?
text: Did you know that the author of Autism's False Prophets , a critique of claims that autism is linked to vaccines , reportedly received death threats?
text: Did you know that from 1962 to 1973, the Deseret Test Center in Fort Douglas, Utah , oversaw 46 tests using simulants and live biological and chemical agents ?
text: Did you know that Indian historian and Dravidologist K. A. Nilakanta Sastri served as the Director of UNESCO 's Institute of Traditional Culture?
text: Did you know that the music video for Sia Furler 's latest single " Soon We'll Be Found " features American Sign Language ?
text: Did you know that the Soviet Union annexed Western Ukraine in 1939 following the invasion of Poland and an ultimatum to Romania ?
text: Did you know that American colonialists James Franklin and Ann Smith Franklin established Rhode Island 's first printing press ?
text: Did you know that nephrotoxic djenkolic acid , found in the raw djenkol bean, can form needle-like crystals in the urine of people who eat the bean?
text: Did you know that football player Michael Liddle made his international debut for Republic of Ireland under-19s although he was born in London , England ?
text: Did you know that the metabolic disorder Schindler disease may be caused by mutations in the NAGA gene on chromosome 22 ?
text: Did you know that as Director of the Voice of America , Henry Loomis oversaw the introduction of Special English , in which news is read slowly with a limited vocabulary of about 1,500 words and a simplified grammar?
text: Did you know that the small bright-blue mushroom Entoloma hochstetteri is featured on the reverse side of the New Zealand $50 bank note ?
text: Did you know that remnants of the pre-Columbian aqueduct carrying water from springs at Chapultepec can still be found in Mexico City today?
text: Did you know that in 1899, Chinese immigration to Puerto Rico was prohibited by the United States Chinese Exclusion Act ?
text: Did you know that Imperial Japanese Navy submarine Commander Takakazu Kinashi was awarded the Iron Cross by Adolf Hitler for his role in the sinking of the American aircraft carrier Wasp ?
text: Did you know that actor Don Collier , who co-starred on NBC 's western series Outlaws and The High Chaparral , played football for the Brigham Young Cougars ?
text: Did you know that in the Ofira Air Battle , at the outset of the Yom Kippur War , two Israeli F-4 Phantom IIs shot down seven Egyptian MiGs ?
text: Did you know that film directors Sidney Meyers and Jay Leyda used pseudonyms for their screen credits on the 1937 production People of the Cumberland ?
text: Did you know that throughout his lifetime, cyclist Reggie McNamara broke his collarbone 17 times, broke his skull, nose, jaw, and leg once, had 500 stitches, and accumulated 47 scars?
text: Did you know that NASDA 's ETS-VII was the world's first satellite to be equipped with a robotic arm and to conduct autonomous rendezvous docking operations successfully?
text: Did you know that the 14th-century Hungarian occupation of the Bulgarian city of Vidin was described by contemporaries as a "great pain for the people"?
text: Did you know that the white suckerfish responds to a touch on its belly by forcefully erecting its pelvic fins?
text: Did you know that most of the world's population of Northern Bald Ibis , an endangered species of birds, are found at Souss-Massa National Park in Morocco ?
text: Did you know that the World Charter for Prostitutes' Rights , adopted in 1985, calls for the right to unemployment insurance and decriminalization of adult prostitution ?
text: Did you know that oil company Idemitsu Kosan is exploring the potential for geothermal power in Japan ?
text: Did you know that Bert Olmstead played 14 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) and appeared in 11 Stanley Cup finals ?
text: Did you know that the Semitic triliteral Q-D-S meaning "holy" has been used in ancient and modern Semitic languages since at least the 3rd millennium BCE?
text: Did you know that when asked what the most beautiful place he had ever seen in all his travels was, Gore Vidal chose the view from the belvedere at Villa Cimbrone ?
text: Did you know that the symptoms of exposure to the blister agent methyldichloroarsine clinically resemble poison ivy ?
text: Did you know that ancient Greek klismos chairs became fashionable again in the late 18th century?
text: Did you know that other than visits to other institutions as a guest lecturer, James Feast lectured at the University of Durham for over 35 years?
text: Did you know that Greenville Presbyterian Church was the first non- Dutch church established in New York 's Catskill region?
text: Did you know that species from the underground-dwelling mushroom genus Gautieria are the preferred food source of the Northern flying squirrel ?
text: Did you know that after testing the biological Brucella cluster bomb on 11,000 guinea pigs , a U.S. general remarked "Now we know what to do if we ever go to war against guinea pigs"?
text: Did you know that the Flekkefjord Line was built to be part of the main line from Stavanger to Oslo , but a change of plans made it only a branch line ?
text: Did you know that the National Guard Militia Museum of New Jersey has on display the Intelligent Whale , an experimental Civil War -era submarine propelled by a hand crank operated by its four-man crew?
text: Did you know that pre-operative transsexual Miki Mizuasa was nominated for the Best Actress award at the 2007 Adult Broadcasting Awards even though she was born a male?
text: Did you know that Sanctus Real was the most-played artist on American Christian radio in 2006?
text: Did you know that Hugo Bettauer , author of a satire depicting Vienna after expulsion of its Jews, was shot and killed in 1925 after Nazis branded him a "Red poet" and "corruptor of youth"?
text: Did you know that the M143 bomblet held the equivalent of 300 million lethal doses of anthrax ?
text: Did you know that Lionel Baker is the first cricketer from Montserrat to represent the West Indies senior side at international level?
text: Did you know that most of the place names in Palestine are Arabised words with ancient Semitic roots that were preserved by the local indigenous population, facilitating their identification with biblical sites?
text: Did you know that John Daly , a New York City criminal, was rumored to be paying $100,000 a week in protection money to the New York Police Department in the late 1800s?
text: Did you know that in Norse mythology , Sinmara is a female companion of Surtr , a fire jötunn ?
text: Did you know that veteran LGBT rights activist Hank Wilson started or co-founded at least ten LGBT organizations in the San Francisco area?
text: Did you know that the soil-dwelling nematode -killing fungus Paecilomyces lilacinus has been known to cause human eye infections?
text: Did you know that " Still Alive ", the theme to action-adventure video game Mirror's Edge , was written by Rami Yacoub , who has also written material for Britney Spears ?
text: Did you know that according to British wine critic Jancis Robinson , only certain wines can improve significantly with age , and most wine is consumed too late rather than too early?
text: Did you know that the graphical plot of the Sabatier principle , a concept used in chemical catalysis , is often called a "volcano plot" because of its distinctive shape?
text: Did you know that before she was disassembled for scrap in 1932, USS Holland , the first submarine commissioned by the U.S. Navy , spent many years as an attraction in Starlight amusement park in New York City ?
text: Did you know that at one time, the Sneath Glass Company produced almost 90 percent of the glassware used in consumer refrigerators in the United States?
text: Did you know that Beijing Communist Party chief Li Ximing was a leading supporter of military action against the Tiananmen Square protests that resulted in the deaths of hundreds, possibly thousands, of people?
text: Did you know that Glen Ord is the only remaining single malt scotch whisky distillery on the Black Isle in the Highlands of Scotland ?
text: Did you know that the wide variety of people who have been deported from the United States includes Jamaican boxer Trevor Berbick , political activist Emma Goldman , and Indian guru Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh ?
text: Did you know that prehistoric ridgeway trails, though often steep, were usually the firmest and safest cart tracks before the advent of paved roads in western Europe ?
text: Did you know that Mike Davis envisioned making recreational boats available on the Hudson River in New York City after seeing how boats could be rented in Istanbul and rowed on the Bosporus ?
text: Did you know that James John Skinner was the only White member of the Zambian cabinet when that nation gained independence in 1964?
text: Did you know that Loyola College in Maryland , a Jesuit college with "little athletic tradition,"  has had 13 first-team All American honorees from the men's lacrosse team ?
text: Did you know that Terence Mitford , who spent his whole academic career as an archaeologist at the University of St Andrews , was a member of the Special Air Service during the Second World War ?
text: Did you know that the historic Wayne Morse Farm in Eugene, Oregon , was the home of Wayne Morse who represented Oregon in the United States Senate from 1944 until 1968?
text: Did you know that Rob Epstein , Academy Award-winning director of The Times of Harvey Milk , also directed Paragraph 175 chronicling the treatment of homosexuals in Nazi Germany ?
text: Did you know that the first railroad depot in Stanford, Kentucky , was built due to a compromise between Union general Ambrose Burnside and the Louisville and Nashville Railroad ?
text: Did you know that as part of Operation Large Area Coverage the U.S. Army sprayed much of the eastern United States with zinc cadmium sulfide particles?
text: Did you know that Operation Steel Box moved 100,000 American chemical weapons from Clausen , West Germany , to Johnston Atoll in the South Pacific Ocean ?
text: Did you know that Hedley Howarth helped lead New Zealand to its first ever test cricket win on the Indian subcontinent with a five-wicket bag against India in 1969?
text: Did you know that in a baseball match held at the Capitoline Grounds on June 14, 1870, the Brooklyn Atlantics defeated the Cincinnati Red Stockings , ending their 84 game winning streak?
text: Did you know that the acquisition of the Corus Group in October 2006 has made Tata Steel India's second largest company in the private sector?
text: Did you know that the Confederate Memorial in Nicholasville, Kentucky , took sixteen years to fund, and was originally a statue of a Union soldier ?
text: Did you know that German entrepreneur, race driver and yacht skipper Udo Schütz won the 1000 km Nürburgring in 1967, the Targa Florio in 1969, and the Admiral's Cup in 1993?
text: Did you know that Louis Dicken Wilson left Edgecombe County US$40,000 upon his death in 1847, but US$28,000 of it was wasted?
text: Did you know that the Survival of the Shawangunks is a Hudson Valley triathlon which requires competitors to carry their running shoes as they swim?
text: Did you know that Turkish poet Süleyman Nazif witnessed first hand the decaying corpses of persecuted Christians in his home town of Diyarbakır in July 1915?
text: Did you know that Frank Filchock , Jack Faulkner , Mac Speedie , Jerry Smith , John Ralston , and Red Miller have all spent their entire coaching careers with the Broncos ?
text: Did you know that the habitat of the rare West Virginia land snail Triodopsis platysayoides is protected by a fence?
text: Did you know that Anarchy Alive! , a 2007 book by Oxford -educated academic and anti-authoritarian activist Uri Gordon , has been cited as a "defining text" of the contemporary anarchist movement?
text: Did you know that Joe Hyams ' first celebrity interview, with Humphrey Bogart , came after a chance meeting with Bogart's press agent at the pool of The Beverly Hills Hotel ?
text: Did you know that Leverett Candee became the first person in the world to manufacture rubber footwear ?
text: Did you know that Erie County voters elected Antoine Thompson to the New York State Senate after he defeated cousins Marc Coppola and Al Coppola during the 2006 Democratic primary election ?
text: Did you know that French anarchist and writer Charles Malato had a Neapolitan grandfather who suppressed a popular insurrection as commander-in-chief of the army of the last King of Naples ?
text: Did you know that after first taking the Fifth Amendment in 1951, director Robert Rossen named 57 people as Communists to the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1953 to escape the Hollywood blacklist ?
text: Did you know that the turnout in the 1997 Pakistani general election was the lowest ever in Pakistan ?
text: Did you know that Florence Wald , former Dean of Yale School of Nursing , has been credited as "the mother of the American hospice movement"?
text: Did you know that the 1916 film Cenere contains the only cinematic performance by the Italian theater star Eleanora Duse ?
text: Did you know that the Honolulu High-Capacity Transit Corridor Project led to Honolulu 's 2008 mayoral elections being referred to as a "referendum on rail transit"?
text: Did you know that James-Younger Gang member "Dick" Liddil surrendered to authorities after killing Jesse James ' cousin, reportedly out of fear of that James would seek revenge?
text: Did you know that despite being captured during the Battle of the Philippines , the Nurse Corps regiment known as the Angels of Bataan continued to serve as a nursing unit throughout their internment?
text: Did you know that the term battery in baseball was first used by Henry Chadwick in reference to the firepower of a team's pitching staff, inspired by artillery batteries then in use in the American Civil War ?
text: Did you know that wine writer Malcolm Gluck has been involved in a row with Salman Rushdie over who is the quicker book-signer?
text: Did you know that Bridgwater Bay is the location of the last mudhorse fisherman in England ?
text: Did you know that Paul Callaway was so short a hydraulically-operated pedalboard was custom-made for the Washington National Cathedral 's organ, so he could reach the pedals comfortably?
text: Did you know that Eduard August von Regel , a 19th-century German botanist , named and described over 3,000 new plant species?
text: Did you know that the day after his birthday, General Archibald Gracie III was looking out at the Union lines through his telescope when an artillery shell exploded in front of him killing him instantly?
text: Did you know that Sir Philip Cohen has written over 470 peer-reviewed papers, and was the third most cited academic in the UK during the 1990s?
text: Did you know that anthropologist Richard Price was one of the first to show that Maroons , previously considered largely "without history," possessed rich and deep historical consciousness ?
text: Did you know that author Tom De Haven attended Catholic school in Bayonne, New Jersey with fellow writer George R. R. Martin ?
text: Did you know that Zeno Vendler 's model of lexical aspect , first proposed in 1959, is still widely used in multiple areas of linguistic research today?
text: Did you know that physician William Beierwaltes , a pioneer in nuclear medicine , was one of five attendees at the first course for doctors offered by the Atomic Energy Commission on the medical use of radioisotopes ?
text: Did you know that John Trudeau established the Britt Festival in Oregon in 1962, the first of its kind in the Pacific Northwest of the U.S., and now a four-month long celebration of music and musical theater?
text: Did you know that the walls of Peter the Great 's first "palace" in the nascent St Petersburg , a 60 m 2 (650 sq ft) log cabin , were painted to resemble brickwork ?
text: Did you know that Michael Higgins prepared himself for a career in the theater by working to rid himself of his Brooklyn accent as a teenager?
text: Did you know that the fungus Albatrellus subrubescens was first collected from Florida and Czechoslovakia ?
text: Did you know that Caterpillar Inc. employs 4,000 Central Illinois workers at its Peoria headquarters?
text: Did you know that English mathematician and geographer Robert Hues served his master Thomas Grey, the last Baron Grey de Wilton , while Grey was imprisoned in the Tower of London ?
text: Did you know that Columbia Park in Torrance, California served as the home field for U.S. Women's soccer players Joy Fawcett and Carin Jennings-Gabarra ?
text: Did you know that Gwilym Davies was the first person to broadcast in Welsh, on Saint David's Day in 1923?
text: Did you know that French opera singer Gustave Huberdeau performed roles ranging from lead roles to character roles to mute roles?
text: Did you know that the bacterium Propionibacterium freudenreichii is responsible for forming the holes in Swiss cheese by releasing carbon dioxide ?
text: Did you know that the intricate rococo decoration of the Grand Church of the Winter Palace was recreated in papier-mâché after a fire destroyed most of the original interiors of the Winter Palace in 1837?
text: Did you know that the proposed Bigeye bomb was designed to spray VX nerve agent over a target area by gliding through the air over it?
text: Did you know that Jewish immigration to Puerto Rico began in the 15th century and that Puerto Rico has the largest and richest Jewish community in the Caribbean ?
text: Did you know that the first journal articles written by the entomologist Robert Perkins were published when he was a classics student with no scientific education?
text: Did you know that U.S. federal judge Malcolm Marsh 's father and uncle both served as presidents of the Oregon State Bar ?
text: Did you know that when the SS Mahratta ran aground on the Goodwin Sands in 1939, it settled on top of a ship that had sunk thirty years earlier and was also named Mahratta ?
text: Did you know that a 30-metre (98 ft) tsunami was created when Broke Off Cliff fell into Western Brook Pond , which is a fjord in Canada ?
text: Did you know that Bridgwater Bay is the location of the last mudhorse fisherman in England ?
text: Did you know that the members of Montreal -based electronic music duo Beast first met while working for a video game company?
text: Did you know that protests by Rev. Abraham Woods about the 1990 PGA Championship at the Shoal Creek country club led the club to admit its first black member?
text: Did you know that " There's No One As Irish As Barack O'Bama " is a folk song first performed in the village where Barack Obama 's great-great-great grandfather was born?
text: Did you know that early childhood educator Barbara T. Bowman co-founded the Erikson Institute , a graduate school in child development , with the support of philanthropist Irving Harris ?
text: Did you know that Taishō Baseball Girls is a light novel series about an all-girl baseball team set in Taishō era Japan?
text: Did you know that Thirumangai Alvar , considered one of the most learned Alvar saint-poets in Hinduism , was a robber before becoming a saint?
text: Did you know that Henry Cornelius Burnett is one of only five members in history to be expelled from the United States Congress ?
text: Did you know that Austro-Hungarian submarine SM U-16 , which sank two ships and captured a third during World War I , was the only boat of the U-10 -class to sink during the war?
text: Did you know that the largest earthquake ever recorded in the U.S. state of Illinois took place at approximately 11:02 a.m. on November 9 1968 ?
text: Did you know that the Jadad scale is the world's most widely used means of assessing the methodological quality of clinical trials ?
text: Did you know that when Veronica Mars was cancelled after its third season , fans sent more than 10,000 Mars Bars to the CW television network , hoping to persuade it to renew the series ?
text: Did you know that following In re Bilski , a decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit , the legal validity of many business method patents is now uncertain?
text: Did you know that Norwegian mathematician Bernt Michael Holmboe played an important role in the career of Niels Henrik Abel ?
text: Did you know that the Mucking excavation ,  one of the largest archaeological digs of its time in Europe , uncovered artifacts spanning a period of some 3,000 years?
text: Did you know that overseas revenues rose tenfold during the decade that Richard Rompala helped to lead the paint and coatings manufacturer Valspar ?
text: Did you know that " Hindu Taliban " is a pejorative term used by some tolerant or "secular" Hindus to describe the supporters of the Hindutva movement?
text: Did you know that Juniper Networks has updated its JUNOS software every 90 days since its creation in 1998?
text: Did you know that after endangering himself to control the imperial horse, Qi Ying was made an imperial attendant by Emperor Dezong of Tang ?
text: Did you know that one poetic focus in William Wordsworth's early life , especially in the "Lucy" poems , the "Matthew" poems , We are Seven , and Lucy Gray , is man's relationship with death and nature?
text: Did you know that Japan and India signed a peace treaty and established diplomatic relations in April 1952, one of the first such treaties by Japan after World War II ?
text: Did you know that Vânia Fernandes , who represented Portugal in the Eurovision Song Contest 2008 , was Portugal's first entrant to qualify for the Contest's final from its semi-final round?
text: Did you know that the President of Colombia's administrative department has an annual budget of over COL$ 16 billion?
text: Did you know that after a federal jury in Portland, Oregon decided against the defendant in Byron v. Rajneesh Foundation International , an inner circle of Rajneesh followers plotted to murder the plaintiff?
text: Did you know that Japanese admiral Ogasawara Naganari , close confidant and biographer of Fleet Admiral Togo Heihachiro , was tutor to Emperor Hirohito on naval matters?
text: Did you know that, due to his support of Kentucky 's efforts to secede from the Union , Henry Cornelius Burnett is one of only five members in history to be expelled from the United States Congress ?
text: Did you know that SOE officer Joachim Rønneberg was a leader of the Norwegian team attempting to sabotage the German nuclear energy project during WWII ?
text: Did you know that legend has it that Nainital Lake in Uttarakhand , India , was created when three pilgrims dug a hole which filled from the sacred Tibetan Lake Manasarovar ?
text: Did you know that the growth of Astragalus brauntonii , a species of milkvetch , is spurred by fire?
text: Did you know that Beninese political figure Justin Ahomadégbé-Tomêtin remained under house arrest from 1972 to 1981 after being overthrown in a coup d'état ?
text: Did you know that St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Troy, New York , was originally built as a replica of a Church in New Haven, Connecticut ?
text: Did you know that Norwegian Constituent Assembly member Nicolai Wergeland was father of feminist writer Camilla Collett and poet Henrik Wergeland ?
text: Did you know that, when amateur club TSV Vestenbergsgreuth beat German champions FC Bayern Munich 1–0 in the 1994-95 DFB Cup , a memorial stone was later erected to commemorate the event?
text: Did you know that Ranulf le Meschin ruled Cumberland before becoming Earl of Chester in 1120?
text: Did you know that Rheinmetall 's 120mm gun L/55 tank gun can attain muzzle velocities of up to 1,750 meters per second (5,700 ft/s) with new kinetic energy penetrators ?
text: Did you know that Izzat Darwaza , the Arab nationalist leader of al-Fatat , was a principal organizer of the 1936-1939 Arab revolt in Palestine ?
text: Did you know that the U.S. Marine Corps celebrates its birthday on the anniversary of the day that the 2nd Continental Congress authorized the creation of the Continental Marines ?
text: Did you know that Beast vocalist Béatrice Bonifassi sang on Champion 's album Chill'em All , and also provided the singing voices for Les Triplettes de Belleville ?
text: Did you know that the football rivalry between ASV Herzogenaurach and FC Herzogenaurach can be traced back to the rivalry between the clubs' sponsors, Adidas and Puma ?
text: Did you know that Mike Tompkins , the Natural Law Party vice-presidential candidate in the 1992 and 1996 U.S. elections, is a direct descendant of U.S. presidents John Adams and John Quincy Adams ?
text: Did you know that Lucy of Bolingbroke paid King Henry I of England 500 marks after the death of her third husband, Ranulf le Meschin , for the right not to remarry?
text: Did you know that the ataaba is a traditional Arabic music form in which oral folk poetry is melodically improvised by a solo vocalist ?
text: Did you know that the Sheffield Iris newspaper's first editor fled the UK when troops tried to arrest him, and its second was imprisoned for six months on charges of malicious libel ?
text: Did you know that Andreas Lauritz Thune , who took over the manufacturing company Thune at the age of 23, was among the founders of the Federation of Norwegian Manufacturing Industries in 1889?
text: Did you know that Jack Bruce 's 1969 LP Songs for a Tailor was titled in tribute to the wardrobe designer for Bruce's former band, Cream ?
text: Did you know that Joe Wendryhoski , an inaugural member of the New Orleans Saints , played every offensive snap as the starting center for the team's first two seasons?
text: Did you know that the successful escape from the multi-ship mutiny at the Nore by Royal Navy Captain Charles Cunningham in 1797 led to that mutiny's failure?
text: Did you know that in 1969, Toyota Motor Corporation imported McLaren M12s and installed their own V8 engines in a bid to better compete against Nissan in Japanese Group 7 races?
text: Did you know that Amy Peterson competed in the first five Olympics in which short track speed skating was a sport?
text: Did you know that the sticky bomb was designed by Stuart Macrae at a laboratory known as " Winston Churchill 's Toyshop"?
text: Did you know that because Fred Perrett switched from rugby union to rugby league he was often left out of lists of Wales players who died in action during World War I ?
text: Did you know that the only significant Koreatown established by Koreans in Spain is in Las Palmas on the island of Gran Canaria ?
text: Did you know that on July 8, 1942, pitcher Doyle Lade threw a no-hitter and won the game 1–0, with his solo home run providing the only run support for his team?
text: Did you know that Charles Taylor was the first of thirteen Welsh international rugby players to die in action during World War I ?
text: Did you know that Almoloya del Río , a Mexican small town with the population of 7,992, hosts an international biker rally every year?
text: Did you know that Hurricane Lisa of the 1998 Atlantic hurricane season attained forward motion of over 58 mph (93 km/h ) on October 9?
text: Did you know that The Finnish Association of Graduate Engineers has been in charge of publishing Finland 's ethical guidelines on engineering for over 40 years?
text: Did you know that the first submarine boat and self-propelled torpedo , and the engines for the ironclad warship USS Monitor were all built at the foundry operated by Cornelius DeLameter ?
text: Did you know that the Ropar Wetland , in addition to being home to several endangered and threatened species, was the site of the signing of an 1831 treaty between the English and the Sikhs ?
text: Did you know that Wonderland Greyhound Park in Revere , Massachusetts features over 7 miles (11 km) of underground piping which heats the race track on cold and wet days?
text: Did you know that Grace Church is one of few remaining structures from the once-thriving town of Ca Ira, Virginia ?
text: Did you know that the Manifesto of the Sixteen was a controversial declaration of support for the Allied cause in World War I from a group of prominent anarchists ?
text: Did you know that in 2007 the Kenyon Athletic Center was surrounded by Knox County residents to "form a shield of protection" in preparation for a Billy Graham Evangelistic Association event?
text: Did you know that the Commission on Social Welfare , from 1983 to 1986, reviewed social welfare in Ireland ?
text: Did you know that former American Medical Association president Ronald Davis played a major role in the AMA's 2008 apology to black doctors for the organization's history of racial discrimination?
text: Did you know that at 440 meters (1,440 ft), Della Falls in British Columbia is the tallest waterfall in Canada and 16th-tallest in the world?
text: Did you know that Rear Admiral John Adams of the Royal Navy was the author of The Adventure of Charlie the Cone , based on stories about a traffic cone , that he made up for his children on long trips?
text: Did you know that Tarab Abdul Hadi co-founded the first Palestinian women's organization in 1929?
text: Did you know that arcing horns are projecting conductors used to protect insulators on high voltage transmission systems from damage during flashover ?
text: Did you know that the Stella Artois television advertisement Good Doctor won more awards than any other television campaign in 2002?
text: Did you know that relief pitcher Doug Nickle was assigned to seven different clubs over the course of his six-year major league baseball career?
text: Did you know that with his appointment to Secretary of Housing and Urban Development in 1966, Robert C. Weaver became the first African American to hold a U.S. Cabinet Secretaryship ?
text: Did you know that Finnish -born filmmaker Antero Alli shot his 1995 science fiction feature The Drivetime on a budget of U$5,000?
text: Did you know that Canadian -born Jim Koleff spent three decades in Europe as an ice hockey player, coach and manager after telling coach Dave Chambers that he would play in Italy for one year?
text: Did you know that the Banc Ty'nddôl sun-disc , a gold ornament discovered at Cwmystwyth , is over 4,000 years old, making it the earliest gold artifact discovered in Wales ?
text: Did you know that quartic reciprocity was first conjectured by Swiss mathematician Euler in 1748–1750, but not proved until 1836–37 by Prussian mathematician Jacobi ?
text: Did you know that Hitachi Zosen Corporation built the first oil tanker in Japan in 1908 per an order by Standard Oil Company ?
text: Did you know that before becoming a full-time professional footballer at the age of 21, Mike Bickle worked as a milkman ?
text: Did you know that the Lebanese Navy SEALs undergo heavy military training, which spans three months and sometimes reaches 20 hours per day?
text: Did you know that U.S. President Benjamin Harrison appointed James R. Tanner Commissioner of the Pension Bureau in 1889, but had to remove him six months later because he vastly exceeded his office's budget?
text: Did you know that men from the 1st Oregon Volunteer Infantry Regiment were the first explorers to climb down the 800-foot (240 m) caldera wall to reach the shore of Crater Lake ?
text: Did you know that Dream Cinema is the last remaining single-screen movie theater in Seoul , Korea ?
text: Did you know that athlete Al Hall won three Pan American Games gold medals in the hammer throw in three consecutive decades, with wins in 1959 , 1963 and 1971 ?
text: Did you know that the Australian band Spy vs Spy had to change its name to avoid legal action from the publishers of Mad magazine?
text: Did you know that of the over 4,000 U.S. chemical munitions found to be leaking chemical agents in 2002, more than 2,000 were Sarin -containing M55 rockets ?
text: Did you know that lice from mummified guinea pigs and mites preserved in amber while feeding on spiders have provided evidence for researchers in the field of paleoparasitology ?
text: Did you know that the first same-sex kiss on an American soap opera was between fictional characters Lena Kundera and Bianca Montgomery in 2003, who were also American soap opera's first lesbian couple?
text: Did you know that in 2005, Shannon Sohn became the first helicopter news reporter to win a national Emmy Award , which she won for her coverage of the crash of the helicopter of a rival TV station?
text: Did you know that among other methods, archaeoparasitologists study historical human parasites by looking for references to them in art and literature?
text: Did you know that the Ghost Town Trail in Western Pennsylvania utilizes 36 miles (58 km) of donated and abandoned railroad and features many abandoned mining ghost towns ?
text: Did you know that Tropical Depression One-C of the 2005 Pacific hurricane season caused minor flooding on the Island of Hawaii ?
text: Did you know that the Confederate Memorial in Fulton, Kentucky is the only one in the state with a statue atop an arch ?
text: Did you know that HMS Hinchinbrook was Horatio Nelson 's second navy command, and his first as post-captain ?
text: Did you know that editor Kenneth P. Johnson , who ran a story that led to the article subject's suicide as threatened, stated that "if a story is newsworthy and supported by the facts, it is our policy to publish"?
text: Did you know that Norwegian researchers published Gay Kids in November 2008 to educate children about homosexual love?
text: Did you know that Miguel Ramón Izquierdo was the last Francoist mayor of Valencia, Spain and secured the transfer of the Turia River gardens from the Spanish crown to local administration?
text: Did you know that in November 1864, Camp Nelson ′s Union soldiers forced 400 ex-slaves outside its shelter, resulting in 102 exposure deaths?
text: Did you know that actor David Morrissey gained 2 stone (28 lb ; 13 kg ) for his role as Gordon Brown in the 2003 film The Deal ?
text: Did you know that only nine goaltenders have scored a goal in a National Hockey League game?
text: Did you know that Ernest Peixotto ′s 1916 work Our Hispanic Southwest was the first appearance of the ethnic slur " spic " in writing?
text: Did you know that American Joe Lutz became the first foreigner to manage a team in Japanese professional baseball when he was selected to manage the Hiroshima Carp in 1975?
text: Did you know that Henry Fitz was the first American to make refractor telescopes and constructed the largest refracting telescopes in America on five different occasions?
text: Did you know that BOHICA is an acronym that means "Bend Over, Here It Comes Again"?
text: Did you know that Ann Nixon Cooper , the subject of Barack Obama 's presidential acceptance speech , served for more than fifty years on the board of Gate City Nursery Association?
text: Did you know that during the history of San Diego State University some students joined the armed forces during World War II and assisted in the Doolittle Raid over Japan ?
text: Did you know that Soviet defector Boris Bazhanov became the only assistant at Joseph Stalin 's secretariat to ever turn against the Soviet regime?
text: Did you know that Edi Gathegi fell into acting when he took up an undergraduate acting class as an "easy course" after sustaining a basketball injury?
text: Did you know that actor Nate Parker was an All-American wrestler in both high school and college?
text: Did you know that Ludvík Čelanský was the founder and the first principal conductor of the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra ?
text: Did you know that historian Richard C. Lukas estimated that upwards of one million Poles were involved in the rescue of Jews by Polish communities during the Holocaust ?
text: Did you know that ballerina Rosella Hightower received critical acclaim in 1947 after filling in for the sick Alicia Markova and learning the role of Giselle in five hours, having never danced the part before?
text: Did you know that the curfew law associated with the curfew bell started by Alfred the Great was abolished by Henry I of England ?
text: Did you know that David G. Booth gave US$300 million—the largest ever gift to a business school—to his alma mater, now renamed the University of Chicago Booth School of Business ?
text: Did you know that Henri Joseph Fenet , a soldier in World War II , was awarded both the Croix de Guerre by France and the Knight's Cross by Germany ?
text: Did you know that the historic Charles Shorey House mixes both gambrel and gable roofs?
text: Did you know that Polish - Armenian Roman Catholic priest, Tadeusz Isakowicz-Zaleski was ordered to be silent by the Krakow Curia because of his clergy lustration activities?
text: Did you know that Captain Odd Isaachsen Willoch , an uncle of later Norwegian Prime Minister Kåre Willoch , was lost with his ship in 1940 during the Battles of Narvik ?
text: Did you know that in 2008, the biofuel company Mascoma received a US$26 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to develop a cellulosic fuel production facility?
text: Did you know that Eugene Vaulot of the Waffen SS destroyed eight tanks during the Battle of Berlin in 1945, earning himself a Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross days before he was killed in action by a sniper ?
text: Did you know that one of the international polls on the 2008 U.S. presidential election found 22 percent of German women would have an affair with Barack Obama ?
text: Did you know that Nausicaä , the main character from the Hayao Miyazaki manga and film, is based on Nausicaa from the Odyssey and " The Princess Who Loved Insects ", a Japanese folk hero?
text: Did you know that when cellist George Sopkin auditioned for the Chicago Symphony Orchestra at age 18, conductor Frederick Stock looked at him and remarked "so we're taking Boy Scouts now?"
text: Did you know that Foggerty's Fairy by W. S. Gilbert included a plot device that anticipates modern fantasy and science fiction stories like the film Back to the Future ?
text: Did you knowthat B.P. Newman , a business entrepreneur from Laredo , began operations with a dairy distributorship but branched into restaurants , subdivisions , apartments , and ranches throughout much of Texas ?
text: Did you know that the Connecticut River Museum is located in a restored 1878 steamboat warehouse?
text: Did you know that, though there is no evidence for it, Louis Rocca is  credited with having coined the name Manchester United ?
text: Did you know that a digital time capsule " A Message From Earth " was transmitted to the planet Gliese 581c and included a message by actress Gillian Anderson consisting of images of George W. Bush and Barack Obama ?
text: Did you know that ballet impresario George de Cuevas faced Serge Lifar in a 1958 duel with swords, that was described as "the most delicate encounter in the history of French dueling"?
text: Did you know that Jheryl Busby , once President and CEO of Motown Records , was a major shareholder of the first African-American-owned national bank in the U.S. along with Janet Jackson and Magic Johnson ?
text: Did you know that Pacific University 's first building at its Health Professions Campus in Hillsboro, Oregon , attained LEED gold status in 2007?
text: Did you know that in 784, due to wars and famine in the capital Chang'an region, Emperor Dezong of Tang sent the official Liu Zi to Nanchang to conduct imperial examinations for examinees from southern China ?
text: Did you know that India 's Harike Wetland has a concentration of migratory waterfowl with a number of globally threatened species ?
text: Did you know that Harrison Gray Dyar erected the first telegraph line and dispatched over it the first message ever sent, making him the real inventor of the telegraph?
text: Did you know that the works of Azerbaijan -born artist Semyon Bilmes have been featured in Reader's Digest , The New York Times and in advertisements for AT&T and Citibank ?
text: Did you know that Clarence W. Spangenberger was the last president of Cornell Steamboat Company, whose more than sixty vessels once made it the largest tugboat company in the United States ?
text: Did you know that Qualifying Industrial Zones are special free-trade zones in Jordan and Egypt created to take advantage of the free trade agreements between the United States and Israel ?
text: Did you know that Zeituni Onyango is the half-aunt of President-elect Barack Obama and a political asylum claimant from Kenya whose case was disclosed in the final days of the 2008 U.S. presidential election ?
text: Did you know that at Royal Rumble (1993) , the winner was guaranteed a match for the WWF Championship at WrestleMania , which subsequently became an annual tradition?
text: Did you know that during one trial of the Mexican Inquisition , 123 men were accused of homosexuality but 99 managed to escape before the proceedings?
text: Did you know that Mark Canton , producer of 300 and The Spiderwick Chronicles , started his movie career working in the mail room of Warner Bros. ?
text: Did you know that The ABC of Communism by Nikolai Bukharin and Evgenii Preobrazhensky was the most widely read political work in Soviet Russia ?
text: Did you know that the Confederate Memorial Gateway in Hickman, Kentucky took ten years and US$10,000 to build?
text: Did you know that Tzvia Greenfeld is the first Haredi woman to serve as a member of the Knesset ?
text: Did you know that Lexington, North Carolina 's urban revitalization efforts include the Pigs in the City public art initiative?
text: Did you know that Bill Stall of the Los Angeles Times won the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing for a series of editorials the Pulitzer board said "served as a model for addressing complex state issues"?
text: Did you know that Black Iraqis still maintain their African heritage in healing ceremonies?
text: Did you know that attorney P. Cameron DeVore died of an apparent heart attack , but jested in a self-written obituary that he had succumbed to "a surfeit of pâté de foie gras ice cream smothered in huckleberries "?
text: Did you know that the Union Station in Owensboro, Kentucky was once turned into a discothèque and a pizza parlor?
text: Did you know that in 1919, Poland tried to overthrow the Lithuanian government , but the Sejny Uprising resulted in the plan's failure?
text: Did you know that pianist and composer Moshe Cotel chose to become a rabbi after meeting a Holocaust survivor who was so inspired by his retelling of the story of Alfred Dreyfus that she had returned to Judaism ?
text: Did you know that most of the information available about English novelist Phebe Gibbes is derived from an application to the Royal Literary Fund for financial support in 1804?
text: Did you know that the Michigan Tech Huskies , from Michigan 's Upper Peninsula , have won three NCAA Division I championships in ice hockey , with players such as Tony Esposito ?
text: Did you know that in 1966, Vin Denson became the first British rider to win a stage of the Giro d'Italia ?
text: Did you know that William Jay Bolton was the first artist in the United States to design and manufacture figural stained glass windows?
text: Did you knowthat before becoming a general in the American Civil War , Robert Alexander Cameron worked as a newspaper publisher?
text: Did you know that SM U-5 , ceded to Italy in 1920 as war reparations , was the only member of the U-5 -class submarines of the Austro-Hungarian Navy to survive World War I ?
text: Did you know that Manny Harris was the first player to start for three consecutive Detroit Public School League Basketball Champions since Jalen Rose and Voshon Lenard ?
text: Did you know that bilateral trade between India and Poland has grown by more than seven times from 1992 to 2007?
text: Did you know that William Louis Abbott , American doctor and philanthropist , went to Madagascar to enlist in the native army against the second French occupation of the island ?
text: Did you know that an initial € 1 million was allocated for the new political foundations at European level in 2007–08?
text: Did you know that the historic ranger's residence in the Clackamas Lake Ranger Station Historic District , no longer needed by park rangers , is now used mainly by recreational visitors?
text: Did you know that the subprime mortgage crisis , among several other factors, led to a negative demand shock in the U.S. economy , which causes demand for goods and services to decrease?
text: Did you know that Terence Tolbert , Nevada state director for Barack Obama 's presidential campaign, died of a heart attack at age 44, two days before the 2008 U.S. presidential election ?
text: Did you know that after serving in the Norwegian Parliament for four terms, Ingvald Godal involved himself in solidarity work for Chechnya ?
text: Did you know that the Urakami class destroyer Kawakaze of the Imperial Japanese Navy was built in Scotland , sold to the Regia Marina of Italy and sunk as a ship of the Kriegsmarine of Nazi Germany ?
text: Did you know that memorials to the Confederacy in Mayfield , Kentucky include a fountain and a series of cemetery gates ?
text: Did you know that SM U-10 and SM U-11 , which were U-10 -class submarines constructed in Germany and shipped to Austria-Hungary by rail, were both commissioned into the German Imperial Navy and the Austro-Hungarian Navy during World War I ?
text: Did you know that Thomas Paton worked on the construction of the Owen Falls Dam which was responsible for the first complete stoppage of the White Nile in history?
text: Did you know that Castle Rushen in the Isle of Man was founded by the Norse king Magnus III in the 13th century and used today as a museum and lawcourt?
text: Did you know that the " Valley of Tears " in the Golan Heights was so named after it became the site of a major battle in the Yom Kippur War ?
text: Did you know that Japanese admiral Mitsumi Shimizu authorized the midget submarine operation during the attack on Pearl Harbor ?
text: Did you know that General James Deshler was killed instantly by a Union cannon's artillery shell at the Battle of Chickamauga ?
text: Did you know that William Munroe was the first manufacturer of pencils in the United States ?
text: Did you know that Subtropical Storm One in 1978 is the only Atlantic subtropical cyclone to develop in the month of January?
text: Did you know that David Jeaffreson served as Commissioner of ICAC before retiring from the Hong Kong government in 1991?
text: Did you know that the restoration of the Tithe Barn, Pilton in Somerset , England was supported by profits from the Glastonbury Festival ?
text: Did you know that Zaki Tun Azmi became the Chief Justice of Malaysia after serving just over one year in the superior courts of Malaysia ?
text: Did you know that director Peter Ustinov instructed Richard Burton not to blink during his performance as the sociopath in the 1972 film Hammersmith is Out ?
text: Did you know that Tang Dynasty official Li Mian kept places at feasts for two deceased subordinates for three years after their deaths, offering meals and wine to their spirits?
text: Did you know that Nationalist commanders offered 500 pesetas for each T-26 Spanish Army tank captured from the Popular Front during the Spanish Civil War ?
text: Did you know that Ylon Schwartz , main event finalist at the 2008 World Series of Poker , has gambled on backgammon , darts , horses , and his ability to toss lemons across a street onto the roof of a Burger King ?
text: Did you know that veteran Tour de France commentator Daniel Mangeas has been called a "talking encyclopedia of cycling " because he never needs notes?
text: Did you know that the steamboats Enterprise and Maria once had a monopoly on transport along the Fraser River in British Columbia ?
text: Did you know that al-Karmil , an Arabic language newspaper first published in Haifa in 1908, was founded with the express purpose of "opposing Zionist colonization "?
text: Did you know that Joseph C. Hare , American politician and lumberman, has a railroad station, railroad stop, and valley all named after him?
text: Did you know that Meare Pool was an important source of fish for Glastonbury Abbey before being drained between 1500 and 1750?
text: Did you know that Policeman Bluejay , a children's novel by L. Frank Baum of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz fame, was first published in 1907 under the pen name "Laura Bancroft"?
text: Did you know that Schloss Vollrads claims to be the oldest winery of Germany ?
text: Did you know that the Mediterranean land snail species Papillifera bidens lived in England for over 100 years before being discovered?
text: Did you know that Franz Burgmeier became the first Liechtensteiner to play football in England after being signed on the advice of a club chairman's twelve-year-old grandson?
text: Did you know that when Australian cricketer Jack Massie fought at Gallipoli , he wore a scarlet rag on his right arm to distract snipers from his bowling arm?
text: Did you know that William Shockley , co-inventor of the transistor ,  also helped calculate the solar cell 's Shockley-Queisser limit ?
text: Did you know that Rear-Admiral Charles Austen ′s family included Admiral of the Fleet Francis Austen , and the novelist Jane Austen ?
text: Did you know that Ford Road in Dearborn, Michigan , was named for William Ford , father of Henry ?
text: Did you know that Zhang Yanshang , his father , son, and father-in-law were all Tang Dynasty Chinese chancellors ?
text: Did you know that Kentucky 's Paducah Freight House was bigger than required because it was originally intended to service a larger rail network?
text: Did you know that the meaning of " Der Pleier ", the pseudonym of the 13th-century author of the romance Garel , is unknown, though it might refer metaphorically to glassblowing ?
text: Did you know that Milan Bandić was elected in 2005 as the mayor of Zagreb , Croatia , with the support of only a seventh of eligible voters?
text: Did you know that country music singer Jeremy McComb was once a tour manager for comedian Larry the Cable Guy ?
text: Did you know that Amasa Holcomb was the first in the United States to manufacture telescopes ?
text: Did you know that Nemattanew , a renegade Powhatan captain dubbed "Jack-of-the-Feather" in 1611 for his extravagant regalia , believed he was invincible to English bullets?
text: Did you know that the Fodder Scam involved the alleged embezzlement of about Rs . 950 crore (US$ 199 million) from the treasury of the Indian state of Bihar ?
text: Did you know that the silhouette artist S. John Ross had a 60-year association with the Sydney Royal Easter Show , and created portraits of Vivian Leigh and Nicole Kidman ?
text: Did you know that broadcaster Tony Dean was eulogized by a South Dakota Senator for striking a balance in "his advocacy on behalf of conservation and sportsmen alike"?
text: Did you know that Ingres painted Jupiter and Thetis to fulfill his obligations to the French Academy in Rome , a body famous for the patriarchal attitude that the work seeks to repudiate?
text: Did you know that the Norwegian manufacturing company Thune , started in 1815 as a blacksmith 's workshop, later expanded to build agricultural machinery , turbines and locomotives ?
text: Did you know that Jacob Earl Fickel is credited with firing the first gunshots from an airplane?
text: Did you know that India 's Kanjli Wetland , a manmade wetland created in 1870, has been recognised by the Ramsar Convention for its rich biodiversity ?
text: Did you know that the 1855 Wairarapa earthquake was the most powerful earthquake in New Zealand ?
text: Did you know that Scotsman Adam Menelaws became the de facto leading architect of the Russian Empire when he was around seventy years old?
text: Did you know that Clärenore Stinnes was the first person to circumnavigate the world by automobile in an Adler Standard 6 ?
text: Did you know that the California Milk Processor Board spent US$ 1.5 million in 2002 to popularize the Latin American drink licuado as a way to promote milk consumption ?
text: Did you know that an outer jacket, magoja was introduced to Korea after the king's father, Heungseon Daewongun , returned from Manchuria in 1887?
text: Did you know that horror novelist Anne Rice has cited the 1936 film Dracula's Daughter as an inspiration for her own homoerotic vampire fiction?
text: Did you know that a riot at Paducah, Kentucky 's Woolfolk Home led to Ulysses S. Grant 's promotion above his superior officer, Brigadier General Charles Ferguson Smith ?
text: Did you know that India 's Sir Arcot Ramasamy Mudaliar was the first President of the United Nations Economic and Social Council ?
text: Did you know that the LAPD Air Support Division in Los Angeles is the nation's largest municipal airborne law enforcement organization?
text: Did you know that after his diagnosis with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis , tributes to Allan Rosenfield included a song dedication by Bono at a U2 concert?
text: Did you know that in his 1933 essay In Praise of Shadows , Junichirō Tanizaki includes monastery toilets in his reflections on Japanese aesthetics ?
text: Did you know that in 1917, baseball managers John McGraw and Christy Mathewson were arrested after a game for playing on Sunday ?
text: Did you know that the Egyptian Communist Organisation was nicknamed "Mishmish", meaning apricot in Arabic ?
text: Did you know that the Wishram Indian Village Site is believed to have been occupied for at least 10,000 years?
text: Did you know that the book Brainwashing: The Science of Thought Control was runner-up in the 2005 Times Higher Education Supplement Young Academic Author Award?
text: Did you know that the Observer Group was the first joint- United States Army / Marine unit to be organized and trained specifically for amphibious reconnaissance ?
text: Did you know that for building a giant reservoir , King Mahasen , who ruled Sri Lanka from AD 275 to 301, was declared a God by his subjects?
text: Did you know that Paducah, Kentucky 's Lloyd Tilghman Memorial honors a Marylander , and was built by an English immigrant from Boston ?
text: Did you know that William David Davies was the first Welsh non-conformist to obtain a Bachelor of Divinity degree from the University of Oxford ?
text: Did you know that the state of Wisconsin proposed the route of Wisconsin Highway 57 as an Interstate Highway corridor in the 1950s?
text: Did you know that Gants Mill is an historic watermill now generating hydroelectric power from the River Brue ?
text: Did you know that James Wandin , the first Australian Rules footballer of aboriginal descent to play with St Kilda Football Club , was also the tribal leader of the Wurundjeri people?
text: Did you know that Symantec was originally founded by Gary Hendrix to focus on AI-related projects such as natural language processing ?
text: Did you know that the Valencian regional parliament , the Corts Valencianes , has its origins in assemblies established in the thirteenth century by King James I of Aragon ?
text: Did you know that Byron recorded seeing the " tigers sup" at the Exeter Exchange menagerie in central London owned by Edward Cross ?
text: Did you know that the Zlín International Film Festival for Children and Youth , one of the oldest youth film festivals, included over 500 films from 52 countries in 2008?
text: Did you know that in 2004, The Hershey Company released three flavors of a new product called Snack Barz ?
text: Did you know that the 1919 Ihlen Declaration , made by Norwegian Foreign Minister Nils Claus Ihlen on the subject of Greenland 's sovereignty, led to an international court case?
text: Did you know that Estelle Reiner ′s deadpan line —"I'll have what she's having" —after Meg Ryan 's faked orgasm in When Harry Met Sally , was ranked by the AFI as one of the best ever movie quotes?
text: Did you know that Grandmaster Valentina Golubenko , the first and only World Youth Chess Champion born and raised in Estonia , is a Russian citizen playing under the Croatian flag?
text: Did you know that the 1925 Irish Senate election required a change in the law governing the layout of the ballot , to allow all 76 candidates to be listed?
text: Did you know that Lt. Henry B. Hidden is believed to be first officer of Union volunteer cavalry killed in the American Civil War ?
text: Did you know that the Sunday Closing Act of 1881, which restricted the opening of public houses in Wales , was the first legislation for over three centuries to recognise that country as distinct from England ?
text: Did you know that Tang Dynasty official Xiao Fu refused to placate the chancellor Wang Jin by offering Wang ancestral property that Wang wanted?
text: Did you know that the entrance to Kaipara Harbour has treacherous sandbars known as "the graveyard", which are responsible for more shipwrecks than any other place in New Zealand ?
text: Did you know that Terence Fox was made the first Shell Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Cambridge despite never having published a research paper?
text: Did you know that Ōe Taku , after spending 12 years in prison for treason , was elected to the lower house in the Diet of Japan in 1890?
text: Did you know that the 2008-09 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team is in its first season off of scholarship probation following the University of Michigan basketball scandal ?
text: Did you know that rather than await execution, Russian anarchist assassin Moishe Tokar doused himself in paraffin from his prison cell lamp and burned himself alive ?
text: Did you know that in geometric group theory , a Dehn function is an optimal function associated to a finite group presentation which estimates the area of a relation in that group in terms of its length?
text: Did you know that Alfred D'Orsay Tennyson Dickens , the son of novelist Charles Dickens , died in New York in 1912 while on a lecture tour celebrating the centenary of his father's birth?
text: Did you know that many Norwegian political parties opposed the establishment of a State Secretary , only to expand that institution when in power?
text: Did you know that until his death in 1927, James C. Donnell was the last man to call John D. Rockefeller simply "John"?
text: Did you know that the controversial Scout Moor Wind Farm , which opened in September 2008, is presently the largest onshore wind farm in England ?
text: Did you know that Tang Dynasty chancellor Jiang Gongfu was removed from office when he opposed Emperor Dezong 's wish to build a pagoda in mourning his daughter Princess Tang'an?
text: Did you know that Camp Beauregard , an American Civil War camp in western Kentucky , was abandoned in less than six months due to over 1,000 cases of typhoid and pneumonia ?
text: Did you know that in 1999, the government of India issued a postage stamp to commemorate Madras politician P. Kakkan ?
text: Did you know that in his 2001 post-anarchist book From Bakunin to Lacan , Saul Newman questions how modernist anarchism can refrain from reproducing the forms of oppression that it tries to overcome?
text: Did you know that Richard Petty and his crew chief Dale Inman presented the first artifact to the NASCAR Hall of Fame , the car that Petty drove to a record 27 victories in 1967?
text: Did you know that the Shinbashi Enbujō in Ginza , Japan , today a major kabuki theatre, was originally built to serve as a venue for geisha dances?
text: Did you know that the 20 deaths in the Donora Smog of 1948 , called one of the worst air pollution disasters in American history , have been credited with leading to passage of the U.S. Clean Air Act in 1970?
text: Did you know that the Moon of Baroda , a 24.04- carat diamond , was worn by actress Marilyn Monroe and Empress Marie Therese of Austria ?
text: Did you know that the Wooldridge Monuments have been dubbed "The Strange Procession Which Never Moves"?
text: Did you know that Kukkarahalli lake adjoining the University of Mysore , was created in 1864 during Mummadi Krishnaraja Wodeyar 's rule of the Kingdom of Mysore , to provide water for irrigation ?
text: Did you know that Judith Wachs , who spent 30 years with her Sephardic music group Voice of the Turtle , first turned to music when she filled in for her husband who signed up for recorder lessons but could not attend?
text: Did you know that Bruce McLaren Motor Racing 's first use of the color now known as "McLaren Orange" was on their McLaren M6As , which won the 1967 Can-Am Challenge Cup ?
text: Did you know that the hen Matilda lived to age 16 and became the world's oldest chicken in 2004, never laying any eggs?
text: Did you know that the documentary series Bertie and Haughey on the lives of former taoisigh Bertie Ahern and Charles Haughey were made by Mint Productions ?
text: Did you know that Swiss balloonist Eduard Spelterini was acclaimed for aerial photography before the development and proliferation of aeroplanes ?
text: Did you know that no multicellular organisms have ever evolved wheels or similar propulsion methods , although the Pleuroptya ruralis caterpillar can roll and a species of mantis shrimp performs somersaults?
text: Did you know that the Polish Righteous among the Nations , Alfreda and Bolesław Pietraszek , rescued families of 18 Jews during the Holocaust on their farm in Ceranów ?
text: Did you know that Japanese author Jun'ichirō Tanizaki attributed his phobia of earthquakes to the collapse of his family house in the 1894 Meiji Tokyo earthquake ?
text: Did you know that Akkamma Cherian , an Indian freedom fighter , was popularly known as the " Jhansi Rani of Travancore ?"
text: Did you know that redistributive change is a theory of economic justice that promotes the recognition of poverty as a suspect classification under U.S. law ?
text: Did you know that Cavallo's multiplier was an 18th-century electrostatic influence machine used to amplify electric charge ?
text: Did you know that Floyd Rayford was the baseball player that Cal Ripken, Jr. replaced in the starting lineup to begin his streak of 2,632 consecutive games played ?
text: Did you know that the Apostlebird of inland Australia is so named after the Twelve Apostles as it was seen to travel in groups of twelve?
text: Did you know that " Guan ju ", one of the oldest poems in Chinese literature , was praised by Confucius for its restrained emotions?
text: Did you know that Mayor of New York City John Lindsay was said to have been so angered by Edith Evans Asbury of The New York Times that he broke his telephone after slamming down the receiver?
text: Did you know that the pilot edition of the BBC Radio 7 comedy A Series of Psychotic Episodes was nominated for a Sony Radio Academy Award ?
text: Did you know that at Washington State University from 1948 to 1950, Bob Gambold was the quarterback of the school's football team and the starting forward for its basketball team during all three of those years?
text: Did you know that after retiring from the stage opera singer Emma Carelli managed the Rome Opera House for almost 15 years?
text: Did you know that Bowie Seamount on the British Columbia Coast of Canada is one of the most biologically rich submarine volcanoes on Earth and was an active volcanic island throughout the last glacial period ?
text: Did you know that the award nominated film Lonesome Jim had a last minute budget cut from US$ 3 million down to US$500,000 and had to be shot in only 17 days?
text: Did you know that Microsoft made its largest acquisition ever when it purchased digital marketing company aQuantive for over US$6 billion?
text: Did you know that Minneapolis hip hop duo Ill Chemistry performed live as part of a Minnesota Ballet production?
text: Did you know that biologist J. B. S. Haldane replied " Precambrian rabbits " when asked what would destroy his confidence in the theory of evolution ?
text: Did you know that Vienna Fingers cookies, first sold in 1915, were mentioned in American playwright and screenwriter Neil Simon 's 1965 play The Odd Couple ?
text: Did you know that Fort Pearce , a former defensive facility in Point Nepean , Victoria , Australia , was active during World War I but never fired its guns in anger?
text: Did you know that S&H Green Stamps , co-founded by Thomas Sperry , produced more trading stamps in some years than stamps printed by the U.S. Postal Service ?
text: Did you know that five of the video games nominated for the Annie Award for Best Animated Video Game are adaptations of animated films?
text: Did you know that Mark Rubin , a safety for the Penn State Nittany Lions , defeated Olympic gold medalist Michael Phelps in swimming while in high school?
text: Did you know that during World War II Robert Furman served as director of intelligence and espionage for the American atomic bomb project ?
text: Did you know that Sunday Island in Victoria, Australia is a private game reserve surrounded by a marine park?
text: Did you know that the Frank Lloyd Wright -inspired Massaro House has an 18-foot (5.5 m)-high living area illuminated by 26 triangular skylights?
text: Did you know that in 1844 Gazulu Lakshminarasu Chetty established the Crescent , the first Indian -owned newspaper in Madras Presidency ?
text: Did you know that Father Nelson Baker , founder of the Basilica of Our Lady of Victory in Lackawanna, New York , is buried in the basilica's transept in a grotto hewn from Vesuvian black lava ?
text: Did you know that the fishing industry in New Zealand works an exclusive economic zone fourteen times larger than the land area of New Zealand itself?
text: Did you know that the Black-throated Finch has a black-rumped and a white-rumped subspecies?
text: Did you know that Larry McCall was released by the Baltimore Orioles and was signed with the New York Yankees as a free agent both on the same day?
text: Did you know that two white supremacists allegedly plotted to assassinate Senator Barack Obama as part of a supposed plan to murder more than 100 African Americans in Tennessee ?
text: Did you know that Nike Flywire uses Vectran fibers to reduce the weight of shoes used in athletics , basketball , badminton , and tennis by as much as 50%?
text: Did you know that Yunus-bek Yevkurov , the current president of Ingushetia , is a recipient of the Hero of Russia award, the country's highest honourary title ?
text: Did you know that the double balcony of Proctor's Theater in Troy, New York , made it ideal for showing motion pictures when that medium became popular in the 1920s?
text: Did you know that India 's Mafia Raj , or "mafia regime," first emerged around the state-owned coal mines of Jharkhand ?
text: Did you know that David W. Mullins Jr. abruptly resigned in 1994 as vice-chairman of the United States Federal Reserve to join a "dream team" of financial engineers at the hedge fund Long Term Capital Management ?
text: Did you know that in the 1965 film The Greatest Story Ever Told , California 's Death Valley was used as the setting of Jesus ' 40-day journey into the wilderness?
text: Did you know that the Guatemalan Black Howler and Mantled Howler monkeys are sympatric over parts of Mexico and Guatemala ?
text: Did you know that when Adobe Systems acquired the company Scene7 in May 2007, its CEO, Doug Mack, became vice president of the Creative Solutions Services division at Adobe?
text: Did you know that Nazi Germany used thousands of Polish laborers to build infrastructure for their invasion of the Soviet Union ?
text: Did you know that Kirk DeMicco , writer-director of the 2008 animated film Space Chimps , conceived of the film after hearing a line from Chuck Yeager in The Right Stuff ?
text: Did you know that conviction politics have been criticized as being a "hard ideology"?
text: Did you know that the French navigation authority Voies navigables de France manages 3,800-kilometre (2,400 mi) of canals and 2,900-kilometre (1,800 mi) rivers on the largest network of waterways in Europe ?
text: Did you know that soprano Meagan Miller , accustomed to wearing US$10,000 gowns on stage in her opera performances, chose to wear her mother's simple gown for her summer 2008 wedding?
text: Did you know that three roads in Guide Board Corners, New York were damaged and closed by Hurricane Agnes ?
text: Did you know that punch bowls were occasionally used as baptismal fonts in dissenting families ?
text: Did you know that E. Roger Muir , creator and producer of The Howdy Doody Show , suggested that the title puppet run for "President of the Boys and Girls" in the 1948 U.S. presidential election ?
text: Did you know that the Chengziya Archaeological Site in China is thought to be the largest prehistoric settlement found to date?
text: Did you know that out of the ten players that attended Morehead State University who eventually played in Major League Baseball , Ron Klimkowski was the only one who attended the college for only one year?
text: Did you know that two members of the French band Zebda ran for political office in Toulouse during the 2001 municipal elections , and won 12.38 percent of the vote?
text: Did you know that magazine publishing company Condé Nast Publications made its largest acquisition ever when it purchased Fairchild Publications for US$ 650 million?
text: Did you know that computer software company Red Hat made its largest acquisition ever when it acquired free software support company Cygnus Solutions for US$ 674 million?
text: Did you know that the African and Malagasy Union was a former intergovernmental organization created to promote cooperation among African states, but went defunct in 1985?
text: Did you know that M-68 was a discontinuous state trunkline highway in Northern Michigan between 1940 and 1946?
text: Did you know that Jean Robic , winner of the 1947 Tour de France , was so light that at mountain summits he was handed lead and mercury -ballasted drinking bottles for gravity-assisted descents?
text: Did you know that the connective tissue disorder gerodermia osteodysplastica is also known as "Walt Disney dwarfism" because the first known patients were described as resembling " dwarves from a Walt Disney film "?
text: Did you know that Milton Hebald 's 1960 sculpture depicted the 12 signs of the zodiac on the Pan Am Worldport at John F. Kennedy International Airport ?
text: Did you know that David Wagner was the number-one ranked quadriplegic wheelchair tennis player in both singles and doubles in 2007?
text: Did you know that technology company Dell made its largest acquisition ever when it purchased EqualLogic , a storage device manufacturer, for US$ 1.4 billion in January 2008?
text: Did you know that Bob McDonald , a Canadian Football League player who survived polio , was elected to the 25th Canadian Parliament at age 25?
text: Did you know that the small mountain-top Aztec temple of El Tepozteco in Mexico , dedicated to the god of pulque , an alcoholic beverage , attracted pilgrims from as far away as Guatemala ?
text: Did you know that a friction hoist can require up to 30 percent less motor power than a drum hoist for a given application?
text: Did you know that The Outsiders , a novel written by S.E. Hinton , has sold over 14 million copies since it was published in 1967?
text: Did you know that when Tang Dynasty general Zhang Yi signed a peace treaty with Tufan , he made an offering of goats instead of the customary cattle and horses because he was embarrassed to be dealing with "barbarians"?
text: Did you know that basketball player Jojo Duncil was prevented from playing for the UST Growling Tigers in his final year of eligibility when a birth certificate stated that he was overage?
text: Did you know that the Japanese novel Kanikōsen is one of the best-selling books of 2008, despite being published in 1929?
text: Did you know that Thomas Gold Appleton , the brother-in-law of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow known as "the Boston wit", is reported to have said as he was dying, "It will be a new experience"?
text: Did you know that the Export Control Act of 1940 ceased the exportation of military equipment to pre- WWII Japan which pushed the United States and Japan closer to war?
text: Did you know that On the Green Carpet was the first North Korean film to be invited to the Berlin International Film Festival , where it was screened in 2004?
text: Did you know that The Edgewater , an over-water hotel on Seattle 's Central Waterfront , used to advertise that you could "fish from your room"?
text: Did you know that actress Dina Cocea was known in Romania as the "Queen of the Theater" and received the country's highest civil award, the Order of the Star of Romania ?
text: Did you know that Bernard Sainz , known as "Dr Mabuse" because of his success in horse racing and cycling , was jailed for three years for administering doping products?
text: Did you know that the U.S. Navy 's SC-21 program to rethink warship design led to the " tumblehome " hull of the Zumwalt class destroyer ?
text: Did you know that Wales rugby international and Welsh Rugby Union Secretary Bill Clement was awarded the Military Cross for his actions in World War II ?
text: Did you know that Hanwei Group is the biggest producer of eggs in the People's Republic of China ?
text: Did you know that five individual career records were set during the 2008 season of Canadian university football ?
text: Did you know that " Milk and Alcohol " ranked on Britain 's top-10 hit singles chart in 1979 and was the biggest hit for the band Dr. Feelgood ?
text: Did you know that the Saint John River is one of six major rivers in Liberia ?
text: Did you know that Hall of Fame Major League Baseball pitcher Phil Niekro had no wins and six losses in eight Opening Day starts for the Atlanta Braves ?
text: Did you know that at the time he was appointed Governor of Arizona Territory , C. Meyer Zulick was a prisoner in Mexico ?
text: Did you know that the Welsh village name Ynysddu means "black island", although the village is not located on an island?
text: Did you know that the first Chinese migrant to Madagascar arrived in 1862, starting a community that would become Africa 's third-largest Chinese population ?
text: Did you know that while enrollment at U.S. tribal colleges and universities has increased significantly since 1982, California 's only tribal college, D-Q University , had just six students in 2006?
text: Did you know that HMS Braak was seized and brought into the Royal Navy when the former Dutch ship anchored in Falmouth , unaware that the Dutch had gone to war with Britain ?
text: Did you know that the 2006 novel The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery was a "publishing phenomenon" in Europe ?
text: Did you know that Hall of Famer Mel Ott made his final appearance as a Major League Baseball player pinch hitting for Ken Trinkle ?
text: Did you know that five historic districts in downtown Troy, New York were merged in 1986 to create the Central Troy Historic District ?
text: Did you know that Wales rugby international Harry Payne finished his playing career after breaking his ankle in a match, at the age of 84?
text: Did you know that the musical Conversation Piece by Noel Coward starred a French actress, Yvonne Printemps , who spoke no English?
text: Did you know that former child actor Roger Mobley served as a Green Beret in the Vietnam War and is now a Christian pastor in Texas ?
text: Did you know that Tiger's Whip , a piece of installation art by Singaporean artist Tang Da Wu , highlights how the tiger is being hunted for its penis?
text: Did you know that Norwegian industrial company Denofa used whale oil as a basis for refinement before the use of soy became common?
text: Did you know that the Colonel Robert A. Smith Monument , which honors Smith and the 10th Mississippi Infantry , is believed to be the second-biggest single-stone monument in the United States ?
text: Did you know that IMS Associates, Inc. became one of the earliest successful personal computing companies, before going bankrupt in 1979 after just six years?
text: Did you know that the recent persecution of albinos in Tanzania and Burundi is based on the belief that their body parts have magical power and impart prosperity ?
text: Did you know that for a short time in the late 1940s, it was planned that USS Hawaii (CB-3) would be the U.S. Navy 's first guided missile cruiser ?
text: Did you know that Polish composer Rafał Augustyn ′s Symphony of Hymns took twenty years to complete, typically lasts for 100 minutes and requires an orchestra of over 170 players?
text: Did you know that the Gotham Book Mart in Manhattan 's diamond district , with its iconic Wise Men Fish Here sign, was frequented by distinguished authors such as Henry Miller and Allen Ginsberg ?
text: Did you know that Italian tennis player Federico Luzzi was prohibited from wearing a shirt with a Playboy bunny logo while competing at the 2007 U.S. Open tournament?
text: Did you know that Lou Dorfsman considered the Gastrotypographicalassemblage he created for the CBS Building 's cafeteria to be his magnum opus ?
text: Did you know that the first military aerodrome in Britain was at Larkhill , and the first squadron to use aeroplanes was formed there?
text: Did you know that the Special Administrative Unit of Civil Aeronautics is the Colombian government agency in charge of managing the airspace , civil aviation , and the aviation industry in Colombia ?
text: Did you know that the Victorian Wader Study Group catches and releases, on average, more than 7000 birds a year?
text: Did you know that Svend Borchmann Hersleb Vogt , the Auditor General of Norway from 1898 to 1923, was also a judge and a member of the Norwegian Parliament ?
text: Did you know that operatic soprano Gail Robinson won the Metropolitan Opera auditions at the young age of 19?
text: Did you know that Tang Chinese General Guo Ziyi would not let the women in his household meet government official Lu Qi when he visited the Guos' mansion because he considered Lu too ugly and treacherous?
text: Did you know that Expedia, Inc. made its largest acquisition ever when it purchased Travelscape for over US$ 89 million?
text: Did you know that Jens Jensen initiated the establishment in 1901  of the International Secretariat of National Trade Union Centres ?
text: Did you know that there are 30 million smokers in Japan , making the country one of the largest tobacco markets in the world?
text: Did you know that the liberal film company Brave New Films has produced full-length videos and paper advertisements in addition to the viral videos for which it is known?
text: Did you know that Waardenburg syndrome is named after Dutch ophthalmologist Petrus Johannes Waardenburg ?
text: Did you know that the Workers Committee for National Liberation , a communist labour group , was broken up by the Egyptian government in January 1946?
text: Did you know that after retiring from the entertainment industry, actress/singer Francine Everett took a clerical job at Harlem Hospital in New York City ?
text: Did you know that Estonia generates 90 percent of its power from oil shale ?
text: Did you know that Henri Pépin extended the notion of riding the Tour de France to stopping in good restaurants and sometimes finishing 12 hours behind the leaders?
text: Did you know that German geologist Heinrich Edmund Naumann discovered a new species of fossil elephant in Japan?
text: Did you know that Grigory Orlov is credited with subduing the Russian plague of 1770-1772 ?
text: Did you know that the cruise ship Costa Allegra was originally built as the container ship Annie Johnson ?
text: Did you know that the Gashash HaHiver trio, which included Shaike Levi , was awarded the Israel Prize in 2000 for lifetime achievement and contribution to Israeli entertainment and society?
text: Did you know that the Troy, New York post office has been in ten different places since it was first established in 1796?
text: Did you know that Dr. T. M. Nair founded India 's Justice Party along with Theagaroya Chetty ?
text: Did you know that Actionable Offenses is a CD compilation of profane and sexually explicit phonograph recordings from the 1890s, which Anthony Comstock ’s Society for the Suppression of Vice managed to get banned?
text: Did you know that The Mass Psychology of Fascism , a book written by Wilhelm Reich in 1933, blamed sexual repression for the rise of fascism ?
text: Did you know that the oceanic dolphin Costero is officially the same species as the river dolphin Tucuxi , even though they have been unambiguously demonstrated to be genetically different?
text: Did you know that the 2007 Bengali film Kaal , based on the lives of four women trapped in the world of human trafficking , is in trouble with the Bengali regional censor board over some scenes considered too graphic?
text: Did you know that after failed attempts for 1964, 1968 and 1972, the Calgary Olympic Development Association successfully brought the Winter Olympics to Calgary , Canada in 1988 ?
text: Did you know that Japanese admiral Misu Sotarō lost his left eye while commanding the Nisshin at Battle of Tsushima in the Russo-Japanese War ?
text: Did you know that during Mexico City's colonial period , so many grand mansions were built that the city gained the nickname of the "City of Palaces"?
text: Did you know that the inshore marine fish bumpnose trevally and longfin trevally are similarly shaped and thus often misidentified, reportedly even in some museum collections?
text: Did you know that despite pioneer Japanese journalist Kuga Katsunan 's advocacy of Japanese nationalism , government censors shut his newspaper down 30 times between 1889 and 1896?
text: Did you know that the acceptance of a Cannes Gold Lion by the art director for Nike 's Pretty television ad marked the first time the award was given to a Lebanese person ?
text: Did you know that King Dhatusena , who ruled Sri Lanka from 455 to 473, constructed 18 irrigation tanks , an irrigation canal , and the Avukana Buddha Statue ?
text: Did you know that the gate piers of Ferne Park , a country house built in 2001 in Wiltshire , England , are Grade II listed structures ?
text: Did you know that an opponent of Australian politician Ian West suggested he was better known by "seagulls" than by the constituents of Manly ?
text: Did you know that Major League Baseball player Nolan Ryan had three wins and no losses as the California Angels ' Opening Day starting pitcher ?
text: Did you know that angry St Ives, New South Wales residents threatened to disrupt upcoming film Accidents Happen by playing the bagpipes during filming?
text: Did you know that the Ediacaran organism Eoandromeda may represent the earliest animal fossil unless it turns out to be an alga ?
text: Did you know that Naganandini is the 30th Melakarta rāgam in the 72 melakarta rāgam system of Carnatic music ?
text: Did you know that during the mid-20th century, cemesto panels were used in both prefabricated housing and houses designed by prominent architects ?
text: Did you know that New York noise-rock band Flux Information Sciences 's 2001 album Private/Public was recorded before an invited audience of 50 friends who stood around the studio naked and blindfolded?
text: Did you know that Australian politician Christine Robertson once addressed a " Dorothy Dixer " question to the wrong Minister in Parliament?
text: Did you know that St Mary's Cathedral, Tuam in County Galway , Ireland , contains a 12th-century arch which has been called "the finest example of Hiberno- Romanesque architecture "?
text: Did you know that Daryl Veltman was the first overall selection in the 2008 Entry Draft by the Boston Blazers of the National Lacrosse League ?
text: Did you know that in order to get her first and only film role , actress Phyllis Welch MacDonald had to sign a contract pledging not to marry or become engaged for six months?
text: Did you know that in 1929, Western Australia celebrated its Centenary of foundation , which included dances, race meetings, an air race and other sporting events?
text: Did you know that the Wingspread Conference on the Precautionary Principle established the internationally accepted definition of the precautionary principle ?
text: Did you know that the blue trevally , a popular gamefish in South Africa , was first described in 1775 based on a specimen taken from the Red Sea ?
text: Did you know that pitcher Jackson Todd threw 13 complete games during the 1973 college baseball season, a University of Oklahoma record which still stands?
text: Did you know that in Hopi mythology , the Kachina Nataska enforces good behavior among children?
text: Did you know that Australian politician Lynda Voltz 's step-father and grand step-father were also politicians?
text: Did you know that the 1996 Opening Day game for the Oakland A's at Cashman Field in Las Vegas marked the first time in 39 years that a regular season major league game was played in a minor league stadium?
text: Did you know that four questions about how to assess the patentability of software-related inventions have been referred to the Enlarged Board of Appeal of the European Patent Office ?
text: Did you know that the Henry DeLand House has served as a private house, an inn, a speakeasy , a bar, a restaurant and most recently, a catering hall?
text: Did you know that gemstones and heroin are traded from Burma to China for motorcycles and household goods across the Shweli River , which forms part of the boundary between the two countries?
text: Did you know that Kalaallit Dr. Karla Jessen Williamson was Editor of the Journal of Indigenous Studies before she became the first woman and first Inuk Executive Director at the Arctic Institute of North America ?
text: Did you know that an enterolith is a calculus found in the intestine of an animal, usually a horse or human ?
text: Did you know that Abram S. Piatt was an American Zouave colonel and Civil War general who later built a castle in Logan County, Ohio ?
text: Did you know that the call made by Limnodynastes dorsalis , a frog species in Western Australia , is similar to the sound of a plucked banjo string?
text: Did you know that William Headline , who spent 12 years as the Washington, D.C. bureau chief for CNN , was described by Wolf Blitzer as having "the best name in news"?
text: Did you know that purity of the Sasthamkotta Lake water for drinking use is attributed to presence of a large number of larvae called cavaborus , which consume much of the lake's bacteria ?
text: Did you know that former Norwegian government minister Johan Henrik Rye Holmboe was subject to an impeachment case in 1926–27, but found not guilty?
text: Did you know that actor Spencer Williams played a female fortune teller in his 1946 film Dirty Gertie from Harlem U.S.A. ?
text: Did you know that the Yellowspotted trevally is a species of inshore marine fish of the family Carangidae found in the Indo-Pacific region?
text: Did you know that writers associated with the modernist literary magazine Profil included Køltzov , Lunden , Obrestad , Haavardsholm and Vold ?
text: Did you know that the William Forst House was the site where the Confederate government of Kentucky was founded, commemorated nearby with the Confederate Monument in Russellville ?
text: Did you know that cargo ship USS West Ekonk was laid down , launched , and completed in 73 working days in 1918, becoming the ninth-fastest- constructed ocean-going ship in the world?
text: Did you know that P. T. Rajan , the Chief Minister of Madras Presidency from April 1936 to August 1936, was a graduate of Jesus College, Oxford ?
text: Did you know that Major League Baseball pitchers Jesse and Virgil Barnes , who each made two Opening Day starts for the New York Giants , were brothers?
text: Did you know that Australian -born lumber executive John A. Campbell was said to have introduced surfing on the Cornwall coast of England ?
text: Did you know that the teenage couple in Nicholas Sparks ' 1999 novel A Walk to Remember refrain from sex, due partly to the author's concern that such a plot twist might offend his readership?
text: Did you know that children have trouble attributing implicit meaning to aspect verbs implicating non-completion such as start , but find implicit meaning in degree modifiers such as half , as in half-finished ?
text: Did you know that African-American actor Gaius Charles is named as an homage to Gaius Julius Caesar ?
text: Did you know that guest stars on The Greatest Show on Earth , an ABC circus drama in 1963–1964, included Lucille Ball , James Coburn and Edgar Bergen ?
text: Did you know that after suffering from serious design problems, the Norwegian Marinens Flyvebaatfabrikk M.F.9 fighter aircraft was retired in 1932 on the orders of defence minister Vidkun Quisling ?
text: Did you know that Manchester United gave Stockport County a freezer full of ice cream in exchange for the transfer of footballer Hugh McLenahan in May 1927?
text: Did you know that Three Emperors' Corner is a former tripoint between the Austrian Empire , German Empire and the Russian Empire , created in the late 19th century in the aftermath of the partitions of Poland ?
text: Did you know that Manor Community College , a Cambridge school, has a headteacher who used to present a BBC childen's programme ?
text: Did you know that Dushanbe riots in 1990 were sparked by the rumour that a couple of thousand Armenian refugees from Azerbaijan had been resettled to Dushanbe ?
text: Did you know that the roof of the 12th-century St Nicolas Church, Portslade had to be jacked back into place over several months in 1959, having moved a foot (30 cm) out of alignment over the centuries?
text: Did you know that in the aftermath of the Second Partition of Poland in 1793, the Kościuszko Uprising occurred in 1794?
text: Did you know that a tour guide at Fond du Lac 's Octagon House claims that visitors hear the ghosts of an earlier owner's small children laughing and playing?
text: Did you know that lawyer Hal Kant spent 35 years as principal lawyer and general counsel for the Grateful Dead , exercising so much influence with the band that his business cards identified his role as "Czar"?
text: Did you know that sightings of a ghostly figure in the Culbertson Mansion is one of Indiana's many ghost legends ?
text: Did you know that Western Local Escort Force was organized by the Royal Canadian Navy in February 1942 as a response to German U-boat raids known as the Second Happy Time ?
text: Did you know that when New Paltz 's Elting Memorial Library caught a possible ghost on its security camera, the YouTube video received more views than the village has residents?
text: Did you know that the future King George V was among 13 people aboard HMS Bacchante who saw the infamous ghost ship Flying Dutchman off South Africa in 1881?
text: Did you know that the theme of poison dress can be found in Greek mythology , Mughal Indian folklore, and American urban legends ?
text: Did you know that educational music has been shown in research to promote learning?
text: Did you know that the Halloween Pennant is a North American species of dragonfly ?
text: Did you know that when Cornelius Holmboe was appointed Norwegian Minister of Justice in 1928, the cabinet lasted only for 18 days?
text: Did you know that Hawgsmoke is a biennial United States Air Force bombing, missile, and tactical gunnery competition for A-10 Thunderbolt II units?
text: Did you know that the Windsor Pumpkin Regatta is a race featuring large hollowed-out pumpkins in which contestants paddle a half-mile course across a lake?
text: Did you know that among the ghost sightings involving the American Civil War are a ghost reenacting one of his defeats in a battle that took place 415 miles (668 km) away?
text: Did you know that Chronotron , the only flash -based video game out of ten games nominated for the 2008 Penny Arcade Expo 's prestigious "PAX 10," was developed by only one person?
text: Did you know that the 1811 comet vintage of Veuve Clicquot has been described as one of the first modern Champagnes made according to the méthode champenoise ?
text: Did you know that in February 1962, Motor Cycling magazine achieved a best one-way speed for the Norton 650SS of 119.5 mph—more than 10 mph faster than the rival Triumph Bonneville ?
text: Did you know that Japan 's entomological warfare program in China during World War II used plague -infected fleas and cholera -coated flies to kill nearly 500,000 people?
text: Did you know that American Idol host Simon Cowell felt it was a mistake that Josiah Leming did not advance to the semifinals of the program's seventh season?
text: Did you know that the inspiration for the character Judy Ann Santos played in the film Ploning was based on a Cuyonon folk song from the Palawan town of Cuyo ?
text: Did you know that East German politician Erich Mückenberger led four district organizations of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany during his political career?
text: Did you know that A&M Records released three versions of Phil Ochs ' " Outside of a Small Circle of Friends " because of the song's reference to marijuana ?
text: Did you know that Canadian martial artist Tomasz Kucharzewski , who fought in an estimated 300 fights, was described as "happy-go-lucky" by his trainer due to his friendly demeanor?
text: Did you know that in the early 20th century, growers in the Champagne region rioted and burned down the city of Aÿ over producers using grapes from the Loire Valley , Germany and Spain to make champagne ?
text: Did you know that South African ANC activist Kate Molale organised a pioneer movement in the struggle against the 1953 Bantu Education Act ?
text: Did you know that William Cowper Alexander lost the 1856 election for the Governor of New Jersey by less than 3,000 votes?
text: Did you know that the Gray-handed Night Monkey is nocturnal and monogamous ?
text: Did you know that Sports Illustrated described high school player Kevin Laue as "the most exciting player in basketball " because of his playing skill with only one hand?
text: Did you know that Robert Brandon , goldsmith to Queen Elizabeth I and later Chamberlain of London , was the father-in-law of the artist Nicholas Hilliard and of Captain John Martin of the Jamestown Colony ?
text: Did you know that James J. Hill of the Great Northern Railway built the Great Northern Depot in Wayzata, Minnesota , in 1906 after moving the former stop a mile east of town 12 years earlier in a dispute with town residents?
text: Did you know that Augustus Louis Chetlain was said to have been the first man in Illinois to volunteer for the American Civil War ?
text: Did you know that unlike Bordeaux and Burgundy , vineyards in Champagne are classified according to what village they are in?
text: Did you know that out of 300 entries for the Honor Award from the United States Department of Transportation and the National Endowment for the Arts , Wallace Roberts & Todd was one of eleven who won the award?
text: Did you know that the 1989 Valvettiturai massacre was called "India's My Lai " by the Indian politician George Fernandes ?
text: Did you know that Patriarch Gregory II Youssef of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church spoke against the proposed doctrine of papal infallibility at the First Vatican Council ?
text: Did you know that unlike its modern-day relative the gharial , the extinct crocodilian Aktiogavialis lived in saltwater?
text: Did you know that the 21st Chancellor of the University of Toronto , Samuel Beatty , was the first person to receive a PhD in mathematics from a Canadian university?
text: Did you know that the freshwater turbellarian Microstomum caudatum can swallow prey about as large as itself?
text: Did you know that African American singer Cora Green performed the Yiddish tune Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen in the 1938 race film Swing! ?
text: Did you know that devotees across faiths swarmed St. Michael's Church , Mumbai , as news of a reported "bleeding" Jesus picture spread in June 2008?
text: Did you know that World War I flying ace Frank Linke-Crawford completed a reconnaissance mission in 1917, despite having his Hansa-Brandenburg C.I biplane riddled with 68 bullet holes?
text: Did you know that U.S. singer-songwriter Phil Ochs recorded " Bwatue " with African musicians more than ten years before Paul Simon famously did the same thing for his Graceland album?
text: Did you know that the scientific-technical journal Oil Shale is the only journal in the world that focuses on oil shale as a main subject?
text: Did you know that Oregon banned alcohol twice before the rest of America: once prior to statehood (from 1844 to 1845) and then again in 1915, four years before passage of the 18th Amendment ?
text: Did you know that J-pop band Round Table provided the song "Nagareboshi" as the closing theme of the episodes of the Yozakura Quartet anime?
text: Did you know that the extinct arachnid Attercopus was once considered as the world's oldest spider ?
text: Did you know that Mayor of New York City Ed Koch was sworn into office on New Year's Eve 1977 in the Manhattan home of David Margolis , president of Colt Industries, a firm founded in 1836 by Samuel Colt ?
text: Did you know that as little as five milligrams of the chemical agent phenyldichloroarsine can induce severe vomiting ?
text: Did you know that Sir Douglas Fox was, with James Greathead , joint engineer of the Liverpool Overhead Railway – the first electric elevated city railway in the world?
text: Did you know that although the Nationalist Congress Party and the Bharatiya Janata Party belong to opposing alliances in national Indian politics, they are both partners in the governing coalition in Meghalaya ?
text: Did you know that payments made by Lockheed president Carl Kotchian to encourage purchases of his company's L-1011 aircraft led to the arrest and conviction of Prime Minister of Japan Kakuei Tanaka ?
text: Did you know that two of the 48 episodes of Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse served as pilots for the 1960s television shows The Twilight Zone and The Untouchables ?
text: Did you know that the Israeli Air Force 's first heavy bombers were three B-17 Flying Fortresses smuggled to Israel in the late 1940s by Charles Winters and his associates?
text: Did you know that Adolf Hitler lived in a public dormitory in Vienna from 1910 to 1913?
text: Did you know that blind blues musician Cortelia Clark won a Grammy for his 1966 album recorded live on a sidewalk in Nashville , Tennessee ?
text: Did you know that Bartlett's bisection theorem can be used in the design of quartz crystal filter circuits to overcome drawbacks of traditional ladder topology ?
text: Did you know that eunuch admiral Yishiha is credited with constructing the only two Ming Buddhist temples ever built in modern-day Russia ?
text: Did you know that the laboratory of Dr. Wade Regehr conducts research on axon terminals in the brain to further understanding of disorders such as epilepsy , schizophrenia , and clinical depression ?
text: Did you know that a controversy over hidden loans led to the resignation of three executives from Anglo Irish Bank within twenty-four hours in December 2008?
text: Did you know that Bless You Boys is Sparky Anderson 's diary as manager of the first American League baseball team since the 1927 Yankees to "lead the race from wire-to-wire" and win the World Series ?
text: Did you know that bananas grown in Brazil account for approximately ten percent of the entire world's banana production?
text: Did you know that Archbishop Robert Knox , father of Lieutenant-General Sir Charles Edmond Knox , founded the Belfast Church Extension Society?
text: Did you know that the U.S. Army continued production of staphylococcus enterotoxin type B for several months after a 1969 policy statement ended the biological warfare program ?
text: Did you know that Russian cellist Valentin Berlinsky played for the Borodin Quartet for 60 years, the longest-serving member of what was described as "the longest continuously playing" string quartet in the world?
text: Did you know that Temple House of Israel in Staunton, Virginia , was founded in 1876 by Alexander Hart , a former major in the Confederate States Army ?
text: Did you know that a bootstrapping node is a node in an overlay network that provides initial configuration information to newly joining computer nodes so that they may successfully join the overlay network?
text: Did you know that Wu Cheng'en is thought to have written the Chinese classic novel Journey to the West anonymously, because writing in the vernacular language was considered vulgar?
text: Did you know that Burnt Hair Records was part of Michigan 's space rock music scene in the 1990s?
text: Did you know that a design competition for a New Routemaster bus received 225 entries in the "Design" category and 475 entries in the "Imagine" category?
text: Did you know that in 2005, the fishing industry in China reported 32.4 million tons of fish from aquacultures , more than 10 times that of the second-ranked country, India ?
text: Did you know that when Frank Fitzsimmons was named acting president of the Teamsters in 1967, a union insider said, "He's just a peanut butter sandwich; he'll melt in no time"?
text: Did you know that the Japanese Army used 320 mm mortars to frighten American Marines during the Battle of Iwo Jima ?
text: Did you know that Mech Platoon was the first real-time strategy video game released for the Game Boy Advance ?
text: Did you know that the 1921 Oscar Micheaux -directed race film The Gunsaulus Mystery was inspired by the 1913 murder of Mary Phagan ?
text: Did you know that it took 59 years and a legal battle through the High Court of Australia for the Warumungu , a group of Indigenous Australians , to regain their land claim ?
text: Did you know that Alliance for Labor Action launched a $ 4 million organizing drive targeting African American workers in Atlanta, Georgia , in the fall of 1969?
text: Did you know that the Red Army invasion of Georgia in 1920 prevented the Polish–Georgian alliance from being fully implemented?
text: Did you know that when the Wildwood was commissioned she was named USS PC-1181 , and was only renamed the Wildwood after she was decommissioned ?
text: Did you know that the Marine Corps Test Unit along with the 3rd Marine Corps Provisional Atomic Exercise Brigade carried out mock maneuvers 3,500 yards away from the detonation site of a nuclear bomb ?
text: Did you know that Nolan Reimold led the Mid-American Conference (MAC) in home runs (20), runs batted in (60), total bases (137), on-base % (.496), and slugging % (.770) throughout the baseball regular season ?
text: Did you know that the Irish TV show Hanging with Hector was criticised for being "about as original as washing your teeth each morning"?
text: Did you know that after serving as a Union Army general during the American Civil War , George Henry Chapman served as a judge in the Indiana Criminal Court, and later a state legislator in the Indiana Senate ?
text: Did you know that William Kaufmann developed the counterforce approach in the 1950s, in which a Soviet invasion of Western Europe would be met by a sequence of escalating responses, not by massive retaliation ?
text: Did you know that Polish writer Franciszek Karpiński is best remembered through his hymns and carols ?
text: Did you know that Joseph Kahn and Howard Pack had both been in the fur trade before entering the shipping business, culminating with their 1965 purchase of Seatrain Lines ?
text: Did you know that out of three partitions of Poland , the Austrian partition had the most local autonomy, but was also the poorest?
text: Did you know that Barack Obama biographer Christoph von Marschall compares his life story with the American Dream ?
text: Did you know that a 1930 proposal in the Czechoslovak parliament for greater autonomy for Transcarpathia , presented by the Autonomous Agrarian Union , gained support from the German National Socialists ?
text: Did you know that Royce Howes won the Pulitzer Prize for an editorial on the shared responsibility of labor and management for an unauthorized strike that put 45,000 Chrysler workers out of work?
text: Did you know that Norwegian resistance fighter Gregers Gram conducted several sabotage missions together with Max Manus , before being killed in an ambuscade in 1944?
text: Did you know that vascular myelopathy refers to an abnormality of the spinal cord in regards to its blood supply ?
text: Did you know that, according to the modern historian Bo Yang , the large body of petitions written by Tang Dynasty chancellor Lu Zhi was important to understanding mid-Tang life?
text: Did you know that Indian revolutionary poet Jwalamukhi was arrested for his writings in 1971?
text: Did you know that Republican Joan Huffman , a former Houston judge who won a special election to the Texas State Senate on December 16, 2008, became the sixth woman in the 31-member chamber, a legislative record?
text: Did you know that the Tang Dynasty general Li Shigu , in his illness, refused to endorse his brother Li Shidao as his successor because Li Shidao spent too much time painting and playing the bili ?
text: Did you know that Order of Australia Medal recipient Bill Scott began writing poetry while serving in the Royal Australian Navy during World War II ?
text: Did you know that the army career of the Tang Dynasty general Wu Shaocheng was launched when the general Li Xilie adopted his suggestions in the campaign against Liang Chongyi ?
text: Did you know that Jones Hewson played leading roles with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company from 1896 to 1901 but died in 1902 at the age of 27?
text: Did you know that although Frede Castberg retired as a professor of jurisprudence at the age of seventy, he continued to preside over the Hague Academy of International Law for thirteen years?
text: Did you know that broadcasting brothers James R. Doss, Jr. and James L. Doss named Alabama radio stations WJRD and WJLD after themselves?
text: Did you know that out of three partitions of Poland , the Russian partition was the largest and most populous?
text: Did you know that as Texas Attorney General from 1957 to 1963, Will Wilson cracked down on prostitution rings operating in such Texan cities as Galveston , Beaumont , Texarkana and Victoria ?
text: Did you know that the Chinese beverage suanmeitang is made with ingredients such as sour plums , sweet osmanthus , licorice root , rock sugar , and rose petals?
text: Did you know that the 705th Tank Destroyer Battalion of the U.S. Army received a Presidential Unit Citation for its role in the Siege of Bastogne ?
text: Did you know that Dorje Pakmo ('The Diamond Sow') is the highest female incarnation in Tibet, and the third-highest ranking person in the lamaist hierarchy after the Dalai Lama and the Panchen Lama ?
text: Did you know that the fifth season premiere of the television show Lost , titled " Because You Left ", was the first episode of the series to be both shot and edited in high-definition ?
text: Did you know that Lisa Rossbacher , president of Southern Polytechnic State University , is the first female geologist to become a university president?
text: Did you know that an exit bag , consisting of a large, clear plastic bag with a drawstring, is a commercially available device for committing suicide ?
text: Did you know that Katrina Mumaw became the youngest person to break the sound barrier when she piloted a MIG-29 fighter jet at Mach 1.3 on July 12, 1994 at the age of eleven?
text: Did you know that the Konovalyuk Commission has claimed that Ukraine 's arms sales to Georgia before and during the 2008 South Ossetia War adversely affected the country's defense capabilities?
text: Did you know that five former members of the Portland Trail Blazers have been inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame ?
text: Did you know that Olav Ulleren , who in 1999 left his position as mayor of Tinn, Norway to become a State Secretary , lost his new position after less than one year?
text: Did you know that the 1930 silent film A Daughter of the Congo was billed as a “talking, singing, dancing picture” although it only contained a single short sound sequence?
text: Did you know that Merrill Connally , a county judge , played a part in Steven Spielberg 's 1977 film Close Encounters of the Third Kind ?
text: Did you know that New South Greenland was a phantom island near Antarctica , described in 1832 by Benjamin Morrell, who was called "the biggest liar in the Southern Ocean "?
text: Did you know that Bill Johnston was the last Australian to take 100 wickets on an Ashes tour of England , being the leading wicket-taker during the 1948 Invincibles tour ?
text: Did you know that the U.S. state of New York offers a school tax rebate program that saves homeowners money by reducing the assessed value of a home when calculating the property tax ?
text: Did you know that a principal work of mathematician Wilhelm Cauer was twice destroyed during World War II and was only published after his death by his family, who reconstructed it from the table of contents?
text: Did you know that Freedom House , founded in 1949, raised money to support Operation Exodus, a voluntary desegregation and busing project in Boston before court-ordered desegregation?
text: Did you know that the history of the ancient Mayan city of Dos Pilas has been reconstructed in more detail than almost any other Mayan site?
text: Did you know that Ramon Vila Capdevila continued to fight against the government of Francisco Franco for 24 years after the end of the Spanish Civil War ?
text: Did you know that the SS Empire Advocate was seized twice by Britain —from Germany after the First World War , and then from Italy during the Second World War ?
text: Did you know that Iraqi lawyer Dheyaa al-Saadi was elected president of the Iraqi Bar Association in 2006, but his election was annulled because he was once a member of Saddam Hussein 's Baath Party ?
text: Did you know that in the Prussian partition of Poland , Germanization policies had the opposite effect of strengthening Polish national consciousness?
text: Did you know that Wayne Connally , a brother of former Texas governor John Connally , was honored as "Governor for a Day" on October 7, 1971?
text: Did you know that Ole Georg Gjøsteen —supported by his brother Johan —is considered the " father "  of Norway 's comprehensive school system?
text: Did you know that the Abbott-Holloway Farm has two of the only four pre-1840 buildings in Bethlehem, Indiana , that were not destroyed by fire or tornado?
text: Did you know that Oleg Bogayev was honored for his absurdist play about an impoverished Russian pensioner who engages in fanciful correspondence with Queen Elizabeth II , Vladimir Lenin , and Robinson Crusoe ?
text: Did you know that before being used by American soldiers in the Vietnam War , the racial slur " gook " was originally directed towards Filipinos ?
text: Did you know that North Audley Street in Mayfair , London , is named after the English moneylender Hugh Audley ?
text: Did you know that the Frazier–Lemke Farm Bankruptcy Act was struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court in May 1935 as violating the Fifth Amendment ?
text: Did you know that the German Social Democratic Party in Poland was formed in 1922 by the merger of Silesian branches of the German SPD , USPD and the Austrian SDAP ?
text: Did you know that the Chicago Transit Authority closed its Kostner station only eleven years after it opened, making it one of the city's shortest-lived train stations?
text: Did you know that Canadian authorities used the academic enrollment list of a diploma mill to arrest 24 students they wrongly accused of being an "al-Qaeda sleeper cell" in Project Thread ?
text: Did you know that Oregon politician Ralph Carey Geer 's grandson, Homer Davenport , was a political cartoonist ?
text: Did you know that while serving in the elite Russian Preobrazhensky regiment , Fyodor Ivanovich Tolstoy served with the future literary critic Faddei Bulgarin ?
text: Did you know that U.S. testing during Operation Big Itch successfully dispersed rat fleas from an aircraft?
text: Did you know that due to a bureaucratic error Sir Curtis Keeble was placed in charge of 2000 Russian refugees despite not speaking fluent Russian ?
text: Did you know that Israel 's deadliest traffic accident took place in December 2008 when a tourists ' coach en route to the resort town of Eilat plunged into a ravine ?
text: Did you know that quarterback Scott McBrien transferred from West Virginia to the Maryland and led Maryland to a 41–7 win over his former alma mater in the 2004 Gator Bowl ?
text: Did you know that Senegal pumps 1.4 billion cubic meters of water per year, 92% of which is for agriculture?
text: Did you know that U.S. Judge John Sprizzo refused to extradite Provisional IRA member Joe Doherty in the 1981 killing of a British soldier, citing the ambush as a "political act"?
text: Did you know that English dramatist Edward Rose published The Rose Reader , "a new way of teaching to read," that only used words that were spelled as they sounded?
text: Did you know that the Isaac Agree Downtown Synagogue is the only functioning synagogue building in the city of Detroit , Michigan ?
text: Did you know that Kisbarnaki Ferenc Farkas became the Chief Scout of the Hungarian Scouts-in-Exile when scouting was banned by the Communist government after World War II ?
text: Did you know that the May 1938 interception of the Rex was the largest training exercise conducted up to that time by the United States Army Air Corps ?
text: Did you know that the former Arab village of Majdal Yaba with its large fortress was the center of power of a clan that controlled up to 25 villages in Sanjak Nablus ?
text: Did you know that Wang Shizhen , then a guard commander for his brother-in-law, the Tang Dynasty warlord Li Weiyue , turned against Li Weiyue to allow his father Wang Wujun to kill Li?
text: Did you know that the childhood home of Rear Admiral Richmond P. Hobson was dedicated as an Alabama state shrine in 1947?
text: Did you know that a Saudi businessman offered US$10 million to buy the shoes thrown by al-Baghdadia TV correspondent Muntadhar al-Zaidi at U.S. President George W. Bush during a recent press conference?
text: Did you know that the Danish Monarchy's status was changed from absolute to constitutional on 5 June 1849?
text: Did you know that the Jordan Valley Unified Water Plan was developed by a U.S. ambassador in 1955 to reduce conflict between Israel , Jordan , and their neighbors?
text: Did you know that after United States Navy SEAL Erik Kristensen died in Afghanistan in 2005 California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger called for flags at the state Capitol to be flown at half-staff ?
text: Did you know that the fisheries of Chilka Lake in India sustain more than 150,000 fisherfolk living in 132 villages?
text: Did you know that there is suspicion that the death in prison of Kenneth Michael Trentadue was related to the Oklahoma City bombing ?
text: Did you know that Daniel Hoevels ' s work has been described as "helping critics rediscover Hamburg 's theater"?
text: Did you know that the Lola T93/30 Formula 1 car was described as "virtually undriveable" by the team 's drivers after its first race, 1993 South African Grand Prix , because of its aerodynamic deficiencies?
text: Did you know that author Jacqueline Wilson described Dustbin Baby , the BBC dramatisation of her novel of the same name , as the best ever film adaptation of her work?
text: Did you know that Finnish Swede Gustav Orreus was the first Doctor of Medicine ever commissioned in Russia ?
text: Did you know that there have been nine head coaches who have spent their entire National Hockey League head coaching careers with the Montreal Canadiens , a Canadian professional ice hockey franchise?
text: Did you know that The Golden Age is the ninth studio album by sadcore band American Music Club ?
text: Did you know that prior to the 1930 election the Polish government declared the candidacy of Heinrich Scheibler, the leader of the German Socialist Labour Party in Poland - Left , to be invalid?
text: Did you know that 19th-century California bandit Procopio , also known as Red-Handed Dick, was said to "love the feel and the color of warm blood," and his name was used by mothers to frighten their children?
text: Did you know that the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Sears v. Stiffel that companies can make and sell exact copies of other companies' inventions if they are not patented ?
text: Did you know that the Early Cretaceous turtle Caririemys was the fifth such turtle genus to have been discovered in Brazil 's Santana Formation ?
text: Did you know that The New York Times called CBS News executive Robert Chandler the "creator of the 60 Minutes format" of television newsmagazines?
text: Did you know that a march fracture is a fracture of metatarsals mostly occurring in soldiers who need to do a lot of marching ?
text: Did you know that the Tigris River 's tributary, the Botan in southeastern Turkey , looks during times of peak discharge much bigger than the Tigris?
text: Did you know that Evald Rygh , a former Norwegian Minister of Finance and Customs , helped establish the Holmenkollen ski jump ?
text: Did you know that, during the team's first official season, a Maryland Terrapins football player was accused of "unaccreditable ignorance of football" after running the wrong way for 30 yards (27 metres)?
text: Did you know that the Little Blitzen River is a tributary of Oregon 's Donner und Blitzen River and part of the first redband trout reserve in the United States ?
text: Did you know that the Westminster Retable , a 13th-century panel painting at Westminster Abbey , is the oldest known altarpiece in England ?
text: Did you know that in Doris Lessing 's 1983 novel, The Sentimental Agents in the Volyen Empire , language becomes so distorted that some of the characters succumb to a condition called "undulant rhetoric"?
text: Did you know that the Naked Camera character Jake Stevens released the Christmas single " Merry Christmas Jakey Boy " in 2006?
text: Did you know that the species name Symphurus thermophilus means "heat lover", referring to the organism's association with hydrothermal vents ?
text: Did you know that to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of Christmas lights and decorations on Summer Street in Duboistown, Pennsylvania , the mayor proclaimed " December as Candy Cane Lane month forever more"?
text: Did you know that The Irish Times referred to a single by the band The Kinetiks as "‘Kin brilliant"?
text: Did you know that a plant pathologist conducted research on Christmas tree stands that showed just 6 of 22 had adequate water capacity for large Christmas trees ?
text: Did you know that the novel Uncle Daddy by Ralph Fletcher was awarded a 2002 Christopher Medal in the books for ages 10–12 category?
text: Did you know that presenter Pat Kenny tore up two tickets for The Late Late Toy Show live on air in 2008?
text: Did you know that the interior vaulting of the wooden synagogue of Wolpa is considered to have been "the most magnificent of all known wooden ceilings" in Europe?
text: Did you know that in the town of Santa Claus, Arizona , visitors could once purchase Dasher and Dancer omelettes and Santa burgers?
text: Did you know that in 1599, English bookseller William Barley helped publish Anthony Holborne 's Pavans, Galliards, Almains , the first instrumental (rather than vocal) music to be printed in England?
text: Did you know that California 's Sierra Nevada Conservancy is the largest state conservation effort of its kind in the United States ?
text: Did you know that " the boy Jones " repeatedly broke into Buckingham Palace in the early years of Queen Victoria 's reign?
text: Did you know that the 2002 album Happy Clucking Holidays consists of Christmas songs performed by Dirk Keysser clucking like a chicken?
text: Did you know that WKKR and WZMG (now known as WTLM ) were the first radio stations in Alabama to win NAB Crystal Radio Awards for outstanding commitment to community service ?
text: Did you know that Paul Lynde , who played the lead role in the 1977 U.S. television special 'Twas the Night Before Christmas , was responsible for casting fellow actor Martha Raye as his character's mother-in-law?
text: Did you know that Kellogg v. Nabisco , a court case about Shredded Wheat breakfast cereal , "may be the [U.S.] Supreme Court's most ... influential trademark decision"?
text: Did you know that the computer game " Attack of the Mutant Artificial Christmas Trees " invites players to stop mutant fake trees from sucking the spirit out of Christmas?
text: Did you know that Bill May , an international champion in synchronized swimming , was barred from competing in the Olympics because of his gender?
text: Did you know that Robert Wells and Mel Tormé wrote " The Christmas Song " in the sweltering July heat as a means of keeping themselves cool?
text: Did you know that the Hooded Butcherbird of New Guinea mimics other birds such as the Rusty Pitohui , Spangled Drongo , and Helmeted Friarbird ?
text: Did you know that the forger who wrote an extra verse to the Norwegian Christmas song Musevisa claimed to have been inspired by the Hitler Diaries ?
text: Did you know that Samira Hill Gold Mine is the first commercial gold mine in Niger ?
text: Did you know that Bóg się rodzi , a Polish Christmas carol , has been called "one of the most beloved Polish Christmas carols"?
text: Did you know that Million Fax on Washington is a petition to the transition administration of Barack Obama organized by the UFO community to put the extraterrestrial issue on the new U.S. administration's agenda?
text: Did you know that Henrik Anker Bjerregaard wrote Norway 's first national anthem ?
text: Did you know that American Civil War soldiers celebrated Christmas by using salt pork and hardtack as ornaments on Christmas trees ?
text: Did you know that houses in the Indian village Shani Shingnapur do not have doors?
text: Did you know that in 1937, Harry Osman was the last footballer to score a goal on Christmas Day at Southampton 's The Dell stadium?
text: Did you know that the village of Christmas Common was the home of philologist and lexicographer William Craigie ?
text: Did you know that Bill Guckeyson , the first Maryland football player selected in the National Football League 's Draft , attended West Point and was later shot down as a fighter pilot in World War II ?
text: Did you know that Christmas Island National Park hosts the world's largest population of the world's largest land invertebrate , the Coconut crab ?
text: Did you know that celebrity solicitor Gerald Kean was featured in a number of Sunday newspapers when he bought a jet for his wife?
text: Did you know that some of the earliest artificial Christmas trees were made of feathers ?
text: Did you know that Guri Hjeltnes , though a professor of journalism , has mainly concentrated on Norwegian World War II history during her academic career?
text: Did you know that the annual Christmas on the River festival in Demopolis, Alabama , features a parade with floats on boats?
text: Did you know that Jack Armstrong pitched a no-hitter for the Nashville Sounds against the Indianapolis Indians a day after Randy Johnson and Pat Pacillo of the Indians combined for a no-hitter against the Sounds?
text: Did you know that Shakin' Stevens recently launched Christmas FM , Ireland 's first radio station dedicated to the festival?
text: Did you know that Trina Belamide , who has written songs for most of the Philippines ' top recording artists, also writes custom theme songs for weddings ?
text: Did you know that lexicographer Henry Cockeram wrote the first known English language dictionary to contain "dictionary" in the title?
text: Did you know that despite being described as "one of the strongest fortifications in the Atlantic Wall ", the fortress of Le Havre fell after only three days of attacks by British and Canadian forces in Operation Astonia ?
text: Did you know that as President of the Professional Golfers' Association of America , Max Elbin oversaw the departure of tournament professionals led by Jack Nicklaus and Arnold Palmer to form the PGA Tour ?
text: Did you know that Peloroplites was one of the largest nodosaurid dinosaurs , and came from a time when armored dinosaurs in general were attaining large sizes?
text: Did you know that composer William Furst died of a blood clot in his brain after injuring his foot while gardening?
text: Did you know that after the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk , the Polish II Corps in Russia refused to surrender to the Germans ?
text: Did you know that it took the publisher's lawyers 14 months to approve the publication of You'll Never Eat Lunch in This Town Again , Julia Phillips ' scandalous autobiography?
text: Did you know that tree moss, lichen species Pseudevernia furfuracea , was used in ancient Egyptian embalming ?
text: Did you know that the land that became Quail Hollow State Park was owned by only two families between 1820 and its sale to Ohio as a park in 1975?
text: Did you know that under current Mongolian nationality law , dual citizenship is not accepted?
text: Did you know that although the Ironton Railroad was built to haul iron ore , it was used to deliver deer and buffalo to the Trexler Game Preserve in 1911?
text: Did you know that Walter Sisulu considered Moses Kotane to be a "giant of the struggle" because of his logical and non-dogmatic approach against apartheid ?
text: Did you know that the first draft of the script for Remember Last Night? was rejected by the Production Code Administration for its depiction of excessive drinking?
text: Did you know that in the Latin poem De vetula , its supposed author Ovid renounces adultery ?
text: Did you know that the Barack Obama 2009 presidential inauguration is scheduled for four days of celebration, with Washington, D.C. bars authorized to stay open until 5:00 a.m.?
text: Did you know that Norwegian historian Tore Pryser has criticised the perceived importance of Norwegian resistance members during World War II ?
text: Did you know that Pennsylvania Route 343 underwent numerous realignments until 1970?
text: Did you know that a murder conviction without a body was considered impossible in English law for nearly 300 years?
text: Did you know that Julius Fast 's first novel, Watchful at Night , won the first award presented at the inaugural Edgar Allan Poe Award ceremonies in 1946 as Best First Novel by an American author?
text: Did you know that tenor Albert Reiss sang in 1,070 performances at the Metropolitan Opera ?
text: Did you know that the captain of the Italian submarine who misidentified patrol boat USS PC-496 for a destroyer and torpedoed her was court-martialed for "wasting" a torpedo on such a small ship?
text: Did you know that John Tortorella is the only American to be the head coach of the Tampa Bay Lightning , a professional ice hockey team based in the USA ?
text: Did you know that although Melchior Broederlam is regarded as being key in the emergence of Early Netherlandish painting , only two of his paintings survive today?
text: Did you know that the Reformed Church of Beacon has the only manual-tracker pipe organ in the Hudson Valley ?
text: Did you know that in 1908, Maypole Colliery in Abram, Greater Manchester , England , was the site of an underground explosion that killed 75 miners?
text: Did you know that the USS PGM-18 was blown five feet (1.5 m) out of the water after striking a Japanese mine off the coast during the Battle of Okinawa ?
text: Did you know that Irish writer Edna O'Brien made her screen debut as an extra in an  adaptation of her novel, Wild Decembers ?
text: Did you know that Charles S. Moore served as county judge for Klamath, Oregon , USA , after his father had served as the first judge there?
text: Did you know that the privately-held phone call switch company TouchWave was purchased for US$46 million two years after its 1997 founding?
text: Did you know that the Irish quiz show series Brendan O'Carroll's Hot Milk and Pepper was named after a constipation cure?
text: Did you know that linguist Carol Chomsky developed the technique of repeated reading, in which children gain fluency by reading along with a recording of a text until they can do so on their own?
text: Did you know that the Scotch Professors , a group of 19th-century Scottish footballers , are credited with inventing the passing style of the modern game and spreading the sport globally?
text: Did you know that English once had a four-form yes and no system, employed by Shakespeare and others, instead of the two-form system that it has today?
text: Did you know that Major-General Richard Hutton Davies , the first New Zealand officer to command a division in World War I , committed suicide in 1918?
text: Did you know that the 1981 Rose Bowl was the first bowl victory for Michigan Wolverines football Coach Bo Schembechler – after seven prior bowl game losses?
text: Did you know that " Albino Ballerina ", the final single by indie rock band Sweet Jesus , gained extensive critical acclaim before the band's commercial success dwindled and they soon disbanded?
text: Did you know that the history of netball is linked to that of basketball , and that netball was primarily developed as a women's sport ?
text: Did you know that Charles Darwin frequently visited Osmaston Hall in Derby , England ?
text: Did you know that Silesian socialist politician Józef Biniszkiewicz died at Buchenwald concentration camp during World War II ?
text: Did you know that the Everett Railroad is named after its former location near Everett, Pennsylvania , USA ?
text: Did you know that Handling Ships , the first animated British Technicolor feature film , was never meant to be released to theatres but was an "Official Selection" at Cannes in 1946?
text: Did you know that the first road in Alaska was built on Woody Island for horses, brought in by the Russian-American Company to cut ice blocks, to exercise?
text: Did you know that at a fantasy basketball camp, John W. Rogers, Jr. defeated Michael Jordan in a game of one-on-one, witnessed by John Thompson, Jr. , Mike Krzyzewski and Damon Wayans ?
text: Did you know that the gardens of St George's Square , Pimlico , London , contain a statue of William Huskisson MP, the first person ever to be run over and killed by a railway engine ?
text: Did you know that country music songwriter Tim Nichols once worked in a factory, manufacturing buckets for KFC ?
text: Did you know that one of the specimens used to describe the extinct turtle Cearachelys was actually procured eight years prior to it being formally described in 2001?
text: Did you know that Irish ballerina Monica Loughman , aged 14, was the first Westerner to dance for the State Theatre of Opera and Ballet in Perm , Russia ?
text: Did you know that the 1987 hospital massacre in Jaffna , Sri Lanka , took place on Diwali , a major Hindu holiday?
text: Did you know that Mildred Constantine organized the 1968 exhibition Word and Image of 300 posters at the Museum of Modern Art called "so handsome that for a minute you wonder why billboards are disfigurements"?
text: Did you know that Rangzieb Ahmed was the first Al-Qaeda operative to be convicted of directing terrorism in the United Kingdom ?
text: Did you know that Detroit 's Rosedale Park , containing 1,533 properties, is the largest district in Michigan to be listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places ?
text: Did you know that two carved wood altarpieces of 1399 by Jacques de Baerze have no comparable Netherlandish survivals for another 80 years?
text: Did you know that in 1973, Oregon became the first state to decriminalize the possession of small amounts of marijuana in the United States ?
text: Did you know that American Basketball Association player Al Smith was a standout in three different sports during his high school days?
text: Did you know that the "lung lichen ", species Lobaria pulmonaria , has been used for dyeing , tanning , perfume manufacturing, and brewing ?
text: Did you know that Gale Benson was not a spy according to her brother, even though the 2008 film The Bank Job depicted her as one?
text: Did you know that 14th-century Turkish polymath Al-Taftazani completed one of his best-known works at the age of 16?
text: Did you know that the recent ice storm in the Northeastern United States was the worst in over a decade , resulting in at least four deaths and more than a million utility customers left without power ?
text: Did you know that 18th–19th century British fur trader John Johnston was a leader in the Ojibwa tribe near Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan , USA ?
text: Did you know that tropical ulcers are lesions occurring on the ankles of those who often go barefoot?
text: Did you know that Francis A. Chenoweth served as speaker of both the Oregon House of Representatives and the Washington House of Representatives ?
text: Did you know that a species of the 80-million year-old sea turtle Terlinguachelys fischbecki was actually named after a school teacher?
text: Did you know that Tang Dynasty general Tian Ji'an , in anger, buried his staff member Qiu Jiang alive?
text: Did you know that the first themed Lego Modular Houses set, released in April 2007, was designed for people aged 16 and older and meant to be "toys for adults"?
text: Did you know that Hanan Porat , who was evacuated as an infant from the Jewish village of Kfar Etzion in the Judean Mountains , later founded the first Israeli settlement in the West Bank ?
text: Did you know that Holy Deadlock , a 1934 novel by A. P. Herbert , was credited with helping create a more favourable attitude toward reform of English divorce law ?
text: Did you know that teenage aviatrix Elinor Smith , the "Flying Flapper of Freeport ", had her pilot's license suspended for 15 days for flying under New York City 's four East River bridges in 1928?
text: Did you know that the Bayeux War Cemetery , the largest for World War II Commonwealth soldiers, includes the Bayeux Memorial, honoring more than 1,800 soldiers killed in the Normandy Landings with no known grave?
text: Did you know that the Palestinian Arab village of Abil al-Qamh near Safad was established on a site that had been inhabited since 2900 BCE?
text: Did you know that screenwriter Dana Fox works with Diablo Cody and Lorene Scafaria in a writing group they call "The Fempire"?
text: Did you know that 1949 Michigan football MVP Dick Kempthorn later flew more than 100 missions as a jet fighter pilot in the Korean War and received the Distinguished Flying Cross ?
text: Did you know that the Griffdu was the 37th and final ship built by J. F. Duthie & Company ?
text: Did you know that Johanna Wokalek portrayed Red Army Faction terrorist Gudrun Ensslin in the Golden Globe -nominated film The Baader Meinhof Complex ?
text: Did you know that the Matchless G12 CSR motorcycle designation officially stood for Competition, Sport, Road , but was dubbed the Coffee Shop Racer by its rivals?
text: Did you know that Ron Carey was the first Teamsters General President elected by a direct vote of the membership?
text: Did you know that during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War , 105 Israelis were taken prisoner by Egypt in the Battle of Nitzanim , which was viewed as humiliating in Israel?
text: Did you know that the New York Giants ' hype of Andy Cohen was called "the most efficient job of ballyhoo that has been performed in the sport industry", with "ice cream Cohens" sold to fans at the Polo Grounds ?
text: Did you know that the designation of Rahm Emanuel as White House Chief of Staff will necessitate at least one 2009 United States House of Representatives special election in Illinois ?
text: Did you know that in 1976, Japanese pink film actor Mitsuyasu Maeno carried out a kamikaze attack on multi-millionaire and ultra-nationalist leader Yoshio Kodama ?
text: Did you know that during the 1975 earthquake in Morris, Minnesota , USA , one man thought the loud bangs he heard came from a nearby gas plant that he thought exploded?
text: Did you know that Dutch baroque painter Jan Wyck spent most of his career in England , where he influenced the development of British military art ?
text: Did you know that the 1980 Michigan Wolverines football team did not give up a touchdown in the final 22 quarters of the season?
text: Did you know that Denzil Onslow was Member of Parliament for Guildford after his nephew Foot Onslow, and was then succeeded by another nephew, Richard Onslow, 1st Baron Onslow ?
text: Did you know that Norman Mailer claimed his 1968 experimental film Wild 90 "has the most repetitive, pervasive obscenity of any film ever made"?
text: Did you know that Bruce Hilkene was captain of the 1947 Wolverines who were selected as the greatest Michigan football team of all time?
text: Did you know that a screening of the documentary film Rebellion: the Litvinenko Case may have led to the St Petersburg branch of the human rights charity Memorial being raided by the Russian authorities?
text: Did you know that the Audubon Society of Portland , Oregon , USA , rehabilitates 3,500 animals and has over 20,000 hours volunteered each year?
text: Did you know that the only surviving Brough Superior Golden Dream , on display at the British National Motorcycle Museum has never run, as there are no internals in the engine or gearbox ?
text: Did you know that the USS PGM-17 received no enemy damage while stranded on a coral reef for over a month during intense kamikaze attacks in the region during the Battle of Okinawa ?
text: Did you know that Matthias Dolderer finished second at the 2008 World Aerobatics Cup's "Unlimited" Category in the Czech Republic and in doing so he qualified for the 2009 Red Bull Air Race ?
text: Did you know that BodyLove is an Alabama -based radio soap opera that uses drama to reach African American listeners with messages that promote diabetes awareness and healthy lifestyles?
text: Did you know that Russian ski jumper Valery Kobelev ' s 1999 crash in Planica , Slovenia , has been called one of the worst ski jumping crashes ever?
text: Did you know that Washington, D.C. 's location as the U.S. capital on the Potomac River was decided by Congress , with passage of the Residence Act of 1790?
text: Did you know that Beninese physician Basile Adjou Moumouni won his country's 1968 presidential election with 80 percent of the vote only to have the results annulled by incumbent Alphonse Amadou Alley ?
text: Did you know that the recently-discovered dinosaur Austroraptor is the largest dromaeosaur to have been found in the Southern Hemisphere ?
text: Did you know that the Chicago Tribune 's John McCormick received the 2002 Distinguished Writing Award for Editorial Writing for his work on 9/11 , Afghanistan , and the sale of naming rights for Soldier Field ?
text: Did you know that 410 Squadron RCAF was the top-scoring night-fighter unit in 2nd Tactical Air Force in the period between D-Day and VE Day ?
text: Did you know that the phrase "It's your Wally" refers to Queensland 's test cricketer Wally Grout and typically means that it is the listener's turn to buy a round of drinks?
text: Did you know that not a single woman in the village of Kunan Poshpora in Kashmir received a marriage proposal within three years after the Indian Army launched a search and interrogation operation there in 1991?
text: Did you know that member of the Order of Canada Carlo Cattarello received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Laurentian University in Sudbury , Ontario , after he turned 80?
text: Did you know that the origins of the Church of Caucasian Albania date to Saint Eliseus' efforts in the first century AD to spread Christianity to the area?
text: Did you know that the unincorporated community of Oatmeal, Texas , was inhabited by a colony of former slaves after the American Civil War ?
text: Did you know that the style of Irish investigative journalist Philip Boucher-Hayes has been compared to that of fictional detective Hercule Poirot ?
text: Did you know that Julia's House is the first and only hospice in Dorset , England , for children with life-limiting conditions?
text: Did you know that William Stevens wrote a law review article, The Common Law Origins of the Infield Fly Rule , which treated the development of one of baseball 's most-misunderstood rules as if it were a legal matter?
text: Did you know that millipedes in the genus Desmoxytes give off an almond -like smell as they produce hydrogen cyanide to ward off predators ?
text: Did you know that in an incident he described as the highlight of his career, Phil Ochs sang " I Ain't Marching Anymore " and inspired hundreds of young men to burn their draft cards ?
text: Did you know that the Nazi German Reich Office for Economic Expansion got the nickname Office for the Expansion of IG Farben , because its head Carl Krauch was also the chairman of that company?
text: Did you know that in 1996, over a dozen university professors documented the oral history of the Quindaro Townsite by interviewing Kansas City residents?
text: Did you know that Pakistan 's newly created Ministry of Human Rights has announced a law which will assist in uncovering the fate of thousands who have disappeared since the War on Terror began?
text: Did you know that in the first day of sales, the tickets sold by the Cincinnati Bearcats for the 2009 Orange Bowl netted an estimated US$500,000 for the University of Cincinnati ?
text: Did you know that Filipino actor of Igorot descent, Marky Cielo , is one of four recent Philippine young celebrities who died unexpectedly, after Julie Vega , Rico Yan , and Miko Sotto ?
text: Did you know that Van Buren State Park in Ohio has family, large group, and equestrian camping areas, the latter with manure bins and picket lines ?
text: Did you know that the Black-faced Antbird follows columns of army ants in order to catch insects flushed by the swarms?
text: Did you know that according to Fortune , Chanda Kochhar , soon to be CEO of India's largest private bank , is the 25th most powerful woman in business?
text: Did you know that pioneering African American aviator Hubert Julian was an associate producer for the 1940 race film The Notorious Elinor Lee ?
text: Did you know that Newark Park , a Tudor hunting lodge in Gloucestershire , was built in 1544 for a Groom of the Bedchamber to King Henry VIII ?
text: Did you know that women outnumber men 69% to 31% among students at Ozarka College in Melbourne, Arkansas ?
text: Did you know that Table to Table is an Israeli charity that collects leftover and surplus food, gathering enough each week to provide 12,000 to 14,000 meals and 40 to 50 tons of produce?
text: Did you know that James Whitfield Williamson , a politician from Vivian , Louisiana , won a silver medal in 1987 at his state's seniors tennis tournament?
text: Did you know that cricketer Johnny Lawrence refused to allow Sunday matches or raffles to be used to raise money for his benefit season because he was a staunch Methodist ?
text: Did you know that the tendency of the Weteye bomb 's aluminum casing and liquid nerve agent to interact and explode made disposal of the weapon difficult?
text: Did you know that Robin Toner was the first woman to be national political correspondent for The New York Times ?
text: Did you know that the 1999 hit song " Tomber la chemise " ("Take Off Your Shirt") was part of a sudden popularity trend by rappers of North African immigrant origins in France ?
text: Did you know that of the four Marines charged in the 2008 execution-style murders of California-based U.S. Marine Corps Sergeant Jan Pawel Pietrzak and his wife, two were under Pietrzak's command?
text: Did you know that Tiv Ta'am is the largest supermarket chain in Israel to sell non- kosher food?
text: Did you know that Brett Leonhardt , Washington Capitals web site producer, was called upon to be a backup goaltender for nine minutes?
text: Did you know that when Royal Navy Captain Robert Corbet was killed in action in September 1810, rumours were spread that he had been murdered by his own crew ?
text: Did you know that it is proposed to assist the conservation of the Canarian Egyptian Vulture by the establishment of "vulture restaurants"?
text: Did you know that Shanty Hogan , a catcher with the New York Giants , joined with teammate Andy Cohen to form a vaudeville duo billed as "Cohen and Hogan", except in Boston , where they performed as "Hogan and Cohen"?
text: Did you know that the 1883 utopian novel The Diothas has been called "the second most important American nineteenth-century ideal society"?
text: Did you know that Harriet Holter , an economist by education, has been described as a pioneer of women's studies in the Nordic countries ?
text: Did you know that when The Mighty Diamonds ' album Right Time was released in 1976, music charts were banned in Jamaica because of violence within the music industry?
text: Did you know that rocket scientist Daniel Jubb claims to have built his first rocket at age five?
text: Did you know that University of Michigan Athletic Hall of Honor inductee Henry Hatch lived with his wife and daughter on the grounds of Michigan Stadium for more than a decade?
text: Did you know that the Lebanese Commando Regiment , established in 1966, was the first special forces regiment to be established in the Lebanese Armed Forces ?
text: Did you know that on the debut episode of Man v. Food , host Adam Richman completed the 72-ounce (2 kg) Big Texan challenge at The Big Texan Steak Ranch in Amarillo, Texas ?
text: Did you know that Paul-Émile de Souza was installed head of Benin because the military did not recognise Maurice Kouandété as the official leader?
text: Did you know that the British pub rock music genre was started by American band Eggs over Easy , who were in England for less than a year?
text: Did you know that the early pre-Columbian site of Xochitecatl in Mexico was abandoned for centuries after the Popocatepetl volcano erupted around 150 AD?
text: Did you know that former Calgary Flames trainer Bearcat Murray was famously on the ice tending to fallen goaltender Mike Vernon as the Flames scored a goal in the 1989 Stanley Cup Playoffs ?
text: Did you know that the 2008 NYPD subway sodomy incident has been compared to the 1997 assault of Abner Louima in New York City ?
text: Did you know that Yuzuru Hiraga was a Japanese naval architect , noted for work on innovative warships such as the cruiser Yubari and Yamato for the Imperial Japanese Navy ?
text: Did you know that the WJBE call letters now used by a radio station in Five Points, Alabama , were used by singer James Brown for his James Brown Enterprises radio station?
text: Did you know that parts of the 2008 Dutch film White Light were shot in Ugandese refugee camps?
text: Did you know that the Friends Meeting House at Ifield , England , built in 1676, is one of the oldest purpose-built Friends meeting houses in the world?
text: Did you know that in 2002, a Trotskyist became the general secretary of the trade union centre C.G.T.G in the French overseas department of Guadeloupe ?
text: Did you know that the visitor's locker room at the Alabama Crimson Tide football stadium was recently named "The Fail Room" after alumnus contributor James M. Fail ?
text: Did you know that after the inexplicable sinking of four identical trawlers in Acadia , the Canadian government took possession of the "cursed ship" Marc Guylaine in 1972, simply changed its name and re-sold it?
text: Did you know that in 1978, Pueblo Community College became part of the Colorado Community College System after having been a branch campus of Southern Colorado State College ?
text: Did you know that A Journey from Aleppo to Jerusalem at Easter A.D. 1697 , based on the diary of Henry Maundrell , was translated into French , Dutch and German by 1792?
text: Did you know that the Laogai Museum , which showcases China 's laogai prison system, was financed by the same company that once turned a dissident, Shi Tao , in to the Chinese authorities?
text: Did you know that American Basketball Association player Lee Davis appeared in the 1970 ABA All-Star Game despite playing in only sixteen games all season?
text: Did you know that from 1945 until 1978, cars in Okinawa Prefecture drove on the right side of the road until a switch to left-hand drive as part of the 730 Conversion Plan , to match the rest of Japan ?
text: Did you know that in the 1962 film Invasion of the Star Creatures , extra-terrestrial monsters were played by actors wearing carrot costumes?
text: Did you know that Filipina singer and actress Didith Reyes was one of the "Jukebox Queens" of the 1970s Philippine music scene along with her friends Imelda Papin and Claire dela Fuente ?
text: Did you know that the Cal State Fullerton Titans football team holds NCAA records for both most fumbles and most fumbles lost for a single season with 73 and 41 respectively?
text: Did you know that the 1980 novel One Day of Life was banned in El Salvador for its portrayal of human rights violations by the government's paramilitary organization, Organización Democrática Nacionalista ?
text: Did you know that due to his blindness, it took Sir John Wall , the first visually impaired judge of the 20th-century High Court of Justice , over 400 applications and 53 interviews before he was offered a job?
text: Did you know that the BZ -laden white smoke produced by the M44 generator cluster bomb was problematic because BZ is easily defeated with a few layers of cloth?
text: Did you know that the Goode-Hall House near Town Creek, Alabama , is a vernacular interpretation of Palladian architecture ?
text: Did you know that Ron Ben-Yishai , the first journalist to inform Ariel Sharon of the Sabra and Shatila massacre , was later cast in Waltz with Bashir , an animated film about the incident?
text: Did you know that there have been 16 managers for the San Diego Padres , a Major League Baseball franchise?
text: Did you know that in December 2008, Anibal dos Santos , convicted murderer of Mozambican journalist Carlos Cardoso , has escaped maximum security jail for a third time?
text: Did you know that the first seigneur of Beloeil, Quebec , participated in the 1704 Raid on Deerfield ?
text: Did you know that Sid Bernstein helped start the British Invasion by getting The Beatles to play at Carnegie Hall ?
text: Did you know that the 14th-century Tree House , the former manor house of Crawley , England , was named after an ancient elm whose trunk was hollowed out to form a room in which travellers stayed overnight?
text: Did you know that Hussniya Jabara was the first Israeli Arab woman to be elected to the Knesset ?
text: Did you know that James Bond attributed the extinction of the Puerto Rican Conure to pigeon hunters visiting Mona Island ?
text: Did you know that the Gal Oya riots were the first ethnic riots that targeted the minority Sri Lankan Tamils in post-independent Sri Lanka ?
text: Did you know that William Buchan, 3rd Baron Tweedsmuir was once barred from a nightclub near Ottawa , Canada , because Prime Minister of Canada Mackenzie King disapproved of his father ?
text: Did you know that the M43 cluster bomb , designed to hold three stacks of 19 BZ-containing M138 bomblets , was unattractive to military planners in part because paranoia and mania were common symptoms of casualties?
text: Did you know that the English folkloric story Dick Whittington and His Cat is based on the real Richard Whittington , but there is no historical evidence that he ever had a cat?
text: Did you know that one of the factors threatening the Canarian Houbara is disturbance by truffle collectors?
text: Did you know that the 2003 film Scorched cost US$ 7 million to make but only earned US$8,000 at the box office , approximately 0.1% of its initial cost?
text: Did you know that although his crew were merely taking geological observations, the British Government believed Cyrille Pierre Théodore Laplace had claimed New Zealand for France ?
text: Did you know that Tommy Dunderdale is the only Australian -born player to be inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in Canada ?
text: Did you know that the M34 cluster bomb was the first major U.S. chemical weapon designed to deliver sarin nerve agent ?
text: Did you know that the Dravidian parties extensively used Tamil cinema for their propaganda ?
text: Did you know that Olav Rytter , a Slavic philologist who fled German-invaded Norway in 1940, returned in 1944 to participate in the liberation of Northern Norway ?
text: Did you know that the Monumento al Ahogado , a Uruguayan landmark, was completed in only six days, even though the sculptor was given an entire summer to work on it?
text: Did you know that Greek singer Katy Garbi 's new album Kainourgia Ego is the last release on her current contract with Sony BMG , which has in total lasted almost 20 years?
text: Did you know that Poland 's only "official" ghost town , Kłomino , used to be a base of both the Wehrmacht and the Soviet Army ?
text: Did you know that during the trial for the Toa Payoh ritual murders in Singapore , Howard Cashin received death threats for defending the accused, Adrian Lim?
text: Did you know that the Philadelphia Phillies was the name of a football team in the first National Football League ?
text: Did you know that operatic soprano Romilda Pantaleoni sang the role of Desdemona in the original 1887 production of Giuseppe Verdi 's Otello ?
text: Did you know that Charter 08 , a declaration signed by hundreds of Chinese intellectuals, was modeled on Czechoslovakian Charter 77 ?
text: Did you know that Archbishop D'Arcy of Armagh was a member of the Senate of Southern Ireland and a supporter of the Eugenics movement?
text: Did you know that Gene Krupa was asked to be in the 1947 race film Boy! What a Girl! when he stopped by to visit cast member Sid Catlett on the film's set?
text: Did you know that Norwegian jurist and peace activist Fredrik Heffermehl claimed that 45 percent of Nobel Peace Prize awards after 1945 are "illegal"?
text: Did you know that The New York Times obituary for actor/filmmaker Spencer Williams made no mention of his work as a film director?
text: Did you know that the Italian Royal Navy 's Indomito class of destroyers were the first large Italian destroyers and the first to be equipped with steam turbines ?
text: Did you know that Tang Dynasty general Liu Ji was poisoned to death by his son Liu Zong while campaigning against the rebel general Wang Chengzong?
text: Did you know that WEPS in Elgin Area School District U46 is the oldest educational radio station in Illinois , USA ?
text: Did you know that over a ten-year period, Olaus Michael Schmidt served as Norwegian Minister of Justice for four non-consecutive terms?
text: Did you know that according to a legend, the Eliseyevs hid their treasures in the walls of Chicherin House before they fled Russia after the October Revolution in 1917, but this treasure was never found?
text: Did you know that Mangaloreans hold a Guinness world record for non-stop singing for 40 hours?
text: Did you know that "Johnny Mac" McDonald was elected mayor of Thomasville, Alabama , in 1976 while working at radio station WJDB-FM as announcer and account executive ?
text: Did you know that Namibian Deputy Defence Minister Victor Simunja received military training in both the United States and Soviet Union ?
text: Did you know that United States Conference of Mayors was founded at the Mayflower Hotel on the eve of the inauguration of Franklin Delano Roosevelt as U.S. President in 1933?
text: Did you know that Peter Harboe Castberg is credited with building Christiania Bank og Kreditkasse into one of the leading banks in Norway ?
text: Did you know that Froudacity was an 1889 polemic which argued for self-government in the British West Indies ?
text: Did you know that John Fuller , who led a Union Army division at the Battle of Atlanta and participated in Sherman's March to the Sea , was one of the few foreign-born generals in the American Civil War ?
text: Did you know that a technician at the Beijing Film Laboratory refused to print the film or return the negatives for sex scenes from Curiosity Kills the Cat , having been punished over a similar matter?
text: Did you know that James Mill spent twelve years writing The History of British India from 1806 to 1818, but never visited the country?
text: Did you know that in 1799, the distillery adjacent to George Washington's Gristmill produced 11,000 gallons of whiskey along with apple, peach, and persimmon brandy ?
text: Did you know that the term "no waris" in the Papua New Guinean language Tok Pisin is derived from the Australian English " no worries "?
text: Did you know that because he had no family, Judge George Muter was invited to live with Thomas Todd , his fellow justice on the Kentucky Court of Appeals , following Muter's retirement from the bench?
text: Did you know that construction of Mughal Road in the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir was opposed because it impeded the movement of the Markhor goat ?
text: Did you know that protests by the New York Board of Rabbis and others led to changes in Alec Guinness 's portrayal of Fagin in the U.S. version of the 1948 film Oliver Twist , which was not released there until 1951?
text: Did you know that in 2008, almost 100 illegal fish cages were removed from the Pansipit River in the Philippines ?
text: Did you know that after being deposed by his brother Abdul Hamid II , Ottoman sultan Murad V was detained in the Malta Pavilion ?
text: Did you know that, at 73 years old, Ken Mink became the oldest person ever to score in a college basketball game?
text: Did you know that in 2018, when the Follo Line is completed in Norway , it will reduce travel time between Oslo and Ski from 22 to 11 minutes?
text: Did you know that Hiberno-Latin poet Colman nepos Cracavist wrote the first known poem about Saint Brigid ?
text: Did you know that the Vanity Ballroom , an intact dance hall that hosted the popular big bands of the Swing Era , billed itself as " Detroit 's most beautiful dance rendezvous"?
text: Did you know that male and female Sternarchogiton nattereri knifefish are so different that males were thought to be members of a different genus for 40 years?
text: Did you know that American painter Leon Dabo was a spy in World War I ?
text: Did you know that Charlie Bowman was a major influence on the distinctive fiddle sound that helped shape and develop early country music in the 1920s and 1930s?
text: Did you know that the Royal Navy repair ship HMS Artifex previously served as a liner for Cunard and as an armed merchant cruiser ?
text: Did you know that during construction of the church that now houses the Walters Cultural Arts Center in Hillsboro, Oregon , the church was given all the rock they needed for US$1,000 as long as they hauled it away?
text: Did you know that Baruch Steinberg was the Chief Rabbi of the Polish Army during the German invasion of Poland in 1939, and died a year later as a Soviet prisoner of war in the Katyn massacre ?
text: Did you know that although it was the tallest building in Perth , Western Australia , for most of the 1960s, Citibank House is now only the 26th tallest in the city?
text: Did you know that after Frederick Gottwald lost his position as director of the Cleveland Institute of Art , he got into a fistfight with his successor?
text: Did you know that American general Robert S. Beightler was the only World War II National Guard general to have commanded his division for the length of the war?
text: Did you know that Australian pop / rock band 1927 , whose debut album ...ish sold multi-platinum , tried for a year to get a recording contract?
text: Did you know that Mark Rosenberg , described as "one of Hollywood's baby moguls", was only 35 years old when he succeeded Robert Shapiro as President of Worldwide Theatrical Production at Warner Bros. ?
text: Did you know that Ryszard Reiff was the only member of the Polish Council of State to vote against the implementation of martial law in Poland in 1981?
text: Did you know that since the 1920s, the Whittier Hotel in Detroit , Michigan , has hosted Horace Dodge , Eleanor Roosevelt , Mae West , Frank Sinatra , and The Beatles ?
text: Did you know that communist politician K. Ramani became the speaker of the Legislative Assembly of the Indian state Tamil Nadu in 1989?
text: Did you know that of over 1,000 stone Buddha statues that once existed at the Korean Buddhist temple Unjusa , only 91 remain intact?
text: Did you know that stick candy , a form of hard candy with a colorful, barber pole -like spiral design, has a long history in the United States, dating to at least as early as 1837?
text: Did you know that English businessman David Ross was named one of the 100 richest people in the United Kingdom by The Sunday Times ?
text: Did you know that the 14"/50 caliber gun was slated to be the main armament for the Lexington -class battlecruiser , but that class was redesigned in 1917?
text: Did you know that Keizō Tsukamoto set a Guinness World Record by creating the cover art for more than 1,900 issues of Weekly Manga Times starting in 1970?
text: Did you know that Birket Israel , once the largest reservoir in Jerusalem , is now a parking lot?
text: Did you know that while filming 1991's Barton Fink , the Coen brothers were contacted by an animal-rights group concerned about their treatment of mosquitoes ?
text: Did you know that the design of the U.S. anti-crop E77 balloon bomb was based on the design of the World War II Japanese fire balloon ?
text: Did you know that wood infected by the "green elfcup" fungus , species Chlorociboria aeruginascens , is used in the manufacture of decorative inlaid woodwork like Tunbridge ware and parquetry ?
text: Did you know that in January 1939, William Rosenwald and Rabbis Abba Hillel Silver and Jonah Wise combined the organizations they each led to form the United Jewish Appeal for Refugees and Overseas Needs ?
text: Did you know that children's book illustrator Walter Crane was the first President of the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society , founded in 1887 to showcase the decorative arts ?
text: Did you know that Cromemco 's Dazzler was the first commercial graphics card for microcomputers , and was widely used for displaying weather forecasts in the early 1980s?
text: Did you know that Fairview Creek in Oregon was once a tributary of the Columbia River , but was diverted to the Columbia Slough in the early 20th century?
text: Did you know that the Battle of the Severn in 1655 in Annapolis , Maryland , was closely related to the conflicts of the English Civil War , which had concluded four years earlier in England ?
text: Did you know that Peyton Short may have been responsible for the break-up of the first marriage of U.S. President Andrew Jackson 's wife Rachel ?
text: Did you know that coroners' juries in English inquests can bring in an open verdict that confirms a death is suspicious without specifying how it came about?
text: Did you know that Bill Paparian , who visited Cuba while mayor of Pasadena, California , was reported to admire both Che Guevara and the U.S. Marine Corps ?
text: Did you know that the failed marriage of John Milton inspired his divorce tracts : Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce , Judgement of Martin Bucer , Tetrachordon , and Colasterion ?
text: Did you know that in Joliet, Illinois , population declined during the decade before Arthur Schultz became mayor and has nearly doubled since?
text: Did you know that the Khedive Palace in Istanbul , Turkey , once a mansion for Ottoman governors, now serves as an upscale restaurant?
text: Did you know that English violinist John Lenton wrote one of the earliest extant treatises on violin playing?
text: Did you know that the chance purchase of a $15 Yoruba carving in Hamburg by Warren M. Robbins led to the establishment of the Smithsonian Institution 's National Museum of African Art ?
text: Did you know that live-line working involves making contact with a power line that may be energized up to 1,150,000 volts ?
text: Did you know that award-winning television editor Walter Balderson was the only TV cameraman inside the White House for the 1953 Inauguration Day meeting between U.S. President Truman and President-elect Eisenhower ?
text: Did you know that the African city of Careysburg, Liberia , hosted a large transmitter for Voice of America , the official external broadcasting service of the United States federal government ?
text: Did you know that the Taping river is the first tributary of Myanmar 's chief river, the Irrawaddy ?
text: Did you know that Executive Order 13128 led to U.S. State Department rules outlining criminal penalties for violations of the Chemical Weapons Convention ?
text: Did you know that Sharif el-Mashad, the named petitioner in the habeas corpus case of El Mashad v. Bush , was in the clothing trade before being sent to the Guantanamo Bay detention camp ?
text: Did you know that Humphrey Bate was the first to play old-time music on Nashville radio, and his "Possum Hunters" records are considered some of the most complex string band compositions in the genre?
text: Did you know that the Nāradasmṛti Indian literature is the only Dharmaśāstra text to not cover areas such as righteous conduct and penance?
text: Did you know that the Jewish Theological Seminary of America produced the NBC radio and TV program The Eternal Light commercial-free for 45 years, with the show's producer saying "God needs no sponsor"?
text: Did you know that, when a person explosively jumps up from a squat position, stabilization through preflex happens with zero time delay?
text: Did you know that Maurice Garin , nicknamed "The Little Chimney-sweep", won the first-ever Tour de France in 1903?
text: Did you know that the California Avocado Commission is responsible for 90 percent of the United States' harvest of avocado ?
text: Did you know that the Australian plague locust can form swarms infesting areas up to 50 square kilometres (19 sq mi)?
text: Did you know that S. A. K. Durga is the first Asian to have written a book on ethnomusicology ?
text: Did you know that the 1948 Oscar Micheaux -directed film The Betrayal was the first race film to have its premiere in a Broadway theatre in New York City ?
text: Did you know that British motorcycle pioneer Eugene Goodman joined his family's business, Velocette motorcycles , only after his car-making business failed in 1916?
text: Did you know that in 1979, ColorGraphics Weather Systems pioneered the use of color computer graphics in television weather forecasts , using the Apple II computer?
text: Did you know that Greek singer Paschalis Terzis 's most recent album Mia Nihta Zoriki was certified gold the day it was released?
text: Did you know that Jim Foster and Madeline D. Davis were the first openly LGBT people to address a major U.S. national political convention when they spoke to the 1972 Democratic National Convention ?
text: Did you know that production of the French AMX-30 and its variants amounted to a total of 3,571 units?
text: Did you know that U.S. minister Ashley Day Leavitt received an honorary Doctor of Divinity degree during World War I for teaching that "only the righteous nation that keepeth truth may enter in the gates of the Kingdom?"
text: Did you know that the leftist Czechoslovak Chemical Workers' Union was expelled from the OSČ trade union centre in 1922?
text: Did you know that Thomas Leavitt and his brother Martin patented the first practical device in the United States to machine postmark letters?
text: Did you know that a twist lift in pair figure skating involves catching a falling woman by her waist as she twists in the air?
text: Did you know that American entrepreneur Tom Krieglstein was the first person in line for President-elect Barack Obama 's election night rally?
text: Did you know that although the Norfolk Island Pigeon was hunted to extinction by humans, its first hunters disappeared from Norfolk Island before it did?
text: Did you know that Biochimica et Biophysica Acta was the first international journal launched by publishing giant Elsevier ?
text: Did you know that Pennsylvania 's longest cave extends from Harlansburg to Rose Point , over 11 miles (18 km) away?
text: Did you know that after producing a booklet on the Zulu language , Harcourt Mortimer Bengough would go on to command at the 1879 battle of the Zulu capital Ulundi ?
text: Did you know that a trading halt stops stock trading in the U.S. when there is significant order imbalance between buyers and sellers in a security ?
text: Did you know that the Galoter process is an oil shale retorting technology that uses hot oil shale ash to heat other oil shale?
text: Did you know that Linda Greenlaw , the swordfishing boat captain portrayed in the book and film The Perfect Storm , is now a best-selling author?
text: Did you know that in the 1949 England and Wales county council elections for the boroughs outside London the Conservative Party had a 96% gain and the Labour Party an 87% seat loss?
text: Did you know that the Velocette LE motorcycle was used by over fifty British police forces and the police riders became known as "Noddys" because they were required to nod to senior officers?
text: Did you know that the Mianus River Gorge in Westchester County, New York , was the first land preservation purchase by the Nature Conservancy ?
text: Did you know that during the history of Pulicat between 1621 and 1665, over 38,000 Indian slaves were obtained by Dutch slave traders and shipped from the Coromandel Coast , mostly to the East Indies ?
text: Did you know that A. Bernard Ackerman , called "a founding figure in the field of dermatopathology ", was skeptical of the notion that exposure to sun causes melanoma , saying the link had not been proven?
text: Did you know that Duranta erecta , a widely cultivated ornamental plant , has been identified as an invasive species in Fiji , French Polynesia and Hawaii ?
text: Did you know that Thompson Pond and nearby Stissing Mountain were inspiration for the New York State Environment exhibit at the American Museum of Natural History ?
text: Did you know that like the Titanic , the Hans Hedtoft struck an iceberg and sank on her maiden voyage?
text: Did you know that the works of landscape architect Charles Leavitt include gardens for Walter P. Chrysler and William C. Whitney , the grandstands at Forbes Field , and racetracks at Saratoga and Belmont ?
text: Did you know that 1998's Hurricane Karl was one of four simultaneous hurricanes in the Atlantic Ocean at one time, the first such occurrence since 1893?
text: Did you know that Collin Mooney beat the Army football single-season rushing record by one yard in the last play of his last college game, the 2008 U.S. Army-Navy Game ?
text: Did you know that the Main Synagogue of Barcelona may be the oldest synagogue building still standing in Europe?
text: Did you know that Enos Lowe was a founder of Omaha, Nebraska , and an early resident of Iowa 's Black Hawk Purchase ?
text: Did you know that Henry Frederick Stephenson was the First and principal Naval Aide-de-camp to King Edward VII ?
text: Did you know that after a kitten named Lucky survived a fall from the 65-foot-high (20 m) Granada Bridge at Ormond Beach, Florida , Lucky's owners changed her name to Timmy?
text: Did you know that at No Mercy (2002) , Kurt Angle and Chris Benoit became the first ever WWE Tag Team Champions by defeating Rey Mysterio and Edge ?
text: Did you know that William Gordon Harris 's tenure as Director-General of Highways at the British Ministry of Transport saw the construction of 650 miles (1,050 km) of motorways ?
text: Did you know that Clay-Ashland , a town in Liberia , is named after American slave owner Henry Clay ?
text: Did you know that Erasmus Ommanney entered the Royal Navy at age 12 in August 1826 and went on to discover in 1850 the first traces of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago fate of Sir John Franklin ?
text: Did you know that the State Street Bridge in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania , is flanked by two 145-foot (44 m) pylons representing the U.S. Army and Navy ?
text: Did you know that the former main jewel on the Bavarian crown , the Wittelsbach Diamond , was almost cut into several smaller diamonds ?
text: Did you know that Thomas Allin , an early settler of Kentucky , USA , laid out the cities of Lexington , Harrodsburg , and Henderson ?
text: Did you know that in exchange for US$50,000 from two undercover agents posing as representatives of a fictitious Arab sheik in the Abscam investigation, U.S. Congressman Raymond F. Lederer told the agents "I can give you me"?
text: Did you know that during the Ottoman–Venetian War of 1570–1573 , the 8,500-strong Venetian garrison of Famagusta in Cyprus held out for eleven months against an Ottoman army of 200,000 men?
text: Did you know that a medical patient's failure to maintain a fluid restriction, diet, or medication could result in acute decompensated heart failure ?
text: Did you know that the Balance and Ball Bearing television advertisements for the Lexus LS 400 and ES 300 , were highly honored and subsequently referenced by its competitors in their own advertising campaigns ?
text: Did you know that Jonathan Leavitt was the leading publisher of theological and religious books in New York City during the early 1800s?
text: Did you know that the high-profile recalls in 2007 and 2008 of China -manufactured toys led the U.S. to enact stricter limits on the amount of lead in paint on children's products?
text: Did you know that "Johnny Sausage" Barbato , charged with being a "capo" or "captain" in the Genovese crime family , was released from prison in July 2008 at age 74?
text: Did you know that the beech-maple forest is a climax plant community in the eastern United States and Canada ?
text: Did you know that the non-payment of debts is the archetype for the seventeen other Hindu titles of law , including the sexual crimes against women?
text: Did you know that Leavitt Peak is named after early California settler and innkeeper Hiram Leavitt ?
text: Did you know that species Fuligo septica , called the "dog-vomit slime mold", can tolerate unusually high levels of the metal zinc ?
text: Did you know that after a professional wrestling match between The Undertaker and Brock Lesnar at Unforgiven (2002) , The Undertaker attacked Lesnar by throwing him through the wall of a set?
text: Did you know that the ancient , but lost, Nendrum Monastery was found in 1844, when a visitor recognized the remains of a round tower ?
text: Did you know that Mayor Tom Weisner once considered outlawing untimely holiday decorations, when citizens of Aurora, Illinois , complained of Christmas decorations abounding during the summer?
text: Did you know that the community of Half Acre, Alabama , once contained half an acre of land that was deeded to The Devil ?
text: Did you know that the Autonomous Republic of Northern Epirus was a short-lived state founded in March 1914 by Greeks living in southern Albania ?
text: Did you know that Liz Heaston was the first woman to score points in a college football game when she kicked two extra points for the Willamette Bearcats in 1997?
text: Did you know that Samuel Frederick Henry Thompson , a British flying ace of World War I , scored 30 kills in five months of service and won both the DFC and MC ?
text: Did you know that the first ever Hell in a Cell match to feature six professional wrestlers was held at the Armageddon pay-per-view event?
text: Did you know that due to standing among corpses in his coat and rubber gloves while holding a syringe , SS - Oberscharführer Josef Klehr has been described as the ultimate caricature of the omnipotent Auschwitz doctor?
text: Did you know that none of the Dallas Mavericks head coaches have been elected into the Basketball Hall of Fame as a coach ?
text: Did you know that the meaning and significance of kingship changed dramatically over time in India between the 2nd millennium BCE and ca. 500 BCE ?
text: Did you know that in 1883, a dozen years before Oscar Wilde was convicted for Gross Indecency , the Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News published a cartoon showing him in convict dress ?
text: Did you know that the morph of proteins that function as morpheeins can be explained by a dice analogy where the one spot must contact the die face with four spots?
text: Did you know that after being unified with the World Heavyweight Championship in October 2002, the WWE Intercontinental Championship returned in May 2003 at the Judgment Day pay-per-view event?
text: Did you know that members of the Newfoundland Royal Naval Reserve during World War I were described by Sir Winston Churchill as "the best small boat men in the world"?
text: Did you know that Gerald Ford's decision to appoint John Paul Stevens to the U.S. Supreme Court was largely influenced by his attorney general Edward H. Levi ?
text: Did you know that Italian noblewoman Bianca Riario acted as a substitute mother in the early 1500s to her half-brother, the celebrated Giovanni dalle Bande Nere , while her own mother was in prison?
text: Did you know that White City Amusement Park is where the first Goodyear Blimps were assembled?
text: Did you know that Norwegian Socialist politician Rolf Ketil Bjørn was nicknamed "the red millionaire" due to his background in the business sector?
text: Did you know that, of the approximately 40 total U-101 class submarines and U-107 class submarines planned for the WWI Austro-Hungarian Navy , all remained uncompleted and only five were laid down ?
text: Did you know that Ohio Territorial Governor Charles Willing Byrd once worked for American Revolutionary War financier Robert Morris ?
text: Did you know that Miltonic verse , a style which influenced centuries of poetry, is found within the final three poetic works of John Milton , Paradise Lost , Paradise Regained , and Samson Agonistes ?
text: Did you know that the body of Fr. Solanus Casey , a candidate for sainthood, was exhumed and reinterred at Detroit 's St. Bonaventure Monastery where he had comforted and fed the hungry during the Great Depression ?
text: Did you know that despite being laughed off stage at a music contest as a young boy, mugham singer Alim Qasimov went on to win the International IMC – UNESCO Music Prize?
text: Did you know that actor Justice Leak and his sister Liberty were named for their father's love of the criminal justice system?
text: Did you know that under Hindu dietary law , a man is not allowed to eat while facing south if his mother is still alive?
text: Did you know that though they had lost all strategically and economically important locations of Luzon in the Battle of Luzon , pockets of Japanese forces held out until Japan surrendered in World War II ?
text: Did you know that mountaineer Barry Bishop , a member of the first American team to summit Mount Everest , lost all his toes to frostbite during the ascent?
text: Did you know that the Fen River was used to flood the city of modern-day Taiyuan in the Battle of Jinyang , and was later used to defeat the besieging army?
text: Did you know that in People v. Salem (1870), the Michigan Supreme Court ruled that public money could not be used to finance private railroad construction?
text: Did you know that Sir Charles Cornwallis , 2nd Baron Cornwallis of Eye, served at one point as a groom of the Stool ?
text: Did you know that Castle Crags Wilderness in California contains the site of the Modoc War 's 1855 Battle of Castle Crags?
text: Did you know that Swiss patron of composers and writers Werner Reinhart is memorialized in an Alice Bailly 1920 portrait as "The Man with the Golden Heart"?
text: Did you know that large amounts of α-Parinaric acid have been found in the seeds of an Impatiens species and an unrelated tree species?
text: Did you know that Sue K. Hicks , a prosecutor in the Scopes Monkey Trial who later became a judge in Tennessee , may have been the inspiration for the song, " A Boy Named Sue ," popularized by singer Johnny Cash in 1969?
text: Did you know that, rather being used to diagnose depression , depression rating scales provide an indication of the severity of symptoms for a time period?
text: Did you know that Church of England clergyman William Wayte also was a minor British chess master in the late 1800s?
text: Did you know that hypnotherapist , occultist and alleged Nazi sympathiser Alexander Cannon , who was known as the "Yorkshire Yogi", counselled British King Edward VIII shortly before his abdication in 1936?
text: Did you know that Moduin , a poet of the Carolingian Renaissance , characterises his era as a rebirth of " Golden Rome "?
text: Did you know that by the time he returned to England in 1878 after collecting plants in Colombia , German plant collector Guillermo Kalbreyer had lost more than half of his collection?
text: Did you know that the positive-stop foot gear change first used on the Velocette KTT motorcycle in 1928 has become the standard for motorcycles today?
text: Did you know that Jay Roach recommended that Jon Poll direct teen film Charlie Bartlett when Roach had to back out of the job himself?
text: Did you know that the village of Lamberley in Northumberland , England has on display a bell from a small convent of Benedictine nuns that was devastated by William Wallace in 1296?
text: Did you know that Vanessa Redgrave 's portrayal of transsexual Renée Richards in the 1986 biopic Second Serve was praised as embodying "every internal contradiction of the polymorphously perverse "?
text: Did you know that Toto 's seizure of power in Rome , Italy , in 767 is one of the first indications that the military aristocracy believed that supreme power in Rome rested with the papal office ?
text: Did you know that the human mouth forms when the opening that becomes the anus tunnels through the embryo and comes out the other side?
text: Did you know that the identity of the second police mole in the 2006 Toronto terrorism arrests has never been revealed?
text: Did you know that actor Scott Thompson Baker has had notable roles in each of the long-running soap operas General Hospital , All My Children , and The Bold and the Beautiful ?
text: Did you know that a council ward in the East End of London was renamed " Spitalfields and Banglatown " in 2001 to reflect the history of Bangladeshi immigration to that area ?
text: Did you know that at a 1972 re-election rally before a crowd of 15,000 at the Nassau Coliseum , Richard Nixon 's opening words were "This is the biggest and best rally, Joe Margiotta , I have ever seen"?
text: Did you know that the former Rabbi of New York City 's Fifth Avenue Synagogue , Emanuel Rackman , came under fire for helping agunot women obtain marriage annulments ?
text: Did you know that the band Fleet Foxes received over a quarter of a million MySpace plays in two months despite having never released any of their work?
text: Did you know that B-17 Flying Fortress tailgunner "Babe" Broyhill set a record by destroying two Messerschmitt ME-262 jet fighters in a mission over Berlin in March 1945?
text: Did you know that approximately 10,000 communist miners left the Czechoslovak Miners' Union in 1923, after the union had accepted 9–13 percent cuts in salaries?
text: Did you know that Estonian chemist Paul Kogerman , known for his study of oil-bearing shales , was deported by Soviet authorities with his family in 1941 to a prisoner camp in Sverdlovsk Oblast ?
text: Did you know that the director of Afghan Muscles ignored the role of Afghan women in bodybuilding , noting "It's men looking at men," and "60% [of men] have their first sexual experience with another man"?
text: Did you know that the radio station WHOS in Decatur, Alabama , aired an all- Elvis Presley format from October 1988 to April 1989?
text: Did you know that the German submarine U-558 sank ships as far north as Ireland and as far south as Trinidad during World War II ?
text: Did you know  that former Maryland Terrapins wide receiver Steve Suter set three NCAA and five Atlantic Coast Conference football records for kick returns despite his small stature and recurring injuries?
text: Did you know that from November to April every year Jammu is the capital of Jammu and Kashmir , the northernmost Indian state, and that during the summer Srinagar is the capital?
text: Did you know that Abyssobrotula galatheae lives deeper in the ocean than any other known fish?
text: Did you know that a portion of Virginia 's 71-mile (114 km) Massanutten Trail was built on orders from George Washington as a route of retreat should the Continental Army be defeated at Yorktown ?
text: Did you know that pianist Kathryn Stott first met long-term collaborator Yo-Yo Ma playing the cello in her flat in his underpants?
text: Did you know that the best-selling 1975 memoir The Education of Lev Navrozov established its author as a prominent Soviet dissident ?
text: Did you know that Barry Tabobondung was so excited to be drafted by the Philadelphia Flyers in the 1981 NHL Entry Draft that he climbed over seats to get to the stage, and became stuck in a seat for two hours?
text: Did you know that Qatar was the first country on the Persian Gulf to allow women the right to vote ?
text: Did you know that the Petroleum fly , Helaeomyia petrolei , is the only known insect that develops in naturally occurring crude oil ?
text: Did you know that the 1986 children's picture book Juma and the Magic Jinn was awarded Honor Book in the illustrations category of the 1986 Golden Kite Awards ?
text: Did you know that the appointment of Sever Voinescu as Romanian ambassador to the United States was rejected by a Senate committee on grounds that he was too close to President Traian Băsescu ?
text: Did you know that the folklorist Sir Laurence Gomme , who persuaded London County Council to take on the blue plaque commemorative scheme, was himself honoured with the 800th blue plaque?
text: Did you know that the Zoia Horn Intellectual Freedom Award is named for a librarian who was jailed for refusing to testify in the 1972 trial of the Harrisburg Seven anti-war activists?
text: Did you know that the early poetry of John Milton (born 400 years ago today), including " Christ's Nativity ", " The Passion ", " Upon the Circumcision ", " Arcades ", " L'Allegro ", and " Il Penseroso ", was written as early as 1624 but not published until 1645?
text: Did you know that George Hardy , who headed the Service Employees International Union from 1971 to 1980, did his first union organizing among janitors in San Francisco ?
text: Did you know that the Cornish jack , a weakly electric fish , uses electricity to communicate with other members of its group?
text: Did you know that Romanian Symbolist poet, novelist, and critic Alexandru Macedonski sat on a throne during meetings of his esoteric circle?
text: Did you know that attorney Rachel Hirschfeld works in the field of pet rights, including the creation of pet trusts allowing pets to inherit property?
text: Did you know that White Tights are mysterious blonde female snipers from the Baltic states who have supposedly fought against the Russian Army in various conflicts?
text: Did you know that the later political works of John Milton (born 400 years ago today), including Tenure of Kings , Eikonoklastes , Defensio Secunda , Civil Power , and Ready and Easy Way , were controversial but still sold well ?
text: Did you know that Kunz von Kaufungen kidnapped Frederick II, Elector of Saxony 's two sons, Ernest and Albert , just four years after he commanded Frederick II's forces during the Saxon Fratricidal War ?
text: Did you know that while working on The Last Sleep of Arthur in Avalon , painter Edward Burne-Jones identified so strongly with King Arthur that he even assumed Arthur's pose when he slept?
text: Did you know  that the "noble polypore" (mushroom species Bridgeoporus nobilissimus ) was the first fungus to be listed as endangered by any private or public agency in the United States?
text: Did you know that two of the three character designers of the Japanese visual novel Flyable Heart have illustrated the Shakugan no Shana light novels and manga series, respectively?
text: Did you know that Scott Smith is the first person since 1966 to be elected Mayor of Mesa, Arizona without having first served on its City Council?
text: Did you know that Terry Murray replaced his brother Bryan as head coach of the Washington Capitals in the 1989–90 NHL season , and as head coach of the Florida Panthers in the 1998–99 season ?
text: Did you know that John Milton (born 400 years ago today) discusses his religious views in numerous antiprelatical tracts , including Of Reformation , Of Prelatical Episcopacy , Animadversions , Reason of Church-Government , and Apology for Smectymnuus ?
text: Did you know that, as a student activist in the 1940s, Indian politician Gangadhar Appa Burande was one of the founders of the Communist Party in the Marathwada region?
text: Did you know that the Indian Paint fungus ( Echinodontium tinctorium ), a member of the fungal family Echinodontiaceae , was used by Native Americans to make red pigments ?
text: Did you know that, during the 1924 British Mount Everest Expedition , Edward Norton set a world record for climbing height that stood until 1952?
text: Did you know that Jeremy Camp said his highest-debuting album to date Speaking Louder Than Before was "really aimed at" youth?
text: Did you know that during the Great Depression , Wisconsin dairy farmers conducted a series of strike actions aimed at increasing the prices paid to milk producers?
text: Did you know that Captain Ivan Castro is the only blind officer serving in the United States Army Special Forces ?
text: Did you know that many of Kentucky 's early political leaders were part of the Danville Political Club , a debating society whose existence was not known publicly until a century later?
text: Did you know that Polish Military Intelligence chief Tadeusz Pełczyński suggested before 1939 that, if war approached, Poland share her Enigma-cipher -breaking techniques with France and Britain ?
text: Did you know that before Dick Vitale began his Hall of Fame career as a basketball broadcaster, he was a head coach of the Detroit Pistons in the 1970s?
text: Did you know that the Soldiers and Sailors Monument in Lancaster, Pennsylvania , stands on the site of a 1777 Second Continental Congress meeting?
text: Did you know that Eivind Reiten was chair of StatoilHydro , Norway 's largest company, for four days?
text: Did you know that Jane Couch MBE , nicknamed The Fleetwood Assassin , became the first female boxer to be granted a professional licence by the British Boxing Board of Control ?
text: Did you know that "ghost buster" Robert A. Baker was named one of the most outstanding scientific skeptics of the 20th century for his work on hypnosis , ghosts , alien abductions and false memory syndrome ?
text: Did you know that the Aquarama , built in 1945 as a Liberty ship , was converted into the largest passenger ship ever to operate on the Great Lakes ?
text: Did you know that Samuel McDowell fought in three wars and later presided over nine of the ten constitutional conventions needed to draft the first Kentucky Constitution ?
text: Did you know that filamentous fungi of genus Geomyces have been implicated in White-nose syndrome , a fungal disease causing high mortality in bats ?
text: Did you know that Davin Meggett , the Maryland Terrapins ' second-leading running back , is the son of Super Bowl champion and two-time Pro Bowl selection, David Meggett ?
text: Did you know that commuter rail stop Hall/Nimbus Station in Oregon includes artwork that features movable heads shaped like a pumpkin and a blue-colored skull?
text: Did you know that the element promethium was discovered in 1945 by Manhattan Project chemists Jacob A. Marinsky , Lawrence E. Glendenin and Charles D. Coryell ?
text: Did you know that the Magosternarchus genus of knifefish eats the tails of other knifefish, and many specimens have been found with regenerated tails?
text: Did you know that in World War II , David M. Jones , later a U.S. Air Force Major General , participated in events that formed the basis for two Hollywood movies : Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo and The Great Escape ?
text: Did you know that the most common symptoms in impingement syndrome are pain, weakness and a loss of strength at the shoulder ?
text: Did you know that Rabbi Tobias Geffen convinced the makers of Coca-Cola to change its secret formula in 1935 so he could certify that the beverage was kosher ?
text: Did you know that Lac-Simon , in Quebec , Canada , is named after Marie-Louise Cimon, the wife of an early settler?
text: Did you know that after Helmut Friedlaender sold most of his rare-book collection at auction in 2001, he bought back some of the books on the open market to give them a good home?
text: Did you know that although construction of two submarines each from the U-48 , U-50 , and U-52 classes of the Austro-Hungarian Navy began in 1916, none were completed by the end of World War I two years later?
text: Did you know that the Jews of Massena, New York , were falsely accused of the kidnap and ritual murder of a Christian girl in September 1928 in an incident known as the Massena blood libel ?
text: Did you know that Sri Lanka Army officer Lt. Col. Lalith Jayasinghe was killed while leading a special forces team on a reconnaissance mission behind enemy lines?
text: Did you know that Unverricht-Lundborg disease is the most common form of an uncommon group of genetic epilepsy disorders called progressive myoclonic epilepsy ?
text: Did you know that one of the most gifted portrait painters of the 17th century is known as Cornelis Janssens , although he never used that name to sign his paintings?
text: Did you know that the Woodland Public Library is the oldest, and one of the last functioning Carnegie -funded libraries in California ?
text: Did you know that footballer Johnny Warsap was signed by Gillingham F.C. after he played against the club for a team representing the Royal Berkshire Regiment ?
text: Did you know that the regulations issued by an outgoing U.S. president 's administration got the name midnight regulations when a record quantity of new rules was issued during Jimmy Carter 's last months in office?
text: Did you know that the Anglo-Norman Latin text De obsessione Dunelmi is the first-known history of an English earldom ?
text: Did you know that secondary students can take Yup'ik studies in the Yupiit School District , which is located in the Bethel Census Area of Alaska ?
text: Did you know that Tytus Filipowicz , nominally the first Polish ambassador to Georgia , was captured during the Soviet invasion and ultimately organized the first Polish embassy to the Soviet Union ?
text: Did you know that the Harvey Milk LGBT Democratic Club developed some of the earliest safe sex education material in the United States ?
text: Did you know that the Valley of Mexico has been one of the most heavily populated places on the planet for almost two millennia?
text: Did you know that the ideal length of a train melody is seven seconds?
text: Did you know that Edwin Donayre , commander of the Peruvian Army , sparked an international controversy when a video surfaced in the media showing him making anti-Chilean remarks?
text: Did you know that the Central Commission of German Trade Unions organized 75 percent of unionized German workers in Czechoslovakia in 1921?
text: Did you know that Spanish footballer Paco Bienzobas was the first person to win the Pichichi Trophy , awarded to the top scorer in La Liga ?
text: Did you know that recent restoration efforts were said to have "breathed new life" into Ulsoor Lake, one of the largest lakes in Bangalore ?
text: Did you know that Norwegian illustrator Harald Damsleth was convicted for treason in 1950, for having drawn Nazi propaganda posters during World War II ?
text: Did you know that Kamilo Beach on the island of Hawaii , along with 2.8 miles (4.5 km) of adjacent shoreline, is considered one of the dirtiest beaches in the world because of accumulated marine debris from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch ?
text: Did you know that David Rubinger was the first photographer to receive the Israel Prize ?
text: Did you know that the Moonlight Brewing Company sells its product only in kegs because the brewmaster believes the process of bottling beer "is cruel for the beer and a logistical nightmare"?
text: Did you know that Ian Chapman was the first former pupil of The Football Association 's School of Excellence to play in The Football League ?
text: Did you know that Aleksandr Pushkin 's 1827 poem The Gypsies inspired some eighteen operas and six ballets , including Rachmaninoff 's Aleko ?
text: Did you know that radio station WHAL in Phenix City, Alabama , used to broadcast from a defunct airport terminal ?
text: Did you know that so many people became custom harvesters in China in the late 20th century that it was no longer possible for them to generate a profit?
text: Did you know that during the Dead Rabbits Riot of 1857, residents of Mulberry Street in New York City were forced to barricade themselves in their homes?
text: Did you know that Emerson Rodwell , a former captain of the Tasmanian cricket team, scored 11,542 runs and took 331 wickets in his club career, as well as earning the Military Medal in Borneo during World War II ?
text: Did you know that when reporter George Crile compared San Francisco to Sodom and Gomorrah when interviewing Dianne Feinstein for the CBS documentary Gay Power, Gay Politics , she threw him out of her office?
text: Did you know that the 19th Golden Melody Awards ceremony in Taiwan featured Canadian recording artist Daniel Powter as a guest presenter?
text: Did you know that Confederate General John W. Frazer surrendered the Cumberland Gap during the American Civil War without a fight ?
text: Did you know that although only 170 cars were carried between Lympne and Le Touquet airfields in 1948, by 1951 the air ferry service was so successful that over 13,000 vehicles were carried that year?
text: Did you know that the Israeli government is considering recognizing Indian nanny Sandra Samuel as a Righteous among the Nations ?
text: Did you know that the Ulster cherry is named after Ulster County, New York , a region where sweet cherries are produced commercially?
text: Did you know that Midnight Madness is an annual pep rally -like event that celebrates the first day that U.S. college basketball teams are allowed to practice?
text: Did you know that the 1971 restoration of Westbury Court Garden , a 17th-century water garden in Gloucestershire , only used plants that had been introduced to the British Isles before 1700?
text: Did you know that at 700 days, Rob Van Dam had the longest ECW Television Championship reign ?
text: Did you know that Jose C. Abriol was the first person to translate the Catholic Bible into Tagalog ?
text: Did you know that the Austro-Hungarian U-27 class of submarines had more members than any other Austro-Hungarian Navy submarine class ?
text: Did you know that after retiring as a footballer , Mike Trusson worked as marketing manager for a football-themed restaurant in London ?
text: Did you know that one bacterial strain of Streptomyces griseus has the capacity to produce up to 34 different secondary metabolites including antibiotics ?
text: Did you know that one of the Roman soldiers in the Mesa Arizona Easter Pageant Jesus the Christ was played by NFL offensive lineman Deuce Lutui ?
text: Did you know that using the pseudonym "Tanta", Doris Dungey blogged on Calculated Risk about the U.S. housing bubble , including a 13-article series on the mortgage industry called The Compleat ÜberNerd ?
text: Did you know that ideational apraxia causes people to lose the ability to use everyday objects correctly, as they can no longer relate the object's purpose to the actions required to perform a task?
text: Did you know that Loyal B. Stearns served in the Oregon House of Representatives after his father served there, but before his father served in the Oregon State Senate ?
text: Did you know that Clewer Mill Stream , a backwater of the River Thames , used to be out of bounds to boys from nearby Eton College and a punishment of 100 lines could be handed down for going there?
text: Did you know that after the French city of Metz was captured by the U.S. Army in the World War II Battle of Metz , German units in nearby isolated forts continued to hold out?
text: Did you know that historical structures in Yellagonga Regional Park include the City of Wanneroo 's oldest residence and an early winery ?
text: Did you know that the 1947 film Juke Joint was considered a lost film until a print was located in Tyler, Texas , in 1983?
text: Did you know that Charles Ranken and Lord Randolph Churchill founded the Oxford University Chess Club in April 1869, with Ranken becoming its first president?
text: Did you know that typical symptoms of Urbach-Wiethe disease , a rare autosomal recessive disease, are a hoarse voice and beaded papules around the eyelids?
text: Did you know that what became Monster Worldwide , the parent company of the Monster.com jobs website, was started by Andrew McKelvey in 1967 as a Yellow Pages advertising company?
text: Did you know that although its design and construction are now appreciated for being modern and futuristic, the Westland Dreadnought monoplane crashed and was crippled on its inaugural flight?
text: Did you know that the Alberta and Great Waterways Railway Scandal forced the resignation of Alberta 's first Premier, Alexander Cameron Rutherford ?
text: Did you know that Singaporean backstroke swimmer Yip Pin Xiu , who has muscular dystrophy , won a gold and a silver medal at the 2008 Summer Paralympics , setting two world records in the process?
text: Did you know that Imero Fiorentino has served as a lighting designer for every U.S. President since Dwight D. Eisenhower ?
text: Did you know that the Barony of Ladyland was established by a poet and fervent Roman Catholic who was imprisoned for plotting to re-establish the Catholic faith in Scotland through a Habsburg Spanish invasion?
text: Did you know that Tadeusz Pyka was appointed in 1980 to lead a Polish government commission to negotiate with strikers at Gdańsk , despite vowing that he would have "nothing to do" with the strikers' main representative body ?
text: Did you know that when the Worcester Common Outlets shopping mall was completed in 1971, it had the world's largest parking garage ?
text: Did you know that Cyril Pullin designed the first successful British helicopter and his son was the pilot for its first flight in June 1938?
text: Did you know that gemstone irradiation processes enable the creation of certain gemstone colors that do not exist or are extremely rare in nature?
text: Did you know that King Charles II rewarded Captain Richard Haddock for his actions in the Battle of Solebay by giving him a hat?
text: Did you know that Hurricane Holly was the first Atlantic hurricane by this name, having replaced Hattie after the 1961 season?
text: Did you know that Antonín Dvořák arranged his Romantic Pieces from a trio he originally wrote to play with one of his mother's tenants?
text: Did you know that the Hawaii State Legislature declared October 29, 2005, " Samuel Kamakau Day," in recognition of the Hawaiian scholar who wrote over 200 articles about Hawaiian history?
text: Did you know that the Prague trade union centre Odborové sdružení českoslovanské was founded in 1897, as Czech unionists considered that the Austrian unions were neglecting them?
text: Did you know that the USS Timbalier , a Barnegat class seaplane tender , served as a postwar cruise ship until 1989?
text: Did you know that the first two steamboats on the Kootenay River sank when they were overloaded with supplies by the Northwest Mounted Police en route to quell an uprising?
text: Did you know that Japanese jūdōka Shokichi Natsui became the first World Judo Champion in 1956 ?
text: Did you know that the body of Spence Broughton remained hanging in a gibbet on Attercliffe Common , near Sheffield , for 36 years after his execution for robbery in 1792?
text: Did you know that the oak mazegill fungus Daedalea quercina has been used as a horse-comb and as a bee anesthetic?
text: Did you know that Mahatma Gandhi was imprisoned at Sitabuldi Fort in Nagpur from April 10 to May 15 in 1923?
text: Did you know that Anne-Lise Seip was appointed at the Institute of History, University of Oslo in 1975, the same year as her husband Jens Arup Seip retired from his professorship there?
text: Did you know that Rajendra Prasad was the first President of India and the only one to have held the office for two terms ?
text: Did you know that after Caltech eliminated its meteorology department, which was founded and led by Irving P. Krick ,  most of the staff left to join Krick's private weather business?
text: Did you know that overchoice refers to the situation where when faced with too many choices , people become indecisive and unhappy?
text: Did you know that before becoming a professor of the sociology of law , Vilhelm Aubert was a member of the Norwegian anti-Nazi resistance group XU ?
text: Did you know that Serenity High School , the oldest public substance-abuse recovery high school in Texas , has served students from over 25 area high schools since opening in 1999?
text: Did you know that the 1932 National Hunger March , the largest hunger march in the 1920s and 1930s, led to days of widespread violence in central London ?
text: Did you know that the bǎ construction in Chinese grammar has been used to perform neuroimaging studies of language processing and to evaluate theories of construction grammar ?
text: Did you know that William Vaux, 3rd Baron Vaux was imprisoned and fined £1,000 by Queen Elizabeth for harbouring the Jesuit Edmund Campion ?
text: Did you know that Paul McCartney 's condition for guest starring in The Simpsons episode " Lisa the Vegetarian " was that Lisa , who becomes a vegetarian in the episode, remain one for the rest of the series?
text: Did you know that in 1865, Dr Edward William Pritchard , who poisoned his wife and mother-in-law, became the last person to be publicly executed in Glasgow ?
text: Did you know that Adam Stanisław Grabowski , Prince-Bishop of Warmia , was a patron of the arts and a representative of the Catholic Enlightenment in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth ?
text: Did you know that the Durham Performing Arts Center opened in November 2008 as the largest performing arts center in the Carolinas , at a cost of US$48 million?
text: Did you know that the exoperidium of the Bovista plumbea peels off at maturation in hot, dry conditions?
text: Did you know that before serving in the Union Army during the American Civil War , Brigadier General Stephen Gardner Champlin had his own law practice in Albany, New York ?
text: Did you know that the Camp of Great Poland was an interwar fascist -influenced right-wing organization that aimed at toppling the Sanacja -dominated Polish government?
text: Did you know that Bob Blake was voted the most popular ice hockey player in Buffalo, New York , in 1941?
text: Did you know that Ingrid Semmingsen was the first female professor of history in Norway ?
text: Did you know that Polish sculptor Maria Albin Boniecki practiced his craft even when imprisoned in the Nazi Majdanek concentration camp ?
text: Did you know that the mid-19th century stone arch Bridge No. 3 over Plunketts Creek in Pennsylvania , USA , is listed on the Historic American Engineering Record even though it was destroyed in a 1996 flood?
text: Did you know that James Godkin was simultaneously the chief editor of the Daily Express newspaper and the Dublin correspondent of The Times of London ?
text: Did you know that although Chuck Daly is a Basketball Hall of Famer now, when he served as head coach of the Cleveland Cavaliers he had a 9–32 record and was fired mid-season?
text: Did you know that Edward Vaux, 4th Baron Vaux of Harrowden did not marry Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Howard , until 27 years after plans for their marriage were abandoned in the wake of the Gunpowder Plot ?
text: Did you know that in 1954, Israel walked out of the Israel- Jordan Mixed Armistice Commission after the commission failed to condemn Jordan for the Scorpion Pass Massacre ?
text: Did you know that mathematician Karen Vogtmann co-authored a paper which produced a method for quantifying the difference and computing the distance between two phylogenetic trees ?
text: Did you know that it now requires 250 employees and costs US$5-9 million to open a new location of the six-year-old America's Incredible Pizza Company ?
text: Did you know that after executing Caesar Gallus , officer Apodemius grabbed his shoes, ran quickly from Pula to Mediolanum , and threw them at the feet of Roman Emperor Constantius II to prove his cousin's death?
text: Did you know that as a result of the Saxon Brother War and the subsequent divisions of land, Saxony was no longer one of the most powerful German states ?
text: Did you know that Wessagusset Colony was the site of Miles Standish 's real-life attack against Native Americans as depicted in Longfellow 's poem The Courtship of Miles Standish ?
text: Did you know that each country who participated in MGP Nordic 2008 entered two songs, rather than one, to make the contest bigger?
text: Did you know that the National Waterways Museum, Ellesmere Port , in Cheshire , England , contains the largest collection of canal boats in the world?
text: Did you know that the campus of the now-defunct University of Plano included a pagoda that had been the Malaysian pavilion at the 1964 New York World's Fair ?
text: Did you know that Albert Einstein , according to writer Illana Katz , may have had autism ?
text: Did you know that the title of the 1944 race film Go Down Death derives from a poem by the African American writer James Weldon Johnson ?
text: Did you know that Shigeko Higashikuni was the elder sister of Akihito , the reigning Emperor of Japan ?
text: Did you know that the German football club Dansk Gymnastik Forening Flensborg , founded in 1923, is a club of the Danish minority of Southern Schleswig ?
text: Did you know that the career of Tang Dynasty official Zhao Jing was launched after he was praised for his petition for frugality in the funerals of Emperors Xuanzong and Suzong ?
text: Did you know that the Royal Navy ship of the line HMS Agamemnon ran aground in both the first and second Battles of Copenhagen , in 1801 and 1807, respectively?
text: Did you know that John F. Kelly 's 2003 promotion to brigadier general while in Iraq was the first promotion of a U.S. Marine Corps colonel in a combat zone since Chesty Puller 's 1951 Korean War promotion?
text: Did you know that the pre-Columbian ruins of Teopanzolco in Mexico are said to have been rediscovered during the Mexican Revolution when an artillery emplacement shook loose some dirt from the stonework?
text: Did you know that Byron 's 1819 poem Mazeppa inspired paintings by the French artists Eugène Delacroix , Claude-Joseph Vernet , and Théodore Géricault ?
text: Did you know that, due to his considerable oratory skill, U.S. Representative Richard Menefee of Kentucky was called "the young Patrick Henry of the West"?
text: Did you know that south Bulgarian builders, bricklayers, and masons once spoke Meshterski , a secret language that includes many loanwords and metaphors ?
text: Did you know that the military career of Australian Air Marshal Sir Alister Murdoch spanned 40 years, including seaplane flying in the 1930s and a tenure as Chief of the Air Staff during the Vietnam War ?
text: Did you know that Wahsatch, Utah , established in 1868, was the first of many camps set up in Utah by the Union Pacific Railroad in the construction of the First Transcontinental Railroad ?
text: Did you know that the Fountain of Qayt Bay , built by the Mamluks in the fifteenth century, has a large reservoir beneath it?
text: Did you know that Robert Howlett , photographer of the iconic picture of Isambard Kingdom Brunel , died from exposure to the arsenic and mercury used in the photographic process?
text: Did you know that Congregation Beth Israel , the planned site of a Jewish heritage museum in Scottsdale, Arizona , had been used as the First Chinese Baptist Church and the Central Baptist Church?
text: Did you know that despite their names, the revolver cartridge .476 Enfield , .455 Webley , .476 Eley , and .455 Colt all interchange?
text: Did you know that Diana Mitford had an appendectomy on the spare-bedroom table of the Mitford sisters ' childhood home, Asthall Manor near Burford in Oxfordshire , England ?
text: Did you know that French-designed cannons , manufactured in both the North and the South , were the primary artillery weapons of the American Civil War ?
text: Did you know that MV Biscaglia was the 97th ship to be hijacked by pirates off the coast of Somalia this year?
text: Did you know that checkers champion Richard Fortman learned the game from his father, a telegraphist who would play the game with other operators by memorizing the board to avoid detection?
text: Did you know that rioting in 2001 involving Christians and Muslims in Jos , Nigeria , caused over 1,000 deaths along with many buildings, cars, and people being burned?
text: Did you know that the Fremont Canning Company , owned by Frank Daniel Gerber and Daniel Frank Gerber and known for its Gerber Baby logo, pioneered the commercial baby food industry in the U.S.?
text: Did you know  that three years after the Battle of Marcelae in 756 AD , Constantine V invaded Bulgaria once more but suffered a crushing defeat in the Battle of the Rishki Pass ?
text: Did you know that Pat Austin was the first drag racer to win two eliminators at an NHRA event?
text: Did you know that the simulation of medical procedures was first used by anaesthetists to reduce the rate of accidents?
text: Did you know that the first guidebook to the English Lake District was written in 1778 by Catholic priest Thomas West ?
text: Did you know that 1. FC Nuremberg reached every final of the Bavarian under 19 football championship from 1967 to 1994?
text: Did you know that Robert J. Morris lost a bid for the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate from New Jersey in 1958, and then ran for the Senate in Texas in 1964 and 1970, losing both times to George H. W. Bush ?
text: Did you know that English landscape architect Edward Milner designed three public parks in Preston , Lancashire , as a scheme for relieving unemployment caused by the cotton famine in the 1860s?
text: Did you know that during the Battle of Missionary Ridge , Confederate General James Argyle Smith was shot through both thighs and survived?
text: Did you know that Women For Sobriety , a group founded in 1976 as an alternative to twelve-step addiction recovery groups such as Alcoholics Anonymous , had over 200 chapters as of 1998?
text: Did you know that Air Marshal Charles Read broke with tradition by refusing to sit for the usual portrait painted of retiring RAAF Chiefs of the Air Staff ?
text: Did you know that Hindi is the language used for educational and official matters in Bihari culture ?
text: Did you know that the Westchester Tornado of July 2006 was the strongest tornado recorded in Westchester County, New York ?
text: Did you know that Nicolas Sarrabat , a French scientist and Jesuit , conducted experiments on the circulation of plants, argued that magnetism was caused by a fire at the Earth's centre, and discovered the largest comet ever recorded ?
text: Did you know that the winning cup for the European club champion of football is now kept by the final winners?
text: Did you know that Rabbi Asher Lopatin supported a Chicago ban on foie gras on the grounds that the Torah prohibits cruelty to animals , noting that " chopped liver is good, but foie gras is bad"?
text: Did you know that the Royal Navy ship of the line HMS Edgar was forced to fight unsupported for a time during the Battle of Copenhagen after the next ship in line, HMS Agamemnon , ran aground?
text: Did you know that Gershom Sizomu of Uganda is the first native-born black rabbi in Africa ?
text: Did you know that the first Pilgrim settlement in Massachusetts was on the site of a former Patuxet Indian village, all of whose residents had died in epidemics before the Pilgrims arrived?
text: Did you know that the Nariman House , which was home to a Chabad house , was a Mumbai landmark prior to falling victim to the November 2008 Mumbai attacks ?
text: Did you know that in 2006, National Park Community College received the largest cash donation in the history of Arkansas community colleges ?
text: Did you know that when it was completed in 1959, the Narrows Bridge in Perth , Western Australia , was the largest precast prestressed concrete bridge in the world?
text: Did you know that Norman Lear 's 1977 soap opera spoof All That Glitters featured Linda Gray as the first recurring transgender character on American television?
text: Did you know that species of "cannonball fungi" (genus Sphaerobolus ) may forcibly eject their spores a horizontal distance of 6 meters (20 ft)?
text: Did you know that the Ineligibility Clause of the U.S. Constitution places limitations upon the ability of members of the U.S. Congress to serve in other branches of the U.S. Federal Government ?
text: Did you know that St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in the Old Town area of Alexandria, Virginia , was designed by Benjamin Latrobe , the second architect of the United States Capitol?
text: Did you know that Mount Hermon was captured by Syria on the first day of the Yom Kippur War and recaptured by Israel fifteen days later?
text: Did you know that the Beverly Hills Diet , which starts with ten days of eating nothing but fruit, was labeled by doctors in 1981 as "perhaps the worst entry in the diet-fad derby"?
text: Did you know that the police shooting of Rahul Raj , a BEST bus hijacker in Mumbai , India , sparked nationwide protests and discussions?
text: Did you know that 13 baseball players Fred McAlister scouted for the St. Louis Cardinals became the team's first-round draft picks, and 12 made the major leagues ?
text: Did you know that after organist Dudley Savage 's radio request programme was cancelled in 1968, the BBC faced a protest described as "perhaps the biggest demonstration of its kind"?
text: Did you know that four former head coaches of the NBA franchise currently known as the Washington Wizards are members of the Basketball Hall of Fame as players?
text: Did you know that puffballs of fungal genus Bovista have been used in homeopathic medicine to treat a wide variety of ailments?
text: Did you know that U.S. journalist John Whitaker received the Italian War Cross for his coverage of the Italian conquest of Ethiopia but was expelled from Italy in 1941 for critical reports on the fascist regime ?
text: Did you know that Sir Kirby Laing served as Deputy Lieutenant of both London and Hertfordshire ?
text: Did you know that the Sunburst community , a Southern California commune combining elements of mysticism , Christianity and Hopi rituals, was once one of the largest shippers of organic products in the U.S. ?
text: Did you know that Hesketh Hesketh-Prichard was an explorer, adventurer, big-game hunter , international cricketer , novelist and marksman who founded the British Army 's sniping school during the First World War ?
text: Did you know that Mount Silverheels was named after a popular dance-hall girl in the now-deserted ghost town Buckskin Joe, Colorado ?
text: Did you know that in spite of her great reputation in Europe, operatic soprano Lucienne Bréval had limited success in America as critics thought her singing lacked polish?
text: Did you know that Holy Trinity Church, Guildford served as pro-cathedral of the Diocese of Guildford until the consecration of the current cathedral ?
text: Did you know that photographer Karl Bissinger took his first test photos with cameras and a studio loaned to him by Richard Avedon ?
text: Did you know that the Royal Australian Navy auxiliary patrol boat HMAS Vigilant was the first aluminium ship built in Australia ?
text: Did you know that the home of Massachusetts abolitionist Roger Hooker Leavitt was a sanctuary for escaped slaves and is now included in the National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom?
text: Did you know that both the Prime Minister and President of Pakistan resigned in order for the 1993 Pakistani general election to be held, after a power struggle between them?
text: Did you know that the names of the two main characters of Nicholas Sparks ' 2002 novel Nights in Rodanthe are a Christmas present to his in-laws?
text: Did you know that John Marius Trana went from being an illegal trade union leader during the German occupation of Norway to being chairman of the Norwegian Union of Railway Workers ?
text: Did you know that Tropical Storm Olivia in 2006 was the eighth tropical cyclone to receive the name Olivia in the Eastern Pacific ocean ?
text: Did you know that the diaries of Claus Pavels from 1812–1822 are an important source for Norwegian cultural and biographical history?
text: Did you know that the plant genus Regelia is named after the 19th-century Russian botanist Eduard August von Regel and is found only in Australia ?
text: Did you know that the .44 Colt revolver cartridge was used in both percussion and centerfire and both black and smokeless powder loadings?
text: Did you know that Lucie Skeaping , a leading exponent and broadcaster on early music , has also worked with contemporary composer Michael Nyman , historian Simon Schama and comedian Ken Dodd ?
text: Did you know that employees at radio station WIXI in Jasper, Alabama , reported that for more than 30 years their radio studios were haunted ?
text: Did you know that the oldest known turtle is the 220 million year-old Odontochelys , a prehistoric turtle with teeth and possessing only half a shell?
text: Did you know that when Kjell Almskog left his job as CEO of Kværner in 2001, he became known for receiving a golden parachute worth 78 million kr ?
text: Did you know that the nematode Capillaria aerophila is a parasite that infests the respiratory system of carnivorous mammals, including dogs and foxes ?
text: Did you know that Sean Payton is the only head coach of the New Orleans Saints to lead the team to a National Football Conference (NFC) Championship Game ?
text: Did you know that the radiator layout of the McLaren M20 was initially intended to increase driver comfort, but also led to a more aerodynamically efficient bodywork design?
text: Did you know that the Convincing Ground massacre of Gunditjmara people in 1833 or 1834 was caused by a dispute over a beached whale ?
text: Did you know that Norwegian trade unionist Ludvik Buland , sentenced to death by the Nazi authorities in 1941, was later reprieved , only to die in a Nacht und Nebel camp four years later?
text: Did you know that the Muncy Creek Railroad tried to save money by using wooden rails in 1875, but found they were too light to support its trains?