Did you know? Facts from Wikipedia, 2011

text: Did you know that Swiss whistleblower Rudolf Elmer claims that passing secret account details to WikiLeaks is the only hope he has to let "society know what's going on" in the banking sector?
text: Did you know that repertoires of contention slowly change over time, and include such concepts as rough music , sit-ins and hacktivism ?
text: Did you know that Gulet Mohamed , an American citizen who was detained in Kuwait , was blocked from flying home by the U.S. "no-fly list" until a federal court intervened to allow him to return?
text: Did you know that when Winnington Hall in Cheshire was used as a girls' finishing school in the 19th century, it was visited by Sir Charles Hallé and John Ruskin ?
text: Did you know that despite being home to Zihuatanejo and Ixtapa and near to Acapulco , most of Guerrero's "Big Coast" lacks significant tourism infrastructure?
text: Did you know that the script to season one of the Swedish comedy series Solsidan has been sold to the American television network ABC , which plans to create their own version of the series in the United States ?
text: Did you know that approximately 1500 tourists were trapped in the Torres del Paine National Park as a result of recent protests against the rising price of natural gas in the Magallanes Region of Chile ?
text: Did you know that the bell from the wreck of SS Edmund Fitzgerald is on display at the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum ?
text: Did you know that in 1911, John Gaunt's second biplane nearly crashed because a bystander bent the aircraft's elevator before a flight?
text: Did you know that claspingleaf doll's daisy can grow underwater, produce an inflorescence above the surface, bloom and produce seeds, and thus propagate during floods ?
text: Did you know that Rebecca Breeds ' Home and Away character Ruby Buckton will begin a relationship with Romeo Smith , played by Breeds' real life partner, Luke Mitchell ?
text: Did you know that despite a fire, dismantling and having parts sold off since its first installation at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago , the Tiffany Chapel is now open to the public again in Florida ?
text: Did you know that part of the bed of South Branch Kishwaukee River in Illinois was the plain of an ancient lake ?
text: Did you know that Themistokli Gërmenji , an Albanian nationalist , received the French Croix de Guerre in November 1917 , but was executed shortly thereafter by a French military court?
text: Did you know that chess grandmaster Rosendo Balinas Jr. was a candidate in the 1994 special election for the seat of Rizal 's first district in the House of Representatives of the Philippines ?
text: Did you know that Dave Downs pitched a complete-game shutout in his Major League Baseball debut with the Philadelphia Phillies ?
text: Did you know that St Denys' Church, Little Barford , Bedfordshire , was built to serve a medieval village which has since been deserted ?
text: Did you know that Saguaro boots are the co-creation of a bird and a cactus?
text: Did you know that Ben Roberts-Smith 's receipt of the Victoria Cross for Australia for gallantry in Afghanistan , makes him the most highly decorated service person currently in the Australian Defence Force ?
text: Did you know that the closure of the Clinton Falls Bridge in its 100th year led local residents to successfully push for its historic preservation ?
text: Did you know that wine historians theorize that, during the Roman occupation of what is now Moravia , Grüner Veltliner and Welschriesling may have been introduced to the Czech wine region of Mikulovská ?
text: Did you know that the Virginia–Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine serves as the state -supported veterinary school for both Virginia and Maryland ?
text: Did you know that English soprano Joanne Lunn recorded Bach cantatas with the Monteverdi Choir , such as Herr, wie du willt, so schicks mit mir, BWV 73 ?
text: Did you know that Miller is one of the ten most popular typefaces used in American newspapers?
text: Did you know that in Florida v. Thomas , the U.S. Supreme Court reaffirmed that a state court decision is not "final" if a trial has not concluded in a verdict ?
text: Did you know that Andreu Mas-Colell , currently the Minister of Economy and Knowledge of Catalonia, Spain , has studied general equilibrium theory by using differential topology ?
text: Did you know that when built as currently planned, the Stad Ship Tunnel would allow ships to bypass Stad , one of the most dangerous sections of the Norwegian coast?
text: Did you know that Nicholas Longworth built America 's first commercially successful winery with a pink sparkling wine made from Catawba ?
text: Did you know that English classical singer Anna Reynolds recorded Bach cantatas with Richter 's Münchener Bach-Chor , including Jesus schläft, was soll ich hoffen? BWV 81 ?
text: Did you know that law in Vanuatu combines a legacy of English common law , French law and indigenous customary law ?
text: Did you know that Brent Knoll Camp on the Somerset Levels was used for military purposes in the Iron Age and again in World War II ?
text: Did you know that American primatologist Harold J. Coolidge, Jr. was the inaugural vice president of the International Union for Conservation of Nature as well as a founding director of the World Wildlife Fund ?
text: Did you know that Walter Baetke , who became a professor of Scandinavian studies and history of religion , wrote his doctoral thesis on children in English literature during and after Shakespeare 's time?
text: Did you know that the Hall XPTBH , a patrol torpedo bomber , was the only aircraft that ever received three mission designation letters in the U.S. Navy 's aircraft designation system ?
text: Did you know that Nepal 's first public bus service was founded in 1959 by Karuna Ratna Tuladhar and his brother?
text: Did you know that Penny and the Quarters are a "lost" soul band which came to prominence in 2010 after an unreleased demo of their song "You And Me" was used in the film Blue Valentine ?
text: Did you know that Bermuda hedge fund Juniperus Capital was named after the Juniperus bermudiana , Bermudian cedar trees that are extremely hardy in the face of adverse conditions?
text: Did you know that Hungarian team handball player József Éles was top scorer at the 1993 World Championship ?
text: Did you know that German musicologist Alexander Ferdinand Grychtolik reconstructed Bach 's homage cantata O angenehme Melodei, BWV 210a , from Bach's wedding cantata O holder Tag, erwünschte Zeit, BWV 210 ?
text: Did you know that Joe Heitz of California wine producer Heitz Wine Cellars‎ is considered the first in the U.S. to champion single vineyard designated wine ?
text: Did you know that one of the T-shirts found in a backpack bomb in Spokane referred to a play put on by high school students in Chewelah, Washington ?
text: Did you know that it took a replay and then eighty minutes of extra time for Brighton & Hove Albion reserves to win the 1920–21 Southern League title ?
text: Did you know that the sinking in October 1942 of the German prisoner transport Palatia off Lindesnes is the second deadliest ship disaster in Norwegian history ?
text: Did you know that California Supreme Court Associate Justice Marshall F. McComb swore in Ronald Reagan as Governor of California ?
text: Did you know that the highest point on the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway was 965 feet (294 m) above sea level, just to the east of Britannia railway station ?
text: Did you know that although the Parks and Recreation third season premiere " Go Big or Go Home " was filmed immediately after the second season ended to accommodate actress Amy Poehler 's pregnancy, the premiere was delayed until January?
text: Did you know that renewable energy in Russia is largely underdeveloped, despite it being one of the top energy producers in the world?
text: Did you know that the lunar crater Hell is named after a priest ?
text: Did you know that ryot and zerat were two labour-hiring processes practised by indigo planters in Bihar and Bengal during the Indian colonial period ?
text: Did you know that the 2010–11 Colorado Buffaloes men's basketball team is the first since 2003 to record a win over a top-ten ranked team ?
text: Did you know that Elektro–L is the first Russian weather satellite to operate successfully in geostationary orbit ?
text: Did you know that Stone Jam was Slave 's second album to be certified Gold and was named by Jam-Master Jay of Run–D.M.C. as one of his favorite albums?
text: Did you know that both Thomas-Morse R-5 s competed in the 1922 Pulitzer Trophy Race , but placed last among aircraft that completed the event?
text: Did you know that British author Sunjeev Sahota had not read a novel until he bought Midnight's Children in an airport at the age of 18?
text: Did you know that the assassin Ablabius was paid fifty pounds of gold for his failed plot against Byzantine Emperor Justinian I in November 562?
text: Did you know that the book Beyond the First Amendment argues freedom of speech on the Internet is not easily addressed by the First Amendment to the United States Constitution ?
text: Did you know that while Swedish archaeologist Olov Janse originally argued for European rather than Chinese origins of Bronze Age culture in Vietnam , he reversed his view after he began excavating at Đông Sơn ?
text: Did you know that in 1954, the U.S. Supreme Court in Phillips Petroleum Co. v. Wisconsin began the regulation of wellhead natural gas prices, which lasted until Congress deregulated them on January 1 , 1985?
text: Did you know that several ordas (hordes) originated on the Eurasian Steppe , including the famous Golden Horde ?
text: Did you know that Tony Lombardi , who took over when Rick Rasnick was fired, was the head coach of the Eastern Michigan Eagles football team for just five days?
text: Did you know that in Booth v. Churner , over 30 U.S. states asked the United States Supreme Court to require prisoners to resolve all administrative claims before pursuing litigation ?
text: Did you know that Tupaia miocenica , known from a single tooth, is among the few known fossil treeshrews ?
text: Did you know that after beginning his baseball career with the Philadelphia Phillies , right fielder George Durning led the Salisbury Indians in games played , times at bat , and hits in his first full season?
text: Did you know that a 300-metre (980 ft) long bridge has been recently built near Tojg , in western Afghanistan , funded by the Commander's Emergency Response Program ?
text: Did you know that George Washington and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow both lived in the same house on Brattle Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts ?
text: Did you know that Carlina White , kidnapped when 19 days old, was reunited with her parents 23 years later as a result of her own investigative work, the longest recorded gap in a non-parental abduction?
text: Did you know that, according to the United Nations , the 2004–2005 Uíge Province , Angola , outbreak of Marburg hemorrhagic fever was the world's worst epidemic of any kind of hemorrhagic fever ?
text: Did you know that boxing promoter Don King was the subject of a U.S. Supreme Court decision in Cedric Kushner Promotions, Ltd. v. King ?
text: Did you know that the Chilean movie 03:34: Earthquake in Chile will narrate three different stories based on the events that occurred after the 2010 Chile earthquake ?
text: Did you know that the proposed Bridge Canyon Dam would flood Lava Falls , one of the most spectacular rapids on the Colorado River ?
text: Did you know that Eric Hobsbawm 's The Age of Empire: 1875–1914 is a Marxist study of the period of the Belle Époque ?
text: Did you know that Eric Doeringer has sometimes sold up to US$ 1,500 worth of "bootlegs", small copies of paintings by eminent modern artists, in one day?
text: Did you know that the Mayo Clinic argued in Mayo v. United States that medical residents , who work up to 80 hours a week and are paid approximately $50,000 a year, should be considered students instead of employees?
text: Did you know that International Commission of Control , established on October 15 , 1913, to assume the administration of Albania , was composed of the representatives of each Great Power and one Albanian ?
text: Did you know that while Oregon 's Willamette Valley is known primarily for Pinot noir , Cristom Vineyards in the Eola-Amity Hills has been growing Syrah since 2002?
text: Did you know that Congregation Dorshei Emet is the first synagogue in Canada and the third in the world to receive a Torah scroll handwritten by a woman?
text: Did you know that the Miami Project to Cure Paralysis completed a clinical trial to test whether hypothermia (cooling) within the first few hours of a traumatic spinal cord or brain injury makes a difference in the severity of injury?
text: Did you know that an 11-year-old girl beat the video game Diva Starz: Mall Mania in 42 minutes?
text: Did you know that in the 1970s, the Pelican Bowl was played to determine the national champions of black college football in the United States?
text: Did you know that during the Yuan administrative rule of Tibet , the Mongol approved d-pon chen , or "Great Administrator", was responsible for the administration of Tibet under the Yuan Dynasty ?
text: Did you know that the Vought XSB3U was designed as a result of the U.S. Navy 's reluctance to embrace the monoplane for carrier operations ?
text: Did you know that claims to unite the Ottoman vilayets of Kosovo , Shkoder , Monastir and Ioaninna into one, the Albanian Vilayet , often included the Salonica Vilayet too?
text: Did you know that the Fringe episode " Brown Betty " was inspired by The Princess Bride ?
text: Did you know that a memorial all-star game was held in 1937 to raise money for the family of Howie Morenz , who was said to have died of a broken heart in the belief a broken leg had ended his hockey career?
text: Did you know that The Cars , The Primitives , The Lemonheads and Tarnation have all released recordings of The Nightcrawlers ' "slightly bizarre nursery rhyme" " The Little Black Egg "?
text: Did you know that in January 1917, New Zealander Clive Franklyn Collett was the first British or Commonwealth military pilot to parachute from an airplane?
text: Did you know that land for the defunct rural Ashland High School in Natchitoches Parish , Louisiana , was donated in 1907 by later State Senator Andrew R. Johnson ?
text: Did you know that Anni Dewani was a Swedish woman who was kidnapped and murdered during her honeymoon in Cape Town , South Africa ?
text: Did you know that when first described in the 1890s, the Bornean Slow Loris was said to have the face of a bear , the hands of a monkey , and to move like a sloth ?
text: Did you know that when the troops in front of his soldiers broke and fled at the Battle of Guilford Court House , General Edward Stevens told his brigade that the retreat was part of the battle plan?
text: Did you know that bones of Hypsibema missouriensis , now the state dinosaur of Missouri , have only been found in Bollinger County, Missouri ?
text: Did you know that bongo player Chaino , whose albums included Jungle Mating Rhythms , claimed to be an orphan from a lost tribe in central Africa but was actually born in Philadelphia and raised in Chicago ?
text: Did you know that the earliest known fragment of the Testament of Ba , an account of the establishment of Buddhism in Tibet , was discovered in the British Library in 2009?
text: Did you know that in 1776, to warn authorities in Halifax of the siege of Fort Cumberland , Redcoat Thomas Dixson successfully navigated the Minas Basin , home to the Earth's highest tides, in a small open boat?
text: Did you know that, if built as currently planned, the Storfjord Bridge will have the longest span of any suspension bridge in the world?
text: Did you know that prior to authoring Freedom of Expression® , Kembrew McLeod successfully registered the phrase "freedom of expression" as a trademark in the United States ?
text: Did you know that Justice Thomas said the U.S. Supreme Court 's decision in Penry v. Johnson on the relevance of mental retardation in death penalty sentencing sent "mixed signals" to lower courts?
text: Did you know that Samrong Sen is a prehistoric archaeological site in Kampong Chhnang Province , Cambodia , consisting of a very large fluviatile shell midden ?
text: Did you know that during World War II , George R. Salisbury, Jr. , later a Wyoming rancher and state representative , was a Bronze Star -winning tank commander?
text: Did you know that St Mary's Church, Pentraeth , Wales , was decorated in the 18th century with paper garlands, perhaps to celebrate parishioners' weddings?
text: Did you know that after losing a job, the Salty Dogs Jazz Band would sometimes find that they had been replaced by another jazz band with the same name?
text: Did you know that François Rochebrune , the French commander of the Zouaves of Death , once disciplined panicked Polish troops by asking them what time it was, which was the only Polish he knew?
text: Did you know that the International Dunhuang Project has made over a quarter of a million images of Silk Road manuscripts and other artefacts available online?
text: Did you know that the E. C. Stearns Bicycle Agency built bicycle racer Major Taylor a revolutionary steam powered pacing tandem he used to break the world record at a speed of 45.56 miles per hour (73.32 km/h)?
text: Did you know that California wine producer Tablas Creek Vineyard is the "sibling winery" of Châteauneuf-du-Pape estate Château de Beaucastel ?
text: Did you know that the Cornubian batholith and Haig Fras granite are similar in age and have the same orientation, but are separate intrusions ?
text: Did you know that Jared Lee Loughner was detained at the Federal Correctional Institution at Phoenix after the 2011 Tucson shooting ?
text: Did you know that Allegro , the third musical of Rodgers and Hammerstein , was called "an out-and-out failure"?
text: Did you know that by 1961, Homer G. Phillips Hospital in St. Louis , Missouri , had trained "the largest number of black doctors and nurses in the world"?
text: Did you know that singer Gary Williams played Frank Sinatra in the West End production of The Rat Pack ?
text: Did you know that public perception of graffiti in New York is slowly changing from an act of vandalism to a form of art ?
text: Did you know that the Hoollongapar Gibbon Sanctuary in Assam , India, is named after the only ape in India, the hoolock gibbon ?
text: Did you know that Graciela Chichilnisky , who proposed the Kyoto Protocol 's market for carbon credit trading , obtained her PhDs in mathematics and economics without ever having been an undergraduate ?
text: Did you know that Abo Elementary School in Artesia, New Mexico , was built entirely underground and equipped as a fallout shelter , in case of nuclear war ?
text: Did you know that minuscule 817 was used by Desiderius Erasmus in his Novum Instrumentum omne ?
text: Did you know that the FBI and CIA used vein matching as evidence that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed of al-Qaeda had killed journalist Daniel Pearl ?
text: Did you know that when construction of the Bjorøy Tunnel in Norway hit a section of sand, a new tunneling method had to be developed to continue?
text: Did you know that the Nazi storyline in the Fringe episode " The Bishop Revival " was well-received by Entertainment Weekly for featuring a "good threat"?
text: Did you know that André Duchesne ' s group, Les 4 Guitaristes de l'Apocalypso-Bar (The 4 Guitarists of the Apocalypso Bar) was billed as a band from post-apocalypse Canada "inspired by the ghost of Jimi Hendrix "?
text: Did you know that the Emmanuel DeHodiamont House , a stone house built in 1830, shares the status of being the oldest house in St. Louis, Missouri ?
text: Did you know that Francesco Nullo is commemorated in both Italy and Poland as a hero of those countries' struggle for independence?
text: Did you know that the Republic of Ireland has no honours system , though the issue has been considered by successive governments since 1930?
text: Did you know that controversy over New Brunswick 's Common Schools Act of 1871 resulted in two deaths in the town of Caraquet ?
text: Did you know that Cully Dahlstrom was the first American born player to win the Calder Trophy as the National Hockey League 's rookie of the year?
text: Did you know that the I.S.T. XL-14 Maya , a light aircraft, was constructed primarily from woven bamboo ?
text: Did you know that, following the collision of Hughes Airwest Flight 706 with a Marine Corps F-4B Phantom II , the US Armed Forces required military aircraft to obey civilian air traffic controllers ?
text: Did you know that Gervasio won the international competition at the 1983 Viña del Mar International Song Festival ?
text: Did you know that the Royal Moroccan Navy is constructing a new naval base at Ksar es-Seghir ?
text: Did you know that French encyclopédiste Claude Yvon was forced to flee to Holland because he was believed to have contributed to a controversial thesis published in 1752 by Jean-Martin de Prades ?
text: Did you know that after his professional basketball career ended, Boo Ellis worked as a security guard in his hometown of Hamilton , Ohio ?
text: Did you know that some of the Chinit River diversion and canal structures of the Khmer Rouge era were built by forced labour and damaged by regime soldiers who were " grenade fishing "?
text: Did you know that the fossil primate ? Nycticebus linglom is known from a single tooth, which is said to be the smallest known prosimian molar ?
text: Did you know that the Wainwright Tomb was described as "the most sensitive and the most graceful" of the tombs designed by Louis Sullivan ?
text: Did you know that Stage AE in Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania , is a concert venue partially owned by the Pittsburgh Steelers ?
text: Did you know that All Saints Church, Theddlethorpe , Lincolnshire , has been called the "Cathedral of the Marsh"?
text: Did you know that Alvin Young , cut from his high school basketball team every single year, went on to lead NCAA Division I in scoring in college ?
text: Did you know that three different versions of " Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree " reached the radio airplay charts in the same year?
text: Did you know that the recall of a weather ship for budgetary reasons was blamed for the minimal warning given in advance of the Great Storm of 1987 for Great Britain ?
text: Did you know that the U.S. Supreme Court said Congress did not exempt certain federal banks from state taxes in Director of Revenue of Mo. v. CoBank ACB notwithstanding the landmark decision in McCulloch ?
text: Did you know that, as women in Sweden were not allowed to join the Swedish Tailoring Workers Union, they founded a separate Women's Trade Union in 1902?
text: Did you know that Dwight Eisenhower 's Chance for Peace speech and his farewell address have been called the "bookends" of his administration?
text: Did you know that German musicologist Werner Neumann founded the Bach-Archiv Leipzig in 1950 and contributed Bach cantatas to the Neue Bach-Ausgabe ?
text: Did you know that Boops boops is a species of Boops called "the bogue"?
text: Did you know that Kevin Houston holds the U.S. Military Academy 's men's basketball records for points in a game (53), season (953) and career (2,325)?
text: Did you know that the Mitsubishi 1MF9 was the first Japanese-designed fighter intended for use from aircraft carriers ?
text: Did you know that the design of the Richmond Memorial Library in Batavia, New York , was inspired by the Thomas Crane Public Library in Quincy, Massachusetts ?
text: Did you know that as a condition of paying for restoration work, a 19th-century benefactor of St Mary's Church in Bodewryd , Wales , required the church to have Islamic-style stained glass?
text: Did you know that the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in a 2001 securities fraud case that secret plans to disregard an oral contract are illegal ?
text: Did you know that infants born with Malpuech facial clefting syndrome may have a tail?
text: Did you know that Bob McCurdy , described by former basketball teammate Kevin Eastman as having virtually no quickness, dribbling skills, jumping ability or foot speed, led NCAA Division I in scoring in 1974–75?
text: Did you know that the European SARTRE Project conducted its first successful trial of an electronically controlled road train in January 2011 ?
text: Did you know that two holes in the ceiling of the Prohodna cave in Bulgaria are known as the "Eyes of God"?
text: Did you know that the Investigatory Powers Tribunal is the only British judicial body that can investigate whether surveillance carried out by MI5 or MI6 is legal?
text: Did you know that U.S. President Barack Obama gave a speech on January 12 , 2011, honoring the victims of the 2011 Tucson shooting ?
text: Did you know that squab pies , which Charles Dickens said inspired "hatred of the whole human race", are not actually made with squabs ?
text: Did you know that New York Assemblywoman Aravella Simotas , one of the first two Greek American women elected to office in New York, was unopposed in her first general election?
text: Did you know that the British Library Philatelic Collections has over 8 million items and was established in 1891 with Thomas Tapling 's bequest?
text: Did you know that Hong Kong Observatory Director Lam Chiu Ying was criticised for issuing the number eight typhoon signal when Typhoon Nuri approached Hong Kong in 2008, as well as issuing it too late?
text: Did you know that Obed "O.B." Borgen founded radio stations KFIL and KFIL-FM to serve Fillmore County, Minnesota ?
text: Did you know that Obie Trotter ended up playing college basketball at Alabama A&M because his mother felt their head coach was a "godly man"?
text: Did you know that Vince Gill and Patty Griffin provide background vocals to the song " Country Strong " by Gwyneth Paltrow ?
text: Did you know that the March 2, 1957, disappearance of attorney Maud Crawford from her Camden, Arkansas , home remains officially unsolved?
text: Did you know that although the Nuri Demirağ Nu D.38 transport aircraft was completed in 1941, it was not flown until 1944?
text: Did you know that a Chinatown in St. Louis, Missouri , existed until its demolition for Busch Memorial Stadium in 1966?
text: Did you know that the Ticha Reservoir in northeastern Bulgaria bears the medieval name of the Kamchiya river?
text: Did you know that, in 1993, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory agreed to develop an online reference system for the California Film Commission 's library containing hundreds of thousands of location images?
text: Did you know that the University of Cambodia , established in 2003, bestowed an honorary doctorate degree to the Hong Kong actor and UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Jackie Chan ?
text: Did you know that U.S. Senator Jesse Helms suggested a new series of gold medallions that would make it easier for people to buy gold?
text: Did you know that Alberta 's Beaver Hills were protected by Canada's first forest reserve in 1899?
text: Did you know that two of BYU 's starting football players were suspended from playing in the 1998 Liberty Bowl for violating the Brigham Young University Honor Code ?
text: Did you know that Lower Saxony 's finance minister sold the important medieval archaeological site in Nienover to a horse breeder at a fire-sale price, without ensuring that 12 years of research could continue?
text: Did you know that the song " Es Demasiado Tarde ", written and performed by Ana Gabriel , was the best-performing Latin single of 1991 in the U.S.?
text: Did you know that Tropolis has been called an attempt to "snackify" beverages?
text: Did you know that, at the turn of the 20th century, the third largest winery in the world was Stone Hill Winery from the Hermann wine region of Missouri ?
text: Did you know that Diallo Telli , first Secretary-General of the Organisation of African Unity , died of starvation at Camp Boiro in Guinea ?
text: Did you know that the Creative Research On Weapons project proved the practicality of the solid-fueled ramjet engine?
text: Did you know that sports club Løkken IF was represented with one Norwegian, one American and one Swede at the 1950 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships ?
text: Did you know that the New Harmony Toll Bridge , which opened in 1930, is owned by the only remaining joint state toll bridge commission chartered by the U.S. Congress?
text: Did you know that, in 1551, hours after a pregnant woman was hanged during the Spanish Inquisition , two dead infants were seen to fall free of the body in an unusual case of coffin birth ?
text: Did you know that American Nisei Richard Sakakida , while working undercover as an interpreter for the Imperial Japanese Army , engineered a mass escape of about 500 Filipino prisoners during World War II ?
text: Did you know that polo and ice hockey player Stewart Iglehart is the only man to represent the United States internationally in two sports?
text: Did you know that Fringe star John Noble considers " Johari Window " one of his favorite episodes?
text: Did you know that, although the town of Stamford in Lincolnshire was badly damaged during the War of the Roses in 1461, St John's Church was apparently unharmed?
text: Did you know that the Terasca sounding rocket 's three stages were a combination of the existing Terrier , ASROC and Cajun rockets, respectively?
text: Did you know that a 1940 live recording of Duke Ellington by "audio magician" Jack Towers won a Grammy Award in 1980?
text: Did you know that Rim Kin , the author of the first published novel in Cambodia , was president of the Khmer Writers' Association ?
text: Did you know that the Carlson Sparrow was declared Grand Champion ultralight aircraft at the Experimental Aircraft Association 's 1987 Oshkosh Airshow ?
text: Did you know that illustrations from three of the Katie Morag series of children's picture books by Mairi Hedderwick have been used in a health promotion campaign to encourage breastfeeding ?
text: Did you know that Ádahooníłígíí was the first newspaper written entirely in Navajo ?
text: Did you know that the Italian monitor Alfredo Cappellini was built during World War I by converting a floating crane ?
text: Did you know that the inspiration for WePay originated when co-founder Rich Aberman had difficulty fundraising for his brother's bachelor party ?
text: Did you know that performic acid explodes upon rapid heating to about 80 °C (176 °F)?
text: Did you know that Sathyamangalam forest is the only reserve forest in South India with a significant presence of tigers , that is not yet declared as one of the tiger reserves in India ?
text: Did you know that despite fumarolic activity and earthquakes near the Olca-Paruma volcanoes, none of them appear to be hazardous?
text: Did you know that defunct Detroit -based music retailer Harmony House began in 1947 as a Hallmark Cards store?
text: Did you know that although he is not a Catholic bishop , Father Keith Newton will carry a mitre and crozier in his role as Ordinary of the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham ?
text: Did you know that the December 2010 Gascoyne River flood in Western Australia was triggered by rainfall exceeding 6,000% of the region's monthly mean?
text: Did you know that the Dajti Castle near Tirana , Albania , is thought to have been built by Justinian I in the 6th century AD in order to protect the area from Slavic attacks?
text: Did you know that after Myrrha made love with her father, she was transformed into the myrrh-tree and gave birth to Adonis ?
text: Did you know that Malosco Castle in the Italian Province of Trento was once the residence of the Vicedomini Judge of Val di Non , commander of the Imperial Austrian royal court?
text: Did you know that Ely S. Parker , the prevailing Seneca plaintiff in Fellows v. Blacksmith (1857), later drafted the surrender at Appomattox and became the first indigenous Commissioner of Indian Affairs ?
text: Did you know that alder trees have a symbiotic relationship with the bacterium Frankia alni which may have been exploited by the Incas to increase soil fertility ?
text: Did you know that the Flys have played on the same bill as the Buzzcocks , The Psychedelic Furs , the Pretenders , and Black Slate ?
text: Did you know that future Hall of Famer Scotty Davidson was the first professional hockey player to volunteer with the Canadian Expeditionary Force on the outbreak of World War I ?
text: Did you know that, when it opened in 1971, the Sotra Bridge was the longest suspension bridge in Norway ?
text: Did you know that votive offerings used in Vietnamese lên đồng mediumship rituals may include sweets, alcohol, cigarettes, and even cans of Coca-Cola ?
text: Did you know that Justice Robert Cooper Grier observed in New York ex rel. Cutler v. Dibble (1858) that "no law of Congress can be found which authorizes white men to intrude on the possessions of Indians"?
text: Did you know that Auditorio Monte do Gozo , a Spanish outdoor concert venue in Santiago de Compostela , has resulted in pop music stars coming where Christian pilgrims usually walk?
text: Did you know that Textbook of Biochemistry originally came about because Alexander Thomas Cameron , not being a fluent speaker, would write out his university lectures in full?
text: Did you know that one 19th-century writer said that St Peirio's Church, Rhosbeirio was "one of the humblest ecclesiastical buildings in Anglesey "?
text: Did you know that interments at the Gunnersbury Cemetery in London include a Polish president and Commander-in-Chief ?
text: Did you know that the Toyota Prius V is the first spinoff from the Prius platform , and the Prius V hybrid gasoline-electric station wagon is scheduled to be released to the U.S. market by mid 2011?
text: Did you know that bowler Guppy Troup chose his nickname based on a youth team he captained?
text: Did you know that the Oregon Portage Railroad was the first railroad in Oregon , and had the first locomotive in the Pacific Northwest , the Oregon Pony ?
text: Did you know that in 1944, the Holy See received an envoy from Charles de Gaulle 's French Committee of National Liberation ?
text: Did you know that occupation of the La Soledad de Maciel archeological site in Guerrero , Mexico , lasted for over 3,000 years?
text: Did you know that Kaiǀkhauan Captain Andreas Lambert probably was the first traditional leader to be executed by the Germans in their South-West African colony ?
text: Did you know that the Stearman XOSS observation biplane was equipped with full-span flaps on its upper wing, allowing its pilot better control at low speeds?
text: Did you know that art historian André Grabar fled St. Petersburg a few days after the Russian Revolution , to become a leading expert in Byzantine and Medieval art ?
text: Did you know that the Sega Toylet, an interactive urinal , allows users to play video games with their urine ?
text: Did you know that King George III wrote a letter about General Sir John Doyle 's exploits in the American and French Revolutionary Wars ... "so that his zeal and exertions in our service may be known to posterity" ?
text: Did you know that three days before his wedding , Crown Prince Haakon of Norway thanked his family and fellow countrymen for not making his choice of bride a succession issue?
text: Did you know that despite being that year's U.S. champion in the 200 m breaststroke, Iris Cummings still had to raise her own funds to travel to the 1936 Summer Olympics ?
text: Did you know that the Areni-1 winery is believed to be the world's oldest surviving wine production facility?
text: Did you know that slavery of indigenous people in modern Bolivia was temporarily abolished during the First Upper Peru campaign ?
text: Did you know that Herbert McLeod invented the McLeod gauge ?
text: Did you know that the arrival of the railway eventually left the Ault Store as the only remaining commercial building in Dundas, Minnesota 's original business district?
text: Did you know that a wreck off the coast of Argentina was identified in January 2008 as the passenger ship Ussukuma , which was scuttled in 1939?
text: Did you know that the US Supreme Court ruled in Shafer v. South Carolina that defendants must be allowed to inform a jury of an alternative sentence of life imprisonment without the possibility of parole ?
text: Did you know that the original Cape Bowling Green Light was prefabricated in Brisbane , constructed in Cape Bowling Green, moved twice due to coastal erosion , and finally relocated to Sydney ?
text: Did you know that the Persian ruler Khosrau II used a man who he claimed to be Theodosius , the eldest son of the murdered Byzantine emperor Maurice , as a justification for launching a war against Byzantium?
text: Did you know that the executive office of the Organization of American Historians is located at Millen House in Bloomington, Indiana , a federally designated historic site ?
text: Did you know that the Flying K Sky Raider II ultralight aircraft is described as an "intimate tandem two seater"?
text: Did you know that Clint Eastwood described accountant Irving Leonard as being "like a second father to me"?
text: Did you know that the 2007 Ajmer Dargah attack was carried out by explosives hidden in a Tiffin carrier ?
text: Did you know that most of French kings of the Bourbon era took oath on the Reims Gospel , a medieval book written in Old Church Slavonic languages ?
text: Did you know that the United States Supreme Court ruled in Circuit City Stores, Inc. v. Adams that the phrase " contracts of employment" in the Federal Arbitration Act actually does not refer to employment contracts?
text: Did you know that Oldfields , the 26 acre historic home once owned by J.K. Lilly, Jr. , is an example of an American country place estate located on the grounds of the Indianapolis Museum of Art ?
text: Did you know that American singer "Weird Al" Yankovic received a Grammy Award for Best Concept Music Video for " Fat ", a parody cover version of Michael Jackson 's song " Bad "?
text: Did you know that, as an expert in Norse mythology , Gro Steinsland wrote an Op-ed article in 2000 calling Thor Heyerdahl ’s Odin expedition a charade orchestrated by Snorri Sturluson ?
text: Did you know that Frank Freyer of the United States Navy became Chief of Staff of the Peruvian Navy in 1921?
text: Did you know that bivariate analysis is one of the simplest forms of quantitative (statistical) analysis ?
text: Did you know that Eric Bachmann from Crooked Fingers provided backing vocals on the song "Simple Hello" from the Damien Jurado album On My Way to Absence ?
text: Did you know that part of an inscribed medieval gravestone is set into a window sill at St Fflewin's Church, Llanfflewin , Wales ?
text: Did you know that the Vigra Fixed Link had more debt after 22 years of toll collection , than when the project was originally finished?
text: Did you know that James Fenimore Cooper was very dissatisfied with his American Revolutionary War novel Lionel Lincoln , his only "strict attempt" at historical fiction?
text: Did you know that the Forest and Farm Workers Union of Sweden advocated an agrarian reform modelled on the Soviet one?
text: Did you know that composers Itaal Shur and Rob Thomas won the 1999 Grammy Award for Song of the Year for Santana 's hit song " Smooth "?
text: Did you know that the Diamondback air-to-air missile was originally known as the "Super Sidewinder "?
text: Did you know that the bearded tylophora is now classified in the dogbane family ?
text: Did you know that a system created by Husk Power Systems uses rice hulls , a waste product of rice milling, to generate power for under US$ 2 per month for thousands in India with no access to the electrical grid ?
text: Did you know that Britney Spears ' 2011 comeback single, " Hold It Against Me ", broke the U.S. airplay record for the most number of radio plays in one day?
text: Did you know that Ischaemia by New Zealand poet C. K. Stead won the £ 5,000 International Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine in 2010?
text: Did you know that a recording of a benefit concert for The Prince's Trust won producer Anthony Eaton a Grammy Award for Best Performance Music Video ?
text: Did you know that the 1915 Parnell Tunnel in New Zealand replaced a steeper single-track tunnel known to inundate open carriages with smoke and sparks, causing burns and clothing stains?
text: Did you know that Enver Hoxha was a teacher in the Albanian National Lyceum in Korçë , a French high school established in the Republic of Korçë in 1917?
text: Did you know that the development of the BQM-108 UAV was a response by the U.S. Navy to the threat of attack by advanced cruise missiles ?
text: Did you know that only past participants of the popular talent shows Greek Idol and The X Factor were selected to compete to represent Greece in the Eurovision Song Contest 2011 ?
text: Did you know that the Vail Ski & Snowboard Academy at the Vail Ski Resort is the first public winter sports academy in the U.S., combining public school education with rigorous ski and snowboard training?
text: Did you know that Essex Hall , where, in 1774, Theophilus Lindsey established the first such congregation in England , still serves as the headquarters for the British Unitarians ?
text: Did you know that Tiger Mask , Momotarō , Joe Yabuki , and Santa Claus have "donated" numerous randoseru and other goods to orphanages across Japan ?
text: Did you know that the replacement for Norberto Romuáldez , who died a day before the 1941 Philippine Senate election , still won due to block voting in the Philippine senatorial elections ?
text: Did you know that the Mesa Distance Learning Program is a grades 7–12 distance learning program sponsored by Mesa Public Schools in Mesa, Arizona, that offers students worldwide US based education leading to a high school diploma?
text: Did you know that, in 2004, Paolo Padovani and a team at the European Astrophysical Virtual Observatory (AVO) discovered 30 supermassive black holes which were previously obscured by dust clouds?
text: Did you know that the motif of acanthus leaves on the south doorway to St Andrew's Church, Sapiston , Suffolk , is unusual in the county?
text: Did you know that the oldest building in downtown Waterbury, Connecticut , has been so extensively altered that it is not a contributing property to the historic district ?
text: Did you know that the British Sea Wolf SAM was considered a possibility for meeting the U.S. Navy's Shipboard Intermediate Range Combat System missile requirement?
text: Did you know that Quest Crew , who competed on America's Best Dance Crew , appear in " Meatball It Up ", the second episode of Shake It Up ?
text: Did you know that Rose de Freycinet sailed around the world with her husband from 1817 to 1820 as a stowaway disguised as a man?
text: Did you know that the Edison Mall in Fort Myers, Florida , was the first mall to have both J. C. Penney and its rival, Sears , as anchor stores ?
text: Did you know that on December 13, 2005, Rashad Jones-Jennings became just the tenth NCAA Division I men's basketball player since 1973 to record 30 or more rebounds in a single game ?
text: Did you know that 1919 agitations by left-wing socialists in Småland resulted in the formation of a separate Farm Workers Union ?
text: Did you know that the United States Supreme Court has ruled in Daniels v. United States that a defendant cannot challenge previous convictions that were used to enhance his sentence ?
text: Did you know that a slogan of the Israeli–Palestinian Comedy Tour is "If we can laugh together, we can live together" ?
text: Did you know that Vittorio Erspamer (1909–1999) discovered the chemical compound octopamine , isolating it from the salivary glands of an octopus ?
text: Did you know that the Grambling State Tigers college football team has made the most appearances in and won the most SWAC Championship Games since the inaugural 1999 contest?
text: Did you know that thanks to the song " Sopa de Caracol " , the musical ensemble Banda Blanca became the best-known Honduran band?
text: Did you know that the Google Science Fair is an online science competition sponsored by Google , Lego , CERN , and Scientific American ?
text: Did you know that Karl Marx wrote his Das Kapital while living in the building now occupied by Soho restaurant Quo Vadis ?
text: Did you know that antitumor agents isolated from bohemic acid are named after the characters of the opera La bohème ?
text: Did you know that Franz-Joseph Müller von Reichenstein discovered the element that would later be named tellurium by Martin Heinrich Klaproth ?
text: Did you know that an increased printrun for author Amish Tripathi's first book, The Immortals of Meluha , led him to switch to a bigger publisher?
text: Did you know that Beauchamp Doran , a British Army general, was sacked from command of his brigade in 1914, reinstated, and sacked again from command of a division in 1916?
text: Did you know that the United States Supreme Court has ruled that interscholastic athletic associations have police power ?
text: Did you know that convicted Indonesian serial killer Verry Idham Henyansyah became known as the "singing serial killer" after he entertained audiences at his prison cell by singing a song from his upcoming album ?
text: Did you know that Burnett , a village in Somerset , had a civil parish of 608 acres until it was merged into the neighbouring village of Compton Dando ?
text: Did you know that Queen Calafia , fictional ruler of the Island of California , was the subject of a sculpture garden designed by Niki de Saint Phalle ?
text: Did you know that Horace Robertson accepted the surrender of an Italian general, an Italian admiral and a Japanese general?
text: Did you know that All Saints Church, Saltfleetby , in the marshlands of Lincolnshire , has a leaning west tower?
text: Did you know that it had been said that the new Michigan Wolverines football coach Brady Hoke would "crawl on hot, broken glass to work inside Schembechler Hall as the head coach"?
text: Did you know that Gene Kelly 's first Broadway appearance was in the 1938 musical Leave It to Me! ?
text: Did you know that a 1968 paper by Jack Ertle Oliver helped confirm the existence of continental drift , a theory that had been scoffed at by mainstream scientists when proposed by Alfred Wegener in 1912?
text: Did you know that the prototype Bölkow Phoebus sailplane was placed third in its class at the 1964 German national gliding championship?
text: Did you know that the roots of lovage contain angelic acid ?
text: Did you know that the Long Tail Point Light survived attempts to demolish it in 1870, and has outlasted both its successors?
text: Did you know that the winners of the 1871 Belmont Stakes – Harry Bassett , the 1872 Belmont – Joe Daniels , and the 1873 Belmont – Springbok , were all owned and trained by the same person?
text: Did you know that activity at Calabozos , a Holocene caldera complex, has produced stratovolcanoes , hot springs , and a complex volcano ?
text: Did you know that instruments played by Cardiff -based group Under the Driftwood Tree include the didgeridoo ?
text: Did you know that Ruth Cavin edited hundreds of works of mystery fiction in a career that began in her 70s, and was described by Sue Grafton as "soul mother to mystery writers for years"?
text: Did you know that Bhutan is also known as Drukyul, which means Land of the Thunder Dragon ?
text: Did you know that the German dreadnought battleship SMS Thüringen destroyed the British armored cruiser HMS Black Prince at the Battle of Jutland ?
text: Did you know that the Icelandic census of 1703 was the first census to record the names, addresses, and ages of every inhabitant of a country, regardless of social class?
text: Did you know that, while undergoing chemotherapy for lung cancer , actor Peter Donaldson gave a series of acclaimed stage performances?
text: Did you know that the Lucidarius , the first German language summa , written around 1190, was reprinted at least 25 times in two decades three hundred years later, between 1479 and 1499?
text: Did you know that, as a result of the agitations carried out prior to the founding of the Farm Workers Union of Central Sweden in 1906, the annual wages of statare increased by approximately 40 SEK ?
text: Did you know that Bach used an obbligato bassoon in a duet of his cantata Mein Gott, wie lang, ach lange? BWV 155 , first performed in Weimar on 19 January 1716?
text: Did you know that Daniel Balsam became enraged after he received unsolicited e-mails offering him breast enlargement products?
text: Did you know that the relationship between France and Monaco entails a Frenchman being chosen to oversee certain state affairs of Monaco ?
text: Did you know that hyperlocal media company Main Street Connect is based around a franchising model that has been compared to that of McDonald's ?
text: Did you know that the Game Boy Advance , PlayStation Portable , and Nintendo DS versions of the video game Over the Hedge: Hammy Goes Nuts! are all different genres ?
text: Did you know that " Start It Up ", the series debut of Shake It Up , is the most-watched premiere for a Disney Channel series after the 2006 premiere of Hannah Montana , according to the Nielsen ratings ?
text: Did you know that the B&F Fk12 biplane can be purchased as either a complete aircraft or as a kitplane ?
text: Did you know that the Edward T. Archibald House was home to a man who took "the leading place among flour makers of [the U.S.] or of the world"?
text: Did you know that English actor and opera singer John Fryatt co-wrote a Gilbert and Sullivan pantomime adaptation entitled The Sleeping Beauty of the Savoy ?
text: Did you know that Smaart software was used to tune the sound reinforcement system during U2 's PopMart Tour 1997–1998?
text: Did you know that development of the VisionAire Vantage very light jet was terminated by a U.S. federal judge's order that the company be liquidated ?
text: Did you know that the newly released film Season of the Witch was scheduled to be released in March 2010 , but the original distributor, Lionsgate , pulled it five weeks before the release date?
text: Did you know that early dyers combined natural dyes with salt , vinegar , natural alum or stale urine ?
text: Did you know that the Romanian company Grup Servicii Petroliere owns five jackup independent leg cantilever drilling rigs : Atlas , Jupiter , Orizont , Prometeu and Saturn ?
text: Did you know that the Steele Dunning Historic District in Bloomington, Indiana , includes two different Sears Modern Homes and a shotgun house ?
text: Did you know that Central America 's highest volcano is located in the department of San Marcos in Guatemala ?
text: Did you know that new Stanford Cardinal football head coach David Shaw is the first Stanford alumnus to lead the team in over a quarter of a century?
text: Did you know that the Johnson-Corey-Chaykovsky reaction , now used in a total synthesis of chemotherapeutic drug taxol , was developed after an attempted Wittig-like olefin synthesis yielded an epoxide instead?
text: Did you know that the 1925 harvest strike in Uppland is portrayed in novels by Swedish authors Ivar Lo-Johansson and Jan Fridegård ?
text: Did you know that the U.S. Coast Guard 's HC-144 Ocean Sentry aircraft have been used for search and rescue , oil spill monitoring, and sea-turtle transport?
text: Did you know that information on the Critical Foreign Dependencies Initiative list leaked by WikiLeaks was stated by some companies on the list to be "out of date and full of errors"?
text: Did you know that the B&F Fk9 lightplane can be equipped with either a tricycle or conventional undercarriage ?
text: Did you know that, despite repeated proposals to extend the Holmenkollen Line of the Oslo Metro to Tryvandshøiden Station , passenger trains never served the station since it was partly built in 1916?
text: Did you know that William Grigsby McCormick 's son Chauncey and nephew Robert bought the Hickory Hill estate more than 100 years after their great-grandfather built it?
text: Did you know that Soviet tank commander Aleksandra Samusenko was buried near the monument to German Emperor William I in Łobez ?
text: Did you know that the 1938 German musical The Stars Shine was a Busby Berkeley -style film intended to promote The Third Reich ?
text: Did you know that it took the U.S. Supreme Court less than three months to decide a case concerning an exemption to the Freedom of Information Act in 2001?
text: Did you know that Cayuga Indian Nation of N.Y. v. Pataki reversed a US$247.9 million jury award to the Cayuga Nation of New York based on the state's alienation of their land in violation of the Nonintercourse Act ?
text: Did you know that Kepler-10b is the first definitively confirmed rocky exoplanet ?
text: Did you know that Doris , a large racing yacht built in 1905, led the 1932 Bermuda Race until light winds undercut its advantages?
text: Did you know that the Japanese visual novel Subarashiki Hibi won the bronze prize in the overall category of the Moe Game Awards 2010 and the gold prize in the scenario category?
text: Did you know that despite being designated as an X-plane by NASA , the Gulfstream X-54 project does not otherwise involve the space agency?
text: Did you know that by the time St Peter's Church, Offord D'Arcy , Cambridgeshire , was declared redundant , people had to take umbrellas to the church and the heating no longer worked?
text: Did you know that the construction of the German dreadnought battleship Oldenburg sparked a major escalation in the international naval arms race before World War I ?
text: Did you know that Duke Ellington 's 1940 live recording At Fargo was an amateur bootleg not officially released until 1978?
text: Did you know that the Swiss Fort de Chillon is being converted into a wine cellar ?
text: Did you know that art critic and novelist B. H. Friedman wrote about his experiences using psychedelic drugs with Dr. Timothy Leary in his 2006 memoir Tripping ?
text: Did you know that engraver Wenceslaus Hollar was an eyewitness to the action of December 1669 off Cadiz , where HMS Mary Rose , under the command of Rear-Admiral John Kempthorne , fought off seven Algerine men-of-war?
text: Did you know that Clint Eastwood had his first audition for the 1955 film Six Bridges to Cross but was rejected?
text: Did you know that cyclopentenone has been isolated from pressure-cooked pork liver using distillation and solvent extraction techniques?
text: Did you know that the 1994 thriller film Drop Squad includes scenes satirizing stereotypical portrayals of African Americans in advertising campaigns?
text: Did you know that stray animals, which include dogs , bulls and cows , are common on the runways of Indian airports and pose a major threat to air safety ?
text: Did you know that the Ram was the first air-launched rocket to carry a shaped charge warhead?
text: Did you know that " Stop ", the Spice Girls ' seventh single, peaked at number two in the United Kingdom, ending their streak of six consecutive number-ones?
text: Did you know that despite wartime rationing during World War II , volunteers at the North Platte Canteen were able to hand out food to up to 8,000 servicemen and women a day for four and a half years?
text: Did you know that Douglas Coupland 's Player One: What Is To Become Of Us is the first entry in the Massey Lectures series to be a work of fiction?
text: Did you know that, following the crash of a Beechcraft Super King Air in Australia in 2000, air traffic control checklists were altered to include procedures for a flight crew incapacitated by hypoxia ?
text: Did you know that the Malagasy rodent Voalavo antsahabensis , which was only described as a species in 2005, is endangered because of slash-and-burn agriculture ?
text: Did you know that soil and ash from six Holocaust extermination camps are buried at the Oregon Holocaust Memorial in Portland , Oregon ?
text: Did you know that the SNCASE SE-400 was cancelled before the second prototype of the French floatplane could be completed?
text: Did you know that American ice hockey goaltender Tim Regan was awarded an Olympic silver medal in 1972 despite not playing a single game and leaving the Olympics early to return to college?
text: Did you know that the Grumman XSBF was designed to the same specification that produced the SBD Dauntless of World War II fame?
text: Did you know that Albanian rebels managed to capture Skopje , center of Ottoman Kosovo Vilayet , during the Albanian Revolt of 1912 ?
text: Did you know that former Miami University and Oberlin College head football coach C. K. Fauver played professional baseball with the Cleveland Lake Shores ?
text: Did you know that the planned Giurgiu–Ruse natural gas pipeline includes a 4.14 kilometres (3 mi) section to be built under the Danube river ?
text: Did you know that the album A Time for Love recorded by Arturo Sandoval was inspired by trumpeter Bobby Hackett and the album Clifford Brown with Strings ?
text: Did you know that Cris Kirkwood of the Meat Puppets and Jerry Posin of Steppenwolf teamed up to perform music while both were imprisoned at the Federal Correctional Institution in Phoenix, Arizona ?
text: Did you know that during a political rally on October 29, 1918, in Ljubljana , Mihajlo Rostohar shouted: "We soldiers renounce Austria and swear obedience to the state of our nation, to Yugoslavia!"?
text: Did you know that Rhode Island Claims Settlement Act extinguished all aboriginal title in Rhode Island ?
text: Did you know that Hendrik Samuel Witbooi and Hosea Kutako could not present their 1947 UN petition for independence from South African occupation because they were not allowed to leave South-West Africa ?
text: Did you know that Clint Eastwood named his film company Malpaso Productions after Malpaso Creek which is located on his property in Monterey County, California ?
text: Did you know that Ernest P. Goodrich was the third head coach of the Michigan State Normal football team and the first president of the Institute of Traffic Engineers , both of which have since changed their names?
text: Did you know that in the 63 years after it opened, the cost of a liquor license for the Winter Saloon rose over 72,000%?
text: Did you know that the sculptor Gilbert Ledward created a new Great Seal of the Realm in 1953?
text: Did you know that in the North Leicestershire by-election in February 1857 , Charles Frewen campaigned on a slogan of "No Popery"?
text: Did you know that for almost three decades, Terra Chã on Terceira Island in the Azores was the location of the only Portuguese Air Force hospital?
text: Did you know that the short story " Conscience in Art " has been described as "a pleasant reminder of the inventiveness and cleverness" of author O. Henry ?
text: Did you know that despite coaching the only bowl game win and only 10-win season in school history, Jim Harkema resigned as head coach of the Eastern Michigan Eagles football team with a losing record?
text: Did you know that the house in Tekirdağ , Turkey , where Hungarian national hero Francis II Rákóczi spent his last years, is a museum now and is regarded as a cultural bridge between the two countries?
text: Did you know that the Farman F.281 only logged four hours of flight time between January 1933 and the spring of 1935, despite being in service with Air France ?
text: Did you know that in the case of budget bills and urgent matters, a bill must be passed in the same session of Parliament in Bhutan ?
text: Did you know that The Concord Review is the only academic journal in the world to publish the research papers of high school students?
text: Did you know that Croatian high jumper Blanka Vlašić was named after Casablanca , a city where her father Joško Vlašić won the decathlon gold medal at the 1983 Mediterranean Games ?
text: Did you know that in a 1946 incident, three ammunition magazines exploded at the Swiss Fort de Dailly ?
text: Did you know that a human relations award honoring those who promote diversity in employment is named for Roy Bass , who served as mayor of Lubbock , Texas , from 1974 to 1978?
text: Did you know that Essad Pasha Toptani , supported by the Kingdom of Serbia , established the Republic of Central Albania on October 16 , 1913?
text: Did you know that Oregon politician Michael Dembrow helped to create the Cascade Festival of African Films?
text: Did you know that the National Hockey League and its players' association founded the Hockey Fights Cancer charity in 1998 after former player John Cullen attempted to come back from Non-Hodgkin lymphoma ?
text: Did you know that Manzanar internee Tak Shindo went on to become a "Giant of Jazz" for exotica albums like Mganga! and Brass and Bamboo ?
text: Did you know that the Navajo Times was the first daily newspaper published by an American Indian Nation ?
text: Did you know that Kenny Francis began his racing career at the age of eight by racing go-karts ?
text: Did you know that Namibian President Sam Nujoma has visited India 11 times?
text: Did you know that the life of a nun, Agnes of Jesus , inspired Henri Cormier to join the Dominicans , and they were beatified together on November 20 , 1994?
text: Did you know that Casey Close was Baseball America 's National Player of the Year, married former Miss America Gretchen Carlson and negotiated more than $350 million in contracts for Derek Jeter and Ryan Howard ?
text: Did you know that the chemical structure of PEPPSI was published in 2006?
text: Did you know that despite releasing three EPs in less than a year, most of the material on dubstep producer James Blake ' s self-titled debut album is brand new?
text: Did you know that after 53 years, Indiana ' s last remaining manual bridge toll booth on the Wabash Memorial Bridge , was replaced with an automated toll collection system?
text: Did you know that Clearwater Fine Foods, a company owned by multi-millionaire John Risley , owns all fishing rights to offshore lobster in Canadian Atlantic waters?
text: Did you know that attorney Tom Tureen pioneered Nonintercourse Act litigation, negotiating an $81.5 million settlement of the Passamaquoddy case and the creation of the largest casino in the world ?
text: Did you know that the People's Republic of China is the world ' s top producer of sex toys ?
text: Did you know that the Sky Scorcher air-to-air missile would have carried a two- megaton nuclear warhead?
text: Did you know that the C-SPAN Video Library offers a complete archive of the American legislative broadcaster's content since 1987?
text: Did you know that in November 2010, pest controller Chris Swan bowled the third-best figures for a first class match in the history of the Queensland cricket team ?
text: Did you know that Malibu Lake has been featured in over 100 films and television programs, including the 1931 version of Frankenstein ?
text: Did you know that Robin Oswald hijacked TWA Flight 541 in an effort to free Garrett Brock Trapnell , who was in jail for hijacking a jetliner, after a failed attempt to hijack a helicopter by her mother?
text: Did you know that Oregon judge Jack Landau attended two different Benjamin Franklin High Schools?
text: Did you know that the rail line at the Swiss Fort Heldsberg incorporated a turnout to derail enemy armored trains ?
text: Did you know that Russian teammates Roman Lyashenko and Mikhail Donika are the only two players in the history of the World Junior Ice Hockey Championships to win a medal of each colour?
text: Did you know that the mushroom Marasmius sasicola , known from Kanagawa Prefecture , Japan, grows on the fallen leaves of Sasa bamboo ?
text: Did you know that playwright Lanford Wilson wrote The Madness of Lady Bright on the typewriter of the reservations desk of the Americana Hotel while working there as a receptionist?
text: Did you know that the first rabbi of Beth Israel Congregation of Washington, Pennsylvania served for 50 years?
text: Did you know that before Mary of Teck married Prince George, Duke of York , she had been engaged to his brother Prince Albert Victor ?
text: Did you know that the bark of Alphitonia petriei gives off a strong smell of liniment or oil of wintergreen when bruised or cut?
text: Did you know that it took more than half a century to complete the Neue Bach-Ausgabe , the second edition of the collected works of Johann Sebastian Bach ?
text: Did you know that the Gimlet rocket may have been given its name because it was a small rocket for use against MiGs ?
text: Did you know that Arthurian author Nancy McKenzie wrote her novel Queen of Camelot to make Queen Guinevere "into someone a 20th-century person could understand"?
text: Did you know that the founder of the Churchill Machine Tool Company said business was good in 1896 because a boom in bicycling increased demand for automatic screw machines and similar machinery?
text: Did you know that actor William Caskey Swaim was drafted into the Army in 1968 and served as a medic during his tour on the island of Okinawa ?
text: Did you know that although in 1697 Zhuluo County covered more than half the landmass of Taiwan , a visiting Qing official wrote that the county contained "no residents, only savages "?
text: Did you know that one day before the 1996–97 NBA season began, Golden State Warriors player Marcus Mann quit the team to become a Christian minister ?
text: Did you know that the signal pattern displayed by the Fitzroy Island Light depended on the direction from which it was viewed?
text: Did you know that during Marburg's Bloody Sunday massacre, military units commanded by Rudolf Maister killed between 11 and 13 German civilian protesters in a central Maribor square?
text: Did you know that The New York Times in 1912 wrote that the expert passing of "Squib" Torbet had placed the Michigan football team "on a higher plane than they have reached before"?
text: Did you know that 17 Polish songs by Frédéric Chopin were published after the composer's death as his Op. 74?
text: Did you know that the Louisiana attorney and politician Arnold Jack Rosenthal owned racehorses and maintained a long-term interest in the racing industry?
text: Did you know that Peter Grippe was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in the category of fine arts in 1964 ?
text: Did you know that when the Germans invaded Norway in 1940, the crew of the incomplete Sleipner class destroyer Tor scuttled their vessel at the shipyard and joined the land forces fighting the invasion?
text: Did you know that Polly Bergen closed each episode of her 1957–58 NBC variety program , The Polly Bergen Show , with the 1956 song " The Party's Over "?
text: Did you know that Rameshwar Prasad became the first Naxalite member of Parliament elected from the Indian state of Bihar in 1989?
text: Did you know that the woman for whom Memphis' Messick High School is named was superintendent of schools in 1908, when the school was established?
text: Did you know that the Louisiana politician Albert Estopinal, Jr. , was involved in hurricane relief efforts in his native storm-prone St. Bernard Parish ?
text: Did you know that variables and attributes are some of the most basic concepts in science ?
text: Did you know that Russian journalists Viktor and Marina Kalashnikova claim to have been poisoned because of their political writings?
text: Did you know that Jacksonville 's Atlantic Boulevard , which is considered to have been the beginning of Florida 's highway system, was just 18 ft (5.5 m) wide when first built?
text: Did you know that a Nazi saluting dog nearly brought the wrath of the Third Reich upon a Finnish pharmaceutical company?
text: Did you know that two of the illustrations in the Leofric Missal , a 10th and 11th century illuminated book from England, depict a method of divination derived from Coptic Egypt ?
text: Did you know that Julio Ibarra became Governor of Cardenal Caro Province , in Chile just after two major earthquakes in the country?
text: Did you know that above the chancel arch of St Barbara's Church, Haceby , Lincolnshire , are the Royal arms of Queen Anne on top of a medieval Doom painting?
text: Did you know that Baths ' debut album, Cerulean , though recorded in his bedroom in two months, was acknowledged by "album of the year" lists?
text: Did you know that the Greek city Phoenice became the center of the federal government of the Epirote League after the assassination of the last Aeacid dynasty ruler, Deidamia II of Epirus ?
text: Did you know that the 55-point margin of victory by Alabama in the 1953 Orange Bowl was the largest for a college football bowl game until surpassed by Tulsa 55 years later in the 2008 GMAC Bowl ?
text: Did you know that the Inclined Plane Bridge spans Stonycreek River , connecting the Johnstown Inclined Plane to the city of Johnstown , Pennsylvania ?
text: Did you know that Roberto Córdova became the mayor of Pichilemu , Chile , after Marcelo Cabrera Martínez was removed permanently as mayor of the city on August 19 , 2009?
text: Did you know that at the end of the 19th century, E. C. Stearns & Company was one of the most extensive hardware manufacturers in the US ?
text: Did you know that James Cecil was impeached by the House of Commons for high treason ?
text: Did you know that iron smelting furnaces over 2500 years old have been found in Taruga , Nigeria ?
text: Did you know that after her Baby Tooth Survey showed kids took in strontium-90 from nuclear fallout , Dr. Louise Reiss 's son picked up the phone and heard the caller say "This is John Kennedy , can I talk to your mom?"
text: Did you know that the Swiss Fort du Scex and the Fort de Cindey are connected by a natural cave, the Grotte aux Fées ?
text: Did you know that Paul Pyant designed lighting for the production of George Frideric Handel ’s Xerxes at the Houston Grand Opera in 2010?
text: Did you know that pyridine is a part of the Cornforth reagent and Crabtree's catalyst ?
text: Did you know that in order to travel to Moscow to study their T-3 fusion reactor, physicist Derek Robinson got married so he would always be "properly accompanied by a reliable person"?
text: Did you know that the Forest of Compiègne was the site of armistice agreements in both the First and the Second World Wars ?
text: Did you know that 20 years after scoring a goal in Luxembourg 's first-ever football victory over France , Zénon Bernard became the first communist elected to the Luxembourgian parliament ?
text: Did you know that fairytale author Mary de Morgan told stories to the young Rudyard Kipling and his relatives?
text: Did you know that according to a BBC report, the ethnic conflict in Sampit town in Indonesia caused 500 deaths, with over 100,000 Madurese displaced from their homes?
text: Did you know that Michigan football player and author Lewis Reimann wrote in 1916 that post-game celebrations by students "filled with 'spirit ' " were damaging the university's reputation?
text: Did you know that the Ballistic Missile Target System target rocket could be launched in any of four different configurations?
text: Did you know that the song "For a Friend" from The Communards ' album Red was written in memory of Mark Aston, a friend of the band members, who died from AIDS ?
text: Did you know that the explosion to move Antoinette , wrecked on Doom Bar , blew in all the windows in the port town of Padstow ?
text: Did you know that Eugene K. Garfield used a personal Pullman car when he rode the Auto-Train service he started to carry people and their vehicles between Virginia and Florida ?
text: Did you know that discussions on the knowledge of Christ have had a central place in Christology for centuries?
text: Did you know that proper design of a sampling frame can be crucial in statistical research ?
text: Did you know that record producer Cachorro López co-wrote " Color Esperanza ", a song performed in Argentina back to back with the national anthem ?
text: Did you know that a tropical depression in 1970 was the wettest tropical cyclone on record in Puerto Rico ?
text: Did you know that in the 1920s revue Casanova , the dancer La Jana was carried on-stage semi-naked on a silver platter?
text: Did you know that during William Fones ' tenure as a Tennessee Supreme Court judge, the court upheld a law banning snake-handling in religious services?
text: Did you know that not only can sodium tungsten bronze conduct electricity like a semiconductor or a metal , but it can also superconduct ?
text: Did you know that an 1848–49 crime thriller set in the world of horseracing, written by journalist Angus Reach , was later described as a "template for the pulp tradition"?
text: Did you know that the original wooden bell tower of the First Presbyterian Church in Batavia, New York , blew down within a year of its construction and was replaced by the stone one originally intended?
text: Did you know that following a referendum in 1984, Liechtenstein became the last country in Europe to grant women the right to vote ?
text: Did you know that the Fuller Rock Light in Providence, Rhode Island , was destroyed in an explosion?
text: Did you know that the 1991 illustrated children's book of the year , The Mousehole Cat , is based on the legend of the stargazy pie ?
text: Did you know that although its main expedition was focused on Bulgaria , the Savoyard crusade nevertheless included the first Christian success against the Ottomans ?
text: Did you know that the Scotsman John Jardine Paterson was President of the Bengal Chamber of Commerce in 1966?
text: Did you know that the American Thoroughbred Gen. Duke was named for General Duke , the racehorse that won the Belmont Stakes in 1868, as well as for Confederate General Basil Duke ?
text: Did you know that the Conclave of 1740 elected Benedict XIV after he advised them "If you wish to elect a saint, choose Gotti ; a statesman, Aldrovandi ; an honest man, me"?
text: Did you know that Yeshayahu Yerushalmi was the presiding judge of the initial enquiry into the USS Liberty incident in 1967?
text: Did you know that the mushroom Xeromphalina setulipes is known only from Ciudad Real Province , Spain ?
text: Did you know that the British detective series Saber of London ran on two American television networks between 1951 and 1960 under four different show titles?
text: Did you know that Polad Bülbüloğlu , an Azerbaijani singer, actor, politician and diplomat, won the Russian Order of Friendship and numerous other national awards in post-Soviet states ?
text: Did you know that the LOCAT rocket, intended to provide 50% savings in target practice costs, was constructed from plastic and paper tubing?
text: Did you know that William D. Cochran , former Deputy Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis , was known as "Pink Cheeks" as a Michigan Wolverines football player?
text: Did you know that the stabilizing fins of the MQR-16 Gunrunner rocket were made from plywood ?
text: Did you know that there are hundreds of monotowns in Russia —towns whose economy is dominated by a single industry or company?
text: Did you know that Point Danger Light on the Queensland – New South Wales border lays claim to being the first lighthouse to experiment with laser technology?
text: Did you know that the 1968 pamphlet Is the School House the Proper Place to Teach Raw Sex? claimed that sex education was a Communist conspiracy?
text: Did you know that a de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter crashed five minutes after taking off from Lamidanda Airport , Nepal , last month?
text: Did you know that Jenova Chen designs video games such as Flow and Flower so that they appeal to universal emotions rather than specific cultures?
text: Did you know that the extinct Jamaican Flightless Ibis developed unique club-like wings that could be used as a flail ?
text: Did you know that Australian professional road racing cyclist Chloe Hosking began competitive cycling after injuring herself rock climbing when she was twelve?
text: Did you know that during their campaign to sabotage the French -controlled Vietnamese railway network , Viet Minh guerrillas built their own 300 km railway out of tracks stolen from the main line ?
text: Did you know that New Zealand MP George Macfarlan ' s grave was removed to make way for the Wellington Urban Motorway ?
text: Did you know that the 1912 revolt in Himarë , Albania , led by Greek officer Spyros Spyromilios , overthrew the Ottoman forces from the region?
text: Did you know that despite being the second youngest player at the 2011 World U-17 Hockey Challenge , Canadian forward Nathan MacKinnon finished seventh in tournament scoring?
text: Did you know that the Grotte aux Fées in Switzerland features a 77-meter high underground waterfall?
text: Did you know that E.B. Harris , former president of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange , paraded an Angus calf around the trading floor to celebrate the beginning of live cattle futures trading on the exchange?
text: Did you know that German scientist Jens Blauert was honored with the Silver Medal of the Acoustical Society of America in 1999?
text: Did you know that Te Matua Ngahere is believed to be the second largest living kauri tree, and to have the biggest girth of any kauri in New Zealand ?
text: Did you know that a song by England Dan & John Ford Coley , " It's Sad to Belong ", topped the adult contemporary chart for five weeks in 1977?
text: Did you know that Cornelius Dupree was cleared by DNA profiling of committing a robbery for which he served 30 years in prison, longer than any other exonerated inmate in Texas ?
text: Did you know that the name of the Town of Macamic , in Quebec , Canada , comes from the Algonquin word Makamik meaning "limping beaver "?
text: Did you know that rapper Scribe is the only artist to have had two year-end number-one singles in New Zealand ?
text: Did you know that American historian Kenneth Setton spent nearly two decades finishing his classic work The Papacy and the Levant, 1204-1571 ?
text: Did you know that Jacques Kallis has scored more Test centuries than any other South African cricketer ?
text: Did you know that Janis Joplin with Big Brother and the Holding Company , The Grateful Dead , and Moby Grape performed at the Mantra-Rock Dance , a charity event for the San Francisco Hare Krishna temple?
text: Did you know that Dinocochlea was thought to be a giant snail shell or fossilised dinosaur dung but is actually a solidified worm's burrow?
text: Did you know that Carrier Strike Group Fourteen is currently the only U.S. carrier strike group that does not have an assigned aircraft carrier or carrier air wing ?
text: Did you know that British chef Gordon Ramsay , who was threatened at gunpoint whilst filming in Costa Rica , described the illegal shark fin trading in the country as "a multi-billion dollar industry"?
text: Did you know that Blessed Hyacinthe-Marie Cormier was such a talented organist that Franz Liszt declared him to be a "master of the art"?
text: Did you know that during the 1765 Sino-Burmese War the Qing army built a stockade "as big as a city" at Shwenyaungbin ?
text: Did you know that Dicky Moegle was awarded a touchdown for Rice in the 1954 Cotton Bowl Classic after Tommy Lewis entered the field of play from the Alabama sideline to tackle him?
text: Did you know that as theologian to the Pontifical Household , Wojciech Giertych provides advice to the Pope on theological issues?
text: Did you know that in the 1930s, the Indochinese Communist Party and the Vietnamese Trotskyists collaborated on the joint publication La Lutte ?
text: Did you know that Daniel Bellemare , chief prosecutor for the UN's Special Tribunal for Lebanon , is also the longest-serving head of the Federal Prosecution Service in Canadian history?
text: Did you know that demonstrators in New Delhi wore garlands made of onions to protest against the rising onion prices in India ?
text: Did you know that German musicologist Alfred Dürr has been called "the scholar who has done most to establish the new chronology of Bach 's vocal works "?
text: Did you know that there was a public outcry from onion farmers after Vincent Kosuga cornered the onion futures market ?
text: Did you know that in November 2010 it was reported that two Iranian Secret Intelligence agents arrived in Ghorband District and were accused by the U.S. of helping insurgents to attack coalition forces?
text: Did you know that halfback Otto Carpell and ends Efton James and Curtis Redden were the three Michigan Wolverines football players killed while serving in the military during World War I ?
text: Did you know that in the 1981 Pacific hurricane season , Tropical Storm Lidia caused more damage and casualties than Hurricane Norma ?
text: Did you know that Heidi Løke won a gold medal with the Norwegian team at the 2010 European Women's Handball Championship , and was also selected into the all-star team as best pivot of the tournament?
text: Did you know that the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Central Green Co. v. United States that the term 'flood waters' includes accidental flooding from a canal ?
text: Did you know that despite an embargo on the sale of military aircraft due to the Spanish Civil War , the French government allowed the sale of the Farman F.480 Alizé to Spain on the grounds that they were, as built, civilian ?
text: Did you know that wearing a pink ribbon for breast cancer awareness has been denounced as a form of feel-good slacktivism that saves no lives?
text: Did you know that a defeated candidate in the 2005 special election at Cebu's 5th district in the Philippines remarked that the election was a waste of money?
text: Did you know that Polish athlete Edward Sarul became the first ever World Champion in the shot put in 1983 but missed the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics due to the Eastern Bloc boycott ?
text: Did you know that the Groningen gas field is the largest natural gas field in Europe and the tenth largest in the world?
text: Did you know that first white settlers of the Town of La Sarre , in Quebec , Canada , were squatters on the land who were discovered during a survey in 1908?
text: Did you know that Julia Bonds was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize for leading the fight against the practice of mountaintop removal mining in the Appalachian mountain range ?
text: Did you know that the name of the Brazo Anti-Radiation Missile was intended as a pun?
text: Did you know that the range of the rodent Macrotarsomys petteri is believed to have shifted as a result of climatic change?
text: Did you know that Bach 's cantata Mein liebster Jesus ist verloren, BWV 154 , first performed on 9 January 1724, "contains a graphic evocation of ear drumming", according to Gardiner ?
text: Did you know that the last will and testament of Adolf Hitler was discovered in 1945 by Arnold Weiss of the United States Army , who had come to Wisconsin as a Jewish orphan from Nazi Germany at the age of 13?
text: Did you know that Neil Young scored the winning goal in the 1969 FA Cup Final ?
text: Did you know that Bishop Oldham liked to eat punctually on the hour, so when he was late his servant manipulated time to make sure that he did?
text: Did you know that U.S. Rep. Albert Estopinal of Louisiana led three missions during the Civil War to transport Union prisoners to the Confederate capital , Richmond , Virginia ?
text: Did you know that the Blue Sulphur Springs Pavilion is the only surviving building from the Blue Sulphur Springs Resort, a mineral spa visited by U.S. Presidents Andrew Jackson and Martin Van Buren ?
text: Did you know that Indian Maoist guerrillas killed seven prominent local members of Agragami Adivasi Samiti in Purulia District in December 2010 ?
text: Did you know that, as a junior in 2009–10, Lavoy Allen became the first Temple basketball player to average a double-double since Ollie Johnson accomplished the feat in 1970–71?
text: Did you know that the town of Angangueo , Mexico , was nearly moved completely because of landslides and flooding in February 2010 ?
text: Did you know that the Mikea Forest , one of the largest remaining forest blocks in southwestern Madagascar , is yet to be protected?
text: Did you know that although Juan Solano came to South America to be the bishop of Cuzco , he first joined the Spanish army and fought at the Battle of Jaquijahuana ?
text: Did you know that a Singapore Subordinate Court criminal case appealed to the High Court cannot be further appealed to the Court of Appeal , but questions of law can be referred to that Court for determination?
text: Did you know that Steve Collins was the first freshman in Oklahoma Sooners football history to start at quarterback in a season opener?
text: Did you know that Frans Otto Eriksson was a Swedish baker who committed a double murder in 1909?
text: Did you know that Chuck McCoy was inducted into the Canadian Music Industry Hall of Fame and received a Lifetime Achievement Award in 2009?
text: Did you know that the ancient Catalonian village of El Fonoll was rebuilt as a naturist resort?
text: Did you know that Chateau Grand Traverse produced Michigan 's first commercial ice wine and the 1987 vintage was served at the presidential inauguration of George H. W. Bush ?
text: Did you know that Drove Cottage Henge is around 54 metres (177 ft) in diameter, yet is hard to see because repeated ploughing has heavily damaged it?
text: Did you know that Joseph Tabarlet was made mayor of Jonesboro, Louisiana , four times, but only completed one full term?
text: Did you know that Patience and Sarah has been called the first lesbian opera ?
text: Did you know that the Chicago Bears have more individuals inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame than any other National Football League franchise?
text: Did you know that the hulk of the USS Wateree , stranded by an 1868 tsunami , was shifted several kilometres along the coast by an 1877 tsunami ?
text: Did you know that there are more male snails than females in the shallow waters of Lake Alexandrina, New Zealand , and that snails are sicker in the lake's shallower rather than deeper water?
text: Did you know that Barbara Newhall Follett , who by age fourteen had published two novels to critical acclaim, left her apartment the night of December 7, 1939, at age twenty-five, and was never seen again?
text: Did you know that the Illinois River channel was carved out in a matter of days by the Kankakee Torrent ?
text: Did you know that the tympanum of the Norman doorway of St Benedict's Church, Haltham-on-Bain , Lincolnshire , contains carvings of a Maltese cross in a circle, a fan-shaped shell, and a knot in a circle?
text: Did you know that 69 people were killed in 1971 when the Vickers Viscount they were flying in crashed on approach to Minangkabau International Airport , Padang , Indonesia ?
text: Did you know that before being cast as Hoss Cartwright on Bonanza , Dan Blocker appeared in four episodes of John Payne 's NBC western series , The Restless Gun ?
text: Did you know that the story of Winter , a dolphin with a prosthetic tail, is being made into a film?
text: Did you know that in 2000, a Wuhan Airlines Xian Y-7 aircraft crashed in China , killing 51 people, after it was struck by lightning ?
text: Did you know that songwriter Marty Balin said that " Miracles ", which became Jefferson Starship 's biggest hit single, was originally perceived by the other band members as "pretty weird"?
text: Did you know that in 1929, a group of laborers discovered a 958 carat doubly truncated bipyramid sapphire near Gwebin , which sold for £ 13,000 to a New York dealer, who cut it into nine different sapphires?
text: Did you know that a wrestler was briefly declared unable to compete at the World Wrestling Federation 's Fully Loaded (2000) event when he faked food poisoning ?
text: Did you know that the English Springer Spaniel Buster has a specially made pen to protect it from biological attack ?
text: Did you know that the first major rock and roll concert, 1952's Moondog Coronation Ball , was to include rhythm and blues singer Varetta Dillard , but the show was shut down before she could perform?
text: Did you know that the newly opened Hainan Eastern Ring Railway employed 50,000 workers, and is Hainan 's largest single investment project to date?
text: Did you know that newly inaugurated California Board of Equalization Member Sean Wallentine surpassed five-day Governor Milton Latham of 1860 as the state's shortest-serving constitutional officer?
text: Did you know that outdoor hockey games played in football, soccer and baseball stadiums have resulted in numerous attendance records , including a world record of 113,411 at an American college game ?
text: Did you know that Kit Villiers was a Gentleman of the Bedchamber to James I , but not to Charles I , who "would have no drunkards of his chamber"?
text: Did you know that many Western scholars working in Chinese studies now receive funding from the Taiwan -based Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation ?
text: Did you know that R&B singer Alexa Goddard 's debut chart hit, a cover of " Turn My Swag On ", topped the UK Indie Chart on its second week of release?
text: Did you know that al-Insaniyyah , founded in 1925, was the first official Arabic communist newspaper?
text: Did you know that the U.S. Navy purchased a Russian missile for use as a target drone after the AQM-127 SLAT failed seven of eight test firings?
text: Did you know that Villanova coach Marty Stern initially thought that future Olympic runner Vicki Huber "was a wimp" who he hoped would "leave and go home"?
text: Did you know that a hacktivist known as The Jester claims to have taken down the website of the Taliban through a denial-of-service attack ?
text: Did you know that Matt Taibbi 's book Griftopia has been described as a "necessary ... corrective" to the assertion that bubbles are an inevitable part of the market economy ?
text: Did you know that former Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak condemned two letters written by Israeli rabbis that urged Jewish Israelis not to rent property to, date, or socialize with Arabs?
text: Did you know that the Knoxville L&N rail station had three waiting rooms: one for ladies, one for " colored " people, and a general waiting room?
text: Did you know that Louis Gilbert , who scored all 21 points in Michigan Stadium 's dedication game, was described as "the campus sheik" who "wears bear grease on his hair and dances a mean black bottom "?
text: Did you know that Tom Oran was the first Native American to play Major League Baseball ?
text: Did you know that Wallblake House is reported to be the oldest structure on the island of Anguilla , built in 1787?
text: Did you know that Flora and Maria were the first two of nine female Christian Martyrs of Córdoba ?
text: Did you know that the Advanced Strategic Air-Launched Missile was intended to be effective against both hardened ground targets and AWACS aircraft?
text: Did you know that Steve Hanley , who played for rugby union side Sale Sharks from 1998 to 2007, scored 75 tries in the English Premiership which remains a record?
text: Did you know that the inquiry into the murder of Joanna Yeates , dubbed "Operation Braid", has become one of the largest police investigations in Bristol , England ?
text: Did you know that Saint Bernadette of Lourdes entered the convent of the Sisters of Charity of Nevers named for the seventh-century Saint Gildard , not the sixth-century Saint Gildard ?
text: Did you know that construction plans of the first Cape Capricorn Light , a lighthouse on Curtis Island, Queensland , failed to include a lamp room, so one had to be urgently constructed?
text: Did you know that Lewis Strong Clarke established his innovative sugar plantation Lagonda in St. Mary Parish , Louisiana , and named it for a creek in Ohio ?
text: Did you know that the dentist Pauls Dauge translated several works of Friedrich Engels into Latvian ?
text: Did you know that the death of Aristotelis Goumas led to public demonstrations in the predominantly ethnic Greek region of Himarë in Albania?
text: Did you know that in the United States some defendants chose to appear pro se because of the Perry Mason syndrome ?
text: Did you know that the People's Republic of China is the world's second largest consumer market for luxury goods , next only to Japan ?
text: Did you know that college football coach Doug Dashiell resigned in 1938 after his football players and the University of Nevada student president went into "open rebellion"?
text: Did you know that the hairless half-meter parasite Helixanthera schizocalyx was discovered by lepidopterist Colin Congdon on the lookout for loranths near the summit of Mozambique 's Mount Mabu ?
text: Did you know that the rectory at Sacred Heart Catholic Church in McCartyville, Ohio , was named a historic site in 1979, just two years after it was deemed ineligible for that designation ?
text: Did you know that the Wedgwood scale was used to determine the temperature in pottery kilns ?
text: Did you know that former Georgia State Senator Nancy Schaefer died in what police concluded was a murder–suicide perpetrated by her husband?
text: Did you know that the award-winning novel Gould's Book of Fish is based on the life of English painter William Buelow Gould , who was transported as a convict to the penal colony of Van Diemen's Land for stealing a coat?
text: Did you know that according to legend, Battlegore Burial Chamber is the site of a conflict between the devil and a giant?
text: Did you know that the Wagtail missile , upon being launched, fired retrorockets to allow the carrier aircraft to escape the effects of its own weapon?
text: Did you know that the Molasses Reef Wreck in the Turks and Caicos Islands is the earliest wreck of a European ship in the Americas to be scientifically excavated ?
text: Did you know that Clare Maguire has been nominated by the BBC Sound of 2011 list as one of the top 15 most promising new artists and is one of MTV's Brand New: For 2011 acts?
text: Did you know that fleet racing is the most common form of sailboat racing?
text: Did you know that the development of the Chengdu J-20 fighter aircraft may have been assisted by cyberespionage ?
text: Did you know that the hydroxide ion is a natural constituent of water?
text: Did you know that Gramoz Palushi was murdered while he was celebrating the football victory of Albania over Greece ?
text: Did you know that Enid A. Haupt has been described as "the greatest patron American horticulture has ever known"?
text: Did you know that the Japanese air attacks on the Mariana Islands between November 1944 and January 1945 sought to disrupt the bombing of Japan by United States Army Air Forces aircraft based on the islands?
text: Did you know that although the little brown mouse Monticolomys koopmani was first collected in 1929, it was not formally described until 1996?
text: Did you know that the Museum of Mosaics in Devnya , Bulgaria , exhibits a mosaic of the gorgon Medusa which was supposed to turn away evil?
text: Did you know that the Indonesian pioneer movement Fadjar Harapan was merged into the national scouting organization on a presidential order in 1961?
text: Did you know that the Stripsenjochhaus is a club hut in the Northern Alps that has been a base for some of the most famous rock climbing in the Alps ?
text: Did you know that the Louisiana State Rep. Cliff Ammons was the "father of Toledo Bend Lake ," the largest lake both within and along the borders of Texas ?
text: Did you know that The Bakersfield Californian 's 1926 building gave women a public restroom in downtown Bakersfield, California ?
text: Did you know that Sy Mah , who held a Guinness World Record for the most lifetime marathons , completed his first marathon in the same race in which he coached 13-year-old Maureen Wilton to a women's world record ?
text: Did you know that the Leviathan gas field – discovered in 2010 and located 130 kilometres (81 mi) west of Haifa , Israel , in the eastern Mediterranean Sea – is one of the world’s largest offshore gas finds of the past decade?
text: Did you know that J. Howell Flournoy , the longest serving sheriff in the history of Caddo Parish , Louisiana , was the son and grandson of earlier sheriffs?
text: Did you know that the First Baptist Church complex in Bakersfield, California , was the only religious structure of its era to survive the massive 1952 Kern County earthquake ?
text: Did you know that the number of known major lineages of bacteria has more than quadrupled in the past 20 years but many of them cannot be grown in a lab ?
text: Did you know that the German battleship SMS Prinzregent Luitpold was the only ship of her class designed to mount a diesel engine, though it was never fitted?
text: Did you know that Charles Coolidge Parlin , the founder of the field of market research , was once a schoolteacher in the state of Wisconsin ?
text: Did you know that the Hopi missile could carry a nuclear warhead of up to 400 kilotons yield?
text: Did you know that pilgrims came to St. Mary's Abbey in Trim from all over Ireland to see the miraculous statue of the Blessed Virgin until it was burned in the Reformation ?
text: Did you know that Roberto de la Madrid , the first American-born governor of a Mexican state, earlier appeared in the 1959 Dennis Hopper film The Young Land , playing a character named Don Roberto de la Madrid?
text: Did you know that Aporo, Michoacán , is part of the Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve , but tourism is not part of its economy?
text: Did you know that Channel 4 music presenter Jameela Jamil was struck by a car at the age of 17 and was told she might never walk again?
text: Did you know that the Missouri Fur Company , founded in 1809, was one of the earliest American fur trade companies in St. Louis, Missouri ?
text: Did you know that Al Burris was a Major League Baseball player, a college baseball coach, and a college athletic director at the age of 20?
text: Did you know that Bob Dylan did not perform his song " Drifter's Escape " live in concert until almost 25 years after it was released?
text: Did you know that in The Empathic Civilization , author Jeremy Rifkin argues that extending empathy to subsequently larger groups is paid for with increasing entropy in terms of environmental problems?
text: Did you know that in 1964, R. B. Walden , director of the Louisiana Department of Hospitals, ordered the desegregation of his state's charity hospitals?
text: Did you know that the English clergyman George Edmundson worked for the British Government on the Boundary Arbitration between British Guiana and Venezuela ?
text: Did you know that Kota tribe shows M haplogroup frequency of 97%, which is one of the highest in India ?
text: Did you know that the 1503 Challenge of Barletta was sparked by a French knight who insulted the Italians, having consumed too much of their local wine ?
text: Did you know that the Bold Orion air-launched ballistic missile was the first missile ever to intercept an artificial satellite ?
text: Did you know that, after his rookie season in Major League Baseball , Sam Moffet and his brother extracted over US$ 200,000 worth of gold and silver from a mine in Butte, Montana ?
text: Did you know that in 1975, former Texas lawmaker E L Short urged that citizens be warned door-to-door of the hazards of hydrogen sulfide after the gas exploded in Denver City ?
text: Did you know that almost 30 percent of Soviet prisoners of war in the Continuation War died?
text: Did you know that during recent renovations to the former Batavia Club building in Batavia, New York , an old safe was found that so far no one has been able to open?
text: Did you know that German aircraft designer Gottlob Espenlaub began testing his rocket-propelled gliders in as early as 1929?
text: Did you know that the crest of the Blauberge , a mountain range in the Bavarian Alps , forms part of the border between Austria and Germany ?
text: Did you know that naturally occurring quasicrystals can be found in the rare minerals khatyrkite and cupalite ?
text: Did you know that the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Green Tree Financial Corp.-Ala. v. Randolph that arbitration agreements do not need to discuss the costs of arbitration?
text: Did you know that after the Cornfield Bomber landed in a field, one of the members of the 71st Fighter-Interceptor Squadron received a call from a sheriff who got excited when the plane started moving?
text: Did you know that the Biham-Middleton-Levine model may be the simplest model of traffic flow that has both phase transitions and self-organization ?
text: Did you know that Frank Baldino, Jr. is founder and CEO of a company seeking to market its narcolepsy medication to treat jet lag ?
text: Did you know that there were multiple V-2 rocket facilities in World War II ?
text: Did you know that the song " When We Die As Martyrs " is performed by the Arab children's choir Birds of Paradise?
text: Did you know that minuscules 2276 , 2277 and 2278 were classified twice by Gregory under numbers 815, 816 and 812 (in 1886 in Greece), and under numbers 2276, 2277 and 2278 (in 1904 in London)?
text: Did you know that t'aenghwa is a characteristic type of Korean Buddhist visual arts ?
text: Did you know that The Double Sunrise was a non-stop, approximately 30-hour airline flight, crossing over 3,500 nautical miles (6,500 km; 4,000 mi) above the Indian Ocean during World War II ?
text: Did you know that Mr. Kay of Manhattan 's Upper West Side donated his barbershop interior to the Museum of the City of New York ?
text: Did you know that the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency is assisting 5pb. with the development of Robotics;Notes , their upcoming visual novel and latest entry in their science adventure series?
text: Did you know that the first recorded case of dognapping in Britain was that of a racing Greyhound named Hi Joe in 1965?
text: Did you know that Humphrey Dacre fought for Lancaster at the Battle of Towton and was attainted afterwards?
text: Did you know that Murray Farm Public School in Australia teaches various subjects bilingually in English and Japanese ?
text: Did you know that after the crash of a U.S. Air Force C-5 Galaxy near Saigon , Robert Macauley mortgaged his house so he could charter a Boeing 747 from Pan Am to evacuate orphans from South Vietnam ?
text: Did you know that a candidate in the 1981 Philippine presidential election who advocated that the country become the 51st U.S. state received almost 4% of the vote?
text: Did you know that Greek Idol winner Valanto Trifonos failed the audition for the rival Greek talent competition The X Factor ?
text: Did you know that the mushroom Gymnopilus maritimus is known only from collections in a very localised area of Sardinia , Italy ?
text: Did you know that erythropoietin became a billion dollar business for Amgen , though its discoverer Eugene Goldwasser at the University of Chicago never profited from its development?
text: Did you know that the first production at the Prince's Theatre in Manchester was Shakespeare 's The Tempest , on 15 October 1864?
text: Did you know that the Louisiana educator John Keeny was a promoter of the New York -based Chautauqua movement?
text: Did you know that the United States Supreme Court ruled in Legal Services Corp. v. Velazquez that the First Amendment protects against free speech viewpoint discrimination?
text: Did you know that the first patient in whom Sir Robert Jones described his eponymous fracture was himself?
text: Did you know that, by the age of fourteen, each of the three orphaned daughters of Thomas Dacre married one of the three sons of their stepfather ?
text: Did you know that Lee Emmett Thomas , as mayor of Shreveport , Louisiana , pushed for construction of his city's Municipal Auditorium , which hosted the Louisiana Hayride between 1948 and 1960?
text: Did you know that Bach began the fifth cantata of his first Christmas season in Leipzig, Schau, lieber Gott, wie meine Feind, BWV 153 , first performed on 2 January 1724, with a chorale ?
text: Did you know that a match at the World Wrestling Federations ' 1999 Fully Loaded event was fought in a parking garage?
text: Did you know that, for the 80th birthday of King Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV of Tonga , Adrienne Kaeppler , curator of Oceanic Ethnology at the Smithsonian Institution , set up a special exhibition at the Tongan National Museum?
text: Did you know that there are no prisons for women in Wales ?
text: Did you know that Moses Bloom was the first Jewish settler and mayor of Iowa City (1873–1875), and the first Jewish member of the Iowa Senate ?
text: Did you know that Australian writer Kaaron Warren won two national awards for her debut novel, Slights , a horror story about near death experiences ?
text: Did you know that the membership of the Japanese trade union centre Sanbetsu dropped from 1.5 million in 1946 to 13,000 in 1953?
text: Did you know that Steven W. Fisher presided over the trial in the Wendy's massacre and became the last judge in New York to impose the death penalty ?
text: Did you know that members of the Philippine political party Lapiang Malaya , armed with amulets and bolo knives , tried to overthrow President Ferdinand Marcos in 1967?
text: Did you know that Evgenia Obraztsova , who appeared as a ballerina in the film The Russian Dolls , really is a First Soloist at the prestigious Russian Mariinsky Theatre ?
text: Did you know that the United States Supreme Court ruled in Illinois v. McArthur that police do not need a warrant when they have probable cause to complete a search ?
text: Did you know that the Austrian mycologist Meinhard Moser interrupted his degree after only three terms of study, resuming it several years later upon his release from a prisoner-of-war camp ?
text: Did you know that the Louisiana State Rep. Allen C. Gremillion pushed for passage of a bill creating the community college known as Louisiana State University at Eunice ?
text: Did you know that between 1799 and 1804, warships of the Royal Navy captured one French frigate and five different French privateers all with the name Egyptienne ?
text: Did you know that Georg Carl Amdrup's 1900 expedition included traveling 730 km by open boat along the Greenland coast, returning to Copenhagen with a live muskox and lemmings ?
text: Did you know that physical education teacher Mary Pratt pitched a no-hitter in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League ?
text: Did you know that Tsa Yig refers to the legal code enacted by the founder of Bhutan , Shabdrung Ngawang Namgyal , around 1629?
text: Did you know that John S. Kyser pioneered the first graduate programs at a state college in Louisiana , beyond those already available at LSU ?
text: Did you know that the Saynor & Bell Canadian Club biplane was constructed in a Montreal basement?
text: Did you know that David Shirk, owner of the historic David L. Shirk Ranch in southeastern Oregon, killed an employee of cattle baron Peter French over a land claim?
text: Did you know that the opening chorus of Bach 's cantata for New Year's Day , Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied, BWV 190 , combines verses of two psalms and Luther 's Te Deum ?
text: Did you know that in the past, Arubans used the caves of Aruba for performing sacrificial services and holding assemblies, and sometimes also to hide in during enemy attacks?
text: Did you know that territory now included in the Quetzaltenango Department of Guatemala was the scene of a decisive battle between Spanish conquistadors and the army of the K'iche' Kingdom of Q'umarkaj ?
text: Did you know that baseball manager Roarin' Nick Allen "baited" and argued with umpires on the field because he wanted to increase attendance?
text: Did you know that the Seal of the Federal Bureau of Investigation was first used on January 1, 1941 and represents the values, standards and history of the FBI and its agents?
text: Did you know that the premiere of W. S. Gilbert 's pantomime , Harlequin Cock Robin and Jenny Wren , was marred by "the want of sufficient preparation"?
text: Did you know that Lewis "Snake" Wiltse once pitched a shutout and collected four extra base hits in the same Major League Baseball game?
text: Did you know that a divided wartime control system forced the leader of RAAF Command , Air Vice Marshal Bill Bostock , to serve two masters, one for operational tasking and another for supplies and equipment?
text: Did you know that before his death, John Warhola 's father told him to take care of John's younger brother, Andy Warhol , and "make sure he goes to school, because he's going to be successful someday"?
text: Did you know that Leo Fishel was the first Jewish pitcher in Major League Baseball ?
text: Did you know that in the late 1950s and 1960s , E. W. Gravolet , a member of both houses of the Louisiana State Legislature , joined his political ally Leander Perez in opposing school desegregation ?
text: Did you know that the German dreadnought battleship SMS König Albert was the only German dreadnought active at the time to miss the Battle of Jutland , due to engine problems?
text: Did you know that although Sulphurdale was established due to nearby sulfur deposits, it was abandoned and the area is now exploited for its geothermal power ?
text: Did you know that the Lemnia wine described by Aristotle was likely made from the Greek wine grape Limnio , which is still being grown today?
text: Did you know that Morris L. Cohen , described by The New York Times as "one of the nation's most influential legal librarians ", wrote a six-volume summary of all law sources published in the U.S. before 1860?
text: Did you know that the Waveney was the first class of lifeboats built for the Royal National Lifeboat Institution capable of speeds in excess of 10 knots (19 km/h)?
text: Did you know that Welsh novelist Ron Berry once wrote a book about his observations of Peregrine Falcons ?
text: Did you know that Vikings may have navigated using a light- polarizing mineral they called a sunstone to locate the sun in cloudy skies?
text: Did you know that in 1959, Baton Rouge mayor Jack Christian moved Halloween to October 30 to accommodate the LSU Tigers football game against the Ole Miss Rebels ?
text: Did you know that a prehistoric chamber tomb is located in Avielochan in Highland , Scotland ?
text: Did you know that Kararname was the name of the book of decisions of the first assembly of the Prizren League held on June 10 , 1878?
text: Did you know that British Lieutenant General James Bucknall is currently deputy commander of 130,000 troops from 48 countries in his role with ISAF in Afghanistan ?
text: Did you know that Letran Knights captain Fernando Libed scored the title-clinching shot in the 1987 Philippine NCAA basketball championship despite being on medication for hepatitis days before Game 3?
text: Did you know that Gross Barmen , the first Rhenish mission station to the Herero in South-West Africa , was established in 1844 by Carl Hugo Hahn and Franz Heinrich Kleinschmidt ?
text: Did you know that, according to Bede , Dryhthelm the monk died, was given a tour of hell and heaven , and came back to tell the tale?
text: Did you know that when the Puerto Rican mint tree Cornutia obovata was listed as endangered in 1988, there were only seven growing in the wild?
text: Did you know that N. D. Cocea ' s republican activism in the Kingdom of Romania involved fabricating rumors about a peasant revolt , supporting Soviet Russia , and being tried for lèse majesté ?
text: Did you know that Jeff Krogh was credited with winning a NASCAR Winston West Series race even though he finished 35th in the event ?
text: Did you know that Japanese wrestler Maunakea Mossman made his wrestling debut in the United States at the Gary Albright Memorial Show ?
text: Did you know that John F. Kennedy's foreign policy experts were dubbed "the best and the brightest"?
text: Did you know that the Spooks episode " On the Brink " is based on the financial crisis of the bank Northern Rock ?
text: Did you know that the long strap fern was one of the subjects of pteridomania ?
text: Did you know that, while commanding the Desert Rats in Iraq , Patrick Marriott kept a large silver rat on his desk?
text: Did you know that the Limon Railroad Depot is one of three remaining Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad stations in Colorado ?
text: Did you know that although the composer Arnold Elston studied with Anton Webern in Vienna, he did not employ the twelve-tone technique ?
text: Did you know that in 1914, the Greeks living in southern Albania declared independence for Northern Epirus ?
text: Did you know that Pulney Andy was the first Indian to receive a British medical degree when he received his degree of Doctor of Medicine from the University of St. Andrews in 1860?
text: Did you know that Swiss -born U.S. soldier Rudolph Stauffer was one of 22 Medal of Honor winners from Lieutenant Colonel George Crook 's 1872–73 "winter campaign" against renegade Apaches in the Arizona Territory ?
text: Did you know that Bach used a four-note trumpet signal throughout the first movement of his chorale cantata , Erhalt uns, Herr, bei deinem Wort, BWV 126 , for Sexagesima ?
text: Did you know that Cincinnati 's Scarlet Oaks was once the only known extant house designed by James Keys Wilson ?
text: Did you know that Eduardo Iturrizaga became Venezuela 's first and only chess grandmaster , at the age of 19?
text: Did you know that comedians Matt Besser and Nick Kroll appeared in the Parks and Recreation episode " Media Blitz " as morning zoo -style radio hosts named Crazy Ira and The Douche?
text: Did you know that George Samuel Sewell was the first civilian to be awarded a bar to the George Medal , for fighting fires at a petrol refinery during the Hull Blitz ?
text: Did you know that Ralph LaPointe , namesake of the field house at the University of Vermont 's Centennial Field , committed a league-record six errors in a baseball game for the International League 's Baltimore Orioles ?
text: Did you know that the tribute act Zappa Plays Zappa , led by Frank Zappa 's son Dweezil , won a Grammy Award for Best Rock Instrumental Performance for their performance of Frank's song " Peaches en Regalia "?
text: Did you know that Lieutenant George C. Kimble , commander of the Gonzales Ranging Company, led 32 men from Gonzales, Texas , to reinforce the surrounded Alamo garrison ?
text: Did you know that the guidance system of the AA.20 air-to-air missile was based on that of missiles intended for use against tanks ?
text: Did you know that three of the five Moreton Island lighthouses , on Moreton Island , Queensland , Australia , had to be relocated because of coastal erosion ?
text: Did you know that the Croatian Museum of Naïve Art , established in 1952, is deemed to be the world's first museum of naïve art ?
text: Did you know that the two-letter Russian word щи is transliterated with eight letters in German?
text: Did you know that in his works, Czech photographer Viktor Kolář focuses on documenting his native region, Ostrava ?
text: Did you know that after winning both halves of the elimination round, the San Sebastian Stags were named outright champions of the 1988 Philippine NCAA basketball tournament ?
text: Did you know that Jordan 's new justice minister , Hussein Mjali, called for the early release of Ahmed Daqamseh, the attacker responsible for killing seven Israeli schoolgirls in the 1997 Island of Peace massacre ?
text: Did you know that although the graceful fern is native to the tropics, it can survive temperatures as low as −7 °C (19 °F)?
text: Did you know that the Louisiana State Rep. Simone B. Champagne of Iberia Parish lost a state Senate race in January 2011 despite having the support of U.S. Senator David Vitter ?
text: Did you know that bass opera singer Richard Watson was given so many roles in the operas by Gilbert and Sullivan that his colleague Richard Walker left D'Oyly Carte Opera Company ?
text: Did you know that Luftwaffe group commander Alois Lindmayr led a formation of Dornier Do 17 bombers on a bombing raid into the heart of London on 15 September 1940, the climax of the Battle of Britain ?
text: Did you know that the Cass County Courthouse served as a pattern for at least two other Iowa county courthouses?
text: Did you know that former England cricketer David Gower scored nine centuries in Ashes series , the fourth most by any batsman ?
text: Did you know that the Black Society for Salvation was a secret Albanian nationalistic society that staged uprisings in 1911–1912?
text: Did you know that both the Adena and the Hopewell left artifacts at southwestern Ohio 's Beam Farm ?
text: Did you know that the election on February 19, 2011, of Jonathan W. Perry to the Louisiana State Senate gives that body its first Republican majority, 20–19, since Reconstruction ?
text: Did you know that future Australian conductor and record producer James Walker was lauded as a " child wonder " after his performance on piano , organ and violin at age seven?
text: Did you know that Swan's Landing on the Ohio River in southern Indiana is one of the most important Late Archaic archaeological sites in North America?
text: Did you know that Khor Virap monastery, where Gregory the Illuminator was imprisoned for 13 years by King Tiridates III , is one of the most visited pilgrimage sites in Armenia ?
text: Did you know that, in 2010, Major General Colin Boag served as Chief of Staff to the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan ?
text: Did you know that the video for Queen 's song " Bicycle Race " featured several dozen nude women racing at Wimbledon Stadium ?
text: Did you know that the Samedi division of the Royal Court, one of the Courts of Jersey , sits on a Friday, rather than a Saturday as the name suggests?
text: Did you know that Stan Brakhage 's 1988 film I... Dreaming features Stephen Foster song lyrics scratched directly onto the film emulsion?
text: Did you know that the fruits of Ficus yoponensis are one of the preferred foods of the Mantled Howler Monkey and contain more vitamin C than any other possible foods?
text: Did you know that Time magazine described the Sunset Marquis Hotel in West Hollywood , Los Angeles , as "an old rock 'n' roll hotel", due to its association with rock stars?
text: Did you know that Benjamin Burns played in the first-ever international rugby union match, between England and Scotland in 1871?
text: Did you know that in 1960, the founders of a Cafe church wondered, " Would Jesus want to hang out with folks at a traditional institutional church? Or would he want to hang out over a beer in a bar, or coffee in a restaurant?"
text: Did you know that the Pueblo Lands Act (1924) was passed in response to the U.S. Supreme Court 's reversal of its position on whether the Nonintercourse Act applies to New Mexico ?
text: Did you know that Zoni Weisz , a Dutch Sinto survivor of the Porajmos , has been listed in the Guinness Book of World Records for creating the world's largest flower arrangement ?
text: Did you know that, between 1970 and 2006, 306 fatalities occurred in the Western Australian mining industry ?
text: Did you know that Al-Wasat Party , officially established in the wake of the 2011 Egyptian revolution , is the first legal party in Egypt with an Islamic background?
text: Did you know that Stan Brakhage 's 1981 film The Garden of Earthly Delights was created by pasting montane zone vegetation directly onto strips of clear film leader ?
text: Did you know that the ruins of St Andrew's Church, Covehithe in Suffolk are threatened by coastal erosion ?
text: Did you know that racing driver Glen Kidston was the only survivor of the crash of a Luft Hansa Junkers G 31 in 1929?
text: Did you know that before Amanda Staveley reportedly turned down a marriage proposal from Prince Andrew , she was a model and Cambridge student, and later became a self-made multi-millionaire?
text: Did you know that during the Siege of Güns , Captain Nikola Jurišić and his garrison of 800 Croats held out against 19 full-scale assaults and incessant bombardment by the Ottomans ?
text: Did you know that a jury awarded an alleged robber $20,000 in 1935 for a botched 1931 burglary of the Harriman Erie Railroad station after the cops shot his leg?
text: Did you know that the British destroyer HMS Hostile had to be scuttled on 23 August 1940 by her sister ship , HMS Hero , after striking a mine off Cap Bon which broke her back?
text: Did you know that in the roof of the chapel of St Michael's Church, Berechurch , Essex , are carvings of the emblems of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon ?
text: Did you know that German-born U.S. soldier John Schnitzer received the Medal of Honor along with First Lieutenant Wilber Wilder for rescuing a wounded comrade during battle with the Apache Indians in 1882?
text: Did you know that the eucalyptus El Grande , Australia 's largest tree, was accidentally killed by forest officials?
text: Did you know that German conductor Fritz Lehmann left a recording of Bach 's Christmas Oratorio unfinished when he died during a concert of the St Matthew Passion ?
text: Did you know that actor Richard Armitage was subjected to waterboarding while filming Spooks episode " The Tip-Off "?
text: Did you know that the Schoenau ultimatum contributed to the ability of the Egyptian and Syrian alliance to successfully launch a surprise attack against Israel during the Yom Kippur War ?
text: Did you know that there is no direct discussion in the New Testament of the dual nature of the Person of Christ as being both divine and human?
text: Did you know that the Argentine " San Lorenzo march " was played when the Germans entered Paris during World War II , then again by U.S. forces when they liberated the city ?
text: Did you know that Cholesbury Camp , an Iron Age hill fort in Buckinghamshire , England , was once thought to have been built by Danes ?
text: Did you know that physical chemist Sir Eric Keightly Rideal was depicted in the novels The Search and Strangers and Brothers written by his former student, C. P. Snow ?
text: Did you know that the PERISCOP made it possible to retrieve live fish from over 2,000 m (6,600 ft) deep, despite the extreme pressure at that depth?
text: Did you know that 19-year-old Medal of Honor recipient Albert Sale received the award for killing an Apache warrior in hand-to-hand combat and taking his war pony?
text: Did you know that St Gallgo's Church, Llanallgo , Wales , was used as a temporary mortuary following the 1859 wreck of the Royal Charter , which claimed over 400 lives?
text: Did you know that Ethiopian long-distance runner Sentayehu Ejigu won medals at World , African and Continental -level competitions in 2010?
text: Did you know that the British destroyer HMS Grenade tied up to the French destroyer Bison on 3 May 1940 to rescue 36 survivors after the latter's forward magazine was bombed by a Junkers Ju 87 dive bomber and exploded?
text: Did you know that the busiest route of the Weston-super-Mare Tramways ran from an Old Pier to a Sanatorium ?
text: Did you know that Frederick Merriman was the first Chairman of Committees in New Zealand ?
text: Did you know that among the WWI dead commemorated at the Chapel of King's College, Cambridge was one enemy soldier, the Hungarian poet, Ferenc Békássy ?
text: Did you know that the adventure based holiday centre at Caythorpe Court , Lincolnshire , was originally a hunting lodge , and has also been a military hospital and agricultural college?
text: Did you know that Nepal Transport Service , founded in 1959, was the first Nepalese public bus line?
text: Did you know that French actor Sebastian Roché replaced German actor Thomas Kretschmann in the Fringe episode " Momentum Deferred ", as Kretschmann was unable to be a recurring character?
text: Did you know that Medal of Honor recipient Cornelius C. Smith later led U.S. troops during the Philippine Insurrection ?
text: Did you know that Sir Richard Herbert was the illegitimate son of William Herbert, 1st Earl of Pembroke , and Maud, daughter of Adam ap Howell Graunt?
text: Did you know that the 1641 edition Selva morale e spirituale by Claudio Monteverdi is considered his "most significant anthology of liturgical works since the Vespers in 1610 "?
text: Did you know that Charles Lapworth worked closely with both Eugene V. Debs and Charlie Chaplin ?
text: Did you know that the 1980 Ispaster attack was the Basque separatist group ETA 's deadliest of 1980, the year in which they killed more people than any other?
text: Did you know that Reed Hadley starred in two 1950s CBS drama television series , including The Public Defender in the role of an attorney for the indigent?
text: Did you know that the Love Tester , created in 1969, was the first product by Nintendo to use real electronic components?
text: Did you know that pottery boat models found at Tell Mashnaqa , northeastern Syria , suggest that people of the Khabur region had already made use of boats for transport and fishing by c. 5000 BC, if not before?
text: Did you know that Philadelphia organist Leonard MacClain debuted an instrument called the “Photona" on CBS Radio in 1935?
text: Did you know that automotive manufacturing is a significant industry in Russia , directly employing around 600,000 people and supporting 2–3 million people in related industries?
text: Did you know that it was reported that Australian cricketer Michael Swart was called up to represent the Netherlands at the 2011 Cricket World Cup , but he didn't make the final team?
text: Did you know that the legal basis for the largest casino in the world derives in part from a violation of the U.S. federal Nonintercourse Act (1790) and a state statute lobbied for by Mothers Against Drunk Driving ?
text: Did you know that devotions to the Holy Name of Jesus exist both in Eastern and Western Christianity ?
text: Did you know that until Sony introduced a competitor in 1968, every color television in the world used RCA 's shadow mask tube design?
text: Did you know that Edward L. Kessel assembled the world's most comprehensive collection of Platypezidae flat-footed flies?
text: Did you know that the 14th-century Church of St Mary in Barton Bendish , Norfolk , contains a 12th-century doorway moved from a nearby church when that was demolished?
text: Did you know that commanding prices up to $400,000, pre– World War II versions of the Martin D-45 guitar (first made for Gene Autry ) are the most expensive production-model guitars in the United States?
text: Did you know that the prehistoric Neolithic Tell Ramad , located 20 kilometres (12 mi) southwest of Damascus in Syria , is considered one of the few sites fundamental to our understanding of the origin of agriculture ?
text: Did you know that Sean Hughes MP got Scottish MPs to give him their free tickets to the 1986 English FA Cup Final so his constituents could watch the Everton – Liverpool Merseyside derby ?
text: Did you know that the three mine policy , in place from 1984 to 1996, restricted the number of active uranium mines in Australia to three?
text: Did you know that St Dona's Church, Llanddona , Wales, was rebuilt in 1873 with the rector at the time acting as the architect?
text: Did you know that many readers credited Deborah Tannen 's bestselling 1990 book on language and gender , You Just Don't Understand , with helping to save their marriages?
text: Did you know that in 1918, terrorists opened fire on Lenin 's car after he gave a speech at Saint Petersburg 's Mikhailovsky Manege , but Lenin escaped unscathed?
text: Did you know that Niqmepa was installed as King of Ugarit , an ancient city-state in northwest Syria , by Hittite king Mursili II , who had forced his brother, Arhalba, to abdicate?
text: Did you know that Major League Baseball 's Baltimore Orioles have never selected a player at first base in the first round of the MLB Draft ?
text: Did you know that with over 40,000 citations in scientific literature, Polish-American polymer chemist Krzysztof Matyjaszewski is one of the most cited chemists in the world?
text: Did you know that a steam-powered cannon , the Architonnerre , was described by Leonardo da Vinci in the 15th century, but he attributed it to Archimedes of the 3rd century BC?
text: Did you know that the westbound lanes of Interstate 470 in Missouri were closed for a month due to a landslide which caused the roadway to collapse?
text: Did you know that Jarvis Hall , a former chapel in Steyning , West Sussex , has housed a bottling plant, a gym, a dance school, and four Nonconformist congregations—including Methodists who moved out and built a larger church nearby?
text: Did you know that actor Kirk Acevedo suggested his real-life wife play his character 's spouse in the Fringe episode " Unleashed "?
text: Did you know that Arslanbob in Kyrgyzstan is the largest single natural source of walnuts on Earth?
text: Did you know that the Belitung shipwreck was an Arabian dhow which was sewn together, and held the " Tang treasure", including the largest gold Tang cup ever found?
text: Did you know that the two largest Gettysburg Battlefield monuments " Pennsylvania State Memorial " and " Eternal Light Peace Memorial " were dedicated, respectively, on the 50th and 75th anniversaries of the 1863 Battle of Gettysburg , at battlefield reunion encampments ?
text: Did you know that the Scottish Redundant Churches Trust , a charity founded in 1996, looks after redundant Church of Scotland churches and currently has five buildings under its care?
text: Did you know that Gerhard Taschner recorded the Violin Concerto dedicated to him by Wolfgang Fortner , with both Wilhelm Furtwängler and Hans Rosbaud ?
text: Did you know that Nels Nelsen , at the time holder of the world's longest ski jump set at Big Hill , was not allowed to participate in the 1928 Winter Olympics because officials thought it inappropriate for an athlete to work for his fare on a freighter?
text: Did you know that in 1984, while Queen 's song " I Want to Break Free " charted within the Top 10 in Europe and South America, its video was banned in the US?
text: Did you know that the beach at Kiryat Sanz in Netanya was the first in Israel to schedule separate swimming hours for men and women?
text: Did you know that in order to save David Nowakowsky 's music from destruction by the Nazis , thousands of pages of his work were buried under a dung heap at a farm in France ?
text: Did you know that Rosie's Diner , featured in the Bounty paper towel commercials in the U.S., was sawed in half and moved from Little Ferry, New Jersey , to Rockford, Michigan , in 1990?
text: Did you know that the magnetochemistry of gadolinium compounds makes them the most suitable contrast agents for MRI scans ?
text: Did you know that Howard Arman conducted Handel's opera Tolomeo in 1996 for the Handel Festival in Halle , where the composer was born on 23 February 1685?
text: Did you know that a dachshund named Lump once ate a work by Pablo Picasso ?
text: Did you know that the Byzantine general Nikephoros Melissenos proclaimed himself emperor, but submitted to his brother-in-law, Alexios I Komnenos , in exchange for the title of Caesar ?
text: Did you know that the Glee episode " Comeback " was originally rumored to be a Justin Bieber tribute, but his music only served as "a small plot point"?
text: Did you know that Lauritz Weidemann served as a county governor in Norway for almost 35 years?
text: Did you know that the LoDaisKa Site in Colorado was occupied for 7,500 years, starting in the Paleo-Indian period ?
text: Did you know that Dutch American biochemist Donald Van Slyke discovered the amino acid hydroxylysine , and was the first recipient of the American Medical Association 's Scientific Achievement Award ?
text: Did you know that the British destroyer HMS Greyhound initiated the night phase of the Battle of Cape Matapan on 28/29 March 1941 when her searchlight illuminated an Italian cruiser ?
text: Did you know that GCH Foxcliffe Hickory Wind 's victory at the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show this year beat odds of 60–1?
text: Did you know that works by German artist Georg Muche were confiscated by the Nazis and displayed in their 1937 Degenerate Art exhibition?
text: Did you know that St. Louis, Missouri , has the most slave freedom suits available to researchers in the United States , and 301 cases are searchable online ?
text: Did you know that Thomas W. Stivers was issued the Medal of Honor for his actions at the Battle of the Little Bighorn , but he was murdered in a business dispute before he could receive his medal?
text: Did you know that although it can be difficult to define, some signs of surface bargaining include reneging on agreements already reached during collective bargaining or raising new issues late in negotiations?
text: Did you know that according to Victor Gardthausen , Codex Sinaiticus is younger than Codex Vaticanus by at least 50 years?
text: Did you know that the churchyard of St Caian's Church, Tregaian , Wales, contains the grave of a man who died in 1581 aged 105 with over 40 children and 300 living descendants?
text: Did you know that California '49er Stephen William Shaw helped discover Humboldt Bay , painted over 200 portraits of San Francisco notables, and started growing grapes in Sonoma County ?
text: Did you know that the location of BHP Billiton 's Yeelirrie uranium project is referred to by the local Aborigines as a "place of death"?
text: Did you know that British Major General Richard Barrons , who led efforts to incentivise Taliban soldiers to surrender in exchange for civilian jobs, was hand-picked for the role by U.S. General Stanley A. McChrystal ?
text: Did you know that Uncial 0321 , thought to be the same as Uncial 067 for 164 years, was recently recognized as being a separate manuscript?
text: Did you know that Khabur ware pottery was named after the Khabur River region in northeastern Syria , where large quantities of it were found by archaeologist Max Mallowan at the site of Chagar Bazar ?
text: Did you know that during World War II, Derby Art Gallery 's Ernest Townsend created camouflage designs to make Spitfire engine factories look like a village from the air?
text: Did you know that Ann Preston was the first female dean of any medical school ?
text: Did you know that the Iranian legend of Haftvad has parallels in dragon slayer stories in the folklore of many other countries?
text: Did you know that sections of state highway M-37 in Michigan have been named for a Civil War general , a governor , and the road's "divine scenic and recreational delights"?
text: Did you know that the Japanese pop music female duo ClariS have not released photos of themselves to the public, and instead have employed illustrators to draw their likenesses?
text: Did you know that German-born U.S. soldier Christian Steiner was one of 32 soldiers who received the Medal of Honor for battling against Cochise and the Apache Indians in the Chiricahua Mountains in 1869?
text: Did you know that a humorous solution for the Buridan's bridge sophism is that Plato should let Socrates cross the bridge and then throw him into the river on the other side?
text: Did you know that Croatian mountaineer Stipe Božić is the second European, after Reinhold Messner , to climb Mount Everest twice?
text: Did you know that César Franck wrote his Violin Sonata as a wedding gift for violinist Eugène Ysaÿe ?
text: Did you know that the 1999 Bridge Creek – Moore tornado , ranked F5 on the Fujita scale , was the costliest tornado in United States history?
text: Did you know that the first Iannotta San Francesco ultralight aircraft was built in a Capuchin Friary in Naples and named after the Capuchins' patron saint, St Francis of Assisi ?
text: Did you know that Swiss -born Medal of Honor recipient Julius H. Stickoffer was the only U.S. soldier to receive the award for actions during the Black Hawk War in Utah ?
text: Did you know that there was intense volcanic activity in Uruguay during the Cretaceous period about 130 million years ago?
text: Did you know that when the Ottomans entered the castle gates during the Siege of Gvozdansko , they met no resistance because the defending Croatian soldiers were already dead of wounds, hunger and cold?
text: Did you know that Myotis vivesi is a species of bat that hunts marine fish and crustaceans ?
text: Did you know that art critic Jorge Romero Brest was the director of Argentina's National Museum of Fine Arts from 1955 to 1963?
text: Did you know that the exoplanet Kepler-9b 's " year " becomes four minutes longer every time it completes an orbit around its star ?
text: Did you know that Syrian political cartoonist Ali Farzat 's 1989 exhibition at the Arab World Institute in Paris brought him a death threat from Iraqi President Saddam Hussein ?
text: Did you know that composer Gian Carlo Menotti bought the Scottish 18th-century Yester House near Gifford because of the acoustics in the ballroom?
text: Did you know that in 1805 Marguerite was the first slave to file a freedom suit in St. Louis , and she gained an end to Indian slavery in Missouri?
text: Did you know that the lowest stage of the tower of St John the Baptist's Church, Stanton , Suffolk , was left open to allow processions around the church?
text: Did you know that Arthur Cheetham 's film of children playing on the beach at Rhyl is recognised as the first film of the Cinema of Wales ?
text: Did you know that the Crawford Library was called the greatest philatelic library in the world when its owner died in 1913?
text: Did you know that Saleh al-Ali led one of the first Syrian rebellions against the French mandate , and was sentenced to death in absentia by a French court-martial ?
text: Did you know that atmospheric models were not able to outperform statistical models in forecasting tropical cyclone tracks until the 1990s?
text: Did you know that the Mexican state of Sonora lost about half its territory in the mid-19th century to the United States ?
text: Did you know that The Daily Telegraph ' s Tom Hoggins stated that Body and Brain Connection created a new video game genre called "mathercise", a portmanteau of the words math and exercise?
text: Did you know that the Indian Claims Limitations Act of 1982 was the first statute of limitations imposed on claims arising from aboriginal title in the United States by Congress?
text: Did you know that the spire of North Church has been called Portsmouth, New Hampshire 's "landmark of record"?
text: Did you know that under Anton Mosimann , the restaurant of the Dorchester Hotel became the first hotel restaurant outside France with two Michelin stars ?
text: Did you know that megaphone can be crystallized from an ether - chloroform solution?
text: Did you know that the track "Palermo" from the Chicago Underground Trio's album Slon contains recorded sounds from a Sicilian fish market ?
text: Did you know that the 1995 World Short Track Speed Skating Championships was hosted in Gjøvik Olympic Cavern Hall , the world's largest cavern hall for public use?
text: Did you know that NBC only ordered four episodes for the second season of Homicide: Life on the Street because the network had not decided whether to cancel or renew the series?
text: Did you know that Theodosius Dobzhansky was the first president of the Behavior Genetics Association ?
text: Did you know that in September 1864, Sitting Bull was shot in the hip while leading an attack on a wagon train commanded by Captain James L. Fisk ?
text: Did you know that in 1999, a giant planet was hypothesized to exist in the outer Oort cloud of the solar system , but most astronomers are skeptical of its existence?
text: Did you know that Tony Burrello 's single "There's a New Sound" was described by Billboard magazine as "a studied attempt to be as screwy as possible", but went on to sell over 100,000 copies?
text: Did you know that the Marshall JTM 45 was based on the Fender Bassman , but had different harmonic content because of increased feedback ?
text: Did you know that in 1143 the Byzantine - Norman nobleman John Rogerios plotted to usurp the throne of his brother-in-law Manuel I Komnenos , but was betrayed by his own wife?
text: Did you know that TIGER grants are contributing to the construction of the Gateway Project , a high speed rail corridor between Newark Penn Station and New York Penn Station ?
text: Did you know that the Polish Pomeranian anti-Nazi Pomeranian Griffin resistance organization was persecuted by the Soviets due to its strongly Catholic character?
text: Did you know that the city of Sulphur , Louisiana , once placed a memorial light on its water tower to honor Dr. Alvan Lafargue for having delivered 5,000 babies?
text: Did you know that at Isha Home School in Coimbatore , India , origami is used to teach mathematics ?
text: Did you know that Patrick Sheltra , the 2010 ARCA Racing Series champion, was the first owner-driver to win the series title since Benny Parsons in 1969?
text: Did you know that exoplanet Kepler-9c has an orbit that decreases by 39 minutes every time it circles its star?
text: Did you know that Andrew L. Sevier , a Louisiana state senator from 1932 to 1962, was the scion of a family that traces its lineage to John Sevier of Tennessee ?
text: Did you know that mass strandings of the squat lobster Pleuroncodes planipes occur in California during El Niño years ?
text: Did you know that the opening of the Italian Spring Offensive against Greek positions, in March 1941 , was personally observed by Benito Mussolini ?
text: Did you know that The Dante Quartet , an eight-minute experimental film , took six years to produce?
text: Did you know that the Old Orchard Street Theatre in Bath was built as a provincial theatre before becoming a Roman Catholic Church and since 1865 a Masonic Hall ?
text: Did you know that replicas of the Harley J. Earl Trophy , named after NASCAR's second commissioner , are sculpted by John Lajba and awarded to the winners of the Daytona 500 ?
text: Did you know that the first game to be considered a Yoshi game is the 1991 Nintendo Entertainment System game, Yoshi , which was developed by GameFreak ?
text: Did you know that kabbalists believed that those who think of themselves as Ayin , a mystical symbol of Kabbalah , will ascend to a spiritual world where everything, including life and death, is equal?
text: Did you know that French engineer Achille Collas invented a working machine to make engravings from medals, coins and other bas-reliefs , and another to copy sculptures at a reduced scale?
text: Did you know that the city of Chicago has warming centers open from December 1 to March 1 each year?
text: Did you know that the Centipede–Lake Way project, located at Lake Way , is scheduled to become Western Australia 's second uranium mine by 2013?
text: Did you know that Soul Surfer is an upcoming film about Bethany Hamilton , who lost her left arm in a shark attack while surfing?
text: Did you know that Mashpee Tribe v. New Seabury was the first tribal Nonintercourse Act lawsuit to go to a jury?
text: Did you know that Andy Lally and Brian Keselowski are competing for Rookie of the Year in the 2011 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series ?
text: Did you know that in ecologically diverse Poinsett State Park in South Carolina one can see mountain laurels draped with Spanish moss ?
text: Did you know that the Westungarische Volksstimme editor Paul Wittich was the first social democrat elected to the town council of Pressburg (today known as Bratislava)?
text: Did you know that between 1969 and 1984, the Charlie Conacher Humanitarian Award was presented to a National Hockey League player who made outstanding community service contributions?
text: Did you know that Tropical Storm Hubert , a weak tropical cyclone , killed 85 people and left 35 more missing throughout Madagascar in March 2010 ?
text: Did you know that the Florida perforate cladonia was the first lichen to be added to the United States' endangered species list?
text: Did you know that mountain coatis , a genus of small carnivorans from the Andes, were considered to represent a single species , until a second species was recognized in 2009?
text: Did you know that Cedric Wright accompanied his best friend Ansel Adams when three of Adams' most famous photographs were taken?
text: Did you know that when the 1983 arcade game Up'n Down was ported to the Atari 2600 , its "bluesy" background music was replaced with "a very unsettling version" due to limitations in the 2600's sound capabilities ?
text: Did you know that former Syrian chief of staff Ali Aslan was considered the "operational brain" of the Syrian Army during the 1990s?
text: Did you know that the first official United States silver dollar contained an illegal amount of silver?
text: Did you know that Sir James Rögnvald Learmonth was knighted in King George VI 's bedroom after performing nerve surgery for his vascular disease?
text: Did you know that a Pacific tropical storm and a Gulf of Mexico hurricane contributed to flash flooding in Minnesota and Wisconsin in September 2010 ?
text: Did you know that Stephen Herbits spent three years as Secretary General of the World Jewish Congress ?
text: Did you know that the dog breed the Tesem appears on monuments and in wall paintings of the Ancient Egyptians ?
text: Did you know that the month after the Montreal Canadiens lost to their provincial rivals , the Quebec Nordiques , in the 1982 NHL playoffs , Quebec 's beer consumption fell by 9.5 percent?
text: Did you know that Mary Frances Winston Newson was the first American woman to be awarded a PhD in mathematics from a European university?
text: Did you know that Stan Brakhage described his 1959 film Cat's Cradle as "sexual witchcraft involving two couples and a 'medium' cat"?
text: Did you know that British botanist Charles Edward Hubbard was "the world authority on the classification and recognition of grasses "?
text: Did you know that Doomsday Gun ( HBO , 2004) was the first television drama to deal with U.S. and British covert involvement with Saddam Hussein preceding the Gulf War ?
text: Did you know that the two leading sopranos in the 1711 world premiere of Handel 's Rinaldo , Isabella Girardeau and Elisabetta Pilotti-Schiavonetti , were bitter rivals?
text: Did you know that Hemioniscus balani is called a " parasitic castrator " although its barnacle host remains a functioning male because the barnacle can no longer also function as a female?
text: Did you know that when wine importer Kermit Lynch tried to contact Domaine Raveneau to import their wine to the United States, they hung up on him?
text: Did you know that the SSM-A-3 Snark and SSM-A-5 Boojum cruise missiles were named after beasts from Lewis Carroll 's nonsense poem The Hunting of the Snark ?
text: Did you know that in July 2003, amidst improving ties, Muhammad Mustafa Mero became the first Syrian prime minister to visit neighboring Turkey in 17 years?
text: Did you know that " New Allegiances ", the series seven premiere of the British television series Spooks , was partially filmed on location in Moscow , Russia , the first time in series history where filming took place outside the United Kingdom ?
text: Did you know that Master of the Blankney Hunt , Edgar Lubbock played in four FA Cup Finals , twice on the winning side?
text: Did you know that the Marshall JCM800 series of amplifiers, used by many hard rock and heavy metal bands of the 1980s, owes its name to the owner's initials and his car number plate ?
text: Did you know that every no-hitter in franchise history for the Washington Nationals Major League Baseball club was thrown by a pitcher wearing an Expos uniform back when the team was based in Montreal , Canada ?
text: Did you know that from a standing start, Wales rugby union international Roy John could jump up and reach the crossbar set at 3.2 metres (10 ft 6 in) above the ground?
text: Did you know that the bat Myotis escalerai was first recorded in France in 2009?
text: Did you know that Michigan 's 1915 quarterback Lawrence Roehm was called the "thinking type", "160 pounds of undaunted courage", and a "peppery" player who imbued his team with "do-or-die spirit"?
text: Did you know that legal action following the burial of a two-year old child in the churchyard of St Mary's Church in Akenham , Suffolk , led to a change in the law in 1880?
text: Did you know that Alan B. Slifka , who created the Abraham Fund Initiatives to promote coexistence of Jews and Arabs in Israel, was also the first chairman of the Big Apple Circus ?
text: Did you know that in 2004, the measurement of the size of a ski jumping hill was changed from the construction point to the hill size ?
text: Did you know that Field Marshal Mohamed Hussein Tantawi , who leads Egypt 's Supreme Council of the Armed Forces , was formerly defence minister under President Hosni Mubarak ?
text: Did you know that in 1881, a tunnel was dug under St. Petersburg 's shortest street, Malaya Sadovaya Street , as part of a Narodnik plot to assassinate Czar Alexander II ?
text: Did you know that while Nielluccio is sometimes described as indigenous to Corsica , the grape may actually have come to the island from Genoa and could really just be a clone of Sangiovese ?
text: Did you know that Vidyasagar Setu , the longest cable-stayed bridge in India, was built over the course of 20 years?
text: Did you know that from 1859 to 1931, the Lucy Cobb Institute in Athens, Georgia , taught "orthodox southern moral and racial values" to young Southern women?
text: Did you know that the beautiful purple-tinged flowering Castilleja septentrionalis (pale painted cup) is a parasite on the roots of other plants?
text: Did you know that British appeal court judge James Stirling was a Wrangler , a Devil , and an amateur bryologist ?
text: Did you know that a Norwegian song from 1950 with lyrics by politician and poet Arne Paasche Aasen sold 100,000 records?
text: Did you know that Leonard Nimoy says that his work on Fringe , which began with the episode " There's More Than One of Everything ", will be his last acting project?
text: Did you know that the 13th-century New Testament manuscript known as Minuscule 827 does not include John 's account of Jesus and the woman taken in adultery ?
text: Did you know that a woman immigrant from Frankfurt , the Countess Leon , founded the communal Germantown Colony established in 1835 in Webster Parish , Louisiana ?
text: Did you know that Home and Away actor Charles Cottier is embarrassed in real life because his character Dexter Walker falls in love with an older woman?
text: Did you know that during the 1950s, the United States Navy intended to use Gorgons to deliver chemical weapons ?
text: Did you know that Romanian novelist Sergiu Dan survived deportation to Transnistria , spoke of it in one of the few local contributions to Holocaust literature , and was later imprisoned by the communist regime ?
text: Did you know that Oliver Lewis , founding member of the electronic music group Deviations Project , is considered to be the "world's fastest violinist"?
text: Did you know that in the 1990s Luobi Cave near Sanya , Hainan , China, yielded the oldest evidence of human settlement in Hainan, as well as China's most southern occurrence of Upper Paleolithic era stone tools?
text: Did you know that Justice , a 1954 NBC TV legal drama , was based on cases of the Legal Aid Society of New York ?
text: Did you know that Nobel Prize -winning physicist Richard Feynman began the last of three lectures collected in The Meaning of It All by saying, "I have completely run out of organized ideas"?
text: Did you know that while Syrian President Hafez al-Assad was ill in 1983, Hikmat al-Shihabi , chief of staff of the Syrian Army , and Ali Duba , head of the Military Intelligence , were part of an interim ruling committee?
text: Did you know that the Deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland had planned to be aboard Manx2 Flight 7100 , which crashed on landing in February 2011 ?
text: Did you know that Gabe Carimi , who is expected to be picked in the first round of the 2011 NFL Draft , fasted for Yom Kippur until an hour before game-time in his freshman year of college?
text: Did you know that the Iron Age Meare Lake Village was built on a peat bog on the Somerset Levels ?
text: Did you know that Brother Cajetan J. B. Baumann (1899–1969) was the first member of a religious order to ever be named to the American Institute of Architects ?
text: Did you know that Scrivener said that few Greek New Testament manuscripts from the 12th century were equal to Codex Ephesinus in "weight and importance"?
text: Did you know that Adalbert Schneider was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross for the sinking of HMS Hood on 24 May 1941 in the Battle of the Denmark Strait ?
text: Did you know that comedian Nick Offerman said of filming the Parks and Recreation episode " Ron & Tammy: Part Two ": "I remember there was lots of howling, and I came away very sore and scarred?"
text: Did you know that Michigan quarterback Ted Bank wore a specially constructed knee brace to allow him to play football after suffering a shrapnel injury in World War I ?
text: Did you know that the SHARP aircraft was a sort of low-altitude communications satellite in the form of an electrically powered airplane?
text: Did you know that the Salaulim Dam in Goa , India , has a unique duckbill type of spillway located in the gorge section?
text: Did you know that Polish poet Juliusz Słowacki is one of the Three Bards of Polish literature ?
text: Did you know that the ice hockey team Spektrum Flyers was disbanded after two years because its management moved it from Oslo to Bergen ?
text: Did you know that the UK singer Don Charles , who had one top forty hit, later bought a Maltese night club with Rolf Harris ?
text: Did you know that Dutch Major Lodewijk Thomson , second-in-command of the International Gendarmerie in Albania , was probably killed by an Italian sniper on 15 June 1914, in a peasant rebel attack on Durrës ?
text: Did you know that Czech film director Jan Sviták was killed shortly after the liberation of Prague in 1945?
text: Did you know that artist John DeStefano spent sixty years creating mannequins after deciding that he could not support his family with his art?
text: Did you know that although the Jura wine grape Poulsard is dark-skinned, the amount of color pigment in its skin is so low that it can be used to make white wine ?
text: Did you know that legend says that Welsh noblewoman Gwladys ferch Dafydd Gam was so beloved that when she died 3000 knights, nobles and weeping peasants followed her body to its burial place ?
text: Did you know that all of the federal judges in South Carolina recused themselves from South Carolina v. Catawba Indian Tribe ?
text: Did you know that the prehistoric archaeologist Johanna Mestorf was the first female museum director in Germany , and at 71 became the first or second female professor?
text: Did you know that a one-minute kiss scene involving Home and Away character Steven Matheson took hours to film because of the actors' nerves?
text: Did you know that the Sigur Plateau is a wildlife corridor which is important for maintaining the genetic diversity of elephants and general biodiversity in South India ?
text: Did you know that Karl Bernhard Zoeppritz was a German geophysicist whose equations use seismic waves to map underground features?
text: Did you know that the United States Air Force 's 14th Test Squadron was originally activated during the Cold War as the 14th Missile Warning Squadron and assigned to operate radar sites around the United States ?
text: Did you know that scholars estimate that it takes two or three generations for a tradition to emerge?
text: Did you know that a brass in All Saints Church, Little Wenham is said to be one of the best pre- Reformation brasses in Suffolk ?
text: Did you know that the lawyer who argued Connick v. Myers before the U.S. Supreme Court for Harry Connick, Sr. , had interviewed Sheila Myers, the appellee, when she had applied to work for Connick?
text: Did you know that the Barnesville Petroglyph is unusual because its human faces have noses?
text: Did you know that the Thing Moot in Little Langdale was used as an open-air meeting place by Viking settlers?
text: Did you know that Pinocchio 's sentence " My nose grows now " could be neither true nor false, which means his nose grows if, and only if, it does not grow?
text: Did you know that the neighborhoods of the city of Cholula, Puebla , in Mexico have a complicated system for sponsoring its many religious festivals?
text: Did you know that while it took Wire three months to come up with a title for their last album, Object 47 , the band immediately agreed on naming their current record Red Barked Tree ?
text: Did you know that 24 non-fatal accidents at No. 1 Flying Training School RAAF in 1926 prompted its commander to remark that the cadets must have learned how to crash "moderately safely"?
text: Did you know that Fringe actress Anna Torv considers " August " one of her favorite episodes?
text: Did you know that in 1972, Republican Robert L. Frye claimed that his Democratic opponent offered him a job to entice Frye to leave the race for Louisiana education superintendent?
text: Did you know that Canadian rock band Bleeker Ridge formed in 2003, when the youngest members were 12 years old?
text: Did you know that the only high-ranking Byzantine official to die in the 557 Constantinople earthquake was a curator and honorary consul killed by a piece of decorative marble ?
text: Did you know that for the 2009 independent feature film Jordon Saffron Taste This! , director Sergio Myers created a filmmaking style he calls "Free Flow Filmmaking"?
text: Did you know that Olav Braarud remained the managing director of the Oslo light rail company Holmenkolbanen while it was controlled by the fascist Nasjonal Samling and the Nazi military during World War II ?
text: Did you know that after the failed Siege of Phasis during the Lazic War against the Byzantines , the Sassanid Persian shah became so upset with his losing general that he had him flayed alive ?
text: Did you know that the Moyes Dragonfly ultralight aircraft was designed for the specialised role of towing hang gliders , but is also used for herding livestock ?
text: Did you know that during the Boer War General Henry Hildyard told Winston Churchill that his Brigade was in " formation for taking advantage of ant-heaps "?
text: Did you know that Julianna Margulies appeared in the Homicide: Life on the Street episode " Black and Blue " as a romantic interest to the much-older Ned Beatty ?
text: Did you know that the Quicksilver GT500 is the first aircraft certified under Part 21.24 of the Federal Aviation Regulations ?
text: Did you know that courts have held that a Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo implementation statute extinguished all tribal aboriginal title in California ?
text: Did you know that Typhoon Rananim was the strongest typhoon to strike the Chinese province of Zhejiang since 1956?
text: Did you know that indigenous customary law, known as usos y costumbres , is used for local elections in Mexico and Bolivia ?
text: Did you know that Charles Blackader survived three years on the Western Front in the First World War , only to be invalided home after being licked by a rabid dog?
text: Did you know that, in the Rule 90 cellular automaton , any finite pattern eventually fills the whole array of cells with copies of itself?
text: Did you know that James Troy served as the light keeper of Cleveland Point Light for 50 years, the longest serving light keeper at one lighthouse in Australia ?
text: Did you know that Richard Smith directed the Marx Brothers in their first film, Humor Risk ?
text: Did you know that under the Public Interest Disclosure Act 1998 , whistleblowers in Great Britain are protected from dismissal, but not from libel lawsuits if their allegations turn out to be false?
text: Did you know that the New Zealand mushrooms Amanita australis , A. nothofagi , Entoloma haastii , Mycena cystidiosa , M. minirubra , and Oudemansiella australis were all described by Greta Stevenson as new to science?
text: Did you know that British soap opera Hollyoaks introduced fictional killer Silas Blissett to raise awareness of Internet safety ?
text: Did you know that the main protagonist from the manga series Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle , Syaoran , ends up becoming one of the series' main antagonists?
text: Did you know that the east end of Nevada State Route 230 is known as the Welcome Interchange?
text: Did you know that in 1950, Arnold Cook was the first person to bring a guide dog to Australia ?
text: Did you know that Ṭūsī was the first one to recognize that, if a declarative sentence that declares itself being false, is false, this does not necessitate it being true?
text: Did you know that Sunny South , a clipper ship captured in 1860 with a cargo of over 800 slaves, was built by a racing yacht designer , and outran the steam-powered HMS Brisk for four hours?
text: Did you know that Colonel Joachim Meichssner refused to kill Hitler in a suicide attack because he could not bear the stress of waiting?
text: Did you know that former U.S. Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan was a parishioner at St. Raphael's Church in New York City?
text: Did you know that the 1952 Cairo Fire is the focus of numerous conspiracy theories because those responsible for it have never been identified?
text: Did you know that French author Jeanne Galzy , largely forgotten today, wrote novels dealing with lesbian love and desire ?
text: Did you know that St Michael's Church, Buslingthorpe , in Lincolnshire contains one of the earliest military brasses in England?
text: Did you know that Saturday Night Live comedian Will Forte played a man obsessed with the Twilight series in " Time Capsule ", an episode of the NBC comedy series Parks and Recreation ?
text: Did you know that in the Caribbean , off Anguilla , the Flirt Rocks are north of the Prickly Pear Cays , while a channel separates the cays from Dog Island ?
text: Did you know that the Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley gave a guitar to Jane Williams and commemorated the gift in the poem "With a Guitar, to Jane"?
text: Did you know that Ch. Obo II is considered to be the father of the modern American Cocker Spaniel ?
text: Did you know that the Socialite application of the NECA Project allowed "face to face", emotion-based interactions between animated agents on the internet?
text: Did you know that the French socialist parliamentarian Ernest Lafont was expelled from Soviet Russia on the orders of Leon Trotsky ?
text: Did you know that crime writer Dick Francis was a notable figure in Welsh horse racing , becoming British Champion Jockey in 1954?
text: Did you know that Winston Churchill , after being driven down the Niagara Parkway , described it as "the prettiest Sunday afternoon drive in the world"?
text: Did you know that Romy Rosemont , known for her portrayal of Carole Hudson in Glee , was due to appear alongside her husband, Stephen Root , in Red State , but had to withdraw due to scheduling difficulties?
text: Did you know that Ham Hill Hillfort is one of the largest hillforts in Britain, and is the only one with a pub in its interior?
text: Did you know that Hermann Maaß refused a teaching position at Harvard University to continue his fight against National Socialism from within Germany?
text: Did you know that the Homicide: Life on the Street episode " See No Evil " features a suspected police shooting, which was based on a real-life investigation from a book by David Simon ?
text: Did you know that despite being of Kurdish origins , Syrian writer Salim Barakat is considered one of the most innovative poets and novelists writing in the Arabic language ?
text: Did you know it is believed that Minuscule 826 is the archetype of the textual family 13 ?
text: Did you know that Ellen Hayes was not only a rare 19th-century female mathematics professor but was also the first woman to run for statewide office in Massachusetts ?
text: Did you know that Krishan Kumar 's 2003 book, The Making of English National Identity , was described by Bernard Crick as "the deepest and best reflection so far by a fine sociologist and an intellectual historian "?
text: Did you know that the Bakossi people of the Mungo River in Cameroon have a legend that their ancestor Ngoe built an ark to save his family and many animals from a great flood ?
text: Did you know that Aslie Pitter , founder of Stonewall F.C. , Britain's first and most successful gay football club, was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire for his work fighting homophobia in London ?
text: Did you know that the single horn of the mythical rhinoceros-like Karkadann was said to cure epilepsy and open the bowels, while its tears were claimed to solidify into prayer beads that are still used in Iraq ?
text: Did you know that Tom Horabin MP survived the January 1947 crash of a BOAC Dakota airliner?
text: Did you know that Dani Siciliano wanted her cover of Nirvana 's " Come as You Are ", from her album Likes... , to have the feel of a jazz standard ?
text: Did you know that more than 100,000 spectators saw Norway lose the men's 4 x 10 km cross-country relay by 0.4 seconds to Italy at Birkebeineren Ski Stadium during the 1994 Winter Olympics ?
text: Did you know that the canine actor Sykes starred in the award winning television advertisement "Every Home Needs a Harvey", viewed over a million times on YouTube ?
text: Did you know that in Michael Carr 's successful by-election campaign, he issued a leaflet mentioning 26 times that he was local to the constituency ?
text: Did you know that the result of the Congress of Gela , a peace conference in Sicily in 424 BC , has been compared to the Monroe Doctrine ?
text: Did you know that the Holtsmark distribution was proposed in 1919 as a model for the gravitational field of stars?
text: Did you know that the private Miraflores Museum in Guatemala City has three mounds from the ancient Maya city of Kaminaljuyu in its grounds?
text: Did you know that British-born architect Patrick Horsbrugh was active in the British Army , Royal Air Force , and the Royal Canadian Navy during World War II ?
text: Did you know that Bill Bowerman , a coach for the Oregon Ducks track and field team, created the first Nike prototype shoe by pouring rubber into his wife's waffle iron ?
text: Did you know that singer Cee Lo Green appeared on Saturday Night Live to perform " Bright Lights, Bigger City ", the third single from his album The Lady Killer , backed by an all-female band?
text: Did you know that The Princeton Companion to Mathematics is the 2011 winner of the Mathematical Association of America 's Euler Book Prize ?
text: Did you know that the British Army used sugar houses in New York City to hold prisoners during the American Revolutionary War ?
text: Did you know that the non-profit group A Human Right is raising money to purchase a satellite to provide free basic internet access to developing countries?
text: Did you know that when confused with Mathew Montagu , the taller Montague Mathew claimed "there was as great a difference between them as between a horse chesnut [ sic ] and a chesnut horse "?
text: Did you know that the PAD emotional state model uses three numerical dimensions to represent all emotions ?
text: Did you know that basketball players Grady Livingston of Howard and Anwar Ferguson of Houston were each NCAA Division I season blocks leaders during their careers?
text: Did you know that in the Welsh folk tale of Y Ladi Wen , the "white lady" ghost purportedly guarded the treasure of Ogmore Castle ?
text: Did you know that Pornographic Apathetic by film director T. Arthur Cottam was featured at film festivals in South Korea and France , and at an art exhibit in Vienna ?
text: Did you know that the United States Consumer Financial Protection Bureau resulted from the Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act ?
text: Did you know that William Wadé Harris baptized over 100,000 converts in an eighteen-month period in West Africa ?
text: Did you know that the Pterodactyl I unmanned aerial vehicle can use synthetic aperture radar to conduct reconnaissance missions?
text: Did you know that Charles Lever wrote of the demise of Daly's Club , Dublin : "nothing in history equals it – except, perhaps, the entrance of the French army into Moscow "?
text: Did you know that when Amraal Lambert , Captain of the Kaiǀkhauan in South-West Africa , moved from Leonardville to ǂKoabes, he could not pronounce the Nama name of the settlement and changed it to Gobabis ?
text: Did you know that the first Native American land claim lawsuit to be filed federally and the first one to be successful arose from aboriginal title in New York ?
text: Did you know that to keep the French wine grape Len de l'El from fading into obscurity, Gaillac wine growers used wine laws to dictate a minimum usage of the grape for all white Gaillac blends?
text: Did you know that Louis Leithold , an AP calculus "legend", came out of retirement at age 72 to "relentlessly" drill high school students in calculus ?
text: Did you know that the Byzantine general Constantine Dalassenos came twice close to ascending the throne and marrying the porphyrogenita Zoe , but was rejected in favour of less independent-minded candidates?
text: Did you know that Clare Taylor represented England in the World Cup at both football and cricket ?
text: Did you know that A Teaspoon Every Four Hours , a play co-written by Jackie Mason , set a Broadway theatre record which may be broken next month by Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark ?
text: Did you know that Christian Wilhelm Franz Walch , in his history of the church published in 1762–1785, claimed there is a place in the church for heretics?
text: Did you know that local opposition to Fred Wilson 's public artwork E Pluribus Unum may cause sponsors to cancel its installation in Indianapolis ?
text: Did you know that despite telling a reporter in 1997 that he would "never" reunite with The Cars , singer Ric Ocasek relented in 2010 to record Move Like This , the band's first studio album in 23 years?
text: Did you know that flying ace William Stanley Jenkins scored his first two confirmed aerial victories while still admitted to a hospital?
text: Did you know that the St Albans by-election in 1904 was triggered by the sale to the Admiralty of two battleships which had been built for the Chilean Navy ?
text: Did you know that the Museo Regional de Arqueología in La Democracia , Guatemala , was founded to house artefacts collected from the local cotton plantations ?
text: Did you know that it has been estimated that 8.5 million Japanese civilians were displaced from their homes as a result of the air raids on Japan during World War II ?
text: Did you know that Alpha Road in Dallas is named for the former freedmen's town of Alpha, Texas ?
text: Did you know that in the tower of St Nicholas' Church, Buckenham , Norfolk , is a dovecote lined with brick nesting boxes?
text: Did you know that MacHomer , a one-person play blending William Shakespeare 's Macbeth with The Simpsons , was conceived by Rick Miller in 1994 while he was playing the minor role of Murderer No. 2 in a production of MacBeth ?
text: Did you know that, in United States space policy , President Eisenhower sought to avoid a space race due to his belief in small government , but Congress created a NASA much stronger than he had sought?
text: Did you know that until the late 1970s, the hybrid grape Baco Blanc was the primary grape behind the French brandy of Armagnac ?
text: Did you know that since the discontinuation of commuter rail in Cleveland, Ohio , there have been at least three proposals for restoring service, but none have progressed beyond studies?
text: Did you know that Vikingskipet sports venue, built for the 1994 Winter Olympics , has hosted world championships in speed skating , bandy , speedway and track cycling ?
text: Did you know that John F. Kennedy 's early-morning speech from the balcony of the Elton Hotel in Waterbury, Connecticut , was credited with helping him win the state in 1960 ?
text: Did you know that there have been reports of ghosts, and of activity by satanists , in St Botolph's Church, Skidbrooke , Lincolnshire ?
text: Did you know that Olga Novikova of Kazakhstan won four gold medals, winning every women's event in ski orienteering , at the 2011 Asian Winter Games ?
text: Did you know that the 2007 independent feature film Dreamscape was expanded from 63 minutes to 86 minutes based upon a suggestion from reviewer M. J. Simpson ?
text: Did you know that the report of an investigation of delays in completing the Idamalayar Dam project in Kerala stated it was a "victim of recurring and long inertial periods of labour unrest"?
text: Did you know that the grant allowing the Potomac Curling Club to open its home in 2002 became the subject of an attack ad in Maryland ?
text: Did you know that Techno Viking has received more than 20 million clicks on YouTube and given rise to more than 700 responses and remixed versions?
text: Did you know that an aborted family picnic was a major contributing factor that drove Harry Lonsdale to found his company, Bend Research, in Oregon instead of California ?
text: Did you know that fish ladders are constructed so that salmon can navigate past hydroelectric dams on their way to spawn ?
text: Did you know that Cherokees were recruited into Thomas' Legion to fight for the South in the American Civil War by William Holland Thomas , the only white chief of the Cherokees?
text: Did you know that a mural outside Mama Ayesha's Restaurant , featuring 11 U.S. Presidents , was chosen by Washington City Paper as the second-best mural in Washington, D.C. ?
text: Did you know that the Irk Bitig ( Book of Omens ) is the only known complete manuscript text written in the Old Turkic script ?
text: Did you know that the extinct crocodile Rimasuchus often preyed on large mammals , including early humans?
text: Did you know that the anonymous Greek author of Hellenic Nomarchy , written in 1806, dedicates his work to the activist Rigas Feraios ?
text: Did you know that pioneer aviator Léon Lemartin set a world record when he carried seven passengers in a Blériot XIII Aerobus ?
text: Did you know that both Interstate 81 and U.S. Route 11 in West Virginia roughly follow the Warrior Path, an old Indian trail through the Eastern Panhandle region ?
text: Did you know that the Reverend Richard Boys was responsible for the moral upkeep of Hudson Lowe and his men who guarded Napoleon I during the exile on Saint Helena ?
text: Did you know that since the 1990s, the Cross de San Sebastián has been dominated by runners of East African origin?
text: Did you know that Fringe ' s executive producers compared the episode " Marionette " to a Rip Van Winkle experience?
text: Did you know that the Sewell Ministry , led by Henry Sewell , was the first responsible government of New Zealand ?
text: Did you know that the song "Mr. Malcontent" on the Lloyd Cole and the Commotions album Mainstream is based on the character played by Daniel Day-Lewis in My Beautiful Laundrette ?
text: Did you know that Pontyclun railway station , previously called Llantrisant, was originally two separate railway stations that were later merged into one?
text: Did you know that French singer Amaury Vassili is currently the youngest professional tenor in the world?
text: Did you know that Leonid Brezhnev 's legacy was described by Mikhail Gorbachev as "an Era of Stagnation "?
text: Did you know that much of the demolition of Sugar House Prison in Utah had to be carried out stone by stone, because dynamite had little effect on its heavy walls?
text: Did you know that the MXR Dyna Comp , a guitar effect , is favored especially by Nashville guitar players and other chicken pickers ?
text: Did you know that Guatemalan Roberto González Goyri , who was awarded the Order of the Quetzal , illustrated a children's book in Cubist style?
text: Did you know that in addition to being named an All-American in both football and basketball at the University of Oklahoma , Tom Churchill finished fifth in the decathlon at the 1928 Summer Olympics ?
text: Did you know that Algernon Sidney Badger , a public official in New Orleans during and after Reconstruction , was named a Union Army colonel for "meritorious service" at the 1864 Battle of Mobile Bay ?
text: Did you know that Jennifer Lopez 's 2011 comeback, " On the Floor ", samples Kaoma 's 1989 hit single " Lambada " but fellow latin artist Kat DeLuna felt it was similar to her own 2010 single "Party O'Clock"?
text: Did you know that the old Bridge Tender's House on the 14th Street Bridge in Washington, D.C., is now a giant kaleidoscope?
text: Did you know that Puerto Rican singer Olga Tañón received a Latin Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Album for her album Sobrevivir ?
text: Did you know that New Georgia, Liberia , was established by Africans "recaptured" from a slave ship and held for seven years in Georgia waiting for courts to decide their fate?
text: Did you know that while performing in Rodgers and Hammerstein 's Me and Juliet , actress Joan McCracken got pregnant, lost her child to a miscarriage, and lost her husband, Bob Fosse , to another woman?
text: Did you know that Lysgårdsbakken , the ski jumping hill for the 1994 Winter Olympics , has become the 11th-most visited tourist attraction in Norway?
text: Did you know that the early efforts of the precursor to the Pacific Salmon Commission included dynamiting dams?
text: Did you know that Anatolius , a 6th-century Byzantine official accused of being a crypto-pagan , was tortured, thrown to the "wild beasts" of the Hippodrome of Constantinople , and then crucified ?
text: Did you know that the octagonal Sodom Schoolhouse shared its premises with a Methodist church?
text: Did you know that Elizabeth W. Champney , author of the "Three Vassar Girls" series, married her former drawing instructor when he happened to pass through her hometown ?
text: Did you know that because the rodent Akodon spegazzinii is so variable, several populations have been named as separate species?
text: Did you know that Christine Weidinger returned to the Metropolitan Opera after 16 years to appear as Semiramis , the title role of Rossini 's Semiramide ?
text: Did you know that LifeSpring Hospitals , an Indian hospital chain that provides care to low income patients in Hyderabad , was the first health care company to join the UN 's Business Call to Action?
text: Did you know that England international footballer and twice FA Cup winner Harry Goodhart became Professor of Humanities at the University of Edinburgh ?
text: Did you know that the city of Huejotzingo , Mexico , celebrates Carnival with four battalions of residents firing wooden muskets at each other?
text: Did you know that humanist minuscule handwriting , invented in the fifteenth century in Italy , was based on Carolingian minuscule , which Renaissance humanists took to be ancient Roman ?
text: Did you know that the Fringe episode title " Do Shapeshifters Dream of Electric Sheep? " refers to a novel that was later adapted into the film Blade Runner ?
text: Did you know that the Cameroon line of volcanoes is 1,000 kilometres (620 mi) long, and includes Mount Oku , the second highest mountain in Cameroon ?
text: Did you know that children's writer Will Scott , author of The Cherrys series, wrote 2,000 short stories for adults?
text: Did you know that Bohuslav Martinů 's Concerto for Oboe and Small Orchestra was first performed in the United Kingdom by oboist Evelyn Rothwell at The Proms ?
text: Did you know that Gary Fanelli , who represented American Samoa in the marathon at the 1988 Summer Olympics , has competed in various costumes including Elwood Blues , a Ghostbusters ghost , and Michael Jackson ?
text: Did you know that the Government of Hong Kong invoked the Antiquities and Monuments Ordinance for the fourth time in history to protect Ho Tung Gardens ?
text: Did you know that The Wall Street Journal calculated that Michigan Wolverines point guard Darius Morris is the most valuable college basketball player in any major college program?
text: Did you know that unlike most other churches in the Welsh county of Anglesey , St Ffinan's Church was built in Romanesque revival style?
text: Did you know that in 1967 Arkansas Republican chairman Odell Pollard reported that his state ranked second highest nationally in the percent of African Americans serving on draft boards ?
text: Did you know that the sacred wild-olive Olea oleaster of Olympia , not the cultivated olive , was used for the olive wreaths that crowned ancient Olympic winners ?
text: Did you know that Cuban songwriter Emilio Estefan earned the Latin Grammy Award for Producer of the Year the same year he was named Person of the Year by the Latin Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences ?
text: Did you know that the United States Air Force enlisted Tarzon to destroy North Korean bridges?
text: Did you know that the Rich Representation Language includes commands for displaying a wide range of emotions in the faces of animated characters ?
text: Did you know that Acromis spinifex is one of the few tortoise beetles that shows maternal care of its young?
text: Did you know that Zamfir Arbore went from being a figure in Russian anarchism and a close associate of Mikhail Bakunin to serving two terms in the Senate of Romania ?
text: Did you know that with the use of the captured merchant vessels MV Izumi and MV York as motherships , Somali pirates introduced a new strategy that has been said to be "game-changing"?
text: Did you know that although Arley Hall , Cheshire , was in Jacobean style, its owner decided that its chapel should be in Gothic style?
text: Did you know that after suffering the loss of the use of an arm, Augustus Wade Dwight returned to lead his regiment , only to die in the Battle of Fort Stedman ?
text: Did you know that the monster costume in the Roger Corman -produced horror film Night of the Blood Beast is the same one used in the film Teenage Cave Man ?
text: Did you know that merchant Lester S. Willson and his wife entertained members of the Washburn–Langford–Doane Expedition in their home on the evening before the expedition left to explore Yellowstone ?
text: Did you know that in Australia , the only initiative to introduce community forestry , within the internationally understood context, is in the Wombat State Forest ?
text: Did you know that American rapper Jay-Z has won the Grammy Award for Best Rap/Sung Collaboration four times since its conception in 2002?
text: Did you know that the center section of the Consolidated XB2Y dive bomber was cut from a solid steel block?
text: Did you know that according to Roman law , counterfeiters were to be thrown to wild beasts ?
text: Did you know that in 1887, The Mystery of a Hansom Cab by Fergus Hume outsold Arthur Conan Doyle 's Sherlock Holmes novel A Study in Scarlet worldwide?
text: Did you know that father and son producers Thomas and David Frost have both been presented Grammy Awards for Classical Producer of the Year ?
text: Did you know that British organometallic chemist Peter Maitlis coined the term metallomesogens for " metal complexes of organic ligands which exhibit liquid crystalline (mesomorphic) character"?
text: Did you know that Ballard Bunder Gatehouse in Mumbai was obscured from view for more than 50 years until it was restored by the Indian Navy and made a maritime museum ?
text: Did you know that nearly half a century after the assassination of Huey Long , the Louisiana physician Edgar Hull disputed a longstanding claim that Long had received inferior medical treatment following the fatal shooting?
text: Did you know that the pilot of Lufthansa Flight 592 persuaded solo hijacker Nebiu Zewolde Demeke to trade his pistol for the pilot's sunglasses?
text: Did you know that Sussex cricket captain Herbert Whitfield also played international football for England ?
text: Did you know that museum theatre encompasses not only first and second person interpretation, but also demonstration, storytelling, and performances?
text: Did you know that Petra , a sculpture of a urinating policewoman, received a German art award in 2011?
text: Did you know that St Michael the Archangel's Church , located near Booton in Norfolk , is often known as the "Cathedral of the Fields"?
text: Did you know that Jerry Nemer was the first Jew to captain a major athletic team at the University of Southern California ?
text: Did you know that John H. Eastman , the mayor of Shreveport , Louisiana , from 1910 to 1914, made his living as a tinsmith ?
text: Did you know that French winegrower Domaine Coche-Dury suffered damage to its Corton-Charlemagne vines after a helicopter crashed into them?
text: Did you know that block cellular automata , invented by Norman Margolus , can be used to simulate lattice gases , sand piles, and billiard-ball computers ?
text: Did you know that the 15th-century church of St Twrog, Bodwrog , Wales, has some bull's head decorations, showing its link with a prominent local family of that time?
text: Did you know that the Groundhog Day blizzard and ice storm of 2011 produced storm surges near Chicago and forced the first school cancellations in both Chicago and Toronto since 1999?
text: Did you know that the Museo Regional del Sureste de Petén in Guatemala was built to offset damage from a highway construction project?
text: Did you know that the GT-1 could deliver a torpedo up to 25 miles (40 km) from its launching aircraft?
text: Did you know that the Friends of Five Creeks helps restore creeks in the San Francisco Bay Area 's East Bay including daylighting Marin Creek ?
text: Did you know that the Allenton hippopotamus was discovered in England in 1895 and is now in Derby Museum ?
text: Did you know that Henry Fonda took singing lessons to prepare to be the male lead in Rodgers and Hammerstein 's Pipe Dream , but said that even so, he "couldn't sing for shit"?
text: Did you know that, in 1984, John Butt became the first – and only – Westerner to graduate from the noted Darul Uloom Deoband Islamic Madrasah since its foundation in 1866?
text: Did you know that heavy fog meant that helicopters were unable to participate in rescue operations after a recent train wreck in Saxony-Anhalt , Germany?
text: Did you know that Tu Holloway, while playing for the 2010–11 Xavier Musketeers men's basketball team , recorded the first triple-double by a Xavier player since 2001?
text: Did you know that Bruce Jackson , who mixed concert sound for Elvis Presley and Bruce Springsteen , was described by Barbra Streisand as "the best sound engineer in the world"?
text: Did you know that St Caffo's Church, Llangaffo , Wales, commemorates St Caffo who was martyred in the area in the 6th century?
text: Did you know that Fringe episode " Amber 31422 " was the first project identical twin brothers Shawn and Aaron Ashmore had worked on together in fifteen years?
text: Did you know that 2,000 people in medieval garb re-enacted the Battle of Tewkesbury at the 2003 Tewkesbury Medieval Festival , one of the "ten most bizarre festivals" in England?
text: Did you know that space policy concerns not only a country's civilian space program , but also its policy on both military use and commercial use of outer space?
text: Did you know that " Here I Stand ", a song by Usher , was compared to the work of Stevie Wonder , and was nominated for a Grammy Award ?
text: Did you know that the AGR-14 ZAP rocket would have used flechettes to destroy anti-aircraft guns ?
text: Did you know that Mount Jobe in Canada was renamed in honor of Mary Jobe Akeley to acknowledge her exploration efforts in the Rocky Mountains ?
text: Did you know that United States Hockey Hall of Famer Joe Cavanagh is the Beanpot ice hockey tournament's all-time leading scorer?
text: Did you know that Comedy Central 's South Park was the "number one influence" for the humor in the adult video game Bonetown , a game which encourages the player to have sex with as many women in-game as possible?
text: Did you know that three decades before he served in the State Senate , W. Scott Heywood drilled the first oil well in the state of Louisiana ?
text: Did you know that, before the 1907 Philippine Assembly elections , the nominating convention of the Nacionalista Party ended in disarray while the Progresista Party 's candidates were heckled "Hang them, kill them" at their rallies?
text: Did you know that the radio station WGRQ began broadcasting in May 1986 but did not receive its broadcast license until November 1987 ?
text: Did you know that the exotica album Orienta by Star Trek composer Gerald Fried was said to resemble the dreams of a person who has fallen asleep during a Fu Manchu movie on television?
text: Did you know that, in 1973, a Learjet 24 crashed shortly after take-off from DeKalb-Peachtree Airport after striking birds which likely came from a landfill site adjacent to the runway?
text: Did you know that ancient Egyptian temples contain architectural elements that symbolize houses, hills, tombs, marshes, and guard towers?
text: Did you know that the fictional character Bobby Simpson from the soap opera Home and Away was only allowed to marry after a real life shopping center filled with people approved?
text: Did you know that the beetle Caryobruchus gleditsiae is named after the legume Gleditsia triacanthos , although it lives exclusively on palms ?
text: Did you know that John David Duty is the first person to be executed in the United States with pentobarbital , which is commonly used for animal euthanasia ?
text: Did you know that the Tietê Bus Terminal in São Paulo , Brazil , is the largest bus terminal in Latin America and the second largest in the world?
text: Did you know that the chemistry of the plutonyl ion resembles the chemistry of the uranyl ion very closely?
text: Did you know that Bill Harman , the tallest catcher in Major League Baseball when he was signed, played in 15 games for the Philadelphia Phillies in 1941 and they lost every one of those 15 games?
text: Did you know that the Pratt-Read LBE glider bomb was intended to be guided by television signals and radio control ?
text: Did you know that Christopher Nolan has said that he plans to direct a final installment of his Batman trilogy titled The Dark Knight Rises for release in 2012?
text: Did you know that Carex lutea , an endangered species of sedge that is endemic to North Carolina , is threatened by fire suppression efforts?
text: Did you know that Brooke Fraser 's song " Betty " is about a girl who hides behind her scars and birthmarks?
text: Did you know that Benjamin Morgan Harrod , the civil engineer who designed the New Orleans water and sewerage systems, had been a Union captive of the Battle of Vicksburg ?
text: Did you know that the Royal Australian Air Force 's No. 29 Squadron is headquartered in Hobart , Tasmania , despite the absence of RAAF bases or aircraft in the state?
text: Did you know that the UK's oldest working oil pump can be found at Kimmeridge Oil Field in Dorset ?
text: Did you know that Otto Redlich published the Redlich–Kwong equation of state in 1949?
text: Did you know that Peter M. Rhee , one of the first American battlefield surgeons in Afghanistan , was the attending physician of U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords after the shooting in Tucson ?
text: Did you know that the Control of Asbestos Regulations 2006 require that all maintenance workers in the United Kingdom who may come into contact with asbestos must be given special training?
text: Did you know that after Rolling Stone published photos and addresses of 100 gays and lesbians under the headline "Hang Them", Ugandan gay rights activist David Kato was awarded USh 1.5 million in damages?
text: Did you know that Methodists worshipped at the Samuel Danford Farm near Summerfield, Ohio , for more than fifty years before erecting a church building there?
text: Did you know that a South Korean naval unit defended a North Korean ship against Somali pirates ?
text: Did you know that the controversial Malay novel Interlok will be amended before being included in the syllabus for the subject of Malay literature in Malaysian schools ?
text: Did you know that the habitat of the rare Navajo sedge is limited to the shady side of steep, often vertical, cliffs of red Navajo Sandstone of the Colorado Plateau at elevations between 5700 and 6000 feet?
text: Did you know that Jocotitlán , Mexico , sits at the foot of a small dormant volcano, which could become active again?
text: Did you know that the man arrested in the parking lot of an American mosque with explosives in his car was a former commercial bush pilot in Indonesia ?
text: Did you know that Amanda Knox: Murder on Trial in Italy is a 2011 TV movie starring Hayden Panettiere as American student Amanda Knox who was found guilty of the 2007 murder of Meredith Kercher in Perugia , Italy ?
text: Did you know that when a Farman Sport biplane was modified in 1926 with a short, broad parasol wing , it gained the nickname "the Flying Postcard"?
text: Did you know that Julian Assange 's lawyer, Mark Stephens , has been called "the patron solicitor of previously lost causes"?
text: Did you know that the electronics industry is using more and more tin-silver-copper alloys to replace lead -containing materials?
text: Did you know that 89 book leaves stolen from the British Museum library were discovered in the Ashley Library of Thomas James Wise after it was sold to the same museum?
text: Did you know that, after "Stop ... pooping!" was uttered by Rob Lowe in the Parks and Recreation episode " Flu Season ", the line was deemed the "single greatest self-effacingly comic moment of his long, handsome career"?
text: Did you know that the original specimen of the rare Caribbean plant tropical lilythorn was destroyed when Berlin was bombed during World War II ?
text: Did you know that St Peter's Church, South Somercotes , Lincolnshire , has been called "The Queen of the Marsh"?
text: Did you know that golden paintbrushes in the Pacific Northwest grow better as a result of periodic wildfires ?
text: Did you know that billiards player François Mingaud invented the leather cue tip , perfected backspin , then persuaded an audience that the balls were "tormented by a devil"?
text: Did you know that the Dutch government froze all contacts with the Iranian regime following the execution of dual Dutch-Iranian citizen Zahra Bahrami on charges of drug trafficking ?
text: Did you know that Clyde Mayes played on four different NBA teams in just two seasons before leaving to pursue his professional basketball career in Europe ?
text: Did you know that the design of St Michael's Church, Longstanton , Cambridgeshire , was influential in the American Gothic Revival ?
text: Did you know that the original version of Robert Indiana ' s famous LOVE sculpture was fabricated in COR-TEN and has been on exhibition at the Indianapolis Museum of Art since 1975?
text: Did you know that the Kentucky historian Charles P. Roland 's An American Iliad compares the American Civil War to the heroic ancient fight between Greece and Troy ?
text: Did you know that the album Tarik O'Regan: Threshold of Night by the choral group Conspirare was nominated for two Grammy Awards ?
text: Did you know that there are only seven mature plants of Catalina mahogany remaining on Santa Catalina Island in California , making the species "one of the rarest trees in North America"?
text: Did you know that Benedict Nichols , Bishop of Bangor , was with King Henry V when he captured Harfleur ?
text: Did you know that Menggu Ziyun is a 14th century rime dictionary of Chinese as written in the 'Phags-pa script ?
text: Did you know that the British armoured cruiser HMS Achilles and the armed boarding steamer Dundee sank the German auxiliary cruiser Leopard in 1917 as it attempted to break through a British blockade ?
text: Did you know that Wolfenstein 1D , a fangame based on Wolfenstein 3D , features the same main character and plot but all objects are represented as one-dimensional pixels in a single line?
text: Did you know that the World Bank is supporting the scheme for the Cebu Bus Rapid Transit System in the Philippines financially and technically through its Clean Technology Fund ?
text: Did you know that former Ohio State Buckeyes basketball player Jamar Butler was MVP of the 2008 Portsmouth Invitational Tournament ?
text: Did you know that the Samaikyandhra Movement is a socio-political movement organized around the need for the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh to remain united and to oppose the secession of Telangana ?
text: Did you know that a dam was built on the Aras River in the 1960s, and inaugurated in 1971, with two hydroelectric power generators in Iran and two in Azerbaijan ?
text: Did you know that Olga Khokhlova realised that her husband Pablo Picasso had a mistress when she saw La Lecture ?
text: Did you know that, in 1991, Texas political activist Clymer Wright led the successful initiative to establish term limits on municipal officials in Houston , Texas ?
text: Did you know that Stokeleigh Camp is one of three Iron Age fortifications overlooking the Avon Gorge near Bristol ?
text: Did you know that the population density of Moroccan locust nymphs can reach several thousand individuals per square metre (11 sq ft)?
text: Did you know that the Wheeling Suspension Bridge is still open to traffic, despite U.S. Route 40 being diverted to the nearby Fort Henry Bridge after it was completed in 1956?
text: Did you know that Australian-born conductor Bryan Fairfax led the Polyphonia Orchestra in the first British performance of Sergei Rachmaninoff 's Symphony No. 1 in D minor in 1964?
text: Did you know that economists blame market failures on non-convexity ?
text: Did you know that the ancient city of Hamaxitus on the west coast of present-day Turkey used to issue coins featuring a nearby shrine for the Greek deity Apollo ?
text: Did you know that the lavaslope centaury , the only plant in the gentian family, Gentianaceae , that is native to Hawaii , is one of only 3% of the Hawaiian flora to have an annual life cycle ?
text: Did you know that Hall of Fame football coaches Bear Bryant and Dan Devine faced off in the 1968 Gator Bowl , which saw the worst loss for Alabama in 22 bowl games to that date?
text: Did you know that the 145 m 2 ( 1,560 sq ft ) naval ensign from the Spanish 74-gun ship San Ildefonso was hung in St Paul's Cathedral during the funeral of Lord Nelson ?
text: Did you know that hydroxyl megamasers were used to make the first detection of Zeeman splitting in a galaxy other than the Milky Way ?
text: Did you know that the endangered Garber's spurge , endemic to Florida , is known from only seventeen locations, one of which, on Cudjoe Key , consists of a single plant?
text: Did you know that James Fenimore Cooper 's novel The Red Rover was adapted as a burlesque on the London stage in 1877 by Sir Francis Cowley Burnand ?
text: Did you know that the THUMS Islands in California are camouflaged drilling rigs named in honor of NASA astronauts who died in accidents?
text: Did you know that the Never Miss a Super Bowl Club will not only lose a member at the kickoff of Super Bowl XLV , but the person will not be able to root for their favorite team ?
text: Did you know that Ralph Crosthwaite never played in the NBA , despite being drafted by both the Detroit Pistons and Boston Celtics ?
text: Did you know that, in female bedbugs , the spermalege reduces the wounding costs caused by a male's needle-like penis ?
text: Did you know that the statue George Washington by Richard Henry Park was the first public monument in Milwaukee ?
text: Did you know that the archaeological site of Tell Bazmusian in Iraq was flooded by Lake Dukan ?
text: Did you know that Catholic Bishop of Adelaide Laurence Sheil excommunicated Mary MacKillop , who eventually became Australia's first saint ?
text: Did you know that the Frankfurter Löwen , founded in 1977, were the first American football club to be formed in Germany and winner of the first two editions of the German Bowl ?
text: Did you know that St. Euprepius of Verona is venerated as the city 's first bishop ?
text: Did you know that in world-system theory , sociologists debate whether two world-systems have ever existed during the same period?
text: Did you know that the Clan of Xymox album Twist of Shadows established the Dutch band's cult status in the United States?
text: Did you know that Ranveer Singh had to stay at Delhi University and prepare for his role as Bittoo Sharma of Delhi , in his debut film Band Baaja Baaraat ?
text: Did you know that the First African Baptist Church of Richmond allowed its enslaved members to remarry if their spouses were sold out of state?
text: Did you know that, as part of the Land Question saga in Prince Edward Island , British troops were called in to enforce rent payments after an agreement by tenants not to pay them in 1864?
text: Did you know about Il Guerrin Meschino ("Wretched Guerrin"), an Italian prose romance with elements of fable , written by the Tuscan trovatore Andrea da Barberino about 1410?
text: Did you know that, after his professional basketball career in Israel was over, Jerome Lambert became a firefighter in Arkansas ?
text: Did you know that after successful restoration efforts in the 1990s, anglers in Lake Ahquabi now catch twice as many fish as in most other lakes in Iowa ?
text: Did you know that a bottle of 1973 Stag's Leap Wine Cellars Cabernet Sauvignon is kept at the Smithsonian for winning the 1976 Judgment of Paris wine tasting ?
text: Did you know that the German plant physiologist Gustav Gassner , whose 1931 book remains a popular reference, studied smut ?
text: Did you know that twenty-six U.S. states have an official reptile ?
text: Did you know that the pews in St Mary's Church, Badley , Suffolk have been untouched since the 18th century?
text: Did you know that the November 2010 sale by Silver Star Holidays of its local bus routes around Caernarfon ended nearly ninety years of bus service operation by the company?
text: Did you know that the collection of jams Nine to the Universe suggests that, in his final years, Jimi Hendrix was moving toward jazz?
text: Did you know that Polish and Italian prisoners taken by the Russians after the Battle of Krzykawka were deported to Siberia ?
text: Did you know that, according to a 1982 survey, Gris-gris were one of the top-three forms of birth control known to women in Senegal ?
text: Did you know that, while attempting to land at Marden Airfield , a French biplane carrying oysters crashed into a hedge?
text: Did you know that, besides giving hundreds of benefit concerts for residents of OHEL children's homes, Hasidic singer Shloime Dachs frequently hosts OHEL residents at his own home?
text: Did you know that, with a tower only 6.7 metres (22 ft) tall, the lighthouse keepers at Cape Cleveland Light had to wind the clockwork mechanism every 75 minutes?
text: Did you know that Andrew Querbes , the mayor of Shreveport , Louisiana , from 1902 to 1906, was born in New Orleans while the city was occupied by the Union Army ?
text: Did you know that Simplicidentata , the group including rodents and their closest extinct relatives, is characterized by the loss of a pair of upper incisors ?
text: Did you know that, in 2000, Solomon Islands politician Andrew Nori led the Eagle Force in a coup d'état against Prime Minister Bartholomew Ulufa'alu , taking him hostage at gunpoint and demanding that he resign?
text: Did you know that the instruction manual for the video game Summer Sports: Paradise Island was misprinted, leaving out instructions for four of the games?
text: Did you know that young Sokolov's Dwarf Hamsters are born with a dark stripe down their back that fades with age?
text: Did you know that there are, at most, 250 Thomas' Lidflowers left growing in Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands ?
text: Did you know that the foremost authority on primate anatomy during the 20th century, William Charles Osman Hill , enjoyed drugstore ice cream and gardening with his wife, Yvonne?
text: Did you know that the Class 11 was the only type of standard gauge 2-8-2 locomotive built in quantity for South African Railways ?
text: Did you know that WOLD-FM in Marion, Virginia , signed on almost exactly six years before " W*O*L*D ", Harry Chapin 's song about a fictional FM station in Boise, Idaho , peaked on the Billboard Hot 100 ?
text: Did you know that for most of Sir Richard Lane 's time as Lord Keeper of the Great Seal , there was no Great Seal ?
text: Did you know that Tony Macedo once had his ribs broken by a backpass from Tosh Chamberlain ?
text: Did you know that, in 1999, Katherine O'Regan came within 63 votes of keeping Winston Peters ' party New Zealand First out of Parliament ?
text: Did you know that at least 21 American troops died as a result of friendly fire during the recapturing of Kiska in 1943 , despite the island being uninhabited at the time of the assault?
text: Did you know that the authors of the webcomic Zahra's Paradise remain anonymous, for fear their coverage of recent Iranian events could endanger their relatives in Iran ?
text: Did you know that the Progress M-09M spacecraft, currently resupplying the International Space Station , is carrying a birthday present for station commander Scott J. Kelly ?
text: Did you know that a recipe for bacon jam by Martha Stewart includes freshly brewed coffee ?
text: Did you know that a display of sculptures by Hallsteinn Sigurðsson was installed in the tunnels and vaults of a hydroelectric power station in Iceland ?
text: Did you know that Jocelyne François won the Prix Femina in 1980 for Joue-nous "España" , a partly autobiographical lesbian novel ?
text: Did you know that cognitive rehabilitation therapy , which has been recommended for U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords , is also used to treat depression , schizophrenia , and ADHD ?
text: Did you know that the R.D. Whitehead Monument is situated where a popular Milwaukee watering trough used to be?
text: Did you know that, after art professors Jean Heiberg and Axel Revold had to leave the Norwegian National Academy of Fine Arts during the Nazification in 1941, they were secretly running an undercover arts academy in Oslo?
text: Did you know that Eamonn Mansfield resigned from the Irish Free State Senate five days after he was elected?
text: Did you know that the railway in Alderney is the only working railway in the Channel Islands , and draws a number of visitors to the island every year?
text: Did you know that the American Society of Magazine Editors book The Best American Magazine Writing 2007 features investigative journalism about the Beslan school hostage crisis and survivors of Agent Orange ?
text: Did you know that English comedy duo Ant & Dec won 'Most Popular Entertainment Presenter' for the tenth year in a row at the 16th National Television Awards ?
text: Did you know that the Vinegar Hill Historic District in Bloomington, Indiana , is distinguished by its lawn furniture?
text: Did you know that the Cornelius XBG-3 "bomb glider", an early guided missile designed in 1942, would have used a forward-swept wing ?
text: Did you know that, in the early twentieth century, Buttrills was the centre of education in Barry , Vale of Glamorgan , Wales ?
text: Did you know that lunar lava tubes could provide natural shelters for manned lunar habitats ?
text: Did you know that ten visions of the Blessed Virgin Mary experienced by Sr. Reinolda May led to the establishment of Ngome Marian Shrine , a pilgrim's center in KwaZulu-Natal ?
text: Did you know that Southampton Castle was one of the first castles in medieval England to be equipped with a cannon ?
text: Did you know that during World War I, journalist Alexis Nour argued that an alliance with the German Empire could turn Romania into a colonial power?
text: Did you know that, in April 2011, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security 's new two-tier National Terrorism Advisory System will replace the current color-coded Homeland Security Advisory System ?
text: Did you know that, although Chris Marcus was seven feet tall in high school , it took convincing from the school's basketball coach for him to play for the team?
text: Did you know that the mountains of Petatlán host a local environmental group, some members of which have been imprisoned by the government and defended by groups such as Amnesty International ?
text: Did you know that members of the Assembly of Vlorë rejected the autonomy of the Albanian Vilayet , projected a couple of months earlier, and signed the declaration of its complete independence on November 28 , 1912?
text: Did you know that, according to the theory of generations , major historical events that occur in a generation ' s youth, determine the actions they take later in life?
text: Did you know that Nehrim: At Fate's Edge is an award-winning total conversion mod of Bethesda Softworks ' The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion developed over the span of four years?
text: Did you know that the 1975 Orange Bowl was the last college football game coached by Ara Parseghian at Notre Dame ?
text: Did you know that despite being roundly denounced by educational experts as ineffective and promoting inequality, an eleven plus exam is still incorporated into the Maltese educational system ?
text: Did you know that Mia Skäringer , a Swedish actress and comedian, won the Kristallen Award for best comedy show on television in both 2008 and 2009?
text: Did you know that Ed Freed collected four hits , including two doubles and a triple , in his Major League Baseball debut with the Philadelphia Phillies ?
text: Did you know that iceberg watching is a popular attraction among tourists in Nunavut ?
text: Did you know that Amala , the giant who supports the Earth in the mythology of some Native Americans , is said to have slept in his urine?
text: Did you know that when they were listed as endangered in the United States in 1989, there were only three small populations of Brooksville bellflower and only four tiny populations of small-anthered bittercress known to exist?
text: Did you know that to fund the construction of his lavish tomb , Vietnamese Emperor Khải Định raised taxes by 30 percent?
text: Did you know that the turret of the Charles B. Russell House in Cincinnati , Ohio , has a pinnacle shaped like a beehive ?
text: Did you know that the minerals armalcolite , pyroxferroite and tranquillityite were discovered in lunar rocks ?
text: Did you know that Primitive Hall , built by Joseph Pennock in 1738, has been owned or controlled by his descendants ever since?
text: Did you know that in the book Net.wars , author Wendy M. Grossman attributes Internet conflict in the 1990s to culture shock from an influx of users?
text: Did you know that Copper Inuit men Uloqsaq and Sinnisiak became the first Inuit convicted for murder in Canada when they were found guilty of killing a priest?
text: Did you know that the Democratic Farmers League of Sweden promoted a modernized form of copyhold , whereby peasants would be relieved from debts?
text: Did you know that Milton Levine founded Uncle Milton's Toys, best known for its ant farm, with ants from the species Pogonomyrmex californicus ?
text: Did you know that Casper the Commuting Cat is a book about the true story of a cat who was a regular bus commuter in Plymouth , England?
text: Did you know that although it is thought that the Jenny Lind Tower was moved to its present location by an admirer of the late singer , the admirer was born 17 years after Lind toured the United States ?
text: Did you know that the Polish canned fish paste paprykarz szczeciński was inspired by an African dish?
text: Did you know that Crestwood Court , the first mall in the St. Louis area, has countered the loss of major retailers by adding tenants such as an art gallery and dance studio?
text: Did you know that the Dragon Rapide aircraft that crashed into the English Channel off Folkestone in 1934 had taken part in that year's King's Cup Air Race ?
text: Did you know that in 1909, journalist Jules Fournier was charged with contempt of court in Quebec for calling decisions made by its courts system a "prostitution of justice"?
text: Did you know that due to safety concerns following the Waco siege , when Joseph Borg seized the headquarters of a Christian ministry in Tampa , he used an armored vehicle to ensure that resistance would be futile?
text: Did you know that the Los Angeles Dodgers ' victory in the 1959 tie-breaker series was one of five tie-breaker appearances in franchise history, more than any other team in Major League Baseball history?
text: Did you know that between 1979 and 1989, the ivory trade was primarily responsible for the death of more than 500,000 elephants ?
text: Did you know that in 1763, the Mississauga chief Wabbicommicot appeared at Fort Niagara to demand rum payments from the British, and warned of consequences should they not be received?
text: Did you know that the canticle of Simeon is part of Bach's cantata Erfreute Zeit im neuen Bunde, BWV 83 , first performed on 2 February 1724 for the Feast of the Purification of Mary ?
text: Did you know that Jorge Luis Borges wrote his short story " There Are More Things " as a memorial to H. P. Lovecraft ?
text: Did you know that during World War II , bomber pilots of the United States Navy learned how to launch aerial rockets using SCARs ?
text: Did you know that Elke Neidhardt , who had a minor recurring role in Skippy the Bush Kangaroo , went on to direct the first full modern Australian production of Wagner's Ring Cycle ?
text: Did you know that the 3.5-Inch FFAR , developed by the U.S. Navy as an anti-submarine weapon, lacked an explosive warhead ?
text: Did you know that Stanford University alumnus Walton J. Wood became the first public defender in the history of the United States in 1914?
text: Did you know that Dave Douglas got the name for his album Strange Liberation from a phrase used by Martin Luther King, Jr. in reference to America's involvement in the Vietnam War ?
text: Did you know that the first enantioselective total synthesis of the antitumor antibiotic roseophilin used the Nazarov cyclization reaction as a key step?
text: Did you know that in recognition of his efforts to assist new Ukrainian immigrants to Canada, Cyril Genik was dubbed the " Czar of Canada"?
text: Did you know that 34 of 35 people aboard were killed when a Vickers Viking airliner crashed in Hampshire in May 1957 ?
text: Did you know that the Landis Report reviewed United States administrative agencies in 1960 for President-elect Kennedy and recommended greater clarity on the roles and authority of agency chairs?
text: Did you know that the Dunhuang Go Manual is the earliest surviving manual on the strategic board game of Go ?
text: Did you know that despite tourist numbers in Malta falling by 8 percent in 2009, the number of tourists arriving from Libya jumped by 24.7 percent?
text: Did you know that Brian K. Zahra was appointed to the Michigan Supreme Court by Governor Rick Snyder to replace Maura Corrigan , leaving appointees of Republican governors with a 4–3 majority on the court?
text: Did you know that the Farman F.450 Moustique , a French sport and training monoplane from the 1930s, was sold with an optional dog compartment?
text: Did you know that Jal Hans , India 's first commercial seaplane service, is part owned by Pawan Hans , India's largest helicopter services provider?
text: Did you know that over 13,000 square feet (1,200 m 2 ) of German-made tile lines the interior of the Wheeling Tunnel ?
text: Did you know that, together with Platychelys , Pleurosternon is one of the few fossil genera with characteristics of both modern turtle suborders ?
text: Did you know that Israeli film-maker Nurit Kedar received death threats after extracts from her film Concrete were screened on Britain's Channel 4 television?
text: Did you know that the Battle of Grochowiska , one of the largest battles of the January Uprising , has been also described as the "most bloody" and a " Pyrrhic victory " for the Polish insurgents?
text: Did you know that when a Douglas Dakota crashed on takeoff at London 's Croydon Airport in 1947, 12 people were killed?
text: Did you know that the Iggy Pop song " Funtime " has been covered by R.E.M. , The Cars , Blondie , Boy George and Liv Tyler's mother ?
text: Did you know that Charles Asten , a member of the U.S. Navy during the American Civil War, received the Medal of Honor for completing his duties on the USS Signal despite being on the sick list?
text: Did you know that RAF Weston-super-Mare in South West England was formed in 1940 when the Royal Air Force took over an existing municipal airport?
text: Did you know that Jo Tong Sop was a member of the North Korean football team that won the 1986 King's Cup against Aarhus Gymnastikforening ?
text: Did you know that New York's "War Memorial Church" was founded in 1944 by the Apostolic Vicar for the U.S. Armed Forces before Allied victory was assured?
text: Did you know that architect Vlastimil Koubek arrived in the United States from Czechoslovakia with just $12, but by the end of his career had designed buildings worth more than $2 billion ?
text: Did you know that Green-backed Trogons feed mostly on fruit?
text: Did you know that Henry Mann 's 1949 book, Analysis and design of experiments , filled mathematical gaps in the statistical writings of Ronald A. Fisher ?
text: Did you know that, during the construction of the Bærum Tunnel , an automatic groundwater measuring system was used to compensate for any leaks?
text: Did you know that American minister and Free Will Baptist theologian Ransom Dunn rode over thousands of miles of frontier on horseback, collecting donations for the opening of Hillsdale College ?
text: Did you know that in 1827, HMS Nimble , an anti-slave patrol, ran aground near the Florida Keys while engaged in a gun battle with the Spanish slave ship Guerrero , which also ran aground and sank?
text: Did you know that the medieval St. Laurence and All Saints Church, Eastwood must replace 38 metres (125 ft) of its wall to accommodate London Southend Airport ?
text: Did you know that Fred and Val Gregory were two of four brothers who were simultaneously contracted to Watford Football Club ?
text: Did you know that the Joseph Barker House near Marietta, Ohio , was built by the same man who built many boats for the Burr conspiracy ?
text: Did you know that American marathon runner Kim Merritt won both the 1975 New York City Marathon and 1976 Boston Marathon at the age of twenty?
text: Did you know that Sixtine Vulgate (1590), prepared by Pope Sixtus V , differs in 4900 variants from Sixto-Clementine Vulgate (1592), prepared by Pope Clement VIII ?
text: Did you know that, in the case of White v Driver , Sir John Nicholl ruled that the will of an insane person could be valid provided the testator was lucid when making the will?
text: Did you know that the Faces of Meth project shows before-and-after images documenting physical deterioration caused by meth use?
text: Did you know that Charlie Webb was appointed manager of English association football club Brighton & Hove Albion while awaiting repatriation from a prisoner-of-war camp in Mainz , Germany?
text: Did you know that Charles Fletcher, the first European settler in what is now Navarro River Redwoods State Park , built an inn in 1865 that remained open until the 1970s?
text: Did you know that Lycée Pierre Corneille was founded in 1593 to educate children "in accordance with the purest doctrinal principles of Roman Catholicism"?
text: Did you know that, during World War II , hundreds of vessels produced for the United States Navy at two different shipyards first entered the Atlantic Ocean at Hingham Bay in Massachusetts ?
text: Did you know that The Great White Wonder was named the best album of 1991 that 'You Didn't Hear' by Spin ?
text: Did you know that St Andrew's Church, Willingale , Essex , shares its churchyard with the adjacent church of St Christopher?
text: Did you know that Mario Moraga , former regidor of Pichilemu , Chile , is popularly known as "El Sin Pelos en la Lengua", meaning "The One Without Minced Words"?
text: Did you know that The Off Hours was the first film to be given the "SSF Tag" by the Sustainable Style Foundation for its environmentally friendly practices?
text: Did you know that U.S. Army Private Dale Maple was condemned to death in World War II for aiding two German prisoners of war in an unsuccessful escape attempt, though his sentence was commuted by President Roosevelt ?
text: Did you know that the Hålogaland Bridge in Norway was considered being built as a symphony bridge , which combines the structural components of a suspension , cable-stayed and cantilever bridge?
text: Did you know that Dennis Day , a longtime cast member of The Jack Benny Program , had his own NBC comedy show , The Dennis Day Show , in the 1953 season?
text: Did you know that Blue Peter 's album, Falling , contained the song "Don't Walk Past", the video for which was inspired by the then-recent film Blade Runner ?
text: Did you know that in a diplomatic cable obtained by WikiLeaks , the U.S. embassy in Colombo implicated Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa in alleged war crimes committed during the Sri Lankan Civil War ?
text: Did you know that the Church of SS Peter and Paul is one of only three surviving Medieval Latin churches in Galata , Istanbul ?
text: Did you know that, although its working title was "DL Part 2", Nelly claims his 2011 duet with Kelly Rowland , " Gone ", is not a sequel to their 2002 duet " Dilemma "?
text: Did you know that the Walter Curtis House has been recognized as one of the best Greek Revival farmhouses in southeastern Ohio ?
text: Did you know that the Royal Engineers used to go to Harewood Park , a rural estate speculated by the British media to be the future home of Prince William and his fiancee Kate Middleton , for demolition practice?
text: Did you know that Thomas-Morse 's general plant superintendent called the company's MB-4 mail plane "the worst thing on wings"?
text: Did you know that, fifteen years before they launched ABC 's The Odd Couple , Tony Randall and Jack Klugman appeared together in an episode of CBS 's Appointment with Adventure ?
text: Did you know that the U.S. Supreme Court held in O'Connor v. Ortega that public employees have Fourth Amendment rights in the workplace but declined to decide whether they were violated in the case under consideration?
text: Did you know that despite the low ratings of CBS 's Three for the Road , the 1975 series propelled Leif Garrett onto TV Guide 's "25 Greatest Teen Idols" list?
text: Did you know that the Soviet pre-dreadnought battleship Andrei Pervozvanny bombarded Fort Krasnaya Gorka from 13 to 15 June 1919 after its garrison had mutinied against the Bolsheviks ?
text: Did you know that the 1953 Suva earthquake caused the collapse of an 800-metre (2,600 ft) long section of barrier reef , triggering a tsunami and damaging submarine cables?
text: Did you know that although Australian soccer player Kris Trajanovski only scored in three matches for his country, he scored three hat-tricks ?
text: Did you know that the citizens of Verboort, Oregon , produce 15 tons of sausage and 2,000 pounds of sauerkraut for the community's annual sausage and sauerkraut festival?
text: Did you know that Tim Ryan ' s first electronic product was supposed to compete with a US$ 15 synthesizer module but ended up at a price of US$30,000?
text: Did you know that the second hydration shell of chromium (III) in aqueous solution contains around 13 water molecules?
text: Did you know that an incident of Indian rolling led to the death of three Navajos in 1974?
text: Did you know that Gerald Barry organised a seminar that became the last public speaking appearance of Conor Cruise O'Brien ?
text: Did you know that each year, two athletes are named Academic All-America Team Members of the Year , one in the college division and one in the university division?
text: Did you know that many readers of The Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley were upset by its portrayal of Shelley ?
text: Did you know that in 2002, a British man working in a bookstore conned 30 people into leaving their homes and quitting their jobs?
text: Did you know that Chief Stephen Talkhouse unsuccessfully filed three lawsuits between 1897 and 1918 against the Long Island Rail Road , and its predecessors in title, claiming Montauk Point ?
text: Did you know that the Krishnapuram Palace in Kerala has a copy of the Bible in Sanskrit that was printed in Kolkata in 1886?
text: Did you know that hurdle technology is a technique where pathogens in a food product are subjected to "hurdles" designed to inhibit or kill them?
text: Did you know that, in the mid-1980s, the Italian wine grape Verdicchio was the 15th most widely planted grape variety in the world, with more plantings than even Chardonnay and Pinot noir ?
text: Did you know that Ukraine has been one of the most successful nations at the Summer and Winter Paralympic Games in recent years?
text: Did you know that during an eleven-year professional baseball career, German -born Rudolph "Skel" Roach played for teams known as the Prohibitionists, Omahogs, Orphans and Siwashes?
text: Did you know that the untitled masonry statues located in Davis Square , Somerville , Massachusetts, had bronze "masks" added to them because of vandalism?
text: Did you know that although true bugs eat aphids , they help the aphids by eating another predator , young lacewings ?
text: Did you know that in the rare 1984 video game Gremlins , the player must either prevent the furry Mogwai from eating the hamburgers at the bottom of the screen, or shoot them after they transform into gremlins ?
text: Did you know that Émile Durkheim , one of the fathers of sociology , intended The Rules of Sociological Method (1895) to be a manifesto of this discipline?
text: Did you know that Labweh , a village in Lebanon , has springs and a river named after it that flow northwards to form the Orontes River ?
text: Did you know that remains of the recently described saber-toothed anomodont Tiarajudens were uncovered from a location in Brazil that was first found using Google Earth ?
text: Did you know that during Chief Justice Roger B. Taney 's tenure from 1836 to 1864, the U.S. Supreme Court heard four cases involving the Sac and Fox Half-Breed Tract ?
text: Did you know that the second pile lighthouse built at Moreton Bay Pile Light survived being hit by a barge towed by a tug in 1945, but was destroyed by a tanker in 1949?
text: Did you know that before becoming a state legislator and then railroad commissioner in Nebraska , Henry Clarke pitched with Cy Young for the Cleveland Spiders and coached Michigan Wolverines baseball ?
text: Did you know that the Digital Education Revolution was a promise made by Kevin Rudd as part of his 2007 Australian federal election campaign?
text: Did you know that Welsh artist Alfred Janes was part of The Kardomah Gang , which included poet Dylan Thomas ?
text: Did you know that the Permian therocephalian Glanosuchus , an early relative of mammals, may have been warm-blooded ?
text: Did you know that Small Heath F.C. was not promoted to the Football League First Division after winning the inaugural Second Division title in 1892–93 , while the second- and third-place teams were?
text: Did you know that Wrath of the Titans , the upcoming sequel to the 2010 film Clash of the Titans , is being shot in 3-D rather than being converted to 3-D like its predecessor?
text: Did you know that Napua Stevens 's 1949 Hawaiian hit " Beyond the Reef " was later recorded by Bing Crosby , Elvis Presley , and The Ventures ?
text: Did you know that Thomas Fitch was the lead attorney in defending Morgan , Virgil , and Wyatt Earp , along with Doc Holliday , when they were indicted for murder after the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral ?
text: Did you know that a chest tomb in the churchyard of Old St Peter and St Paul's Church, Albury in Surrey commemorates the artists Arthur Devis and Anthony Devis ?
text: Did you know that anarchist Becky Edelsohn was the first woman to attempt a hunger strike in the United States?
text: Did you know that Louisiana historian Henry E. Chambers received his Ph.D from Johns Hopkins University , where one of his instructors was future U.S. President Woodrow Wilson ?
text: Did you know that the Great Barn within the Manor Farm site in Ruislip was built around 1280, using timber from the nearby Ruislip Woods?
text: Did you know that Imperial German Secretary of Justice Rudolf Arnold Nieberding declared the German Lèse majesté laws as "not entirely reconcilable with the general sense of justice"?
text: Did you know that John Giordano , named 1981 collegiate Coach of the Year by The Hockey News , was fired three years later when all 22 of his players signed a petition listing their grievances against him?
text: Did you know that during the Second World War , the airfield at Saint-Inglevert , Pas-de-Calais , France , was used by the Armée de l'Air , the Royal Air Force , and the Luftwaffe ?
text: Did you know that Mia Farrow found children at Donka Hospital dying of measles because they had not received a $1 vaccination?
text: Did you know that an aerial shot of the festival featured in the Parks and Recreation episode " Harvest Festival " was the most expensive shot of the entire series?
text: Did you know that the Hotel de France in Conakry , Guinea , was the first project of the French architectural firm Atelier LWD and architect Guy Lagneau from 1953 to 1954?
text: Did you know that Claude Arnulphy of Aix-en-Provence painted portraits of Royal Navy officers while their fleet was lying off Toulon ?
text: Did you know that California Appellate Court Justice William A. Reppy , an appointee of Governor Ronald Reagan , was a member of the Stanford University track and field team and editor of the USC Law Review ?
text: Did you know that St Thomas' Church in East Shefford, Berkshire , contains the tomb of a member of the Portuguese royal family?
text: Did you know that in the book The Oxford companion to Australian film , Morag Bellingham of Home and Away is described as a "soap opera super-bitch"?
text: Did you know that 26-year-old John F. Kennedy swam in the freezing McCloud River while wintering with William Randolph Hearst at Wyntoon ?
text: Did you know that while inspecting the cargo of the freighter Victoria , Israeli naval commandos found 50 tons of weapons concealed beneath bags of cotton and lentils from Syria ?
text: Did you know that Ruprecht of the Palatinate was so unpopular as Archbishop of Cologne that he was ultimately forced to sign a resignation in exchange for an annuity of 4,000 gold guilders ?
text: Did you know that ABC 's Jukebox Jury began as a local musical program on KNXT-TV , then the CBS affiliate in Los Angeles ?
text: Did you know that glamour model Linni Meister appeared nude in the music video for her single "My Ass" which was released as promotion for the 2009 Norwegian comedy-horror film Dead Snow ?
text: Did you know that Al Szolack lost all 245 professional basketball games he ever played in?
text: Did you know that a novel type of aerodynamic arrowhead , the Abu Madi Point , was found at the prehistoric site of Abu Madi , Egypt ?
text: Did you know that following its construction in 1574, Coldham Hall remained the property of the Rookwood family for almost three centuries?
text: Did you know that the Cayuga Nature Center has a rope climbing / rope bridge course?
text: Did you know that the music video for Rufus Wainwright 's song "April Fools", which appeared on his eponymous debut album , featured cameo appearances by Melissa Auf der Maur and No Doubt 's Gwen Stefani ?
text: Did you know that although he never competed in the final round of an America's Cup race, yachtsman Gerry Driscoll permanently changed the way teams prepare for that event?
text: Did you know that ex-boxer Boone Kirkman earned his nickname because of his habits while hunting with his father?
text: Did you know that Alexander Briger conducted Don John of Austria , Australia's first opera, written by his great-great-great-great-grandfather Isaac Nathan ?
text: Did you know that although it gave the game a "C" rating, The Video Game Critic praised A-VCS-tec Challenge for "some of the best graphics and audio you'll experience on your 2600 "?
text: Did you know that migratory waterfowl can be seen in the winter in Mexico City at the Xochimilco Ecological Park ?
text: Did you know that the Vaccines for Children Program provides free vaccines to uninsured or underinsured children in the United States ?
text: Did you know that film director Uberto Pasolini created his 2008 film Machan based upon an actual 2004 incident where a group of Sri Lankan men tricked their way into an international handball tournament?
text: Did you know that the upcoming new Yes album Fly from Here features Benoît David , a former Yes cover band vocalist?
text: Did you know that Joseph Schleifstein arrived at the Buchenwald concentration camp at age two, and survived because his father hid him in a sack?
text: Did you know that the 1432 land register of the Albanian Sanjak is one of the earliest surviving Ottoman land registers?
text: Did you know that Japanese seismologist Kiyoo Mogi proposed the "Mogi doughnut hypothesis" for predicting earthquakes ?
text: Did you know that Mo Li Hua ( Jasmine Flower ), a popular Chinese folk song used previously on many official occasions, was censored due to its association with the 2011 Chinese protests ?
text: Did you know that Stan Hansen , a longtime " Gaijin heel " in Japanese professional wrestling , officially retired at the Giant Baba Memorial Spectacular ?
text: Did you know that Boston Red Sox baseball player Ryan Kalish didn’t miss a single pitch he swung at in his senior year of high school baseball?
text: Did you know that the Japanese have been regarded as demonstrating " gaman " in the wake of the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami ?
text: Did you know that architect Frank Lloyd Wright called the Wainwright Building , built by Ellis Wainwright in St. Louis, Missouri , in 1890–92, "the very first human expression of a tall steel office-building as Architecture"?
text: Did you know that James Dunne O'Connell served as the Chief Signal Officer of the United States Army from 1955 to 1959?
text: Did you know that Moroccan runner Abderrahim Goumri has been the runner-up at the New York City Marathon , London Marathon (twice) and the Chicago Marathon ?
text: Did you know that Entropezites , Mycetophagites , and Palaeoagaracites present the oldest evidence of fungal parasitism and hyperparasitism by other fungi in the fossil record ?
text: Did you know that bookmaker Ladbrokes paid out on bets that former UK Chancellor , Kenneth Clarke , would fall asleep during the 2011 budget speech?
text: Did you know that the 1869 Atlantic hurricane season was the earliest year in the Atlantic hurricane database in which there were at least ten tropical cyclones ?
text: Did you know that Sonoma wine producer Hanzell Vineyards was one of the first California wineries to produce barrel-aged Chardonnay ?
text: Did you know that the small extrasolar planet Kepler-9d orbits its host star every 1.59 days?
text: Did you know that cricketer Bill Shipman played over 100 first-class matches for Leicestershire ?
text: Did you know that with " Nearer My God to Thee ", Isabella Hofmann joined the cast of Homicide: Life on the Street to add more sex appeal to the cast?
text: Did you know that children's author Phoebe Gilman 's inspiration for The Wonderful Pigs of Jillian Jiggs came from her daughter selling mice bookmarks ?
text: Did you know that biopreservation is a benign ecological approach to food preservation which is gaining increasing attention?
text: Did you know that the German ironclad SMS König Wilhelm was the largest and most powerful warship in the Imperial Navy in the late 19th century?
text: Did you know that the Fujinuma Dam near Sukagawa City failed after the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake causing homes downstream to wash away?
text: Did you know that the Mercado Jamaica market in Mexico City offers about 5,000 species of flowers and ornamental plants, including some native species taken from the wild?
text: Did you know that Pete Conway won 30 games as a pitcher for the Detroit Wolverines in 1888, "snapped a cord in his arm" in 1889, later worked as a mule skinner , and was dead by age 36?
text: Did you know that, following a dispute at the Sheffield Attercliffe by-election result in 1909, Arnold Muir Wilson sued a rival for damage to his bowler hat ?
text: Did you know that the medieval Church of St John the Baptist in Asenovgrad , Bulgaria , features arrowslits for defence?
text: Did you know that the disgruntled sailors of the Russian battleship Imperator Pavel I instigated the 1917 mutiny of the Baltic Fleet in Helsinki ?
text: Did you know that six years before being cast as Aunt Bee on The Andy Griffith Show , Frances Bavier played a similar role in the NBC sitcom It's a Great Life ?
text: Did you know that the Supreme Constitutional Court , as defined by the Syrian constitution , may not examine laws passed by a referendum?
text: Did you know that the Jimmy Eat World single " Work " that stayed on the Billboard Alternative Songs chart for 21 weeks was described as "tailor-made for teenage runaway fantasies"?
text: Did you know that California attorney Charles Stetson Wheeler built a temple to fishing at his hunting lodge on McCloud River ?
text: Did you know that the Texas State Representative James C. Spencer was a prisoner of war in the 1942 Bataan Death March ?
text: Did you know that according to tradition Lectionary 300 , a Greek manuscript of the New Testament, was written by the Emperor Theodosius († 395)?
text: Did you know that instead of being topped by a dome, the roof of the 6th-century Belovo Basilica in southwestern Bulgaria consisted of a row of baldachin -like arches?
text: Did you know that when the German ocean liner SS Columbus was intercepted by the British destroyer HMS Hyperion off Cape Hatteras on 19 December 1939, she was scuttled by her crew to avoid capture?
text: Did you know that Wilf Martin played for the 1964 NCAA championship Michigan Wolverines ice hockey team and later set the Denver Spurs ' single-season and career records for goals, assists, and points?
text: Did you know that Lenny Kravitz was a guest musician on Backatown , the major label debut by his former apprentice Trombone Shorty ?
text: Did you know that in United States v. Lee (1882), the Supreme Court held that a jury had properly ordered that the U.S. government return Arlington National Cemetery to the heir of Confederate General Robert E. Lee ?
text: Did you know that among winners of the Leonard Statuette , named after Einar Leonard Schanke , are Kari Diesen , Rolf Just Nilsen , Arild Feldborg , and Alfred Næss ?
text: Did you know that Konbaung-Hanthawaddy War was the last of several wars between the Burmese -speaking Upper Burma and the Mon -speaking Lower Burma , ending the Mon people 's centuries-long dominance of Lower Burma?
text: Did you know that the Homicide: Life on the Street episode " A Many Splendored Thing " included a subplot based on a real-life murder committed over a pen?
text: Did you know that when Nyasaland Governor Robert Perceval Armitage declared a state of emergency, Rose Chibambo was allowed to give birth to her baby before going to jail?
text: Did you know that Mr. Universe Steve Reeves played an office boy in a 1954 episode of the ABC sitcom The Ray Bolger Show ?
text: Did you know that the German ironclad SMS Hansa ' s service career was cut short due to severe corrosion in her hull?
text: Did you know that Timothy Brown was the soloist in Mozart's four horn concertos with the Academy of St Martin in the Fields , conducted by his sister Iona Brown ?
text: Did you know that, in the Itamar attack , five members of a family were stabbed to death in their beds in the Israeli settlement of Itamar in the West Bank ?
text: Did you know that Diosso Gorge is known as the " Grand Canyon of the Congo "?
text: Did you know that Stafford L. Warren invented the mammogram ?
text: Did you know that Dear Friend Hitler , an Indian film, centres on letters written from Mahatma Gandhi to Adolf Hitler ?
text: Did you know that over 2,000 years ago two Chinese armies traveled 10,000 km to find "Heavenly Horses" , apparently infected with a tiny worm causing them to "sweat blood" from sores"?
text: Did you know that Keanu Reeves has signed on to star in a new film adaptation of the Forty-seven Ronin produced by Universal Pictures ?
text: Did you know that the first international railway link built in Laos opened in 2009, bringing trains across the Mekong from Nong Khai to Thanaleng Railway Station ?
text: Did you know that John Balmer achieved renown as a flying instructor in the RAAF by reputedly parachuting from an aircraft to force his pupil to land single-handed?
text: Did you know that the 2010 BBC television pilot Dirk Gently was the first screen adaptation of Douglas Adams 's novel Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency ?
text: Did you know that actress Jennifer Aniston 's " sex tape " includes puppies, a talking parrot , dirty-dancing babies and a groin kick ?
text: Did you know that Michigan baseball player and coach Jerry Utley was the owner of a luxury hotel in Baja California and the promoter of the 1933 Max Schmeling – Max Baer heavyweight championship fight?
text: Did you know that the 2011 Crufts Best in Show winner, Vbos The Kentuckian , is a descendant of the 1980 winner ?
text: Did you know that Lady Gaga approved the use of her song " Born This Way " for the Glee episode of the same name before the single premiered?
text: Did you know that Aniba rosaeodora is processed by mobile distilleries transported by raft ?
text: Did you know that the WiiWare video game Bit.Trip Void was designed to have a minimalistic style, reflected in the audio, visuals, and its HUD ?
text: Did you know that while the wilga is a valued fodder tree of rural Australia , it is not known why sheep like some trees and not others?
text: Did you know that Rebecca Black intends to donate profits from viral hit " Friday " to school arts programs and disaster relief efforts in Japan ?
text: Did you know that Professor Andor Harvey Gomme 's first name was a family joke?
text: Did you know that the Treaty of Serbian-Albanian Alliance was signed in 1914 in the Banovina building in Niš ; which is now the seat of the University of Niš ?
text: Did you know that Dennis Russell Davies conducted the Münchener Kammerorchester in works of Thomas Larcher with soloists Till Fellner and Kim Kashkashian ?
text: Did you know that even though Norwegian architect Bernt Heiberg supported the communist league Mot Dag in the 1930s, he opposed the May 1968 revolts ?
text: Did you know that the air-tractor sledge , the first aeroplane to be taken to Antarctica , went without wings?
text: Did you know that the Church of the Good Shepherd , damaged in the 2010 Canterbury earthquake , suffered significant damage in a subsequent vandalism attack?
text: Did you know that the Norwegian ship broker Ragnar Stoud Platou headed several golf clubs in Norway?
text: Did you know that the Virginia Board of Health became involved in a controversy over abortion access when it was required to regulate outpatient clinics that perform first trimester abortions?
text: Did you know that in Ancient Israelite cuisine , bread was primarily made from barley flour, even though wheat flour was regarded as superior?
text: Did you know that Juliette (1956–66), the Canadian variety series which followed Hockey Night in Canada , attracted more than a million viewers per episode?
text: Did you know that according to its original constitution , the capital of the United Arab Emirates is Al Karama , but no such city actually exists?
text: Did you know that The Donald O'Connor Show , a 1954 NBC musical sitcom , is based on the premise of two young, struggling songwriters seeking buyers for their compositions?
text: Did you know that Bit.Trip Beat took inspiration from the early video game Pong for its gameplay?
text: Did you know that Barbara Staff , a co-chairman of the 1976 campaign of Ronald Reagan in Texas, became a Republican activist in reaction to her political science professor?
text: Did you know that the spire of All Saints Church in Haugham , Lincolnshire , with its ornate flying buttresses , is said to echo the similar but larger spire of St. James Church in Louth ?
text: Did you know that Joseph Barss , the first head coach of the Michigan Wolverines men's ice hockey team, was born in Madras, India , in 1892?
text: Did you know that when the ceasefire was issued to end the Battle of Ismailia , some Israeli paratroopers and Egyptian Sa'iqa found that they were no more than 20 meters apart?
text: Did you know that Lyndon Watts , principal bassoonist of the Munich Philharmonic at age 22, was the first Australian woodwind player to win a prize at the ARD Competition ?
text: Did you know that Michigan ice hockey coach Dan Farrell later became the chairman and CEO of a uranium exploration company?
text: Did you know that the Taunton Tramway in Somerset closed down when its power was cut off during a dispute over the cost of electricity ?
text: Did you know that EyesOn Design are events, including an annual car show and a fundraiser for the Detroit Institute of Ophthalmology , focused on the emotion and character of automotive design ?
text: Did you know that Władysław Marian Jakowicki , a Polish physician and rector of the Stefan Batory University , was one of 19 faculty members arrested by the Soviets in 1939 who disappeared without a trace ?
text: Did you know that three lunar alignments of the Balquhain stone circle near Inverurie in Scotland were discovered in the 1980s?
text: Did you know that as a result of the 1900 Hoboken Docks Fire in New Jersey , the size of portholes on ships was increased so that they could be used as a means of escape in an emergency?
text: Did you know that professional basketball player Trey Johnson ended his college baseball career after suffering a ligament injury on his elbow that required a Tommy John surgery ?
text: Did you know that The Islamic Society of Greater Manchester is building the first mosque in New Hampshire ?
text: Did you know that the Ithaca Discovery Trail , a collaboration among seven hands-on museums and the public library in Tompkins County, New York , hosts 2,900 students on field trips each year?
text: Did you know that Soviet astronomer Pavel Petrovich Parenago was the first to teach a course on galactic astronomy in the Soviet Union?
text: Did you know that the Turkish Union of Xanthi was banned by Greek courts because the use of the word "Turkish" in its title was considered to endanger public order?
text: Did you know that, though there are now 101 Republicans in the Texas House of Representatives , Midland oilman Frank Kell Cahoon was his party's sole member in the 1965 legislative session?
text: Did you know that 20th-century artists Eric Gill and Leon Underwood created works for Italianate parish churches in and around Oxford designed by architect T. Lawrence Dale ?
text: Did you know that the Alaska-Juneau Gold Mining Company 's two stamp mills on Gold Creek were driven exclusively by water power ?
text: Did you know that the architectural firm of F. S. Platou designed the Kon-Tiki Museum in Oslo?
text: Did you know that Abe Cohn , son of immigrant parents identified as "Russian Yiddish" by U.S. Census -takers, played for the Michigan Wolverines football and basketball teams while attending law school?
text: Did you know that HMS Mendip (L60) served in the navies of three other countries after her use by the Royal Navy in World War II ?
text: Did you know that Romania 's Elena Fidatov is one of the most prolific runners at the World Cross Country Championships , having competed on 13 occasions?
text: Did you know that Polish neurologist Włodzimierz Godłowski was one of the victims of the Katyn massacre ?
text: Did you know that " Losing a Whole Year ", one of Third Eye Blind 's "catchiest" songs, stayed on Billboard' s alternative chart for 14 weeks?
text: Did you know that the steam-powered foghorn was first demonstrated successfully in 1859 on Partridge Island in the Port of Saint John ?
text: Did you know that Albert Nutter took 600 wickets in first-class cricket ?
text: Did you know that The Jo Stafford Show and The Jo Stafford Show were produced seven years apart in the United States and Britain?
text: Did you know that in the mid-nineteenth century Argentina successfully resisted a five-year naval blockade by France and the United Kingdom ?
text: Did you know that not only is Old Hemp considered the father of the modern Border Collie , but he originated the working style of herding sheep commonly seen among the breed today?
text: Did you know that while the Xinfengjiang Dam 's reservoir in China was filling in 1962, there were several earthquakes near it, including one at 6.1- magnitude ?
text: Did you know that the Root Covered Bridge is one of just eight Long truss bridges remaining in Ohio today?
text: Did you know that the English Puritan Thomas Posthumous Hoby has been claimed as the inspiration for Shakespeare 's Malvolio ?
text: Did you know that Appalachian novelist Anne Armstrong was the first woman to lecture before the Harvard School of Business and Dartmouth ' s Tuck School of Business ?
text: Did you know that the actions of the German armored frigate SMS Friedrich Carl during a rebellion in Spain nearly precipitated a war between the rebels and Germany?
text: Did you know that former Michigan coach William Perigo played professional basketball with John Wooden as a member of the Indianapolis Kautskys in the 1930s?
text: Did you know that the extinct Phlebotominae sandfly Pintomyia falcaorum is known only from Miocene age Dominican amber found on Hispaniola ?
text: Did you know that the Out Of The Ordinary Festival celebrates the autumn equinox in England with a variety of live music and talks about prehistoric culture and earth mysteries ?
text: Did you know that the town of Juneau, Alaska , was established after the 1880 discovery of gold in Silver Bow Basin by Richard Harris and Joe Juneau ?
text: Did you know that U.S. Army Special Forces reservist Gary Rader was arrested in 1967 for draft-card burning ?
text: Did you know that George Durkin Corneal became the first coach of the Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team in 1909?
text: Did you know that flooding associated with the Sanriku earthquake and tsunami in 869 extended for at least four kilometres inland on the Sendai plain?
text: Did you know that John McLaughlin 's Grammy nominated album To the One was inspired by John Coltrane 's album A Love Supreme ?
text: Did you know that after defeating the Ottomans in the Battle of Ohrid , Skanderbeg distributed a large amount of ransom money to his men and dined off letnica with them?
text: Did you know that there is evidence that humans have been processing fish since the early Holocene ?
text: Did you know that " Huda the executioner " was recently deposed as mayor of Benghazi , Libya?
text: Did you know that Ozzie Cowles of Carleton , Dartmouth , Michigan and Minnesota was among the Top 15 winningest college basketball coaches of all-time when he retired at 59 in 1959?
text: Did you know that Mexican freedom fighter José María Jesús Carbajal was mentored as a teenager by Stephen F. Austin ?
text: Did you know that in State v. Elliott (1992), the Vermont Supreme Court held that all aboriginal title in Vermont was extinguished "by the increasing weight of history"?
text: Did you know that the works of Eugen Relgis , a Romanian -born anarcho-pacifist and eugenicist , were targeted by Nazi book-burners and communist censors ?
text: Did you know that at 5.4 kilometres (3.4 mi) long, the Taiji Cave in Anhui Province is the largest karst cave in East China ?
text: Did you know that Kainai artist Faye HeavyShield created the artwork body of land using images of human skin printed on paper and made into little tipi -shaped forms?
text: Did you know that the video for industrial rock band KMFDM 's new song " Krank " was simultaneously shot in Hamburg , Seattle , and Portland, Oregon ?
text: Did you know that Dutch child psychologist Bloeme Evers-Emden was deported to Auschwitz on the same train as Anne Frank ?
text: Did you know that Sologubovka Cemetery , near St Petersburg, Russia , is the largest German war cemetery in the world and the final resting place of over 30,000 German war dead from World War II ?
text: Did you know that miniaturist Amalia Küssner Coudert painted tiny watercolor-on-ivory portraits of royalty, including King Edward VII and Czar Nicholas II of Russia ?
text: Did you know that U.S. Supreme Court justice Antonin Scalia mentioned " the perennial end-of-season slump of the Chicago Cubs " in his Waters v. Churchill concurrence despite the case having nothing to do with baseball?
text: Did you know that assassins of Aleksandar Stamboliyski cut off his hand because he used it to sign the 1923 Treaty of Niš ?
text: Did you know that the anonymous Vita sancti Cuthberti , or "Life of Saint Cuthbert ", is the earliest piece of English Latin hagiography ?
text: Did you know that General Lord Walker was the first commander of the ground component of NATO 's Implementation Force in 1995?
text: Did you know that the 2009 Norwegian anthology Liberalisme: Politisk frihet fra John Locke til Amartya Sen was criticized by reviewers for selecting a sample of liberal thinkers who did not belong together?
text: Did you know that Rob Lowe was originally expected to leave the comedy television series Parks and Recreation after the episode " Indianapolis ", but he instead signed on as a permanent cast member?
text: Did you know that St George's Church in Goltho , Lincolnshire , is all that remains of a deserted medieval village ?
text: Did you know that Ojibwa artist Jim Denomie 's painting Casino Sunrise depicts Minnesota governor Tim Pawlenty standing behind Babe the Blue Ox with his pants around his ankles?
text: Did you know that the 1997 Central European flood was caused by some of the heaviest rains ever recorded ?
text: Did you know that Canadian architect Leslie R. Fairn , whose output ranged from Beaux Arts to Modernism , had a career lasting 65 years?
text: Did you know that icodextrin is a polysaccharide that is used to keep tissues from gluing together after surgery?
text: Did you know that Jens-Daniel Herzog staged the opera Intermezzo of Richard Strauss , with Christiane Kohl as Christine, "the composer's formidable and frequently hysterical wife"?
text: Did you know that the sailing venue used for the 1976 Summer Olympics was the first and only one to take place in fresh water ?
text: Did you know that knife-maker Gil Hibben has designed so many knives for the Star Trek franchise that Paramount Pictures dubbed him the "Official Klingon Armorer"?
text: Did you know that Steve Reich 's composition, WTC 9/11 , premieres today with a performance by the Kronos Quartet at Duke University ?
text: Did you know that John Bell received the SIAM / ACM prize with Phil Colella for computational science and engineering in 2003?
text: Did you know that Glee 's newest album includes two original songs that appear in the Glee episode " Original Song "?
text: Did you know that Lydia Cecilia Hill was an English dancer who became a favourite of the Sultan of Johor ?
text: Did you know that the Centro de Abasto (Groceries Center) market, the most important in Mexico , serves 300,000 people and handles 30,000 tons of merchandise per day?
text: Did you know that in his only National Hockey League playoff game, Bill Moe fractured two vertebrae ?
text: Did you know that Norwegian entrepreneur Henrik Christian Fredrik Størmer was appointed official reporter of Norway at the Exposition Universelle of 1878 in Paris ?
text: Did you know that a significant difference between the Christian Evangelical Church of Romania and the Evangelical Church of Romania , which were united under the Communist regime , is the form of baptism each practices?
text: Did you know that after KV Pharmaceutical received an FDA -sponsored monopoly to exclusively market a drug that had been already available for five decades , it raised its price from about US$ 15 to US$1,500?
text: Did you know that medieval historian Eleanor Duckett (1880–1976) and her lifelong companion, regional novelist Mary Ellen Chase , have adjoining halls named for them at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts ?
text: Did you know that Dutch paleobotanist Willem van Zeist analyzed the first domesticated emmer wheat found at Tell Aswad , Syria?
text: Did you know that the actor voicing the creature in the Fringe episode " Night of Desirable Objects " placed pieces of orange in his mouth in order to have "a slobbery, sputtering voice"?
text: Did you know that Article 8 of the Syrian Constitution stipulates that the Ba'ath Party is the "leading party in the society and the state"?
text: Did you know that Bart Thane , managing director of the Alaska-Gastineau Mining Company , pioneered hydroelectric power in Juneau, Alaska ?
text: Did you know that The Power of Half describes how the Salwen family sold their home, donated half the proceeds to charity, and downgraded to a house half the size and value?
text: Did you know that Choctaw - Cherokee artist Jeffrey Gibson was described by Jimmie Durham as the Miles Davis of contemporary Native American art ?
text: Did you know that the Islamic Djamaat of Dagestan was a political entity, influenced by militant Wahhabism , that declared its independence from Russian rule in 1998?
text: Did you know that as director-general of Norwegian State Railways , Edvard Heiberg became famous for the phrase "The railway is being strangled by impotent car users"?
text: Did you know that one of the grounds for the impeachment of Philippine Ombudsman Merceditas Gutierrez was her low conviction rate?
text: Did you know that the depiction of the European hallucinogenic mushroom Psilocybe hispanica in rock art suggests it might have been used in prehistoric religious rituals 6,000 years ago?
text: Did you know that the Akuntsu tribe, victim of a massacre perpetrated by Brazilian cattle ranchers in the 1980s, currently numbers just five individuals?
text: Did you know that during World War I, future Norwegian politician and railroad chairman Egil Werner Erichsen was hit by the Spanish Flu , but did not spend one day in bed?
text: Did you know that a precursor to clay pottery found at Neba'a Faour in the Bekaa Valley was made with a type of lime plaster mixed with grey ashes, which turned into a hardened, white material resembling limestone when fired?
text: Did you know that although the fungus Aseroe floriformis was named for its resemblance to a flower , it smells like cow dung ?
text: Did you know that the Mauro Solar Riser was the first manned aircraft to fly on solar power ?
text: Did you know that St Mary's Church, Bungay in Suffolk contains a panel depicting the Resurrection given to the church by the author H. Rider Haggard ?
text: Did you know that the American Bladesmith Society has partnered with several colleges to offer courses in bladesmithing and has launched its own museum?
text: Did you know that the Syrian Constitution guarantees a 50% quota of the People's Assembly for workers and peasants?
text: Did you know that the rare European fungus Episphaeria fraxinicola produces minute cup-like fruit bodies on the bark of ash trees?
text: Did you know that the Michigan football coach complained his "defense was in the law library" after law student Oscar Lambert was declared ineligible?
text: Did you know that Norwegian meteorologist Ragnar Fjørtoft was part of a Princeton, New Jersey , team that performed the first successful numerical weather prediction using the ENIAC electronic computer in 1950?
text: Did you know that a Muraqqa is an album in book form containing Islamic miniature paintings and calligraphy from different sources, which gradually replaced the illustrated book?
text: Did you know that the division of the city of Cholula, Puebla , Mexico, into San Pedro and San Andrés has its origins in the pre-Hispanic era ?
text: Did you know that Low Isles Light , an active lighthouse established in 1878 on Low Island , a coral cay near Port Douglas , was the first lighthouse in Far North Queensland ?
text: Did you know that the type specimen of the extinct whip scorpion Graeophonus carbonarius was originally identified as a species of dragonfly?
text: Did you know that Jimmy Lile , a knife maker from Russellville, Arkansas , made the knives for the movies First Blood and Rambo: First Blood Part II ?
text: Did you know that attached to the tower of St Andrew's Church, Walpole in Norfolk is a chamber that was probably an anchorite cell?
text: Did you know that the Alaska-Gastineau Mine , near Juneau, Alaska , was the largest gold mine in the world for a brief period prior to World War I ?
text: Did you know that the endangered tree Allocasuarina portuensis is only known from suburban Nielsen Park in Sydney ?
text: Did you know that The Dawn , Australia's first feminist magazine , was boycotted by unions because the publisher employed women to handle the printing ?
text: Did you know that William F. Moran was the knife maker who revived the "lost art" of Damascus steel in 1973?
text: Did you know that there were attempts to ban yerba mate in early 17th-century South America?
text: Did you know that tiny spurs on the anthers of the aromatic perennial shrub Olga's mint act as triggers to cause the flower to release pollen when an insect arrives?
text: Did you know that the 1990 U.S. Supreme Court opinion in Georgia v. South Carolina decided the seaward border between Georgia and South Carolina?
text: Did you know that former chief music critic of The New York Times Donal Henahan was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for distinguished criticism in 1986?
text: Did you know that the knife-making style of William Scagel influenced the cutlery trade for over 100 years?
text: Did you know that during the 1995 filming of BBC 's Persuasion , the crew often had to compete for props and costumes with fellow BBC and Jane Austen adaptation Pride and Prejudice ?
text: Did you know that Kenyan athletes won every medal at the 2011 African Cross Country Championships held in Cape Town earlier this month, and then they all missed their flight back to Nairobi ?
text: Did you know that Mark Pittman sued the U.S. Federal Reserve during the 2008 financial crisis for refusing to say how it distributed $ 2 trillion ($2,000,000,000,000) of taxpayer-funded bank bailout money?
text: Did you know that the British colonial authorities charged James Frederick Sangala with sedition for supporting civil rights for Nyasaland people?
text: Did you know that the Mechanics' Union of Trade Associations was formed after more than 800 Philadelphians were jailed in a debtors' prison over the course of one winter?
text: Did you know that Hockey Hall of Famer Moose Johnson was one of the first professional players to compete for the Stanley Cup in 1906, and a member of the first American team to compete for it in 1916?
text: Did you know that bone fragments of the Camelus moreli , an extinct species of giant camel , were found in 2005 at the archaeological site of El Kowm in Syria ?
text: Did you know that in the U.S., vampire facelifts are not approved by the FDA ?
text: Did you know that Texas oilman and former mayor of Midland Ernest Angelo is partly credited with the spring revival of Ronald Reagan 's 1976 United States presidential primary campaign?
text: Did you know that Rangaunu Harbour contains 15% of the mangrove habitat in New Zealand ?
text: Did you know that New York Rangers player Mike Allison scored on his first career NHL shot on goal in 1980?
text: Did you know that the first fatal accident suffered by Imperial Airways led to the first Public Inquiry into a civil aviation accident in the United Kingdom , and the expansion of Croydon Airport ?
text: Did you know that adults with right hemisphere brain damage may have verbose, rambling and tangential speech ?
text: Did you know that in the Raising Hope episode " Blue Dots ", one of the main characters is revealed to be a registered sex offender ?
text: Did you know that in the 1930s, the New Zealand government complied with netball in South Africa 's request to leave Māori players at home when they competed against them?
text: Did you know that the Frankfurt Airport shooting of 2 March 2011, in which two U.S. airmen were killed, is suspected to be the first deadly act of Islamist terrorism in Germany?
text: Did you know that Pandi Geço , author of the first Albanian academic textbooks of geography , was the first to regionalize Albania into four physical-geographic regions?
text: Did you know that Lyttelton Timeball Station , one of only five remaining time balls in working order worldwide until the 2010 Canterbury earthquake , is to be demolished?
text: Did you know that Sir Harold Bowden , chairman of the Raleigh Bicycle Company , was also chairman of the British Olympic Association for the 1932 Olympic games in Los Angeles?
text: Did you know that The Mickey Rooney Show: Hey, Mulligan , a 1954 NBC sitcom created by Blake Edwards and Richard Quine , features Mickey Rooney as a studio page trying to become a serious actor?
text: Did you know that Singapore 's first Chief of Defence Force , Winston Choo , is now the country's ambassador to Israel ?
text: Did you know that, on October 26, 2010, the judge in Arista Records LLC v. Lime Group LLC ordered a permanent injunction shutting down LimeWire 's P2P service?
text: Did you know that the 1833 newspaper Vorwärts! , edited by Karl Marx , has been described as the "most radical" European newspaper of its time?
text: Did you know that Mary Hynes , who represents Virginia on the board of the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority , has promised to ride its Metrorail system to get to board meetings?
text: Did you know that a fifth of all Dickin Medal recipients are buried at Ilford Animal Cemetery ?
text: Did you know that one of the minigames in the Wii video game Calvin Tucker's Redneck Jamboree involves exploding fish out of water ?
text: Did you know that four different English football clubs achieved promotion to the top division while Ray Train was playing for them?
text: Did you know that Emilia Carr is the first woman from Marion County , Florida to be sentenced to death since Aileen Wuornos in 1992?
text: Did you know that, as of 2011, Olympic athletic venues have hosted several FIFA World Cup matches, three Major League Baseball All-Star Games , two Super Bowls , and six IAAF World Championships in Athletics ?
text: Did you know that Swedish actor Lasse Eriksson died on stage during the show Four happy men 2 at the Regina Theatre in Uppsala ?
text: Did you know that former Republican California State Senator Becky Morgan served on the Board of Trustees of both her alma maters , Stanford University and Cornell University ?
text: Did you know that in September 2007 , Monty the meerkat made headlines in The Times , The Daily Telegraph , The Sun , and other leading newspapers for his purported ability to take pictures with a digital camera ?
text: Did you know that the U.S. government report Women in America says that in 2009, at all levels of education, American women earned 75 percent as much as their male counterparts?
text: Did you know that Willie Hume demonstrated the supremacy of John Boyd Dunlop 's pneumatic tyres by winning all of the tyre's first races at Queen's College , Belfast in 1889?
text: Did you know that the name of the Pensacola people means "long-haired people" in both the Pensacola language and the closely-related Choctaw language ?
text: Did you know that the Firemen and Deckhands' Union of New South Wales sent a delegate to the first legal meeting of the African National Congress in 1991?
text: Did you know that Hugh Kennard was shot down and wounded during World War II while leading a squadron of American fighter pilots from No. 121 Squadron RAF ?
text: Did you know that the font in St Peter's Church, Sudbury , was removed in the 17th century to be used as a horse trough , but was returned to the church when the horses refused to drink from it?
text: Did you know that the Mymensingh Museum in Bangladesh contains Saraswati and Vishnu statues from a Muktagacha zamindar palace, and a huge shade used during hunting from a Gouripur zamindar palace?
text: Did you know that English oboist Peter Graeme recorded with the Melos Ensemble the oboe quintet of Arthur Bliss , dedicated to oboist Léon Goossens , his teacher?
text: Did you know that in 1768, the Pennsylvania Province made violations of the Royal Proclamation of 1763 punishable by " death without the benefit of clergy "?
text: Did you know that Somerset amateur cricketer Herbert Fox edited a feature in the Westminster Gazette in which readers submitted Latin and Greek poetry ?
text: Did you know that the Grammy -nominated album Now Is the Time features the Blood, Sweat & Tears horn section on two of its tracks?
text: Did you know that parachuting military dog Rob 's Dickin Medal may have been awarded due to a hoax ?
text: Did you know that when the Nassif Building in Washington, D.C. , was renovated and renamed in 2006, security upgrades included steel-jacketed parking garage columns capable of withstanding an explosion?
text: Did you know that each year in December, the life and works of Abedin , who painted by the Brahmaputra River , are discussed at the Shilpacharya Zainul Abedin Sangrahashala art gallery ?
text: Did you know that Harry Halpern was a prominent Conservative rabbi who served for almost 49 years at the East Midwood Jewish Center in Brooklyn, New York ?
text: Did you know that in 1885, Somerset County Cricket Club suffered two of their heaviest-ever defeats under the captaincy of Edward Sainsbury ?
text: Did you know that when Faith Radio Network bought the radio station now known as WFRF-FM in 2003, the previous owners included everything except their 1996 Chevy Astro van?
text: Did you know that despite their names, white squirrel banana and yellow squirrel banana are not bananas , but rare custard apples in Florida , and their fruits are berries ?
text: Did you know that during his stay in Ullinish , Samuel Johnson 's views and denunciation of James Macpherson 's Ossian were confirmed?
text: Did you know that a New Jersey court's ruling of immunity for online ticket sellers in Milgram v. Orbitz was called a "rare defeat for a consumer protection agency" and the "biggest defense win of the year"?
text: Did you know that British Army officer Captain Stephen Healey of the Royal Welsh regiment, used to play football for Swansea City ?
text: Did you know that collecting antique Bowie knives is one of the higher-end forms of knife collecting with rare models selling for more than US$200,000?
text: Did you know that the 2010–11 Ivy League season champion Harvard Crimson team was the first men's basketball team in school history to win a league championship since the Ivy League was formed in the 1956–57 season ?
text: Did you know that female Silver-tipped Myotis bats are able to store sperm in their bodies for up to three months after mating?
text: Did you know that the iPad 2 is due to be released in 27 different countries?
text: Did you know that about 90% of the world's amber production comes from the Amber Coast of the Sambia peninsula on the Baltic Sea ?
text: Did you know that although Bion Barnett retired from the board of Barnett Bank with 75 years of service, he still reviewed the bank's daily business report every evening?
text: Did you know that in 1281, the Catholic Bishop of Greenland contributed walrus tusks to help fund the Crusades ?
text: Did you know that although Qiemo Town is described in documents from the 1st century BCE to the 9th century CE, the ancient site has not yet been discovered in spite of four major expeditions to search for it?
text: Did you know that the Blue Note jazz clubs located in Greenwich Village , New York, helped define personal jurisdiction in the context of cyberlaw in Bensusan Restaurant Corp. v. King ?
text: Did you know that members of the indie rock band Frankie & The Heartstrings met at a calypso night in a Sunderland pub?
text: Did you know that General Wilhelm Sebastian von Belling prayed to God to grant him "a nice little war that he may better his condition"?
text: Did you know that in his youth, Karl Marx wrote a comedic novel , Scorpion and Felix ?
text: Did you know that the black-margined loosestrife beetle was introduced to North America for biological pest control against the invasive purple loosestrife ?
text: Did you know that according to legend, Julius Caesar and Mark Antony presented Cleopatra with several gourds of vinum acquense , an early forebear of the Italian wine Brachetto d'Acqui ?
text: Did you know that Ch. Fiacre’s First and Foremost today becomes the first Dalmatian with a known low uric acid level to compete at Crufts ?
text: Did you know that American naval surgeon Charles Guillou had a papal patient Pius ?
text: Did you know that Did You Know People Can Fly? is the first full-length album by Kaddisfly ?
text: Did you know that the 5000-year old settlement of Jemdet Nasr is the type site for the Jemdet Nasr period in ancient Mesopotamia ?
text: Did you know that the Italian wine Est! Est!! Est!!! gets its unusual name from the tale of a bishop 's servant traveling ahead to Rome and marking Est ("It is") on inns where he found the best-tasting wines ?
text: Did you know that the German ancestry and strict discipline of its first commander earned No. 2 Service Flying Training School RAAF the nickname " Scherger's Concentration Camp "?
text: Did you know that Florida-based Christian radio station WFRF helped launch Imani Radio in Kenya and provided 2,500 solar powered radios to local villages, hospitals, and prisoners?
text: Did you know that 2010 Consensus College All-American placekicker Josh Jasper kicked a 54-yard field goal when he was in high school?
text: Did you know that the borough of Iztapalapa in Mexico City hosts an annual Passion play that attracts 2 million spectators?
text: Did you know that Howard Davies , the director of the London School of Economics , resigned due to allegations over the school's links to the Libyan regime ?
text: Did you know that on her way back to Singapore , HMS Petard ran into a tornado , resulting in thousands of disoriented birds using the ship as a temporary perch?
text: Did you know that Bushy Park Forest Reserve , home to giraffe weevils , glowworms , and huhu beetles , also has a kiwi creche and a tree named Ratanui ?
text: Did you know that on 29 September 1940, two Avro Ansons collided in mid-air over Brocklesby , Australia, became locked together in "piggyback" fashion, and then successfully landed in a field?
text: Did you know that temperance activist Carrie Nation was the subject of a 1966 opera by Douglas Moore , starring mezzo-soprano Beverly Wolff ?
text: Did you know that the west doorway of St Laurence's Church, Norwich , Norfolk , contains carvings of " St Edmund being arrowed and St Lawrence being grilled"?
text: Did you know that French airline Air Union lost two Farman F.60 Goliaths to accidents in 1923, one in May and another in August ?
text: Did you know that Season 5 of the Intel Extreme Masters eSports tournament had a prize pool of US$ 130,000 spread over Starcraft II , League of Legends , Counter-Strike , and Quake Live ?
text: Did you know that from 1863 until his death in 1904, American educator Malcolm MacVicar presided over five different universities, and was the first head for two of them?
text: Did you know that MSN included Flying penguins , a BBC documentary, as one of its 12 "hoaxes of the decade"?
text: Did you know that Ford 's 1990s foray into electric vehicles ended after several of its Ecostar 's sodium-sulfur batteries burst into flame during charging?
text: Did you know that All Saints Church, East Horndon , Essex , has been damaged by a bomb, a tramp , and vandals?
text: Did you know that Civil War historian Gilbert R. Tredway refuted the claim that Democrats in his native Indiana were less supportive of the Union war effort than were their Republican neighbors?
text: Did you know that although the Kern , Bolton and Wodehouse musical Leave It to Jane was written for the Princess Theatre , it premiered elsewhere because another musical by the same creators was already running there?
text: Did you know that Murad Pasha Mosque in Damascus , Syria , served as a center for the Naqshbandi Sufi order?
text: Did you know that the White Star Line ocean liner SS Zealandic was disguised as a decoy version of the British carrier HMS Hermes during WW II and was sunk by German submarine U-106 ?
text: Did you know that, as the second violin of the Melos Ensemble , Ivor McMahon played the Divertissement , dedicated by Jean Françaix to bassoonist William Waterhouse ?
text: Did you know that it is both possible and potentially illegal to falsify who email is from, as learned by Kilbride in United States v. Kilbride ?
text: Did you know that Sid Ferris was a one-eyed English cyclist who broke the records for " Land's End to John o' Groats ", "Edinburgh-to-London", and "1,000 miles" in 1937?
text: Did you know that the endangered Puerto Rican plant Daphnopsis hellerana is dioecious , with male plants bearing tubular flowers and females bearing bell-shaped flowers?
text: Did you know that Chris August received five 2011 Dove Award nominations, including the Song of the Year nod, for his debut single " Starry Night "?
text: Did you know that historians believe the 893 Council of Preslav established Old Bulgarian as the official language and Preslav as the capital of the First Bulgarian Empire ?
text: Did you know that Frank Barbour , coach of the Michigan Wolverines football team from 1892 to 1893, later led Beech-Nut into the chewing gum business?
text: Did you know that three 14th-century Mamluk mosque lamps in enamelled and gilded glass sold for a total of just under £3.4 million in 2000?
text: Did you know that in the aftermath of World War I , Polish agronomist Mieczysław Jałowiecki lost his renowned estates in Lithuania ?
text: Did you know that, on Midsummer's Eve , the sun is said to set over the tip of the largest stone in the Scorhill stone circle , suggesting the circle may have had a purpose in archaeoastronomy ?
text: Did you know that Romanian runner Iulia Olteanu won the 1999 European Cross Country Championships but lost her title because of a positive test for the steroid stanozolol ?
text: Did you know that, on April 29 , 1849, the ship's master and two officers fled the Hannah in the only lifeboat after the brig was holed by ice, abandoning the passengers and remaining crew?
text: Did you know that Harry Whitney was at the center of the Peary – Cook controversy over who had reached the North Pole first?
text: Did you know that, in 1869, Johannes Brahms conducted the chamber opera Le dernier sorcier ( The Last Sorcerer ), composed by Pauline Viardot to a French libretto by Ivan Turgenev ?
text: Did you know that movement on the newly discovered Mount Lebanon thrust is the most likely cause of the 551 Beirut earthquake and resulting tsunami , which left all the coastal cities of Lebanon in ruins?
text: Did you know that authorization to use a company computer is not automatically conditional on the motives or loyalty of the employee, according to LVRC Holdings v. Brekka ?
text: Did you know that the interior of the Stone Chamber in the Canterbury Provincial Council Buildings was regarded as New Zealand architect Benjamin Mountfort 's most impressive achievement?
text: Did you know that the iLoo was a cancelled Microsoft project by British subsidiary MSN UK to develop a Wi-Fi -enabled Internet portable toilet for summer festivals?
text: Did you know that the Minister of Justice claimed that the 2011 Malawian Air Fouling Legislation bill made farting in public illegal, but later retracted his statement?
text: Did you know that John Powell 's score for the animated film How to Train Your Dragon was nominated for an Academy Award and a BAFTA award , and won an Annie Award and an IFMCA award in 2011?
text: Did you know that on the Hawaiian island of Oahu , the rare and endangered flowers Cyanea superba and Cyanea truncata are threatened by feral pigs and rats , while feral goats are threats to Cyperus trachysanthos ?
text: Did you know that Sedmoi Kontinent was the first Russian retail food company to make a public stock offering ?
text: Did you know that the shrine of a famous medieval shaykh in the currently depopulated village of Dayr al-Shaykh became a place of pilgrimage for locals following his death in the 13th century?
text: Did you know that "all-through jet training" on Macchis at the Royal Australian Air Force 's No. 2 Flying Training School was called "an expensive way of finding out that some pupils lacked the aptitude to become military pilots"?
text: Did you know that Diné artist Ryan Singer worked for the United States Forest Service before becoming a full-time artist?
text: Did you know that the ruins of St Peter's Church, Bristol , in Castle Park are a memorial to the victims of the 1940 Bristol Blitz ?
text: Did you know that Zynga , maker of hit games FarmVille and Mafia Wars , faces the pending class action lawsuit Swift v. Zynga , based on allegedly deceptive ads that ran in its games?
text: Did you know that the Brezhnev Era in the Soviet Union began with high economic growth and soaring prosperity, but ended with social, political, and economic stagnation ?
text: Did you know that the Alaskan Baird Mountains were named for the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution ?
text: Did you know that the demo version of " Don't Hold Your Breath " was performed by Timbaland and Keri Hilson , and is distinctly different from the present version released by Nicole Scherzinger ?
text: Did you know that netball in the Cook Islands features an Easter competition where boys dress in women's netball uniforms?
text: Did you know that Papyrus Rylands 458 is the oldest known manuscript of the Septuagint ?
text: Did you know that several buildings of Cass Gilbert 's Waterbury Municipal Center Complex use quotations from Abraham Lincoln as decorative motifs, despite Lincoln's lack of connection to that Connecticut city ?
text: Did you know that William Isarn , a Spanish count , was assassinated while trying to regain what he claimed was his family's land?
text: Did you know that, according to critic Jennifer Kay, Mat Johnson 's 2011 novel Pym "skewers Edgar Allan Poe, race in America, the snack food industry, academia, landscape painting and abominable snowmen"?
text: Did you know that the Rose Historic Chapel was the first church designed by the Luttrell brothers , who subsequently became the unofficial architects of the Diocese of Christchurch ?
text: Did you know that the Cork Examiner described the killing of Peter Cleary , the first person to be killed by the Special Air Service in Northern Ireland , as "an act of utter folly"?
text: Did you know that Léon Théry was a French racing driver who won the Gordon Bennett Cup in 1904 and 1905?
text: Did you know that Renaissance artists and architects used rabatment of the rectangle as a compositional tool in their work?
text: Did you know that Colorado's Aspen City Hall has previously been used as a roller rink , an armory , and a concert venue ?
text: Did you know that Papyrus Fouad 266 is the second oldest manuscript of the Septuagint ?
text: Did you know that Baron Le Roy, owner of the Châteauneuf-du-Pape estate Château Fortia , helped guide the creation of the Appellation d'origine contrôlée system that became the basis of French wine laws ?
text: Did you know that shooting guard Tim Hardaway, Jr. , the son of National Basketball Association All-Star Tim Hardaway , was the first Michigan Wolverines freshman to score 30 points in a game in eight years?
text: Did you know that, in 1983, The Chieftains were the first ever Irish musical group to play a concert on the Great Wall of China , resulting in an album: The Chieftains in China ?
text: Did you know that upon making his National Hockey League debut, Blake Geoffrion became the first fourth-generation player after his father Dan , grandfather Bernie , and great-grandfather Howie Morenz ?
text: Did you know that Operation Moolah was an attempt during the Korean War by the United States Air Force to capture a fully operational Russian MiG-15 ?
text: Did you know that an American soldier, who was deployed to Iraq, adopted an Iraqi boy who could not walk because of cerebral palsy ?
text: Did you know that collective leadership was seen as the ideal form of governance by Soviet ideologists during the rules of Georgy Malenkov , Nikita Khrushchev and Leonid Brezhnev ?
text: Did you know that to secure a guilty verdict, Dominick Sarsfield , Chief Justice of the Irish Common Pleas , urged jurors to beat the lone dissenter into submission?
text: Did you know that Picander used one of the sayings of Jesus on the cross for an aria in Bach 's cantata Sehet, wir gehn hinauf gen Jerusalem, BWV 159 , for the last Sunday before Lent ?
text: Did you know that Spanish-language Regional Mexican station KMAK launched in 1990 as an English-language Christian radio outlet serving Fresno, California ?
text: Did you know that the first independent study of water quality in Jordan 's US$1.1 billion Disi Water Conveyance Project found the water to be highly radioactive ?
text: Did you know that four first-round draft picks of the Oakland Athletics have won the Major League Baseball Rookie of the Year Award ?
text: Did you know that Richard Knill Freeman , who designed British churches, hospitals, municipal buildings, schools and museums, also designed a church in Moscow in the 1880s?
text: Did you know that people who suffer from Pleasure Dissociative Orgasmic Disorder are unable to feel pleasure from an orgasm ?
text: Did you know that the rare and endangered bellflower Cyanea remyi is found only on the Hawaiian island of Kauai , and as of 2010, an estimated 24 individuals are known to be growing in the wild?
text: Did you know that Mikhail Lermontov , author of the poem " Valerik ", won the Order of St. Vladimir for valor at the 1840 Battle of the Valerik River but was prevented from receiving his award by Czar Nicholas I ?
text: Did you know that in 2006 Richard Santagati received the third highest salary of any president of a private college in the United States?
text: Did you know that six of the nineteen winners of the National Basketball Association 's IBM Award have played for the San Antonio Spurs ?
text: Did you know that ProtectMarriage.com was formed to pass California Proposition 8 , a voter initiative against same-sex marriage ?
text: Did you know that Max Boyce 's 1975 recording We All Had Doctors' Papers is the only comedy album to reach number one in the UK Album Charts ?
text: Did you know that a US-born ex- hippie Malati Dasi , despite fierce opposition, in 1998 became the first international female leader of the Hare Krishna movement?
text: Did you know that First Nations contemporary artist Dana Claxton is a descendant of Sitting Bull 's followers?
text: Did you know that according to book critic Maureen Corrigan , today’s narratives of women’s suffering are breaking with a tradition going back to Homer , in that they show women talking – and fighting – back?
text: Did you know that author Lorene Cary was the second African American girl accepted at the "elite" St. Paul's boarding school in New Hampshire , and in 1991 published Black Ice , a memoir of her experiences?
text: Did you know that Rose Catherine Pinkney developed dozens of American television shows , including The X-Files and Girlfriends ?
text: Did you know that the autobiography of Renaissance medical practitioner Grace Mildmay is one of the earliest written by an English woman?
text: Did you know that a critic described the work of abstract sculptor Claire Falkenstein as "a Jackson Pollock in three dimensions"?
text: Did you know that Irish designer Orla Kiely has had her work featured on a range of Citroën DS3 cars, although she's better known for textiles?
text: Did you know that Dutch television talk show host Sonja Barend retired in 2006 after forty years of making television?
text: Did you know that Pauline Bebe was France's first female rabbi ?
text: Did you know that alleged German spy Despina Storch was described as "Turkish Delight", "Turkish beauty", and a "modern Cleopatra " in spy literature?
text: Did you know that Ágnes Farkas was selected Hungarian Handballer of the Year in both 2001 and 2002?
text: Did you know that even in her thirties, Scottish coloratura soprano Anne Sharp was able to pass as a teenager , performing the role of Emmie Spatchett in Albert Herring at the first Aldeburgh Festival ?
text: Did you know that Dutch writer, journalist, and feminist Wim Hora Adema co-founded the feminist monthly magazine Opzij in 1972, a magazine that's still in print?
text: Did you know that in 1789 the Women's March on Versailles forced the King of France to accept the Declaration of the Rights of Man ?
text: Did you know that Merrythought is the last remaining teddy bear manufacturer in the United Kingdom ?
text: Did you know that after his election in 1998 as mayor of Campbellsville , Kentucky , Paul E. Osborne formed a team that attracted Amazon.com , among others, to replace two closed factories?
text: Did you know that Chris Addison promoted his new satirical radio show 7 Day Sunday as "four relatively ill-informed idiots fail to take the news seriously for an hour"?
text: Did you know that Bruce Bawer 's While Europe Slept: How Radical Islam is Destroying the West from Within was described both as "well written and well informed" and as using "wildly exaggerated statistics"?
text: Did you know that mathematician Leonhard Euler discovered that a simple characteristic equation could be used to solve certain linear homogeneous differential equations ?
text: Did you know that the women's race at the 2007 Tokyo Marathon was won by Hitomi Niiya , who at the time had never run in a marathon before?
text: Did you know that Polish best-selling historian and dissident Paweł Jasienica , due to his criticism of the Polish communist government , had his books removed from distribution and prohibited from printing ?
text: Did you know that, in Arizona v. New Mexico , the U.S. Supreme Court rejected Arizona ' s attempt to invoke original jurisdiction , but Arizona prevailed when the case returned to the court on appeal?
text: Did you know that transmission electron microscopy DNA sequencing is a promising new technology which allows sequencing of individual DNA molecules?
text: Did you know that around the west door of St John the Baptist's Church in Yarburgh , Lincolnshire , are carvings of a coat of arms , Adam and Eve and the serpent , a Paschal Lamb , and a pelican ?
text: Did you know that Usher 's 1997 song " You Make Me Wanna " is an acoustic guitar -based R&B , soul and pop ballad about "juggling three women"?
text: Did you know that depending on the interpretation, sophismata like "All men are donkeys or men and donkeys are donkeys" can either be true or false?
text: Did you know that during the tenure of the Abbasid governor al-Fadl ibn Salih , the Egyptian cities of al-Fustat and al-Askar were merged into one large city?
text: Did you know that Alice Waters lobbied the Clinton administration to replace White House Executive Chef Pierre Chambrin with an American chef ?
text: Did you know that the conservatories of the Bason Botanic Gardens in Wanganui were constructed using recycled bricks from two demolished picture theatres?
text: Did you know that until Marcel Deiss petitioned the French authorities to change the wine laws in 2005, it was illegal to not list the grape variety on the labels of Grand cru Alsatian wine ?
text: Did you know that DJ Jazzy Jeff and Will Smith of DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince won Grammy Awards for Best Rap Performance the same year they boycotted the ceremony?
text: Did you know that although the 1965 Skyways Coach-Air Avro 748 crash ended with the passengers hanging upside down in their seats, they all survived?
text: Did you know that Nikolla bey Ivanaj was one of the participants of the Albanian Congress of Trieste held in 1913?
text: Did you know that " To Be Alone with You " was the first song Bob Dylan recorded for his 1969 album Nashville Skyline ?
text: Did you know that former California Assembly Republican Leader and California Republican Party Chair Robert W. Naylor was editor of The Stanford Daily while he was a student at Stanford University ?
text: Did you know that Papel Prensa produced 170,000 tons of newsprint for 170 dailies in 2009, accounting for 75% of the newsprint market in Argentina ?
text: Did you know that after retiring from baseball , catcher Greg Goossen turned to acting and working as a stand-in for actor Gene Hackman ?
text: Did you know that the invasion of monsters from the Orange Planet in the Czech comic album Muriel a oranžová smrt was a satiric response to the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968?
text: Did you know that King Ndumbe Lobe Bell of the Duala assigned his sovereign rights to the German trading firm of Jantzen & Thormählen in 1884?
text: Did you know that All Saints Church in Thurgarton , Norfolk , is notable for its medieval bench ends carved with poppyheads , an elephant, barrels, mythical beasts, a man, a lion, and fighting dogs?
text: Did you know that 12 years after his team was disqualified , Jack Kirrane returned to the Olympics and captained the United States ice hockey team to a gold medal?
text: Did you know that G. Topham Forrest used a plain neo-Georgian style for most 1920s and 1930s London County Council housing estates , but at Ossulston used a modernist style influenced by Viennese workers’ housing?
text: Did you know that General John M. Bacon of the 3rd US Infantry regiment was incorrectly reported killed with a hundred of his men after the 1898 Battle of Sugar Point ?
text: Did you know that Bavarian criminal Theo Berger , despite escaping four times, spent 36 years in jail and committed suicide there in 2003?
text: Did you know that historian Betty Jane Gorin-Smith penned a 2006 study of Confederate General John Hunt Morgan 's 1863 raids though central Kentucky ?
text: Did you know that the Beeldenstorm was a wave of riotous destruction of church art and property that spread across the Low Countries in August 1566 ?
text: Did you know that Margaret Creek in Ohio was named after Margaret Snowden, the first white woman settler in Athens County ?
text: Did you know that Leif Rode , who competed in rowing at the 1912 Summer Olympics , was chairman of the Association for the Promotion of Skiing more than forty years later?
text: Did you know that Young Galaxy and producer Dan Lissvik of Studio collaborated across the Atlantic using Skype to produce their new album Shapeshifting ?
text: Did you know that of the 1,401 species in the family Begoniaceae , Hillebrandia sandwicensis is the only one not in the genus Begonia ?
text: Did you know that the entrance to a burial vault below St Mary's Church, Redgrave in Suffolk was accidentally discovered during a rehearsal for Quasimodo ?
text: Did you know that American multi-instrumentalist Levon Helm won the first Grammy Award for Best Americana Album in 2010 for the album Electric Dirt ?
text: Did you know that the Commission for Polish Relief provided limited food and medical supplies to occupied Poland until late 1941, in spite of Britain's 1940 blockade of shipments to Nazi occupied Europe ?
text: Did you know that Octavius Wigram was guarding a door of Westminster Abbey at the coronation of George IV when the Queen was turned away?
text: Did you know that the weevil Hylobius transversovittatus has been introduced into the United States and Canada to help control the invasive wetland plant purple loosestrife ?
text: Did you know that after Prince Ibrahim Mirza was killed on the orders of his brother-in-law, Shah Ismail II of Persia, his wife destroyed his Persian miniatures by washing them in water?
text: Did you know that the Monty Python sketch " The Mouse Problem ", a mockumentary about men who want to be mice, parodies 1960s TV documentaries on homosexuality ?
text: Did you know that Gary Aguirre , who predicted the 2008 financial crisis , was fired by the SEC for trying to investigate Wall Street banker John Mack , a major fundraiser to President Bush 's 2004 campaign?
text: Did you know that with an area of 8.2 km 2 ( 3.2 sq mi ), Lake Sonfon is Sierra Leone 's largest inland lake?
text: Did you know that Dr. Michael S. Gottlieb was instrumental in identifying AIDS in 1981 and thereafter treated actor Rock Hudson for the disease?
text: Did you know that The Headshrinkers , who had last wrestled in the World Wrestling Federation in 1994, were reunited at the Yokozuna Memorial Show in 2001?
text: Did you know that a Labrador Retriever named Sadie was awarded the Dickin Medal for sniffing out a pressure cooker filled with TNT while on the front lines in Afghanistan ?
text: Did you know that Stanley Clarke 's album The Stanley Clarke Band won the 2011 Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Jazz Album ?
text: Did you know that the Heinrich-Heine-Straße U-Bahn station in Berlin , opened in 1928, was a ghost station for nearly three decades and retains much of its original appearance?
text: Did you know that humorist George Washington Harris ' s comic character Sut Lovingood, who figured in tales attacking Abraham Lincoln and other politicians, has been described as "Huck Finn on amphetamines"?
text: Did you know that a top environmental issue in Russia is water pollution , affecting 75% of the country's surface water ?
text: Did you know that tandem bicyclists Ernie Mills and Bill Paul set a world record in 1937 that stood for 63 years?
text: Did you know that the Marvel Comics limited series 5 Ronin reimagines superheroes Wolverine , Psylocke , Punisher , Hulk and Deadpool as masterless samurai in 17th-century Japan?
text: Did you know that William Douglass was an 18th century American physician whose pamphlets on paper money led Adam Smith to call him "honest and downright"?
text: Did you know that Queen Victoria saved her pet spaniel Dash from a carriage accident?
text: Did you know that Joey DeFrancesco 's tribute to Michael Jackson , Never Can Say Goodbye: The Music of Michael Jackson , was nominated for a Grammy Award ?
text: Did you know that California's Shine the Light Law requires companies either to provide an opt-out from personal information sharing or to disclose the data that they share?
text: Did you know that, in its campaign against a Romanian World War I alliance with the Entente Powers , the newspaper Seara employed conservatives , socialists and anarchists as contributors?
text: Did you know that Maryland Route 24 parallels Deer Creek through Rocks State Park ?
text: Did you know that a gun was fired during a melee in a 1987 basketball game between Ateneo de Manila University and the University of the Philippines ?
text: Did you know that Kentucky historian Damon R. Eubank wrote a book on the family of U.S. Senator John J. Crittenden , whose sons fought on opposing sides in the Civil War ?
text: Did you know that the song " Barcelona " by Freddie Mercury and Montserrat Caballé is considered an illustrative example of the difference between pop and classical singing?
text: Did you know that the California Bay pea crab is one of only two marine crustaceans to be included on the IUCN Red List of endangered species ?
text: Did you know that the life of 14th-century Bulgarian brigand and local ruler of the Rhodopes Momchil has been retold both as an opera and as a comic book ?
text: Did you know that Namibian trade unionist Ponhele ya France was an outspoken critic of the "Willing buyer, willing seller" land reform principle?
text: Did you know that Mark Twain threatened to eat newspaper editor Henry Martyn Whitney ?
text: Did you know that shortly after it was introduced, the Crash Position Indicator was credited with saving the life of a critically injured airman?
text: Did you know that on a commission of the Érard company to show off the expressive range of its double-action pedal harp , Maurice Ravel composed Introduction and Allegro for harp , flute , clarinet and string quartet ?
text: Did you know that the coral reef crab Zosimus aeneus contains deadly poisonous neurotoxins ?
text: Did you know that Rhône winemaker Jean-Luc Colombo lamented the competition from California wines , describing their rise as "losing civilisation and vulgarising wine "?
text: Did you know that former Manchester City footballer Lee Crooks is soon scheduled to serve on the frontline in the War in Afghanistan ?
text: Did you know that Luke Matheny , whose hair was described as "a vast black bouffant that makes him look like an untidy microphone", began his Academy Award acceptance speech by joking, "I should've gotten a haircut"?
text: Did you know that the CWA and PWA provided grants and loans to assist with construction of the 1930s Juneau-Douglas Bridge , connecting Juneau, Alaska , with Douglas Island across the Gastineau Channel ?
text: Did you know that the surface level of the Old Bavarian Donaumoos , once a bog covering 180 square kilometres (69 sq mi), has dropped by 3 metres (9.8 ft) since drainage began in 1790?
text: Did you know that the University of Redwood is fiction based on a copying of the entire Reed College website, raising concerns that it could be used to collect admission application fees fraudulently?
text: Did you know that in 2009 The Price is Right featured tickets to the B96 Pepsi SummerBash as a showcase showdown prize?
text: Did you know that the historic Caccia Birch House in Hokowhitu includes a billiards room named after the Governor-General of New Zealand , Lord Plunket , who resided in the House temporarily?
text: Did you know that dancer Jean Babilée 's performance in the ballet Le Jeune Homme et la Mort included being hung by the neck on a gallows for one minute?
text: Did you know that much of the stained glass in the Church of St John Maddermarket in Norwich was damaged by a gas explosion in 1876?
text: Did you know that Kathleen, Duchess of Newcastle purchased a dog from the Tsar of Russia in 1892 for a sum equivalent to nearly £ 20,000 in modern currency?
text: Did you know that the rare borage Terlingua Creek cat's-eye grows only on gypsum -rich limestone near Big Bend National Park in Texas ?
text: Did you know that at one point in the Battle of Narvik , British destroyer HMS Hotspur found herself engaged in battle with five enemy destroyers?
text: Did you know that Scottish Rugby Union player Edward Innes Pocock was also a member of Cecil Rhodes ' Pioneer Column ?
text: Did you know that the parishioners of Highweek petitioned the pope for their own graveyard?
text: Did you know that Oliver H. Lowry 's 1951 paper on the Lowry protein assay is the most-cited paper of all time?
text: Did you know that the Anglo-Norman Lament of Edward II , written c. 1327, is traditionally credited to Edward II of England ?
text: Did you know that University of Michigan fullback John Garrels won medals in both the 110 m hurdles and shot put at the 1908 Olympics in London ?
text: Did you know that the account of Jesus and the woman taken in adultery is found at the end of the Gospel of John in Minuscule 831 , 1076 , 1078 and 1356 ?
text: Did you know that golf course architect William Herbert Fowler , who redesigned the 18th hole at Pebble Beach Golf Links , was also an MCC cricketer ?
text: Did you know that Marilyn Monroe , Dr. Seuss , Elvis Costello , and Prince Philip all adopted matronymic surnames ?
text: Did you know that United States v. Payner is known as the "briefcase caper" case because it concerned the exclusion of evidence surreptitiously copied from a Bahamian banker's briefcase?
text: Did you know that during the takeover of the hijacked Mothers' Bus by the Yamam , the hijackers killed two mothers, of two and four children, giving the incident its name?
text: Did you know that as mayor of Campbellsville , Kentucky , Robert L. Miller sometimes swept out the basements of people's houses after heavy rains?
text: Did you know that Sir James Hogg and the Duke of Brunswick each pressed charges against Barnard Gregory for libel because of articles that he published in The Satirist ?
text: Did you know that the second USRC Virginia , assisted by Richmond and Eagle , captured the armed French schooner Louis and her cargo on 26 April 1799?
text: Did you know that Al Mar Knives was the first knife factory to sell a production knife for more than $US100?
text: Did you know that politicians discuss the ways in which they and their families have suffered because of Oprahization ?
text: Did you know that though the rare Central Florida legume Crotalaria avonensis was first collected in 1950, it took another 39 years to be recognized and named as a distinct species?
text: Did you knowthat Phoenix civil rights leader Lincoln Ragsdale helped coordinate and fund a lawsuit that produced the first court decision in the U.S. declaring school segregation illegal?
text: Did you know that as part of its training program for up-and-coming Aboriginal filmmakers , the Canadian National Screen Institute hosts a "Spirit Day" with a traditional feast and pipe ceremony ?
text: Did you know that M-46 is only one of three trans-peninsular state highways in the Lower Peninsula of Michigan ?
text: Did you know that Donald S. Sanford , who wrote the screenplay for the World War II epic film Midway (1976), was a sonarman in the U.S. Navy during World War II?
text: Did you know that in the north, the North American paper wasp Polistes annularis has rust-red markings on a predominantly black thorax , but in the south, the thorax is mostly rust-red with black markings?
text: Did you know that the medieval cross in the centre of the village of Ackworth , West Yorkshire , may have been built as a memorial to victims of the Black Death ?
text: Did you know that the Laplace distribution with a mean of zero is a special case of the geometric stable distribution ?
text: Did you know that film pioneer William Haggar 's 1903 short Desperate Poaching Affray is believed to have been a key influence on the "chase" sub-genre of early film?
text: Did you know that Nelly and Eminem won Grammys for Best Male Rap Solo Performance in the two years when the Best Rap Solo Performance Award was split into male and female categories?
text: Did you know that the Maxberg specimen , one of only 10 Archaeopteryx specimens ever found, has been lost since 1991?
text: Did you know that the ghost town of Estacado, Texas , was founded by Quakers as a farming community?
text: Did you know that Ulster loyalist Robert McConnell was implicated in several sectarian attacks and killings in Northern Ireland , but was never charged or convicted?
text: Did you know that the Wouri estuary is a global marine biodiversity hotspot ?
text: Did you know that Ralph Stackpole 's 81-foot (25 m) statue Pacifica was at one time planned for permanent construction on an island in San Francisco Bay ?
text: Did you know that because director-writer Akiva Goldsman had an aversion to hospitals, he shot the mental hospital scenes in the Fringe episode " Bad Dreams " in a church ?
text: Did you know that Welsh boxer Barry Jones lost his WBO Super featherweight title through events caused by an anomaly in a brain scan ?
text: Did you know that the Cumberland false rosemary has three sets of chromosomes in its cells, one set more than other plants in the same genus ?
text: Did you know that the hockey rivalry between the Universities of New Hampshire and Maine is sometimes referred to as the "Border War"?
text: Did you know that Stone Canyon Reservoir was used as a filming location for Roman Polanski 's Chinatown (1974)?
text: Did you know that Archelaus , the high priest of the Roman goddess of war in Comana , claimed to be the son of King Mithridates VI when he wooed, and subsequently married, Queen Berenice IV of Egypt ?
text: Did you know that the largest oil field in Turkey lies near the city of Batman and the Batman River ?
text: Did you know that physician Golding Bird invented the electric moxa in order to save patients from having to be burnt with glowing charcoal?
text: Did you know that the petite endangered cactus Escobaria minima bears 1.5-cm long flowers that may be larger than the cactus body itself, and fruits no more than 6 mm in length?
text: Did you know that RSBY , the National Health Insurance Programme of India , offers cashless health insurance of up to ₹ 30,000 to the poor for just ₹ 30?
text: Did you know that American singer Missy Elliott received the Grammy Award for Best Female Rap Solo Performance both years it was presented?
text: Did you know that Gulliver's Travels is reportedly the only book read by comedy writer Bill Dare , creator of BBC satirical radio comedy Brian Gulliver's Travels , while he was at university?
text: Did you know that despite trailing by 20 points after half-time in the 1987 UAAP men's basketball finals , the Ateneo Blue Eagles rallied and won the championship?
text: Did you know that during the 2010 Blue Ribbon Bacon Festival in Des Moines, Iowa , the 600 guests ate approximately 30,000 strips of bacon ?
text: Did you know that Ohinetahi , the historical home and formal garden in New Zealand owned by Sir Miles Warren , architect of the Christchurch Town Hall , was extensively damaged during the 2010 Canterbury earthquake ?
text: Did you know that Belgian artist Isabelle de Borchgrave creates life-size, painted paper sculptures of wedding gowns , shoes , needlework lace , and strings of pearls ?
text: Did you know that finds at the prehistoric Neolithic Tell Ghoraifé , located 22 kilometres (14 mi) east of Damascus , Syria , show the evolution that took place over a millennium, from wild to domesticated barley?
text: Did you know that 12 years after the U.S. Department of Education gave Blue Ribbon status to the Howard C. Reiche School in Portland , Maine , it was declared deficient under No Child Left Behind ?
text: Did you know that British Army lieutenant Hubert G. Chevis was murdered in 1931 with a plate of poisoned partridge ?
text: Did you know that former child actor Philip Amelio once taught English and coached baseball at Duanesburg High School in Upstate New York ?
text: Did you know that offerings in the 4000-year old temple of Al-Rawda , Syria , came from as far as Egypt , Afghanistan and India ?
text: Did you know that artist Corwin Clairmont designed the Salish-Kootenai 's tribal seal when he was 15 and it is still used today?
text: Did you know that Creal Reef, Queensland , site of Creal Reef Light , was named after a No. 101 Flight RAAF pilot who assisted HMAS Moresby with her surveys ?
text: Did you know that Val McDermid 's novel A Darker Domain explores the social and emotional implications of the UK miners strike of 1984–1985?
text: Did you know that Edgar Gilbert investigated the mathematics of shuffling playing cards ?
text: Did you know that Bulgaria mobilized more than 600,000 soldiers , or 12–13% of its population, upon its entry to World War I ?
text: Did you know that the Employees' State Insurance scheme provides social security and health insurance to over 50 million Indians ?
text: Did you know that in 1672, the Scottish botanist Robert Morison became the first person to write a " monograph of a specific group of plants", the Umbelliferae ?
text: Did you know that Maersk Line 's Triple E Class are expected to be the largest ships in the world when they enter service?
text: Did you know that the earliest known Maya city in the Maya lowlands of Mesoamerica dates to around 750 BC ?
text: Did you know that ampelographer Pierre Galet suspects that the Provence wine grape Tibouren was likely introduced to Marseilles by the Ancient Greeks , but could also be Middle Eastern in origin?
text: Did you know that slippery Jills wear a baggy veil ?
text: Did you know that a 17th-century Yemeni Orphans' Decree requiring the conversion of orphans to Islam was still being enforced as late as 1948?
text: Did you know that Wilhelmine Reichard , the first German woman balloonist , fell unconscious at 7,800 metres (25,600 ft) during her third flight in 1811 and crash-landed in a forest?
text: Did you know that on April 15 , 2011, United States v. Scheinberg resulted in the end of online poker play for United States residents on the three online poker sites that account for approximately 95% of the market?
text: Did you know that despite being told by doctors that he might never walk again, British swimmer Graham Edmunds has won two Paralympic gold medals in world record times?
text: Did you know that as many as 6,400 human and animal illustrations, including Bir Hima Rock Petroglyphs and Inscriptions , have been recorded in Saudi Arabia 's southwest Najran area?
text: Did you know that Mormon bigamist Warren Jeffs spent a year in a prison called Purgatory ?
text: Did you know that the inscription on Leoš Janáček 's gravestone was inspired by his choral composition The Wandering Madman ?
text: Did you know that the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006 was reportedly voted on without any committee members reviewing the actual language?
text: Did you know that despite questions about the suitability of his batting temperament, three of Andrew Strauss's centuries are among the five highest scores by England batsmen in ODI cricket ?
text: Did you know that Civic Commons is an organization reducing government IT costs with open source technology?
text: Did you know that Brigadier Philip Hicks , the commander of an airborne brigade , had to swim ashore during the Allied invasion of Sicily ?
text: Did you know that clips of VHS tapes from the website Everything is Terrible! include how to massage a cat, an anti- pedophilia yellow dinosaur, and a direct-to-video crime drama featuring Jay Leno ?
text: Did you know that Ryan Bourque , son of Hockey Hall of Famer Ray Bourque , has won four medals, including two gold medals, with Team USA in International Ice Hockey Federation tournaments?
text: Did you know that Barranquilla is the fourth most populous city of Colombia ?
text: Did you know that recently retired Fr. Daniel Coughlin was the first Catholic priest to serve as Chaplain of the United States House of Representatives ?
text: Did you know that the offices of Air India were attacked as part of the violent reaction to the Babri mosque demolition in Pakistan and Bangladesh ?
text: Did you know that the " Irish of Vincennes ", three Irish nationals arrested in Paris on terrorism charges in 1982, were framed by members of a Presidential secret police unit?
text: Did you know that John Haldeman , a journalist covering the Louisville Grays baseball team, was asked to play second base for the team for one game during the 1877 season?
text: Did you know that visually impaired skier Richard Burt won four Winter Paralympic medals for Great Britain ?
text: Did you know that despite losing an 1896 eminent domain case in the US Supreme Court , the battlefield tourist trolley between Gettysburg and Round Top operated over the Gettysburg National Military Park for 20 more years?
text: Did you know that La Voz de un Ángel by Yuridia ranked among the best-selling albums of the year in Mexico for three years in a row?
text: Did you know that photographer Mary Ellen Matthews has been responsible for the celebrity portraits used as commercial bumpers on Saturday Night Live since 1999?
text: Did you know that the interior part of the Mooghaun fort was demolished to facilitate its use as a picnicking spot?
text: Did you know that Mike Loan amassed a career batting average of .500 by hitting safely once in two at-bats in his only career Major League Baseball game?
text: Did you know that HMS Prince William was named for the future King William , who was present at the engagement she was captured in ?
text: Did you know that in 1919, the Pacific Coast Parks Association named Portland, Oregon 's Laurelhurst Park the "most beautiful park" on the West Coast ?
text: Did you know that Povilas Budrys was voted Best Actor by the Lithuanian Theatre Union for the 1991/92 season?
text: Did you know that Lower Swell is located on the banks of the River Dikler?
text: Did you know that Filep Karma is serving a 15-year jail sentence for raising the flag of West Papua in Jayapura , Indonesia ?
text: Did you know that writer-director Tom Shadyac made the documentary I Am after suffering post-concussion syndrome from a serious bicycle accident—and sleeping in his closet to avoid acute sensitivity to light and sound?
text: Did you know that controversy over Pedro Almodóvar 's 1990 film Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! led to the creation of the NC-17 rating?
text: Did you know that in 2007, the Amber Palace of Amer Fort in Rajasthan was visited by 1.4 million tourists?
text: Did you know that Wilson Onsare made the fastest ever marathon debut at the 2003 Paris Marathon , but never improved upon his debut time?
text: Did you know that the only known specimen of the extinct spider Palaeoperenethis is in the Royal Ontario Museum ?
text: Did you know that the churchyard of St James' Church in Cooling , Kent , is said to have provided the inspiration for the opening chapter of Charles Dickens ' book Great Expectations ?
text: Did you know that in his Major League Baseball debut , Marcos Mateo came into the game in the 11th inning, loaded the bases , then gave up a sacrifice fly to lose the game?
text: Did you know that the Gilgamesh restaurant in Camden , London , is said to be "an ostentatious replica of a Babylonian palace"?
text: Did you know that Lewis Milestone 's 1926 sports drama comedy silent film The New Klondike was the first film assignment of writer Ben Hecht ?
text: Did you know that Japanese composer Kenichi Maeyamada remixes anime and video game music under the pseudonym "Hyadain"?
text: Did you know that, unlike the closely related house mouse , the wild Algerian mouse clears away its own droppings?
text: Did you know that Burundian Internet journalist Jean-Claude Kavumbagu was arrested and charged with treason after writing a blog post criticizing his country's security forces?
text: Did you know that Meadow Lake revelers took a ferry to hurdy gurdy houses?
text: Did you know that although audio spill is often undesirable in the recording of popular music, it can be heard on records by The Beatles and Christina Aguilera ?
text: Did you know that Anthony Sadowski , after escaping captivity in the Great Northern War in 1704, came to America and helped Daniel Boone 's father found Amity Township , Pennsylvania ?
text: Did you know that Berry Hinton had only three losing seasons in his twenty-three years as head baseball coach from 1943 to 1967 at Louisiana Tech University in Ruston ?
text: Did you know that the use of herbicide on the natural habitat of the Lesser Prairie Chicken may have created a perceptual trap ?
text: Did you know that Kipling 's Rewards and Fairies includes " If— " which has been voted Britain's most popular poem?
text: Did you know that Burmese prisoner of conscience Nilar Thein once evaded police capture by rickshaw taxi?
text: Did you know that " Semper Fidelis " by John Philip Sousa is regarded as the official march of the United States Marine Corps ?
text: Did you know that US actor Martin Sheen has advocated on behalf of imprisoned Kyrgyzstani activist and journalist Azimzhan Askarov ?
text: Did you know that a riot after the 1980 Scottish Cup Final between Celtic F.C. and Rangers F.C. resulted in a ban on the sale of alcoholic beverages at sporting events in Scotland ?
text: Did you know that the sex organs of Anthoceros laevis are visible on its dorsal surface?
text: Did you know that NBC accidentally ran a promo about a secret wedding from the Parks and Recreation episode " Andy and April's Fancy Party " two months before the episode aired?
text: Did you know that Namibian entrepreneur Harold Pupkewitz (age 95) has managed his business conglomerate since 1937?
text: Did you know that in 1889, the Boston and Montana Consolidated Copper and Silver Mining Company agreed to build a smelter in Great Falls, Montana , if a local power company built a dam to supply it with power?
text: Did you know that on his debut album, The Experiment , Dane Rumble found it difficult to write his former band's usual hip hop music , so he turned to pop rock ?
text: Did you know that Richard Waghorn was awarded the Air Force Cross after winning the 1929 Schneider Trophy seaplane race?
text: Did you know that the extinct planthopper Tainosia quisqueyae was named for the Taíno people and Hispaniola ?
text: Did you know that when he made his major league debut, Chicago Cubs pitcher James Russell became the 97th former Texas Longhorn to play in the major leagues?
text: Did you know that Theâtre de l'Étoile du Nord has been said to be "as boho as Tunis gets"?
text: Did you know that in 2007, the foundation headed by Guatemalan human rights activist Norma Cruz helped to convict over 30 individuals accused of murdering women?
text: Did you know that despite having won all its round-robin matches, South Africa lost to India in the final of the Titan Cup ?
text: Did you know that African American artist Herman "Kofi" Bailey was the one-time artist-in-residence for Kwame Nkrumah , the first president of Ghana ?
text: Did you know that Walraversijde , the site of a reconstructed medieval fishing village , is the most studied archaeological site of its type in Europe?
text: Did you know that Hal Stalmaster landed his role in Disney 's 1957 film about the American Revolution , Johnny Tremain , without the help of his brother, casting director Lynn Stalmaster ?
text: Did you know that the Janet Smith case , the unsolved 1924 murder of a Scottish nursemaid in Vancouver , led to an attempt to make it illegal to employ Orientals and white women in the same household?
text: Did you know that Golondrina points are considered the most prevalent of Paleo-Indian points in the South Texas Plains and typify the region's first distinguished cultural pattern?
text: Did you know that the plant Fumaria painteri has only been found twice in Britain, and both times by the Rev. W. H. Painter ?
text: Did you know that during the Sixth Congress of the Cuban Communist Party , Raúl Castro proposed term limits for the country's leaders?
text: Did you know that, in the 1918 season , Joseph McCulloch coached star American football players from multiple schools, including 1917 All-American Archie Weston ?
text: Did you know that Avenue Habib Bourguiba is the principal thoroughfare of Tunis ?
text: Did you know that Perry Como 's musical conductor, Mitchell Ayres , was offered his long-time job with the singer during a golf game?
text: Did you know that after the Rwandan Genocide , social worker and survivor Godeliève Mukasarasi founded a group to help widows and orphans further their socio-economic rights?
text: Did you know that the 1934 United States Trust Company theft was the work of an international gang that stole more than $ 2,000,000 in multiple robberies?
text: Did you know that the Millennium Dam on the Blue Nile in Ethiopia will house Africa's largest hydroelectric power plant and impound the continent's largest reservoir when completed?
text: Did you know that the release from prison of Iosif Begun , a leader of the campaign to free the Jews of the USSR , was announced in 1987 by Soviet politician Georgy Arbatov on Face the Nation ?
text: Did you know that in the Finnish card game Ristikontra , a player wins a trick by playing another card of the same rank as the first card in the trick?
text: Did you know that Christopher Isherwood named the character Sally Bowles after Paul Bowles , because he found Bowles attractive?
text: Did you know that Liberty Cinema in Mumbai got its name as it was built in 1947, the year of Indian Independence ?
text: Did you know that Small Heath F.C. went through the 1893–94 season without drawing a League match?
text: Did you know that the dense forest in the area around Csóványos in Northern Hungary has been described as "almost mystical"?
text: Did you know that Kenyan Emmanuel Kipchirchir Mutai ran a course record to win the 2011 London Marathon and become the fourth fastest man ever in the marathon ?
text: Did you know that during convoy escort duty in the Battle of the North Atlantic in 1943, HMS Polyanthus was sunk by U-952 using new weapons technology?
text: Did you know that Gendang beleq , a music and dance performance popular in Lombok , Indonesia , is so named because it uses two big drums ?
text: Did you know that Louisiana Attorney General Percy Saint in 1929 ruled that impeachment proceedings against Governor Huey Pierce Long, Jr. were constitutional?
text: Did you know that artificial deformation of a skull enabled archaeologists to identify the Adena as the builders of the Hodgen's Cemetery Mound in Tiltonsville, Ohio ?
text: Did you know that James Parfitt ' s best bowling in first-class cricket came in his second match, when he claimed seven wickets in the first innings , all bowled ?
text: Did you know that the bone disease opsismodysplasia was named from the Greek word opsismos meaning "late"?
text: Did you know that Byzantine historian Timothy E. Gregory served as director of the Ohio State University excavations at Isthmia ?
text: Did you know that after plans for the Douglas 2229 SST left no room for fuel other than in the fuselage, a designer sketched a cartoon with diving suit -clad passengers immersed in fuel, under "No Smoking" signs?
text: Did you know that despite being banned by Spanish colonial authorities in Mexico , the making of amate , or bark paper, never disappeared?
text: Did you know that pro-Palestinian activist Vittorio Arrigoni was kidnapped by suspected members of a Islamic militant group operating in Gaza and later found hanged ?
text: Did you know that Will Ferrell produced and stars in the upcoming Spanish-language comedy film Casa de Mi Padre , which has been described as in the style of "an overly dramatic telenovela "?
text: Did you know that around 252 glider infantry of the 1st Airlanding Brigade were drowned during the Allied invasion of Sicily ?
text: Did you know that although Charles Messier discovered the galaxy M91 in 1781, it was added to his catalogue only two centuries later?
text: Did you know that after her role in the 1972 horror film Frogs , actress Lynn Borden began collecting frog figurines as a hobby?
text: Did you know that when Bach derived his third cantata for Easter of 1724, Ein Herz, das seinen Jesum lebend weiß, BWV 134 , from his secular cantata for New Year's Day , he just wrote new text under old text?
text: Did you know that poet Jacqueline Berger compares the writing process to dreaming ?
text: Did you know that the Falkland Islands have on average only 2–3 hours of direct sunlight per day in winter and only 6 hours in summer ?
text: Did you know that " Heartaches ," featuring Elmo Tanner 's whistling , became a number 1 hit fourteen years after it was recorded?
text: Did you know that Lagmann mac Gofraid , a late 11th-century King of Mann and the Isles , has been labelled as the only known Scot who took part in the First Crusade ?
text: Did you know that the upcoming 2012 film, Jack the Giant Killer (directed by Bryan Singer ), is expected to take an adult look at the Jack and the Beanstalk legend?
text: Did you know that Steven Hallard and Richard Priestman were part of a team that won Great Britain 's first Olympic archery medal in 80 years?
text: Did you know that Abutilon pitcairnense is extinct in the wild after the single wild plant died in a landslide in 2005?
text: Did you know that after eight years singing in Gilbert and Sullivan operas with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company , Thomas Lawlor went on to perform more than 60 roles for other opera companies?
text: Did you know that a two-mass-skate bicycle has demonstrated self-stability even though it has minimal gyroscopic effects and does not have positive trail , two features most commonly associated with bike stability?
text: Did you know that Alexander , the eldest son of Bulgarian tsar Ivan Shishman , converted to Islam to avoid execution and died as governor of Ottoman Smyrna ?
text: Did you know that even though ...And the Native Hipsters 's first single , "There Goes Concorde Again" was initially a 500-copy private release, it went on to reach number five on the UK Indie Charts ?
text: Did you know that the sinking of the Blanco Encalada was the first successful attack on a ship by a torpedo boat?
text: Did you know that George B. Jackson , a businessman in San Angelo , Texas , who had been born into slavery in Virginia , was termed "the wealthiest colored man in Texas" in the late 19th century ?
text: Did you know that most of the victims of 2011 Cirebon bombing were police officers attending Friday prayer ?
text: Did you know that the Woodsboro and Frederick Turnpike, which is now part of Maryland Route 194 , was the last private toll road in Maryland when it was purchased by the state in 1921?
text: Did you know that in 1991, Vladimir Velichko became the first First Deputy Prime Minister of the Soviet Union ?
text: Did you know that rugby league club Warrington paid £ 20 to sign Riki Papakura from New Zealand in 1911?
text: Did you know that one hotel in Mogadishu advises tourists visiting Somalia to hire at least ten armed guards for their protection?
text: Did you know that despite the previous session permanently fixing the territorial capital in Tucson , the 9th Arizona Territorial Legislature 's first act was to move it to Prescott ?
text: Did you know that sportswriter Neil Stevens was presented with the Hockey Hall of Fame 's Elmer Ferguson Memorial Award in 2008?
text: Did you know that the ocean liner SS Ranpura ran aground near Gibraltar on 15 April 1936 while carrying $50 million (1936 dollars ) of rare Chinese art ?
text: Did you know that catcher Dave Liddell faced only one pitch in his Major League career, and got a hit ?
text: Did you know that the 1929 drama film Betrayal was the last silent film directed by Lewis Milestone and the last silent film performed by Gary Cooper ?
text: Did you know that as principal bassoonist of the BBC Symphony Orchestra , Julie Price celebrated her predecessor William Waterhouse in the recent concert The Proud Bassoon at Wigmore Hall ?
text: Did you know that Rhett Akins was inspired to write Blake Shelton 's song " Honey Bee " after reading an article on Mike Huckabee ?
text: Did you know that the opening chorus of Bach 's cantata for the Second Day of Easter , Erfreut euch, ihr Herzen, BWV 66 , has been termed "one of the longest and most exhilarating of Bach's early works"?
text: Did you know that archaeologists believe they have uncovered the Monastery of the Virgins described in a 6th-century account of Byzantine Jerusalem ?
text: Did you know that four-time Winter Paralympic bronze medalist Matthew Stockford became the manager of Olympic skier Chemmy Alcott ?
text: Did you know that Wharton Reef Light , now on display at the Townsville Maritime Museum, Queensland , is the only survivor of a series of 20 automatic lighthouses installed from 1913 to the early 1920s?
text: Did you know that author Andrew Morton 's biography, Madonna , sold only half of its initial print run of 500,000 copies?
text: Did you know that The Motherfucker With the Hat was the Broadway debut for actor Chris Rock ?
text: Did you know that the Ruislip-Northwood Urban District was formed in 1904 following concerns over the expansion of the Metropolitan Railway and the growth in population of Northwood ?
text: Did you know that Jovan Skerlić 's role in literature and general cultural and political development has resulted in the suggestion that the 1900–1914 period in Serbian history should be named after him?
text: Did you know that the Huntsman Marine Science Centre in St. Andrews, New Brunswick , has the largest collection of Atlantic organisms in Canada ?
text: Did you know that Metropolitan Police officer Chris Allison was the Gold Commander for police operations in the aftermath of the 7/7 London bombings ?
text: Did you know that the community-initiated Nata Bird Sanctuary in Botswana opened in 1993 and the same year received the "Tourism for Tomorrow" award for the Southern Hemisphere ?
text: Did you know that while playing for Barrow , footballer Fred Laycock left the pitch to sign for Nelson before completing the match, and was then fined for representing Barrow while contracted to another club?
text: Did you know that in Ghanian women's health , breast cancer is the leading malignancy , accounting for over 15% of all malignancies in Ghana ?
text: Did you know that Center Point, Camp County, Texas , was settled in 1865 by freed slaves after the Emancipation Proclamation , and is the birthplace of mezzo-soprano Barbara Smith Conrad ?
text: Did you know that the extinct trapdoor spiders Baltocteniza and Electrocteniza were both identified from specimens in Baltic amber ?
text: Did you know that a plaque on Phoenix Tower in Chester states that King Charles I stood on the tower in 1645 as he watched his soldiers being defeated at Rowton Moor ?
text: Did you know that Democratic and Republican plans for the 2012 United States federal budget both focus on deficit reduction, but differ in their changes to taxation , entitlement programs , and research funding ?
text: Did you know that the longest-running number one of the UK Dance Chart in 2005 was " Hung Up " by Madonna , which spent four weeks at the top of the chart ?
text: Did you know that Representative J. D. Rumberg of the 10th Arizona Territorial Legislature ‎ tried to ban all horse racing in the territory but was only able to have it outlawed on his own ranch?
text: Did you know that the award-winning writer Evelyn M. Richardson lived on a 600-acre island for 35 years?
text: Did you know that nordic skier Peter Young won a bronze medal for Great Britain at the 1994 Winter Paralympics , ten years after winning his first Paralympic medal at the 1984 Games ?
text: Did you know that after energy and climate " czar " Carol Browner left the Obama administration , Heather Zichal took over those responsibilities but not the informal title?
text: Did you know that music writer Piero Scaruffi called the 1980s American experimental rock group the Orthotonics , "one of the most surreal and unpredictable combos of the era"?
text: Did you know that the first woman to write a book on childbirth was Louise Bourgeois Boursier ?
text: Did you know that a live album released in 2009 includes a duet by Fito Páez and Joaquín Sabina , who had not spoken for more than 10 years?
text: Did you know that child actor Darryl Richard made his last TV appearance on the series finale of ABC 's The Donna Reed Show , March 19 , 1966, a day after his 20th birthday?
text: Did you know that it is said that Thomas à Becket preached either in the church dedicated to him , in Capel , Kent , or in its churchyard?
text: Did you know that Joseph Bloomfield Leake left the Iowa State Senate to serve in the American Civil War but was later elected back to the Senate?
text: Did you know that St. Andrews Biological Station in New Brunswick is Canada's first marine biological research station?
text: Did you know that Nelson F.C. lost only one home match in the Football League Third Division North during the 1924–25 season ?
text: Did you know that Geoff Emerick , who co-created the send tape echo echo delay audio effect at Abbey Road Studios , once said that "God only knows" how it worked?
text: Did you know that James C. Nelson , appointed as a Montana Supreme Court Justice by George W. Bush 's campaign chair , wrote that blocking same-sex marriage was a "societal cancer grounded in bigotry and hate "?
text: Did you know that St Mary Magdalene's Church in Tortington is decorated with carvings of grotesque, boggle-eyed monsters, rare beakhead figures and chevron ornamentation?
text: Did you know that Aziz Ahmad is considered one of the best Buzkashi players in Afghanistan ?
text: Did you know that Angry Birds was named App of the Year at the British Appy Awards ?
text: Did you know that in the Fourth Test of the 1965–66 Ashes series the Australian cricket captain Bobby Simpson and his batting partner Bill Lawry made 244 runs in 255 minutes, the highest opening stand against England in Australia ?
text: Did you know that in the burrowing wolf spider Allocosa brasiliensis , males often eat older, less fecund females that they lured into their burrow using pheromones, while preferredly mating with virgins?
text: Did you know that the only known specimen of the extinct planthopper Glisachaemus jonasdamzeni is preserved with a parasitic mite ?
text: Did you know that Felipe González González was Governor of Aguascalientes from 1998 to 2004?
text: Did you know that artist Edward Hopper 's wife served as the model for both women in his painting Hotel Lobby ?
text: Did you know that Steve and Christian Thomas are the first father-son combination to each score at least 50 goals in a single Ontario Hockey League season?
text: Did you know that in the 2010 documentary film 180 Degrees South: Conquerors of the Useless , Jeff Johnson emulates the 1968 journey made by Yvon Chouinard and Doug Tompkins ?
text: Did you know that Charles Silent tried to resign from the Arizona Supreme Court almost immediately upon taking up the office?
text: Did you know that M. A. Muqtedar Khan calls Jewish rabbi Mukhayriq "the first Jewish martyr of Islam" and "a true Islamic hero"?
text: Did you know that police used cryptic messages placed in a newspaper and disguised as Mensa puzzles to communicate with the perpetrator of a letter bomb campaign ?
text: Did you know that Juice Newton played Australian rules football for the Melbourne Football Club ?
text: Did you know that attack helicopters racked up an impressive five-to-one kill ratio over jet fighters during the J-CATCH exercises in the late 1970s?
text: Did you know that boxer Adrian Dodson competed for Guyana at the 1988 Summer Olympics and for Great Britain at the 1992 Summer Olympics ?
text: Did you know that the 5th Arizona Territorial Legislature had difficulty maintaining a quorum in its lower house due to the large number of members that did not attend the session?
text: Did you know that wrestler Charles B. Sprott sued the reigning World Heavyweight Champion in 1973 for calling him names in a parking lot?
text: Did you know that Bright Angel , composed by Graham Waterhouse for three bassoons and contrabassoon , relates to the Bright Angel Trail of the Grand Canyon which the composer hiked with his father at the age of nine?
text: Did you know that Alimuddin Zumla was the first Zambian doctor to be shortlisted for the BMJ Group 's Lifetime Achievement Award?
text: Did you know that organocerium compounds can serve as an "environmentally friendly alternative" to other organometallic reagents ?
text: Did you know that the first musical episode of Grey's Anatomy was conceived over seven years before it was produced, while the series was still untitled?
text: Did you know that a conspiracy of silence surrounded the fate of English cricketer Walter Gilbert for 60 years after his death?
text: Did you know that Barend Joseph Stokvis , a Dutch professor of medicine, was the first to describe the rare disease acute porphyria in a 1889 study?
text: Did you know that the first phase of Mitt Romney's 2012 U.S. presidential campaign was announced via a video message?
text: Did you know that Pedro Virgili , from Vilallonga del Camp , was one of the most prominent royal surgeons of Spain in the 18th century?
text: Did you know that the Spring Creek Site in western Michigan is a type site for Ottawa pottery?
text: Did you know that Alaungpaya was a village headman who founded the Konbaung Dynasty of Burma , and unified the country for the third time in its history?
text: Did you know that up to 200 people played a game of football on land near Brothertoft , Lincolnshire , in the 1760s as a protest against enclosure ?
text: Did you know that the Indianapolis Art Center was founded in 1934 as a Works Progress Administration project?
text: Did you know that Supernatural , a 1998 album by British singer Des'ree , sold 50,000 copies in the United States, although her 1994 album I Ain't Movin' sold over a million copies?
text: Did you know that artist Charles Alston 's bust of Martin Luther King Jr. was the first image of an African American displayed at the White House ?
text: Did you know that RCA used its Triniscope color television design during FCC meetings, even though it was clear it would not be accepted?
text: Did you know that Edward J. Burke coached the Drexel Dragons men's basketball team to their first NCAA Tournament ?
text: Did you know that Dickshooter was named for Dick Shooter?
text: Did you know that the 6th Arizona Territorial Legislature was delayed from 1869 until 1871 because no Territorial Governor was available to call for elections ?
text: Did you know that the flash of light accompanying an earthquake in 1896 was attributed by some residents of North Piddle , Worcestershire , to a large meteor?
text: Did you know that when the first cents coined by the U.S. Mint were ridiculed for their crudeness, Mint worker Adam Eckfeldt replaced the chain design with a wreath and put a trefoil under Liberty 's head?
text: Did you know that the medieval fortresses Lardea and Ktenia in modern southeastern Bulgaria were lost by the Second Bulgarian Empire to Byzantium in 1322 only to be recovered in 1324, then ceded back and once again recaptured in 1332?
text: Did you know that Gandrung traditional dance, popular in Java , Bali and Lombok , was originally dedicated to the rice goddess, Dewi Sri ?
text: Did you know that Montana Supreme Court Justice Brian Morris , who clerked for U.S. Chief Justice William Rehnquist , was the starting fullback in the 1986 Gator Bowl for the Stanford Cardinal football team?
text: Did you know that every Good Friday since 1922, De Nederlandse Bachvereniging (The Netherlands Bach Society) has performed Bach 's St Matthew Passion in Naarden ?
text: Did you know that Louisa Hubbard founded the Women's Emigration Society in 1880 to help young women from London find employment outside of the United Kingdom ?
text: Did you know that most of the remaining redwoods in Oregon are in the Winchuck River watershed?
text: Did you know that African-American writer Felicia D. Henderson has worked on projects as varied as the television series Soul Food , Gossip Girl , and Fringe , and the comic series Teen Titans ?
text: Did you know that the Loire Valley chansonniers are 15th century illustrated songbooks that are smaller than a modern paperback ?
text: Did you know that the possibly extinct wall crab spider species Garcorops jadis was named for C.S. Lewis' Jadis, the White Witch ?
text: Did you know that in the 1820s, chemist Antoine Labarraque won a prize of 1,500 francs for discovering a way to remove the appalling smell from Paris 's gut-processing factories?
text: Did you know that after The Redmond Spokesman won University of Oregon 's Hal E. Hoss trophy for the best weekly newspaper in Oregon three times in five years, the award was retired and given to The Spokesman 's publisher?
text: Did you know that the record-setting Finnhorse trotter Reipas was originally a thin, weak foal of unknown parentage?
text: Did you know that footballers Denis Law , Robert Smyth McColl and Hughie Gallacher have each scored three hat-tricks for Scotland ?
text: Did you know that the queen ant of the Acropyga acutiventris carries a mealybug Xenococcus annandalei in her jaws on her nuptial flight ?
text: Did you know that during the trial that led to the U.S. Supreme Court case Mancusi v. DeForte , which established a reasonable expectation of privacy at work, the jury deliberated for 28 hours without sleep ?
text: Did you know that the Livens Large Gallery Flame Projectors were large, 17 metres (56 ft) long, fixed flamethrowers used in the Mametz sector of the Battle of the Somme , and that the remains of one have recently been rediscovered?
text: Did you know that Felix Schlag won the prize for designing the Jefferson nickel , but was required to submit an entirely new "tails" or reverse side?
text: Did you know that when the ABB Group and CMS Energy invested US$ 1.5 billion into projects at the Moroccan port of Jorf Lasfar , it was the largest foreign investment ever in that country?
text: Did you know that at age 18, Australian country music singer Samantha McClymont was crowned Grafton Jacaranda Queen, named Trans-Tasman Entertainer of the Year, and was a Top 118 finalist for Australian Idol ?
text: Did you know that the Carlton Hotel sold New Zealand 's first beer on tap?
text: Did you know that 17 years after Bruiser Brody's 1988 murder , the stadium where he was killed was one of the venues of the Bruiser Brody Memorial Cup Tour , which featured his assailant, Invader I , on the card ?
text: Did you know that Judge C. C. Bridgewater 's tenure on the Washington Court of Appeals ended when he missed the deadline to file for re-election—because he was in a medically induced coma after a heart attack ?
text: Did you know that Mote Park stopped being used by Kent after a green wicket cost them eight County Championship points due to a low scoring cricket game that ended in under two days?
text: Did you know that jazz guitarist Julian Lage recorded his Grammy -nominated debut album Sounding Point when he was only 20 years old?
text: Did you know that the Foresight Institute 's Feynman Prize in Nanotechnology includes both annual prizes and a US$ 250,000 Grand Prize modeled after historical technological prizes such as the Longitude prize ?
text: Did you know that The King of Rome ' s skin is preserved in Derby Museum because he survived where other pigeons died?
text: Did you know that Republican Texas high court Judge Cathy Cochran took her husband's surname when they married in 1966, and he took her maiden name in 2001?
text: Did you know that Jurassic Park 's discussion of chaos theory was inspired by Ivar Ekeland ?
text: Did you know that five thousand types of communion tokens have been issued by Presbyterian churches ?
text: Did you know that the historian Josephus wrote that the Jordan River had its source in Aaiha , because of an underground stream feeding the Hasbani River ?
text: Did you know that one-quarter of the plant diversity of Mexico occurs in Landa de Matamoros municipality in Querétaro ?
text: Did you know that Fort Center may be the earliest archaeological site in Florida where maize was cultivated ?
text: Did you know that Dwight B. Heard is credited with making Arizona's cotton industry more competitive after becoming president of the Arizona Cotton Association?
text: Did you know that " You Debt Your Life " was the second American Dad! episode to feature the story of how Roger the Alien saved Stan Smith at Area 51 , the first episode having been " Roger Codger "?
text: Did you know that Radix natalensis is a widespread freshwater snail in Africa?
text: Did you know that Blue Labour is a socially conservative trend in the British Labour Party that argues for Flag, Faith and Family?
text: Did you know that Ox Baker , a former tag team partner of Walter "Killer" Kowalski , was among the wrestling legends who spoke at the Killer Kowalski Memorial Show in 2008?
text: Did you know that Groupe Bogolan Kasobané of Mali is a pioneer in the bogolan fine arts movement?
text: Did you know that Air India One is the call sign of any aircraft carrying either the Prime Minister of India or the President of India ?
text: Did you know that at its peak, the Gare de la Bastille in Paris handled over 1,000,000 roses a night?
text: Did you know that addition of sulfur increases the refractive index of polymers ?
text: Did you know that several members of the 4th Arizona Territorial Legislature‎ were accused of accepting bribes after the session created the territory's first "permanent" capital ?
text: Did you know that Ancient Greek girl Myrtis was made a friend of the Millennium Development Goals by the United Nations Regional Information Centre ?
text: Did you know that Oregon Court of Appeals Judge David Schuman finished second in the North American speed skating finals in the 220-yard competition at the age of 17?
text: Did you know that decoration of the Michoacán Market in Mexico City with stencils increased sales?
text: Did you know that on the Australasian Antarctic Expedition , Leslie Whetter was accused of incompetence, "chiefly through lack of determination in character and failing to do his level best"?
text: Did you know that Breton writer Jacques Cambry (1749–1807) published important works on Celtic history and monuments, and in 1805 founded the Celtic Academy ?
text: Did you know that the Late Eocene marine Hoko River Formation is noted for producing crab , gastropod , cephalopod , and wood fossils ?
text: Did you know that the monument to Sir Henry Furnese in All Saints Church, Waldershare , Kent , fills a chapel, and has been described as "outstanding"?
text: Did you know that after Rick Wakeman left Yes without a full-time keyboardist in 1997, the band borrowed Toto keyboardist Steve Porcaro for their final rock radio hit " Open Your Eyes "?
text: Did you know that the German Chancellor Otto von Bismarck sought the imprisonment of Admiral Reinhold Werner , who nearly precipitated a war between Spanish rebels and Germany in 1873?
text: Did you know that the oldest known museum labels are from c. 1900 BCE, describing 2000 BCE objects?
text: Did you know that in the U.S. Supreme Court case Stoner v. California , Potter Stewart wrote that the police could not depend on their bud, a hotel clerk, to help smoke out a suspected robber?
text: Did you know that Landysh , a Russian vessel built with funding from Japan to decommission nuclear submarines , was requested by Japan to assist in the aftermath of the Fukushima I nuclear accidents ?
text: Did you know that American ceramics sculptor Richard Deutsch had a piece exhibited at the Smithsonian Institution in 1981, just three years after his first solo show?
text: Did you know that "G.I.R.L.F.R.E.N (You Know I've Got A)" by Everybody Was in the French Resistance...Now! is a reply to Avril Lavigne 's song, " Girlfriend "?
text: Did you know that Combretum glutinosum , found in The Gambia and the Sahel belt, is used to make yellow dye ?
text: Did you know that, after chopping off her husband's penis, Lorena Bobbitt won her trial by employing the abuse defense ?
text: Did you know that in one concert, bassoonist Lyndon Watts premiered Bernd Redmann 's Migrant , played Jörg Duda 's first Finnish Quartet , which he had commissioned, and the Bassoon Quintet of Graham Waterhouse , which he had premiered?
text: Did you know that the British minelayer HMS Plover laid over 15,000 mines during World War II , including two that sank the German destroyer Z8 Bruno Heinemann off the Belgian coast in January 1942 ?
text: Did you know that John VI Kantakouzenos concealed the purpose of the meeting that resulted in the 1327 Byzantine – Bulgarian Treaty of Chernomen by describing it as eight days of rejoicing and feasts?
text: Did you know that the Rome bid for the 2020 Summer Olympics will use 70 percent of the city's existing venues?
text: Did you know that among the many children of Thomas Cochrane, 8th Earl of Dundonald were inventors, clergymen, civil servants , Members of Parliament , army officers and admirals ?
text: Did you know that German art nouveau painter and architect Richard Riemerschmid began designing furniture after he could not find what he wanted for his flat following his marriage?
text: Did you know that Jean-François-Auguste Moulin was one of the last two holdouts in the French Directory to resist Napoleon Bonaparte 's seizure of power?
text: Did you know that in 1916, members who attempted to remove a "whites only" clause from the constitution of the Commercial Telegraphers Union of America were accused of "fomenting socialism"?
text: Did you know that former California State Assemblyman George W. Milias , a graduate of both San Jose State and Stanford , was President of the California Republican Assembly and state Republican Party Chairman?
text: Did you know that White Ware or Vaiselle Blanche was a limestone based prototype of clay pottery developed somewhere in the Levant in the ninth millennium BC ?
text: Did you know that after graduating from the University of Chicago Law School , Colorado Supreme Court Justice Allison H. Eid clerked for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas ?
text: Did you know that before he entered politics, Joseph Stalin's poetry was widely read and much admired in Georgia ?
text: Did you know that artist Maya Lin worked with the U.S. Geological Survey to create her Bluespring Caverns -inspired sculpture Above and Below ?
text: Did you know that Lev Voronin , a First Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers , was acting Premier of the Soviet Union between Nikolai Ryzhkov 's hospitalisation and Valentin Pavlov 's election as Premier?
text: Did you know that the Lyceum Theatre in Crewe , Cheshire , was opened in 1887, destroyed by fire in 1910, and rebuilt on the same site in 1911?
text: Did you know that Ernst Cadman Colwell , together with his students, elaborated a new method of textual criticism known as the Claremont Profile Method ?
text: Did you know that the album Gloria by Mexican singer Gloria Trevi features a song dedicated to The Rolling Stones ?
text: Did you know that the 2011 European Under-18 Rugby Union Championship , held in France in April 2011, marks the first time that all of the Six Nations will participate in the competition ?
text: Did you know that Hollingworth Magniac had business relationships with William Jardine and James Matheson , whose Jardine Matheson and Company partnership became Asia's largest trading company ?
text: Did you know that in 2010, a white member of the Monticello Association was one of three Thomas Jefferson descendants given the "Search for Common Ground" award for working to heal the family's past and legacy of slavery ?
text: Did you know that the first Ottoman governor of Syria , Janbirdi al-Ghazali , revolted against Ottoman rule two years into his reign?
text: Did you know that all that remains of the Old Church of St Mary the Virgin in Preston Candover , Hampshire , is the chancel ?
text: Did you know that only one side of the extinct parasitic wasp Neanaperiallus is visible in its sole fossilized specimen?
text: Did you know that a week after co-producing an Usher concert in the Philippines , Representative Ronald Singson was jailed in Hong Kong for alleged drug trafficking?
text: Did you know that five members of the popular Irish band The Miami Showband were shot in an ambush by the Ulster Volunteer Force at a bogus military checkpoint in Northern Ireland?
text: Did you know that after the California Court of Appeal treated a teenager's letter as a formal appeal , Presiding Justice Daniel J. Kremer wrote a unanimous opinion overturning the boy's speeding ticket fine?
text: Did you know that angry residents burned down a toll booth on the west end of Perkiomen Bridge in 1867, and another on the east end in 1872?
text: Did you know that Ash-sha'ab yurid isqat an-nizam (The people want the fall of the regime) was the most common slogan in graffiti during the 2011 Egyptian Revolution ?
text: Did you know that, to raise money for the all-black high school where he was principal, Charles W. Cansler sometimes held demonstrations of his ability to calculate large columns of numbers faster than adding machines ?
text: Did you know that new Police Commissioner of New Zealand Peter Marshall held off an invasion of his home by 13 people in the Solomon Islands with a ceremonial sword ?
text: Did you know that Peñamiller , Querétaro , Mexico , is promoted as the gateway to the Sierra Gorda ?
text: Did you know that racist music is considered an effective recruiting tool for the modern neo-Nazi and white supremacy movements, and a breeding ground for domestic terrorism in the United States ?
text: Did you know that pamphleteer George Thomson criticized his fellow physicians for fleeing London during the Great Plague , just when the city needed them most?
text: Did you know that the total amount spent on lobbying in the United States in 2010 was $3.49 billion ?
text: Did you know that in 2007 Lucy Aharish became the first Arab to present the news on mainstream Israeli television ?
text: Did you know that, when trying to gain the rights to use a Björk song for an upcoming episode , the creators of Glee initially could not reach her as she apparently did not have a telephone number ?
text: Did you know that Allah Made Me Funny is a documentary featuring three American Muslim comedians ?
text: Did you know that Jacques Cauvin said the Neolithic Revolution moved into Anatolia via "the acculturation of a local cultural background by a dominant, expansionist culture"?
text: Did you know that at the time of the 3rd Arizona Territorial Legislature‎ there were no stage coaches running in Arizona ?
text: Did you know that Shoot to Kill (1990) had to be made as a drama documentary because many of its subjects had either been shot by the RUC , given new identities , or forbidden to talk by the Official Secrets Act ?
text: Did you know that the first painting exhibited at the Royal Academy by Henry Thomson was of Daedalus fastening wings on his son Icarus ?
text: Did you know that Abraham Bolden was the first African American member of the US Secret Service Presidential Protective Division?
text: Did you know that two people owed their survival of the Sture Murders to an ambiguous order issued by a mad king ?
text: Did you know that historian Leslie Bethell became only the second English citizen elected to the Brazilian Academy of Letters ?
text: Did you know that the World War II U-boat commander Heinz-Otto Schultze was the son of the World War I U-boat commander Otto Schultze ?
text: Did you know that William F. Yardley , the first African American candidate for governor of Tennessee , is believed to have been the first African American attorney to argue before the state's supreme court ?
text: Did you know that the first life insurance company was founded in 1706?
text: Did you know that the artwork created for the MBTA 's Red Line Northwest Extension cost one half of one percent of the total construction costs of the rail line?
text: Did you know that traditional Cornish fairings were sold at fairs for young men to give to their sweethearts?
text: Did you know that during the 11½ day rescue of Bat 21 Bravo , the Americans flew an average of 90 sorties a day to protect their airman, hitting the NVA with over 800 air strikes in direct support of his rescue?
text: Did you know that until 1959, the Finnhorse was the only horse breed allowed to be raced in Finland ?
text: Did you know that Christoph Schlingensief died before the Berlin premiere of the opera which he had staged, Metanoia. Über das Denken hinaus by Jens Joneleit , conducted by Daniel Barenboim ?
text: Did you know that the redundant churches of St John and St Mary both stand near The Ridgeway long-distance path in Oxfordshire ?
text: Did you know that 140-pound quarterback Ferris Jennings ran 66 yards for the first of only two touchdowns scored all year by the 1934 Michigan football team that also featured future US President Gerald Ford ?
text: Did you know that, despite speculation that the Panama Creature was an alien life form , it was later shown to be a decomposing Brown-throated Sloth ?
text: Did you know that playwright Franz Xaver Kroetz turned his controversial play Stallerhof into an opera libretto for Gerd Kühr , which premiered at the Munich Biennale ?
text: Did you know that the Jardín del Arte Sullivan art market in Mexico City does not permit works with political or religious themes?
text: Did you know that Lord's Cricket Ground in London has been the venue for four Cricket World Cup Finals matches?
text: Did you know that an unidentified suspect, dubbed the Long Island serial killer , is believed to have murdered as many as eight people and dumped their bodies along the Ocean Parkway in New York ?
text: Did you know that artist Jeppe Hein created Bench Around the Lake to appear as if it tunnels in and out of the ground at the Indianapolis Museum of Art ?
text: Did you know that James Watt asked Sir Joseph Banks PRS to support the Pneumatic Institution , where willing subjects, including its laboratory superintendent, a young Humphry Davy , were given laughing gas ?
text: Did you know that Valentin Pavlov , the Prime Minister of the Soviet Union and de facto Chairman of the Cabinet of Ministers , was involved in the 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt against Mikhail Gorbachev ?
text: Did you know that the sculpture Confluence by Robert Stackhouse and Carol Merrit was inspired by Langston Hughes ' poem " The Negro Speaks of Rivers "?
text: Did you know that Stanford University graduate Charles Coiner , a Republican Idaho Senator from 2004 to 2010, supported efforts to teach about Japanese-American internment in Idaho public schools ?
text: Did you know that the Heroes' Monument of the Red Army in Vienna was built to commemorate 17,000 Soviet soldiers who fell in the Vienna Offensive of World War II ?
text: Did you know that in 1886, 200,000 salmon and salmon trout fry (young trout) were deposited in the Chamcook Lake in New Brunswick ?
text: Did you know that Maud Gage Baum forced her husband to eat stale doughnuts because he did not consult with her before buying them?
text: Did you know that the first car that had a body entirely of plastic was manufactured by the Ford Motor Company in 1941?
text: Did you know that the Codex Sangallensis 1395 is one of the oldest manuscripts of the Vulgate ?
text: Did you know that the design of the West Washington Street Bridge in Muncie, Indiana was inspired by the work of an American Civil War engineer who built military bridges?
text: Did you know that Tell Arslan in the Sands of Beirut was the oldest known neolithic village settlement in the Beirut area?
text: Did you know that missionary E. E. Aiken was a member of Skull and Bones at Yale in 1881 and the next year wrote a book denouncing such secret societies ?
text: Did you know that in Jones v Kaney , the UK Supreme Court overturned a line of authority going back 400 years to allow an expert witness to be sued for professional negligence ?
text: Did you know that the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) established the Elite 88 Award in 2009 to recognize the student athlete with the highest grade point average at each NCAA championship?
text: Did you know that in 1903, Benjamin Franklin Yoakum began building the Gulf Coast Lines in southern Texas as a link in a projected transcontinental railroad system stretching from Chicago to Mexico ?
text: Did you know that Monte do Gozo , a hill in Spain , is most known for its view of a sight below, a view that is now largely obscured?
text: Did you know that preacher John "Zion" Ward was jailed for blasphemy in 1832, prompting a petition to Parliament by Henry Hunt , and a speech in the House of Commons by MP Joseph Hume ?
text: Did you know that the German destroyer Z9 Wolfgang Zenker had exhausted her ammunition after the Second Naval Battle of Narvik and she had to be scuttled by placing demolition charges after she had been beached ?
text: Did you know that Hospital Tobar García is the only facility in the federated capital of Buenos Aires that specializes in mental illness in children and adolescents?
text: Did you know that nearly all orders for Nintendo 's Laser Clay Shooting System were canceled as a result of the 1973 oil crisis , plunging the company ¥5 billion into debt?
text: Did you know that Zenith Productions , which produced Inspector Morse , was later also responsible for Ant & Dec 's SMTV Live ?
text: Did you know that Ivan Silayev was the last Premier of the Soviet Union ?
text: Did you know that editor John Jympson was fired during production of Star Wars because director George Lucas disliked his rough cut of the film?
text: Did you know that, according to the excavator, the more than 3000-year-old "Green Palace" of Tell al-Fakhar in Iraq was pillaged and burned with the defenders still inside?
text: Did you know that bizarre silks of the early 18th century feature "some of the most extraordinary shapes to be introduced into silk design " before the development of Art Nouveau ?
text: Did you know that Neptune , god of the sea, can be found in Henderson Street , Edinburgh ?
text: Did you know that the Spirit Fruit Society is considered to have existed longer and more successfully than any other utopian group in the United States ?
text: Did you know that Edward Litt Laman Blanchard , who later became a prominent writer for the Drury Lane pantomime , began writing for The Town when he was 17 years of age?
text: Did you know that Epitaphium , composed for string trio by Graham Waterhouse , is performed today in Wigmore Hall in a memorial concert for his father, the bassoonist William Waterhouse ?
text: Did you know that the Natural Bridges National Monument Solar Power System in Utah was the world's largest solar cell power plant when it opened in 1980?
text: Did you know that singer Jenny Silver debuted with the Swedish dance band Candela, when it was signed to Bert Karlsson 's label Mariann Grammofon ?
text: Did you know that in the Indian state of Bihar , pressure from communist Party Unity guerrillas forced the upper-caste paramilitary Bhoomi Sena to surrender to the peasant organisation MKSS ?
text: Did you know that the Lincoln Thornton Manuscript , compiled around 1430-1440 by an amateur scribe and country gentleman, contains the only extant copies of Sir Degrevant and the Alliterative Morte Arthure ?
text: Did you know that Sir Peter Maxwell Davies ’s new opera about student activism , Kommilitonen! , was intended to be performed by students?
text: Did you know that the Museum of Lebanese Prehistory exhibits neolithic relics from the Beqaa Valley recovered by Jesuits ?
text: Did you know that recycling in Canada is administered by the provincial and local governments?
text: Did you know that Hamburger Feuerkasse was the first official fire insurance company established in the world?
text: Did you know that Sir Henry Primrose , the chairman of the board of the Inland Revenue , played two international football matches for Scotland in the 1870s?
text: Did you know that a performer's authenticity in art may involve conforming to the composer's intention or ignoring it?
text: Did you know that the Fordwich stone in the Church of St Mary in Fordwich , Kent , may have been part of the shrine of Saint Augustine of Canterbury ?
text: Did you know that Alaska Supreme Court Justice Craig F. Stowers worked as a park ranger before he earned his Juris Doctor from UC Davis School of Law ?
text: Did you know that the 17th century Jacobean mansion Swakeleys House in Ickenham was visited by Samuel Pepys in 1665 and recorded in his diary?
text: Did you know that the Tasmanian pygmy possum is the world's smallest species of possum ?
text: Did you know that a match at the World Wrestling Federation 's Survivor Series (2000) event ended with one wrestler using a forklift to destroy a car, supposedly with his opponent trapped inside?
text: Did you know that Warren Matthews , a graduate of both Stanford and Harvard appointed by Republican Governor Jay Hammond , was the second-longest serving Supreme Court justice in Alaska history?
text: Did you know that Lumley Chapel is the oldest standing building in the London Borough of Sutton ?
text: Did you know that as many as 11 geological features in Utah are named Mollie's (or Molly's) Nipple ?
text: Did you know that Ruislip Manor was largely undeveloped rural land at the turn of the 20th century until the arrival of the Metropolitan Railway in 1912?
text: Did you know that during World War II , Germany and Japan wanted to divide all of Asia between each other along a line on the 70th meridian east longitude?
text: Did you know that although described as one of the finest buildings in Glasgow , The Egyptian Halls may be demolished?
text: Did you know that former Hillsboro, Oregon , mayor Harry T. Bagley worked to get a conviction overturned from a trial his brother George R. Bagley presided over?
text: Did you know that Blackbutt , Christmas Bells , and Turpentine grow in the Garawarra State Conservation Area ?
text: Did you know that John Fenn , winner of the 2002 Nobel Prize in Chemistry , and his colleagues at Monsanto "practically bathed" in PCBs during the early 1940s?
text: Did you know that under the ongoing Russian police reform , the name of Russia 's law enforcers was changed from "militia" to "police"?
text: Did you know that Gyanvapi Mosque in Varanasi , India , built on the site of the original Kashi Vishwanath Temple , still shows evidence of the temple in its foundation, columns, and rear?
text: Did you know that when Antoinette Sterling sang the English folk song " Three Fishers " in the late 1800s, she made the first verse "quite bright" so as not to give away the unhappy ending?
text: Did you know that the Beaux Arts exterior of the 1907 Surrogate's Courthouse in New York features no fewer than 54 sculptures of historical and allegorical figures?
text: Did you know that Namibian Hans Daniel Namuhuja was the first author to publish poetry in Oshindonga , a dialect of Oshiwambo ?
text: Did you know that soon after he was ordained , John Wesley preached in St Mary's Church in Fleet Marston , Buckinghamshire ?
text: Did you know that as an unelected Congressional delegate from Jefferson Territory , George M. Willing claimed to have created the word " Idaho " as a name for Colorado ?
text: Did you know that while building a wagon road along Union Creek , Francis M. Smith and John M. Corbell rediscovered Crater Lake , the deepest lake in the United States and one of the clearest in the world?
text: Did you know that the extinct parasitic wasp genus Aspidopleura is known from only two fossils found in Baltic amber ?
text: Did you know that Ditsworthy Warren House , built on Dartmoor for the keeper of a rabbit warren , was used as a filming location for Steven Spielberg 's forthcoming movie War Horse ?
text: Did you know that the German destroyer Bruno Heinemann was forced to transfer fuel oil to the destroyer Friedrich Eckoldt during the Norwegian Campaign to allow the latter to return to Germany ?
text: Did you know that the Mariana Islands period of prehistoric stone megaliths, such as those found at House of Taga on Tinian , may have originated with the Rota Latte Stone Quarry ?
text: Did you know that Hospital Borda 's Radio La Colifata is the world 's first radio station broadcast from inside a psychiatric hospital ?
text: Did you know that riparian forests contain some ⅓ of the estimated 3000 flora species in Benin ?
text: Did you know that the first Allied soldier killed during the Normandy landings was part of Operation Deadstick ?
text: Did you know that the Chapman Swifts , a flock of Vaux's Swift , inspired a Portland , Oregon , community to raise over US$ 60,000 for a new school heating system so the birds could have the old chimney to roost?
text: Did you know that because it was too dark inside the Church of St Peter ad Vincula in Colemore , Hampshire , the parishioners petitioned the bishop in 1669 to have the south transept removed?
text: Did you know that Decuriasuchus may be the first known archosaur to exhibit group behavior ?
text: Did you know that the Pistol River received its name after James Mace lost his pistol in it in 1853?
text: Did you know that Robert Phelps is a "grandfather" of modern variational principles , according to Ivar Ekeland ?
text: Did you know that Llanwenarth House was a recipient of The Good Hotel Guide César Award for Best Welsh Country House of the Year 2002?
text: Did you know that Hurricane Hiki was the wettest tropical cyclone on record in the United States ?
text: Did you know that Reform Rabbi Ammiel Hirsch , who led the struggle against Israel 's Orthodox establishment to recognize the Reform movement, co-authored a book with an Orthodox rabbi ?
text: Did you know that someone was once stabbed at the Sunset Esplanade in Hillsboro, Oregon , for complimenting an Oakland Raiders hat?
text: Did you know that in the early 19th century , the word gullible wasn't in the dictionary ?
text: Did you know that pirate leader Emilio Changco operated out of Manila Bay till his arrest in the 1990s?
text: Did you know that above the arcade in the chancel screen of St Mary's Church, Capel-le-Ferne in Kent is a large round-headed opening that is unique in England?
text: Did you know that composer Jan Müller-Wieland called his first stage work, premiered at the Munich Biennale in 1992, a " Cabaret Farce for singers, pianists and percussionists "?
text: Did you know that there is pressure to close the Fessenheim Nuclear Power Plant , the oldest in France , because of concerns over the risk of earthquakes ?
text: Did you know that the commander of the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen , Captain Helmuth Brinkmann , was a classmate of the battleship Bismarck 's commander Ernst Lindemann ?
text: Did you know that in Oregon's 1990 U.S. Senate election , incumbent Mark Hatfield 's opponent in the Republican primary was best known for having spent 40 days tree sitting to protest old-growth logging?
text: Did you know that Rudolf Fränkel 's Lichtburg cinema in Berlin , with its rooftop searchlights, probably influenced Cecil Clavering 's Odeon cinema in Kingstanding ?
text: Did you know that Tal Brody was drafted 12th in the National Basketball Association draft, but chose instead to play basketball for Israel ?
text: Did you know that a stained glass window in St. Paul's Church, King Cross , Halifax built in 1911, is dedicated in memory of Edward Wainhouse, whose daughter married the first vicar of the prior church built in 1846?
text: Did you know that leading Ulster Defence Association member Stephen "Top Gun" McKeag sang " Follow the Yellow Brick Road " after committing a sectarian killing?
text: Did you know that the extinct Miocene redwood , Sequoiadendron chaneyi , is the probable ancestor to the giant sequoias in California ?
text: Did you know that Quezon Representative Lorenzo Tañada III 's first girlfriend was former Akbayan Representative Risa Hontiveros while they were studying at the Ateneo de Manila University ?
text: Did you know that No. 1 Basic Flying Training School was formed in 1951 in response to the RAAF 's increased demand for aircrew during the Korean War and Malayan Emergency ?
text: Did you know that the story of Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan , the topic of Sandeep Bhagwati 's opera for the 1998 Munich Biennale , was considered fit for a film?
text: Did you know that the two branches of New Zealand's Ashburton River flow in parallel less than 3 kilometres (1.9 mi) apart for 20 kilometres (12 mi) before they join?
text: Did you know that the adjective " Polish-Lithuanian " refers to pre- nationalistic , multicultural inhabitants of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth , unlike the modern understanding of the two nationalities ?
text: Did you know that R. E. Grant Govan , founder of Indian National Airways Ltd , also co-founded the Board of Control for Cricket in India and Cricket Club of India ?
text: Did you know that, according to legend, on the advice of Xenoclea , Hercules agreed to become a slave of the Queen of Lydia ?
text: Did you know that the Knoxville Riot of 1919 , one of the events of that year's Red Summer , began when a lynch mob stormed the jail in pursuit of a man believed to have been the mayor's illegitimate son?
text: Did you know that the Ottoman torpedo boat Sultanhisar attacked and seriously damaged the Australian submarine HMAS AE2 in 1915 but rescued all the crew before the submarine went down in the Sea of Marmara ?
text: Did you know that 1986 Nobel Prize winner John Polanyi spent three years in Canada as a child to avoid German bombings during World War II ?
text: Did you know that Abu Ali Iyad was one of the last remaining Fatah commanders fighting the Jordanian Army until he was killed near Ajloun during a major offensive by the latter?
text: Did you know that the French ship of the line Censeur was captured during the Battle of Genoa in 1795 after coming to the assistance of a damaged ship ?
text: Did you know that Mammotrectus super Bibliam , a guide book to understanding the Bible , was popular in the 15th century, but was criticized in the 16th century?
text: Did you know that Urbanus , the Grammy -nominated album by Stefon Harris , was recorded in the days leading up to Barack Obama's inauguration ?
text: Did you know that the Sierra Gorda region in central Mexico has more butterfly species than the United States and Canada combined?
text: Did you know that Detlev Glanert 's opera Caligula , after the play by Albert Camus on the cruel Roman emperor , was first staged at the Oper Frankfurt in 2006?
text: Did you know that Rhodactis howesii , a sea anemone -like corallimorph , is eaten by the Samoans but can prove fatal if consumed raw?
text: Did you know that the homemade Israeli mortar memorialized in Jerusalem 's Davidka Square was totally inaccurate, but it made such a huge noise that it sent the enemy fleeing in panic?
text: Did you know that the 15th-century Treatise of Love is based on the 13th-century monastic manual Ancrene Wisse , but shows considerably less interest in carnal love ?
text: Did you know that during a career lasting almost fifty years at TV station WJXT in Jacksonville, Florida , George Winterling helped develop television weather forecasting ?
text: Did you know that traditionally, each season of cross country running in Italy concludes in March with Trofeo Alasport on the island of Sardinia ?
text: Did you know that goaltender Ben Scrivens signed with the NHL 's Toronto Maple Leafs organization mainly for the opportunity to work with goalie coach François Allaire ?
text: Did you know that Perry Como 's musical arranger, Nick Perito , also helped Bob Hope 's wife, Dolores , revive her singing career after 60 years?
text: Did you know that in Jalpan de Serra in Querétaro , Mexico , there is an annual festival to celebrate "countrymen" visiting from the United States?
text: Did you know that the North American Star League , a professional e-sports league for players of the video game StarCraft II , will award US$ 100,000 to the winner of its inaugural season?
text: Did you know that Rear-Admiral Horatio Nelson wrote a personal letter to Lieutenant Charles Inglis congratulating him for his part in the action of 31 March 1800 ?
text: Did you know that on July 28, 2006, Daytona Cubs baseball player Ryan Harvey set a Florida State League record by hitting four home runs in a game against the Clearwater Threshers ?
text: Did you know that Frank Searle designed the X-type and B-type bus , and was the Managing Director of Daimler Airway and Imperial Airways ?
text: Did you know that the Großgaststätte Ahornblatt , a concrete building in the shape of a maple leaf in former East Berlin , was built in 1973 and demolished in 2000?
text: Did you know that Pele 's hair, and Pele's tears are well preserved at Devastation Trail after the 1959 eruption of Kīlauea Iki crater?
text: Did you know that 19th-century English artist John Carter learned to draw, paint and write with his mouth, after a fall from a tree left him paralysed below the neck ?
text: Did you know that Jerry Harper was the first Alabama Crimson Tide men's basketball player to lead his team in scoring all four years?
text: Did you know that Salvador Dalí insisted that his painting Galatea of the Spheres be displayed on an easel previously owned by Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier in the Dalí Theatre and Museum in Figueres ?
text: Did you know that an annual award is given in honor of the Georgia old-time craftsman and blacksmith Alex W. Bealer , author of The Art of Blacksmithing ?
text: Did you know that Keipert syndrome affects the nose and big toes ?
text: Did you know that acquisitions whilst Christopher Wright was Head of Manuscripts at the British Library included the archives of Punch magazine and that of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ?
text: Did you know that Tommy Lyttle , the leader of the Ulster Defence Association 's West Belfast Brigade, liked to read James Bond novels?
text: Did you know that the German town of Bingen am Rhein has used Klopp Castle for city administration since 1897?
text: Did you know that Amy Krouse Rosenthal is the only author to have three children's books on Pennsylvania State University 's baker's dozen list of the "very best picture books published in 2009"?
text: Did you know that the crew of the Santorini tried and failed to smuggle weapons, hidden inside barrels, into the Gaza Strip three times, before being caught on their fourth attempt?
text: Did you know that the Jersey J-Cup , patterned after the Super J Cup Japanese wrestling tournament , is the second-oldest independent wrestling tournament in the United States?
text: Did you know that the Museo Soumaya , a private museum in Mexico City based on one couple's art collection, has the largest collection of Auguste Rodin sculpture outside of France ?
text: Did you know that the old television game show Place the Face asked contestants to recognize glimpses of nearly forgotten persons from their past?
text: Did you know that the proposed construction of the Halabiye Dam on the Euphrates in Syria threatens the Roman – Byzantine sites of Halabiye and Zalabiye ?
text: Did you know that the land at West Weber, Utah , was reported in 1903 to have a reputation as one of the poorest soils between the Great Salt Lake and Ogden ?
text: Did you know that Alexander Gradsky is believed to be the first Russian artist to have performed rock and roll music in a concert, when he was 13 years old?
text: Did you know that the Blockade of Wonsan in the Korean War was the longest naval blockade in modern history, lasting 861 days?
text: Did you know that automotive journalist David E. Davis wore a full beard after a racing accident severely disfigured his face – and the ambulance attendant threw away pieces of his nasal cartilage ?
text: Did you know that as a teenager, Justine Thornton , the fiancée of British Labour Party leader Ed Miliband , appeared in the controversial television comedy Hardwicke House ?
text: Did you know that the debut album by American singer-songwriter Lotti Golden was listed by New York Times music critic Nat Hentoff as one of the most influential albums of the late 1960s?
text: Did you know that the city of Ajdabiya , newly recaptured by Libyan rebels, was founded as a staging post on the crossroads of two key trading routes?
text: Did you know that the Franciscan Church in Zamość was among the largest churches in 17th-century Poland?
text: Did you know that as a senior, basketball player Pete Padgett received the Doc Martie Award, given annually to the University of Nevada's top male athlete?
text: Did you know that the neo-realist film A Berlin Romance is a strong critique of the obsession with consumer goods and the Americanization of mid-1950s Berlin ?
text: Did you know that Isaac Perrins , an 18th-century bareknuckle prizefighter , was described as "the knock-kneed hammerman from Soho"?
text: Did you know that just one day after arrest, Lithuanian partisan commander Adolfas Ramanauskas was transferred to a hospital in a critical condition with a punctured eye and missing testicles?
text: Did you know that the decorative, "humpbacked" Chamberlain Bridge in Barbados , named after British Colonial Secretary Joseph Chamberlain , replaced an older bridge destroyed by the Great Hurricane of 1898?
text: Did you know that George Johnstone was a Royal Navy officer, an MP , a director of the East India Company , a member of the Carlisle Peace Commission and the first Governor of West Florida ?
text: Did you know that Marino Murillo , the former Minister of Economy and Planning of Cuba , believes the Cuban economic system is too paternalistic and supports the creation of a small-scale private market?
text: Did you know that the unauthorized use of data from the National Register of Electors , the permanent database of eligible Canadian voters, can carry a penalty of a year in prison?
text: Did you know that Acid-Fest , a professional wrestling memorial show for Trent Acid , featured one of the largest battle royals ever held?
text: Did you know that cadet Francis A. Dales began Operation Pedestal on an American merchant ship, continued on a British destroyer, and ended it on an American tanker requisitioned and manned by a British crew?
text: Did you know that by winning the 1979 Gillette Cup Final , Somerset County Cricket Club won their first trophy since forming 104 years earlier?
text: Did you know that the documentary film Berlin im Aufbau has historical significance in that it documents the first phase of the rebuilding of the destroyed city of Berlin after World War II ?
text: Did you know that Penally Abbey in Pembrokeshire is believed to have been founded by Saint Teilo in the 6th century ?
text: Did you know that although the despot of Valona John Komnenos Asen plundered a Venetian ship in 1350, he became a Venetian citizen three years later?
text: Did you know that in the Fringe episode " The Ghost Network ", the writers wanted guest actor Zak Orth to shave his head in preparation for a scene, but he successfully "begged" them not to?
text: Did you know that Gent Strazimiri , who began his career as an anti-communist activist , is now a member of the Albanian parliament for the Democratic Party of Albania ?
text: Did you know that the influential 2000 oncology paper " The Hallmarks of Cancer " identified six features that all cancers have in common?
text: Did you know that Reverend Heinrich Schmelen , a German missionary in South-West Africa , married an indigenous Nama woman in 1814, an action encouraged by the missionary societies of that time?
text: Did you know that the 1965 Pacific hurricane season had 10 named storms, with one storm becoming a hurricane?
text: Did you know that Jayden Pitt , the lightest player on the Fremantle Football Club playing list at only 70 kg (150 lb), was a surprise selection when he made his début in the opening round of the 2011 AFL season ?
text: Did you know that John T. Cunningham , who has chronicled much of New Jersey 's past, once said, "My goals did not include either the writing of books or becoming a historian"?
text: Did you know that the convoy , a group of merchantmen or troopships travelling together with a naval escort, was revived during World War I ?
text: Did you know that Danny Goodwin , the Chicago White Sox first-round draft pick and first overall pick in 1971, decided not to sign with the team?
text: Did you know that St Mary's Church , in Sandwich , Kent , was damaged by the French in 1217 and again in 1457, and by an earthquake in 1578?
text: Did you know that H. S. Lloyd is the most successful dog breeder in Crufts history, winning Best in Show on six occasions?
text: Did you know that Albert Bandura 's 1986 book Social Foundations of Thought and Action was said to contain "outlines of the grand theory" of human behaviour psychologists were seeking for over a century?
text: Did you know that Dead Women Crossing in Oklahoma is reputedly haunted by a schoolteacher who disappeared the day after she filed for divorce in 1905, and was found murdered two months later?
text: Did you know that former Kennel Club Chairman Leonard Pagliero flew supplies to the Norwegian resistance movement during World War II ?
text: Did you know that the Task Force on Childhood Obesity , established by the Obama Administration in 2010, seeks to eliminate childhood obesity in the United States within a generation ?
text: Did you know that The inSpiral Lounge is a vegetarian restaurant, organic bar and live music venue in Camden Lock , London that hosts performances of acoustic and electronic music ?
text: Did you know that Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin , by Timothy D. Snyder , discusses the estimated 14 million deaths that occurred in Eastern Europe between 1933 and 1945?
text: Did you know that The Washington Post named Libyan female lawyer Iman al-Obeidi , who accused Muammar Gaddafi 's troops of politically motivated rape, a "symbol of defiance against Gaddafi"?
text: Did you know that the Major League Baseball career of Larry McLean ended at the Buckingham Hotel in St. Louis, Missouri , during a drunken encounter with his manager, John McGraw ?
text: Did you know that Anesrif is managing the construction of the High Plateau line , a railway across Algeria ?
text: Did you know that Tim Tebow , Maya Moore and Matt Bonner were two-time team members of the Year in American football , women's basketball , and men's basketball , respectively?
text: Did you know that Mehadia , Romania , is located on the site of the ancient Roman colony Ad Mediam, noted for its Hercules baths?
text: Did you know that before the Hershey–Chase experiment confirmed the role of DNA , scientists believed that genes were carried by proteins ?
text: Did you know that French marshal Victor-Perrin , on his way to command the Siege of Kolberg (1807) , was captured by a Prussian freikorps ?
text: Did you know that Trey Songz ' 2011 single " Love Faces " is a mid-tempo piano -based ballad that discusses facial expressions that people make when having sexual intercourse ?
text: Did you know that the yacht Amazon 's former owners include Arthur Lowe of the British sitcom Dad's Army ?
text: Did you know that John R. Isbell was the primary contributor to the mathematical theory of uniform spaces ?
text: Did you know that the 2011 murder of Sian O'Callaghan in Swindon , England , has been linked to the 1996 unsolved murder of Melanie Hall ?
text: Did you know that John Adams ' " Christian Zeal and Activity " from American Standard is an arrangement of " Onward, Christian Soldiers ", a popular hymn tune by Arthur Sullivan ?
text: Did you know that in 2003 the German author Dieter Schenk became an honorary citizen of Gdańsk after his work led a German court to overturn a World War II ruling on the defenders of the Polish Post Office in Danzig ?
text: Did you know that 37 photographs , 12 home movies , a bunch of books and a search warrant have had their day in the U.S. Supreme Court ?
text: Did you know that Paul Signac praised Charles Angrand 's drawings as "masterpieces", calling them "poems of light"?
text: Did you know that in the churchyard of All Saints Church , in Little Somborne , Hampshire , is the grave of Thomas Sopwith , the pioneer aviator ?
text: Did you know that Hans Stadlmair , conductor of the Münchener Kammerorchester for almost four decades, in 1971 premiered Wilhelm Killmayer 's Fin al punto , of which the composer said, "The calm already contains the catastrophe"?
text: Did you know that despite being set up similarly, government-sponsored fixed markets never replaced " tianguis " or open air markets in Mexico ?
text: Did you know that in 1918 Morris S. Halliday , a New York State Senator for the forty-first Senate District, resigned his seat to enter the United States Army Air Service ?
text: Did you know that a parrot was branded sectarian after being heard whistling " Follow Follow "?
text: Did you know that George , a Jack Russell Terrier , died from injuries sustained while protecting several children from an attack by two Pit Bulls ?
text: Did you know that Austrian American biochemist Oskar Baudisch , whose study of trace elements in aqueous solutions led to his discovery of the Baudisch reaction , died by drowning?
text: Did you know that the mass of the extrasolar planet Kepler-11g could not be determined because its orbit is too far from those of its sister planets?
text: Did you know that former Washington Times editor James R. Whelan claims he was dismissed from the paper after control of it was "seized" by leaders of the Unification Church ?
text: Did you know that Kenny Meadows has been described as one of the best illustrators to work for Punch in the magazine's early years?
text: Did you know that Grant Hill 's response to Jalen Rose 's comments in The Fab Five —the highest-rated ESPN documentary—was shared by nearly 100,000 people on Facebook in the next few days?
text: Did you know that the M-64 highway designation in Michigan was moved twice in two years by exchanging the number with different roads?
text: Did you know that the first manual on a double-entry bookkeeping system was written by Benedikt Kotruljević in 1458, more than 36 years earlier than previously thought?
text: Did you know that in the 1970s, Shreveport historian Walter M. Lowrey headed a project on Louisiana Methodism , which included a study of circuit riders ?
text: Did you know that two of the venues used for the Four Hills Tournament have also been used for Olympic ski jumping competitions?
text: Did you know that saxophonist King Curtis was stabbed to death a week after releasing his album Live at Fillmore West ?
text: Did you know that Miss San Antonio 2010 Domonique Ramirez temporarily lost her title after pageant officials complained that she had gained weight and allegedly told her to "get off the tacos"?
text: Did you know that Czech actor Martin Miller portrayed Kublai Khan in Doctor Who ?
text: Did you know that near the end of its lengthy run, the television series This Is Show Business introduced the future novelist Jacqueline Susann as a panelist ?
text: Did you know that Norwegian behavioral neuroscientist Terje Sagvolden showed that the spontaneously hypertensive rat strain is a valid animal model for the attention deficit hyperactivity disorder ?
text: Did you know that a tavern in Baltimore , the Henry Fite House , served as the United States capitol for two months?
text: Did you know that Ray William Johnson is the second most subscribed person on YouTube ?
text: Did you know that the dimachaerus , a type of gladiator, used a fighting style adapted to defend with his weapons rather than a shield?
text: Did you know that in the Parks and Recreation episode " Camping ", protagonist Leslie Knope ( Amy Poehler ) revealed she once dreamed of being happily married to the fictional alien ALF ?
text: Did you know that Hezekiah Holland reckoned in 1650 that the end of the world and the Day of Judgment were then 216 years away?
text: Did you know that the 2011 Jerusalem bus stop bombing was a bomb attack carried out in a bus station in downtown Jerusalem which killed a 59-year-old British national?
text: Did you know that the Argentine superhero live-action TV series Los únicos is influenced by the X-Men film series , Heroes and Sky High ?
text: Did you know that sociologist Max Weber suffered a nervous breakdown after his father, Max Weber Sr. , suddenly died following a father–son argument?
text: Did you know that Polish State Forests oversee 77.8% of forests in Poland ?
text: Did you know that Rebecca Black 's " Friday ", dubbed the "worst song ever" by some critics, has made Black a "viral star" with the video attracting over 80 million Youtube hits?
text: Did you know that for her second novel, The Space Between Us , Indian-American writer Thrity Umrigar modeled the character of Bhima after a real-life domestic servant who worked for her family?
text: Did you know that Pensacola Dam on the Grand River in Oklahoma is referred to as the longest multiple- arch dam in the world, with 51 arches?
text: Did you know that the extinct mason bee species Anthidium exhumatum and Anthidium scudderi are known from the Eocene Florissant Formation in Colorado ?
text: Did you know that the music to the hymn " Follow On " was later adopted by Rangers F.C. as the music for their anthem, " Follow Follow "?
text: Did you know that Minnette Gersh Lenier used stage magic to teach remedial reading ?
text: Did you know that at Brighton Extra Mural Cemetery in East Sussex , England , Mr. Bacon is buried next to Mrs. Egg?
text: Did you know that Chee Dodge was elected vice-chairman of the Navajo Council in 1946 but died before taking office?
text: Did you know that " Hammerhead " by Jeff Beck won the 2011 Grammy Award for Best Rock Instrumental Performance ?
text: Did you know that during the making of Les Femmes du 6e étage , a 2011 French comedy film by Philippe le Guay , Spanish actresses Berta Ojea and Concha Galán learnt their French dialogue phonetically?
text: Did you know that Trinidadian virologist Dr. Joseph Lennox Pawan M.B.E. was the first person to show that rabies could be spread by vampire bats to other animals and humans?
text: Did you know that the Myth of Skanderbeg is one of the main constitutive myths of Albanian nationalism ?
text: Did you know that Harley Warrick , painter of Mail Pouch barn signs , would sometimes spell 'tobacco' with three 'c's just to see if anyone noticed?
text: Did you know that a girls' school that was burned in 1863 during the Union Army occupation of Triune, Tennessee , in the American Civil War was not replaced until 30 years later?
text: Did you know that, while the criss-cross algorithm visits all eight corners of the Klee–Minty cube when started at a worst corner , it visits only three more corners on average when started at a random corner ?
text: Did you know that the printing house of Anton Wilhelm Brøgger , in Oslo , Norway , was carried on by his descendants until 1981, almost 100 years after Brøgger's death?
text: Did you know that the emblem of Bellerophon riding the flying horse Pegasus was designed for British airborne forces during the Second World War?
text: Did you know that at the end of his career as a professional handball player in 2005, István Csoknyai had won more national league and cup titles than any other Hungarian player?
text: Did you know that the world's largest pelican is over 15 feet (4.6 m) tall?
text: Did you know that 425,000 German prisoners of war were held in 700 camps throughout the United States during World War II?
text: Did you know that James Monroe Smith , who had been forced from the presidency of LSU on fraud charges, was thereafter named vocational rehabilitation director at the Louisiana State Penitentiary ?
text: Did you know that the extinct parasitic wasp Metapelma archetypon is thought to have preyed upon wood-boring beetles?
text: Did you know that entrepreneur Ralph Høibakk was one of a group of Norwegians who skied to the South Pole in 1990, the first people to do so since Roald Amundsen ?
text: Did you know that television producer Eugenio Derbez sends actors and actresses to Mexico City 's La Lagunilla Market to pick up the vocabulary and accents of the people they will portray in his reality series ?
text: Did you know that netball became an Olympic-recognised sport in 1995 after 20 years of lobbying ?
text: Did you know that the early Britons were skilled horsemen and faced Julius Caesar with a well-organized force of 4,000 horse-drawn chariots ?
text: Did you know that after more than 40 years as a recording artist, 31 studio albums and one award as an art director , Neil Young won his first Grammy Award as a musician for " Angry World "?
text: Did you know that Adolf Eichmann felt he was given his "big break" by fellow Austrian Leopold von Mildenstein ?
text: Did you know that Beidha , a major archaeological site near Petra in Jordan , had Natufian , Neolithic and Nabataean occupations?
text: Did you know that Virginia Woolf stayed at the Carbis Bay Hotel in the spring of 1914 for three weeks whilst recovering from a bout of mental illness ?
text: Did you know that Paraguayan actor Arnaldo André used to slap telenovela actresses who worked with him?
text: Did you know that North Carolina A&T State University President James B. Dudley organized a society whose aims included discouraging African American farmers from getting mortgages ?
text: Did you know that after a series of austerity measures were voted down in the Portuguese parliament in March 2011 , Prime Minister José Sócrates resigned and called for a legislative election ?
text: Did you know that conductor Christoph Poppen played Bach's Partita for Violin No. 2 interspersed with related Bach chorales , sung by the Hilliard Ensemble ?
text: Did you know that in the 1950s, Woolverstone Hall was the Inner London Education Authority 's only state-run boarding school ?
text: Did you know that Chris Hill is one of only three Big Ten Conference men's basketball players to have been named an Academic All-America three times?
text: Did you know that after receiving a letter during the 1702 Siege of Nöteborg , Peter the Great offered the defending officers' wives safe passage, if they took their husbands with them?
text: Did you know that Jane Austen 's brother, Francis , captured two French merchant ships and fought off their escorts while captaining the sloop-of-war HMS Peterel ?
text: Did you know that Keith Richards made a guest appearance on Phantom, Rocker & Slick 's debut album?
text: Did you know that members of the 2010–11 Michigan Wolverines men's ice hockey team won earned CCHA Best Defensive Forward and Best Goaltender awards?
text: Did you know that Everett Bowman was the founder of the Cowboys' Turtle Association, the first organization of professional rodeo cowboys ?
text: Did you know that the Zagreb School of Economics and Management is the largest private institute for higher education in Croatia ?
text: Did you know that because it depicts a same-sex marriage , the children's picture book King & King was the subject of a question in the 2008 Democratic U.S. presidential primary debates ?
text: Did you know that there are 672 Indigenous Territories in Brazil , covering about 13% of the country's land area?
text: Did you know that Susie Fishbein , best-selling author of ArtScroll 's Kosher By Design cookbook series, has been called "the Jewish Martha Stewart " and "the kosher diva "?
text: Did you know that cycloids are believed to have been driven to extinction when crabs spread across their territory?
text: Did you know that socialist Salvationist Frank Smith stood for the British House of Commons twelve times before he was finally elected, at the age of 74?
text: Did you know that "Zawinul's Mambo" from the Grammy winning Chucho's Steps was dedicated to Joe Zawinul who heard a recording of it before he died?
text: Did you know that the King of the nonexistent Kingdom of Araucanía and Patagonia calls himself a "Republican monarchic"?
text: Did you know that places of worship in the English district of Horsham include a mosque in a former Baptist chapel ?
text: Did you know that the Danmark served as a training ship for the United States Coast Guard after it was trapped in the United States by the outbreak of World War II , leading to the acquisition of the USCGC Eagle ?
text: Did you know that in 1999 the sea flooded the Blayais Nuclear Power Plant in France , knocking out the power supply and safety systems and resulting in a Level 2 event on the International Nuclear Event Scale ?
text: Did you know that frustration in mixing all of the microphones in a musical production of Hair was what sparked Dan Dugan ' s invention of the automixer ?
text: Did you know that Ohio's Paulding County Carnegie Library was the first Carnegie library in the United States to serve an entire county rather than an individual city?
text: Did you know that Michigan baseball coach Frank Sexton was confronted with a knife, a cane and an arrest warrant after declaring a forfeit when Indiana refused to continue play due to darkness?
text: Did you know that artist Will Henry Stevens was inspired for his subject matter by writers Ralph Waldo Emerson , Henry David Thoreau , and Walt Whitman ?
text: Did you know that, starting in 1944, a Nazi labor subcamp of Buchenwald concentration camp was set up outside every HASAG arms factory in Germany?
text: Did you know that St Elmo Courts , a heritage building registered as Category II with the New Zealand Historic Places Trust , is currently being demolished?
text: Did you know that Arnold Schoenberg has been only one of many composers to set poems from Albert Giraud's Pierrot lunaire to music?
text: Did you know that a rare breed of horses found in the high mountains of Sierra del Sueve in Asturias , Spain , does not trot but moves with an easy gait, leading to its popularity as a "ladies' mount"?
text: Did you know that Anthony Robles won a national NCAA wrestling title despite being born with only one leg?
text: Did you know that Polish anti-Communist fighter turned Stalinist informant Edward Wasilewski committed suicide in 1968, on the day of the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia ?
text: Did you know that nuclear magnetic resonance crystallography can be used to explore features of microcrystalline formation too fine to be seen through X-ray , neutron , or electron diffraction ?
text: Did you know that Computer and Video Games magazine wrote that The Mystery of the Druids holds "very little appeal for anyone but the most patient and geeky PC-head"?
text: Did you know that the publisher of The Town newspaper, Renton Nicholson , once engaged in a public feud with rival publisher Barnard Gregory ?
text: Did you know that in 1903, The Kennel Club merged four breeds of toy spaniels into the King Charles Spaniel ?
text: Did you know that doctor Bohdan Pomahač performed the first full face transplant in the United States?
text: Did you know that, even though the Valle d'Aosta is surrounded by the Alps in the far northwest region of Italy , nearly 90% of its wines are red and rosé made from varieties like Petit Rouge ?
text: Did you know that the titular character of the 15th-century romance Sir Degrevant was called the "perfect romance hero" precisely because he was untouched by love?
text: Did you know that the larva of the Texas beetle , Brachypsectra fulva , can live for over two years without feeding?
text: Did you know that Charles Edward Roehenstart was the natural son of a Catholic archbishop and a duchess ?
text: Did you know that Revlon named a fragrance " Charlie " after the company's founder, because competitor Estée Lauder released one called "Estée"?
text: Did you know that, after leaving UCLA and the University of Georgia , basketball player Nicole Kaczmarski started waiting tables at Outback Steakhouse ?
text: Did you know that Louisiana educator Stephen A. Caldwell became a school principal 14 years before he received his bachelor's degree ?
text: Did you know that figure skating was the first Winter Olympic sport to hold all of its events indoors, during the Winter Olympics in 1932 ?
text: Did you know that in 2007, the 110th U.S. Congress introduced the FAIR USE Act , which would have prevented the Supreme Court from levying damages against companies for secondary infringement ?
text: Did you know that Romanian art historian Alexandru Tzigara-Samurcaş , the alleged son of King Carol I , was police chief under German occupation during World War I ?
text: Did you know that for the 2003 horror film Deep Freeze , director John Carl Buechler created a giant trilobite as the "monster"?
text: Did you know that former Mr. Belvedere actor Rob Stone later became a producer of documentaries, including a short film on homelessness that featured Mr. Belvedere himself?
text: Did you know that 14-metre (46 ft) tall Siberian crabs are being used in experimental breeding programs?
text: Did you know that a wanderer survived both the French Revolution of 1789–99 and the Russian Revolution 127 years later?
text: Did you know that in early 2010 reporters claimed that an unprecedented attack on Jordan was targeted at both terrorists from Al-Qaida and U.S. military bases?
text: Did you know that the inhabitants of the Sand Ridge Site ate drums ?
text: Did you know that Clubfoot George was executed by vigilantes because they believed that he was innocent?
text: Did you know that the U.S. military hopes to incorporate Transformers into its combat units?
text: Did you know that the noble lady Sayyida al Hurra became well respected for her booty?
text: Did you know that Thomas Jefferson wished to practice free love but the object of his affections became pregnant and gave birth to Frankenstein ?
text: Did you know that Ntrepid was paid $2.76 million by the U.S. military to create sock puppets ?
text: Did you know that Batman is half female?
text: Did you know that nesting is not used by breeding Mute Swans but they do use this thing ?
text: Did you know that Robert Tappan Morris was convicted of a crime for releasing a worm ?
text: Did you know that Dr. Who ' s parents are Brazilians from a family known for pineapples ?
text: Did you know that even small amounts of dead cat can explode when heated?
text: Did you know that Europe was ruled by a child during the American Revolutionary War ?
text: Did you know that a typical Labia minor is chocolate brown, up to 7 mm long, and equipped with pincers?
text: Did you know that Rudyard Kipling 's final resting place is at the bottom of the sea off the coast of Ireland ?
text: Did you know that recent quantum chemical calculations have established that arsoles are only moderately aromatic?
text: Did you know that St. Joseph has been in Egypt since 1852?
text: Did you know that in 2010, three survivors of the Titanic were rescued by the USCGC Chincoteague ?
text: Did you know that a real Bastard commanded Africa in the nineteenth century?
text: Did you know that a species of crab , Tumidotheres maculatus , has been found living on an asteroid ?
text: Did you know that ice cream grows in Florida ?
text: Did you know that Matt Howard is the first player named to the Horizon League Men's Basketball Tournament All-Tournament team four times?
text: Did you know that the Munich Biennale is an opera festival created in 1988 by Hans Werner Henze , focused on opera premieres of young composers?
text: Did you know that the stoning murder of two Israeli boys on the outskirts of their settlement in the Judean desert in 2001 led to U.S. legislation cracking down on killers of Americans overseas?
text: Did you know that La Nueva Viga Market in Mexico City is the second-largest seafood market, after the Tsukiji fish market ?
text: Did you know that during Operation Kita in February 1945 , six Imperial Japanese Navy warships, sailing from Singapore to Japan , evaded the 26 Allied submarines which were positioned to attack them?
text: Did you know that the Glee cover of The Beatles ' " Blackbird ", included on an upcoming album , marked the first time the song charted on the Billboard Hot 100 ?
text: Did you know that just three days after announcing he would retire in August, John Lipsky became Acting Managing Director of the IMF when Dominique Strauss-Kahn resigned?
text: Did you know that the majority trained with Artisans d'Angkor in Siem Reap are uneducated young Cambodians from rural areas?
text: Did you know that abortion provider Susan Wicklund has been obliged to wear disguises to get past protesters in airports and at her workplace?
text: Did you know that Efthimios Mitropoulos is the seventh and current Secretary-General of the International Maritime Organization ?
text: Did you know that American children's author Agnes Hewes , a three-time winner of the Newbery Honor , was born in Tripoli, Lebanon , to medical missionary parents?
text: Did you know that the Isabella Psalter (named for Isabella of France ) and the Queen Mary Psalter (for Mary I of England ) are 14th-century devotional books that also contain bestiaries ?
text: Did you know that Robert W. Chandler bought the Bend Bulletin newspaper from Robert W. Sawyer in 1953 with only a US$ 6,000 down payment?
text: Did you know that the Dering Roll begins with the coats of arms of two illegitimate sons of King John of England?
text: Did you know that Bible translations into Polish date from the 13th century ?
text: Did you know that Erskine Thomason struck out one batter in his Major League Baseball career, which consisted of pitching one inning in 1974?
text: Did you know that as a result of the 2011 British privacy injunctions controversy , Ryan Giggs attempted to take legal action against Twitter ?
text: Did you know that the American Express Gold card dress worn at the 67th Academy Awards by costume designer Lizzy Gardiner was made from 254 expired American Express cards?
text: Did you know that children's author Jeanette Eaton , a four-time winner of the Newbery Honor , was a feminist who also wrote for a socialist magazine and felt that women were inhibited by reading women's magazines?
text: Did you know that Bharattherium may have been among the first grazing mammals?
text: Did you know that the Confederate States Navy casemate ironclad CSS Missouri was the last Confederate ironclad to surrender during the American Civil War ?
text: Did you know that Jean-Pierre Latz , like several other very prominent ébénistes in 18th-century Paris , was born in Germany ?
text: Did you know that on June 2 , 1933, Clarence Pickrel , a pitcher for Major League Baseball 's Philadelphia Phillies , allowed the New York Giants to score four runs without recording a single out ?
text: Did you know that the comforts of the Association Residence Nursing Home , now the largest youth hostel in North America, have caused many people to wish they were old women?
text: Did you know that Kenkoy was a Philippine comics character whose name became synonymous with the words joker , jester , or a hilarious person?
text: Did you know that botanist Alfred Byrd Graf 's richly illustrated books included some of the more than 100 plant species he had discovered on his worldwide journeys, including the first known white African Violet ?
text: Did you know that Kalamata olives are protected under the European Protected Geographical Status scheme?
text: Did you know that in the early stages of World War II the steamer Refah from neutral Turkey was torpedoed by an unidentified submarine in the eastern Mediterranean killing 168 of the 200 people aboard?
text: Did you know that three Welsh boxers have won the British super-featherweight title, Neil Haddock , Robert Dickie and Floyd Havard ?
text: Did you know that when the steam ferry Issaquah was first launched in Lake Washington in 1914, it got stuck in mud?
text: Did you know that Stanford University 's president wrote in 1907 that the career of Michigan center George W. Gregory illustrated "the evils of football"?
text: Did you know that Benjamin Vulliamy , who designed the clock that defined time at the Prime Meridian , also designed clocks with porcelain cases?
text: Did you know that Greek has been taught at Sierra Leone Grammar School since 1845?
text: Did you know that Liang Huazhi led the Patriotic Sacrifice League in Shanxi to fight against the Japanese invasion of China ?
text: Did you know that Temple basketball player Ramone Moore improved his three point percentage from 12.5 percent as a sophomore to 38.3 percent as a junior?
text: Did you know that Edward VII and his lover reportedly once got stuck in a too-narrow bathtub at the Hôtel Ritz Paris , which led to the tubs being enlarged?
text: Did you know that Peter Jackson 's 1994 film Heavenly Creatures is based on the Parker–Hulme murder case involving two New Zealand girls who went to school at what became the Cranmer Centre ?
text: Did you know that Aníbal Pérez , a former First Vice President of the Chamber of Deputies of Chile , was also President of the O'Higgins football club ?
text: Did you know that 184 38th Street in the Lawrenceville neighborhood of Pittsburgh is the oldest known log house to be used as a residence in any major American city?
text: Did you know that Salter's duck is a wave-powered generator that uses gyroscopes to convert up to 90% of wave power into electricity?
text: Did you know that Clarence Clemons reached the studio at midnight to record the saxophone part on Lady Gaga 's song " Hair " and finished by 3:00 am ?
text: Did you know that on May 18 , 2011, the United States Government posted a blog and a couple of tweets to raise public awareness about incoming zombie apocalypse , natural disasters and pandemics ?
text: Did you know that baseball player Lou Raymond 's career with the Philadelphia Phillies consisted of one game, during which he earned a single hit in two at-bats ?
text: Did you know that Bach began his cantata , Wahrlich, wahrlich, ich sage euch, BWV 86 , with a quotation from the Farewell discourse , sung by the bass as the Vox Christi ?
text: Did you know that in the 2011 Manhattan terrorism plot , two Arab-Americans allegedly planned to attack a synagogue , and one of the suspects expressed interest in blowing up the Empire State Building ?
text: Did you know that a planet was discovered around the star MOA-2009-BLG-387L after it eclipsed a background star, refracting the star's light in a process called gravitational microlensing ?
text: Did you know that Georg Dörffel was a ground attack pilot but was killed in combat against four-engined bombers?
text: Did you know that a football team's travelling army of supporters is often referred to as its 12th man ?
text: Did you know that Sofitel New York Hotel won the 2000 Emporis Skyscraper Award ?
text: Did you know that retired American baseball player Hank Aaron holds ten Atlanta Braves team records ?
text: Did you know that the mineral kurnakovite was named after the Russian chemist Nikolai Semenovich Kurnakov ?
text: Did you know that former Temple assistant basketball coach Matt Langel once drove almost ten hours to recruit a player?
text: Did you know that General Franco signed over the output of six mines to help pay for German involvement in the Spanish Civil War ?
text: Did you know that Colorado's governor -elect William Lee Knous formally opened Aspen 's Ski Lift No. 1 in 1947 by breaking a bottle of champagne over one of its chairs ?
text: Did you know that photographer Reid Blackburn , who was killed in the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens , was supposed to remain on the mountain only until the day before the eruption?
text: Did you know that the Grands Projets of François Mitterrand were commissioned in celebration of the 200th anniversary of the French Revolution ?
text: Did you know that after World War II , 252 men of the 13th (Lancashire) Parachute Battalion were charged with mutiny ?
text: Did you know that the bison bone bed at First Peoples Buffalo Jump State Park in Montana is 13 feet (4.0 m) deep?
text: Did you know that former Columbia Lions men's basketball coach Gordon Ridings "never saw a harder worker" than John Azary ?
text: Did you know that vermouth was originally consumed as a medicinal drink, but is now popular as a cocktail ingredient?
text: Did you know that the Argentine The Cámpora political youth organization is named after Héctor José Cámpora ?
text: Did you know that a phantom goal awarded against Small Heath F.C. in the 1894–95 season led the Football League to instruct referees to inspect the goalnets before each match?
text: Did you know that Juan Acevedo Pavez was elected regidor of San Bernardo , Chile , in 1950 and simultaneously he held office as mayor of the same commune from 1952 until 1953?
text: Did you know that the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Authority of Ghana established online registration to increase efficiency and abolish the activities of middlemen ?
text: Did you know that the orbit of WASP-43 's one planet, which has the smallest orbit known amongst planets of its kind, has been attributed to the star's unusually low mass?
text: Did you know that Norwegian newspaper editor Einar Hoffstad went from classical liberalism to collectivism and Fascism in the late 1930s?
text: Did you know that children's author Genevieve Foster was a four-time winner of the Newbery Honor ?
text: Did you know that the Argentinian anarchist movement was the strongest anarchist movement in South America ?
text: Did you know that the 2010 assessment of the collection and trade of amphibians in Cambodia was a joint initiative of the Angkor Centre for Conservation of Biodiversity and Fauna and Flora International ?
text: Did you know that, due to the California gold rush , the Seated Liberty dollar became scarce in American commerce in the early 1850s, only to cause complaints due to a surplus of the coins by the end of the decade?
text: Did you know that Mayor Henry L. Bridges of Minden , Louisiana , succeeded a future governor in 1928 and defeated a subsequent lieutenant governor in 1930?
text: Did you know that a talking crow was buried near the temple of the Roman deity Rediculus ?
text: Did you know that the ancient Roman Amphitheatre of Serdica in central Sofia , Bulgaria , was accidentally discovered during construction works in the 2000s?
text: Did you know that José Zabala-Santos is one of the pioneers of Philippine comics ?
text: Did you know that former Leinster Rugby and Scotland coach Matt Williams is a technical adviser to Irish rugby sevens team Shamrock Warriors RFC ?
text: Did you know that Abdullah Rimawi , one of the founders of the Ba'ath Party in Jordan , became its secretary-general in 1952?
text: Did you know that the creeping snowberry is assisted by solitary bees , bumblebees , bee-flies , hoverflies , chipmunks and deer mice in reproduction in its native environment?
text: Did you know that Fujiwara Shunzei once commented that "it is shocking for anyone to write poetry without knowing Genji " ?
text: Did you know that Bayside Church held its 2011 Easter services at the Power Balance Pavilion (formerly Arco Arena), attracting nearly 17,000 people?
text: Did you know that the Fasci Italiani all'Estero , the fascist movement for Italian expatriates, which was led by Giuseppe Bastianini , claimed to have groups in over 40 countries in 1925?
text: Did you know that the late 7th-century Kentish law code , the Law of Hlothhere and Eadric , has no provisions regarding the church?
text: Did you know that Geograpsus severnsi is the first crab species known to have become extinct ?
text: Did you know that Indonesian biographer Alberthiene Endah has called writing biographies similar to dating the subject?
text: Did you know that the Cambriae Typus map shows a sea monster in the Irish Sea ?
text: Did you know that the 1854 funeral procession for London Ferrill , preacher of First African Baptist Church in Lexington, Kentucky , numbered 5,000, second only to that for the statesman Henry Clay ?
text: Did you know that bride-buying , although illegal, still takes place in some countries?
text: Did you know that as a senior in 1972–73, St. John's University basketball standout Billy Schaeffer averaged a school record 24.7 points per game en route to winning the Haggerty Award ?
text: Did you know that 10% of skiers were expected to suffer an injury in the era of cable ski bindings , earning them the nickname "bear traps"?
text: Did you know that Modernisme architect Joan Martorell headed the committee that in 1883 selected Antoni Gaudí to complete the still-unfinished Sagrada Família ?
text: Did you know that according to the Parks and Recreation episode " Road Trip ", the character played by actress Rashida Jones looks very good dressed like a prostitute?
text: Did you know that Ethiopia , Great Britain , Ireland , Israel , Jamaica , Japan , Rhodesia , South Africa , Spain , Sweden , and the United States were among the 28 nations that competed in the 1968 Summer Paralympics ?
text: Did you know that adivasi activist Kartam Joga has been accused of joining the deadliest Naxalite attack in India's history ?
text: Did you know that Rhodes Twenty Four and Rhodes W1 are both London-based Michelin star restaurants of chef Gary Rhodes ?
text: Did you know that the extinct giant ant genus Formicium is known only from forewings found in Dorset , England and Tennessee , US?
text: Did you know that mezzo-soprano opera singer Olivia Ward won season 11 of US television show The Biggest Loser ?
text: Did you know that Kegasus , the centaur mascot of the infield party at the 2011 Preakness Stakes , has a nipple ring, body hair and a beer gut?
text: Did you know that Arthur Bedford commanded HMS Kent in the 1914 Battle of the Falkland Islands and sank the German cruiser Nürnberg ?
text: Did you know that the 2011 indie film Return , directed by Liza Johnson and starring Linda Cardellini , was the only U.S. film selected for this year's 25-film Cannes Film Festival Directors' Fortnight ?
text: Did you know that Welsh footballer Dickie Morris became the first Plymouth Argyle player to be capped at senior international level in April 1908 ?
text: Did you know that although the Brazilian rodent Drymoreomys has traits that suggest it lives in trees, it is usually captured on the ground?
text: Did you know that 84-year-old Gus Douglass , who was first elected as West Virginia Agriculture Commissioner in 1964, is the longest-serving state agriculture commissioner in United States history?
text: Did you know that residents of a street in the British city of Preston went without council services for six weeks as part of a BBC documentary ?
text: Did you know that the Ironwood Pig Sanctuary contains over 400 pigs and three pig graveyards?
text: Did you know that a paper by the academic Rod Thornton was censored for criticising the UK 's arrest of a student who downloaded a copy of an Al-Qaeda training manual from a US government web site?
text: Did you know that the bodyguard to the Pet Shop Boys was a leader of Arsenal FC 's hooligan firm during the 1980s?
text: Did you know that all graduates from Ghanaian tertiary institutions must complete a one year national service programme after their schooling?
text: Did you know that having "killed" her alter ego Sasha Fierce in 2010, Beyoncé Knowles planned to create her own mix of music genres with her fourth studio album, 4 ?
text: Did you know that the top prize on Al Murray's Compete for the Meat is a frozen chicken ?
text: Did you know that 19th-century shipwright Thomas Morton invented the widely used patent slip because he couldn't afford a dry dock ?
text: Did you know that the first settlers of Tell Halula brought fully domesticated forms of wheat , barley and flax from somewhere else, circa 7750 BC ?
text: Did you know that father and son Augustyn and Roman Träger were Polish intelligence agents who provided the Allies with crucial information about German testing of the V-1 and V-2 rockets during World War II?
text: Did you know that Parks and Recreation star Amy Poehler wrote the script for the episode " The Fight ", the filming for which she called "the most fun I've ever had"?
text: Did you know that Tom Sullivan is only the second head coach in UMBC Retrievers men's basketball history to amass 100 career wins?
text: Did you know that "unruly" diplomat Henry Labouchère was the first person to publish Truth in Britain?
text: Did you know that the icon of " the Death of Death " is popular in South India ?
text: Did you know that the European Parliament issued a resolution condemning the drug arrest of Azerbaijani activist Jabbar Savalan ?
text: Did you know that star WASP-15 has a planet whose large radius cannot be explained without some other factor, such as some form of internal heating?
text: Did you know that Phoenix Suns president and CEO Rick Welts became the first prominent American sports executive to come out as gay when he did so in an interview with The New York Times on May 15 , 2011?
text: Did you know that feminist writer Izabela Sadoveanu-Evan rallied with an organization which argued that union with Romania had harmed the women of Transylvania ?
text: Did you know that David Duchovny said, "I'm sure that nobody is looking at me", when standing beside Jennifer Lopez who was wearing her "jungle" Versace dress ?
text: Did you know that University of Virginia professor Peter Ochs , who coined the term " scriptural reasoning ", believes that this mode of interfaith dialog could achieve peace in the Middle East ?
text: Did you know that the Canadian Opimian Society wine purchasing cooperative is named after Roman consul Lucius Opimius ?
text: Did you know that the documentary Oil on Ice won the 2004 International Documentary Association Pare Lorentz Award for best representing the "democratic sensibility, activist spirit and lyrical vision" of Lorentz ?
text: Did you know that Oguntola Sapara infiltrated and exposed a secret society in Nigeria that was deliberately spreading smallpox ?
text: Did you know that Operation Breakthrough was an international effort to free three gray whales from pack ice in the Beaufort Sea near Point Barrow in the U.S. state of Alaska in 1988?
text: Did you know that a motocycle is not a two-wheeled bicycle with an engine, but a four-wheeled automobile ?
text: Did you know that Paratroop dog Glen of the 9th Parachute Battalion was killed during the Normandy Landings and is buried in a British war cemetery?
text: Did you know that NGO PSCORE uses the term Corea to promote North Korean and South Korean unity?
text: Did you know that at the 2008 Games , Nick Woodbridge and Sam Weale became the first British men to compete in Olympic modern pentathlon since 1996?
text: Did you know that the evergreen juniper haircap moss is believed to be a powerful diuretic ?
text: Did you know that Valentino Garavani cited the moment Julia Roberts collected her Academy Award for Best Actress wearing his gown as the high point of his 45-year career?
text: Did you know that according to The Dog Pillow , wearing armour without underwear makes one's hair stand on end?
text: Did you know that the then-closed Hayford Mill in Cambusbarron , Scotland , now a Category A listed building , was used during World War I as a training base by the King's Own Scottish Borderers ?
text: Did you know that New York Judge Charles Fraser MacLean earned the first U.S. Ph.D. in philosophy and was among the first non-combatants to enter Paris after the French surrender in the Franco-Prussian War ?
text: Did you know that the Croatian National Theatre in Split was the biggest theatre in Southeast Europe at the time of its completion in 1893, even though there were no professional actors in the city of Split yet?
text: Did you know that filming for the now-on-hold Arnold Schwarzenegger movie project Cry Macho originally began in 1991 with Jaws star Roy Scheider in the lead role?
text: Did you know that the dayflower family genus Cartonema is completely restricted to Australia except for one species that occurs on Trangan Island in Indonesia ?
text: Did you know that the first Jewish chaplain in the U.S. Navy wore a cross ?
text: Did you know that in the Battle of Byczyna , Chancellor and Hetman Jan Zamoyski of Poland-Lithuania took Maximilian III, Archduke of Austria prisoner, ending the brief War of the Polish Succession ?
text: Did you know that U.S. President Barack Obama delivered the 2011 commencement speech at Booker T. Washington High School in Memphis, Tennessee ?
text: Did you know that the black Givenchy dress worn by Audrey Hepburn in the 1961 film Breakfast at Tiffany's has been called "perhaps the most famous little black dress of all time"?
text: Did you know that Hugh Boustead deserted the Royal Navy to fight in the trenches during World War I , and later became an Olympic pentathlete , explorer and diplomat?
text: Did you know that St. Vital Bulldogs' leading rusher had to reschedule his wedding four times due to changing dates for the Canadian Amateur Football Association championship game against the Bramalea Satellites ?
text: Did you know that the Jain universal history is composed of the deeds of 63 illustrious persons known as Salakapurusas ?
text: Did you know that some English fans, including members of Combat 18 , gave the Nazi salute to the Irish national anthem before the Lansdowne Road football riot ?
text: Did you know that the extinct Pliocene pine Pinus matthewsii is thought to have been a colonizing tree?
text: Did you know that the scene featuring Ursula Andress in her iconic white bikini in the 1962 James Bond film Dr. No has been voted No. 1 in "the 100 Greatest Sexy Moments" of cinema?
text: Did you know that taaffeite , one of the world's rarest gemstones , is the first mineral known to contain both beryllium and magnesium as essential components?
text: Did you know that Henry Walton Ellis was appointed an ensign in the 89th Regiment of Foot at birth, and when the regiment disbanded the baby was put on half-pay?
text: Did you know that the Franklin House , built on a lot once owned by the University of Georgia , has held a hotel and a hardware company, and now leases office space to the university?
text: Did you know that the 2003 Bollywood comedy drama Freaky Chakra , directed by V. K. Prakash , was the only Hindi film for which Ouseppachan composed the music?
text: Did you know that Filipino comic book illustrator and writer Francisco Coching is regarded as the King of Philippine comics ?
text: Did you know that Charlotte Shaw , who drowned in Walla Brook on Dartmoor , is the only person to have died on a Ten Tors expedition?
text: Did you know that Loyalist Volunteer Force leader Mark "Swinger" Fulton had an image of former leader Billy Wright tattooed over his heart?
text: Did you know that Echobelly 's 1994 song " Insomniac " is a "gentle warning of the dangers of snorting too much speed"?
text: Did you know that after his term as President of Argentina , Bartolomé Mitre wrote a biography of José de San Martín : Historia de San Martín y de la emancipación sudamericana ?
text: Did you know that families of farmers and fishermen affected by submergence of the Upper Wardha Dam , in Maharashtra resorted to agitation, seeking fishing rights in the reservoir as an economic incentive?
text: Did you know that Romanian scholar Nicolae Iorga constructed a conservative vision of world history, contrasting Max Weber 's Protestant Ethic ?
text: Did you know that spiderlings of Crossopriza lyoni can catch mosquitoes four times their own size barely one week after hatching?
text: Did you know that Time magazine voted the white floral Givenchy dress worn by Audrey Hepburn at the 1954 Academy Awards as the greatest Oscar dress of all time?
text: Did you know that Don't take it personally, babe, it just ain't your story has been described as a profoundly moving video game about love, sex and the internet ?
text: Did you know that Colonel Waldemar Quintero of the Colombian National Police was shot and killed by the Medellín Cartel ?
text: Did you know that " Dirty Dancer ", a song by Enrique Iglesias , Usher and Lil Wayne , was performed by Iglesias on American Idol on May 12 , 2011?
text: Did you know that Hermann Kasack 's first novel Die Stadt hinter dem Strom , published in 1947, "catapult[ed] his name into the literary limelight" and won the 1949 Fontane prize of Berlin ?
text: Did you know that Burmese democracy activist Ohn Than is serving a life sentence for holding up a poster in front of the US Embassy in Yangon ?
text: Did you know that the Ralph Lauren dress which Gwyneth Paltrow wore to the 71st Academy Awards in 1999 has been cited as bringing pink back into fashion?
text: Did you know that Henry Graham was dismissed by Queen Anne 's husband for marrying the natural daughter of King Charles II ?
text: Did you know that a chorale in Bach 's cantata Wo gehest du hin? BWV 166 , is sung by the soprano , accompanied by the violins and viola in unison "of great vigour and determination"?
text: Did you know that MOA-2009-BLG-387Lb is the eleventh planet discovered using the gravitational microlensing phenomenon?
text: Did you know that the Sixty Pillar Mosque located in Bagergat in south Bangladesh is one of the oldest mosques in the country, and is described as "historic mosque representing the Golden Era of Muslim Bengal"?
text: Did you know that in the 1980s Gciriku king Sebastian Kamwanga allowed PLAN guerrilla fighters to use his farm as operational base in the Namibian War of Independence ?
text: Did you know that a poll published in The Daily Telegraph voted Björk 's swan dress the ninth most iconic red-carpet dress of all time?
text: Did you know that in 2010, Wipas Raksakulthai became the first Thai man arrested for committing lèse majesté on Facebook ?
text: Did you know that after World War II the 8th (Midlands) Parachute Battalion had to deal with riots in Tel Aviv ?
text: Did you know that the 10th or 11th-century Old Bulgarian Enina Apostle is the oldest Cyrillic manuscript currently part of a Bulgarian collection?
text: Did you know that during his student days, working on spermatogenesis , UCSF Medical Center pediatric cardiologist Julien Hoffman developed a close relationship with Sydney Brenner and Phillip V. Tobias ?
text: Did you know that when the 5,800-seat Four Seasons Arena was built at Montana ExpoPark in 1979 it lacked air conditioning ?
text: Did you know that Elastica 's 1995 song " Waking Up " resulted in the band being sued for plagiarism ?
text: Did you know that the Classic Aircraft Aviation Museum in Hillsboro, Oregon , once bought a fighter jet from a car dealership ?
text: Did you know that although Ray Charles and Nancy Sinatra solos of " Here We Go Again " made Billboard' s Hot 100 , Charles' 2004 duet with Norah Jones became the second Grammy Record of the Year that did not?
text: Did you know that in the 1970s the Daily Times of Nigeria was one of the most successful locally owned businesses in Africa, selling 270,000 copies daily?
text: Did you know that the genome of Mycobacterium tuberculosis is predicted to contain 45 copies of vapBC ?
text: Did you know that Bardhyl Ajeti , a journalist from Kosovo , was killed in a drive-by shooting on 28 June 2005?
text: Did you know that Deborah Nadoolman Landis , designer of Michael Jackson 's red Thriller jacket , also designed Indiana Jones 's jacket in Raiders of the Lost Ark ?
text: Did you know that first baseman Mike Pasquella played two games in Major League Baseball —his first for the Philadelphia Phillies and his last opposing them?
text: Did you know that Montenegrin nationality law first recognised the right of renunciation of citizenship in 1905 during the reign of Nicholas I ?
text: Did you know that the Malagasy rodent Eliurus petteri is the only tufted-tailed rat with completely white underparts?
text: Did you know that Lauren Beukes wore a fake sloth draped over her shoulders to the ceremony in which she won the 2011 Arthur C. Clarke Award for her novel Zoo City ?
text: Did you know that, as president of the College of St. Scholastica , Jesuit educator Francis X. Shea started a campus tradition by holding a fish fry at his home during the spring smelt run?
text: Did you know that the Belgian Entertainment Association , established in February 2008 , represents the interests of the music , video and video game industries in Belgium ?
text: Did you know that the 15.5-metre (51 ft) floodgate that protected Fudai, Iwate , Japan, from the recent tsunami was derided as a waste of public funds when it was built in the 1970s?
text: Did you know that Women's League of Burma activist Khin Ohmar evaded arrest during Burma 's pro-democracy 8888 Uprising when a Japanese diplomat allowed her and other students to hide from police in his home?
text: Did you know that under the presidency of Father Francis P. Smith , Duquesne University founded WDUQ , Pittsburgh 's first college radio station ?
text: Did you know that all the equipment for the power plant of the Rana Pratap Sagar Dam in India was imported from Canada ?
text: Did you know that Jesse Levan , winner of multiple minor league batting championships, was the last person banned by baseball 's governing organizations for conspiring to fix games ?
text: Did you know that the Isthmian Alligator Lizard , native to Costa Rica and Panama , was not seen for 50 years?
text: Did you know that Adam Mansbach 's bedtime-book Go the Fuck to Sleep was No. 1 on Amazon.com 's bestseller list on May 12, 2011—a month before its release—thanks to free advance copies emailed via PDFs ?
text: Did you know that the church of Saints Martin and Sebastian of the Swiss is the private chapel of the Pontifical Swiss Guards in the Vatican City ?
text: Did you know that the Working Girls' Vacation Society Historic District in rural Connecticut is a site where thousands of New York City women were given summer vacations during 1892 to 1945?
text: Did you know that Ugandan Rolling Stone editor Giles Muhame alleged that a gay rights group conspired with Somali terrorist group Al-Shabaab in the July 2010 Kampala suicide bombings ?
text: Did you know that Walt Disney's Riverfront Square in St. Louis, Missouri , was to have been entirely indoors, with artificial lighting simulating weather and time of day?
text: Did you know that the German destroyer Friedrich Eckoldt was sunk during the 1942 Battle of the Barents Sea when she mistook the British light cruiser Sheffield for the German heavy cruiser Admiral Hipper ?
text: Did you know that the meat dress of Lady Gaga was to be preserved by being made into a type of jerky ?
text: Did you know that the Irish bishop and saint, Dagan , may have attempted to excommunicate the Roman missionaries sent by Pope Gregory the Great to convert the Anglo-Saxons by refusing to eat with them?
text: Did you know that 2030: The Real Story of What Happens to America , a 2011 dystopian novel by Albert Brooks , was originally written as a movie script?
text: Did you know that Roger Sutton might be the most important appointment of the year for the Government of New Zealand ?
text: Did you know that Warblington Castle near Langstone in Hampshire was granted to two different 1st Earls of Southampton ?
text: Did you know that during World War II , a Luftwaffe pilot, observing that there were several wounded crewmen on a United States Army Air Corps 's plane, declined to fire and safely escorted it to the North Sea ?
text: Did you know that the Kingdom of the Little People theme park in Kunming, China , requires its performers to be less than 51 inches (130 cm) tall?
text: Did you know that unusual archosauromorph reptile Teraterpeton from the Late Triassic of Nova Scotia had nostril openings in its skull that were longer than its eye sockets ?
text: Did you know that the Gandhi Sagar Dam forms India 's second-largest reservoir area, attracting more than 20,000 waterfowl each year?
text: Did you know that in 2010, national security consultant, lawyer and economist Jim Rickards rated Ben Bernanke a greater threat to the United States than Osama bin Laden?
text: Did you know that the Grammy Award category for Best Hawaiian Music Album was first presented in 2005 but eliminated six years later?
text: Did you know that when Father Raymond V. Kirk was appointed president of Duquesne University at the age of 38, he was one of the youngest university presidents in the United States?
text: Did you know that early female tennis players in Australia had to pay as much as a week's wages to buy a racquet ?
text: Did you know that the anomalously high radius of extrasolar planet WASP-15b is thought to be caused by some form of internal heating?
text: Did you know that breeding males of the Malagasy rodent Voalavo produce a sweet-smelling musk?
text: Did you know that Peter Velappan served as General Secretary of the Asian Football Confederation for nearly 30 years before retiring in 2007?
text: Did you know that Clinton St. Baking Company & Restaurant has been described as a "cult favorite", a "brunch magnet", and New York City’s "hottest breakfast nook"?
text: Did you know that Indian sitarist Janardhan Mitta was a student of sitar maestro Pandit Ravi Shankar ?
text: Did you know that Greek skier Antoin Miliordos crossed the finish line of the downhill event at the 1952 Winter Olympics backwards after falling 18 times?
text: Did you know that Carex riparia , a Eurasian plant up to 130 cm (51 in) tall, is Britain's largest sedge ?
text: Did you know that the Argentine philologist María Rosa Lida de Malkiel was an Arthurian - Hispanist pioneer?
text: Did you know that in March 2011, Ghana 's National Disaster Management Organization announced it would set up five refugee camps for Ivorians fleeing post-election violence in their country?
text: Did you know that English footballer Walter Anderson died of pneumonia four days after collapsing at Craven Cottage , having ignored doctors' advice to rest?
text: Did you know that the Battle of Bautzen in 1945 was the bloodiest battle of the Polish Army since the Battle of Bzura in 1939?
text: Did you know that serial killer Richard Laurence Marquette was the first person to be an eleventh name on the FBI 's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list?
text: Did you know that Khun Htun Oo , a former head of Burma 's Shan Nationalities League for Democracy , is now serving a 93-year sentence for treason ?
text: Did you know that 20-year-old Jennifer Lawrence's Best Actress Academy Award nomination, which made her the second youngest nominee ever in that category, was one of a number of accolades received by Winter's Bone ?
text: Did you know that Arizona State Jewish studies professor Norbert M. Samuelson , who lectures at university-level conferences around the world, gives a weekly class on Maimonides 's Mishneh Torah to rabbis in Phoenix ?
text: Did you know that Griselda Siciliani won the Argentine Clarín Award and Martín Fierro Award as new female artist in 2005?
text: Did you know that competitors in triathlon at the 2012 Summer Olympics will swim in the Serpentine , run in front of Buckingham Palace , and cycle through Wellington Arch ?
text: Did you know that industrialist Wellington Burt , once among the richest Americans, left his fortune to descendants yet unborn in his lifetime; his will 's conditions were met in 2010—92 years after his death?
text: Did you know that, based on the research of historian Momčilo Spremić , it is possible that Vuk Branković really betrayed his Serbian allies during the Battle of Kosovo in 1389?
text: Did you know that according to folklore, descendants of the royal family of Abomey who built the Royal Palaces of Abomey in Benin are the progeny of Princess Aligbonon of Tado and a panther?
text: Did you know that Linwood Pendleton discovered that 49% of U.S. economic output comes from estuaries and coasts , which account for only 13% of its land?
text: Did you know that the newly discovered mineral krotite likely was one of the earliest minerals formed in the Solar System ?
text: Did you know that Ukrainian-born Alexi Salamone , a gold medalist for the United States at the 2010 Winter Paralympics , was adopted by a family from Buffalo, New York , at the age of six?
text: Did you know that Rabbi Nosson Meir Wachtfogel , mashgiach (spiritual supervisor) of the Lakewood Yeshiva , was so removed from worldly concerns that he called his house an "inn" and his furniture "lumber"?
text: Did you know that destinations for jihadi tourism have included a mosque in Hamburg and Somali terrorist training sites?
text: Did you know that farmer Jørgen Rytterager was appointed station master of Snarum Station in 1872?
text: Did you know that Zaw Htet Ko Ko , a photographer for the pro-democracy 88 Generation Students Group , is serving an 11-year prison sentence for his involvement in Burma 's " Saffron Revolution "?
text: Did you know that over 70,000 cubic yards (54,000 m 3 ) of sand was excavated to extricate the Liberian steamship Santa Kyriaki from a beach in the Netherlands ?
text: Did you know that Scottish businessman Craig Whyte bought the controlling interest in Rangers Football Club from David Murray for £ 1?
text: Did you know that Androids can now play streamed music using Music Beta by Google ?
text: Did you know that the Lacandon Jungle is one of the last forests in North America large enough to support jaguars ?
text: Did you know that Anna , the first wife of 13th-century Bulgarian tsar Ivan Asen II , was retired to a monastery and became a nun shortly after her husband's accession?
text: Did you know that extreme temperature, small orbit and large size made Kepler-5b a possible case study of extreme extrasolar planets ?
text: Did you know that basketball players Jimmy Alapag and Jason Castro were named co-Finals MVPs of the 2011 PBA Commissioner's Cup Finals ?
text: Did you know that Lewis Milestone began directing the 1926 silent film Fine Manners but left the project after quarreling with actress Gloria Swanson , leaving first-time director Richard Rosson to finish the film?
text: Did you know that a conman impersonating Oskar Daubmann received international fame, caused an incident in French-German relations , and helped the Nazis win the 1932 German elections ?
text: Did you know that the Anglo-Norman administrator Pain fitzJohn (died 1137) was once called a "second-class baron and a first-class civil servant"?
text: Did you know that the rodent Voalavo gymnocaudus and its parasitic mite Andreacarus voalavo are known only from two massifs in the Northern Highlands of Madagascar?
text: Did you know that former basketball player Bill Thieben is considered the first "big man" in Hofstra University history?
text: Did you know that in the Camp Ashraf massacre , the Iraqi Army used armed force against unarmed civilians, killing 34 people and injuring another 318?
text: Did you know that Willie Nelson , Wynton Marsalis and Norah Jones recorded a live tribute album covering songs of Ray Charles ?
text: Did you know that the James Fort Prison in Accra , which is run by the Ghana Prisons Service , is almost 400 years old?
text: Did you know that English sculptor Ronald Pope learnt how to work with metals at Rolls-Royce during World War II?
text: Did you know that the Manhyia Palace in Ghana is the seat of the Asantehene (ruler of the Ashanti people ) as well as his official residence?
text: Did you know that Baron Ludwig von Westphalen was a friend and mentor of young Karl Marx ?
text: Did you know that Easwaran 's Dhammapada states that the joy in the Buddha 's message is "that he has found a way for everyone, not just great sages, to put an end to sorrow"?
text: Did you know that in 2008, Burmese 88 Generation democracy activist Mie Mie was sentenced to 65 years imprisonment for "illegally using electronic media" and "forming an illegal organization"?
text: Did you know that a reviewer unfavourably compared the dialogue in the BBC docudrama Atlantis: End of a World, Birth of a Legend to that of Holby City ?
text: Did you know that RAF Air Vice-Marshal William "Paddy" Harbison 's 1952 report on Korean War air combat tactics was used as a strategy guide for a 1999 computer game ?
text: Did you know that prior to Ghana's independence, the Ghana Immigration Service was known as the Immigration and Passport Unit and was a unit under the Colonial Police Force of the Gold Coast ?
text: Did you know that historian W. Darrell Overdyke spent more than three decades researching the colonial and antebellum plantation homes in his adopted state of Louisiana ?
text: Did you know that the heathlands of Ben Boyd National Park and Nadgee Nature Reserve are habitat for the endangered Eastern Bristlebird ?
text: Did you know that Yan Yan Chan , whose band Acid released Burma 's first hip hop album, spent nine months in prison for involvement in the pro-democracy group Generation Wave ?
text: Did you know that steam devils can be more important than convection in vertically transporting moisture during cold air outbreaks?
text: Did you know that Antiguan politician Robin Yearwood has held the same seat in the Antiguan Parliament continuously since 1976?
text: Did you know that German destroyer Z13 Erich Koellner visibly tilted when hit by the 15-inch (380 mm) semi-armor piercing shells fired by the battleship HMS Warspite during the Second Battle of Narvik on 13 April 1940?
text: Did you know that escaped slaves using the Underground Railroad hid in tunnels beneath the train track in Ypsilanti, Michigan 's Depot Town ?
text: Did you know that between 1970 and 1977, Kenya lost more than half of its elephants to hunting ?
text: Did you know that the journalism of Siamak Pourzand ranged from film criticism for Cahiers du cinéma to coverage of the " Chain Murders " of Iranian dissidents?
text: Did you know that television dramas have portrayed criminals riding around Weston-super-Mare on an open-top bus ?
text: Did you know that Fay Kellogg , described as "the foremost woman architect in the United States" in 1918, liked to fence , box , wrestle and play basketball ?
text: Did you know that in March 2011, the Ghana Refugee Board partnered with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and other state agencies to assist refugees from Ivory Coast?
text: Did you know that archaeologist and college president Larry Geraty has also been noted for supporting women's ordination in the Seventh-day Adventist Church ?
text: Did you know that extrasolar planet WASP-43b was, at the time of its discovery, the most closely orbiting Hot Jupiter known?
text: Did you know that Chrono Trigger: Crimson Echoes was in development from 2004 to 2009 before a cease-and-desist letter from Square Enix led to its cancellation?
text: Did you know that the ghost of Desmond Arthur is believed to have been haunting Montrose Airfield since 1916?
text: Did you know that five McGill University students— Charmaine Borg , Matthew Dubé , Mylène Freeman , Laurin Liu , and Jamie Nicholls —were elected to Parliament in Canada's 2011 federal election , but the youngest new MP is Université de Sherbrooke student Pierre-Luc Dusseault ?
text: Did you know that the California spider species Pimoa cthulhu was named after H. P. Lovecraft 's mythological deity Cthulhu ?
text: Did you know that Czech actress Anna Letenská was killed by the Nazis for her alleged participation in the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich ?
text: Did you know that the state of Chiapas produces most of Mexico 's coffee and hydroelectric power?
text: Did you know that imprisoned Ulster Volunteer Force leader Gusty Spence was "kidnapped" by his own men after being granted two days' leave to attend his daughter's wedding?
text: Did you know that before becoming Namibia 's first ambassador to China , Peter Mweshihange worked as traditional healer , truck driver, miner, chef , guerrilla commander, and Minister of Defense?
text: Did you know that Sanjak of Prizren became part of the newly established Prizren Vilayet in 1868?
text: Did you know that Henri Lavachery , the first professional archaeologist to visit Easter Island , founded the Society of Americanists in Belgium ?
text: Did you know that the Marine Unit of the Ghana Police Service is responsible for cases of piracy and associated crimes from the country's oil and gas industry?
text: Did you know that the BBC producer and director of Bigipedia , David Tyler , is a member of the Labour Party ?
text: Did you know that imprisoned Burmese singer Zayar Thaw 's group Generation Wave distributed anti-government hip-hop and copies of banned movies, including Rambo IV ?
text: Did you know that Randy Roth was convicted of faking a boating accident in order to cover up the murder of his fourth wife?
text: Did you know that hybrids of cassava and the endangered Walker's Manihot possess tubers that experience delayed postharvest physiological deterioration ?
text: Did you know that since 2007, the Narcotics Control Board of Ghana, through its collaboration with the Operation West Bridge project, has intercepted illicit drugs worth £ 214 million at the Kotoka International Airport ?
text: Did you know that the famous golfer Seve Ballesteros , who recently died, hailed from Pedreña , located across the bay from Santander in Cantabria ?
text: Did you know that opera singer Edyth Walker portrayed the title heroine in the UK premiere of Richard Strauss ' Elektra at Covent Garden in 1910?
text: Did you know that two kilometres from Al-Sakhir Palace in Bahrain is an oil-pumping well decorated as a hoopoe bird?
text: Did you know that Bach superimposed voice parts to the "deeply moving slow movement" of his Harpsichord Concerto in his cantata Wir müssen durch viel Trübsal, BWV 146 , for Jubilate ?
text: Did you know that in March 2010 it was announced that the Ghana National Fire Service was to change its name to Ghana National Fire and Rescue Service?
text: Did you know that Metallica v. Napster, Inc. was the first case that involved an artist suing a P2P software company?
text: Did you know that the Ypsilanti Automotive Heritage Museum in Ypsilanti, Michigan , is housed in the last surviving Hudson Motor Car Company dealership?
text: Did you know that, perhaps paradoxically, Plato defended his phonocentrism using the written word?
text: Did you know that in 1957, at the pinnacle of the Cold War , mezzo-soprano Blanche Thebom became the first American to perform at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow?
text: Did you know that the background of the Spanish Civil War includes a period called the "black two years" between 1934 and 1936?
text: Did you know that Abbud al-Zumar , founder of the Egyptian Islamic Jihad which merged into al-Qaeda under his successor Ayman al-Zawahiri in 1998, provided the ammunition which assassinated President Anwar Sadat on 6 October 1981?
text: Did you know that the Guild of St. Bernulphus , a guild trade union of church Gothic Revival architecture , was operated more like a jovial feasting fraternity than a scholarly society?
text: Did you know that in the credits of the unaired pilot episode of Here Comes Tobor , the robot Tobor is credited as playing himself?
text: Did you know that prior to the 2011 National Democratic Party presidential primaries , a former first lady of Ghana was the first person to seek the ruling party's nomination for president?
text: Did you know that former longtime Saudi Ambassador to the United States Prince Bandar bin Sultan became the first Secretary General of the Saudi National Security Council ?
text: Did you know that The Plaza in West Wickham , London , was the one hundredth cinema designed by John Stanley Coombe Beard ?
text: Did you know that numerous scenes of Le Miracle des loups were filmed at France's Cité de Carcassonne ?
text: Did you know that in 1860, William F. Raynolds led the first US government-sponsored party to cross the Wind River Range and enter Jackson Hole , Wyoming ?
text: Did you know that St Paul's Church in Hooton has been described as "unquestionably one of the most spectacular churches of Cheshire "?
text: Did you know that the Villa Giulia is home to the Genius of Palermo , a city symbol and laic patron of Palermo ?
text: Did you know that Jaroslav Rössler , an important exponent of the Czech modern photography and avant-garde art, experimented in his works with the Sabatier effect ?
text: Did you know that the 1989 horror movie Phantom of the Mall: Eric's Revenge featured Pauly Shore 's first on-screen full moon ?
text: Did you know that a corner post shaped as a cairn has been preserved in the third construction of the Maryland Bridge in Winnipeg , Canada ?
text: Did you know that the Native American Languages Act of 1990 was the first time Congress gave official status to Native American languages for the purpose of conducting tribal business?
text: Did you know that leading cannabinoid neurotransmitters researcher Lumír Ondřej Hanuš was growing cannabis on two large fields in Olomouc in the 1970s for medical purposes?
text: Did you know that the POLYGON experiment , conducted in the 1970s, was the first experiment to establish the existence of so-called " mesoscale eddies ", giving rise to the "mesoscale revolution" in oceanography ?
text: Did you know that Bicentennial Park in Hillsboro, Oregon , partly commemorates the city's centennial?
text: Did you know that for eight years Steve Scully , host of C-SPAN 's Washington Journal , taught a cable TV distance learning class on media and politics through the University of Denver ?
text: Did you know that multicast encryption is what enables a node on a network to send one unit of data to a special set of receivers?
text: Did you know that Abu Ahmed al-Kuwaiti has been described as Osama bin Laden 's "favorite courier and right-hand man"?
text: Did you know that Lewis Milestone 's 1953 musical biographical drama Melba , about the life of soprano Nellie Melba , was the feature film debut of Metropolitan Opera star Patrice Munsel ?
text: Did you know that the Siam Cup was hidden in an unknown place to prevent it from being melted down by the Nazis , and was only rediscovered in 1947?
text: Did you know that after the 1926 FA Cup Final , Manchester City F.C. became the first team to reach the final and suffer relegation in the same season?
text: Did you know that in the 2010 NPP Presidential Primaries , Nana Akufo-Addo , son of a former president of Ghana , was elected leader of the NPP with 77.92% of total votes cast?
text: Did you know that as of March 2011, Benefis Health System was the largest hospital in the U.S. state of Montana ?
text: Did you know that Agus Suhartono , nominated by Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono , was considered the most deserving candidate for commander-in-chief of the Indonesian military by the leader of the opposition?
text: Did you know that nine runners completed the full course of the inaugural Gaza Marathon , which was won by Nader al-Masri ?
text: Did you know that David Sencer prepared instructions for the quarantine of US astronauts returning from the moon, which was suspected to harbor extraterrestrial pathogens ?
text: Did you know that Knut Tvedt had various positions in the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation for almost 25 years?
text: Did you know that the German Light Infantry Vehicle for Special Operations is built on the chassis of the Mercedes-Benz G-Class ?
text: Did you know that the Austrian former communist leader Karl Toman was appointed mayor of Eichgraben by German authorities in 1938?
text: Did you know that, at the time of its discovery, KOI-428 was the largest and most evolved star known to host a transiting planet ?
text: Did you know that Wilhelm Victor Alfred Tepe had a virtual monopoly on the building of new Catholic churches in Utrecht from 1872 until 1882?
text: Did you know that the bow-shaped pedestrian Bridge of Peace in Tbilisi over the Kura River , equipped with motion sensors , lights up the interior walkway in response to pedestrian movement?
text: Did you know that James Middleton , the brother of Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge , baked 21 cakes for HELLO! magazine's 21st birthday?
text: Did you know that extrasolar planet KOI-428b was confirmed as a planet after astronomers compiled the equivalent to one night of observations on the planet using a 1.93m telescope?
text: Did you know that basketball player Dick Davies played for his Hall of Fame father, Bob , before going on to win a gold medal at the 1964 Summer Olympics ?
text: Did you know that the greatest relative disparity of per capita wealth between two neighbouring countries is between Botswana and Zimbabwe ?
text: Did you know that John Sanford was called "perhaps the most outstanding neglected novelist"?
text: Did you know that " Florida (Where the Sawgrass Meets the Sky) " was intended to replace a purportedly racist song as the Florida State Song ?
text: Did you know that Mathieu Ravignat defeated Foreign Affairs Minister Lawrence Cannon for a seat in the Canadian House of Commons despite Cannon's party making a net gain of seats in the 2011 federal election ?
text: Did you know that, having won four gold medals in 2008 , China is the defending champion in all table tennis events at the 2012 Summer Olympics ?
text: Did you know that New Yorker cartoonist William Hamilton was married to the granddaughter of Brazilian dictator Getúlio Vargas ?
text: Did you know that the German destroyer Erich Giese managed to torpedo the British destroyer HMS Jersey during the night of 6/7 December 1939 without ever being spotted?
text: Did you know that new Princeton Tigers men's basketball head coach Mitch Henderson was co- captain of the 1997–98 Princeton Tigers , the first Princeton basketball team to win 20 consecutive games?
text: Did you know that the creation of the documentary film America's Most Hated Family in Crisis was prompted by an email?
text: Did you know that in St Leonards-on-Sea in East Sussex , Christ Church , St John's and St Peter's Anglican churches are Grade II* listed buildings , and there are Grade II listed Baptist , Roman Catholic and Greek Orthodox churches?
text: Did you know that most of 75 was recorded on Joe Zawinul 's 75th birthday and about two months before he died?
text: Did you know that the perpetrator of the Kaycee Nicole hoax was investigated by the FBI but charges were never filed because the financial loss was not large enough?
text: Did you know that Temasek Review , a popular Singapore website critical of the ruling party , is to close in July?
text: Did you know that Khun Bedu was sentenced to 37 years in prison for offenses including organizing Loikaw youth to release balloons and rafts in protest of the 2008 Burmese constitutional referendum ?
text: Did you know that when Great Falls High School in Montana was built in 1896, a herd of sheep was used to compact earth around the foundation?
text: Did you know that the likely Bulgarian -built medieval Church of the Holy Mother of God in Donja Kamenica , Serbia , features unusual towers on either side of the entrance?
text: Did you know that IceMole , an autonomous ice research probe developed for exploring polar regions , glaciers and extra-terrestrial regions, is a student project at the Fachhochschule Aachen , Germany ?
text: Did you know that the J. Paul Getty Trust is the world's wealthiest art institution with an estimated endowment in April 2009 of US$ 4.2 billion ?
text: Did you know that the counting of the votes from the 2011 Puducherry legislative assembly election begins on May 13 , 2011, exactly one month after the election was held?
text: Did you know that Tom Haverford revealed in " Soulmates ", an episode of the NBC comedy Parks and Recreation , that he dreams of playing both the Keanu Reeves and Patrick Swayze roles in a remake of Point Break ?
text: Did you know that at St Andrew's School, Pangbourne , Kate and Pippa Middleton were following in the footsteps of the spy writer John le Carré ?
text: Did you know that the National Museum of Sudan in Khartoum contains two Egyptian temples which were originally built by Hatshepsut and Tuthmosis III but were relocated because of the flooding caused by Lake Nasser ?
text: Did you know that Conservative Party candidate Bernard Trottier won a seat in the 41st Canadian Parliament by defeating the incumbent Leader of the Liberal Party of Canada in the 2011 federal election ?
text: Did you know that the 1955 drama The Widow was one of only three films directed by Lewis Milestone while he was working in Europe during the Red Scare ?
text: Did you know that W. D. Twichell surveyed more than 40 towns and 165 of the 254 counties in Texas and even launched the concert band in Amarillo ?
text: Did you know that the extinct rose family member Neviusia dunthornei is one of only three known Neviusia species?
text: Did you know that Black Arts Movement artist Wadsworth Jarrell utilizes a bricklayer's trowel to create a 3-D look in his Afrocentric paintings?
text: Did you know that the Central Committee of Polish Jews , formed in 1944, was instrumental in organizing and implementing the free immigration of Jews to the new State of Israel ?
text: Did you know that the Met Ball is considered to be the fashion industry's premier annual red carpet event?
text: Did you know that in FCC v. AT&T Inc. , the US Supreme Court struck a blow to corporate personhood and held that corporations cannot claim exempt status from Freedom of Information Act requests?
text: Did you know that Chinatown, Newcastle , is on land once part of Blackfriars monastery in Newcastle , England?
text: Did you know that Gordon Ramsay became the first Scottish chef to win three Michelin stars at his self-titled restaurant in 2001?
text: Did you know that in the 1974 BBC documentary A Passion for Churches , Poet Laureate John Betjeman compares the likeness of church architect Ninian Comper to Colonel Harland Sanders ?
text: Did you know that in 2005, lobbyists attributed George W. Bush 's increased "outspokenness" on Burmese human rights to a 50-minute meeting with Shan activist Charm Tong ?
text: Did you know that the tenth-century Old English poem Battle of Brunanburh celebrates a victory of the English over a combined army of Vikings and Scots?
text: Did you know that Japanese filmmaker Noriaki Tsuchimoto documented both the ravages of Minamata disease and Afghanistan before the Taliban ?
text: Did you know that the formation of the Allegiance Council changed the laws of succession in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia ?
text: Did you know that Balai Pustaka , publisher of some of the most famous works of Indonesian literature , faces possible liquidation ?
text: Did you know that laser guns were considered as replacements for pistols for the modern pentathlon at the 2012 Summer Olympics ?
text: Did you know that Viktor Herou , a member of the first Swedish communist parliamentary group, later became a Centre Party municipal politician?
text: Did you know that the 1960 Grammy Award winning comedy album Jonathan and Darlene Edwards in Paris garnered U.S. singer Jo Stafford a Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album?
text: Did you know that Bono personally lobbied for Turkish prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to investigate the treatment of imprisoned conscientious objector İnan Süver ?
text: Did you know that Beckington Castle , built in the early 17th century, was not called a castle until 1839?
text: Did you know that Antiguan politician Vere Bird, Jr. became Minister of Science, Technology and Communications in 1996, despite an earlier report recommending that he never be allowed to hold public office again?
text: Did you know that Jacqueline Kennedy disliked her own wedding dress ?
text: Did you know that gain before feedback is reduced when using multiple microphones for live sound ?
text: Did you know that Gene Schoor , the author of more than forty "juvenile" sports biographies, was awarded US$ 5000 damages in a suit against boxing champion Rocky Marciano for being punched by him?
text: Did you know that Steve Vai plays the sitar on "Moroccan Roll", a track from Mike Stern 's Grammy -nominated album Big Neighborhood ?
text: Did you know that Michel and Albert Roux were the first chefs in the UK to gain three Michelin stars ?
text: Did you know that " That Dress ", worn by Elizabeth Hurley at the premiere of Four Weddings and a Funeral in 1994, has been voted the greatest red carpet dress of all time and is perhaps Gianni Versace 's best-known creation?
text: Did you know that during the invasion of Narvik on 9 April 1940, the Norwegian coast defense ship Norge fired 13 shells at the German destroyer Z11 Bernd von Arnim at 600–800 meters (660–870 yd) range and missed?
text: Did you know that Teresa de Jesús , an eight-hour television/DVD mini-series about St. Teresa of Ávila , won the 1985 Spanish TP de Oro for Best National Series?
text: Did you know that the community of Frontera Corozal, Chiapas , Mexico , is the main access to the Maya site of Yaxchilan ?
text: Did you know that Fay Wray played the mother of Natalie Wood in a forgotten sitcom , The Pride of the Family , which aired on ABC from 1953 to 1954 ?
text: Did you know that the Battle of the Echinades in 1427 was the last naval victory in the history of the Byzantine Empire ?
text: Did you know that you can improve your maximum a-vO 2 diff through aerobic exercise ?
text: Did you know that Pima County, Arizona Supervisors ordered Sheriff Robert H. Paul to bring his friend Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday back from Colorado after they killed four outlaw Cowboys , but he returned empty-handed?
text: Did you know that newly appointed Commissioner of the Israel Police Yohanan Danino was involved in investigations against the Prime Minister , Finance Minister and Foreign Minister of Israel?
text: Did you know that during the Battle of Kos a British Parachute Company captured the airfield, despite there being 4,000 defenders?
text: Did you know that Philippe Saisse 's Grammy -nominated album At World's Edge was dedicated to his father Maurice?
text: Did you know that according to the authors of Start-up Nation: The Story of Israel's Economic Miracle , Israel has more companies listed on the NASDAQ than any country except the United States?
text: Did you know that during the Ghanaian 2011 New Patriotic Party Primaries , candidate Musa Superior canvassed for votes through Twitter and Facebook whilst living in the UK ?
text: Did you know that Sir George Gibb , head of the British government's former Road Board, was accused of having delayed the construction of new roads because he had been a railwayman ?
text: Did you know that the 14 workers that constructed Wyborn Reef Light in 1938 had to live in tents on a 50 by 50 feet (15 m × 15 m) wooden platform, 4 feet 6 inches (1.37 m) above tiger shark infested water?
text: Did you know that Cambodian women have been described as comparable to the Apsaras on the walls of the temples of Angkor Wat ?
text: Did you know that during the bombing of Darwin in World War II , Gunner 's hearing was so acute that he detected approaching Japanese aircraft before they showed up on radar ?
text: Did you know that on 6 June 1944 during Operation Mallard , Tetrarchs became the first tanks to be flown into battle?
text: Did you know that not long after the Elizabethtown station opened in 1915, the Liberty Bell visited the station on its way to San Francisco ?
text: Did you know that a 17th-century copy of the diwan that 13th-century Hebrew language poet Todros Abulafia made in Castile was rediscovered in Hong Kong in the 19th century ?
text: Did you know that the scarcity of female participants in Armenian politics makes Armenia's women among the most underrepresented in the world?
text: Did you know that the 1948 comedy No Minor Vices was one of the only four films made by Dana Andrews for director Lewis Milestone ?
text: Did you know that the ship's mascot of HMS Sainfoin , a baboon named Mortimer, took a fancy to the rescued ship's cat of the hospital ship Takliwa ?
text: Did you know that Amangalla was originally named the "New Oriental Hotel" from 1865 and is located within the premises of the Galle Fort UNESCO World Heritage Site ?
text: Did you know that armoured trains of Poland proved to be surprisingly successful during the Polish Defensive War of 1939?
text: Did you know that the O'Donnell Heritage Museum contains a Dan Blocker display dedicated to the Bonanza star who was reared in rural O'Donnell in West Texas ?
text: Did you know that there are three paradoxes confronting career women in Singapore ?
text: Did you know that the fruit bodies of the Australian secotioid fungus Gymnogaster boletoides will turn bright blue when injured or bruised?
text: Did you know that Leoš Janáček dedicated his opera Jenůfa and the cantata Elegy on the Death of Daughter Olga to the memory of his daughter?
text: Did you know that Samuel Taylor Coleridge spelled William Shakespeare 's last name as " Shakspere "?
text: Did you know that at 46.5 metres (153 ft), the longest Foucault pendulum in Poland is suspended inside the Church of Saints Peter and Paul in the Old Town district of Kraków ?
text: Did you know that more than 120 family members of a founder of Billingshurst Unitarian Chapel are buried in its graveyard?
text: Did you know that the ASME describes the Oneida Street Station in Milwaukee, Wisconsin , as the "first central power station in the United States to be equipped and successfully operated with pulverized coal ?"
text: Did you know that it was at the wheel of the Brabham BT3 that Jack Brabham became the first driver ever to score Formula One World Championship points in a car of his own manufacture?
text: Did you know that Osama bin Laden 's hideout compound in Abbottabad , Pakistan is known locally as the Waziristan Haveli mansion?
text: Did you know that after the surge of multinational investments into Indonesia during the 1970s, many Indonesian women became the primary and cheap workforce in manufacturing businesses?
text: Did you know that socialist politician Arvid Olsson was among the first Swedes to receive political training in Soviet Russia ?
text: Did you know that Banksia candolleana shrubs have been estimated at 1000 years old?
text: Did you know that the Throne Room of the Bronze Age Palace of Knossos , in Greece , is claimed to be the oldest in Europe ?
text: Did you know that the Odd Fellows and the Knights of Pythias worked together to build the Palace Lodge in Winslow, Indiana ?
text: Did you know that shot putter Manuel Martínez Gutiérrez has the record for most national athletics selections for Spain , but is now a film actor ?
text: Did you know that it's possible to receive a wireless internet signal almost anywhere in Minneapolis , except on the city's numerous lakes ?
text: Did you know that women in Oman live in the Persian Gulf country that is considered to be one of the most advanced in terms of women's rights ?
text: Did you know that The Red Onion , the oldest restaurant in Aspen, Colorado , wasn't formally named that until more than 50 years after it was built?
text: Did you know that Norman Hartnell designed both the wedding dress and the coronation gown of Elizabeth II ?
text: Did you know that the mistletoe Dendrophthoe vitellina has been found growing on 66 Australian plant species of 16 families?
text: Did you know that Wiki-Watch is a free software tool to automatically assess the reliability of Wikipedia articles?
text: Did you know that the Motley County Historical Museum in Matador , Texas , was formerly a hospital equipped with an iron lung , once used to treat polio ?
text: Did you know that George Edmund Butler‎ was an official war artist for New Zealand during World War I even though he lived in the United Kingdom?
text: Did you know that Cincinnati Public Schools used the Cummins School , an ornamented brick building, as a model for later school construction?
text: Did you know that the band Blue , who will represent the United Kingdom in the Eurovision Song Contest 2011 , appeared naked in British gay magazine Attitude in May 2011?
text: Did you know that in Rocky Mountain Bank v. Google Inc. , if a Gmail user had viewed a particular email, Google was ordered to disclose to a bank the user's real name?
text: Did you know that Friedrich Wilhelm Mengelberg was a nineteenth century German-Dutch sculptor who built church interiors in the Gothic Revival style?
text: Did you know that the Altec Lansing 604 coaxial speaker became the standard U.S. studio monitor after 1945?
text: Did you know that conductor Herbert Grossman collaborated with his wife on a popular English language translation of Puccini 's Gianni Schicchi ?
text: Did you know that deforestation in the surrounding rainforest has led to howler monkeys being seen on the streets of modern Palenque, Chiapas , Mexico ?
text: Did you know that the wedding dress of Grace Kelly , characterized as "one of the most-beloved of all time", was designed by Helen Rose , a leading costume designer of the era for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) ?
text: Did you know that since being drafted by the Philadelphia Phillies in 1982 , Greg Legg has worked continually for the franchise as a minor leaguer , a major leaguer , a manager , and a coach ?
text: Did you know that former Croatian Member of Parliament Ruža Tomašić appeared in television series The X-Files and Millennium as a stuntwoman ?
text: Did you know that after the Battle of Arnhem , the British 156th Parachute Battalion was reduced to only 68 men?
text: Did you know that during the terms of Governor Jeb Bush , the Republican-dominated Florida Council of 100 began taking an activist role, funding studies and proposing solutions to critical issues?
text: Did you know that " Jerry's Painting ", an episode of the NBC comedy Parks and Recreation , features a painting with a topless centaur Greek goddess that resembles the lead character, played by Amy Poehler ?
text: Did you know that the octagonal Church of St Mary in Hartwell , Buckinghamshire , has no roof?
text: Did you know that opera singer Maria di Gerlando created the role of Carmela in the 1954 world premiere of Gian Carlo Menotti 's The Saint of Bleecker Street ?
text: Did you know that abstract expressionist painter Jay Meuser painted two portraits for General of the Army Douglas MacArthur ?
text: Did you know that RideShare Delaware forms carpools from a database that grew to include 15,000 commuters in 2009?
text: Did you know that the Roman settlement at Gatcombe , in the modern English county of Somerset , may be the site of Iscalis described by Ptolemy ?
text: Did you know that the Tecopa pupfish was the first animal delisted under the Endangered Species Act because of its extinction?
text: Did you know that GJ 3634 b , a recently discovered Super-Earth in orbit around a red dwarf star , is estimated to be over eight times more massive than Earth?
text: Did you know that New York Giants cornerback Prince Amukamara has five sisters named Passionate, Peace, Precious, Princess, and Promise?
text: Did you know that the Teufelsturm , a prominent rock tower and climbing rock about 40 metres (130 ft) high in Saxon Switzerland , is referred to as the "Symbol of Saxon Climbing"?
text: Did you know that the Saudi Ministry of Foreign Affairs predates the founding of Saudi Arabia ?
text: Did you know that Henry Norlande Ruttan , an Empire Loyalist , was the project engineer for a Winnipeg pumping station considered in 1906 to be the most modern such institution in the world?
text: Did you know that the Latin Grammy Award for Best Pop Vocal Album was presented in 2000 to an album deemed "unremarkable" by a critic?
text: Did you know that Richard Phipson 's Victorian church spire at Great Finborough in Suffolk has been nicknamed " Thunderbird One " after the Supermarionation space rescue vehicle?
text: Did you know that a frog battery can decompose potassium iodide ?
text: Did you know that Captain Władysław Raginis is known as a modern Leonidas for facing Nazi German forces which outnumbered the Poles 40:1 at the Battle of Wizna ?
text: Did you know that Bach set the theme of the Good Shepherd in his cantata for the second Sunday after Easter , Du Hirte Israel, höre, BWV 104 , as a pastorale , a trio of oboes playing triplets to pedal points ?
text: Did you know that Lisa Head was the second British servicewoman killed on active service in the War in Afghanistan since 2001?
text: Did you know that the Rabboni was the first regular tugboat to work the bar at the mouth of the Columbia River ?
text: Did you know that after soprano Gianna Galli 's opera career ended at the age of 40 due to problems with her vocal cords , she had a second successful career as a talent manager of singers in Italy?
text: Did you know that Phaeacius , a very lazy jumping spider , waits motionless until prey walks almost into its jaws?
text: Did you know that baritone Richard Torigi created the role of Silvio de Narni in the world premiere of Alberto Ginastera 's Bomarzo in 1967?
text: Did you know that the small Land Yeo river in Somerset , England, has powered at least ten watermills in the last 1,000 years?
text: Did you know that the Brooklyn Ice Cream Factory has been cited as having the best ice cream in New York City?
text: Did you know that English shipwright James Beeching invented a self-righting lifeboat in 1851, which became the standard model for the Royal National Lifeboat Institution 's new fleet?
text: Did you know that at its peak in the early 20th century , the Matador Ranch had 90,000 head of cattle on nearly 900,000 acres in parts of four West Texas counties?
text: Did you know that The King retired after a girl curtsied to him?
text: Did you know that the owner of the prehistoric Tell Ezou in Syria has expressed an interest to turn it into an olive plantation?
text: Did you know that Cath Kidston started her shopping chain after surviving breast cancer ?
text: Did you know that Dr. Richard Spademan invented the Spademan binding after seeing 150 fractures in a single long weekend at Squaw Valley ?
text: Did you know that the Roman philosopher Seneca the Younger attributed the deaths of 600 sheep in the AD 62 Pompeii earthquake to the effects of poisonous gases?
text: Did you know that the 2008 California Statewide Truck and Bus Rule is expected to save 9,400 lives and over US$ 48 billion in health-care costs?
text: Did you know that the only surviving example of subdivision gates in Winnipeg , Manitoba , Canada, built by property owners instead of a real estate developer are located at Armstrong’s Point ?
text: Did you know that Samuel Paull Andrews was the first working class man to be elected to the New Zealand Parliament ?
text: Did you know that Italy's Carabinieri maintain a unit dedicated to fighting art and antiquities crimes?
text: Did you know that the title Baron Carrickfergus was given to Prince William as a gift from Queen Elizabeth II for his wedding ?
text: Did you know that the Nava System ski binding used a plastic arm to control the ski, instead of a stiff ski boot?
text: Did you know that Charles Bemies organized the first college basketball team in the 1890s and later became a Presbyterian minister and evangelist?
text: Did you know that Pulvermacher's chain battery was used in experiments by dentists in an attempt to anaesthetise patients with electric shocks?
text: Did you know that Barney Gibson became the youngest-ever English first-class cricketer when he played for Yorkshire aged 15 years and 27 days?
text: Did you know that the precursors to the White House Press Secretary and White House press corps both formed during the presidency of Grover Cleveland ?
text: Did you know that the tomb of Robert Ingylton in St Michael and All Angels' Church in Thornton , Buckinghamshire , was re-assembled from a grotto ?
text: Did you know that Kate Middleton ' s wedding dress for her marriage to Prince William was designed by Sarah Burton ?
text: Did you know that Nude Nuns with Big Guns is a nunsploitation thriller film that is the subject of a copyright lawsuit against torrent users involving 5,865 IP addresses ?
text: Did you know that within six months of opening The Kitchin restaurant in Edinburgh , chef Tom Kitchin became the youngest-ever recipient of a Michelin star ?
text: Did you know that Radhakrishnan 's Dhammapada was recommended reading for victims of the "annihilation-extinction" theory of nirvana ?
text: Did you know that Captain Cedric Holland was sent with the British terms for the surrender of the French fleet prior to the attack on Mers-el-Kébir ?
text: Did you know that the Kunming–Singapore Railway will be 3,900 km (2,400 mi) long when completed?
text: Did you know that Italian athlete Roberto Marson was proclaimed the outstanding athlete of the Games after winning 10 gold medals at the 1968 Paralympics ?
text: Did you know that Queen Victoria has been credited with starting the western tradition of white bridal gowns by wearing one at her 1840 wedding?
text: Did you know that the first time Ronald Colman and Ginger Rogers starred together in a film was in Lewis Milestone 's 1940 comedy romance drama Lucky Partners ?
text: Did you know that Virginia rabbi Jack Moline helped write President Bill Clinton 's famous 1995 "Shalom, Haver" eulogy for Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin ?
text: Did you know that for the first time in 11 years, the 2010 budget passed by the 15th Congress of the Philippines was signed by President Benigno Aquino III before the calendar year ended?
text: Did you know that basketball player Othyus Jeffers and his two older brothers, Gerome Allen and Edmund Allen, were all shot during three separate shooting incidents in their hometown , but only Jeffers survived?
text: Did you know that the earliest history of Alishang in Afghanistan is traced to the Mughal Emperor Babur , when in the 1520s he hunted wildlife in the mountains there before returning to India ?
text: Did you know that Sufjan Stevens has released four versions of " Chicago ", including the " Multiple Personality Disorder Version"?
text: Did you know that a fungal pathogen Beauveria bassiana has been released along with a parasitic wasp Tetrastichus planipennisi in the US as a biological control agent of the emerald ash borer ?
text: Did you know that Mongolia 's top Olympic marathon runner Ser-Od Bat-Ochir trains with Morpeth Harriers in Gateshead , England ?
text: Did you know that tantalum hafnium carbide is believed to have a melting point as high as 4,215 °C (7,619 °F)?
text: Did you know that George Jessel and Arlene Francis hosted a 1953–54 ABC reality show , The Comeback Story , in which guests discuss how they overcame great adversity in their lives?
text: Did you know that at 127.4 kilometres (79.2 mi) long, the Great Wall of Vietnam is the longest monument in Southeast Asia?
text: Did you know that future cantor David Werdyger was saved from a Nazi firing squad by singing the Jewish prayer for the dead ?
text: Did you know that GeoCenter Møns Klint on the island of Møn in Denmark was designed by PLH Architects , the winners of an international design competition ?
text: Did you know that in the men's decathlon at the 2008 Summer Olympics , British athlete Daniel Awde set a personal best in the pole vault and had the fastest time of anyone in the 400 metres, but finished 21st?
text: Did you know that Esad Mekuli is considered the father of modern Albanian poetry in Yugoslavia ?
text: Did you know that during the Battle of Arnhem the 4th Parachute Brigade suffered 78 per cent casualties?
text: Did you know that it was Jerry Shipp who led the United States men's national basketball team in scoring at the 1964 Summer Olympics , even though its roster included two future Hall of Famers ?
text: Did you know that an extremophile bacterium, Paracoccus denitrificans , has been found to grow even under 400,000 times Earth's gravity, a fact having implications on the feasibility of panspermia ?
text: Did you know that Sanjak of Montenegro was joined to the Sanjak of Shkodra in 1514 as a unique administrative unit with a certain degree of autonomy?
text: Did you know that timber from the Ruislip Woods was used in the construction of the Tower of London , Windsor Castle , the Palace of Westminster , and the manor of the Black Prince in Kennington ?
text: Did you know that Debedeavon , the Laughing King of the Accawmacke Virginia Indian tribe, and an Englishman whom he adopted named Thomas Savage, warned the settlers at Jamestown of the impending 1622 Massacre ?
text: Did you know that host country West Germany won the most gold medals at the 1972 Summer Paralympics , but the United States won the most total medals?
text: Did you know that more than 120 archaeological sites have been found in the Econfina Creek watershed ?
text: Did you know that Russell and Sigurd Varian , who played childhood pranks on family guests by giving them minor electric shocks, went on to invent the klystron and become pioneers of microwave technology?
text: Did you know that Zipora Rubin-Rosenbaum has won Paralympic medals for Israel in athletics , swimming and table tennis ?
text: Did you know that the Burmese were "on the brink of victory" in the Burmese–Siamese War (1759–1760) when they suddenly withdrew from their siege of Ayutthaya because their king Alaungpaya had fallen ill?
text: Did you know that Dinochelus ausubeli , a deepwater lobster discovered during the Census of Marine Life expedition, was named in honour of its sponsor, Jesse H. Ausubel ?
text: Did you know that policies promoting wireless broadband plan to bring the Internet to 98% of Americans?
text: Did you know that Tekalif-i orfiye , Resm-i çift , Rav akçesi , Nüzül , İspençe , Avariz , Adet-i ağnam , Resm-i arusane , Tuz resmi , Resm-i bennâk , Bedl-i askeri , Gümrük resmi , Sursat , Müskirat resmi , Temettu , Adet-i deştbani , Damga resmi , Resm-i mücerred , Öşür , Ihtisab , Resm-i donum and Tapu resmi were Ottoman taxes , whilst Muafiyet were exemptions, and Emins were tax collectors?
text: Did you know that solar panels provide part of the power for electric vehicle charging stations at Hillsboro, Oregon 's Intermodal Transit Facility ?
text: Did you know that the British Colonial Hilton Nassau is located on the site of the Old Fort of Nassau ?
text: Did you know that until the Migrant Housing Act of North Carolina was amended in 2007, North Carolina had very few health and safety regulations for migrant farmers' housing?
text: Did you know that the tadpole of the Vampire flying frog Rhacophorus vampyrus has two fang-like hooks in its mouth?
text: Did you know that Nellie McClung , the Canadian novelist, prohibitionist, and activist, lectured at the Cornish Library in Winnipeg ?
text: Did you know that Gustav Elfving invented the optimal design of experiments , and so minimized the cost of a cartographic survey , while trapped in his tent in storm-ridden Greenland ?
text: Did you know that Heather Knight was the first woman to be selected President of Pacific Union College and the first African American woman to lead an Adventist College in North America?
text: Did you know that Footes Lane is the main sporting venue in Guernsey ?
text: Did you know that in 1852 Franz Johann Joseph Bock founded the first large exhibition of ancient masterpieces of Christian art?
text: Did you know that St Lawrence's Church in Broughton , Buckinghamshire , is listed Grade I because of its "remarkable series" of medieval wall paintings?
text: Did you know that Curry Hicks was the head football coach for the Michigan State Normal Normalites in 1910 and the athletic director at UMass from 1911 to 1949?
text: Did you know that the buildings in Jižní Město , the Czech Republic's largest housing estate, were color-coded to facilitate orientation?
text: Did you know that the ancient custom of ringing the curfew bell each evening from St Peter's Church in Sandwich , Kent , still continues?
text: Did you know that an artificial lake near the Lebanese village of Qaraoun has become a seasonal home for about 20,000 migratory birds each year?
text: Did you know that members of the Brisbane -based Women's National Emergency Legion served as drivers for United States military units in Australia during World War II ?
text: Did you know that Twicket , the first ever village cricket match to be live-streamed around the world, was played in Wray, Lancashire , on Easter Monday 2011?
text: Did you know that women in Burma wore a skirtcloth known as the htamein during the Konbaung Dynasty ?
text: Did you know that although Earth, Wind & Fire 's song " Reasons " has never charted, it is included on several dozen albums including most of the group's greatest hits compilation albums ?
text: Did you know that Eddie Wilcoxen, morning show host on radio station KWHW , is the current Poet Laureate for the state of Oklahoma ?
text: Did you know that next-generation DDR4 computer memory, developed since 2005, is the first of its family to discard multi-channel architecture , and the first to include 3D silicon stacking in its specification?
text: Did you know that G. L. Pridgen , a Republican member of the North Carolina House of Representatives , supports a bill requiring a referendum on English being his state’s official language?
text: Did you know that the Jacksonville Aviation Authority owns and operates four airports on a budget of US$ 63.8 million in Jacksonville, Florida , but costs taxpayers nothing?
text: Did you know that Sudanese human rights activist Mudawi Ibrahim Adam has been imprisoned four times for his work in Darfur ?
text: Did you know that in Coffee: A Dark History , Antony Wild claims that coffee helped cause the Age of Enlightenment ?
text: Did you know that before they owned large ranches in Texas , John Wesley Snyder and his brother operated an apple orchard and horse-trading business in Williamson County near Austin ?
text: Did you know that in the churchyard of St Mary's Church in Hartley Wintney , Hampshire , are the graves of the notable military figures Henry "Hangman" Hawley and Field Marshal Lord Alanbrooke ?
text: Did you know that bone marrow drives hosted by Yale University in honor of ice hockey player Mandi Schwartz netted more than 2,400 donors and resulted in six matches for those awaiting transplants?
text: Did you know that bandleader Ivy Benson and her all-female band were the first entertainers invited to perform at the VE Day celebrations in Berlin at the request of Field Marshal Montgomery ?
text: Did you know that British Paralympic rowing gold medallist Tom Aggar was once part of the Saracens F.C. youth development squad?
text: Did you know that the Silent Way is a language teaching method in which students do 90 percent or more of the talking?
text: Did you know that Nathan "Ned" Miller had two hit songs in the 1920s at the age of 22?
text: Did you know that there is a tri-state water dispute between Georgia , Alabama , and Florida over the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint River Basin and the Alabama-Coosa-Tallapoosa River Basin?
text: Did you know that when Nikita Khrushchev gave the go-ahead to build the Berlin Wall , Mikhail Pervukhin was the first to know?
text: Did you know that TV quiz show Don't Scare the Hare has been described as "fantasy based toddler telly with an adult twist"?
text: Did you know that Burmese democracy activist Aye Aung is serving a 59-year prison sentence for distributing leaflets and organizing protests in Yangon ?
text: Did you know that the characters of " The Sliced-Crosswise Only-On-Tuesday World " are only allowed to experience one day a week?
text: Did you know that the main target of the 1945 attack on Yokosuka was the battleship Nagato , the flagship of the fleet that attacked Pearl Harbor in 1941?
text: Did you know that Alfred E. Goodey collected and commissioned paintings to record the history of Derby ?
text: Did you know that Mochtar Lubis 's novel Salah Asuhan had to avoid themes of rebellion and portray the European characters in a positive light in order to be published?
text: Did you know that Dragan Velić is the current President of the Union of Serbian Districts and District Units of Kosovo and Metohija of North Kosovo ?
text: Did you know that workers at the Bata shoe factory in East Tilbury , England , lived in "Bata-ville", a company town complete with houses, schools, shops, sports facilities, a theatre, a post office, and its own newspaper?
text: Did you know that Amie MacRuari was divorced by the first Lord of the Isles despite giving him no grounds for doing so?
text: Did you know that the OS Museum in Post , Texas , contains a hybrid of exhibits on both the American West and Asia , which are changed three times per year?
text: Did you know that at the 2008 Games , Helene Raynsford became the Paralympic 's first ever rowing gold medallist?
text: Did you know that Homeland Security is recruiting every local jail in the U.S. to become a deportation office through a new program called Secure Communities ?
text: Did you know that liquid crystal lasers can emit several wavelengths from a single device?
text: Did you know that the original Shaare Zedek Synagogue was the oldest synagogue in Winnipeg ?
text: Did you know that poet, historian and radical William Jones was described by a contemporary as "the hottest arsed" Welshman he had ever known?
text: Did you know that during Operation Rhodes of January 1970 , Israeli paratroops held the Egyptian island of Shadwan for over a day before leaving with 62 prisoners of war?
text: Did you know that Milton Olander , who led the Western Michigan football team to an unbeaten and unscored upon record in 1922, was later offered a position as Assistant U.S. Secretary of Labor ?
text: Did you know that Hillingdon House once housed the Royal Flying Corps Armament School, which established a firing range in the grounds?
text: Did you know that Ron Hextall was the first ice hockey goaltender to shoot and score a goal in the National Hockey League ?
text: Did you know that the Rhine Terrace restaurant in Berlin 's Haus Vaterland featured hourly fake thunderstorms ?
text: Did you know that Salilyn's Condor and Salilyn 'N Erin's Shameless are the only father and daughter to have both won the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show ?
text: Did you know that the widest path problem forms the algorithmic basis of the Schulze method used by Wikimedia to decide the winners of multiway elections ?
text: Did you know that Italian runner Silvana Cruciata ran over 18 km (11.2 miles) in one hour —a world record which went unbeaten for 17 years?
text: Did you know that the first transcontinental trip by a solar-powered vehicle was completed in 1983?
text: Did you know that, despite being a monastery of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church , Gunda Gunde provided many converts to the Roman Catholic faith for missionary (later saint) Justin de Jacobis ?
text: Did you know that Jay Houghton , a member of the Missouri House of Representatives , had an uncle, two great-uncles, and a great-great-grandfather who also served as representatives?
text: Did you know that Mario & Sonic at the London 2012 Olympic Games is the result of continued commercial success of Olympic video games starring Nintendo 's and Sega 's once-rival mascots, Mario and Sonic the Hedgehog ?
text: Did you know that Gwangju Prize for Human Rights winner Angkhana Neelaphaijit has been investigating the forced disappearance of her husband for more than seven years?
text: Did you know that the American Civil War delayed the construction of the George Stumpf House in Indianapolis by nearly 10 years?
text: Did you know that the concept for the Euthanasia Coaster , a roller coaster designed to kill its riders, caused concern among anti- euthanasia groups when it went on display?
text: Did you know that apartheid in South Africa and the Mozambican Civil War caused an increase in the number of tourists visiting Swaziland ?
text: Did you know that author Ephraim Emerton taught medieval ecclesiastical history at Harvard Divinity School for over 40 years?
text: Did you know that the wedding dress of Lady Diana Spencer became one of the most famous outfits in the world and featured a 25-foot (7.6 m) train?
text: Did you know that among the all-time list of AAU Men's Basketball All-Americans , 33 have competed in the Olympic Games while nine have been enshrined in the Basketball Hall of Fame ?
text: Did you know that in Luoji Township in Yunnan , there are laws against the picking of young matsutake mushrooms smaller than 6 cm (2.4 in) in diameter?
text: Did you know that American sailor Ed Baird has won the America's Cup with syndicates from New Zealand and Switzerland , but failed at two attempts to win it with teams from his native country?
text: Did you know that the skinny triangle is used by snipers to estimate target range?
text: Did you know that " What's Your Name ", a 2008 electro single by Usher and will.i.am , was noted by some critics as one of the best tracks on Here I Stand , while others described it as "downright awful"?
text: Did you know that the maiden voyage of Empire Cowdray was delayed because most of her crew were drunk ?
text: Did you know that the UK House of Commons Treasury Committee challenged the Payments Council 's plan to abolish cheques by 2018?
text: Did you know that Morića Han is the only surviving han in Sarajevo ?
text: Did you know that RNA thermometers are found in human cells and help protect them from overheating?
text: Did you know that Clement W. Payton won a British Distinguished Flying Cross and a Belgian Croix de guerre ?
text: Did you know that on Mt. Murchison in New Zealand's Braeburn Range , a small population of large carnivorous snails, Powelliphanta "Nelson Lakes" , is only found above the bush line ?
text: Did you know that Brian Bowman performed the first euphonium recital at Carnegie Hall?
text: Did you know that the M2 gas mask protected the wearer for at least five hours against the common World War I chemical weapon phosgene ?
text: Did you know that during the 2010–11 NBA Development League season , 20 players were called-up to the NBA , while 39 NBA players were assigned to the D-League ?
text: Did you know that during the 2010 Australian federal elections Bruce Hawker helped the incumbent Labor Party form a minority government after negotiations with the independents?
text: Did you know that South Africa 's winning of the 1997 Wills Golden Jubilee Tournament marked its first cricket tournament victory in the Indian subcontinent and in their seventh attempt?
text: Did you know that Bertrand Teyou is serving two years in jail for attempting to read publicly from his book about Chantal Biya , the first lady of Cameroon ?
text: Did you know that while playing cricket for Oxford University Cricket Club , E. W. Bastard once dismissed Australian cricket captain Billy Murdoch ?
text: Did you know the government of the Crimean Socialist Soviet Republic was headed by Dmitry Ilyich Ulyanov , Vladimir Lenin 's brother?
text: Did you know that democracy activist Htay Kywe was described as Burma 's "most-wanted man" following his leadership role in the 2007 anti-government protests ?
text: Did you know that Heart Peaks in northern British Columbia , Canada , is the third largest volcano in the Northern Cordilleran Volcanic Province ?
text: Did you know that 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting winner Paige St. John is married to John Wark, a former Pulitzer Prize finalist?
text: Did you know that the past captains of the Indian cricket team were honoured during the 1997 Pepsi Independence Cup , which was organised to celebrate India 's 50th anniversary of independence?
text: Did you know that size matters when the jumping spider Phidippus clarus selects mates?
text: Did you know that British physicist Alexander Rankine gave the 1932 Royal Institution Christmas Lecture and worked on fog dispersal systems during World War II?
text: Did you know that Chinese explorer Jin Feibao has completed the Explorers Grand Slam in only 18 months and 24 days, the fastest recorded time?
text: Did you know that Penny White lost her seat on the Tennessee Supreme Court because of her vote in a single court decision?
text: Did you know that the Los Angeles Times calls Love, Loss, and What I Wore a The Vagina Monologues - What Not to Wear mix, and The New York Times calls it a "show about matters of the heart and matters of the closet"?
text: Did you know that during World War II , men of the American 818th Tank Destroyer Battalion were awarded nine Silver Stars and seventy-two Bronze Stars ?
text: Did you know that the Sunmobile , world's first solar-powered automobile, was demonstrated in a 1955 General Motors car show?
text: Did you know that the upscale boutiques and exclusive nightclub that Aspen, Colorado , developer Harley Baldwin put in the Brand Building and Collins Block earned them the nickname "Glitter Gulch"?
text: Did you know that Albanian leader Skanderbeg ambushed his would-be ambusher at the Battle of Meçad ?
text: Did you know that the Emissions Control Technology Association (ECTA) claims that more than $ 20 in healthcare savings is generated for every dollar spent on the Diesel Emissions Reduction Act ?
text: Did you know that Admiral Samuel Goodall fought in three wars, seeing action at Ushant , the Saintes , Genoa and the Hyères Islands ?
text: Did you know that Arroyo Seco, Querétaro , Mexico , is home to the Sótano del Barro, a pit cave which is one of the largest cavities of the world by volume?
text: Did you know that a proposal by Republican Charles Austin Tweed allowing California to hire women at the same rate of pay offered to men was defeated by the California State Senate ?
text: Did you know that the former station house at the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway depot in Galesburg, Illinois , had two waiting rooms, one for men and one for women?
text: Did you know that journalist Iryna Khalip is under incommunicado house arrest following a protest of the 2010 Belarusian presidential election , in which her husband was also a candidate?
text: Did you know that Sophie Christiansen , the youngest athlete for Great Britain at the 2004 Summer Paralympics , won a bronze medal in dressage ?
text: Did you know that despite intending to cast a 40–50 year old Japanese actor in the upcoming Fringe episode " The Day We Died ", American actor Brad Dourif was chosen instead?
text: Did you know that the Cloth of St Gereon is the oldest known European tapestry still existing?
text: Did you know that Mustafa Kemal Atatürk 's state funeral took place twice, once immediately after his death in 1938 and then again in 1953?
text: Did you know that Buddhist monk U Gambira was sentenced to sixty-three years in prison for his leadership role in Burma 's Saffron Revolution ?
text: Did you know that the Plain of Torvioll saw the first battle of Skanderbeg 's war against the Ottoman Empire ?
text: Did you know that Ghada Amer created the Encyclopedia of Pleasure sculpture in 2001 to illustrate parts of the eponymous Islamic Golden Age encyclopedia that discusses female sexual pleasure ?
text: Did you know that Adrian Lombard , who had no formal training in aerodynamics , became one of the world's foremost designers of jet engines ?
text: Did you know that professional wrestling events have been held to honor Sherri Martel , Shinya Hashimoto (also known as Hustle King ), and Fred Ward ?
text: Did you know that on the north wall of St Nicholas' Church in Freefolk , Hampshire , are three layers of wall paintings?
text: Did you know that the FCC 's attempts to modify media ownership laws in 2003 was stayed until 2010 by Prometheus Radio Project v. FCC until the FCC explained and justified each change?
text: Did you know that at the 2010 Games , skier Kelly Gallagher became the first-ever Winter Paralympian from Northern Ireland ?
text: Did you know that Beyoncé Knowles hired 200 native African dancers to appear in her music video for " Run the World (Girls) "?
text: Did you know that born-again Christian political activist David Lane , who works to support right-wing politics in the US, was called the "stealth weapon for the right"?
text: Did you know that Miami Vice producer Michael Mann originally conceived the character of Ricardo Tubbs as "nobody's Tonto "?
text: Did you know that Edward John Trelawny married the sister of a Greek warlord and then lived with her in a mountain cave?
text: Did you know that Italian leftist politician Emanuele Fiano was a Jewish youth leader in the Hashomer Hatzair Socialist–Zionist youth movement in Milan ?
text: Did you know that the Kosovo Liberation Army destroyed Zočište Monastery in 1999?
text: Did you know that mad prophet William Hacket was executed in London in 1591, after denouncing Queen Elizabeth I and defacing her image with a bodkin ?
text: Did you know that the Tajikistan Aluminum Company (TALCO) runs one of the largest aluminum manufacturing plants in the world?
text: Did you know that Salusbury Pryce Humphreys commanded HMS Leopard during the Chesapeake–Leopard Affair in 1807?
text: Did you know that in 1937, the slopes of Joppenbergh Mountain were coated with borax for a summer ski jumping competition?
text: Did you know that the 14th-century All Saints Church in Maidstone, England, is described as the grandest Perpendicular style church in Kent?
text: Did you know that two of the ETA members convicted of the 1987 Zaragoza Barracks bombing were each sentenced to 2,354 years in prison?
text: Did you know that the Windawski Canal in northern Lithuania was built as an extension of the Augustów Canal to circumvent high customs duties introduced by Prussia for the transit of goods to the Baltic Sea?
text: Did you know that Shaun Deeb has two World Championship of Online Poker wins and 16 World Series of Poker in the money finishes?
text: Did you know that in the French India municipal election, 1946 , the National Democratic Front won control over all 22 municipalities?
text: Did you know that Michael Jackson played professional baseball?
text: Did you know that the Concilium Germanicum , a Frankish synod held in 742/3 to reform the Austrasian church, has been described as the acme of Saint Boniface 's career?
text: Did you know that the Baku Museum of Modern Art was designed by Jean Nouvel as part of a projected "eco-cultural zone" on the waterfront in Baku , Azerbaijan?
text: Did you know that the history of Australian naval aviation dates back to 1911?
text: Did you know that Hailee Steinfeld , who starred in the 2010 version of True Grit , is the 73rd performer nominated for an Academy Award in a screen debut?
text: Did you know that Tuckerbil is an important site for flocking Brolgas ?
text: Did you know that Mexican pointy boots , made by elongating the toes of normal boots by as much as 5 feet (1.5 m), are popular among Mexican men in parts of Mexico and the U.S.?
text: Did you know that the 50 poems in I Hope Like Heck were created from excerpts of emails written by Sarah Palin during her time as Governor of Alaska ?
text: Did you know that Maurice Fargues was the first diver to die while using an aqua-lung ?
text: Did you know that the Moran Dam , one of the largest proposed hydroelectric projects in North America, was defeated by environmentalists well before the time of anti-dam environmentalism?
text: Did you know that between 1932 and 1962, Iowa Republican Governor and U.S. Senator Bourke B. Hickenlooper won 17 of 19 elections in which he was a candidate?
text: Did you know that the polychaete worm Chaetopterus variopedatus can regenerate its whole body from a single segment ?
text: Did you know that the defence counsel in The Case of the Dean of St Asaph was given the Freedom of the City of Gloucester , even though the defendant was found guilty?
text: Did you know that the competition to build the fastest production motorcycle raged for over a century, and then ended in a truce?
text: Did you know that Indian communist leader V. Subbiah was elected to the Senate of France in 1947?
text: Did you know that Judge Hugo Friend , who presided over the 1921 Black Sox trial , smiled as the defendants were acquitted and died in 1966 while listening by radio to a White Sox game?
text: Did you know that a proud Massachusetts father commissioned award-winning composer Peter Child to compose a string quartet in honor of his son's birth?
text: Did you know that the wasp Dinocampus coccinellae can turn a ladybird into a " zombie bodyguard"?
text: Did you know that the 1952 NATO exercise Operation Longstep featured a large-scale amphibious assault along the western coast of Turkey?
text: Did you know that in 1952 the communist candidate Baddam Yella Reddy defeated P. V. Narasimha Rao (later the Prime Minister of India) in a parliamentary election?
text: Did you know that Jeune Fille Endormie by the iconic 20th-century painter Picasso recently sold for nearly £13.5 million , and had only been on public display once?
text: Did you know that Norwegian poet Nils Collett Vogt wrote newspaper articles at the age of 17?
text: Did you know that an unsuccessful month-long siege in Yemen during the expedition of Surad ibn Abdullah was broken when Abdullah trapped the enemy by pretending to withdraw from the area into the hills?
text: Did you know that the current CEO of the South African National Blood Service was once rejected as a blood donor because she is black?
text: Did you know that St Botolph's Church , in the town of Hardham, has the earliest known representation of St. George in England?
text: Did you know that despite using designs centuries old, much of the art of the Huichol indigenous people in western Mexico is made with commercially produced beads and yarn?
text: Did you know that Polish architect Stefan Kuryłowicz is credited with modernizing the architecture of Warsaw in the decades following the collapse of Communism ?
text: Did you know that the 1957 NATO exercise Operation Deep Water involved the first use of helicopter-borne amphibious assault by the United States Marine Corps during an overseas deployment?
text: Did you know that in August 1947 French authorities banned a pro-independence mass rally of the French India Students Congress , but were forced to withdraw the ban after spontaneous protests?
text: Did you know that King George VI owned Royal Blue , a messenger pigeon that went on to be awarded the Dickin Medal for bravery during the Second World War?
text: Did you know that Beijing police dedicate 4,500 officers to preventing the Shouwang Church from holding Sunday prayer meetings?
text: Did you know that efforts made by television journalist Alan Sepinwall partially inspired NBC officials to renew the television series Chuck ?
text: Did you know that Japanese migration to Thailand dates back to the 1580s?
text: Did you know that The Guardian called Thomas Glavinic 's debut novel Carl Haffner's Love of the Draw "one of chess's finest novels"?
text: Did you know that Franz Xaver Dorsch , the builder of Hitler 's Atlantic Wall and Siegfried Line , founded Germany's largest independent planning and consulting company after the war?
text: Did you know that abuse of prisoners in Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq threatened to affect the accuracy of the Census of Ireland 2011 ?
text: Did you know that the f-word did not begin as an acronym , as is commonly claimed, but is of much older Proto-Germanic origin?
text: Did you know that while at the New York Cosmos , association footballer Keith Eddy captained a team which included Pelé and Franz Beckenbauer ?
text: Did you know that Tikal Temple IV , a Maya pyramid in Guatemala, was one of the tallest structures in the pre-Columbian New World?
text: Did you know that Cal Lampley formed the first all-black, 45-piece band, the US Navy B-1 Band, in the then white-only US Navy?
text: Did you know that each of the Five Discourses of Matthew has a shorter parallel in the Gospel of Mark or the Gospel of Luke ?
text: Did you know that the moose botfly Cephenemyia ulrichii shoots its larvae into people's eyes, perhaps because human eyes and moose nostrils both face forward?
text: Did you know that University of California, Berkeley math professor Ian Agol has a twin brother who is a University of Washington astronomy professor?
text: Did you know that at the Saltpond Oil Field in Ghana, Mr. Louie handles production of over 550 barrels of oil per day?
text: Did you know that Harlan Crow 's collection of statues at his Dallas residence includes those of Fidel Castro , Joseph Stalin and Mao Zedong ?
text: Did you know that Muhammad ordered the demolition of Masjid al-Dirar because he believed this mosque was built to create disunity among Muslims by drawing people away from another mosque?
text: Did you know that Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest won an Academy Award for Best Visual Effects ?
text: Did you know that the US fought Polynesian warriors in the South Pacific Nuku Hiva Campaign during the War of 1812 , even though that war was against the British?
text: Did you know that the Bengali poem Annada Mangal eulogizes the Hindu goddess Annapurna ?
text: Did you know that bas reliefs being made by the sculptor Henryk Kuna for a public monument in Vilnius were used as cemetery pavers during the Nazi occupation of the city?
text: Did you know that brain–computer interface chips, like those that connect a scientist's brain with test subjects in the Fringe episode " Dream Logic " , have long been used in real life?
text: Did you know that Muslim Indian South African and communist anti-Apartheid activist Yusuf Dadoo was buried in Highgate Cemetery near Karl Marx 's grave?
text: Did you know that the novel Madaling Araw ("Dawn") features a blend of clashing characters, such as advocates of anarchy against the subjugators of the Filipino lower class?
text: Did you know that Glory of Russia Cape is in the United States?
text: Did you know that the penalty for a stalker violating a Civil Harassment Restraining Order in California is a sentence of two to four years in prison?
text: Did you know that a secret clause in the 1463 Peace Treaty of Wiener Neustadt allowed King Matthias I of Hungary to hire John Jiskra and his Hussite mercenaries, who would later form the core of the Black Army ?
text: Did you know that heraldic artist Pierre de Chaignon la Rose was a friend of historian George Santayana ?
text: Did you know that, in February 1942, a lone German Heinkel He 111 from the Sonderkommando Blaich successfully attacked Free French Forces at Fort Lamy , Chad, but ran out of fuel on the return flight?
text: Did you know that Seattle's Hillman City neighborhood was named after a real estate developer whose fraudulent practices eventually landed him in a federal penitentiary ?
text: Did you know that, because of its popularity, The Whole Beast: Nose to Tail Eating was called the " Ulysses of the whole Slow Food movement" and a "cult cookbook"?
text: Did you know that rates of syphilis have increased in the United States, Australia, and Europe since the year 2000?
text: Did you know that Joseph S. Freedman , professor of education at Alabama State University , worked in over 200 libraries and archives to prepare his series Philosophy and the Liberal Arts in the Early Modern Period ?
text: Did you know that the world's fastest computer is the Japanese K ?
text: Did you know that the Marinoan glaciation was one of the three Neoproterozoic glaciations that caused the Snowball Earth ?
text: Did you know that the storyline of James Franco 's upcoming film The Broken Tower started out as his master's thesis at New York University Tisch School of the Arts ?
text: Did you know that while in parochial school, art forger Tony Tetro was hit by a nun after he painted her as a Vargas girl in a habit with a "pruney face"?
text: Did you know that L. B. Kubiak 's tenure in the Texas House of Representatives was both preceded and succeeded by that of his older brother ?
text: Did you know that the Brampton Walk of Fame , meant to honour "Brampton citizens—both past and present", includes a plaque for actress Bipasha Basu , who lives in India?
text: Did you know that Baconnaise is a kosher mayonnaise-based product that tastes like bacon, but has no bacon in it?
text: Did you know that the tracks of the Oregon and Northwestern Railroad are well preserved, even though they weren't well-built and they have been flooded by Malheur Lake ?
text: Did you know that the University of Arizona Museum of Art includes works ranging from a 15th-century medieval Spanish retablo by Fernando Gallego to the space art of Robert McCall ?
text: Did you know that if your vehicle registration plate includes the allegedly cursed number 39 , people in Afghanistan might think you're a pimp ?
text: Did you know that Māori warriors captured Russell, New Zealand , in the 1845 Battle of Kororareka from the British, who were then evacuated by an American ship?
text: Did you know that the 27th Street Historic District in Los Angeles includes a Gothic Revival church that since 1906 has housed white, Armenian, African-American and Hispanic congregations?
text: Did you know that the Coca-Cola Bottling Company of Cape Cod was founded when the original owner left his family's successful spring water company?
text: Did you know that the Next Generation Mobile Networks Alliance announced it would work with the Femto Forum on femtocells ?
text: Did you know that the most recent confirmed sighting of the vulnerable Invisible Rail was in 2003?
text: Did you know that Linda November was the voice of the singing cat in the Meow Mix commercials , and sang tens of thousands of other jingles, including "Coke and a Smile" on the famous Mean Joe Greene Super Bowl ad ?
text: Did you know that the featherduster worm Sabellastarte spectabilis sometimes grows in crevices in cauliflower coral from which a crown of branched tentacles form a plume?
text: Did you know that at its launch, Minnesota radio station KMGM broadcast 20 hours of farm and agricultural programs each week?
text: Did you know that both the Nigerian Building and Road Research Institute and the Building and Road Research Institute of Ghana were formed out of the West African Building Research Institute?
text: Did you know that the John L. Nichols House was the home of the first architect to practice in Bloomington, Indiana ?
text: Did you know that in June 1981 South African authorities arrested eight members of the South African Youth Revolutionary Council , charged with preparing an armed uprising against the Apartheid regime?
text: Did you know that according to the Book of the Later Han, the Civil war of Wa was ended by an unmarried woman who bewitched the populace?
text: Did you know that Artie Schroeck , who arranged the 1967 Frankie Valli song " Can't Take My Eyes off You ", 30 years later wrote and produced a tribute to offbeat bandleader Spike Jones ?
text: Did you know that unlike at similar sites in the middle Ohio River valley, archeologists have found a cache of shaman's articles at the Bullskin Creek Site ?
text: Did you know that Indonesian blues band Gugun Blues Shelter is scheduled to perform alongside Bon Jovi , Rod Stewart and The Killers at Hyde Park today?
text: Did you know that ZenQuest Martial Arts Center was originally founded in 1972 as the Okinawan Karate School, and introduced Uechi-ryū karate to Berkshire County ?
text: Did you know that Sa Ngalan ng Diyos ( In the Name of God ) was a controversial novel that reveals its author 's inclination to anti-clericalism ?
text: Did you know that high school basketball phenom Aquille Carr was nicknamed "The Crime Stopper" for his reputed effect on Baltimore 's crime rate?
text: Did you know that Golden Pond, Kentucky , earned a national reputation for its moonshine whiskey distillers during Prohibition ?
text: Did you know that in 2006, in the UK, 14 Approved Premises (residential units for offenders) were banned from housing paedophiles due to their proximity to schools and nurseries?
text: Did you know that boro glycerine , an effective oral antiseptic used in the treatment of mouth ulcers , was once considered a potential cure for cancer of the uterus ?
text: Did you know that although Museo Estatal de Arte Popular de Oaxaca 's site in Oaxaca , Mexico , was donated to create a cultural center in 1904, efforts to establish a museum there did not begin until the 1990s?
text: Did you know that only ten men of the 181st (Airlanding) Field Ambulance returned from the Battle of Arnhem ?
text: Did you know that the British tanker SS El Grillo , sunk in February 1944 after a German air raid in Seyðisfjörður , Iceland, gave its name to a local beer?
text: Did you know that Second Baptist Church , once the largest African American–owned meeting space in the western U.S., hosted speeches by W. E. B. Du Bois , Martin Luther King, Jr. , and Malcolm X ?
text: Did you know that the two chief engineers who worked on the Starved Rock Lock and Dam also worked together on the Panama Canal Locks ?
text: Did you know that Sophia Romero 's Always Hiding novel was just a "mild attempt" in revealing the Filipino American contributions to the American experience ?
text: Did you know that the Anasazi Heritage Center in the U.S. state of Colorado has two pueblos dating back to the 12th century?
text: Did you know that in 1568, John III of Sweden preferred fighting Denmark–Norway and Lübeck for another two years to ratifying the peace treaties of Roskilde ?
text: Did you know that Cock ale , described as a "provocative drink", was popular in 17th- and 18th-century England?
text: Did you know that the space industry is heavily dominated by the G7 countries, due to their extensive investment in the aerospace industry ?
text: Did you know that in the 1970s, Frank Serpico and David Durk both believed that Robert Leuci was the only honest detective in the New York City Police Department's narcotics bureau?
text: Did you know that the 2005 book Charcuterie: The Craft of Salting, Smoking and Curing brought renewed national attention to the process of charcuterie and methods of curing meat?
text: Did you know that the album Kayah i Bregović by Goran Bregović and Kayah was the first to receive a Diamond award by the Polish Society of the Phonographic Industry in July 2000?
text: Did you know that Slim Dunlap has been called "one of the last old-school cool guitar players"?
text: Did you know that Madeline Mitchell overcame a 12-day coma, 21 days on a respirator, two months in a wheelchair and a femur broken in 12 places to become Miss Alabama USA and compete in Miss USA 2011 two years later?
text: Did you know that Mexico is the world's largest exporter of limes ?
text: Did you know that a kiss between Dan Hamilton and Antoine Malick in the UK medical drama Holby City was criticised for "following the trend" of depicting gay relationships?
text: Did you know that in 1152 Alfonso the Battler rewarded Diego López de Lobera for his services during the Reconquista by giving him the castle of Manchones ?
text: Did you know that Flo Allen was "San Francisco's best loved artists' model" and modeled for 30 years?
text: Did you know that the 8th-century penitential Excarpsus cummeani extends its scope to define penances for clerics also, possibly influenced by Saint Boniface ?
text: Did you know that Anthony Stewart believes he made it to the National Hockey League partly because a good Samaritan picked him up while he was walking in a blizzard?
text: Did you know that mathematician Kosmas Balanos claimed in his work Antipelargisis that he had solved the problem of doubling the cube ?
text: Did you know that despite conceding four goals in the second leg, English club Ipswich Town beat Dutch club AZ Alkmaar 5–4 on aggregate to win the 1981 UEFA Cup Final ?
text: Did you know that Christina Grimmie 's song "Liar Liar" from her first album Find Me shot to Number 63 on the US iTunes Singles Charts in less than 72 hours from its release?
text: Did you know that the International Labour Organization adopted a convention giving workers' rights to domestic workers at its 100th session this month?
text: Did you know that in the quartier of Mjikura in Mtsamboro on the north coast of Mayotte , there are the ruins of a royal palace and tombs from the time when it was an important town of the Sultans of Mayotte?
text: Did you know that Royal Navy surgeon Belgrave Ninnis attempted to revive a drowned sailor by, among other things, injecting brandy into his rectum?
text: Did you know that the soundtrack to the action thriller film Speed 2: Cruise Control (1997) features mostly reggae music?
text: Did you know that the Presbyterian Church of Ghana was formed in 1828 by Basel missionaries from Germany?
text: Did you know that the ideas of Indonesian novel Pertemuan Jodoh are considered the opposite of Abdul Muis ' earlier work, Salah Asuhan , which deals with the incompatibilities in Western and Eastern cultures?
text: Did you know that the most prestigious award of the association of World War II's black US airmen, the Tuskegee Airmen , is named for Noel F. Parrish , their white commanding officer?
text: Did you know that PYKKA had sought the aid of FIFA in implementing its rural sports initiatives for football in India?
text: Did you know that the white knight smells of honey and radishes?
text: Did you know that the Vochol is a Volkswagen Beetle decorated with 2,277,000 beads?
text: Did you know that RMS Magdalena was the third ship lost on her maiden voyage that had been built by Harland & Wolff , Belfast ?
text: Did you know that the Abbasid general and governor Abd al-Malik ibn Salih was accused by his own son of plotting to overthrow Caliph Harun al-Rashid ?
text: Did you know that the Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Authority has ordered the demolition of the Clarendon Tower due to damage from the February 2011 Christchurch earthquake ?
text: Did you know that Tottenham Hotspur defeated Ipswich Town 5–1 in the 1962 FA Charity Shield played at Portman Road in Ipswich?
text: Did you know that medieval scholar and astrologer David ben Yom Tov refused to contemplate a divorce until his wife had all of his books and instruments taken away and hidden?
text: Did you know that the starting point for Bach 's cantata for the Feast of John the Baptist , Ihr Menschen, rühmet Gottes Liebe, BWV 167 , was the Canticle of Zechariah, the baptist's father?
text: Did you know that the season two finale of Community , " For a Few Paintballs More ", parodied Star Wars as well as action movies The Wild Bunch , Mr. & Mrs. Smith , and Wanted ?
text: Did you know that singer-pianist Rosie Vanier , whose musical style has been described as "Kate Bush on crack with Goldfrapp on synths", grew up in Bodmin Moor without electricity and TV?
text: Did you know that the only casualties during Operation Slapstick were from the 6th (Royal Welch) Parachute Battalion ?
text: Did you know that the Lincoln Theater in Los Angeles was known as the "West Coast Apollo " and featured performances by jazz legends before being converted into a church?
text: Did you know that McDonald's does not have a policy of charging African Americans more for their food?
text: Did you know that the State of Pennsylvania and its twin sister, the State of Delaware , were both the first steamboats to make a live radio broadcast and to show movies?
text: Did you know that in Oregon's 1966 U.S. Senate election , each party's candidate had a position on the Vietnam War that was in direct opposition to the prevailing view of his own party?
text: Did you know that Derrida 's 1974 text Glas is printed in two columns, one commenting on Hegel and the other on Genet , woven around and separated by "marginalia, supplementary comments, [and] lengthy quotations"?
text: Did you know that the Los Angeles Dodgers drafted Mickey McConnell in the 31st round of the 2011 MLB Draft , despite his not playing baseball in four years?
text: Did you know that the Millennium Mills , a derelict icon of London's post-industrial docklands , is a favourite destination of thrill-seeking Urban Explorers ?
text: Did you know that Spongiforma squarepantsii is a sponge-like bolete that lives in Malaysia?
text: Did you know that some 19th-century newspapers in South Australia published articles in the Cornish dialect of English to meet the needs of miners who had migrated there?
text: Did you know that Khaled al-Johani , "the only brave man in Saudi Arabia", was thrown into Mabahith 's `Ulaysha Prison on the Saudi Arabian "Day of Rage"?
text: Did you know that Henry Mayes won the Queen's Club Championships three times in 1922, 1926, and 1927 while in his 40s, but died the year following his last win?
text: Did you know that Lust, Caution co-star Tang Wei was cut from the recent Chinese film The Founding of a Party following an objection by Mao Zedong 's grandson?
text: Did you know that Alabama author Wayne Greenhaw chronicled the African-American civil rights movement in the American South ?
text: Did you know that the New Zealand lobster was incorporated into the country's Quota Management System after a parliamentary corruption scandal?
text: Did you know that Uruguayan patriots made the Cry of Asencio and captured the villages of Mercedes and Santo Domingo de Soriano in a single day?
text: Did you know that 25-year old Eddie Reed , one of the youngest college football coaches in the United States, led the Loyola University of New Orleans to its only undefeated season in school history?
text: Did you know that the fossil mammal Ferugliotherium is known from only 20 teeth and maybe a tiny jaw fragment?
text: Did you know that on 11 June 2011, rebels seized a major district of Sabha , long considered to be a stronghold of support for Muammar Gaddafi in the 2011 Libyan civil war ?
text: Did you know that in later life Margaret King , a favoured pupil of early feminist Mary Wollstonecraft , offered maternal care and advice to her governess's daughter Mary Shelley , author of Frankenstein ?
text: Did you know that the kremówka cake gained international recognition after Pope John Paul II noted he once ate 18 of them as part of a bet?
text: Did you know that when he was an educator, Texas State Representative Dan Kubiak published Ten Tall Texans , biographical sketches of, among others, Stephen F. Austin , Jim Bowie , and Sam Houston ?
text: Did you know that Kitty Carlisle , H. V. Kaltenborn , Boris Karloff , June Lockhart , and Robert Trout were among the participants in Who Said That? , the 1948–55 television game show based on quotations in the news?
text: Did you know that with support from the Iraqi government, magazines and audio cassettes produced by the exiled Libyan National Movement were smuggled into Libya during the 1980s?
text: Did you know that Oklahoma football coach Robert "Doc" Erskine traveled more than 15,000 miles as a scout during one season ?
text: Did you know that after an unexploded bomb burst through her bedroom wall, a resident of Hillingdon Court told staff it was time she went to the air-raid shelter?
text: Did you know that Iran is currently the only country in the world that legally allows a person to trade their kidney for monetary compensation?
text: Did you know that Meryl Fernandes , who plays Afia Khan in the BBC soap opera EastEnders , played a schoolgirl extra in 1993?
text: Did you know that the former Riede's City Bakery building is one of only two wood frame commercial buildings remaining in Aspen, Colorado , from its early boomtown years?
text: Did you know that when he established Genetic Studios in 1980, record producer Martin Rushent spent £35,000 on air conditioning alone?
text: Did you know that Dakota Territory judge Peter C. Shannon presided over the trial of Jack McCall and sentenced him to hang for killing Wild Bill Hickok ?
text: Did you know that the city-state of Purushanda in central Anatolia was surrendered by its king to the Hittite ruler Anitta in the 17th century BC?
text: Did you know that Celestial City, Imeko , was founded by the Prophet "Papa" Samuel Oshoffa, who left 34 wives and 150 children when he died?
text: Did you know that Charles M. Robinson was the College Architect for the College of William and Mary and designed more than 15 buildings listed on the National Register of Historic Places ?
text: Did you know that the Ukrainian American Veterans organization placed a memorial plaque at the USS Arizona Memorial in Pearl Harbor, Honolulu, Hawaii, in 1980?
text: Did you know that Abdulai Silá is the author of the first novel to be written and published in Guinea-Bissau ?
text: Did you know that the 2009 film Korkoro is a rare cinematic tribute to those who died in the Porajmos ?
text: Did you know that Jaime Areizaga-Soto , the Senior Advisor to the Virginia Senate Democratic Caucus Chair, Senator Mary Margaret Whipple , is now running for the Senate?
text: Did you know that Auburn player Moon Ducote kicked a 40-yard field goal off a football helmet , which caused a rule to be adopted against the practice?
text: Did you know that William J. Toye pleaded guilty to forging folk artist Clementine Hunter 's work, but said he despised her style?
text: Did you know that Ipswich Town lost 5–0 to Nottingham Forest in the 1978 FA Charity Shield , the annual competition between the previous season's FA Cup winners and Football League champions?
text: Did you know that the Heryford Brothers Building in Lakeview , Oregon, cost $100,000 to construct in 1913, and is still one of the most important commercial buildings in the city?
text: Did you know that Mahmoud Shammam, the Head of Information of the Libyan National Transitional Council , was one of the leaders of the Marxist Libyan National Democratic Front in the 1980s?
text: Did you know that American philosopher John Arthur helped organize a lawsuit against the state of Tennessee to address racial segregation in the higher education system?
text: Did you know that the Disney bomb of the Second World War is thought to have been inspired by the Walt Disney cartoon Victory Through Air Power ?
text: Did you know that the site of the coach station in London used by the British Coachways consortium between 1980 and 1982 is now occupied by the British Library ?
text: Did you know that the Ghana Standards Board was established in 1973 and has a function of inspecting all goods that enter through the six entry points of Ghana ?
text: Did you know that in writing Busabos ng Palad (Pauper of Fate), Filipino author Faustino Aguilar was influenced by Alexander Dumas' novel about a prostitute with a golden heart ?
text: Did you know that after murdering a man in Missouri, Samuel Bogart fled to Texas, where he became a Texas Ranger and a member of the State Legislature?
text: Did you know that human sacrifices and perhaps cannibalism took place on the Ehrenbürg in Franconia during the Hallstatt and La Tène periods?
text: Did you know that the common bonnet produces hydrolytic enzymes that contribute to carbon cycling ?
text: Did you know that according to statistics from its National Road Safety Commission , Ghana loses US$230 million yearly due to road accidents?
text: Did you know that Faustino Aguilar 's Pinaglahuan ("Fading Point") is one of the first novels in the Philippines to tackle social realism ?
text: Did you know that Tammy Locke was called "an especially endearing little dumpling" for her role in 1960s western TV series The Monroes , but her antics on set included giving a live frog to the show's hairdresser?
text: Did you know that Aenigmastacus , a fossil crayfish from Canada, belongs to a family only otherwise known from the Southern Hemisphere?
text: Did you know that Ivan Wettengel , 25th Naval Governor of Guam , once formed a bull-mounted military unit known as the Guam Cavalry?
text: Did you know that India's national badminton team reached the quarterfinals at the 2011 Sudirman Cup despite winning just one match?
text: Did you know that Manchester Hydraulic Power supplied the energy to wind the Town Hall clock , pump the Cathedral organ and raise the safety curtain at the Manchester Opera House ?
text: Did you know that the Song of the Hoe , a Sumerian creation myth , describes the construction projects of the Sumerian gods at the beginning of the universe?
text: Did you know that blade-like teeth in the extinct mammalian family Ferugliotheriidae may have evolved into molar -like teeth in the Sudamericidae ?
text: Did you know that Perth Amboy City Hall , originally built 1714–1717, is the oldest city hall building in the United States?
text: Did you know that comedian Fred Allen was the MC of NBC variety and game show Judge for Yourself from 1953 to 1954 before joining the cast of CBS's What's My Line?
text: Did you know that the hosts of Kermode and Mayo's Film Reviews recommend that cinemagoers avoid knitting , drug dealing , and model aeroplane assembly while watching a film?
text: Did you know that when James Stewart recited his poem " Beau " on The Tonight Show , he moved host Johnny Carson to tears?
text: Did you know that Cyril Perkins is the oldest living first-class cricketer ?
text: Did you know that at Villa de Etla 's weekly market in Oaxaca , Mexico , one can find traditional merchandise such as a local variety of white cheese, frames for donkeys and goat barbacoa prepared in an earthen oven?
text: Did you know that Nigeria is the world's largest producer of yams ?
text: Did you know that Victoria Roberts received an Australian Bicentennial grant for Australia Felix , a cartoon history of Australia?
text: Did you know that after John Law Hume , violinist on the RMS Titanic , was lost in the disaster, his family were sent an invoice for his uniform?
text: Did you know that the 1911 Sarez earthquake triggered a huge landslide, forming the tallest dam in the world ?
text: Did you know that Daysland , Alberta, is named after the Canadian politician Edgerton W. Day ?
text: Did you know that a significant part of the former Santo Domingo monastery in Chiapa de Corzo, Chiapas , is taken up by a museum dedicated entirely to lacquerware ?
text: Did you know that Lincoln Park in Jersey City, New Jersey , boasts the world's largest concrete monument, a fountain?
text: Did you know that María de las Mercedes Barbudo is known as Puerto Rico 's first female freedom fighter for her strong advocacy for Puerto Rico's independence from Spain ?
text: Did you know that the Southwestern pygmy possum can give birth just two days after weaning a previous litter, even though this requires dramatic changes to her mammary glands ?
text: Did you know that the extinct crocodilian Arenysuchus was part of the first evolutionary radiation of crocodyloids ?
text: Did you know that Owen Land 's Film in Which There Appear Edge Lettering, Sprocket Holes, Dirt Particles, Etc. features looped footage of a woman blinking, as well as edge lettering, sprocket holes and dirt particles?
text: Did you know that association footballer Chris Clarke and his twin brother Matthew started their careers at the same club, Wolverhampton Wanderers ?
text: Did you know that the upcoming FX television series Wilfred is based on the Australian series of the same name and will star series co-creator Jason Gann in the titular role of Wilfred the dog?
text: Did you know that as president of St. Petersburg College , Carl M. Kuttler, Jr. used to phone and send a card to each of the college's 1,000 full-time employees on their birthdays?
text: Did you know that Jill Dawson , in her biographical novel The Great Lover , integrated quotes from letters of Rupert Brooke 's contemporaries into the fictional narrative?
text: Did you know that, to avoid a league rule that banned participation, American football coach Bill Sargent agreed to release (and later re-sign) his players before an all-star game organized by boxer Joe Louis ?
text: Did you know that 36 people have owned Warwick Castle since 1068?
text: Did you know that actor Eddie Quillan 's first film appearance was in the 1922 silent comedy/drama Up and at 'Em , written by William A. Seiter and Lewis Milestone ?
text: Did you know that in San Francisco Arts & Athletics, Inc. v. United States Olympic Committee , the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the First Amendment did not protect the use of the word "Olympics", over the objections of the U.S. Olympic Committee ?
text: Did you know that the cargo ship Empire Defender was seized by Britain twice – during World War I under a German flag and in World War II under an Italian flag?
text: Did you know that the Faith and Freedom Coalition was founded by Ralph Reed as "a 21st century version of the Christian Coalition "?
text: Did you know that A Glorious Way to Die is a book about the World War II kamikaze mission of the world's largest battleship, the Yamato , against the American Pacific Fleet?
text: Did you know that Den Brook Wind Farm in Devon , England, received planning permission in 2009 after two public inquiries and a judicial review ?
text: Did you know that the 1953–1954 ABC public affairs program Answers for Americans was among the first to offer conservative political ideology to viewers?
text: Did you know that the McPike Mansion in Alton , Illinois, is reputed to be one of the most haunted houses in North America?
text: Did you know that the cuisine of Asunción is increasingly influenced by Paraguay's growing Asian immigrant population?
text: Did you know that Andrew Marvell wrote poems accusing Vice-Admiral Sir William Berkeley of cowardice, even after Berkeley's death in battle ?
text: Did you know that walls and the ceiling of the Unionskirche (Union Church) in Idstein are covered with 38 oil paintings from the Dutch Golden Age school of Rubens ?
text: Did you know that independent filmmaker Frank Sudol wrote, animated, voiced, directed, and composed all of the music for his film Dead Fury ?
text: Did you know that the Ghana Trades Union Congress , an umbrella group that unites various workers' groups in Ghana, was established in 1945?
text: Did you know that in 1972, Enoch T. Nix , president of the Louisiana State Board of Education, proposed the closing of historically black Southern University at New Orleans , an issue revived in 2011 by Governor Bobby Jindal ?
text: Did you know that in 1463 Thomas Bettz left £26 13s 4d in his will—a fortune in those days—to help pay for the repair of the bells of St Martin's Church in Ruislip ?
text: Did you know that when railway telegrapher Alfred Atherton was accused of manslaughter for his role in the Canoe River train crash , he hired his MP , John Diefenbaker as defence counsel, who won an acquittal?
text: Did you know that 1998 Chicago Marathon winner Ondoro Osoro was selected for the Kenyan Olympic squad , but missed the 2000 Sydney Olympics after he was shot in a carjacking ?
text: Did you know that Queensland 's worst maritime disaster occurred at Princess Charlotte Bay in 1899 after Cyclone Mahina struck Cape York Peninsula ?
text: Did you know that at the 1933 première of the film Das häßliche Mädchen there was a Nazi-instigated riot in which tomatoes and rotten eggs were thrown, because of the male lead, Max Hansen ?
text: Did you know that Tisa Chang 's father performed in school plays at Nankai University together with Zhou Enlai , who went on to become the Premier of the People's Republic of China ?
text: Did you know that in the computer game Steg , players must feed young slugs maggots caught in bubbles?
text: Did you know that Deiva Magan (1969) was the first ever Tamil film to be submitted by India in contest for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film?
text: Did you know that according to legend, the Chiapa people committed suicide by jumping off the Sumidero Canyon in Chiapas , Mexico, rather than submit to Spanish domination?
text: Did you know that William Hopkinson Cox , who was Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky from 1907 to 1911, was believed to be a descendent of William the Conqueror ?
text: Did you know that the bar and restaurant Dux de Lux was once the home of zoologist Charles Chilton ?
text: Did you know that Bach used the music of his cantata Durchlauchtster Leopold, BWV 173a , composed in Köthen for the birthday of his employer , for two Pentecost cantatas in Leipzig ?
text: Did you know that Wollemi Stringybark , a tree that grows to 45 metres (148 ft) high northwest of Sydney, remains officially undescribed ?
text: Did you know that more than 4,000 people rallied in Portland, Oregon, for Hands Across Hawthorne in response to an assault on a gay couple?
text: Did you know that one of the worst radiation spill accidents occurred when ignorant thieves broke a steel container with about 90 grams of radioactive caesium chloride ?
text: Did you know that Brazilian band A Banda Mais Bonita da Cidade was little known until one of its music videos went viral , attracting international media attention?
text: Did you know that the Hindu deity Vaikuntha Kamalaja is depicted half-female?
text: Did you know that although preseason renovations of Yost Ice Arena reduced seating by 10.7%, the 1991–92 Michigan Wolverines men's ice hockey team posted the third-highest weekend series attendance in school history?
text: Did you know that if the alternative therapeutic practice of coding is successful, patients will fear for their lives?
text: Did you know that the Aaron Copland House in Cortlandt Manor, New York , is the only U.S. National Historic Landmark connected to a classical music figure?
text: Did you know that journalist Yelena Masyuk was held hostage in Chechnya for 101 days?
text: Did you know that the Godavari Arch Bridge in Andhra Pradesh in India is said to be one of the longest-span prestressed concrete bridges in Asia , probably in the world?
text: Did you know that Jerry Della Femina , head of the ad agency that came up with the singing cat for Meow Mix , wrote a book in 1970 which inspired the television series Mad Men ?
text: Did you know that Croatian cello duo 2Cellos are currently touring with singer Elton John after he saw the cellists' cover of " Smooth Criminal " on YouTube ?
text: Did you know that the Bearded Mountaineer visits tobacco plants along the roadsides in Peru ?
text: Did you know that Bach 's cantata for Trinity Sunday , Gelobet sei der Herr, mein Gott, BWV 129 , a chorale cantata on five stanzas, ends like his Christmas Oratorio , "punctuated by brass and orchestral fanfares"?
text: Did you know that following Galima Bukharbaeva 's eyewitness account of the Andijan massacre , the Uzbek government charged her with providing "informational support to terrorism"?
text: Did you know that more than ten works by Kalispell, Montana , architect Fred Brinkman have been listed on the National Register of Historic Places ?
text: Did you know that the market of the city of Tehuantepec , Oaxaca , Mexico , is dominated by women, with men subject to ridicule if they enter?
text: Did you know that as the mayor of Oakdale , Louisiana , George B. Mowad in 1985 secured the establishment of the largest U.S. federal correctional institute of its time in his city?
text: Did you know that the jumping spider Portia fimbriata in Queensland plays a deadly game of hide-and-seek with its favorite prey, Jacksonoides queenlandicus , another jumping spider?
text: Did you know that the first hurricane in the 1866 Atlantic hurricane season prompted a lighthouse keeper to resign out of fear of the weather, as well as loneliness?
text: Did you know that Christ Church in Ashford , Kent , became known as "the railwayman's church" because most of the money for its construction was provided by the shareholders of the South Eastern Railway Company ?
text: Did you know that the RICS said the Agricultural Tenancies Act 1995 would lead to a million acres of new let farmland in the UK?
text: Did you know that in the upcoming video game Gotham City Impostors , teams of people dressed as Batman and The Joker try to kill each other?
text: Did you know that over 16,000 aborted fetuses were found in the Los Angeles fetus disposal scandal in 1982?
text: Did you know that a major cause of death for Gould's Petrels on Cabbage Tree Island used to be entanglement with the sticky fruits of the Bird-lime Tree ?
text: Did you know that the Paulinerkirche , the university church of Leipzig where Luther preached, Bach performed and Mendelssohn premiered Paulus , was dynamited in 1968 in communist East Germany ?
text: Did you know that the Lament for Ur which describes the fall of Ekur , c. 2000 BC , is similar in style to the Book of Lamentations which bewails the destruction of Jerusalem in the 6th century BC?
text: Did you know that Duployan shorthand can be used to write French , English , German , Spanish , Romanian and Chinook Jargon ?
text: Did you know that the novel Sampagitang Walang Bango was written while the "highly westernized middle and upper classes" of Filipinos were beginning to establish themselves in Philippine society?
text: Did you know that in 1999, Texas Secretary of State Elton Bomer assisted then Governor George W. Bush in the acquisition of the Prairie Chapel Ranch near Crawford , Texas ?
text: Did you know that Elastica 's debut single, " Stutter ", is about drunken male impotence ?
text: Did you know that Austria's nutrition guide makes room for sausage, while Japan's includes seaweed and Italy's has biscotti?
text: Did you know that before Blues Hall of Fame musician Little Milton signed his first recording contract he hosted a radio show on WGVM in Greenville, Mississippi ?
text: Did you know that the SS Empire Deed , a British Second World War cargo ship, ended up being sold in turn to shipping companies in Panama , Greece , Liberia and Taiwan ?
text: Did you know that German texts by the blind Alsatian writer Gottlieb Konrad Pfeffel were the basis of two songs by Ludwig van Beethoven and Franz Schubert , and of an opera by Joseph Haydn ?
text: Did you know that the Kingdom of Africa was established by the Sicilian Normans in the 12th century in what is now Algeria , Tunisia and Libya ?
text: Did you know that actor Patrick Fischler flew back and forth between Hawaii and Los Angeles for six months so he could film roles on Lost and Southland at the same time?
text: Did you know the Ionian University of Smyrna , established in Turkey by Greece during the occupation of Smyrna , was never opened due to latter's defeat in the Greco-Turkish War ?
text: Did you know that it was during Operation Fustian in 1943, that artillery was first flown into combat?
text: Did you know that after publishing bestsellers Father Goose and The Wonderful Wizard of Oz , the George M. Hill Company was compelled in 1902 to declare bankruptcy?
text: Did you know that Indonesian politician Mohammad Roem moved to Pekalongan as a child to escape an outbreak of cholera ?
text: Did you know that the Harvard Institute for International Development co-developed the Harvard Analytical Framework , which showed the importance of channeling foreign aid to women?
text: Did you know that Somerset County Cricket Club named three official captains for the 1948 season ?
text: Did you know that after Roger Marie Bricoux , cellist on the RMS Titanic , drowned in the disaster, he was declared a " deserter " by the French army and not officially registered dead until 2000?
text: Did you know that the Game Boy video game Wizards & Warriors X: The Fortress of Fear was released after Ironsword: Wizards & Warriors II with no explanation ever given about the missing chapters in between?
text: Did you know that the wife of Guatemalan journalist Byron Barrera was murdered in 1990 in an unsuccessful attempt on his life?
text: Did you know that the Trailblazer was the first commercially operated monorail system in the United States?
text: Did you know that association footballer Chris Smith , just months after signing for York City , was assaulted by a gang in an attack while on a night out?
text: Did you know that there are 16 subspecies of the Red-cheeked Parrot ?
text: Did you know that at the time of his Major League Baseball debut in 1952, Nick Koback was the youngest Pittsburgh Pirates player in franchise history?
text: Did you know that after winning two medals at the 2008 Summer Paralympics , British equestrian Simon Laurens was named South West Disabled Sports Personality of the Year by the BBC ?
text: Did you know that former Indonesia foreign minister Agus Salim was considered an "intellectual ulama " by Sukarno ?
text: Did you know that the release of Auckland , New Zealand's new HOP card transit system was timed to be in place for the 2011 Rugby World Cup ?
text: Did you know that the 1992–93 Michigan Wolverines men's ice hockey team started school record streaks that remain current for both home wins and road unbeaten games?
text: Did you know that Aelita Andre , an Australian artist who recently sold US$ 30,000 worth of paintings at a New York exhibition, is just four years old?
text: Did you know that an apprentice who served on board Empire Deben later became the captain of Canberra during the Falklands War ?
text: Did you know that success in the sport of shin-kicking requires the ability to endure pain?
text: Did you know that The Human Centipede II (Full Sequence) has been banned by the British Board of Film Classification ?
text: Did you know that Thepchai Yong won an International Press Freedom Award for reporting on Thailand's Black May uprising despite military pressure to censor coverage?
text: Did you know that the Flåm Line , originally operated with El 9 locomotives, is the steepest standard gauge railway in Europe?
text: Did you know that the Sausalito Record Plant served for a time as the residence for Rick James who slept in a conference room built with a waterbed floor?
text: Did you know that British short track speed skater Sarah Lindsay , a three time Winter Olympian , missed 15 months of competition after rupturing a spinal disc in 2007?
text: Did you know that graphic designer Lance Wyman designed both the logo for the 1968 Summer Olympics and the Washington Metro map?
text: Did you know that if the Glacier View Dam had been built it would have inundated more than 10,000 acres (4,000 ha) of Glacier National Park in Montana ?
text: Did you know that the issue of Dominium maris baltici was central to Danish and Swedish foreign policy for several centuries?
text: Did you know that A.B. Quintanilla III and his father/manager Abraham Quintanilla Jr remixed five unreleased Selena songs that were recorded prior to signing a contract with EMI Latin , in 1989, to release a new studio album ?
text: Did you know that "Vote Communist to save Spain from Marxism" was a Socialist joke during the 1936 Spanish general election ?
text: Did you know that Armson, Collins and Harman was one of the two oldest architectural firms in New Zealand ?
text: Did you know that the Blockhaus d'Éperlecques was built in France by the Nazi Organisation Todt during World War II to launch V-2 missiles against England ?
text: Did you know that during the 2002–03 National Hockey League season the line nicknamed the West Coast Express accounted for 45% of the Vancouver Canucks 264 goals?
text: Did you know that Aretino had the largest spindle hole, at three inches (76 mm), of any phonograph record ?
text: Did you know that the tall tower of the Anglican Church of St Mark in Preston, Lancashire, was built to rival the height of the steeple of the nearby Catholic Church of St Walburge ?
text: Did you know that college football coach Mike Pecarovich appeared in several movies with Bing Crosby and was an acclaimed public speaker who some compared to Knute Rockne ?
text: Did you know that according to the obsolete Paratheria hypothesis, sloths , armadillos , anteaters , and allies are neither marsupials nor placentals ?
text: Did you know that although Vityaz Chekhov selected Jonathan Huberdeau fifth overall in the 2011 Kontinental Hockey League Junior Draft , he doesn't want to play for them?
text: Did you know that the Malfatti circles , three tangent circles inside a triangle, are named after Malfatti because of an incorrect conjecture he made, and were studied earlier by Ajima and di Cecco?
text: Did you know that Selena y Los Dinos 's album The New Girl in Town was never released outside of South Texas due to copyright concerns?
text: Did you know that in Waugh 's Scott-King's Modern Europe (1947), Scott-King concludes that "It would be very wicked indeed to do anything to fit a boy for the modern world"?
text: Did you know that Tetteh Quarshie Interchange in Accra replaced the Akuafo Circle, which was Ghana 's largest roundabout?
text: Did you know that, in 1969, British sports journalist Julie Welch became the first female in Fleet Street to report on a football match?
text: Did you know that the city of Jisr ash-Shugur has twice risen in revolt against the government of Syria , in 1980 and again in 2011?
text: Did you know that Bizunesh Deba won the 2011 San Diego Marathon in a California state record time, beating Joan Benoit 's record from the 1984 Olympic Marathon ?
text: Did you know that the environmental license granted for the El Quimbo Dam in May 2009 was for the first private sector hydroelectric project to be built in Colombia under a new policy?
text: Did you know that American paleontologist Claude W. Hibbard became a school principal when he was only 18?
text: Did you know that the Common Diving-petrel is almost indistinguishable from the South Georgia Diving-petrel , which can dive to at least 48.6 m (159 ft)?
text: Did you know that American singer Madonna , the artist with the most MTV Video Music Awards , won twenty from sixty-eight nominations ?
text: Did you know that with an estimated skull size of 87.5 mm (3.4 in), Coloniatherium was the largest mammal in the La Colonia Formation ?
text: Did you know that the Tema Oil Refinery , the only refinery in Ghana, cannot refine crude oil produced from the country's newly discovered Jubilee oil field ?
text: Did you know that the eighth place of Richard Kruse at the 2004 Games is the best Olympic result for any British fencer since 1964 ?
text: Did you know that while the album Go Simpsonic with The Simpsons only reached number 197 on the Billboard 200 , it peaked at number two on Billboard 's Top Kid Audio and remained on that chart for 17 weeks?
text: Did you know that fox predation is probably the biggest natural threat to the Hooded Dotterel ?
text: Did you know that Baseball America listed Kyle Abbott as the 84th best prospect for the 1991 Major League Baseball season, despite Abbott recording an earned run average of 14.81 the previous year?
text: Did you know that Ghana National Petroleum Corporation was instrumental in the discovery of crude oil off the coast of Ghana in 2007?
text: Did you know that the Pamunkey Indian Tribe Museum in Virginia displays a combination of artifacts and replicas in order to provide a full and authentic view of the Pamunkey people's lifestyle for the last 12,000 years?
text: Did you know that Captain Lionel Queripel of the 10th Parachute Battalion was awarded a posthumous Victoria Cross for his actions during the Battle of Arnhem ?
text: Did you know that Solidarity 's victory in the Polish legislative election, 1989 , ushering the fall of communism in Eastern Europe , was a surprise to both the communists and the opposition?
text: Did you know that Haki Stërmilli 's novel Sikur t'isha djalë (English: If I Were a Boy ) is his best known work and the first literary work in Albanian that dealt with the subject of the emancipation of women?
text: Did you know that Ako Adjei Interchange , the first flyover to be built in Ghana , was at one time named after Captain Thomas Sankara – a military ruler of Burkina Faso ?
text: Did you know that anti-communist activist Gheorghe Briceag pledged to shave his well-known Solzhenitsyn beard if Moldova united with Romania ?
text: Did you know that Iñigo Ed. Regalado wrote the novel May Pagsinta'y Walang Puso in 1921 when adultery was a sensitive topic in Philippine literature ?
text: Did you know that while captaining Somerset County Cricket Club , Jake Seamer carried an old train sign saying "To Tonbridge " in his bag?
text: Did you know that the 1st Parachute Brigade earned their nickname Red Devils during the Tunisian Campaign ?
text: Did you know that supporting Kanak traditions, Conservation International 's partnership with the Coral Reef Initiative for the South Pacific included underwater species guides to the Kanak people?
text: Did you know that builder Charles Luney used "every piece of scaffolding available in the South Island " of New Zealand for the construction of the Westpac Centre ?
text: Did you know that Katerina Kazelis got to audition in front of singer Basshunter for a chance to record the Big Brother 2011 anthem during her participation in Big Brother Sweden ?
text: Did you know that the development of wind power in New Jersey could lead to the construction of the first American windfarm using offshore wind power ?
text: Did you know that the Ministry of Energy of Ghana fitted solar panels for 160 rural junior high schools so that pupils could watch a weekly television programme?
text: Did you know that Samuel Ward was given a diamond ring as reward for being Bonnie Prince Charlie 's food taster?
text: Did you know that Saint John Sea Dogs defenceman Nathan Beaulieu continued to play for the ice hockey team even after they fired his father as head coach ?
text: Did you know that in 1933, Harmon Caldwell Drew , a Louisiana circuit court judge , got into a confrontation with then U.S. Senator Huey Pierce Long, Jr. , after Long had sullied Drew's reputation?
text: Did you know that the Rhesus macaque Tetra is the first cloned primate?
text: Did you know that retreating Ottoman forces burned all villages between Niš and Sofia after their defeat in the Battle of Niš of 1443?
text: Did you know that many Buddhist temples in Japan have a hidden roof ?
text: Did you know that the FPSO Kwame Nkrumah floating vessel, which processes crude oil off the coast of Ghana , is 330 metres (1,080 ft) long?
text: Did you know that the Sultan of Johor 's Oxford -educated wife, Raja Zarith Sofia , earned her degree in Chinese studies and advocates the use of English in Malaysia ?
text: Did you know that Temple Owls men's basketball player Juan Fernandez has been called " Pepe Sanchez with a jump shot"?
text: Did you know that the Spanish coup of July 1936 is considered ideologically catastrophic ?
text: Did you know that Ismail Ndroqi served the longest term as mayor of Albania 's capital Tirana in the pre-WWII era?
text: Did you know that common strategies used in combine demolition derbies include popping the tyres and damaging the drive belts of other vehicles?
text: Did you know that the Hymn to Enlil is part of a sequence of Sumerian scribal training scripts called the Decad ?
text: Did you know that the 1562 Danish - Russian Treaty of Mozhaysk has been called a milestone in European history ?
text: Did you know that the European sedge Carex hirta is widespread in North America where it is known as "hammer sedge"?
text: Did you know that Javier González Fraga was appointed as vice president candidate for the Ricardo Alfonsín ticket for the 2011 Argentine general election ?
text: Did you know that Emily and Anne Brontë 's Gondal was an early form of science fiction?
text: Did you know that the Black Bishop is not just a chess piece ?
text: Did you know that Sultan Sharafuddin of Selangor circumnavigated the world in his yacht in 22 months?
text: Did you know that " Who Says " is said to be inspired by the hate Selena Gomez received online due to her relationship with Justin Bieber ?
text: Did you know that Ales Bialatski earned a PhD in Belarusian literature before becoming the vice president of the International Federation for Human Rights ?
text: Did you know that Blue Mud Bay has given its name to both an Important Bird Area and a court ruling affirming that Aboriginal lands in the Northern Territory carry exclusive fishing rights to their tidal waters?
text: Did you know that after Lord George Gordon incited a riot that killed 300 people and damaged more buildings than the French Revolution , he was found not guilty ?
text: Did you know that British post-punk band The Wolfgang Press were claimed to be named after a device that Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart tried (unsuccessfully) to invent to type out his music?
text: Did you know that the BBC used commentators for the first time at the 1936 FA Cup Final , where Sheffield United was captained by Harry Hooper ?
text: Did you know that shortly after the 1973 Chilean coup d'état , politician Anselmo Sule , along with several supporters of the Unidad Popular , were detained and taken to Dawson Island ?
text: Did you know that glamour model Sofia Hellqvist , the current girlfriend of Swedish Prince Carl Philip , appeared in a photoshoot for the men's magazine Slitz in which she posed wearing only bikini bottoms and a live python ?
text: Did you know that in 1930, the first linum factory in Arkhangelsk Oblast , Russia, was opened in Ilyinsko-Podomskoye in Vilegodsky District ?
text: Did you know that the Good Shepherd is the theme of Bach 's cantata for Pentecost Tuesday , Er rufet seinen Schafen mit Namen, BWV 175 , illustrated in pastoral music of three recorders ?
text: Did you know that Patricia Preece persuaded artist Stanley Spencer to divorce his wife, marry her, and sign his house over to her, but never left her lesbian lover?
text: Did you know that the idea for the 2009 experimental comedy-horror film Lo came after the director watched Jan Švankmajer 's 1994 film Faust ?
text: Did you know that Dedi was an ancient Egyptian magician who was said to be capable of resurrecting decapitated beings?
text: Did you know that The Independent named the black dress worn by Rita Hayworth in the 1946 film Gilda as one of the Ten Best Fashion Moments in Film?
text: Did you know that Stephen Fry was an engineer and aspiring jazz pianist before he captained South Africa's rugby team against the British Lions ?
text: Did you know that Parks and Recreation character Chris Traeger has been described as "one of the great comedic creations of the past couple years" and one of Rob Lowe 's funniest performances?
text: Did you know that journalist Ahmad Taufik was acquitted after being taken to court by both the Suharto government and Tomy Winata , one of Indonesia's richest businessmen?
text: Did you know that Turakhan Beg was commander of one of the Ottoman armies during the Battle of Niš in November 1443 ?
text: Did you know that Fil and Filippa: Story of Child Life in the Philippines is a 1917 novel written by American writer John Stuart Thomson ?
text: Did you know that the American neuroscientist Jacqueline Crawley has been President of both the International Behavioral Neuroscience Society and the International Behavioural and Neural Genetics Society ?
text: Did you know that Asafo Interchange was the first flyover to be built in Kumasi in the Ashanti region of Ghana ?
text: Did you know that Giammaria Biemmi ' s work on Skanderbeg raised controversy among historians over his sources' authenticity?
text: Did you know that sculptor Alfred Gerrard wore the same clothes for decades?
text: Did you know that television writer Dennis Marks not only provided episodes of Batfink and The Beatles , but he was also the voice of the Green Goblin ?
text: Did you know that Alexios Palaiologos was heir apparent of the Byzantine Empire from 1199 to his death in 1203, and was directly involved in the suppression of no less than four revolts during this time?
text: Did you know that the Californian commune Black Bear Ranch was founded using money from both entertainment industry executives and from an LSD deal?
text: Did you know that Bill Foley 's photograph "The Last Smile" shows Anwar Sadat only moments before his assassination ?
text: Did you know that Siberian -born Noldi Schreck , set decorator for the 1965 drama Love Has Many Faces , was nicknamed "the architect of Zona Rosa "?
text: Did you know that the London Necropolis Railway was used to relocate the exhumed contents of at least 21 London graveyards to Brookwood Cemetery in Surrey ?
text: Did you know that Beatrice Mtetwa , " Zimbabwe 's top human rights lawyer", has secured the release of reporters from The New York Times and The Sunday Telegraph ?
text: Did you know that despite the nation being banned from the 1972 Olympics because of the policy of apartheid , 25 athletes competed for South Africa at the 1972 Summer Paralympics ?
text: Did you know that Brigadier General Francis C. Marshall had just visited Camp Hearn prior to dying in a plane crash?
text: Did you know that Norwegian librarian and bibliographer Hjalmar Pettersen registered every work in the 3,300 page-long Bibliotheca Norvegica himself?
text: Did you know that Mexican-American singer-songwriter Selena was murdered by an employee who (falsely) claimed she was raped and needed the singer's help?
text: Did you know that one of the first European books to contain Chinese characters was written by an officer of the Spanish Inquisition, and translated into English by an escaped former prisoner of the Inquisition?
text: Did you know that Fox 2000 Pictures postponed its upcoming film adaptation of Yann Martel 's 2001 novel Life of Pi a week to avoid direct competition with The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey ?
text: Did you know that Edmund Ser , owner of Malaysian fashion labels Edmund Ser, Spade, and SER, was a guest judge on Project Runway Malaysia ?
text: Did you know that the Norwegian steamer Vigrid was sunk by a German U-boat while carrying Welsh coal to France in 1917?
text: Did you know that Tom Kahn organized American unions' $300,000 aid to the Polish labor union Solidarity in 1980–1981 , despite Secretary of State Muskie 's warnings that this aid might provoke a new Soviet invasion ?
text: Did you know that Indonesian journalist Bambang Harymurti originally wanted to be an astronaut and qualified as a potential candidate?
text: Did you know that a biologist discovered a population of the rare and endangered Michigan monkeyflower after he found a specimen used as a garnish on his plate at a restaurant?
text: Did you know that planet WASP-13b , despite a radius 25% larger than Jupiter 's, has less than half the mass?
text: Did you know that the 2005 Gwangju Prize winner Wardah Hafidz was told to vacate her office after disclosing that numerous groups had used social security funds for "money politics"?
text: Did you know that the retired association football player Zlatko Zahovič is the all-time top scorer for the Slovenia team?
text: Did you know that Judith Trim , the first wife of Roger Waters of Pink Floyd , cried the first time she heard The Dark Side of the Moon ?
text: Did you know that " Donde quiera que estés ", a collaboration with Mexican-American singer-songwriter Selena , became the first number-one hit for the Barrio Boyzz ?
text: Did you know that cyclist Gerhard Schönbacher stopped and kissed the road before he finished last in the 1979 Tour de France ?
text: Did you know that Carra Castle was once occupied by Shane O'Neill who held Sorley Boy McDonnell as a prisoner there in 1565, and the McDonnells later got their revenge by beheading O'Neill there?
text: Did you know that the Holy Ghost ipomopsis , a rare flower found in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains in New Mexico , is predicted to become extinct within 50 years?
text: Did you know that Reginald Byng Stephens led the British 5th Division to Italy as part of his country's participation in the First World War 's Italian campaign ?
text: Did you know that Selskabet for Oslo Byes Vel , a non-profit association for the benefit of Norway's capital city, celebrates its 200-year anniversary this year?
text: Did you know that WGRM-FM founder Clay Ewing had been mayor of Greenwood, Mississippi ?
text: Did you know that Shiga-like toxin-producing Escherichia coli are responsible for tens of thousands of cases of foodborne illness a year?
text: Did you know that Irlo Bronson sold the land that is present-day Walt Disney World for about US$ 100 per acre?
text: Did you know that the Venezuelan port Nueva Cádiz was the first Spanish town to be established in South America ?
text: Did you know that the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria asked the courts to annul the decree that chartered their rival, the Association of National Accountants of Nigeria ?
text: Did you know that Nínay , the first Filipino novel, provides a "folkloristic tour" of the distinctive culture of the Philippines ?
text: Did you know that the Antwerp Diamond Heist was the largest diamond heist in history?
text: Did you know that visual effects supervisor Jay Worth found inspiration for the "Ash Man" storyline in the Fringe episode " Earthling " from holding his grandmother-in-law's hands at her funeral?
text: Did you know that the campaign of George Tyler Wood for Governor of Texas was aided by Isaac Van Zandt dying from yellow fever ?
text: Did you know that transit service in Portland, Oregon , in the 1960s was provided solely by privately owned companies , with Rose City Transit in the city proper and the "Blue Bus" lines in the suburbs?
text: Did you know that in 2004, 30-year-old rookie Brian Dallimore hit a grand slam for his first hit in Major League Baseball ?
text: Did you know that tourism is Ghana 's fourth highest foreign exchange earner?
text: Did you know that a Popular Mechanics article noted it is possible to die from "parasitic asphyxiation", as shown in the Fringe episode " Snakehead "?
text: Did you know that a major achievement of the Ministry of Women and Children's Affairs of Ghana is the abolishing of child trafficking in the country?
text: Did you know that after the Nyon Conference , The Times likened the happy delegates to cricketers, "reviewing their innings, over by over"?
text: Did you know that the Regional Museum of Anthropology and History of Chiapas in Tuxtla Gutiérrez sponsors an annual event for children from low income areas of the city?
text: Did you know that the loy is an early Irish spade used for manual ploughing prior to and during the Irish Potato Famine ?
text: Did you know that Native American Taos Pueblo artists Albert Looking Elk , Juan Mirabal , and Albert Lujan were known as the "Three Taos Pueblo" painters?
text: Did you know that asteroid 16113 Ahmed was named for a high school student from New York?
text: Did you know that on 20 November 1943, a wounded surgeon from the 16th (Parachute) Field Ambulance carried out over 150 operations?
text: Did you know that Mitch McDeere , Tom Cruise 's character in Sydney Pollack's 1993 US$ 270 million-grossing film adaptation of John Grisham's The Firm that sold seven million copies, will reappear in a television series ?
text: Did you know that "father of Indonesian anthropology" Koentjaraningrat joined the student militia as an English and history teacher during the Indonesian National Revolution ?
text: Did you know that journalist Ricardo Uceda helped locate the mass grave of the La Cantuta massacre victims?
text: Did you know that although Dizzy Nutter 's professional baseball career lasted eight years, Nutter only played in eighteen Major League games?
text: Did you know that the 7th-century Law of Wihtred , a law code from Kent , provides that any slave forced to work on Sabbath be given freedom?
text: Did you know that Samuel Noah Kramer noted the Debate between Winter and Summer "is the closest extant Sumerian parallel to the Biblical Cain and Abel story"?
text: Did you know that despite tests showing "virtually zero" risk, utility companies still cite islanding concerns to refuse connection of new distributed generation systems?
text: Did you know that Jamaican sprinter Nickel Ashmeade beat a former Olympic and World champion in the 100 m and set a meet record at the Ponce Grand Prix in May 2011?
text: Did you know that the Animation Council of the Philippines, Inc. sponsors a yearly festival that features the works of Filipino animators ?
text: Did you know that Papyrus 49 is one of three early manuscripts with the text of the Epistle to the Ephesians ?
text: Did you know that African-American Civil Rights activist Gloria Blackwell and her daughter Lurma Rackley missed a court appearance because they were arrested for going to the white-only restroom in the courthouse?
text: Did you know that Aodh Méith refused to meet with the King of England , because the King was unwilling to give hostages as surety?
text: Did you know that in 2000 American newspaper executive and conservationist Edward H. Harte established the Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies at the Texas A&M University with a US$ 46M endowment?
text: Did you know that the Djibouti Francolin is endemic to the Mabla Mountains and the Day Forest National Park ?
text: Did you know that the opera Die Stadt hinter dem Strom , composed by Hans Vogt and based on Hermann Kasack 's novel of the same name , was first staged at the Internationale Maifestspiele Wiesbaden in 1955?
text: Did you know that comedian and former Parks and Recreation producer Dana Gould made a cameo appearance in " The Bubble ", a third season episode?
text: Did you know that in May 2011 members of Lulz Security took responsibility for an attack on the website of PBS that resulted in the posting of a fake news story that claimed Tupac Shakur was still alive and living in New Zealand?
text: Did you know that millionaire banker Baron Frédéric Alfred d'Erlanger was also a noted composer who wrote an opera based on Thomas Hardy 's novel, Tess of the d'Urbervilles ?
text: Did you know that the novel The Forty Days of Musa Dagh about the Armenian Genocide played a role in organizing the Jewish resistance under Nazi rule ?
text: Did you know that electric circuit theorist Vitold Belevitch discovered a mathematical basis for Zipf's law from linguistics ?
text: Did you know that one reason for establishing the National Sports College of the Ministry of Youth and Sports of Ghana was that Ghanaian sportsmen were under-performing in international competitions?
text: Did you know that Thomas Jefferson grew Lacinato kale , an heirloom kale also known as Dinosaur kale, in his Monticello garden?
text: Did you know that during his career, Chrisye released albums that sold like "chicken shit" , were recorded with studio executives locked out , raised controversy for being "against Asian mores" , went double platinum on his birthday , and had to be recalled to replace the cover design ?
text: Did you know that Nike , Alfa Romeo , Red Bull and Ginsters are all advertised in the first person football video game I Am Playr ?
text: Did you know that the National Youth Employment Program was created to address youth unemployment in Ghana which increases by 250,000 per year?
text: Did you know that although baseball player Chuck Ricci never played for the Cleveland Indians , he appeared in the 1994 film Major League II as a member of the team and later worked for the club as a scout ?
text: Did you know that although the continued attack by the German auxiliary cruiser Michel on Empire Dawn after she had surrendered was considered to be a war crime , Michel ' s captain was acquitted of the charge?
text: Did you know that King Saud University assistant professor of women's history Hatoon al-Fassi has not been allowed to teach since 2001?
text: Did you know that Ernest Hemingway wrote The Fifth Column during the siege of the Spanish Civil War at the Hotel Florida in Madrid and on a daily basis he "expected a bomb to land on his typewriter"?
text: Did you know that the Paperbark Flycatcher never uses the "scissors-grinding" call of the closely related Restless Flycatcher ?
text: Did you know that a preposition is something that a sentence can end with ?
text: Did you know that the perp walk of Lee Harvey Oswald ended with his assassination on live television?
text: Did you know that David Lucas , who produced and sang backup on Blue Öyster Cult 's " Don't Fear the Reaper " also wrote AT&T 's "Reach out and touch someone" jingle?
text: Did you know that WASP-44b , an extrasolar planet the size of Jupiter, orbits the star WASP-44 every 58 hours?
text: Did you know that the popularity of Tagalog pocketbooks helps establish the national language in the Philippines , a country with over 100 languages ?
text: Did you know that during World War II the Polish Teachers' Union was mostly active through the Secret Teaching Organization ?
text: Did you know that Norwegian botanist Finn Wischmann wrote more than 45,000 herbarium sheets and 21,000 checklists, recording more than half a million plant discoveries?
text: Did you know that the setting of Nippur in the Sumerian creation myth of Enlil and Ninlil has been noted as "civitas dei", existing before the " axis mundi " and the creation of man?
text: Did you know that when Warqenah Eshate returned to Ethiopia 32 years after being carried away by British soldiers, his grandmother recognized him by examining scars on his arms and legs?
text: Did you know that the offspring of the stallion Saxon were the subject of teasing from his owner's brother, resulting in a challenge race that Saxon's daughter won by four lengths?
text: Did you know that the Finland-Swedish admiral Arvid Stålarm was sentenced to death three times, but never actually executed?
text: Did you know that Peter Dawson served as Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta for 26 years, the longest in the history of the province?
text: Did you know that after the science fiction anthology Machine of Death reached No. 1 on the Amazon.com bestseller list instead of his own book, Fox News commentator Glenn Beck denounced it as part of a liberal "culture of death"?
text: Did you know that the Argentine city of Villa Gesell was built after the afforestation of a dune field ?
text: Did you know that Hungarian handballer Bojana Radulović has been selected IHF World Player of the Year twice, in 2000 and 2003?
text: Did you know that William Wordsworth wrote his Guide to the Lakes because he needed money, and first published it anonymously?
text: Did you know that A. Forward was a forward ?
text: Did you know that gifted primary school students attend Rose Bay Secondary College for a day a week for the length of a school term to undertake advanced studies?
text: Did you know that Qatar sent only male athletes to the inaugural Asian Para Games ?
text: Did you know that Peter Aucoin , a professor emeritus at Dalhousie University , has served as an advisor to all three levels of the government of Canada ?
text: Did you know that reindeer were introduced to South Georgia by Norwegian whalers ?
text: Did you know that Franc Fernandez , designer of Lady Gaga 's meat dress and " Bad Romance " "diamond crown" costume, was mostly self-trained?
text: Did you know that newspaper editor Col. William Thompson won his 1871 shootout with a rival newspaper editor despite sustaining severe gunshot wounds, including a bullet lodged behind his eye, and a beating from a cane?
text: Did you know that in 1993, the car of Algerian journalist Omar Belhouchet was machine-gunned while he was driving his children to school?
text: Did you know that Ballylough is home to a ruined castle that was once a stronghold of the MacQuillans and the MacDonnells ?
text: Did you know that Polish-German "cotton king" Juliusz Karol Kunitzer survived a 1893 assassination attempt, but died during that of 1905?
text: Did you know that jazz pianist Ahmad Jamal 's first live album At the Pershing: But Not for Me , recorded in 1958, has sold over one million copies?
text: Did you know that Royal Ulster Constabulary officer John Weir , who was convicted of a sectarian killing, had once considered joining the Irish Garda Síochána ?
text: Did you know that Burmese journalist Aung Pwint was imprisoned on charges of "sending news" and "illegal ownership of a fax machine"?
text: Did you know that Russian journalist Nadira Isayeva called her 2010 trial "a test for the institution of press freedom" in Dagestan ?
text: Did you know that Indiana ' s Epsilon II is a rare example of a well-preserved upland archaeological site from the Archaic period ?
text: Did you know that Paul Kromer and Tom Harmon formed a backfield duo for the 1938 Michigan Wolverines football team that became known as the "Touchdown Twins"?
text: Did you know that Thomas Erskine 's speech in the case of R v Baillie earned him a standing ovation?
text: Did you know that the ideal of the Imitation of Christ goes back to the earliest days of Christianity?
text: Did you know that earthquake sensitives such as geologist Jim Berkland claim they have the ability to predict earthquakes ?
text: Did you know that the duet aspect of Sonny & Cher 's first recorded hit single, " Baby Don't Go ", was not originally planned but established the pair's unusual harmonic style?
text: Did you know that there were two Carlisle Houses in 18th-century London's Soho Square ; one housing Domenico Angelo 's fencing and riding school and another Madame Cornelys ' masquerades and illegal operas?
text: Did you know that Angel Delgadillo helped inspire the film Cars and has been called the "guardian angel of Route 66 "?
text: Did you know that Berwick Rangers 1-0 defeat of Rangers in 1967 has been described as "the most astonishing result ever returned in Scottish football"?
text: Did you know that in 2001, James Hedges of Thompson Township, Fulton County, Pennsylvania , became the first Prohibition Party member elected in a partisan election since 1959?
text: Did you know that the Tema Motorway , which was commissioned in 1964, is Ghana 's only motorway?
text: Did you know that Troy Yocum , who is currently hiking 7,000 miles (11,000 km) across the United States , once tried to set a Guinness world record for marathon drumming?
text: Did you know that the Gita Dhyanam , known as the Invocation to the Bhagavad Gita , compares the Upanishads to cows, and claims that God's grace can make the dumb speak?
text: Did you know that the Basters under Hermanus van Wyk were ready to pay £ 2,750 for their land around Rehoboth , but got it for free after they signed a protection treaty with Imperial Germany ?
text: Did you know that both candidates in the 2011 special congressional election in Ilocos Sur 's 1st district claimed they had the endorsement of the Liberal Party of the Philippines ?
text: Did you know that the skeleton of the last Bosnian king, Stephen Tomašević of Bosnia , currently lies in the Franciscan monastery of Saint Luke, Jajce ?
text: Did you know that the terrier Beauty is considered to be "the original rescue dog "?
text: Did you know that Muhammad Al-Saqr won an International Press Freedom Award for his work as a journalist before becoming chairman of the Arab Parliament ?
text: Did you know that Hamill , an upcoming biographical film about deaf mixed martial artist Matt Hamill , will use sporadic sound and incomplete subtitles ?
text: Did you know that during his tenure as mayor of Minden , Louisiana , Connell Fort worked to rid his city of mosquitoes , laid natural gas lines, and built the municipal sewerage system?
text: Did you know that the Royal Australian Air Force 's No. 1 Long Range Flight was formed to compete in the 1953 London to Christchurch air race ?
text: Did you know that Joseph Wright of Derby 's painting of Miravan 's revulsion as he breaks open a tomb is based on a story retold by John Gilbert Cooper ?
text: Did you know that a live performance of the French translation of Kafka's Soup included a sung recipe for onion tart?
text: Did you know that two condemned Swedish prisoners spared in the 1599 Åbo Bloodbath also survived the 1600 Linköping Bloodbath ?
text: Did you know that the American Thoroughbred racehorse Algerine won the 1876 Belmont Stakes without winning another race beforehand?
text: Did you know that Tema Harbour in Ghana was named after the Torman fishing village and is Africa's largest man-made harbour?
text: Did you know that the ninth-century Codex Vindobonensis 751 contains a selection of the correspondence of Saint Boniface , as well as a mysterious palindrome and the oldest English poetic proverb?
text: Did you know that the 1939–40 NYU Violets men's basketball team, led by Ben Auerbach , finished the regular season with an 18–1 record yet did not play in a postseason tournament ?
text: Did you know that inspired by a trip to the highly active Mount Yasur volcano in 1999, French video game creator Eric Chahi designed the video game From Dust ?
text: Did you know that Civil Courage Prize laureate Ali Salem was ostracized by the Egyptian intellectual community following a 1994 book in which he promoted peace with Israel ?
text: Did you know that US Ambassador to Russia nominee Michael McFaul was denounced by a member of the Russian Parliament days before someone shot a bullet through his Stanford University office window?
text: Did you know that Walter Egerton , last Governor of Lagos Colony , initiated annual "pacification patrols" in southeast Nigeria which usually achieved submission without using force?
text: Did you know that La Esmeralda Dam supplies 8% of Colombia 's power demand?
text: Did you know that Modeste Mutinga won an international prize for his journalism before being elected to the Senate of the Democratic Republic of the Congo ?
text: Did you know that when workers staged a 1978 wildcat strike for higher wages at Volkswagen 's new Westmoreland Assembly Plant that built the Rabbit model, the picketers shouted "No Money, No Bunny"?
text: Did you know that at least seventeen elections have occurred in the Chilean city of Pichilemu since the country's transition to democracy in 1989?
text: Did you know that Albie Grant is the only Long Island Blackbirds men's basketball player to average 20+ points and 10+ rebounds for his career?
text: Did you know that a live album released by the band Los Tigres del Norte was named "historic" for the Mexican culture?
text: Did you know that the 1945 Augustów roundup which resulted in the disappearance and likely murder of about 600 Polish citizens by the Soviet Union is considered the largest crime committed in Poland after World War II ?
text: Did you know that Philip Craven , current President of the International Paralympic Committee , competed in athletics , swimming and wheelchair basketball for Great Britain at the 1972 Summer Paralympics ?
text: Did you know that the African Owl is actually a pigeon ?
text: Did you know that Forrest McClendon earned a 2011 Tony Award nomination for his début performance on Broadway ?
text: Did you know that the powerful teeth and jaws of Heliopithecus may have played a key role in the spread of Hominoids from Africa into Eurasia , 17 million years ago?
text: Did you know that the 2011 book Among the Truthers argues there is growing popularity in the US for far-fetched, paranoid conspiracy theories ?
text: Did you know that Vivienne Osborne was offered a role in Douglas Fairbanks 's last silent film, the Musketeer film sequel The Iron Mask , following her earlier role in the Flo Ziegfeld musical The Three Musketeers ?
text: Did you know that the libretto for Phyllis Tate 's opera The Lodger was written by singer and broadcaster David Franklin ?
text: Did you know that award-winning journalist Paul Kamara has also been a priest , a cabinet minister , and the manager of Sierra Leone 's national football team ?
text: Did you know that after being named the UCLA Bruins MVP in 2006 and 2007, San Francisco Giants rookie Brandon Crawford hit a grand slam in his first Major League Baseball game?
text: Did you know that the 2011 Slave Lake wildfire caused the evacuation of all 7,000 of Slave Lake 's residents?
text: Did you know that at the 1964 Summer Paralympics , Argentina won 37 medals, including 6 golds?
text: Did you know that Norwegian botanist and politician Olaf Alfred Hoffstad taught at Sandefjord Upper Secondary School for almost 43 years?
text: Did you know that Volkswagen's new Chattanooga Assembly Plant is built near the remaining storage bunker of a plant that manufactured up to 30 million pounds of TNT per month for the Second World , Korean and Vietnam Wars ?
text: Did you know that the Irish comedy duo Damo and Ivor is one person?
text: Did you know that Will June , grandfather of a National Football League Pro Bowler and Super Bowl champion linebacker , is the oldest player to officially bowl consecutive 300-games ?
text: Did you know that phonon noise is a major source of noise in cryogenically cooled superconducting transition edge sensors ?
text: Did you know that Tambora , a Papuan language , was once spoken in the middle of Indonesia near Bali , far to the west of Papua , until the trading state that used it was wiped out by the eruption of Mount Tambora in 1815?
text: Did you know that the indie video game Digital: A Love Story is set "five minutes into the future of 1988"?
text: Did you know that Arab prince Al-Abbas ibn al-Ma'mun refused to take the throne even though he was the only son of the previous caliph and had the support of the army?
text: Did you know that Nazi scientists claimed to have trained a dog to call " Adolf Hitler " as "Mein Führer "?
text: Did you know that on Anzac Day 1923, Lord Jellicoe laid the cornerstone for the Bridge of Remembrance and an invocation was made by Archbishop Churchill Julius ?
text: Did you know that Jones's Wood , a wooded estate on the island of Manhattan overlooking the East River , was touted as a site for what became Central Park ?
text: Did you know that Source London , a newly launched network of electric vehicle charging points , is the first to operate city-wide?
text: Did you know that the Sturgeon House in Fairview is a rare example of a saltbox house in northwestern Pennsylvania ?
text: Did you know that Dandeniya Gamage Jayanthi founded the group "Friends and Relatives of the Disappeared " following the abduction, shooting, and burning of her fiancé?
text: Did you know that Mel Mazzera 's performance for the minor league San Diego Padres led to the observance of a "Mel Mazzera Day" on August 30 , 1942?
text: Did you know that some of the earliest activities of the Canadian intelligence system involved guarding the Canada-United States border , and preventing U.S. infringement on Canadian neutrality during the U.S. Civil War ?
text: Did you know that a committee in the 1920s raised the funds to turn a collection of tracks into Anzac Avenue , the longest World War I memorial road in Queensland ?
text: Did you know that Norwegian Jens Bache-Wiig , a former professor of engineering, resigned from his position at IT&T in 1935 in protest against New York head office intervention in his area of responsibility?
text: Did you know that the Unyon ng mga Manunulat sa Pilipinas is the largest organization of Filipino writers ?
text: Did you know that all five of the medalists for Argentina at the inaugural Paralympic Games were swimmers ?
text: Did you know that the Confucian teaching hara hachi bu instructs people to eat until they are 80 percent full?
text: Did you know that as a reward for good support the previous year, Kent gave the Tunbridge Wells Cricket Week two Twenty20 fixtures in 2011 rather than one?
text: Did you know that Lola Sanchez was a spy during the American Civil War who provided information to the Confederate Army , which led them to a victory over the Union Forces in the "Battle of Horse Landing"?
text: Did you know that Joachim von Ribbentrop suggested the Non-Intervention Committee might as well have been called the "Intervention Committee"?
text: Did you know that Christoph Wolff termed the two oboe da caccia and two oboe d'amore in recitatives of Bach 's cantata for Exaudi, Sie werden euch in den Bann tun, BWV 183 , "opulent oboe scoring"?
text: Did you know that marine technology involves other technologies that may either safeguard or exploit the marine environment ?
text: Did you know that Tennessee governor Newton Cannon 's animosity toward fellow Tennessean Andrew Jackson , who was U.S. president during his governorship, may have started with gambling losses at Jackson's racetrack?
text: Did you know that the First Battle of Newbury has been described as "both the longest battle of the English Civil War and the one that historians have found the greatest difficulty in describing"?
text: Did you know that the fossil sawfly species Eriocampa tulameenensis was found along the Canadian Pacific rail line near Princeton, British Columbia ?
text: Did you know that Marga T 's novel Badai Pasti Berlalu sold roughly 24,000 copies—remarkable for an Indonesian novel in the 1970s—and spawned a critically acclaimed film , album and song ?
text: Did you know that professional cricketer George Nash was once dropped off every ball of an over bowled by the amateur Robert Ramsay ?
text: Did you know that Dan Savage indulged in the seven deadly sins during research for his book Skipping Towards Gomorrah ?
text: Did you know that the State Policy Network of conservative " free market " political think tanks in every U.S. state has been likened to a franchising arrangement?
text: Did you know that the oldest pre-Hispanic tomb in the Americas has been found in Chiapa de Corzo , Chiapas , Mexico ?
text: Did you know that the Linux distribution Nova is central to the Cuban government's desire to replace Microsoft Windows ?
text: Did you know that the future British prime minister Winston Churchill stayed at Highgrove House in Eastcote for his honeymoon?
text: Did you know that when Dan Savage 's book Savage Love was published, his advice column of the same name had 4 million readers?
text: Did you know that police officer and future Lieutenant Governor of Alberta Philip Primrose was a distant cousin to the Earls of Rosebery ?
text: Did you know that giggle incontinence , the involuntary release of urine in response to giggling or laughter, may be related to cataplexy , a sudden transient episode of loss of muscle tone often triggered by strong emotions?
text: Did you know that the 2011–12 season 's television adaptation of The Firm is a sequel to a 1991 novel that sold 7 million copies and a 1993 film that grossed $270 million worldwide?
text: Did you know that the phenomenon of feudal fragmentation has had a significant impact on European history , particularly during the Middle Ages ?
text: Did you know that the Parson Capen House in Topsfield, Massachusetts , was built in a style that reminded homesick immigrants of homes in England?
text: Did you know that Bolo Pasha , a Frenchman with an Egyptian title, was convicted and executed in France in 1918 for being a German spy using evidence collected by the New York Attorney General ?
text: Did you know that Tadeusz Vetulani was a pioneer of biodiversity research in Poland and conducted notable research into forest tarpan and the Polish koniks , launching restoration and breeding schemes?
text: Did you know that Orgasm is a fake live album John's Children recorded in the studio with overdubbed screams taken from The Beatles 's Hard Day's Night soundtrack?
text: Did you know that Mitch Skandalakis attracted national attention when he upset Martin Luther King III in a 1993 special election for Chairman of the Board of Commissioners of Fulton County , Georgia ?
text: Did you know that members of the Assembly of French Citizens Abroad are elected by constituents in electoral districts located across the globe?
text: Did you know that the Polish faculty expelled by the Nazis from Poznań University during World War II formed the underground University of the Western Lands ?
text: Did you know that the Green Men wear green spandex suits while annoying the player(s) who sit inside the opposing team's penalty box during Vancouver Canucks games?
text: Did you know that the number-one song " Fruta Fresca " by Carlos Vives was named a "bridge" between tropical and pop music ?
text: Did you know that Daddles the duck would "accompany" batsmen who were on their way to the pavilion after being dismissed for a duck ?
text: Did you know that the Shannon Irish pub in Montevideo often features performances by the Celtic band Grianan, which is led by Conrad O'Neill, a fourth-generation Irish Uruguayan ?
text: Did you know that the killing of four students at Trisakti University eventually led to the resignation of Indonesian President Suharto ?
text: Did you know that while writing " Li'l Sebastian ", the third season finale of Parks and Recreation , the staff decided to write the "juiciest, most exciting cliffhanger-y possible scenario"?
text: Did you know that the annual winner of the Charles A. Lindbergh Chair in Aerospace History may receive as much as US$ 100,000?
text: Did you know that professional footballer Bill Yates also played Minor Counties cricket for Buckinghamshire ?
text: Did you know that in 1212 Thomas of Galloway , brother of the Lord of Galloway , sacked and looted the Irish city of Derry in a raid of 76 ships, and returned in 1214 to devastate the city again?
text: Did you know that Philippine writer Soledad Reyes won a Philippine National Book Award for her anthology of Tagalog language novels Nobelang Tagalog 1905–1975: Tradisyon at Modernismo in 1982?
text: Did you know that the lakes of Thirlmere Lakes National Park contain a bright green freshwater sponge, Radiospongilla sceptroides ?
text: Did you know that over 90% of Ghana 's international trade depends on the country's sea ports ?
text: Did you know that Jack Weisenburger was the "spinning fullback" for the undefeated Michigan football team that became known as the "Mad Magicians"?
text: Did you know that Lake Assal in Djibouti is the lowest point in Africa ?
text: Did you know that after visiting Miami County Jail for his documentary Miami Mega Jail , Louis Theroux told The Sun newspaper that "it's a bit like walking through a zoo"?
text: Did you know that Alfredo Alcala 's Voltar was described as one of the earliest epic comic book series to result from a single creator's vision?
text: Did you know that Tendai Mzungu made his Australian Football League debut in Round 9 of the 2011 AFL season , despite missing the previous ten weeks of football due to a knee injury?
text: Did you know that the video game Sissy's Magical Ponycorn Adventure was created by designer Ryan Creighton and his five-year old daughter Cassie, who created the illustrations and dialogue?
text: Did you know that Sabitri Mitra and Mamata Banerjee are the only women in the 38-member Cabinet of West Bengal ?
text: Did you know that because of its elongated orbit, the maximum surface temperature of the extrasolar planet HD 205739 b is thought to vary by about 100 °C?
text: Did you know that Florida's longest-serving state legislator, W. D. Childers , earned the nickname "Banty Rooster" for his eccentric mannerisms and colorful, folksy expressions?
text: Did you know that Bach chose an unusually complex instrumentation in his cantata for the feast of Ascension , Auf Christi Himmelfahrt allein, BWV 128 , "two horns, oboes of every kind, strings and continuo and latterly one trumpet"?
text: Did you know that Jetsun Pema is going to marry Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck , the King of Bhutan , in October 2011?
text: Did you know that one proposed reason for constructing the Takoradi Harbour in Ghana was for it to serve as a naval port for the British empire in times of war?
text: Did you know that gold medal-winning Paralympian Ron Stein trained with the Chicago White Sox before falling ill with polio ?
text: Did you know that Saudi Arabian women's rights activist Manal al-Sharif was arrested after a video of her driving a car was posted on YouTube and Facebook ?
text: Did you know that revenues from Tennessee ' s Hall income tax vary by as much as 26 percent from one year to the next, due to the "roller-coaster behavior" of capital gains from investments?
text: Did you know that Filipino comics illustrator Harold "Hal" Santiago took his pen name from his American idol Hal Foster , the creator of Prince Valiant ?
text: Did you know that the productions of American stage director Nathaniel Merrill at the Metropolitan Opera , "such as Dulcamara's arrival via hot-air balloon in Elisir , kept Met audiences diverted and amused for a generation"?
text: Did you know that the collapse of Teton Dam in 1976 was foreshadowed by a similar near-disastrous failure at Fontenelle Dam in 1965?
text: Did you know that the "Harvey" mannequin is a patient simulator created in 1968 to teach cardiopulmonary medicine?
text: Did you know that the depictions of the Ascension of Jesus in Christian art are often divided into an upper (heavenly) and lower (earthly) part?
text: Did you know that provincial judge and future Lieutenant Governor of Alberta William L. Walsh sentenced 18 convicted criminals to hang, earning him the nickname "the Hanging Judge"?
text: Did you know that during his senior season at St. John's , basketball player Boo Harvey hit three buzzer-beating , game-winning shots?
text: Did you know that according to the Interaction Hypothesis , the efficiency of second language acquisition is greatly increased when there is a breakdown in communication?
text: Did you know that theologian David F. Ford of the University of Cambridge once applied for jobs at British Steel and Rolls-Royce ?
text: Did you know that every two years, an award named after German civil engineer Erich Lackner is presented to young engineers for their "outstanding contributions in scientific and technical work"?
text: Did you know that Eugene Linden hitchhiked from Portland, Oregon , to Tacoma, Washington , at age 21 to establish the Tacoma Philharmonic?
text: Did you know that the secretary-general of the International Maritime Organization described Filipino seamen as "the unsung heroes of an unsung industry "?
text: Did you know that Al Green earned the only Grammy Award for Best Soul Gospel Performance, Male or Female in 1990 for the song "As Long as We're Together"?
text: Did you know that the direct-to-video 1999 family comedy The Prince and the Surfer (with Linda Cardellini ) was the directorial debut of stage and film actor Arye Gross ?
text: Did you know that the England cricketer Ken Barrington died in Bridgetown, Barbados , where he had made his first Test century 21 years before?
text: Did you know that the 5th Parachute Battalion wore a Hunting Stewart tartan patch behind their cap badges ?
text: Did you know that in 1893, stockbroker and Knight Templar Charles Edward Keyser bought Aldermaston Court – a mansion built by a student of his grandfather ?
text: Did you know that James F. Sundah 's 1977 song " Lilin-Lilin Kecil ", as performed by Chrisye , originally placed fifth in a teenage songwriting competition, but is now considered among the best Indonesian songs of all time?
text: Did you know that New Zealand -born World War II pilots Roy Calvert , Fraser Barron , Gordon Cochrane , Bob Yule , and Reg Grant were between them awarded 4 DSOs , 11 DFCs , and 2 DFMs , while Frank Watkins was recommended for the Victoria Cross ?
text: Did you know that the scarlet honey myrtle , an ornamental garden shrub, is from the same genus as the punk tree ?
text: Did you know that Daniel and Anne-Margaretta Burr 's eldest son, Higford, took an ancestor's surname – and was known as Higford Higford?
text: Did you know that during the Ottoman wars in Europe , the Croat feudal lord Petar Kružić defended the Klis Fortress against Ottoman invasion for more than two decades until the final Siege of Klis ?
text: Did you know that Paula Barbieri was reportedly the last girlfriend of O. J. Simpson before the murder of Nicole Simpson and stuck with him during his trial ?
text: Did you know that the extinct Miocene hickory Carya washingtonensis is known from over 50 nuts found as a rodent cache within a petrified stump?
text: Did you know that the Tobermory whisky distillery is located in the village made famous by the children's television show Balamory ?
text: Did you know that Jigme Gyatso was re-arrested after his allegations of torture by Chinese security forces were re-played on Voice of America ?
text: Did you know that DVD Verdict refers to a child's performance in the 1952 film Actor's and Sin as " fingernails-on-a-blackboard grating"?
text: Did you know that the rare Louisiana pancake batfish only lives in the area affected by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill ?
text: Did you know that imprisoned IRA member Larry Marley helped mastermind the Maze Prison escape in 1985, but did not take part in it?
text: Did you know that the Silver Spurs Rodeo , billed as the largest rodeo east of the Mississippi River , was originally organized to encourage the purchase of war bonds ?
text: Did you know that the Christian Council of Ghana , an umbrella group that unites 15 churches, was formed in 1929?
text: Did you know that the discography of Case Closed contains 77 singles and 19 soundtrack albums during the anime 's 15 year run?
text: Did you know that Áed in Macáem Tóinlesc ("the lazy-rumped lad"), sometime king of Tír Eogain , got his nickname by refusing to stand for the High King of Ireland Muirchertach Mac Lochlainn ?
text: Did you know that before Shackleford won the 2011 Preakness Stakes , his owners had tried to sell him, but no one wanted to meet their reserve price?
text: Did you know that Victoria Lockwood had known Charles Spencer for only six weeks prior to their engagement?
text: Did you know that in the strategy video game Armada 2526 , players can develop bio-engineered squid hyperdrive ships?
text: Did you know that the American Repertory Theater and System of a Down 's Serj Tankian dedicated their 2011 Prometheus Bound to jailed Tibetan filmmaker Dhondup Wangchen ?
text: Did you know that José de San Martín and Carlos María de Alvear helped depose Argentina's First Triumvirate ?
text: Did you know that the Swiss team at the 1960 Summer Paralympics included two athletes, but won four medals?
text: Did you know that the United Kingdom Supreme Court recently ruled that current police practices regarding the retention of biometric data are unlawful?
text: Did you know that the 1994–95 South Pacific cyclone season was one of the quietest cyclone seasons on record, with only three tropical cyclones recorded within the South Pacific Ocean basin ?
text: Did you know that the endangered rough-leaved loosestrife of the Carolinas is threatened by the U.S. military ?
text: Did you know that Czerwono-Czarni was the first Polish rock band to cut a record?
text: Did you know that when Sonny with a Chance actor Demi Lovato bowed out of season three, show-within-a-show So Random! was spun-off into its own sketch comedy series?
text: Did you know that the towers of architect Terunobu Fujimori 's Lamune Onsen have pine trees planted on the apex of their roofs?
text: Did you know that Dorothy Reitman was the first woman president of the Canadian Jewish Congress ?
text: Did you know that olaflur , a toothpaste ingredient for the prevention of caries , is synthesized from cattle's tallow ?
text: Did you know that Al Lerner , 1940s pianist in the Harry James band, wrote the music for "So Until I See You", the closing theme for Tonight Starring Jack Paar in the early 1960s?
text: Did you know that in Bach 's late chorale cantata Es ist das Heil uns kommen her , BWV 9 , three bass recitatives deliver a Lutheran sermon on salvation , based on twelve stanzas of the chorale ?
text: Did you know that Gustaf Aspelin was the first Swedish consul in Kristiania ?
text: Did you know that though it was decided as early as 1882 to install a lighthouse at Contendas Point on Terceira Island , the Ponta das Contendas Lighthouse was not built and inaugurated till almost 52 years afterwards?
text: Did you know that a cherry blossom made Fariz RM famous?
text: Did you know that  "seizing", "whipping", and "lashing" are all part of knot terminology ?
text: Did you know that although the 1928 Wittorf affair was a German scandal, Joseph Stalin played a key role?
text: Did you know that same-sex couples in South Africa gained the right to adopt children jointly in 2002, four years before they gained the right to marry ?
text: Did you know that " Box Cutter ", the fourth season premiere of the television series Breaking Bad , had a scene so bloody, it made actor Bryan Cranston 's daughter faint?
text: Did you know that the Furiiru people are interlacustrine, living between the African Great Lakes ?
text: Did you know that Blanfordia have colonized land in Japan in an area with heavy snowfall?
text: Did you know that a plan to use HMS Endymion as a flagship at Harwich was abandoned due to the loss of HMS Vanguard ?
text: Did you know that composer Danny Elfman agreed to score Sam Raimi 's new film, Oz: The Great and Powerful , despite declaring he would never work with him again?
text: Did you know that the Wigman House , which has been named a City of Pittsburgh Designated Historic Structure , is the last remaining mansion from Carrick 's "Millionaire's Row"?
text: Did you know that the fontanellar gun is a type of specialized weapon used by the North American termite to ward off enemy insects?
text: Did you know that following an electoral victory , Ollanta Humala visited Bolivia and called for the resurrection of the Peru–Bolivian Confederation ?
text: Did you know that pornographic actress Saori Hara was cast in the Japanese parody film Horny House of Horror ?
text: Did you know that Lille Graah was in charge of the most popular radio program in Norway in the 1950s?
text: Did you know that the 7 CSSB of the Australian Army supports the 7th Brigade and participated in Operation Slipper ?
text: Did you know that quasi-opportunistic supercomputing aims for better performance than volunteer resource sharing ?
text: Did you know that the worldview of Conan the Barbarian has been described as existentialist ?
text: Did you know that Burrough Hill , an Iron Age hillfort in England, contains over 400 maculae ?
text: Did you know that Handel's Messiah , Part II contains the famous Hallelujah Chorus and the oratorio's longest movement, the air for alto He was despised ?
text: Did you know that Joseph Stalin deported the Balkar people from the Kabardino-Balkar Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic on suspicions that they collaborated with Nazi Germany?
text: Did you know that Jim Brieske , who set multiple placekicking records, had his kicking foot amputated in 1967?
text: Did you know that Grevillea cyranostigma from Carnarvon National Park in Queensland was named for Cyrano de Bergerac ?
text: Did you know that Patriarch Joasaph I of Constantinople attempted suicide and was deposed because he opposed the second marriage of George Amiroutzes ?
text: Did you know that Eros Djarot formed Indonesia 's Freedom Bull National Party after a disagreement with later-president Megawati Sukarnoputri ?
text: Did you know that Lady Godiva 's cross stands in the churchyard of St Bartholomew's Church, Penn , in the West Midlands of England?
text: Did you know that the Saudi royal family and the Al ash-Sheikh family provide mutual support under a pact dating from 1744?
text: Did you know that George Binney pioneered the use of seaplanes for arctic exploration , wrote The Eskimo Book of Knowledge , and organised blockade running in WWII?
text: Did you know that the Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences is breeding Chinese sturgeon in captivity to restore river populations before the species disappears?
text: Did you know that Michelle Obama performed the Dougie dance to promote her " Let's Move! " campaign?
text: Did you know that the Fali people of Nigeria and Cameroon wash their dead in a decoction of the plant Cissus quadrangularis ?
text: Did you know that English artist William Lakin Turner is not related to the famous artist, Turner , but he is a close relative of " Derbyshire's John Constable "?
text: Did you know that the scientist Rainer Froese is the coauthor and coordinator of FishBase , an extensive online information system on fish?
text: Did you know that the Middle Georgia Raceway , featured on a 2011 Dodge Durango commercial, was the location of a 300,000-person concert in which artists including Jimi Hendrix performed?
text: Did you know that table tennis world champion Gertrude Kleinová 's first husband was the chairman of her table tennis division, and her second husband was her coach?
text: Did you know that The Old Lady and the Pigeons lost the Oscar but won the Genie ?
text: Did you know that Alberta has three provincially designated wilderness areas: Ghost River , Siffleur and White Goat ?
text: Did you know that Cursed Days consists of the diaries and notes of Nobel Prize -winning Russian anti- Bolshevik author Ivan Bunin about his country's first days under communism ?
text: Did you know that Polish-born cosmetics entrepreneur Lydia Sarfati is credited with introducing seaweed -based skin treatments in the United States?
text: Did you know that the Palestinian Patriarchate was involved in redeeming formerly Jewish-owned land in Palestine ?
text: Did you know that Balanus perforatus is a barnacle shaped like a volcano?
text: Did you know that translator Marilyn Booth claimed that her original translation of the best-selling Saudi novel Girls of Riyadh had been interfered with by the author and the publisher?
text: Did you know that the North Star House of Grass Valley, California , built for Arthur De Wint Foote and his wife, Mary Hallock Foote , was one of architect Julia Morgan 's first projects?
text: Did you know that due to laws regarding religion in Malaysia a non-Muslim must obtain the permission of his Muslim neighbours to get a pet dog?
text: Did you know that the fall of the Hraschina meteorite in 1751 was the first fall of an iron meteorite reported by a significant number of witnesses?
text: Did you know that Blood & Thunder is the biography of the creator of Conan the Barbarian ?
text: Did you know that the aquatic fungus Limnoperdon has been described as a floating puffball ?
text: Did you know that the Empire Dunnet was built in 1945 then sold and renamed three times before wrecking in Borneo in 1967?
text: Did you know that Norlom was one of the eighteen ships sunk in the air raid on Bari on 2 December 1943 ?
text: Did you know that the Viking adventure film Severed Ways was shot partly in L'Anse aux Meadows in Newfoundland, the site of an 11th-century Norse settlement?
text: Did you know that Lord Justice Brian Leveson of the Court of Appeal of England and Wales has been picked to lead the public inquiry into media regulation ?
text: Did you know that the 1973 second division game between Bavarian rivals FC Augsburg and TSV 1860 München was watched by 80,000 spectators, a record for the Olympic Stadium in Munich ?
text: Did you know that New York Post art critic William Anderson Coffin was awarded the French Legion of Honor ?
text: Did you know that acclaimed Scottish actor Iain Blair wrote a series of romantic novels under the pen name Emma?
text: Did you know that twelve Indonesian newspapers and magazines were closed after the Malari incident in 1974?
text: Did you know that the English country house of Chilston Park in Kent has been home to five members of Parliament and four members of the House of Lords ?
text: Did you know that Herbert Freudenberger fled Germany alone during WWII at the age of twelve, later becoming a well-known psychologist in the United States?
text: Did you know that the name of the Beach Hebrew Institute was chosen to avoid attracting the attention of the Canadian German Party?
text: Did you know that Carl Ward 's 104-yard kickoff return in 1967 was the longest in the history of the Cleveland Browns ?
text: Did you know that the Somali bushbaby has particoloured hair on its belly so that it appears sandy by day and greyish by night?
text: Did you know that the British 1st Airlanding Light Regiment used the American 75 mm pack howitzer during the Battle of Arnhem ?
text: Did you know that both David "Bakes" Baker and David "ODB" Baker have finished in the money at least four times in each of the last three World Series of Poker ?
text: Did you know that Empire Duke was lent to the team from Cambridge University Engineering Department to assist in the search for the cause of structural failures in a number of Liberty ships ?
text: Did you know that attorney Rizwana Hasan ' s focus on regulations for the shipbreaking industry in Bangladesh earned her the Goldman Environmental Prize ?
text: Did you know that Lady Gaga Presents the Monster Ball Tour: At Madison Square Garden earned 5 of HBO 's 104 total nominations at the 63rd Primetime Emmy Awards ?
text: Did you know that after his victory at the Crufts dog show, the Pekingese dog Yakee A Dangerous Liaison was falsely accused of having plastic surgery?
text: Did you know that Gründlehämmer was the first theatrical production of the Baltimore Rock Opera Society , an all-volunteer rock opera company formed in 2009?
text: Did you know that the official magazine of the Polish Underground State published 80 issues in the dangerous conditions of occupied Poland?
text: Did you know that six of the ten siblings of Norwegian stage actress Ada Kramm were actors themselves?
text: Did you know that artist Ginger Gilmour , first wife of David Gilmour of Pink Floyd , was given a British Red Cross Award for "Services to Humanity"?
text: Did you know that Swedish scientist Johan Rockström led a team that has initiated an international debate on planetary boundaries , the central concept in a new framework for sustainable development ?
text: Did you know that I Am a Camera is a 1955 British film that received an X certificate from the BBFC , but only after dialogue suggesting foot fetishism was removed?
text: Did you know that the Nazis documented murder and genocide during their perpetration of the Holocaust with euphemisms such as Sonderbehandlung ?
text: Did you know that when the extinct forester moth Neurosymploca? oligocenica was described, a second fossil was known but unavailable for study?
text: Did you know that the Fort Pitt Blockhouse in downtown Pittsburgh was the only portion of Fort Pitt saved from demolition in 1797?
text: Did you know that Bernt H. Lund became Norway's first ambassador to Namibia in 1990?
text: Did you know that nearly half of all known RNA structures were determined through nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy of nucleic acids ?
text: Did you know that runner Garry Bjorklund qualified for the 1976 Summer Olympics in the 10,000 m despite losing a shoe during the U.S. Olympic Trials ?
text: Did you know that Albany architect Marcus T. Reynolds ' 1893 thesis, Housing of the Poor in American Cities , is still cited in scholarly work today?
text: Did you know that composer Gil Shohat denies that his opera The Child Dreams is about the Holocaust ?
text: Did you know that the Bulldog Strathtay Prince Albert was the first non–terrier to win Best in Show at the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show ?
text: Did you know that the first two destroyers scheduled to be constructed by domestic shipyards for the Polish Navy were never completed due to the German invasion of Poland ?
text: Did you know that Hefaiston is an annual international competition of blacksmiths that had more than 400 participants in 2010?
text: Did you know that David Mendelblatt , an American former Optimist Pram National Champion, is the older brother of Olympian Mark Mendelblatt ?
text: Did you know that Sea Dogs were first seen running around Torbay in 1961?
text: Did you know that the Domestic of the Schools was the commander-in-chief of the Byzantine army from the 9th to the 11th century?
text: Did you know that Orange Phelps , later mayor of Hillsboro, Oregon , opened the first movie theater in that city in 1908?
text: Did you know that Jamie Sadlowski won the 2008 and 2009 RE/MAX World Long Drive Championship , and has a personal-best golf drive of 445 yards (407 m)?
text: Did you know that the synagogue building of Congregation Knesseth Israel (the "Junction Shul") is the oldest surviving in Toronto that is still in use?
text: Did you know that the late 1890s, British philatelist Percival Loines Pemberton participated in stamp auctions in London where potential buyers were sometimes given alcoholic drinks to encourage bidding?
text: Did you know that Shibuya -based video game localization company 8-4 is named after the final level of Super Mario Bros. ?
text: Did you know that the Score the Goals comic book – featuring ten soccer players – was launched by the UN to educate children on how to help reduce poverty by 2015?
text: Did you know that David Olère was the only artist to have worked as a member of the Sonderkommando at Auschwitz concentration camp and survived?
text: Did you know that Li Lu , an associate of Warren Buffett , was one of the pro-democracy activists rescued by Operation Yellowbird in 1989?
text: Did you know that Richard Weiner , one of the most important Czech writers of the twentieth century, wrote a regular fashion column under a female pseudonym?
text: Did you know that the environmentally-friendly ticketing system used for the 87th NCAA basketball season wastes less paper?
text: Did you know that the mother of Georgine Darcy , an actress in Alfred Hitchcock 's Rear Window , urged her to become a stripper ?
text: Did you know that All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes is author Maya Angelou 's recounting of her years spent in Accra , Ghana, in the early 1960s?
text: Did you know that in his campaign against the Malli in India, Alexander the Great was seriously injured and nearly died?
text: Did you know that Clarence Crum 's 15.43 earned run average was the worst on the 1918 Boston Braves ?
text: Did you know that the adjacent Big Jacks Creek Wilderness and Little Jacks Creek Wilderness in Idaho have been designated as wild rivers ?
text: Did you know that Duquesne University president Vernon F. Gallagher once composed an operetta and learned Slovak on his own?
text: Did you know that despite being a boxing-themed short film, the Duke of Chicago was criticized for being "slow-paced and seemingly a lot longer than its fifty-nine minutes"?
text: Did you know that baobab ice cream is a feature of Angolan cuisine ?
text: Did you know that the public dispute between molecular nanotechnology founder Eric Drexler and Nobel laureate Richard Smalley has been characterized as being "reminiscent of a Saturday Night Live sketch"?
text: Did you know that Empire Drum and Empire Dryden were both built in 1941 by William Doxford & Sons of Sunderland, UK, and that both ships were torpedoed and sunk by U-boats in April 1942 ?
text: Did you know that the national football teams of North Korea and South Korea have met on numerous occasions?
text: Did you know that Johann Karl Nestler was teaching scientific animal and plant breeding at the University of Olomouc in what is now the Czech Republic when Gregor Mendel studied there?
text: Did you know that in the mid-1970s the Saint Helena Labour Party tried to boost links between Saint Helena and South Africa?
text: Did you know that it took Chrisye multiple takes to finish recording Kala Cinta Menggoda because he would break down in tears after singing a few lines?
text: Did you know that in 2010, New Zealand Prime Minister John Key said that 21-year-old Student Volunteer Army organiser Sam Johnson "might be Prime Minister one day"?
text: Did you know that indigenous territories organized as Native Community Lands in Bolivia cover 16.8 million hectares ( 168,000 km 2 ), over 15% of Bolivian territory?
text: Did you know that Orli Wald spent from 1936 to 1945 in Nazi prison and concentration camps for being a communist, only to leave the Communist Party in 1948 because of Stalinism ?
text: Did you know that Glenn Doughty rushed for 329 yards in his first two college football games for the 1969 Michigan Wolverines and later played eight years for the Baltimore Colts ?
text: Did you know that Rajinder Kaur Bhattal was the first female chief minister of Punjab , but only the eighth female chief minister of an Indian state?
text: Did you know that Duquesne University has named one of its colleges and a street on its campus in honor of Henry J. McAnulty ?
text: Did you know that the First Battle of Guinegate was the first use of the Old Swiss Confederacy pike square formation by non-Swiss powers?
text: Did you know that the De Bruijn–Erdős theorem may be used to extend the four-color theorem from finite planar graphs to planar graphs with infinitely many vertices?
text: Did you know that both the Pole Creek Wilderness and North Fork Owyhee Wilderness have some of the largest concentrations of sheer-walled volcanic rhyolite and basalt canyons in the western United States?
text: Did you know that at the end of World War II, the British 133rd (Parachute) Field Ambulance were responsible for the medical care of 4,500 Russian prisoners of war?
text: Did you know that American NFL quarterback Robert Halperin was awarded the Navy Cross , won an Olympic bronze medal and a Pan American Games gold medal in sailing, and co-founded the Lands' End clothing retailer?
text: Did you know that Italian Vincenzo Sarno was 11 years old when he signed to play professional football with Torino F.C. ?
text: Did you know that while the Jersey Bridge was being replaced, the only way for tourists to visit the Drake Well Museum was by train ?
text: Did you know that Nama leader Simon Kooper received an annual allowance for not continuing his attacks on Imperial Germany 's forces in German South-West Africa ?
text: Did you know that the owl limpet maintains a small meadow of algal turf for its own exclusive use?
text: Did you know that although modernist Egyptian writer Edwar al-Kharrat described his novel Rama and the Dragon as "untranslatable", an English translation appeared 23 years after the original publication in Arabic?
text: Did you know that Richmont Castle once overlooked the Chew Valley ?
text: Did you know that former Philadelphia Eagles wide receiver Freddie Mitchell received threatening hate mail in 2003, apparently due to his appearance on a reality television show, A Dating Story ?
text: Did you know that Karen Stollznow writes for two skeptical magazines ( Skeptic and Skeptical Inquirer ) and hosts two skeptical podcasts ( Point of Inquiry and Monster Talk )?
text: Did you know that Academy Award -winning director Jonathan Demme directed the first episode of the television series A Gifted Man ?
text: Did you know that the name of Tarkio River , a non-navigable river that stretches from Iowa to Missouri, meant a "place where walnuts grow"?
text: Did you know that Selman Riza 's 1952 work on Serbo-Croatian grammar is regarded as a work of contrastive analysis , although the theory was not formulated until five years later by Robert Lado ?
text: Did you know that a small single-runway airport serves Kapoeta South County in the Greater Kapoeta region of South Sudan ?
text: Did you know that cornet player Bohumir Kryl offered his daughters US $100,000 to refrain from marriage until they reached the age of 30 years?
text: Did you know that blinded Bristol boxer Dixie Brown was visited during World War II by African American soldiers, who respected him as "a much admired character"?
text: Did you know that the Louisiana State Rep. Thomas G. Carmody obtained passage in 2009 of a bill strengthening penalities for the crime of indecent behavior with juveniles?
text: Did you know that Niccolò Machiavelli 's military reforms were designed to create a citizen army in the style of Ancient Rome?
text: Did you know that the 200-year-old Dundee Royal Infirmary was one of the first UK hospitals to acquire a catSCAN head scanner ?
text: Did you know that military historian Lars Borgersrud 's research includes taboo subjects like the fate of war children and Norwegian military officers with Nazi sympathies prior to and during World War II?
text: Did you know that when the Frog Boys went missing, South Korean President Roh Tae-woo dispatched 300,000 police officers to search for them?
text: Did you know that as political prisoners were released due to the fall of communism in Poland, regular prisoners rioted , demanding better conditions and an amnesty?
text: Did you know that the school started in 1843 by Edward Baigent 's wife at their home in Wakefield is today New Zealand's oldest public school?
text: Did you know that Fort Peck Lake is the largest lake by surface area in Montana ?
text: Did you know that Louisiana State Rep. Chuck Kleckley has been instrumental in broadening the functions of the Lake Charles Harbor and Terminal District?
text: Did you know that Morges Castle in Switzerland had a fortified kitchen that was attached to the castle's exterior walls?
text: Did you know that Indonesian "renaissance man" Mochtar Lubis , co-founder of the daily Indonesia Raya , wrote novels involving superstition , corruption , and erectile dysfunction ?
text: Did you know that Louisiana State Rep. Brett Geymann once sought a legislative remedy for crawfish being pushed into neighboring ditches because of rising waters?
text: Did you know that the United Nations Honour Flag was designed as a symbol of the Allies of World War II at the suggestion of Winston Churchill ?
text: Did you know that Late Gothic architect Benedikt Rejt rebuilt parts of Prague Castle and built the vault for St. Barbara's Church in Kutná Hora ?
text: Did you know that May 3rd Constitution Day , among the most important Polish holidays , was banned in the former communist state, the People's Republic of Poland ?
text: Did you know that Donald S. Nesti clashed with the Tamburitzans as president of Duquesne University ?
text: Did you know that the parenting book On Becoming Baby Wise tells parents to put their infant down to sleep while he is awake?
text: Did you know that in 1960 Provincetown, Massachusetts , Town Manager Walter E. Lawrence requested financial aid from the state government to help fight the infiltration of beatniks into the town?
text: Did you know that during the Battle of Drashovica over 3000 German soldiers died, more than 200 of whom were inside the barracks of Drashovicë?
text: Did you know that despite holding a degree in architecture , Erwin Gutawa became a composer and conductor?
text: Did you know that the fastest supercomputer in Europe is in France?
text: Did you know that Louisiana State Representative Bodi White has pushed for full financial disclosure and mandatory governmental ethics training for legislative officials?
text: Did you know that the East India Film Company , formed in 1932, was a pioneer in the production of films in Bengali , Hindi , Tamil , and Telugu ?
text: Did you know that General Sir James Ronald Leslie Macdonald was an army balloon photographer who later served in India, Uganda, Sudan, South Africa, China and led a major expedition into Tibet?
text: Did you know that Michael Gilbert was kept as a slave and regularly beaten by a family who eventually murdered him?
text: Did you know that Wally Heider engineered the remote recording of the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival ?
text: Did you know that damage from the February 2011 Christchurch earthquake at the Peterborough Centre is estimated at NZ$ 12 million, only NZ$0.3M less than the insured value of this historic building?
text: Did you know that Joseph Stalin expelled an American Navy captain from Moscow after learning he had fathered a " love child " with a well-known Soviet film actress , who was then banished to Siberia for eight years?
text: Did you know that in Bach's cantata Barmherziges Herze der ewigen Liebe, BWV 185 ( "Merciful Heart of eternal love" ), the closing chorale melody is prefigured in the first duet in dancing 6/4 time?
text: Did you know that the Port of Tillamook Bay Railroad main line in Oregon was damaged by storms three times, then finally abandoned due to repair costs?
text: Did you know that in the 2011 Asian Athletics Championships , Mayookha Johny became only the second athlete from India to win a gold medal in the long jump event?
text: Did you know that retiring Louisiana State Rep. Hollis Downs broke with his party to support an anti-bullying bill?
text: Did you know that East African Highland bananas are so important as staple food crops in Uganda that ' Matoke ', the traditional meal made from steamed bananas, is synonymous with the word "food"?
text: Did you know that the late 19th-century novel Homo sapiens , although well received in Germany, was withdrawn from sale in the U.S. after being called obscene ?
text: Did you know that Vice Admiral Sir John Inglis was the head of British Naval Intelligence and attempted to cover up the " Buster Crabb affair" in 1956?
text: Did you know that although elk had disappeared from the Table Mountain Wilderness , they were reintroduced in 1979 and are now one of the largest herds in Nevada ?
text: Did you know that Keren Leibovitch , Israeli four-time gold medal winning Paralympic swimmer, is paralyzed from the waist down because of an injury she incurred during her service with the Israeli Defense Forces ?
text: Did you know that the International Broadcasting Bureau Greenville Transmitting Stations located in Greenville , North Carolina , were the most powerful international broadcaster in the world?
text: Did you know that Louisiana State Representative John E. Guinn , a father of ten children, earns his livelihood as an auctioneer ?
text: Did you know that the Kauai remya is threatened by the banana poka ?
text: Did you know that the shadow of nearby mountains first hit the Tower of Jericho on the sunset of the summer solstice and then spread across the entire proto-city in c. 8000 BCE ?
text: Did you know that a ruptured fuel pipeline leaked 1.5 million liters of jet fuel into the Zin Stream in southern Israel in June 2011 ?
text: Did you know that although William FitzOsbern had given All Saints' Church of Newchurch, Isle of Wight , to an abbey in Normandy , Henry VIII later gave it to the See of Bristol ?
text: Did you know that Bobby Parks ' son chose Manila's National University over Georgia Tech but was almost not cleared to play in the 74th UAAP basketball season due to eligibility issues?
text: Did you know that American yachtsman Mark Mendelblatt won the International Optimist Dinghy National Sailing Championships when he was 11 years old?
text: Did you know that Zinaida Reich was expelled from school at the end of the eighth grade in the tsarist Russia for her political activities?
text: Did you know that the Population Estimates Program sponsored by the U.S. Census Bureau helps determine the allocation of U.S. federal funds?
text: Did you know that evidence for domesticated dogs between 10,150 and 9320 BC has been found at Hatula in modern-day Israel ?
text: Did you know that even after he was forced off two different crippled warships during the Battle of Copenhagen , the wounded Danish commodore Olfert Fischer still refused to concede defeat to Lord Horatio Nelson ?
text: Did you know that songwriter Doug Fieger has stated that The Knack 's song " Baby Talks Dirty " was written about the same Sharona who inspired the group's No. 1 hit " My Sharona "?
text: Did you know that Xavier Mertz is suspected to have died as a result of eating dog liver?
text: Did you know that Russian broadside ironclad Ne Tron Menia was named after the biblical verse John 20:17 ?
text: Did you know that "Dad" Moulton , a participant in Sherman's March to the Sea , was the U.S. sprint champion in the 1870s, and trained the "world's fastest human" in the 1880s?
text: Did you know that the steepest roller coaster in the world , with a drop angle of 121°, is Takabisha at the Fuji-Q Highland amusement park in Japan?
text: Did you know that the 19th-century Shrigley Hall in Cheshire , England, originally a country house, was later a Salesian school with a chapel added in 1936, and now is a hotel and country club?
text: Did you know that Amanda Peet jokingly described her character in the upcoming television comedy series Bent as "a repressed woman who needs to get laid"?
text: Did you know that the severed head of Julia Martha Thomas , murdered, boiled and dismembered by her maid in 1879, was found next door to Sir David Attenborough 's house in 2010?
text: Did you know that the song " Indonesia Maharddhika ", from the critically acclaimed album Guruh Gipsy , has the names of the contributors hidden in its lyrics?
text: Did you know that Arreton Manor on the Isle of Wight can be traced to AD 872 to the time of Alfred the Great and was owned by William the Conqueror , as mentioned in the Domesday Book in 1086?
text: Did you know that Dick Campbell , as a theater producer and director, helped launch the careers of several black theater artists, including Ossie Davis , Frederick O'Neal , and Helen Martin ?
text: Did you know that the reputedly haunted Pioneer Park is the only intact Second Empire house in Aspen, Colorado ?
text: Did you know that Australian climate scientist Will Steffen helped initiate an international debate on planetary boundaries and has promoted the concept of the Anthropocene ?
text: Did you know that for many years, the Russian Soviet Republic did not have its own Communist Party ?
text: Did you know that Douglas Mawson was the sole survivor of the Far Eastern Party , enduring a month alone in the Antarctic and walking about 100 miles (160 km) to safety?
text: Did you know that according to an Islamic tradition, the Invasion of Banu Qaynuqa was caused by a Jewish jeweler allegedly stripping a Muslim woman?
text: Did you know that Jane Baker , a former cooking show host and community organizer , became the first female Mayor of San Mateo, California ?
text: Did you know that the Russian ironclad Pervenets was launched in the 1860s by the Imperial Russian Navy but was not scrapped by the Soviet Union until a century later during the 1960s?
text: Did you know that Shotwick Hall in Cheshire , England, was built in 1662, replacing an earlier manor house on a nearby moated site?
text: Did you know that environmentalists fear that the mine on Sebuku Island could sink it?
text: Did you know that Adrian van Kaam brought food to Jews and others in hiding during Holland 's " hunger winter " of 1944?
text: Did you know that 1964 CDC 6600 is considered as the first supercomputer in the world ?
text: Did you know that the Congregation of the Sons of the Holy Family was founded by the son of a peasant farmer?
text: Did you know that World Bicycle Relief has distributed more than 70,000 bicycles , mostly in Africa, and nearly 70 percent of them went to women and girls?
text: Did you know that the Fokker FG-2 made the world's first passenger flight with a glider in 1922?
text: Did you know that the breed club of the Treeing Tennessee Brindle was founded in Illinois ?
text: Did you know that Ramsdell Hall in Cheshire , England, has been described by architectural writers as a "curious" and "appealingly quirky" house?
text: Did you know that a door at Otterburn Tower still contains the initials of Jacobite rebel Mad Jack Hall , while nearby Otterburn Hall 's land was recompense to the descendant of Lord Douglas who died at the Battle of Otterburn ?
text: Did you know that Philip Hench and Edward Kendall are the only two Nobel Prize winners affiliated with Mayo Clinic at the time of their award?
text: Did you know that the Soviet Union 's Yakovlev AIR-3 aircraft was designed by a student?
text: Did you know that the 1994 Offshore Sanriku earthquake is considered an "ultra-slow" earthquake, as slip continued for more than a year afterwards?
text: Did you know that environmental activist Pete Gray once threw his shoes at former Australian Prime Minister John Howard ?
text: Did you know that Operation Slapstick , part of the Allied invasion of Italy , was only planned after the Italians had offered to let them land unopposed?
text: Did you know that, while the first official suggestion of a nationwide association football league in Germany, the Reichsliga , was made in 1932, such a league was not introduced until 1963?
text: Did you know that the reverse of the Common Security and Defence Policy Service Medal contains the Latin phrase Pro Pace Unum , meaning "United for Peace"?
text: Did you know that Antiguan politician Molwyn Joseph , dismissed from the government after allegations of impropriety, was reappointed to the Cabinet after less than two years?
text: Did you know that the Pangani Longclaw is only 20 cm (7.9 in) long?
text: Did you know that the Spanish film Furtivos (Poachers) won best picture at the San Sebastián International Film Festival in 1975?
text: Did you know that the novel My Sad Republic has a dash of "friar erotica" in it?
text: Did you know that Tuscan admiral Jacopo Inghirami was Governor of Leghorn ?
text: Did you know that Handel's oratorio Messiah is structured in three parts, with a libretto about the Christian Messiah drawn from Bible verses, mostly taken from the Old Testament ?
text: Did you know that Haigh Hall , which replaced the ancient manor house of Haigh , was built between 1827 and 1840 by James Lindsay, 7th Earl of Balcarres ?
text: Did you know that former policeman Ian Oliver is the father of Craig Oliver , a special adviser in David Cameron 's government?
text: Did you know that BICA , ICAG and ICAJ are ICAC members, but as of 2008 CISPA was not?
text: Did you know that the storehouse at Alpine Plantation in Alpine, Alabama , was torn down so its timber could be used to build a carport ?
text: Did you know that the Javanese eat cat rice ?
text: Did you know that from 1936 to 1977, Ralph Waldo Emerson Jones was both president and head baseball coach of historically black Grambling State University in Louisiana?
text: Did you know that one person was killed by police during disturbances occasioned by the site selection of the Ganga Rail-Road Bridge in India?
text: Did you know that Theresa Two Bulls was the first American Indian woman elected to the South Dakota Legislature and the second woman elected as president of the Oglala Sioux Tribe of the Pine Ridge Reservation ?
text: Did you know that the overall cost for the Hungarian King in winning the Siege of Hainburg was 200,000 florins?
text: Did you know that former professional wrestler Brick Bronsky was a leading man for Troma Studios in the early 1990s?
text: Did you know that aburatorigami was used by kabuki actors to keep their thick makeup on while absorbing excess oil and sweat?
text: Did you know that the campus of Mount Ida College is situated on land that once was the estate of Robert Gould Shaw II , a cousin of Robert Gould Shaw ?
text: Did you know that the Burmese–Siamese War (1765–1767) ended the four-century-old Ayutthaya Kingdom in 1767 but the Burmese were forced to withdraw within the year of their victory by the Chinese invasions of Burma ?
text: Did you know that the Trigg Hound , bred for hunting in Kentucky, was called "best" for big game hunting in Africa?
text: Did you know that Matthew Jarvis became the third November Niner to earn a World Series of Poker bracelet in the following year?
text: Did you know that the author of An Embarrassment of Riches reimagined the Philippines as an island instead of an archipelago?
text: Did you know that after several odd incidents during the recording for Megadeth 's TH1RT3EN , guitarist-vocalist Dave Mustaine speculated about a connection with the unlucky number 13 ?
text: Did you know that the Living Willow Theatre , an open air theatre constructed of living willow trees, is located near the village of Llanwrthwl and occasionally holds outdoor performances of Shakespeare ?
text: Did you know that Joe Ebanks has on multiple occasions won two large multitable online poker tournaments in the same day?
text: Did you know that the HMCS Eyebright was a Flower-class corvette named after the genus Euphrasia of medicinal flowering plants?
text: Did you know that the Benito Juárez borough of Mexico City has been ranked as having the highest standard of living in Mexico ?
text: Did you know that football club ASK Voitsberg changed both its name and team colours during the annexation of Austria into Nazi Germany ?
text: Did you know that the name of Metro, Lampung , derives from the Javanese word for "friend"?
text: Did you know that SS - Oberscharführer Peter Voss was the first commander of the Auschwitz crematoria and gas chambers , buildings used to kill 900,000 people?
text: Did you know that the Palace of Versailles Research Centre is the first research centre established in a French palace?
text: Did you know that the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Long Service Medal was the first honour created specifically for Canada?
text: Did you know that chemist Joan Berkowitz made important discoveries in the fields of spacecraft construction and pollution control?
text: Did you know that Mureybet was a village in modern-day Syria believed to have been occupied between 10,200 and 8,000 BC?
text: Did you know that representational momentum refers to a slight error in our perception of moving objects?
text: Did you know that Bostonian Anna Eliot Ticknor is the "mother" of correspondence schools in the United States?
text: Did you know that the Maupin Carbon Dragon has a 44 ft (13 m) wingspan but weighs only 145 lb (66 kg)?
text: Did you know that John Michael Kudrick , the current bishop of the Byzantine Catholic Eparchy of Parma , holds master's degrees in mathematics and computer and information science ?
text: Did you know that Theodore Dalrymple 's book Our Culture, What's Left of It describes British culture as a "moral swamp"?
text: Did you know that in the Macedonian Siege of Pelium , Alexander the Great managed to secure his line of retreat without a single reported death?
text: Did you know that military historian Didrik Thomas Johannes Schnitler was named a knight by Norway, by Prussia, and twice by Sweden?
text: Did you know that Pierrepont School, Frensham , occupied a listed English country house designed by Richard Norman Shaw ?
text: Did you know that in its natural habitat, the Sand Live Oak often grows on white sand?
text: Did you know that Georg Ræder played a central role in the planning and construction of the first public railway line in Norway?
text: Did you know that Tuttuki Bako players insert their finger 60 mm (2.4 in) into an electronic device to render images of that finger on an LCD screen?
text: Did you know that Air Vice-Marshal Frank Inglis was head of RAF Intelligence in 1942 and persuaded President Roosevelt to direct the main American war effort against Germany rather than Japan?
text: Did you know that American painter Robert Beauchamp originally attended Cranbrook Academy of Art to make money by learning pottery ... and for the love of a girl?
text: Did you know that the Long-tailed Tit uses moss and the silk of spider egg cocoons as a natural form of Velcro for holding its nest together?
text: Did you know that Nickelodeon Fit is a video game for the Nintendo Wii designed by its publishers to make children more physically active?
text: Did you know that the independently produced 2006 US film The Teddy Bear Master was the subject of two separate lawsuits?
text: Did you know that a No Walls show was described as "a brilliant collision of sinewy punk attack, angular-jazz maneuvers and catchy art-pop songwriting"?
text: Did you know that during the Hesperian , Mars changed from a wet, warm world to today's dry, cold, and dusty planet?
text: Did you know that John Donne 's poem " The Good-Morrow " references seven sleeping children , cordiform maps and Paul the Apostle ?
text: Did you know that Lee Felsenstein designed the Pennywhistle modem to replace a commercial design used on Community Memory , the first bulletin board system ?
text: Did you know that the novel Voyeurs & Savages features Peeping Toms from the Philippines and the United States?
text: Did you know that automatic AK-47 rifles were used in 42% of killings in Ikotos County , South Sudan , in 2009?
text: Did you know that even after Muhammad ordered the demolition of the pagan idol, Dhul Khalasa , it was resurrected and worshipped until 1815, when members of the Wahabbi movement demolished it with gunfire?
text: Did you know that Lee Corner in Alexandria, Virginia , includes the homes of U.S. Revolutionary War Officer Light Horse Harry Lee , U.S. Attorney General Charles Lee , and Confederate General Robert E. Lee ?
text: Did you know that the hasty marriage of Thomas Thynne of Longleat may have helped to inspire Shakespeare 's Romeo and Juliet ?
text: Did you know that the writer of Harry Potter , J. K. Rowling , lived as a child at Church Cottage, Tutshill , a Grade II listed building constructed in about 1852 in the Victorian Gothic style?
text: Did you know that Badi Uzzaman was granted political asylum in the United Kingdom after acting in a film hostile to the government of Pakistani General Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq ?
text: Did you know that fish ponds at the Great Budbridge Manor on the Isle of Wight appear to be medieval ?
text: Did you know that females of the jumping spider Portia labiata use silk draglines as territory marks, and use these to avoid females of higher fighting ability and spend more time around less powerful fighters?
text: Did you know that Frederik Wilhelm Stabell 's merits at the Battle of Trangen and other battles of the Dano-Swedish War of 1808-1809 earned him the Order of Dannebrog ?
text: Did you know that despite overseeing the construction of the crematoria and gas chambers at Auschwitz , what specifically shocked SS - Obersturmführer Robert Mulka at the camp was his colleagues' dress sense?
text: Did you know that, according to tradition, Stephen Collins Foster was inspired to write the ballad My Old Kentucky Home after a visit to Federal Hill , the mansion of Kentucky Senator John Rowan ?
text: Did you know that HMCS Galt , a Flower-class corvette of the Royal Canadian Navy, escorted trade convoys during the Battle of the Atlantic ?
text: Did you know that a small fetus is preserved in the holotype fossil of the extinct stingray Asterotrygon ?
text: Did you know that enrollment at the University of Louisiana at Monroe grew nearly fivefold between 1958 and 1976 during the tenure of its president, George T. Walker ?
text: Did you know that some ant species on Sebuku island may be descended from survivors of the 1883 eruption of Krakatoa ?
text: Did you know that on 20 June 2011, the hacking groups Anonymous and LulzSec announced they were joining forces for Operation Anti-Security ?
text: Did you know that despite the customary practice of Catholic bishops tendering their resignations when they turn 75, Andrew Pataki 's retirement was not accepted by the Pope until after he turned 80?
text: Did you know that the Oregon white truffle is a major component of the diet of Northern flying squirrels ?
text: Did you know that in 2007 politician Mary Deros of Montreal helped prevent an historic city avenue from being renamed after Robert Bourassa , a former Quebec premier ?
text: Did you know that bass voice and trombone carry the cantus firmus of a famous chorale melody in the opening chorus of Bach's cantata Ach Herr, mich armen Sünder, BWV 135 ?
text: Did you know that tennis player Scott Lipsky , winner of the 2011 French Open Mixed Doubles Championship , was ranked #1 in the U.S. Juniors in both singles and doubles in 1995?
text: Did you know that many people still plant Jove's beard on the roofs of houses, as Charlemagne recommended?
text: Did you know that Picasso said he discovered "what painting was all about" after seeing African art in the Paris Musée d'Ethnographie du Trocadéro ?
text: Did you know that detailed drawings by French explorer Louis Delaporte guided the reconstruction of Pha That Luang , a major Buddhist temple in Laos?
text: Did you know that the world has been divided into 11 constituencies for French residents overseas to vote in the 2012 legislative election ?
text: Did you know that Sam Stein won his first World Series of Poker bracelet at the 2011 World Series of Poker but his largest single-event prize was a $1 million result at the 2011 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure ?
text: Did you know that the vocals in the music of Nier are sung in versions of French, English, and Japanese after 1000 years of language drift ?
text: Did you know that conversation in a Paris café inspired the Surrealist sculpture Object (Le Déjeuner en fourrure) , consisting of a fur-covered teacup, saucer and spoon?
text: Did you know that Elizabeth Báthory , known as the "Blood Countess" because of her reign of terror, torturing and murdering hundreds of women, once resided at the Burg Lockenhaus ?
text: Did you know that the Japanese government once put a bounty on the head of photojournalist H. S. Wong ?
text: Did you know that Louis Agassiz Shaw Junior , grandson of Quincy Adams Shaw and a member of an influential Boston Brahmin family, was co-inventor of the iron lung ?
text: Did you know that Rami Levi introduced supermarket price wars to Israel?
text: Did you know that all five of Owais Ahmed 's in the money finishes at the 2011 World Series of Poker were in Mixed poker games ?
text: Did you know that Martin Luther 's chorale Aus tiefer Not schrei ich zu dir (From deep affliction I cry out to you) was sung at his own funeral?
text: Did you know that the 1987 baseball film Long Gone , starring William Petersen , has been described as "three parts Bull Durham , two parts Slap Shot , add a dose of Bingo Long and a pinch of The Longest Yard "?
text: Did you know that triple Formula One world champion Ayrton Senna cited Terry Fullerton , his teammate in their karting days , as the driver he felt most satisfied racing against throughout his career?
text: Did you know that costume designer Sandy Powell earned her third Academy Award for the 2009 film The Young Victoria ?
text: Did you know that the figure of Józef Tusk , grandfather of current Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk , was in the center of the "Wehrmacht affair" of the 2005 Polish presidential election ?
text: Did you know that capnomancy was still practiced in New England as late as 2003?
text: Did you know that during the Swedish campaign against Norway in 1814 commander Andreas Samuel Krebs successfully led his troops to victory both in the Battle of Lier and in the Battle of Matrand ?
text: Did you know that the 2001 BMW F650CS motorcycle's offbeat, " iMac -inspired" styling was meant to attract non-motorcyclists of the extreme sports generation?
text: Did you know that of Chris Moorman 's twelve World Series of Poker in the money finishes, three have been in $10,000 Championship events and five in six-handed events?
text: Did you know that the mining settlement of Bwana Mkubwa received thousands of Polish refugees who arrived in Northern Rhodesia during World War II ?
text: Did you know that George Rowe , the High Bailiff of the Manor of Cheltenham , left England to become an Australian gold prospector, but instead found success creating watercolour paintings ?
text: Did you know that in 1953, the Jacksonville Braves became one of the first two racially integrated baseball teams in the South Atlantic League by fielding players including Hank Aaron and Félix Mantilla ?
text: Did you know that in 1929 Thomas Ford Chipp found Bidens chippii in the Imatong Mountains ?
text: Did you know that Confederate officer William L. Brandon had an ankle-joint shattered in battle but initially refused whiskey as a painkiller because he only liked it with sugar added?
text: Did you know that the 2011 royal tour of Canada featured the first Canadian citizenship ceremony to include a member of Canada's royal family ?
text: Did you know that Goman was an ex-slave leader who led a peasant revolt in Southern Grand'Anse , Haiti between 1807 and 1820?
text: Did you know that the colonial city of Batavia (today Jakarta ) was founded after the previous city, governed by the Sultanate of Banten , was completely eradicated by the Dutch colonists?
text: Did you know that Reinhold and Ruth Benesch discovered the key role played by 2,3-bisphosphoglyceric acid in the transport of oxygen by hemoglobin?
text: Did you know that Brad Pitt 's Plan B Entertainment beat Leonardo DiCaprio 's production company in a bidding war for the rights to produce World War Z , an upcoming post-apocalyptic horror film?
text: Did you know that Taiwanese singer Suming merges indigenous lyrics and electronic dance music to evoke specific qualities of attractive young men in his matrilineal Amis tribe, such as fishing and cooking skills?
text: Did you know that the fungus Tremella encephala was officially described in 1801, but it was not known until 1961 that its central core is actually the remains of its host Stereum sanguinolentum ?
text: Did you know that during Sotir Kolea 's term as director of the National Library of Albania the number of books there was tripled?
text: Did you know that the Punchiná Dam is part of the largest power station in Colombia?
text: Did you know that after the Siege of Retz , the Kingdom of Hungary occupied the city, leading to the growth of its wine industry?
text: Did you know that the Austrian Church of St. Nikolaus in Lockenhaus includes an organ with 2400 pipes , as well as an unusual black Madonna on the altar of the crypt ?
text: Did you know that the Quiet Birdmen were noisy?
text: Did you know that the man behind the courteous baritone " Mind the gap " announcements in the Delhi Metro is Shammi Narang ?
text: Did you know that the Livingstone Museum , opened in 1934, is the oldest and largest museum in Zambia ?
text: Did you know that Fay Ajzenberg-Selove had to fight a discrimination case against the University of Pennsylvania to be hired as a tenured professor of physics?
text: Did you know that Winston Churchill's funeral train carried the headcode of a breakdown train?
text: Did you know that the District of Columbia Compensated Emancipation Act freed slaves in Washington, D.C. almost nine months before the passage of the Emancipation Proclamation ?
text: Did you know that one sickly lion, two Swedish kings, and 128 cannons were involved in the history of the orangery of Uppsala 's Botanical Garden ?
text: Did you know that Air Commodore Peter Raw had joined the Royal Australian Air Force after being rejected by the Royal Australian Navy ?
text: Did you know that Mona Vale in Christchurch , New Zealand , was turned into a public park, following the threat of subdivision of the property and demolition of the homestead in the 1960s?
text: Did you know that Arkansas State Representative Robert W. Glover of Sheridan introduced the resolution in 1909 which led to the establishment of the future Arkansas State University in Jonesboro ?
text: Did you know that today you only really need to remember four names (North, East, South, West) to get around, but ancient Greeks and Romans had to memorize 12 different wind names to orient themselves?
text: Did you know that unlike most hotels from the same period, the Eagle Hotel , built in 1826 in Waterford, Pennsylvania , has quoining ?
text: Did you know that producer Katrina Dunn of Vancouver was awarded the Golden Bra in 2010?
text: Did you know that Collins H. Johnston , halfback on the first Michigan football team in 1879, later published papers on eclampsia, tuberculosis, cardiac murmurs, and pulmonary abscess?
text: Did you know that the only loss of life recorded in the 70-year history of the Union Steamship Company of British Columbia was as a result of the sinking of the steamship Cheslakee ?
text: Did you know that Carl Legien organized a massive general strike in Germany to counter the right-wing Kapp-Putsch of March 1920 ?
text: Did you know that according to violinist Gidon Kremer , the Lockenhaus Chamber Music Festival in Austria philosophically resembles the Marlboro Music Festival in Vermont , US?
text: Did you know that when Jeff Mellinger , the last active-duty draftee in the U.S. Army from the Vietnam War era, received his draft papers, he thought that they were written to him by then-President Richard Nixon ?
text: Did you know that Holby City character Oliver Valentine has been described as "a doctor with the blue eyes of Fonda and the medical competence of fondue"?
text: Did you know that the earliest evidence for domesticated wheat and barley comes from Iraq ed-Dubb in Jordan and dates to the mid-10th millennium BC?
text: Did you know that the Redstone Test Stand was built in Alabama by Wernher von Braun 's rocketry team for just $25,000 out of concrete and salvaged materials?
text: Did you know that Simon Cowell conceived the idea for Red or Black? , the most expensive game show ever made?
text: Did you know that the pabasa is a chanting marathon practised during Holy Week in the Philippines ?
text: Did you know that the Talent , a multiple unit passenger train in the rail system of Germany, Austria and Norway, was developed by Waggonfabrik Talbot in Aachen ?
text: Did you know that Tsar Alexander II of Russia had a special crystal bottle of Roederer champagne made for the Three Emperors Dinner in 1867 so he could admire the bubbles?
text: Did you know that observers of the 2007 French presidential election could tell which major candidate had earned each rating in a majority judgment poll, even though the winner under this voting system was not the official one?
text: Did you know that the fee-for-service model encourages overutilization , which is a major factor behind the high cost of U.S. health care ?
text: Did you know that The Ride to Conquer Cancer raised more money than any other cycling fundraiser in Canadian history?
text: Did you know that Clemenstone , a hamlet in south Wales near Wick , was the seat of several high sheriffs of Glamorganshire ?
text: Did you know that the U.S. commanders at the Battle of La Flor and Battle of Las Cruces were each awarded the Navy Cross for their actions against the Sandinistas in the Banana Wars ?
text: Did you know that Anino ng Kahapon is one of the few pro-American novels written while the Philippines was still a territory of the United States ?
text: Did you know that years after long-time actress Kathleen Cody retired to Florida, she was cast in the Peter Bogdanovich film Illegally Yours when it was filming in her town?
text: Did you know that Sir William Young, 1st Baronet , in his will gave four Caribbean estates to his son , but the father's 1788 death left behind £110,000 in debt, a figure equal to at least £11 million today?
text: Did you know that a de Cock decorated the ceiling at Breda Palace ?
text: Did you know that in the 1950s, Wardang Island was the site of a pioneering experiment to develop a biological solution for controlling the plague of introduced rabbits in Australia?
text: Did you know that before he began shaping sculptures of the American West , Grant Speed of Utah had been a ranch-hand, horse breaker, and rodeo performer?
text: Did you know that the penis of the Lesser Water Boatman Micronecta scholtzi creates mating calls of 99.2 decibels , making it the loudest animal on earth, scaled for its size?
text: Did you know that yak butter stays edible for up to a year and finds a new use after it gets old and rancid?
text: Did you know that Dorice Reid died less than a month before she was supposed to become High Commissioner of the Cook Islands to New Zealand?
text: Did you know that the Aparados da Serra is one of the first national parks of Brazil and was created to protect the Itaimbezinho canyon?
text: Did you know that Martin Wines was the first state representative from Greene County, Indiana ?
text: Did you know that during the Popish Plot , John Plessington was seized at Puddington Old Hall in Cheshire , England, and hanged at Chester Castle in 1679?
text: Did you know that there is a storytelling scene in the novel Ang mga Anak Dalita where the Philippines is compared to a pearl, Spain to a fish , and the United States to a leech ?
text: Did you know that the Gorno-Altai Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic lasted for only nine months as an Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic before the dissolution of the Soviet Union , which turned it into the Altai Republic ?
text: Did you know that the Norwegian brewery owners Ellef and Amund Ringnes have had two islands in Canada named after them?
text: Did you know that the Passemant astronomical clock , designed to work until the year 9999, was the first clock used to set the official time in France?
text: Did you know that military investigative reporter Carl Prine was accused by the Railroad Development Corporation 's owner, Henry Posner, of "profiting from the promotion of hysteria"?
text: Did you know that an episode of Living TV 's Most Haunted claimed that there have been over 3000 reported experiences of ghosts at the Schooner Hotel since 1998?
text: Did you know that Elizabeth Gatford, who endowed a charity that distributed bread to the poor at Horsham General Baptist Chapel , was buried in four coffins?
text: Did you know that one of Jupiter 's moons, Io, is an X-ray source ?
text: Did you know that not only will Jennifer Westfeldt make her directorial debut with Friends with Kids , but also write, produce and act in it?
text: Did you know that the endangered Hawaii bog orchid is the rarest orchid species native to Hawaii ?
text: Did you know that Japanese international footballer Aya Sameshima worked at the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plants prior to the disaster there?
text: Did you know that Pepsi allowed Madonna to retain her $5 million fee, despite cancelling their sponsorship deal following the controversy over the music video for " Like a Prayer "?
text: Did you know that Orangutans may provide their nest with pillows, blankets, bunk-beds and roofs?
text: Did you know that, in 1913, American aviator Albert Jewell disappeared off Long Island , New York, on his way to an air race?
text: Did you know that The Warring States is a 2011 film based on the rivalry between two ancient military tacticians, Sun Bin and Pang Juan ?
text: Did you know that more than one million copies of Loaded Questions have been sold, though the creator originally had to borrow about $18,000 from his parents and sell the game out of his car's trunk?
text: Did you know that, in 1874, Kansas State University 's Department of Industrial Journalism began offering the first American program of study in printing ?
text: Did you know that the Battle of Leitzersdorf cost the Holy Roman Empire the Archduchy of Austria ?
text: Did you know that swimming instructor Robert Emmet Odlum died from the first jump off the Brooklyn Bridge ?
text: Did you know that Makhdoom Mohiuddin , the president of the All Hyderabad Trade Union Congress , was arrested at the founding meeting of the organization in 1946?
text: Did you know that Georgia O'Keeffe 's first skull painting which is held by the Arizona State University Art Museum references the memento mori concept?
text: Did you know that the Ruskin Dam has been a filming location for the TV series The X-Files , MacGyver , Smallville , Dark Angel and the movie The Invisible ?
text: Did you know that Martin Camaj 's novel Rrathë is considered to be the first psychological novel in Albanian ?
text: Did you know that the Museum of Broken Relationships received the 2011 Kenneth Hudson Award for the most innovative museum in Europe?
text: Did you know that Suleiman the Magnificent supposedly gave İncili Çavuş a pearl to wear to distinguish him from other sergeants?
text: Did you know that Christine Jorgensen Reveals is a docudrama about the first celebrity transsexual , who was called the world's most famous woman at the time?
text: Did you know that though generally uncommon, tornadoes in New England have nevertheless included two of the ten most damaging such storms in U.S. history?
text: Did you know that the object of worship at Omura Shrine is a sword?
text: Did you know that Elizabeth Maitland was a member of the secret organisation the Sealed Knot and that she was accused of witchcraft due to her political influence?
text: Did you know that during the First World War, the sail-steamer SS Lanthorn was attacked by a German U-boat , and although her crew was rescued, she sank while under tow?
text: Did you know that the world's fastest supercomputer, in Japan, costs $10 million a year to operate?
text: Did you know that in Azerbaijan , the Heydar Aliyev Foundation builds more schools than the Ministry of Education?
text: Did you know that in the 2011 NBA Draft , reigning NBA champion Dallas Mavericks selected Qatari basketball player Tanguy Ngombo , even though his age and eligibility were disputed?
text: Did you know that the Theil–Sen estimator can accurately fit a line to a set of sample points even when up to 29% of the points have been arbitrarily corrupted ?
text: Did you know that the National Archaeology Museum of Bolivia has been described as Bolivia's most prominent museum?
text: Did you know that Duchy of Opole and Racibórz , one of many Duchies of Silesia , was created in the 13th century, split by the end of it, and recreated in the 16th by the last Piast ?
text: Did you know that students at the Stella Maris Polytechnic university in Monrovia , Liberia , pay only US$5 tuition per credit?
text: Did you know that Juan Gualberto Gómez was the most conspicuous Afro-Cuban leader during the Cuban War of Independence ?
text: Did you know that the main house at Dicksonia Plantation in Alabama was destroyed by fire twice during the 20th century?
text: Did you know that Tamil writer A. K. Chettiar published his first magazine at the age of 20?
text: Did you know that in the 1948 municipal polls in Pondicherry , largely assumed to have been rigged, the French India Socialist Party won all 102 seats?
text: Did you know that, in 1927, Jessie Miller became the first woman to complete an England-to-Australia flight?
text: Did you know that the music video for " Pon de Floor ", a dancehall and funk carioca song by Major Lazer , contains scenes of people dry humping and incorporates daggering choreography?
text: Did you know that in 1954 The New York Times warned that the Communist Party of French India was likely to seize power in the colony?
text: Did you know that the CFTR inhibitory factor can induce cystic fibrosis (CF) -like conditions in the lungs of a non-CF patient?
text: Did you know that following a landmark decision of the United Kingdom's Supreme Court , the same judge passed sentence on each of the six politicians in separate trials charged in relation to the 2009 Parliamentary expenses scandal ?
text: Did you know that American journalist Charles Franklin Hildebrand earned the Purple Heart and Silver Star for his World War I service in the battles of the Marne River and Argonne Forest ?
text: Did you know that the anarchist Revolutionary Avengers group from 1910 to 1914 has been described as the most radical terrorist organization in the history of Poland ?
text: Did you know that witnesses have reported ghostly lights and phantom fires emanating from the Dr. John R. Drish House in Tuscaloosa , Alabama?
text: Did you know that Demi Lovato and Miley Cyrus partnered with The Jed Foundation to help teenagers cope with personal struggles?
text: Did you know that Marimba Ani first introduced the term Maafa to describe the African holocaust ?
text: Did you know that Mikhail Lakhitov started competing in international poker competitions in 2010 and by June 2011 was one of the top 20 poker players in the world?
text: Did you know that the critically acclaimed 2010 novel And the Land Lay Still by James Robertson won the prestigious Scottish Book of the Year Award ?
text: Did you know that Germany, prohibited by the Treaty of Versailles from having an air force, operated the secret fighter-pilot school Lipetsk in the Soviet Union from 1926 to 1933?
text: Did you know that the Nigerian NAPEP poverty reduction program has been a recent target for hacktivists ?
text: Did you know that Norwegian journalist Bjørn Bjørnsen started his journalistic career when 15 years old?
text: Did you know that the Kentucky physician and Yale alumnus Forest Shely was for 56 years a trustee of the Baptist institution Campbellsville University ?
text: Did you know that by making her debut in the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup at the age of 16, Cecilia Santiago became the youngest-ever goalkeeper to appear in a World Cup?
text: Did you know that Keechaka Vadham was the first silent film made in South India ?
text: Did you know that Mitch Schock , who earned his first World Series of Poker bracelet at the 2011 World Series of Poker has finished in the money at least five times in each of the last three World Series of Poker?
text: Did you know that American perennial candidate Jack Fellure , whose platform is based on the Authorized 1611 King James Bible , received the 2012 presidential nomination of the Prohibition Party ?
text: Did you know that the movies Green Street Hooligans and Cass are based on West Ham United F.C. supporters ?
text: Did you know that The Captive King is a lost painting by Joseph Wright of Derby that showed Guy de Lusignan taken prisoner, after the relics of the true cross were said to be lost?
text: Did you know that the McArthur Mining Company was Michigan's first coal mine?
text: Did you know that 17-year-old Uruguayan footballer Juan Cruz Mascia has been hailed as the heir to 2010 FIFA World Cup star Diego Forlán in the English and South American media?
text: Did you know that on 12 June 1944, during the Battle of Breville , friendly fire killed the commander of the attacking force and wounded two British brigadiers?
text: Did you know that the Big Moose from Antigonish was the "King of the Klondike?"
text: Did you know that Herlinatiens ' first novel about lesbian relationships is considered the "coming out" for Indonesian writings about gays and lesbians?
text: Did you know that Mietek Pemper , who was forced to work as Amon Göth 's secretary, compiled and typed Oskar Schindler 's famous list, which saved 1,200 Jewish prisoners from the Holocaust ?
text: Did you know that the 225th (Parachute) Field Ambulance a British airborne forces unit, became responsible for the medical welfare of German U-boat crews?
text: Did you know that Benjamin Wistar Morris, III designed the first skyscraper in Portland, Oregon ?
text: Did you know that the British steamship Nancy Moller was intercepted in 1951 by HMS Cossack whilst carrying a cargo of rubber to China in contravention of a United Nations embargo imposed due to the Korean War ?
text: Did you know that when yeshiva students learn with their chavrusas , they may wave their hands and shout at each other?
text: Did you know that the Cherry Hill Farmhouse in Falls Church, Virginia , appears in the works of American poet James Whitcomb Riley ?
text: Did you know that despite starting in the 1959 VFL Grand Final , Australian footballer Graham Leydin only started two games in the 1961 season?
text: Did you know that Denmark–Eritrea relations are conducted via their embassies in Kenya and Sweden after Denmark closed their embassy in Eritrea less than five years after it opened?
text: Did you know that the African Methodist Episcopal University is the second largest university in Liberia ?
text: Did you know that shortly before Doris Lessing 's Alfred and Emily was published, the Nobel Prize-winning novelist announced it was her final book?
text: Did you know that despite failing eyesight, Fred Townsend played for the 1887 Michigan football team and later became chairman of the Iowa Democratic Party ?
text: Did you know that The Herald said the character Manda from Alan Warner 's 2010 novel The Stars in the Bright Sky was "the most vivid, aggravating lynchpin in recent Scottish fiction"?
text: Did you know that when the SS Ava was wrecked off the coast of Ceylon in February 1858, her passengers included Lady Julia Inglis and her sons, John and Alfred , who were evacuees from the Siege of Lucknow , and the ship's doctor, James Little , who was later to become Honorary Physician to King George V ?
text: Did you know that Temple III at the Maya city of Tikal in Guatemala was the last pyramid ever built there?
text: Did you know that Green Seamount , an underwater volcano , could have taken up to 260,000 years to reach its present height?
text: Did you know that, in 1933, when attempts were made to restore the monarchy in Bavaria to stall the Nazis ' rise to power, Adolf Hitler warned the Bavarian government that this would lead to a "terrible catastrophe"?
text: Did you know that although Jeremy Howard-Williams was a fighter pilot , he wrote the "classic account of the sail-maker's art"?
text: Did you know that Vinita Gupta is credited as being the first woman of Indian origin to take her company public in the United States?
text: Did you know that the freighter Noemijulia was bombed twice during the Spanish Civil War but went on to survive World War II?
text: Did you know that the fan campaign to release specific Wii video games by the game developer Nintendo received an official response from the company?
text: Did you know that the rose garden at Lymm Hall in Cheshire , England, was Edward Kemp 's first recorded commission?
text: Did you know that unlike the 1990 film version starring Johnny Depp , the 2005 theatrical adaptation of Edward Scissorhands was set in the 1950s and performed to musical accompaniment?
text: Did you know that young mushrooms of Pholiota communis are sticky?
text: Did you know that U.S. Army pilot Mayhew Foster in 1945 transported Luftwaffe chief Hermann Göring from Austria to Germany, where Göring stood trial for war crimes at Nuremberg ?
text: Did you know that the 1995 novel Angel Angel is being adapted into the film Long Time Gone starring Meg Ryan ?
text: Did you know that John Philip Sousa considered David Wallis Reeves "The Father of Band Music in America"?
text: Did you know that Tropical Storm Debra developed from a cold low and a tropical wave ?
text: Did you know that Slobodan Branković ran in the men's 400 metres (1,300 feet) race in the 1992 Barcelona Games as an Independent Olympic Participant ?
text: Did you know that University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chancellor Holden Thorp at age 17 won a regional contest for the fastest time solving a Rubik's Cube puzzle?
text: Did you know that the Shankar Mahadevan Academy is an online music academy founded by award-winning composer and singer Shankar Mahadevan ?
text: Did you know that despite winning seven national championships from 1899 to 1912, the Yale football team had 14 head coaches in those 14 years, including a lingerie manufacturer , "the phantom line cleaver" , a manufacturer of machine guns , a victim of typhoid fever , a Harvard law student , the senior partner of Smith Barney & Co. , the grandfather of a noted documentary filmmaker , the nephew of the U.S. Secretary of State , and the president of a historically black university ?
text: Did you know that O moj Shqypni has been described as one of the most influential and most important poems written in Albanian ?
text: Did you know that the benefactor of Soldiers Chapel , near Big Sky Resort , wrote that hillbilly Bible thumpers, conscientious objectors, and those refusing to salute the US flag should be excluded from the chapel?
text: Did you know that journalist Nils Vogt was the first chairman of the Norwegian Press Association ?
text: Did you know that the memoir I Married Wyatt Earp , supposedly by Wyatt Earp 's wife Josephine , was regarded as factual and cited by scholars, but was discovered to be a "fraud" and a "hoax" after 23 years?
text: Did you know that the Udmurt Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic , first formed in 1920, has since been renamed three times, most recently as the Udmurt Republic in 1991?
text: Did you know that Odessa, Texas oil industialist and banker Bill Noël also raised pecans for commercial food production on a ranch in Sutton County ?
text: Did you know that the Philippine play Walang Sugat ("Not Wounded") was a statement against imperialism by its author , the father of the Tagalog zarzuela ?
text: Did you know that a pauper received a state burial in Namibia two days ago?
text: Did you know that Ang Singsing ng Dalagang Marmol (c. 1905) is one of the Philippines' first historical novels written in the twentieth century?
text: Did you know that Louisiana Tech University English professor Robert C. Snyder worked on the Manhattan Project in Oak Ridge, Tennessee , during World War II?
text: Did you know that Tonogayato Garden in Kokubunji, Tokyo is built on the terraced cliffs of Musashino , with a lawn on the hilltop overlooking a bamboo forest and pond at the bottom?
text: Did you know that in the 2002 Jammu & Kashmir Assembly election, communist candidate Mohammad Khalil Naik won the Wachi seat by only 80 votes?
text: Did you know that " Déjame Entrar " by Colombian singer-songwriter Carlos Vives was awarded the Latin Grammy Award for Best Tropical Song ?
text: Did you know that despite Spider-Man 2 being the most critically praised entry in the franchise , it is also the lowest grossing in the trilogy?
text: Did you know that Owen Crowe has made four World Series of Poker final tables in the past four years and two top-100 main event finishes in the last three years?
text: Did you know that the Aguamilpa and Zimapán Dams in Mexico are over 185 m (607 ft) high and were funded in part by the same World Bank loan?
text: Did you know that retired hockey goaltender Rick St. Croix and his sons Chris and Michael were all drafted in the 4th round of the NHL Entry Draft , albeit in different years?
text: Did you know that in 1943, Horsa gliders were towed 3,200 miles (5,100 km) from England to Tunisia during Operation Turkey Buzzard without knowing whether this would be possible?
text: Did you know that Theodore W. Brevard , a military officer who served with the Confederate States Army , was captured by General George Custer 's cavalry?
text: Did you know that in 1981 an Israeli 69 Squadron F-4 Phantom II numbered 222 collided in mid-air with an F-16 Fighting Falcon bearing the exact same number?
text: Did you know that Little Marton Mill was built in England in 1838 and restored in 1937 to become a memorial?
text: Did you know that the United States mediated the 1962 New York Agreement as part of a plan "to prevent Indonesia from falling under communist control and to win it over to the west"?
text: Did you know that during World War II, the Germans built a bomb- and gas-proof bunker on Jerbourg Point , the southeastern point of Guernsey in the English Channel?
text: Did you know that Shigeo Satomura pioneered non-invasive monitoring of blood flow in the human body using ultrasonic Doppler techniques in the 1950s?
text: Did you know that the Philippine play Paglipas ng Dilim ("After the Darkness") tackles the conflicts of mixing cultures from the Philippines, Spain, and the United States?
text: Did you know that although Norma Lyon studied animal science at Iowa State University, she ended up sculpting butter at state fairs?
text: Did you know that the Ritz-Carlton in Atlantic City was home to Nucky Johnson , the political boss portrayed in the American television series Boardwalk Empire ?
text: Did you know that USMC Lieutenant General Henry Louis Larsen was Governor of American Samoa and Governor of Guam after his father-in-law and brother-in-law were each Governor of Colorado?
text: Did you know that the Grade II* listed Lower Huxley Hall in the English town of Huxley , Cheshire , is approached by a Grade II* listed bridge and archway, and stands on a moated site that is a scheduled monument ?
text: Did you know that in 2011 Jonathan Audy-Marchessault became the first player to lead the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League in playoff scoring despite not playing in the final playoff round?
text: Did you know that the Nehru Setu , built in 1900, was the longest railway bridge in India until a longer one was opened in February 2011?
text: Did you know that after the Ottoman general Turahanoğlu Ömer Bey wiped out one of Dracula 's armies in 1462, he deposited 2,000 severed heads at the feet of Sultan Mehmed II ?
text: Did you know that The Last Ringbearer , an English translation of a Russian alternative retelling of Lord of the Rings , has been published as a non-commercial ebook after a 10-year delay due to fears of litigation?
text: Did you know that the Robert Hull Fleming Museum at the University of Vermont includes a complete set of the Description de l'Égypte , a book series based on the French campaign in Egypt under Napoleon?
text: Did you know that the Cape dune mole rat can excavate up to 500 kg (1,100 lb) of soil in a month?
text: Did you know that Celebrity Autobiography: In Their Own Words is a theatrical work that involved readings of celebrity memoirs by performers including a few Saturday Night Live cast members?
text: Did you know that the 2002 Costa Rican presidential election was the first in the country's history to go to a second round?
text: Did you know that during World War II, an officer from a British airborne forces unit recommended a German NCO for the Iron Cross ?
text: Did you know that basaloid squamous cell lung carcinoma was first described in 1992 and declared a lung cancer variant by the World Health Organization in 1999?
text: Did you know that Russian forces killed Abdulla Kurd , al-Qaeda 's top operative in Chechnya, one day after U.S. forces killed al-Qaeda head Osama bin Laden ?
text: Did you know that initial student admission in 2010 for the Dominica State College planned for 900 applicants, was less than 400, and resulted in an extension of enrollment and waiver of the admission fee?
text: Did you know that the Austin Powers films won 20 awards , including one for Beautiful Stranger sung by Madonna ?
text: Did you know that the 87th season of the Philippines' NCAA kicks off today at the Araneta Coliseum ?
text: Did you know that jelly babies are considered inedible?
text: Did you know that other than the Second World War, there has never been a declaration of war by Canada ?
text: Did you know that the Duke of Cambridge's Personal Canadian Flag was first used during the 2011 Royal tour of Canada?
text: Did you know that Mount Ida Plantation in Talladega County, Alabama , burned to the ground after being struck by lightning?
text: Did you know that Riella is the only liverwort to grow as a submerged aquatic ?
text: Did you know that Doris Lessing 's book The Sweetest Dream was originally intended to be volume three of her autobiography, but she made it a novel to avoid offending people?
text: Did you know that although the first six of Ben Lamb 's World Series of Poker in the money finishes were in Texas hold 'em , all three of his final tables have been in pot limit Omaha hold 'em ?
text: Did you know that during World War II, Wyoming State Senator Robert H. Johnson flew bombing missions in support of the French Resistance against the Nazis?
text: Did you know that although wine production is important to the economy of Tequisquiapan in Mexico, the locals do not generally consume it?
text: Did you know that journalist Sony Esteus had his arm broken by the Port-au-Prince police while covering a story?
text: Did you know that Hockey: Canada's Royal Winter Game , published in 1899, was the first book on ice hockey , and only four copies are now known to exist?
text: Did you know that Frederick Settle Barff invented a device, similar to a catalytic converter , to remove SO 2 and CO 2 from the exhaust fumes of locomotives in the 1860s?
text: Did you know that reportedly haunted locations in Scotland include a tenement where bubonic plague victims were quarantined and starved to death by local councilmen?
text: Did you know that as part of the DC Universe reboot, Justice League Dark has been launched featuring some of DC Comics ' more bizarre and supernatural characters?
text: Did you know that The Dominica Museum in Roseau contains an example of the pwi pwi , a miniature raft native to Dominica ?
text: Did you know that Union , a German-Hungarian trade union council, had substantial following amongst agricultural labourers in southwestern Slovakia after the First World War?
text: Did you know that 94 pieces of Spanish colonial silver and 22 New Mexican santos are part of the University of New Mexico Art Museum 's collection?
text: Did you know that during the Second World War, 10 countries formed Convoy HX 300 , which consisted of 166 ships covering an area 9 miles (14 km) wide and 4 miles (6.4 km) long?
text: Did you know that musician David Rothenberg appears in a YouTube video playing jazz with cassini periodical cicadas , insects noted for their synchronized rhythm?
text: Did you know that the Slovak Social Democrats founded their own party in 1905, but merged back into the Hungarian Social Democratic Party after a few months due to economic problems?
text: Did you know that several fires and the construction of the Croton Aqueduct shaped the Downtown Ossining Historic District of New York?
text: Did you know that in 1584 Antonio Ricardo became the first printer in South America with the publication of the Doctrina Christiana , a book in Spanish, Quechua and Aymara ?
text: Did you know that the illegal loyalist paramilitary group the UVF Mid-Ulster Brigade was founded in 1972 by Billy Hanna , a decorated war hero?
text: Did you know that Ismaila Gwarzo , a former Nigerian National Security Advisor was accused of theft of US$2.45 billion and repaid a few hundred million?
text: Did you know that though located on the Eastern Michigan University campus, the Bruce T. Halle Library houses one of the largest collections of children's literature in the US?
text: Did you know that South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson is the adopted son of Congressman Joe Wilson ?
text: Did you know that the SS Silesia was a German ship, a British ship, and then an Italian ship before being wrecked in Uruguay?
text: Did you know that the disused Såner Station was purchased by a family for 1.3 million Norwegian kroner in 2003?
text: Did you know that the religion editor Helen Derr was the first female deacon of the First Presbyterian Church of Alexandria, Louisiana?
text: Did you know that The Clash adopted the song " I Fought the Law " after Joe Strummer and Mick Jones heard it on a vintage jukebox at The Automatt ?
text: Did you know that the first report of the D–Day landings received in the British mainland was delivered by Gustav , a messenger pigeon?
text: Did you know that Edward Fitzgerald 's clients have included public hate-figures such as Myra Hindley , Mary Bell , Maxine Carr , Jon Venables , various IRA prisoners and Abu Hamza ?
text: Did you know that the Kotezi Viaduct was renamed twice before its official opening, following a naming dispute between two villages?
text: Did you know that sculptor Louise Nevelson had an affair with Diego Rivera , much to the dismay of Frida Kahlo ?
text: Did you know that the houseboat Vallejo , made an icon of Bay Area culture by artist Jean Varda and philosopher Alan Watts in the 1960s, originally served as a passenger ferry in Portland, Oregon in the 1870s?
text: Did you know that coal balls are not made of coal ?
text: Did you know that the Port of Rijeka , the largest Croatian port, was once the only Hungarian seaport?
text: Did you know that the historic Cuckoo house was damaged in the 2011 Virginia earthquake ?
text: Did you know that with a 150-millimetre (5.9 in) wingspan, Sinomeganeura is small for the Griffenfly family Meganeuridae, known for species with spans over 700 millimetres (28 in)?
text: Did you know that Kid Ory 's composition " Ory's Creole Trombone " was the first jazz record made by a black jazz band from New Orleans?
text: Did you know that shrimp, seaweed, and milkfish are found in Bone ?
text: Did you know that the album Ballad of Salah , released as an act of charity during Ramadan , includes songs based on the Quran and the life of Muhammad ?
text: Did you know that during B. B. Davis ' basketball career at Lamar University , his team won the conference championship every year?
text: Did you know that the men of the Armed Forces Special Weapons Project took two weeks to assemble their first atomic bomb in December 1946 ?
text: Did you know that the discovery of the extinct golden silk orb-weaver species Nephila jurassica extended the fossil record of the genus by 130 million years?
text: Did you know that after the death of Alexander the Great Achaemenid subjects shaved their heads?
text: Did you know that American singer Soraya earned the first Latin Grammy Award for Best Singer-Songwriter Album in 2004 ?
text: Did you know that a fossil of the extinct monitor lizard Saniwa preserves cartilage , scales, and even a wind pipe ?
text: Did you know that British actor Michael Socha was injured at least seven times during filming of his scenes on the supernatural drama Being Human ?
text: Did you know that despite being captured on D-Day , 6 June 1944 by British paratroops , the Merville Gun Battery remained in German hands until 17 August?
text: Did you know that Emerentia was reputed in the late 15th century to be the great-grandmother of Jesus?
text: Did you know that in 1953, Paul Arizin won a belated most valuable player award for his performance in the previous year's NBA All-Star Game ?
text: Did you know that the tallest and fastest roller coaster in Canada will be Leviathan when it opens at Canada's Wonderland in 2012?
text: Did you know that Sam Greene , who covered Detroit sports from 1922 to 1963, was called "one of America's best known sports chroniclers," "a gentlemanly patriarch" and one of sport's "most beloved figures"?
text: Did you know that the Patriotic Party of the late 18th century Great Sejm succeeded in passing one of the first constitutions in Europe influenced by the Enlightenment ideals?
text: Did you know that despite the fact that the majority of submitted films are set in contemporary times, the Academy Award for Best Costume Design has only been awarded to films with such a setting twice since 1967?
text: Did you know that for most of its history, Ixtonton was the most important Maya city in the upper Mopan Valley of Guatemala ?
text: Did you know that the largest roller derby competition ever held outside of the United States was hosted by Adelaide Roller Derby and won by the Victorian VRDL All Stars ?
text: Did you know that the cotton manufacturer John Horrocks is commemorated twice by St Mary's Church, Penwortham , Lancashire ?
text: Did you know that Kristian House did not finish first in the London – Surrey Cycle Classic but did win its King of the Mountains award?
text: Did you know that, shortly before sunrise, mass spawning by sea grapes may create a green cloud?
text: Did you know that the first Bayfield group quarry opened in 1868 on Basswood Island ?
text: Did you know that Prahalada was remade 20 times in numerous languages, with most of the remakes box-office successes?
text: Did you know that Mark Knopfler 's publisher made a country-style tape of Knopfler's song " Water of Love " without his knowledge, which led to a cover of the song by The Judds ?
text: Did you know that in the central movement of Bach 's cantata Nimm von uns, Herr, du treuer Gott, BWV 101 , a "furious ritornello " of three oboes is followed unexpectedly by a line of the chorale?
text: Did you know that although the 1992 Flores earthquake was to its north, Babi Island may have been hit by tsunamis from both the north and south?
text: Did you know that the reformers of Kołłątaj's Forge popularized the ideals of the French Revolution in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth ?
text: Did you know that the first film directed by actor Leon Herbert was the British comedy/drama Emotional Backgammon ?
text: Did you know that the recently deceased, long-time human rights figure Jerome J. Shestack may have survived a kamikaze attack during World War II by being Jewish?
text: Did you know that the fake report Intelligence Quotient (IQ) and Browser Usage hoaxed many global news organizations into reporting that Internet Explorer 6 users had remarkably low IQs?
text: Did you know that Heinie Peitz was on the receiving end of the famed "Pretzel Battery" in the 1890s?
text: Did you know that J.L. Forster 's school band played in Expo '67 , Expo '70 , and for Queen Elizabeth II ?
text: Did you know that wood of the Mexican logwood is used to make traditional medicines and bows for stringed instruments?
text: Did you know that after being developed for the National Aerospace Plane , HyperSizer software was used to improve the design of wind turbines and a one-of-a-kind airplane ?
text: Did you know that in 1730, rebels under the command of a silversmith named Alejo Calatayud seized control of Cochabamba , Bolivia ?
text: Did you know that the extinct monitor lizard Ovoo gurvel has "mystery bones" in its skull?
text: Did you know that Irish country singer Larry Cunningham and his band got their first break when Jim Reeves walked off the stage during a concert?
text: Did you know that Mammoth at Holiday World & Splashin' Safari will be the world's longest water coaster when it opens in 2012, taking the title from the park's Wildebeest water coaster?
text: Did you know that the actress who plays Amy Wyatt in the British soap opera Emmerdale has been nominated for two "Best Newcomer" awards?
text: Did you know that in 1622 a civil war broke out in present-day Bolivia between Basques and Vicuñas ?
text: Did you know that the Swiss cargo ship Nyon was 5.40 metres (17 ft 9 in) longer when she sank than when she was launched?
text: Did you know that Italian artist Sara Pichelli was the first to illustrate the half-black, half-Hispanic Spider-Man ?
text: Did you know that Urocyon progressus , a species of extinct fox, was formally described after two bones and a tooth were found?
text: Did you know that the Royal Burmese Army employed a conscription system that required local chiefs to supply men from their jurisdiction on the basis of population?
text: Did you know that Indonesian comedy band Project Pop originally sang about "food and martial arts fighters"?
text: Did you know that "Little Luke" 's Ponzi scheme may lead to the " death penalty " for Miami ?
text: Did you know that the modern Warlander , a new Baroque horse breed derived from the Andalusian and Friesian breeds, was inspired by a historic war horse cross that has been bred since at least the 16th century?
text: Did you know that Nano Riantiarno 's works include the Cockroach , White Snake , and Constipation "operas"?
text: Did you know that, though cancer pain can usually be eliminated or controlled, nearly half of all patients receive inadequate treatment and suffer pain needlessly?
text: Did you know that despite saving hundreds of wounded soldiers during World War II, Ekaterina Mikhailova-Demina had to wait until 1990 to be awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union ?
text: Did you know that the male Cook Strait giant weta attracts mates using the aroma of its feces?
text: Did you know that Whiggism took different forms in England and Scotland?
text: Did you know that after 26 nuns signed A Catholic Statement on Pluralism and Abortion , the Vatican stated that all but two had recanted, leading 11 others to issue a statement of solidarity denying that they had done so?
text: Did you know that Linton Park in Kent, England, has an avenue of Giant Sequoia trees planted in 1864?
text: Did you know that Singapore paid uneducated women to get sterilised as part of its Stop at Two campaign?
text: Did you know that Rod Stewart forgot the name of the mandolin player for his song " Mandolin Wind " ?
text: Did you know that although fair dealing in United Kingdom law is interpreted liberally, it is still narrower than the United States equivalent ?
text: Did you know that decision fatigue can influence irrational impulse purchases at supermarkets?
text: Did you know that Philadelphia Phillies rookie Michael Schwimer was featured on ESPN while walking across a baseball field wearing a pink feather boa , and matching pink purse and pink backpack?
text: Did you know that the bottle for Katy Perry 's Purr perfume was inspired by her Catwoman stage costume?
text: Did you know that although the Muria generally encourage premarital sex , some communities punish young people who take the same sexual partner for more than three nights?
text: Did you know that the Hetman Party of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth called upon Russia to help defend their Golden Liberties ?
text: Did you know that Rex Putnam had a longer tenure as Oregon Superintendent of Public Instruction than did any other superintendent in history?
text: Did you know that even when LED street lighting produces less light than conventional forms of lighting, it can still cause more ecological light pollution ?
text: Did you know that Leo Suryadinata has written more than 50 books, with a focus on Chinese Indonesians ?
text: Did you know that Thomas Rigby of Liverpool , England, added medieval-style grotesques to Rigby's Buildings ?
text: Did you know that a survey found women in free-to-play massively multiplayer online games spent, on average, 50% more money than men?
text: Did you know that Mi Gao Huang Chen was beaten to death in 2005 by a large group of youths outside the Chinese takeaway he owned in Scholes, Greater Manchester ?
text: Did you know that the report Public Finance Balance of Smoking in the Czech Republic found that the "effect of smoking on the public finance balance in the Czech Republic in 1999 was positive"?
text: Did you know that the effigy of Jan Suchorzewski , who once threatened to kill his son to prevent the signing of the Constitution of 3 May , was hanged during the Kościuszko Insurrection ?
text: Did you know that the complete works of Brunette Coleman were not published until seventeen years after the death of Philip Larkin ?
text: Did you know that in 1992, Black British civil rights activist Frank Crichlow was awarded record damages of £50,000 for false imprisonment, battery and malicious prosecution?
text: Did you know that after going undrafted in the 2009 NFL Draft , current Kansas City Chiefs placekicker Todd Carter took a job at Tropical Smoothie Cafe ?
text: Did you know that the motor vehicle fleet in use around the world surpassed the one billion mark in 2010 and is expected to reach two billion motor vehicles by 2020?
text: Did you know that Detroit sportswriter E.A. Batchelor popularized a nickname for the Notre Dame football team by opening a 1909 game account, "Eleven fighting Irishmen wrecked the Yost machine this afternoon"?
text: Did you know that Detroit sportswriter Paul Bruske drove a Flanders "20" roadster from Quebec to Mexico City in 1910 and later managed Eddie Rickenbacker 's racing team?
text: Did you know that Digya National Park is the oldest protected area in Ghana ?
text: Did you know that future Chairman of the Federal Reserve William McChesney Martin and future Secretary of Defense Clark Clifford were tennis doubles partners in 1922 at Soldan High School in St. Louis, Missouri ?
text: Did you know that many pages of Herculaneum papyri carbonized by Mount Vesuvius in AD 79 were restored to legibility by multi-spectral imaging ?
text: Did you know that Željko Ivanek , who plays the title role in The X-Files episode " Roland ," was the first person to audition for the part?
text: Did you know that the World War II military dog Rifleman Khan was awarded the Dickin Medal for bravery under heavy enemy fire?
text: Did you know that the Canon FL 300mm lens was the first to use synthetic fluorite crystals in its lens elements?
text: Did you know that National Endowment for Democracy President Carl Gershman worked during 1965–1967 for Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA)?
text: Did you know that it took over half a century to identify Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 1 ?
text: Did you know that disagreement about the expansion of the Namibian holiday settlement of Wlotzkasbaken went all the way to Supreme Court ?
text: Did you know that George Graves was a leading comedian in operetta and Edwardian musical comedies although he could neither sing nor dance?
text: Did you know that despite being a two-star recruit in 2006, American football player Scott Lutrus was a 2007 Freshman All-American at Connecticut ?
text: Did you know that the Vineyard Gazette , the only paid circulation newspaper on the island of Martha's Vineyard , was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for its coverage of Hurricane Bob in 1991?
text: Did you know that after killing a man in a duel over dogs, Captain James Macnamara asked naval officers including Viscounts Hood and Nelson , Lord Hotham , Sir Hyde Parker and Sir Thomas Troubridge , to testify on his behalf?
text: Did you know that Deaf Wrestlefest provides funding for educational programs for hearing-impaired students?
text: Did you know that Garrick's Temple to Shakespeare is said to be the world's only shrine to William Shakespeare ?
text: Did you know that sportscaster Nat Allbright broadcast 1,500 games for the Brooklyn/Los Angeles Dodgers to a network of more than 100 radio stations, though he never saw any of the games played?
text: Did you know that the Tosa Yamauchi Family Treasury and Archives contain the oldest extant manuscript of the Kokinshū , dating from the 11th century and designated a National Treasure of Japan ?
text: Did you know that Tufele Liamatua served as the first elected Lieutenant Governor of American Samoa ?
text: Did you know that the expression "going round the bend" is said to come from operators stationed on Telegraph Island who were desperate to escape to India by sailing round the bend in the Strait of Hormuz ?
text: Did you know that November 1828 came in 1979?
text: Did you know that a Libyan hip hop artist using the pseudonym Ibn Thabit wrote "Benghazi" in support of the city of that name during the 2011 Libyan civil war ?
text: Did you know that handball goalkeeper Andrea Farkas won Olympic bronze and silver medals with the Hungarian national team ?
text: Did you know that the five largest public library systems in the United States are in Boston , New York , Cincinnati , Los Angeles , and Detroit ?
text: Did you know that the " Street Doctor ", who delivers food to the poor of Newark, New Jersey in his van and seeks to end street violence, spent 10 years in solitary confinement?
text: Did you know that the Fairey Stooge was a surface-to-air missile powered by air-to-ground rockets?
text: Did you know that South Sudan could be the location of "the biggest migration of large mammals on Earth"?
text: Did you know that Rear Admiral Ronne Froman , the first woman to serve as the "Navy Mayor of San Diego", became the Chief Operating Officer of the city of San Diego after retiring from the Navy?
text: Did you know that Vikram is only the third actor to receive a National Film Award for Best Actor in the Tamil film industry ?
text: Did you know that Joe S. Jackson founded the Baseball Writers Association after reporters at the 1908 World Series had "to climb a ladder to the roof of the first base pavillion and write in the rain and snow"?
text: Did you know that Sanzo Nosaka trained Japanese prisoners of war to fight for Mao Zedong ?
text: Did you know that Gerhard Präsent composed Partita sagrada for chamber orchestra, premiered by the ensemble Kontrapunkte at the Musikverein in Vienna in 2010?
text: Did you know that the Abrams Building , demolished in 1987 to make way for the Knickerbocker Arena , had one of the few remaining original storefronts in downtown Albany, New York ?
text: Did you know that Edward Leo Krumpelmann is one of the two Maryknoll priests who set up the Catholic parish of Kwun Tong , Hong Kong?
text: Did you know that a judge ruled that spectators were not entitled to any refund of their admission money when a match in Small Heath F.C. 's 1895–96 season was abandoned after only 37 minutes?
text: Did you know that the Franciscan friar Manuel Antonio de Rivas , who was tried for heresy in 1775 in Mexico, wrote the first science-fiction text in the Americas?
text: Did you know that sports editor Alan J. Gould invented college football's AP Poll in 1936 as an "exercise in hoopla," to fill space between games, and "to keep the pot boiling"?
text: Did you know that the Indian miners' union Sikasa was banned in 1992, accused of being a front organisation of the People's War Group ?
text: Did you know that Eden II , an art installation within the Indianapolis Museum of Art's 100 Acres, features a mock refugee ship to highlight the problem of climate change ?
text: Did you know that New Democratic Party strategist Kenneth Bryden introduced the concept of door-to-door election canvassing to Canada?
text: Did you know that 98 species of bug have been recovered from sally ?
text: Did you know that the American adaptation of the BBC cooking show MasterChef was hosted by famous British restaurateur Gary Rhodes for two series?
text: Did you know that sportswriter Bill Farnsworth teamed with Damon Runyon in promoting boxing bouts that raised more than $1 million for Hearst 's Free Milk Fund for Babies?
text: Did you know that there is little wildlife and game in Isangano National Park due to subsistence hunting practiced by those living in the park?
text: Did you know that the first industrial robot, the Unimate , was installed in 1961 by General Motors at its Inland Fisher Guide Plant in Ewing Township, New Jersey ?
text: Did you know that the Royal Commission on Opium , set up at the instigation of anti-opium campaigners, set back the anti-opium cause by 15 years?
text: Did you know that the Matthew Callahan Log Cabin is one of the few such structures left in Aspen, Colorado ?
text: Did you know that advanced plans were developed for a film version of the award-winning 2002 novel The Cutting Room involving actor Robert Carlyle and screenwriter Andrea Gibb ?
text: Did you know that Denmark has a network of cycle routes extending more than 12,000 kilometres (7,500 mi)?
text: Did you know that Lyall Smith successfully lobbied for the first post-bowl AP Poll in 1948 to settle competing championship claims by undefeated Notre Dame and Michigan football teams?
text: Did you know that in Bach 's cantata Tue Rechnung! Donnerwort, BWV 168 , virtuoso string writing underscores the "word of thunder"?
text: Did you know that the 2011–12 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team will be the first Michigan team to host ESPN 's College GameDay college basketball television show?
text: Did you know that Polish Jacobin activist, officer of the Polish Legions , Kazimierz Konopka , gained notoriety for his involvements in the unrest and hangings during the Kościuszko Uprising ?
text: Did you know that US Presidents Clinton and Bush were awarded the Department of Defense Medal for Distinguished Public Service by their respective Secretaries of Defense ?
text: Did you know that in 2010 Elinor Joseph became the first Arab woman to serve in a combat role in the Israel Defense Forces ?
text: Did you know that when Wilfred main cast member Fiona Gubelmann first read the script for the pilot, she "didn't quite get the whole guy in the dog suit thing"?
text: Did you know that The X-Files star David Duchovny "detested" the episode " Born Again ", despite appearing alongside his then-girlfriend Maggie Wheeler ?
text: Did you know that Archaeorhizomycetes is a class of fungi that was not described until 2011?
text: Did you know that the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum in Colonial Williamsburg , Virginia , contains more than 3,000 objects of folk art ?
text: Did you know that after the Battle of the Meander , a rumour spread amongst the crusaders that their successful counterattack had been led by an unknown white-clad knight?
text: Did you know that during the New England Patriots ' 1985–86 playoff run, an opposing player hit general manager Patrick Sullivan with a football helmet?
text: Did you know that during the 1946 Shibuya incident over a thousand Yakuza fought hundreds of Formosan gang members for control of the local black markets in Tokyo?
text: Did you know that after debunking Abner Doubleday as the inventor of baseball , Frank Menke was placed in "the class that would belittle Washington, Lincoln and other men who have played their part in American history"?
text: Did you know that " O Tú o Ninguna " performed by Mexican singer Luis Miguel received a nomination for Song of the Year at the 1st Latin Grammy Awards ?
text: Did you know that the extinct fern species Osmunda wehrii was named in honor of Northwest school painter and amateur paleobotanist Wesley C. Wehr ?
text: Did you know that a fossilized dragon has been found in Poland?
text: Did you know that Typhoon Pamela contributed to the wettest month on record in Guam after slowly crossing the island, dropping 27 in (690 mm) of rainfall in a 24 hour period?
text: Did you know that the congregation of her church was outraged when E.R. Shipp criticized her pastor in print, but he led them in a standing ovation when she won the Pulitzer Prize ?
text: Did you know that "legendary" Indonesian composer A. T. Mahmud wrote around 500 children's songs?
text: Did you know that the 1978 song Man Free by Linton Kwesi Johnson was about Darcus Howe , then editor of black political magazine Race Today ?
text: Did you know that the Eastern Bettong eats native cranberries ?
text: Did you know that the Twoline eelpout feeds primarily on bottom-dwelling organisms?
text: Did you know that S&P sovereign ratings division head David T. Beers is responsible for the recent downgrade of the U.S. credit rating?
text: Did you know that Emma Thompson earned twelve accolades for Sense and Sensibility , including the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay ?
text: Did you know that Max Kase wrote in support of jazz and flappers in 1922, helped found the NBA in 1946, and won a Pulitzer Prize in 1952 for exposing college basketball point-shaving scandals?
text: Did you know that Washington was the second largest tree of its kind until its collapse in 2005?
text: Did you know that the recent Budget Control Act of 2011 , which resolved the 2011 U.S. debt ceiling crisis , will not actually reduce the overall size of the U.S. public debt ?
text: Did you know that Perseverance IV is the last floating River Wey barge in existence?
text: Did you know that the Paleocene Alaskan maple Acer alaskense was described from a fossil leaf that may be atypical for the species?
text: Did you know that in 1912, during the First Balkan War , the Kingdom of Serbia established Durrës County on territory captured from the Ottoman Empire ?
text: Did you know that the Mangrove restaurant in Notting Hill , London , attracted a clientele that included Christine Keeler , Mandy Rice-Davies , Jimi Hendrix , Nina Simone , and Bob Marley ?
text: Did you know that a cell bank stores cell lines in a mixture of liquid nitrogen that freezes them to a temperature lower than −70° Celsius ?
text: Did you know that RHI Entertainment 's miniseries based on Moby-Dick is the first to air on the U.S. pay-television network Encore ?
text: Did you know that Hall of Fame sportswriter Frank Graham , once described as "psychopathically polite," loved the "shadowy figures and rogues that dwelt on the fringes of his favorite sports"?
text: Did you know that jingū-ji , Buddhist temples with a shrine dedicated to the worship of a local Shinto kami , were common in Japan until they were outlawed in 1868?
text: Did you know that although English actor Andrew Gower won the Spotlight Prize in 2010, his new Being Human character is accustomed to the dark ?
text: Did you know that Jeanne L. Noble published the first studies about African-American women in college?
text: Did you know that the Kneeland Prairie penny-cress is a mustard flower with spoon-shaped petals and spatula-shaped leaves?
text: Did you know that Robin Dunne was nominated for a Constellation Award for his portrayal of Will Zimmerman in the television series Sanctuary , but narrowly lost to Doctor Who actor David Tennant ?
text: Did you know that Arthur Matsu was the first Asian American student at The College of William & Mary , the first Asian American quarterback in the NFL and the first Japanese coach in American football?
text: Did you know that a "terrible Mouse " weighing 500 kg (1,100 lb) has killed three people in Spain in the last five years?
text: Did you know that actress Amanda Tapping accepted the part of Helen Magnus , the protagonist of Sanctuary , after she was encouraged to move on from her eleven-year role as Samantha Carter in Stargate ?
text: Did you know that the British-supported Greek-Yugoslav confederation was signed during World War II , but never came to pass?
text: Did you know that Pulitzer winner William A. Caldwell wrote approximately 12,000 editorial columns, each exactly 85 lines long, six per week for 41 years?
text: Did you know that after the fall of Suharto , the circulation of his party's newspaper, Suara Karya , dropped by a factor of a hundred?
text: Did you know that sales of Montana artist Monte Dolack 's poster, "Restoring the Wolf to Yellowstone," were banned in Yellowstone and Glacier national parks by the U.S. National Park Service in 1990?
text: Did you know that, even though it mainly included Romanian peasants, the breakaway Inochentist church worshiped Russian Tsar Michael and the Romanovs ?
text: Did you know that in 1912 Ivan Ivanić became the first governor of Durrës County in the Kingdom of Serbia ?
text: Did you know that on two separate occasions in 2010, five One Piece releases simultaneously debuted on The New York Times Best Seller list for manga ?
text: Did you know that Bhutan House , an estate owned by the Dorji family in West Bengal, India, was once the conduit for communication between the government of Bhutan and the rest of the world?
text: Did you know that Riek Machar , first Vice-President of South Sudan in the Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) government, once fought against them, with government support?
text: Did you know that Sister Carmela Marie Cristiano was the first Catholic nun to run for political office in New Jersey ?
text: Did you know that one of the churches in the English district of Rother is a former Lifesaving Rocket Apparatus Station?
text: Did you know that Madam Auring shot to fame when she correctly predicted that Amparo Muñoz would win the 1974 Miss Universe title?
text: Did you know that in 2004 there were two terrorist attacks in Sulawesi , one on a bus and one in a cafe ?
text: Did you know that the variable saw sedge is food for caterpillars of the moth genus Elachista ?
text: Did you know that Happy Salma , wife of a prince, agreed to play a prostitute in 7 Hearts 7 Loves 7 Women , but only if no men could touch her on set?
text: Did you know that over 650,000 people visited the Alexander McQueen exhibition Savage Beauty at the Metropolitan Museum of Art , and some queued for more than four hours?
text: Did you know that footballer Hasan Ahmet Sari left Istanbul with his family after living through the 1999 İzmit earthquake ?
text: Did you know that the low numbers of injuries in carnivorous dinosaurs indicate they may have been less aggressive with individuals of their own species than modern crocodilians ?
text: Did you know that Reg , Doug and Max Bentley made history on January 1 , 1943, when they became the National Hockey League 's first all-brother forward line?
text: Did you know that Caxton Hall in Westminster, London, was the venue for the marriages of two Beatles , a future Prime Minister , and several movie stars?
text: Did you know that after Baseball Hall of Fame sportswriter Earl Lawson had altercations with both Johnny Temple and Vada Pinson , he joked that Pinson was a harder puncher?
text: Did you know that the perpetrators of a terrorist attack in Aceh on New Year's Eve 2003 are still unknown?
text: Did you know that after Luke Evans played for the Australian Schoolboys rugby union team, he joined the Welsh under-20 team?
text: Did you know that Muslim Mosque, Inc. , which was founded by Malcolm X , was awarded 35 scholarships to send students to Al-Azhar University and the Islamic University of Madinah ?
text: Did you know that ballet teacher Anneliese von Oettingen was featured in Sports Illustrated for training professional football players at her ballet school?
text: Did you know that future US Marine Lieutenant General Edward A. Craig was arrested by Marines at age 10 for photographing the Washington Navy Yard ?
text: Did you know that the author of Sitti Nurbaya never returned to his hometown after publishing it?
text: Did you know that the Union of Concerned Scientists created a Hybrid Scorecard to compare hybrid electric vehicles available in the U.S.?
text: Did you know that in Liverpool Bay , the white furrow shell , the transparent razor shell and the trumpet worm live side by side beneath the sand?
text: Did you know that Henry Lamar , who coached all four Kennedy brothers , originally intended to help coach at Harvard University for a few weeks but remained there for four decades?
text: Did you know that Ismail Marzuki wrote his 1945 song " Gugur Bunga di Taman Bakti " to honor the Indonesian casualties of the Indonesian National Revolution ?
text: Did you know that in the center of Bach 's cantata Es ist dir gesagt, Mensch, was gut ist, BWV 45 , the voice of Christ appears in a "highly virtuosic aria, half Vivaldian concerto, half operatic scena"?
text: Did you know that Pulitzer Prize -winner Thomas F. Darcy drew a political cartoon featuring an L-shaped coffin and the caption "Good news, we've turned the corner in Vietnam!"?
text: Did you know that in St Botolph's Church, Botolphs , a series of arches on the wall indicate a long-demolished aisle?
text: Did you know that Indonesian band Kekal has remained active and continues to release newly recorded material even though there are no longer any official members?
text: Did you know that Iván Erőd composed a sinfonietta called Minnesota Sinfonietta , an opera titled Silk Worms , and a song cycle for soprano and chamber orchestra, named Baby Tooth Songs ?
text: Did you know that although she was unsuccessful as a cross-Channel ferry, Castalia served for twenty years as a hospital ship?
text: Did you know that the Western cicada killer wasp paralyzes cicadas for its offspring to eat after hatching?
text: Did you know that the music video of the song " Express Yourself " had a budget of $5 million, making it the most expensive music video at the time of its release?
text: Did you know that baseball humorist Charles Dryden dubbed the 1906 White Sox the "Hitless Wonders" and said of the 1909 Senators : "Washington – first in war, first in peace and last in the American League"?
text: Did you know that the oldest known member of the mayfly family Neoephemeridae is the Eocene species Neoephemera antiqua ?
text: Did you know that according to music critic Greil Marcus , the track " Every Picture Tells a Story " represents Rod Stewart 's greatest performance?
text: Did you know that John Marburger , President George W. Bush 's science advisor , publicly stated his belief that intelligent design is not a scientific theory?
text: Did you know that in 1920 Balai Pustaka brought Pain and Suffering to Indonesia?
text: Did you know that when he was 20, shipping executive Lewis A. Lapham played a foursome with golf champions Bobby Jones and Francis Ouimet ?
text: Did you know that only four great uncial codices have survived until the present day?
text: Did you know that two cousins, both called Benjamin Handley , were in a boat that capsized crossing the Tagus river during the Peninsular War —and one drowned while the other survived?
text: Did you know that because he has brittle bone disease , motivational speaker Sean Stephenson is just three feet ( 91 cm ) tall?
text: Did you know that the World War II idea of a Polish-Czechoslovakian confederation was eventually discarded by the Czechs, whose leader favoured a prospective alliance with the Soviet Union?
text: Did you know that David Holston scored over 2,000 points during his high school basketball career, yet was not offered a single college scholarship?
text: Did you know that the tallest rock-fill dam in Japan can be found at the Shin-Takasegawa Pumped Storage Station in Nagano Prefecture ?
text: Did you know that Marcus Aurelius wanted to create a new Roman province called Marcomannia in what is now Slovakia ?
text: Did you know that Hockey Hall of Fame defenceman "Black Jack" Stewart quipped that his stick was not for scoring, but for "breaking arms"?
text: Did you know that the Indian port of Khejuri was destroyed by a devastating cyclone in 1864?
text: Did you know that the fungus Bloxam's entoloma was named after an English clergyman?
text: Did you know that the first year of Caribana in Toronto set records for Toronto Island attendance?
text: Did you know that coining new words such as "picture place" (for "art gallery") is a communication strategy used by people learning to speak a foreign tongue ?
text: Did you know that Seacology has preserved 957,852 acres (3,876 km 2 ; 1,497 sq mi) of marine habitat and 852,651 acres (3,451 km 2 ; 1,332 sq mi) of terrestrial habitat since it was founded in 1991?
text: Did you know that after largemouth bass were illegally placed into Davis Lake , it gained a reputation as one of the best bass lakes in Oregon ?
text: Did you know that drainage pits under London Underground tracks help reduce the number of suicides ?
text: Did you know that Hanna Zemer , who became the first female editor-in-chief of a major Israeli newspaper, had survived imprisonment in two Nazi concentration camps ?
text: Did you know that the William Armson -designed Guthrey Centre fell victim to the Christchurch earthquake , but his Excelsior Hotel will be rebuilt?
text: Did you know that the song " If I Had a Heart " by Fever Ray was featured in the Breaking Bad episode " Open House " because it matched the "full, heavy darkness" of its scene?
text: Did you know that the lord of the Sanjak of Dukagjin was hanged by the sultan's order in 1536?
text: Did you know that the Dickin Medal winner Peter was given a kiss on the nose by the future Queen Elizabeth II in 1946?
text: Did you know that during the Singaporean parliamentary general election of 2011 the opposition Workers' Party won a Group Representation Constituency for the first time?
text: Did you know that David Dunwoodie had two separate runs with the Ice Dogs ?
text: Did you know that the divergence in the Sino-Tibetan language family between the Sinitic languages in China and other Sino-Tibetan languages likely occurred during Neolithic migrations into the Tibetan plateau from the Neolithic cultures of the Yellow River ?
text: Did you know that photographer Chris Schlechten was briefly expelled from Montana State College for helping create a spoof annual which portrayed the basketball team as a row of Butterfinger candy bars?
text: Did you know that Jana Sterbak created a dress made of meat 23 years before Lady Gaga wore one ?
text: Did you know that Scottish naturalist Ramsay Heatley Traquair received the Royal Medal of the Royal Society in 1907 for his work on fossil fish ?
text: Did you know that the 2005 science fiction and horror film spoof The Naked Monster took 21 years to make and was Kenneth Tobey 's final film?
text: Did you know that the fungus Cortinarius badiolaevis has only been recorded in Spain and Sweden?
text: Did you know that Tischendorf 's Editio Octava Critica Maior and Westcott and Hort's text were sufficient to make the Textus Receptus obsolete for the scholarly world?
text: Did you know that the eyelids of some Elliot's short-tailed shrews are permanently closed?
text: Did you know that in the Holmes' no Mokushiroku story arc of the Case Closed series, the character Minerva Glass was based on professional tennis player Steffi Graf ?
text: Did you know that Roscoe C. Wilson was the United States Army Air Forces liaison to the Manhattan Project ?
text: Did you know that although the slender devil's twine looks and behaves like dodder , it is a laurel ?
text: Did you know that Wacław Gluth-Nowowiejski 's World War II memoir The Commonwealth of Ruins , about his experience of hiding in a destroyed city as a Robinson Crusoe of Warsaw , was adapted into a short comic?
text: Did you know that computer input methods are blamed for individuals forgetting how to write Chinese characters ?
text: Did you know that the 644-kilometre (400 mi) European route E59 links three European capitals – Prague , Vienna and Zagreb ?
text: Did you know that the Ridgeway Site is the type site for the Glacial Kame Culture ?
text: Did you know that the extinct moth Epiborkhausenites is noted for having very similar color patterning to the living species Tubuliferola josephinae and Hofmannophila pseudospretella ?
text: Did you know that in translating the Republic of Plato , Desmond Lee preferred "magnificent myth" to what he considered the conventional mistranslation " noble lie "?
text: Did you know that the online game EteRNA , funded by the National Science Foundation , allows players to design RNA molecules that may be synthesized in a Stanford biochemistry lab?
text: Did you know that Kingdom Tower is to be raised by bin Ladin's family's business and is expected to be the world's tallest building?
text: Did you know that sarcoids are non-fatal tumors but are a common reason for euthanasia in horses?
text: Did you know that phantasmagoria showman Paul Philidor convinced Marie Tussaud to exhibit her waxworks in England?
text: Did you know that the Hartington City Hall and Auditorium was built to a Prairie School design when that style was in decline and "stands as a progressive building in an otherwise conservative community"?
text: Did you know that S.H.I.E.L.D. agent Phil Coulson , played by Clark Gregg in the Marvel Cinematic Universe , will appear as Peter Parker 's school principal in the upcoming cartoon series Ultimate Spider-Man ?
text: Did you know that Flustra foliacea looks like a seaweed but is actually a colony of animals ?
text: Did you know that Comala, Colima , Mexico , may be the setting for Juan Rulfo 's Pedro Páramo ?
text: Did you know that Fantasy Studios was built on profits from hit songs by Creedence Clearwater Revival ?
text: Did you know that actor Ron Taylor performed the American national anthem " The Star-Spangled Banner " at several sporting fixtures after playing a similar role in an episode of L.A. Law ?
text: Did you know that in May 1933, the Nazis stormed the General German Trade Union Federation and all its member unions, seizing their assets and putting their leaders in " protective custody "?
text: Did you know that undefeated Boyd Melson donates all the money he earns in boxing matches to stem cell research ?
text: Did you know that following opposition calls for a boycott , voter turnout in the 1983 general elections in Jamaica was just 2.7%?
text: Did you know that Herb Kawainui Kane died on the 36th anniversary of the launch of the Hōkūle‘a , a voyaging canoe he designed?
text: Did you know that Murtaja , launched in 1889, was Finland's first state-owned icebreaker ?
text: Did you know that Richard Chavez designed the black eagle logo of the United Farm Workers while his brother, César Chávez , chose the red and black coloring?
text: Did you know that after Kenneth R. Shadrick became the first U.S. foot soldier reported killed in the Korean War , his father traced the tragedy back to a stolen football uniform?
text: Did you know that when the Mayor of Liverpool turned on the Steble Fountain in 1879, its effect was said to have been "dismal"?
text: Did you know that The X-Files episode " Shapes " reunited Twin Peaks cast members David Duchovny and Michael Horse ?
text: Did you know that Nickolaus Hirschl , in addition to winning two Olympic medals in wrestling, won Austrian national championships in shotput , discus , and pentathlon ?
text: Did you know that a flattop crab , when trying to escape from a predator, can cast off limbs as a diversion, with the claws of a cast limb still gripping vigorously after separation?
text: Did you know that The Throne ' s hip-hop single " Otis " was remixed as an alleged diss track by Game ?
text: Did you know that after the Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Authority ordered the demolition of Wharetiki House , its powers were for the first time tested in the High Court ?
text: Did you know that Ethical Oil , a book that argues in favour of the exploitation of the Athabasca oil sands , won the National Business Book Award in 2011?
text: Did you know that the schooner Shearwater was hit by falling debris from the World Trade Center on September 11 , 2001?
text: Did you know that Lord Irvine dismissed a record of fifteen magistrates of England and Wales in a single year in 1999?
text: Did you know that " Miracle Man " was the first episode of The X-Files written by Howard Gordon without his long-term collaborator Alex Gansa ?
text: Did you know that Thelma Pressman opened the first microwave cooking school in the United States?
text: Did you know that Indonesian peacekeeping forces have served in Egypt, Israel, Bosnia, Somalia, and the Philippines?
text: Did you know that The Knack ' s second comeback attempt, the 1998 album Zoom , was described as their best since their debut album Get The Knack ?
text: Did you know that the direction and photography in the Breaking Bad episode " Thirty-Eight Snub " was compared to the work of filmmakers Sergio Leone and Quentin Tarantino ?
text: Did you know that the Jimmy & Rosalynn Carter Work Project attracts thousands of volunteers to build homes for low-income families around the world?
text: Did you know that the Permian amphibian Trimerorhachis either brooded young in its mouth or ate them ?
text: Did you know that Wat Tyler Cluverius, Jr. , who died in 1952, was the last surviving officer of the sinking of the USS Maine ?
text: Did you know that although Christchurch was an Anglican settlement, the first three mayors ( Wilson , Anderson and Duncan ) were all Presbyterian ?
text: Did you know that at the beginning of 16th century the Sanjak of Elbasan had the highest population density of all Ottoman Balkan sanjaks ?
text: Did you know that Crothers Memorial Hall, one of two Stanford University dormitories funded by gifts from Judge George E. Crothers , was named in memory of the judge's mother?
text: Did you know that Flat Horse dance is said to represent male virility or female irrationality?
text: Did you know that pink fairy lilies usually produce flowers only after heavy rains?
text: Did you know that the Indianapolis Museum of Art ' s outdoor sculpture The Three Graces is based on a c. 1797 painting by noted Italian artist Antonio Canova , but its sculptor is unknown?
text: Did you know that the 1 May 1951 U.S. Navy raid on the Hwacheon Dam during the Korean War was the last use of aerial torpedoes against a surface target?
text: Did you know that during production tapis is warped and couched ?
text: Did you know that the Jug Tavern , possibly the oldest building in Ossining, New York , may not have been a tavern at all, or if it was did not serve liquor legally ?
text: Did you know that Mike Cahill , director and screenwriter of Another Earth (2011), was National Geographic's youngest field producer, editor and cinematographer?
text: Did you know that after its colonel was cashiered for drunkenness, the 68th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment was commanded by a German prince ?
text: Did you know that the Great Terrestrial Globe in the lobby of New York's Daily News Building was made by American muralist and painter D. Putnam Brinley ?
text: Did you know that poet and minister Johann Heermann wrote the hymn Was willst du dich betrüben (Why do you want to distress yourself) during the Thirty Years' War ?
text: Did you know that although shattered by his imprisonment at Auschwitz and other Nazi concentration camps , in 1952 Czech writer Norbert Frýd fearlessly protested a friend's arrest in Communist Czechoslovakia?
text: Did you know that the Brotherton Library at the University of Leeds was deliberately built to be wider than the British Museum Reading Room , on which it was modelled?
text: Did you know that Jerry Green was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2005 and is one of four sports writers to cover each of the first 45 Super Bowls ?
text: Did you know that Slalom was the first video game developed by UK-based video game company Rare ?
text: Did you know that British Library, Add. 17212 is a rare example of a double palimpsest with three successive writings?
text: Did you know that Ute lady's tresses are threatened by saltcedar and peppergrass ?
text: Did you know that US Army Master Sergeant Ernest R. Kouma was awarded the Medal of Honor (pictured) in the Korean War for singlehandedly killing approximately 250 North Korean troops?
text: Did you know that, to comply with obscenity laws , the first two editions of Eric Partridge 's A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English contained slang with asterisks in place of vowels in vulgar words?
text: Did you know that Mozart built the final scene of his opera The Magic Flute "upon a solemn fugato around the chorale Ach Gott, vom Himmel sieh darein " by Martin Luther ?
text: Did you know that Jason Richardson is the only track and field athlete to have won both the 110 metres hurdles and 400 metres hurdles at a world youth championships?
text: Did you know that the pulpit in Christ Church, Barnton , Cheshire has been described as " Puginesquely elaborate"?
text: Did you know that pink beard-heaths blossom around Sydney in spring?
text: Did you know that the arrest of Brownie Mary led to one of the first clinical trials studying the effects of cannabinoids in HIV-infected adults?
text: Did you know that Parvathi is said to have worshipped Shiva while in the form of a peahen at the Mayuranathaswami Temple in Mayiladuthurai ?
text: Did you know that the National Benevolent Fund for the Aged held tea party fund-raisers?
text: Did you know that the Monarch Contemporary Art Center and Sculpture Park also includes boarding facilities?
text: Did you know that Paul Speratus was in prison, sentenced to death by fire, when he wrote the hymn Es ist das Heil uns kommen her (Salvation now has come for all)?
text: Did you know that the Eastern Cape dwarf cycad was one of the first three Cape cycads to be declared endangered by the Cape provincial nature conservation authorities?
text: Did you know that William Randolph Hearst dispatched a " damn fool " to deliver a gold and diamond encrusted sword to Cuban independence leader Máximo Gómez ?
text: Did you know that the North Bank Depot Buildings in Portland, Oregon , were built in 1908 as terminals for the Spokane, Portland and Seattle Railway ?
text: Did you know that Arthur Barnett founded a department store that was to become the most successful in the Otago Region ?
text: Did you know that, according to some legends, Batara Kala was conceived when a fish swallowed Shiva 's sperm?
text: Did you know that there is to be a US version of Jeremy Kyle 's successful British talk series?
text: Did you know that the 1605 Keichō Nankaidō earthquake has been identified as a tsunami earthquake , because the recorded tsunami was much larger than would be expected from the estimated earthquake magnitude?
text: Did you know that US Air Force Major General Nels Running , a recipient of seven Distinguished Flying Crosses , had never boarded an airplane until he left his home town to attend the Air Force Academy ?
text: Did you know that the Chinese philosophy of Agriculturalism advocated that leaders not be paid by the government, instead earning their wages from working in the fields with peasants?
text: Did you know that former Audio Adrenaline front-man Mark Stuart talked more than he sang on the self-titled debut album of his new project, the Know Hope Collective ?
text: Did you know that the first Lutheran hymnal contained only eight hymns on five melodies by three poets, Martin Luther , Paul Speratus and probably Justus Jonas ?
text: Did you know that the actions of Arthur Seymour contributed to the capital of the Marlborough Province , New Zealand, shifting from Blenheim to Picton and back to Blenheim five years later?
text: Did you know that French engineering firm Colas Group has its origins from patents filed by two British scientists and a Dutch oil company ?
text: Did you know that Amitabh Bachchan is the most frequent winner since 2000 at the National Film Award for Best Actor ( India ), winning two awards?
text: Did you know that the Davis Waite House in Aspen was home to the eighth governor of Colorado , a Bauhaus architect and an oil company executive ?
text: Did you know that the Faial Botanical Garden aims to preserve the endemic plants of Faial Island in the Azores ?
text: Did you know that art critic and cookbook collector Elizabeth Robins Pennell wrote the first independent biography of proto-feminist Mary Wollstonecraft ?
text: Did you know that Holy Trinity Church, Northwich , was the largest of the three churches designed by Edmund Sharpe for the Weaver Navigation Trustees?
text: Did you know that Prince Diponegoro thought that Chinese Indonesians brought bad luck upon his campaign?
text: Did you know that the Virginia spiraea may have become extinct in Pennsylvania due to damming of the Yough ?
text: Did you know that Olson House , made famous by its depiction in Christina's World , was designated a National Historic Landmark in June 2011 ?
text: Did you know that the Cuno strikes on August 11 , 1923, helped force the resignation of the German chancellor and his entire cabinet on August 12 and inspired the Communist Party to plan a coup ?
text: Did you know that the black sea cucumber releases special chemicals into the water to warn potential predators that it may taste bad?
text: Did you know that Albert Schweitzer likened the bass line of an aria mentioning Satan in Bach 's cantata Was willst du dich betrüben, BWV 107 , "to the contortions of a huge dragon"?
text: Did you know that the town of Fakfak has both pro- Indonesian and pro- independent Papua factions?
text: Did you know that Belle Mina , completed in 1826, is one of the earliest examples of a columned plantation house in Alabama ?
text: Did you know that despite New South Wales having no political party system at the time, the Third Parkes ministry was a coalition government from 1878 to 1883 between former Premiers Henry Parkes and John Robertson ?
text: Did you know that the post-hardcore album The Drug in Me Is You by Falling In Reverse contains a hip-hop beat sample created by Dr. Dre and Eminem ?
text: Did you know that two mummified cats hang from the wall in the Stag Inn at Hastings , England?
text: Did you know that both the Spitzer and the Hubble Space Telescopes have probed SN 1961V to check Fritz Zwicky 's 1964 claim that it's a supernova impostor ?
text: Did you know that the Atomic Energy Commission of India concluded that the Tummalapalle uranium mine might have one of the largest reserves of uranium in the world?
text: Did you know that English stunt performer Jacquie de Creed broke the world record for the long distance car ramp jump in 1983?
text: Did you know that the family placement for the fossil moth genus Dominickus was not noticed until entomologist Norman Tindale was looking at pictures of modern moths from Australia?
text: Did you know that Michel Demazure , a mathematician from the pseudonymous Nicolas Bourbaki group, led two French science museums, the Palais de la Découverte and the Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie ?
text: Did you know that scientists first discovered the biological screw joint in the Papuan weevil Trigonopterus oblongus ?
text: Did you know that several defunct Roman amphitheatres , including the Arles Amphitheatre , were converted into churches or fortifications?
text: Did you know that U.S. Congressman Thaddeus McCotter mounted a 2012 campaign for president after being asked to run by Red Eye satirist Greg Gutfeld ?
text: Did you know that the Alabama variety of the purpleflower pinkroot is found exclusively in Bibb County ?
text: Did you know that Guillaume Rondelet performed a public autopsy on his infant son?
text: Did you know that the Nepalese Chamber of Commerce, Lhasa , formed in 1943, was the first chamber of commerce established by Nepalese traders in Tibet ?
text: Did you know that, while Peniophora quercina typically grows upon dead oak , it has been known to colonise living plants?
text: Did you know that Morris Meyerfeld, Jr. was called "the Rockefeller of Vaudeville "?
text: Did you know that the early Eocene maple species Acer douglasense is the second-oldest maple known from Alaska?
text: Did you know that the 13th Light Bomber Squadron was the first Greek military unit to be formed in exile after the German conquest of Greece in World War II?
text: Did you know that Patriarch Dionysius I of Constantinople showed his penis to a synod , so that everyone could see that he was not circumcised ?
text: Did you know that the director of Battlefield Heroes wanted the film to show how countries such as China, Japan and the United States have affected Korea ?
text: Did you know that, up to 2011, Andrew Brokos has had top-100 finishes in his last three World Series of Poker ?
text: Did you know that the extinct prehistoric moth species Tortrix? destructus and Tortrix? florissantana are each known from just one fossil found at Florissant, Colorado ?
text: Did you know that TV presenter George McGavin cooks and eat insects?
text: Did you know that in 2005 Elvis Presley achieved three posthumous number-one hits in the UK Singles Chart as part of a record company campaign to mark his 70th birthday?
text: Did you know that New York's Potsdam Sandstone was deposited in rising seas and consists of sediments eroded from unvegetated terrestrial landscapes?
text: Did you know that Ahmad Sarbani Mohamed was the second person in two years to die while in the custody of the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission ?
text: Did you know that the prototype of the British Type 281 early warning radar was mounted on the light cruiser HMS Dido in October 1940 ?
text: Did you know that in some places in the video game Beep , players must stack dead enemies in order to advance?
text: Did you know that when Rodney Blake graduated from Saint Joseph's University in 1988, his 419 career blocks were the most in NCAA Division I men's basketball history?
text: Did you know that the current Scotland national under-16 football team squad features players from Real Madrid and Liverpool ?
text: Did you know sportswriter Dick "Scoop" Gordon earned his nickname for reporting at The Daily Princetonian in 1930, and filed his last sports story for the Villager in 2008?
text: Did you know that the soundtrack of the 2000 film Me You Them is also Gilberto Gil 's tribute to Luiz Gonzaga , "The King of Baião "?
text: Did you know that the writing of the English play, The First Domino , was inspired by its author's injury in a 1999 nail bomb attack in Soho ?
text: Did you know that Highland Cottage , the first concrete house in Westchester County, New York , was nicknamed "Mud House" during its construction?
text: Did you know that as a member of the Desinfektionskommando , one of Adolf Theuer 's responsibilities was to insert the Zyklon B into the gas chamber at Auschwitz concentration camp ?
text: Did you know that FIFA eligibility rules were changed in 2004, reportedly in response to a growing trend in countries such as Qatar and Togo to naturalise Brazil-born footballers?
text: Did you know that the rare and threatened Florida skullcap does not bloom unless it burns at least every three years?
text: Did you know that Leal Garcia v. Texas , a 2011 U.S. Supreme Court case, dealt with the relationship between international law , U.S. state law, and acts of Congress ?
text: Did you know that due to the urban setting of the Great Forest Park Balloon Race some balloonists have landed in yards, golf courses, street intersections, and a walled convent garden?
text: Did you know that simply knowing about and understanding the illusion of transparency might help reduce speech anxiety?
text: Did you know that the cost of the final 20-kilometre (12 mi) segment of the Croatian A2 motorway was twice that of the other two-thirds of the route?
text: Did you know that after five previous attempts to evangelise the Kavango people in German South-West Africa , Joseph Gotthardt 's journeys eventually led to the establishment of a mission station in 1910?
text: Did you know that according to the Hindu epic Ramayana , Jaya gave birth to fifty magical divine weapons ?
text: Did you know that T-Mobile myTouch 4G spokesperson Carly Foulkes has been cast in the FX Network television series Powers ?
text: Did you know that despite originally being compared to a Kuntilanak (a female vampire in Indonesian mythology ), Berlian Hutauruk 's vocals on " Badai Pasti Berlalu " were well received?
text: Did you know that " Donde Quiera Que Estés " was recorded by Selena and the Barrio Boyzz to boost each others' fan bases in different parts of America?
text: Did you know that in the road movie Children of the Stork , which highlights themes of social exclusion and illegal immigration, a stork must obtain a forged passport to cross the Franco-German border?
text: Did you know that major league baseball rookie Jason Kipnis of the Cleveland Indians also played high school football and was considered "quite simply one of the top receivers in the state" of Illinois?
text: Did you know that in his Florentine Chronicle , Baldassarre Bonaiuti , tells how during the Black Death of 1348 sick people in Florence were abandoned by their families?
text: Did you know that the cough suppressant medication pentoxyverine is used in experimental pharmacology as a sigma-1 receptor agonist ?
text: Did you know that Jim Eastwood became known as "Jedi Jim" because of his powers of persuasion on The Apprentice ?
text: Did you know that after a boiler explosion aboard the sternwheeler Sarah Dixon , survivors rowed four miles (6 km) to find medical assistance?
text: Did you know that the title of a 2008 article by German journalist Julia Voss translates as " Jim Button saves the theory of evolution"?
text: Did you know that Operation Archery was delayed by a full day because HMS Prince Charles was flooded with 14 feet (4.3 m) of seawater?
text: Did you know that the habitat of the wishbone blue-eyed grass is being seized by "the vine that ate the South" ?
text: Did you know that the bracken club fungus feeds on dead bracken as a saprotroph ?
text: Did you know that surgeon George Crile, Jr. was instrumental in changing how breast cancer is treated by doctors?
text: Did you know that the Selena song Techno Cumbia is believed to be one of the early templates for pop-cumbia-rap fusions?
text: Did you know that the Arabic translation of Mein Kampf has been a bestseller in parts of the Middle East?
text: Did you know that in 1944, the baseball team at Beaumont High School in St. Louis, Missouri , included five future Major League Baseball players?
text: Did you know that, when it was built, the 87-metre (285 ft) high Tsukabaru Dam was the tallest gravity type dam in Japan?
text: Did you know that Indonesian sociologist Mely G. Tan participated in student protests at the University of California, Berkeley until warned that she could be deported?
text: Did you know that the only known report of bloodshed during the simulated Nazi invasion of Winnipeg was from a woman who cut her thumb while preparing toast?
text: Did you know that after returning from the Crimean War and the Siege of Sebastopol , Richard Taylor took command of Fort George in Scotland?
text: Did you know that Frank Darabont , developer of the television series The Walking Dead , said he went through "four years of frustration" trying to get a network to pick up the pilot episode, " Days Gone Bye "?
text: Did you know that the Tumblebug Complex Fire burned 14,570 acres (5,900 ha) of Willamette National Forest land in Oregon in 2009?
text: Did you know that the scheme of stained glass by Shrigley and Hunt in Christ Church, Lancaster , Lancashire, England, has been described as "one of their best and most important ensembles"?
text: Did you know that the Icelandic Phallological Museum collection of penises includes 55 from whales but only one from Homo sapiens ?
text: Did you know that in Normandy on 7 June 1944, the surgeons of the 224th (Parachute) Field Ambulance kept on operating, despite being surrounded on three sides by German forces, the nearest being only 300 yards (270 m) away?
text: Did you know that the sea cucumber Synaptula lamperti feeds on detritus from the elephant ear sponge ?
text: Did you know that author Babette Rosmond (1921–97) was an important early advocate against traditional treatments for breast cancer?
text: Did you know that Eynesbury Rovers are the most westerly football club ever to play in the Eastern Counties League ?
text: Did you know that while Pauline Ashwell was nominated for a Hugo Award for Best New Author in 1958, her first story was actually published in 1942 when she was only fourteen years old?
text: Did you know that Death in the Afternoon , a cocktail containing absinthe and Champagne , was popularized by Ernest Hemingway in a 1935 recipe book?
text: Did you know that Samuel Fisk Green was a pioneering American missionary who founded Sri Lanka 's first medical teaching hospital ?
text: Did you know that the Type 79 radar was the first radar system deployed by the Royal Navy and was developed before World War II ?
text: Did you know that Guo Jie is the last surviving member of China's delegation to the 1936 Summer Olympics ?
text: Did you know that Thomas "Amarillo Slim" Preston , champion of the 1972 World Series of Poker , won his title in a fixed match after an under-the-table tournament deal ?
text: Did you know that Israeli swimwear designer Lea Gottlieb used flowers in her designs because she felt flowers saved her life?
text: Did you know that the Pilbara Toadlet has recently been identified as a new species using DNA analysis ?
text: Did you know that journalist Leon Daniel was one of the few reporters to remain in Vietnam after the fall of Saigon ?
text: Did you know that construction of the Fukuji Dam was begun by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers , but the Japanese government was responsible for its completion?
text: Did you know that Bryan Cranston was cast as Breaking Bad protagonist Walter White based on his performance in an episode of The X-Files ?
text: Did you know that wildfires are beneficial to the herb Nelson's checkerbloom ?
text: Did you know that during a hurricane in November 1861 , a man charged two cents per ride to transport passengers by boat to and from a popular New York City bar surrounded by floodwaters?
text: Did you know that ERC , included with GNU Emacs since 2007, is one of a handful of IRC clients available for the text editor?
text: Did you know that Calcinus tubularis is one of only two known species of hermit crab whose males and females inhabit different types of shell?
text: Did you know that science fiction and horror author Jane Rice had been a professional author for over fifty years before the publication of her first book, The Sixth Dog ?
text: Did you know that Nelson Story was the first cattleman to drive Texas Longhorns to Montana along the Bozeman Trail in 1866?
text: Did you know that Russia planted a flag at the North Pole as part of its current arctic policy ?
text: Did you know that while serving in World War II, future National Labor Relations Board chairman John C. Truesdale helped sink the German submarine U-550 on his first day at sea?
text: Did you know that when the Tennessee Center for Policy Research , a "free-market think tank," criticized Al Gore ' s energy use, CNN mistakenly called the organization an environmental group?
text: Did you know that the Mapuche military leader Alejo gave up his attack on Concepción , Chile , after having a military parley with his mother?
text: Did you know that Gigantolithic tools may predate agriculture?
text: Did you know that because of the Great Depression , the members of the Anshei Minsk synagogue offered to pay the builder with a lifetime membership in lieu of full fees for his services?
text: Did you know that Buddhist temples in Japan are protected by special Shinto shrines called chinjusha ?
text: Did you know that a first edition of Darwin 's On the Origin of Species is in the collection of the University of California, Santa Barbara Library ?
text: Did you know that in " Judy's Turn to Cry ", singer Leslie Gore gloats about the return of the boy she cried over in her previous hit song " It's My Party "?
text: Did you know that SeaLifeBase is an online database, modelled on FishBase , that attempts to provide key information on all marine species apart from finfish ?
text: Did you know that Praunus flexuosus , the first mysid shrimp ever to be described, may have been transported to North America during World War II?
text: Did you know that medium Leslie Flint sometimes performed séances from a cupboard?
text: Did you know that Handel 's Gloria , a setting of the Gloria for soprano and strings, was attributed to the composer in 2001?
text: Did you know that former Michigan linebacker Mike Keller has played in the NFL and held executive positions in the USFL , XFL and World League of American Football ?
text: Did you know that the Faroe Islands national football team won its first ever competitive match against Austria in 1990?
text: Did you know that Haneji Dam in Okinawa Prefecture , Japan, includes an airlift system which enables fish from downstream to go up into the reservoir formed by the dam?
text: Did you know that NFL halfback Bruce McLenna was killed in 1968 while riding in the rear of a military truck that crashed?
text: Did you know that Okukubi Dam in Okinawa Prefecture , Japan, will be the world's first trapezoidal cemented, sand and gravel dam?
text: Did you know that Judge Jerold Krieger was a co-founder of the first lesbian and gay synagogue?
text: Did you know that " She's a Fool ", the third single recorded by Lesley Gore , charted in the top 5 in the US?
text: Did you know that the actor Yoshio Harada , noted for playing antihero roles in his youth, won a Medal of Honor from the Japanese government?
text: Did you know that the Pacific lugworm must turn its esophagus inside-out when feeding?
text: Did you know that the extinct Hydriomena? protrita was the first geometer moth to be described from the American fossil record ?
text: Did you know that director Malcolm Venville planned to make a feature film entirely in sign language starring Orlando Bloom ?
text: Did you know that the Forth Valley Royal Hospital was the first in the UK to use robotic porters?
text: Did you know that the steam-powered cargo liner Empire Dynasty carried a Supermarine Spitfire from Liverpool to Bombay in 1945?
text: Did you know that the Simon and Garfunkel song " So Long, Frank Lloyd Wright " has been interpreted both as a tribute to the eponymous architect and as a farewell from writer Paul Simon to partner Art Garfunkel ?
text: Did you know that the northeastern bulrush has died out of Quebec , but is still found in some sinkholes in the Eastern United States ?
text: Did you know that geophysical methods have been used to look for the palace of Cleopatra ?
text: Did you know that the Nantgarw tradition of Morris dancing is based on what one woman remembered of the dances she had seen when she was young?
text: Did you know that several members of the Hyatt 10 were reappointed by Philippine President Benigno Aquino III because he thought it would be "liberating" for them?
text: Did you know that tenor Ulrich Cordes was the Evangelist in Bach's St Matthew Passion in St. Martin, Idstein , the Berliner Philharmonie and the Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels ?
text: Did you know that the northern tamandua eats up to nine thousand ants and termites per day?
text: Did you know that there were concerns that the statue of Winston Churchill in Parliament Square looked too much like Italian Fascist leader Benito Mussolini ?
text: Did you know that, despite its name, the freshwater crab Potamon ibericum does not live in Iberia ?
text: Did you know that this year's World Series of Poker Europe will be the first one not to be held in London?
text: Did you know that Virginia 's policy of " massive resistance " led to enactment, in September 1956 , of the Stanley plan , laws requiring immediate closure of any public school that integrated racially ?
text: Did you know that rhinoceroses in ancient China were used as models for wine vessels?
text: Did you know that during a feud with the singer and composer Francesca Caccini , Andrea Salvadori wrote a poem entitled "Women musicians speak from Hell"?
text: Did you know that the myrtle geebung is a food item for native bees, currawongs and possibly kangaroos and possums?
text: Did you know that the Coles 4038 microphone, used on records by The Beatles and Led Zeppelin , has the appearance of a waffle iron ?
text: Did you know that the extinct species Agulla mineralensis is the first North American snakefly to be described from Neogene fossils?
text: Did you know that Harry Lee played his only Test cricket match over 15 years after being declared dead?
text: Did you know that Hiallt was a Viking warrior who settled in Normandy and whose descendants, the Hauteville family , became rulers of Sicily and were leaders in the First Crusade ?
text: Did you know that the Tamil film Avana Ivan is an adaptation of the 1951 American film A Place in the Sun ?
text: Did you know that interior designer Kelly Wearstler has been called "the presiding grande dame of West Coast interior design "?
text: Did you know that the horticultural varieties of Ptilotus nobilis include 'Passion', 'Poise' and 'Purity'?
text: Did you know that Norman Kamaru went from being a police officer to "billionaire" singer in less than six months?
text: Did you know that the extinct snakefly Agulla protomaculata is the only snakefly described from the Green River Formation ?
text: Did you know that Ewan McGregor was inspired to buy his own pet dog after working with canine actor Cosmo ?
text: Did you know that Norwegian publisher Ernst G. Mortensen founded Norway's first correspondence school ?
text: Did you know that a club started by two undergraduates in 1839 was central to the spread of Victorian restoration which determined the character of most English churches and cathedrals today?
text: Did you know that Indian businessman and builder T. Namberumal Chetty is said to have owned 99 residences in the Chennai neighborhood of Chetpet , but would not purchase a 100th for astrological reasons?
text: Did you know that John's Phone has been dubbed "the world's simplest phone"?
text: Did you know that the nearest living relatives of Eosacantha , a fossil tortoise beetle from Colorado , are found in Africa, tropical Asia, and Australia?
text: Did you know that at a total cost of US$264 million , the Trump National Golf Club in Los Angeles is the most expensive golf course ever constructed?
text: Did you know that film producer Masaichi Nagata was inducted into the Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame ?
text: Did you know that White House Honey Ale is the only beer known to have been brewed in the White House ?
text: Did you know that Alice Cooper and Rob Zombie were nominated for a Grammy award for a song in the key of X ?
text: Did you know that after St Gwenllwyfo's Church in Anglesey, Wales, was abandoned in 1856 in favour of a replacement , its medieval roof took nearly 100 years to collapse?
text: Did you know that the closed circle of suspects is a common literary device from the Golden Age of Detective Fiction ?
text: Did you know that England ranked first in the 2011 Commonwealth Youth Games medal table ?
text: Did you know that Paul Luther , son of theologian Martin Luther , became an alchemist ?
text: Did you know that only 14 cricketers have represented Japan in Women's One Day Internationals ?
text: Did you know that the Fredensborg Houses were specifically designed by Jørn Utzon for Danes returning from abroad?
text: Did you know that Lindsay Pearce had to be sneaked in to film the Glee third season premiere because The Glee Project finale awarding her the role had not yet aired?
text: Did you know that the James Elliott Farm in Indiana was the home of the brewer for the New Harmony commune of Owenites ?
text: Did you know that while some prolific authors used pen and paper or typewriters, Philip M. Parker has used a computer to write more than 200,000 books?
text: Did you know that wheelchair racer Chantal Petitclerc became the first disabled recipient of the Bobbie Rosenfeld Award as Canada's female athlete of the year after she won five Paralympic gold medals in 2008 ?
text: Did you know that in 1945 a Japanese battalion was rearmed to serve alongside the British 5th Parachute Brigade in the Far East ?
text: Did you know that the cut flowers of the crinkle bush can attract and kill flies when kept indoors?
text: Did you know that The Shirelles , described as having a "naive schoolgirl sound", are credited with starting the girl band genre ?
text: Did you know that John Randolph Neal , chief defense counsel in the Scopes Trial , had once lost a job as part of a "Slaughter of the Ph.D.s"?
text: Did you know that the Athletics Bridge is an international track and field competition held annually in Slovakia ?
text: Did you know that when he was a child, African-American songwriter Ted Jarrett was told that "only white boys write songs"?
text: Did you know that " Praise to the Lord, the Almighty ", the hymn that inspired Bach's cantata BWV 137 , has been published in more than ten English translations?
text: Did you know that Annæus Schjødt was prosecutor in the trial against Vidkun Quisling ?
text: Did you know that the velvet horn is fed upon by the sap-sucking slug ?
text: Did you know that Mexican-born merchant Estevan Ochoa undertook a dangerous 250-mile (400 km) journey through Apache territory to avoid swearing loyalty to the Confederate States of America ?
text: Did you know that the type specimen of the extinct tortoise beetle Denaeaspis is only 6.04 millimetres (0.238 in) long?
text: Did you know that New England Patriots assistant George Godsey is the most accurate quarterback in Georgia Tech history ?
text: Did you know that three singer-songwriters formed the supergroup Alex, Jorge y Lena ?
text: Did you know that bookseller Johan Dahl is immortalized through a farce by Henrik Wergeland from 1835?
text: Did you know that the Military Officers Association of America reports that the " I'm a lighthouse. Your call " urban legend is forwarded to the organization an average of three times a day?
text: Did you know that Saltford Brass Mill contains a complete annealing furnace claimed to be one of the best remaining examples of this technology in Britain?
text: Did you know that Gardiner regards the unusual use of independent trombones in Bach's cantata Es ist nichts Gesundes an meinem Leibe, BWV 25 , as an "anticipation of the finale to Beethoven's Fifth Symphony "?
text: Did you know that National Football League offensive tackle Levi Horn is a member of the Cheyenne tribe ?
text: Did you know that the Eternal Diet , "a bladeless knife without a handle", followed the Youngest Recess of the Holy Roman Empire ?
text: Did you know that less than a decade after he fought Seminoles in Florida to keep them from aiding the Spanish, U.S. Senator John Williams voted against the treaty in which Spain ceded Florida to the U.S. ?
text: Did you know that Hurricane Norbert fluctuated from a Category 3 to Category 4 three times in two days?
text: Did you know that the Young Justice episode " Independence Day " introduces a younger version of the DC Universe ?
text: Did you know that the Indian astronomer Chinthamani Ragoonatha Chary discovered the variable star R Reticuli in 1867?
text: Did you know that Blessing in Disguise condemns conservative traditionalism in a two-page discussion of Indonesian witch-doctors ?
text: Did you know that Lou Frost was elected nine times as public defender in Jacksonville, Florida , without opposition?
text: Did you know that the plant Hakea macraeana was first described in The Australian Journal of Pharmacy ?
text: Did you know that the 12th-century Auspicious Tantra of All-Reaching Union , discovered among the rubble of the Baisigou Square Pagoda after it had been blown up, is the earliest-known book printed using wooden movable type ?
text: Did you know that Belinda Clark of Australia is the first person of either sex to score a double century in international limited overs cricket ?
text: Did you know that a listing on eBay led to the discovery of a new species ?
text: Did you know that award-winning Indonesian film director Teguh Karya directed numerous romances, but never married?
text: Did you know that the Chennakesava Perumal Temple in Chennai , India, is dedicated to Chennakesava Perumal , the patron deity of the city?
text: Did you know that New Zealand trade union leader Tom Skinner was manager of the 1960 New Zealand national rugby league team 's tour to Britain?
text: Did you know that David Lynch experimented with backwards speech for Eraserhead before deciding to use it in " Episode 2 " of Twin Peaks ?
text: Did you know that a reviewer wrote that Katia Plaschka , "quite accurately described as a high soprano, sings music of stratospheric difficulty" when performing Luigi Nono 's music?
text: Did you know that after the English Civil War , a statue of King Charles I was hidden by a metalsmith whilst he sold cutlery that he claimed was made from its melted-down metal?
text: Did you know that the venom of the lesser Asian scorpion contains proteins that are toxic to Plasmodium falciparum , a pathogenic parasite that causes malaria in humans?
text: Did you know that Brian Epstein was so angered that The Beatles were paid in loose change for a gig at the Aintree Institute , he never booked with the venue's promoter again?
text: Did you know that Markus Flaig brought Handel's darkness and great light to St. Martin, Idstein ?
text: Did you know that Ali Jawad al-Sheikh was killed when he was allegedly hit by a tear gas canister during protests after an initial government crackdown in Bahrain?
text: Did you know that Bach structures his cantata movement Du sollt Gott, deinen Herren, lieben, BWV 77 , on the Great Commandment by a canon of trumpet and continuo on a chorale on the Ten Commandments ?
text: Did you know that Yrkingar by Janus Djurhuus was the first collection of a Faroese poet's works to be published?
text: Did you know that Michael Douglas competed for Canada in the Winter Olympics?
text: Did you know that the type specimen of the extinct bulldog ant Macabeemyrma ovata is the fossilized remains of an adult queen preserved in shale ?
text: Did you know that the Bright Copper , Fiery Copper and Clouded Footman can be found on the prickly box in Australia?
text: Did you know that the owners of Potato Valley Cafe , located in Annapolis, Maryland , are not worried about competition because no other restaurant serves only potatoes ?
text: Did you know that while preparing for the air assault over the River Rhine , the commanders of the 3rd Parachute Brigade were told to expect almost a third of their strength to become casualties?
text: Did you know that members of the Queensland Shearers Union and British Seamen's Union blockaded wool bales produced by non-union shearers in Brisbane in 1890?
text: Did you know that Amnesty International has described Fiji 's Essential National Industries (Employment) Decree 2011 as "a breathtaking abuse of fundamental rights"?
text: Did you know that The Shirelles singer Shirley Owens made her voice sound almost off-tune to sound innocent in the sexually charged single " Tonight's the Night "?
text: Did you know that Barney Gilligan died on April Fools' Day ?
text: Did you know that if Go Vacation players get bored of scuba diving they can throw pies at each other?
text: Did you know that the Rędziński Bridge , a recently constructed cable-stayed bridge spanning the Oder river in Wrocław , is the tallest and longest bridge in Poland?
text: Did you know that although Daniel is portrayed as a young man by Rubens in his depiction of Daniel in the lions' den , Daniel would have been over eighty according to biblical chronology?
text: Did you know that astronomers have discovered a real-life " Tatooine "?
text: Did you know that actor Holter Graham lived in Baltimore, Maryland , while growing up, but spent summers on a Montana cattle ranch?
text: Did you know that Indian cricketer Anil Kumble took 37 five-wicket hauls and is only the second player to take 10 wickets in an innings after Jim Laker ?
text: Did you know that Sekar Ayu Asmara 's directorial debut, The Stringless Violin , with "pat" dialogue and "illogical" scenes, was submitted for an Oscar ?
text: Did you know that the architect of the Houses of Parliament initially objected to a statue of Richard the Lionheart being placed nearby?
text: Did you know that the Great Famine in Greece during the Axis occupation is claimed to be the worst famine that Greeks have experienced since ancient times ?
text: Did you know that Miró named a painting Man and Woman in Front of a Pile of Excrement because of something Rembrandt said?
text: Did you know that Jim Hunter is the first Canadian male skier to win a medal in the World Championships for alpine skiing ?
text: Did you know that Kirsopp Lake published the text of the Codex Sinaiticus ?
text: Did you know that during the 1967 Six-Day War , Israel's 147 Squadron flew the lightly armed Fouga Magister trainer in combat, losing six aircraft and pilots?
text: Did you know that Marie Antoinette 's favorite hairdresser , Leonard, designed a hairstyle called the loge d'opera that towered five feet upon the wearer's head?
text: Did you know that the breakaway North America Vishwa Kannada Association was formed in March 2009 by 7 founder members of the Association of Kannada Kootas of America and 25 others?
text: Did you know that in 1737 cooper Charles Milsom discovered a spring in Lyncombe, Bath , while fixing a fishpond, and styled himself as a doctor to market the spring water for its health-giving properties?
text: Did you know that Argentina stayed neutral during most of World War II , and declared war on the Axis powers on March 27, 1945?
text: Did you know that even after Hurricane Estelle dissipated, rain continued over Hawaii for three days?
text: Did you know that the controversial novel Fra Kristiania-Bohêmen gave its name to a literary movement in Norway in the 1880s?
text: Did you know that Lady Gaga embarked early on her 2009–11 Monster Ball Tour due to the cancellation of her Fame Kills tour with Kanye West ?
text: Did you know that, though it owes much in design to the Royal Crescent in Bath , Buxton Crescent is said to be "more richly decorated and altogether more complex"?
text: Did you know that Junior Hemingway was expected to be the biggest beneficiary of the 2011 Michigan Wolverines football team 's decision to switch to a pro-style offense from a spread offense ?
text: Did you know that the Latin Grammy Award for Best Rock Solo Vocal Album was earned in 2009 by Draco Rosa for his album Teatro ?
text: Did you know that Wojciech Pietranik was told to replace the Sydney Opera House with the Roman Colosseum in his design for the Sydney 2000 Olympic medals ?
text: Did you know that Bagsværd Church , designed by Danish architect Jørn Utzon , has a vault made from concrete shells spanning 17 metres (56 ft)?
text: Did you know that most of the habitat of the vulnerable tree Eucalyptus benthamii has disappeared under Warragamba Dam or been cleared?
text: Did you know that 1995 College Football All-America Team selection Heath Irwin is the nephew of World Golf Hall of Fame member Hale Irwin ?
text: Did you know that despite reports that they played so badly their set was cut short, The Beatles ' first performance at Lathom Hall led to a number of future bookings there, earning them the 2005 equivalent of £120 per concert?
text: Did you know that Steve Crosby was named the National Football League 's top special teams coach in 2007 and developed the league's most accurate kicker of all-time?
text: Did you know that the report National Science Foundation: Under the Microscope , by US Senator Tom Coburn , has generated controversy for portraying much scientific research as "silly"?
text: Did you know that Jin Guangping , Jin Qizong and Aisin-Gioro Ulhicun , three generations of the same family who all studied the extinct Jurchen language and script , are direct descendants of the Qianlong Emperor ?
text: Did you know that A Day in the Life is an internet television documentary web series produced by Morgan Spurlock that represents Hulu 's first original long-form programming venture?
text: Did you know that Eduar Villanueva set a Venezuelan national record while competing in the men's 1500m event during the World Championships in Athletics held earlier this month in Daegu , South Korea ?
text: Did you know that Mircea Florian , seen as one of the four leading protest singers in Communist Romania in his folk rock years, pioneered minimal music in his career as a computer scientist?
text: Did you know that Sericothrips staphylinus were released as part of biological control of gorse in New Zealand , but have not spread far because too few of them have wings?
text: Did you know that there were over a dozen Zaporozhian Cossacks uprisings against the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Russian Empire ?
text: Did you know that Iowa politician James B. Weaver wrote in 1912 that the current Jasper County Courthouse in Newton, Iowa , will last "long after the pages of the county's history are worn and turned yellow"?
text: Did you know that the Burrunan dolphin is only the third new dolphin species to be recognized since the late 19th century?
text: Did you know that some fans of the National Football League 's San Diego Chargers have played the team's fight song at their weddings?
text: Did you know that a third of Madagascar's women marry before the age of 19?
text: Did you know that only weeks after Hurricane Celia devastated southern Texas in 1970 , residents had to evacuate again when Hurricane Ella threatened?
text: Did you know that of the three described species in the Eocene bulldog ant genus Avitomyrmex , one species is known only from worker caste individuals?
text: Did you know that Amos P. Catlin authored the law that made Sacramento the permanent capital of California ?
text: Did you know that Norsemen made vows at Yule on the bristles of a sacrificial boar ?
text: Did you know that water-filled holes in the trunk of Platypodium elegans are an important habitat for the larvae of giant damselflies ?
text: Did you know that William Butler Yeats loathed Robin de la Condamine 's performance in his The Shadowy Waters , but could not fire him because all the actors were working for free?
text: Did you know that Prince Mahidol used to teach medicine at Windsor Palace before it was demolished to make way for the National Stadium ?
text: Did you know that John Danowski coached the Duke Blue Devils men's lacrosse team to its first NCAA national championship in 2010?
text: Did you know that inhaling spores from the devil's snuff-box can cause the respiratory disease lycoperdonosis ?
text: Did you know that during Operation Hasty in Italy, a German division was kept in reserve because of the presence of 60 British parachutists?
text: Did you know that Henry P. Moulton appointed William H. Lewis to serve as the first African-American Assistant United States Attorney ?
text: Did you know that about 12,000 local people died during clearance of the oil concession Block 5A in Unity State , South Sudan?
text: Did you know that the editor of the Tribune , Richard Clements , was accused of being a Soviet agent?
text: Did you know that in 2008, Thuraya Alzaabi became the first female athlete to represent the United Arab Emirates at the Paralympics ?
text: Did you know that the extinct Itilochelys is one of only three known fossil cheloniid sea turtle taxa found in the Volgograd Region ?
text: Did you know that for the production of the upcoming U2 documentary, From the Sky Down , director Davis Guggenheim was given full access to the band's archives?
text: Did you know that The Straits Times criticized the Singapore Port Authority for refusing its reporter access to the tanker Norse Commander when it caught fire?
text: Did you know that the Latin Grammy Award for Best Singer-Songwriter Album was awarded in 2008 to Rodolfo ?
text: Did you know that the 1773 French satirical drawing of the First Partition of Poland , The Troelfth Cake , was banned in several European countries?
text: Did you know that Bethel Strict Baptist Chapel in Robertsbridge was founded by a "mystical Micawber "?
text: Did you know that the Dorrigo waratah and its relatives have had red terminal flowers for over sixty million years?
text: Did you know that Ottoman officer Ahmed Niyazi Bey never lived to see his estate, the Saraj , completed?
text: Did you know that Darlenys Obregón helped set a national record in the 4 × 100 metres relay in 2005?
text: Did you know that a former owner of Ascog House on the Isle of Bute kept a litter of pigs in his bedroom?
text: Did you know that some of the proceeds from the 2009 album Connie Talbot's Holiday Magic went to Toys for Tots ?
text: Did you know that Indonesian singer Ari Lasso quit smoking after his son hid his cigarettes?
text: Did you know that Jimmy Jacobs and Bill Cayton owned the world's largest collection of boxing fight films?
text: Did you know that DreamWorks plans to produce at least three films in the How to Train Your Dragon franchise ?
text: Did you know that the 400,000-ton Valemax ships are the largest bulk carriers ever built?
text: Did you know that the theft of a saddlebag from the Sioux City Public Museum in 1996 may have been part of a string of museum thefts which involved stealing Native American artifacts ?
text: Did you know that Turtagrø was the location for the first climbing school in Norway ?
text: Did you know that Bruce Timm , the producer of the animated film adaptation Batman: Year One , said that adapting the comic story arc was straightforward since the original story was already cinematic?
text: Did you know that former Idaho Vandals basketball player Orlando Lightfoot once scored 50 of his team's 69 points in a game?
text: Did you know that Jagadguru Rambhadracharya Handicapped University in Uttar Pradesh, India, is the world's first university which is exclusively for the disabled?
text: Did you know that concert organist Zsolt Gárdonyi played his father 's Partita " Veni Creator Spiritus " along with his own jazzy Mozart Changes at the Marktkirche ?
text: Did you know that Mick the Miller has been called "the world's most famous Greyhound "?
text: Did you know that the vicar of St John the Baptist's Church, Allington in Wiltshire was engaged to Cassandra , sister of Jane Austen , but he died before he could marry her?
text: Did you know that according to Slow Food experts, the Bulgarian Cherni Vit green cheese is the only traditional mold cheese produced in the Balkans?
text: Did you know that the Mississippi restaurant Mammy's Cupboard , built in the shape of a woman, has been said to resemble Aunt Jemima ?
text: Did you know that Eris is the first successful detailed simulation of a Milky Way -like galaxy ?
text: Did you know that John Hearne was so important in drafting the 1937 Constitution of Ireland that he was referred to as the Irish Thomas Jefferson ?
text: Did you know that the freehold for Michelin starred restaurant Club Gascon is owned by homeless charity Centrepoint ?
text: Did you know that, three days before his death in a plane crash , Chilean journalist Roberto Bruce replaced the host of a breakfast programme for the first time?
text: Did you know that printed solar panels can be printed on ordinary untreated paper at a cost similar to that of inkjet printing ?
text: Did you know that by sponsoring the Turnhalle Constitutional Conference in Windhoek (1975–1977), the South African government attempted to quell armed resistance waged by the People's Liberation Army of Namibia ?
text: Did you know that the Burlington and Missouri River Railroad offered "millions of acres" of cheap land as a motivation for settlers to move to Iowa and Nebraska in 1872?
text: Did you know that when Jane Colebrook won the 800 metres race at the 1977 European Athletics Indoor Championships held in San Sebastián , Spain, she set a British indoor record that would stand for 26 years?
text: Did you know that one species of the extinct Eocene bulldog ant Ypresiomyrma reached up to 25 millimetres (0.98 in) in length?
text: Did you know that Carl Sagan worked with the US Air Force on detonating a nuclear device on the Moon ?
text: Did you know that The Secret of the Nagas was in such high demand before its release that 80,000 copies of the book were pre-ordered?
text: Did you know that Wenderholm Regional Park includes a house built by Sir Robert Graham ?
text: Did you know that after trying out with the Sacramento Kings in the NBA Summer League , forward Marquin Chandler signed with the Purefoods Tender Juicy Hotdogs ?
text: Did you know that Graham Waterhouse composed the piano trio Bei Nacht (At Night) , inspired by a Kandinsky oil painting entitled Nacht ?
text: Did you know that ancient scholars considered the Mutiny at Sucro the most important event of Scipio Africanus ' early military career?
text: Did you know that M-78 , a state highway in Michigan , was extended several times and converted into a freeway , but now follows its original 1919 routing?
text: Did you know that musicologists Finn Benestad and Dag Schjelderup-Ebbe wrote a Grieg biography in 1980 that was later translated into English, German, and Russian?
text: Did you know that in addition to serving as Lizzie Borden 's defense attorney, Melvin O. Adams was a U.S. Attorney and a railroad executive?
text: Did you know that Rob Feaster is the Patriot League 's all-time men's basketball scoring leader, yet still only ranks second at his own school ?
text: Did you know that the exceptional Holstein sire Carlin M Ivanhoe Bell passed on the genes for both good milk production and complex vertebral malformation , a lethal genetic disorder?
text: Did you know that Louise Casey , a British civil servant known for being outspoken, once said that "doing things sober is no way to get things done"?
text: Did you know that Seattle Sounders FC will face the Chicago Fire in the 2011 U.S. Open Cup Final on October 4 , 2011, for a chance to three-peat as champion?
text: Did you know that a review of " The Rise of the Blue Beetle! " said that it is not for people who dislike "wormholes, single-cell organisms and evil intergalactic pirates being mentioned in the same breath as Batman "?
text: Did you know that in 1899, Major League Baseball pitcher Frank Bates lost 18 of 19 games while making "a circus-like assortment of pitching mistakes"?
text: Did you know that the world's smallest electric motor is made up of a single molecule and can be driven at up to one million revolutions per second?
text: Did you know that the Calabar River was a major conduit of supply for the Atlantic slave trade ?
text: Did you know that Major League Baseball outfielder George Bristow once won 23 consecutive games as a pitcher in the minor leagues?
text: Did you know that there is a community of over 20,000 recent African migrants in a concentrated area in Guangzhou , China?
text: Did you know that East Timor made its debut in the Asian Games in 2002 , just four months after its declaration of independence?
text: Did you know that science fiction author Lisa Tuttle is the only person to have refused a Nebula Award ?
text: Did you know that Gevra mine in India's Korba Coalfield has been described as the largest open cast mine in Asia and has reported a record daily production of 100,000 tonnes ?
text: Did you know that Getic king Dromichaetes defeated and captured Lysimachus , a former general of Alexander the Great ?
text: Did you know that prior to its reconstruction, the Sioux Narrows Bridge , located along Ontario Highway 71 , featured the longest single span of a wooden bridge in North America, at 64 metres (210 ft)?
text: Did you know that the last song on El Mundo Cabe en Una Canción is a tribute to singer-songwriter Fito Páez 's hometown ?
text: Did you know that Indonesian songwriter Dewiq was without Pay for three years before telling the public?
text: Did you know that the old YMCA building in Albany, New York , hosted the first basketball game played away from Springfield College , where the sport was developed?
text: Did you know that the lyrics of Baldur , the début album of the Icelandic Viking / folk metal band Skálmöld , are written in the dróttkvætt style?
text: Did you know that Cheap Trick guitarist and songwriter Rick Nielsen got the idea for the song " Hello There " from Elmer Gantry's Velvet Opera ?
text: Did you know that rally driver Michèle Mouton and her all-female team won their class at the 1975 24 Hours of Le Mans ?
text: Did you know that the frilled anemone may be eaten by the shag rug nudibranch ?
text: Did you know that Captain William Lechmere missed the chance to command a ship at the Battle of Trafalgar by a single week?
text: Did you know that the thin-leaved stringybark is so named as the bark fibres can be peeled off the trunk in strings?
text: Did you know that after moving into the Bethesda Home for Boys at age seven, current San Francisco 49er Demarcus Dobbs moved in with his high school football coach's family in 2005?
text: Did you know that, according to specialist midwife Comfort Momoh , 74,000 women living in the UK in 2000 had undergone female genital mutilation ?
text: Did you know that fossils of the extinct reptile Acallosuchus were found in a cigar box in 1983?
text: Did you know that part of the Great Wall of China is submerged in the reservoir formed by the construction of the Panjiakou Dam in Hebei Province , and sometimes it re-emerges during droughts?
text: Did you know that in his first career start for Notre Dame , defensive end Ronald Talley recorded seven tackles?
text: Did you know that an 1869 decision to use earthquake-resistant timber construction led to St Michael's Church being the only Christchurch Central City Anglican church in use after the 2011 earthquake ?
text: Did you know that AP Columbae , the closest young star known, formed after the dinosaurs became extinct?
text: Did you know that Robert Graves was in charge of aliens at the Lancaster Carriage and Wagon Works ?
text: Did you know that the song " He's a Whore ", originally performed by Cheap Trick , is not just about sex?
text: Did you know that the sea anemone Adamsia palliata growing on the exterior of a gastropod shell inhabited by the hermit crab Pagurus prideaux is capable of enlarging the shell to better accommodate the crab inside?
text: Did you know that the trumpet plays the chorale melody in Bach 's cantata Lobe den Herren, den mächtigen König der Ehren, BWV 137 , in C major within an aria in A minor in "a battle for harmonic supremacy"?
text: Did you know that Ronald Ngala led the Kenya African Democratic Union political party from its creation until its dissolution?
text: Did you know that the Michael Jordan statue once wore the jersey of ice hockey player Jonathan Toews ?
text: Did you know that the Lionel Conacher Award for Canada's male athlete of the year was awarded to Hockey Hall of Famer Wayne Gretzky a record six times?
text: Did you know that Sophie of Isenburg married Prince Georg Friedrich the same year the House of Hohenzollern celebrated its 950th anniversary?
text: Did you know that the rare fern Adiantum viridimontanum was first described from a specimen collected at an old asbestos mine in the Green Mountains ?
text: Did you know that the same Partition Sejm that acceded to the First Partition of Poland also created the celebrated Commission of National Education , seen as Europe's first ministry of education?
text: Did you know that after Robert Laws was made temporary head of the Livingstonia Mission , he kept the position for 50 years?
text: Did you know that the extinct hangingfly genera Formosibittacus , Jurahylobittacus , and Mongolbittacus are only known from the Middle Jurassic of China?
text: Did you know that the Constable Hook Cemetery is enclosed by a tank farm ?
text: Did you know that the Canadian Special Service Medal may be awarded under such varied criteria as service with the United Nations or NATO , serving in the Canadian Arctic at CFS Alert , or service as a Canadian Ranger ?
text: Did you know that the film Gerrymandering draws on the perspectives from different individuals, reporters, pundits and politicians including Arnold Schwarzenegger , Howard Dean , Bob Graham , Lani Guiner , Ed Rollins , and John Fund ?
text: Did you know that a horse was killed by the novel electrification system of the Torquay Tramways before it had even opened to the public?
text: Did you know that Dennis Russell Davies conducted the premiere of the Fifth Symphony Now and in the hour of death by Heinz Winbeck , which reflects Bruckner's Ninth Symphony ?
text: Did you know that racehorse Stay Thirsty ' s win in the 2011 Travers Stakes made him a front-runner for top American three-year-old colt honors?
text: Did you know that El Fua , originally made popular by an alcoholic Mexican man, has been used by Chilean students during the protests for free education in the country?
text: Did you know that the University of Lomé is the largest university in the African country of Togo with a student body of roughly 40,000?
text: Did you know that in June 2009, the price of Brent Crude went up to its highest point in eight months after one man spent less than three hours trading futures while drunk ?
text: Did you know that the concept of Nesting Orientalisms is based on the ideas of historian Larry Wolff and Edward Said's Orientalism ?
text: Did you know that Frank Ponta competed in five Paralympic Games , including the first in 1960, and coached several medal-winning Paralympic athletes including Louise Sauvage and Priya Cooper ?
text: Did you know that The Comic Strip Presents... film The Hunt for Tony Blair portrays former British Prime Minister Tony Blair as a fugitive on the run?
text: Did you know that Egyptian Healy had one of the lowest winning percentages of any Major League Baseball pitcher during the 1880s?
text: Did you know that the woollybutt is useful in the production of honey and railway sleepers ?
text: Did you know that one of Indonesia's " most sought-after movie songwriters " started her career by writing about flatulence and sexual deviancy?
text: Did you know that at the base of each tentacle of the sea anemone Sagartia troglodytes , there is a distinctive black mark shaped like a capital letter " B "?
text: Did you know that Miguel Ángel Coria 's first opera, Belisa , based on Lorca 's play Amor de Don Perlimplín con Belisa en su jardín , premiered in 1992 at the Teatro de la Zarzuela in Madrid?
text: Did you know that Echoes is a limited series comic partially inspired by Psycho ?
text: Did you know that hairdresser Vidal Sassoon was trained by ' Mr Teasy-Weasy ' ?
text: Did you know that the smallest member of the Boeing 737 Next Generation family will not be continued in the family's replacement, the Boeing 737 MAX ?
text: Did you know that Norrköpings Tidningar is Sweden's oldest continually published newspaper?
text: Did you know that the discoveries of Judge Joseph Pratt Allyn were published under the name "Putnam"?
text: Did you know that after Chasing Dreams Gita Gutawa was chosen for Love in Perth ?
text: Did you know that writer Elizaveta Polonskaya was the only female member of the Serapion Brothers ?
text: Did you know that from the day of his marriage till his death, Texas Governor Peter Hansborough Bell never set foot in the state?
text: Did you know that St James' Church, Daisy Hill in Westhoughton , Greater Manchester , has been described as "a masterly performance for relatively little cash"?
text: Did you know that the debut album of Gita Gutawa featured a song written by eight people?
text: Did you know that Andreas Munch was the first person to be granted a poet's pension by the Parliament of Norway ?
text: Did you know that there were concerns that The Bouncy could derail a train?
text: Did you know that Gid Gardner was part of the first known platoon arrangement in baseball ?
text: Did you know that Spreetshoogte Pass is the steepest mountain pass in Namibia ?
text: Did you know that peace activist Rachel MacNair founded the pro-life Susan B. Anthony List in 1993?
text: Did you know that the Nyorai , top-level Buddhist gods of Japan, are portrayed as almost human, but with very long arms, webbed fingers , and other unusual marks?
text: Did you know that Teguh Karya had to fight for Christine Hakim 's right to act in Cinta Pertama ( First Love ) after his producer said her breasts were too small?
text: Did you know that Ahmed al-Senussi , a member of the Libyan National Transitional Council , is related to Idris of Libya , Libya's only king?
text: Did you know that only four of the Capcom Five titles were released, and only one remained a Nintendo GameCube exclusive as originally announced in 2002?
text: Did you know that Mani Nagappa , who sculpted the statue of Thiruvalluvar near Halasuru Lake, Bangalore , was the son of Rao Bahadur M. S. Nagappa , who made statues of British governors and administrators?
text: Did you know that in 2009, Revolution Analytics named Norman H. Nie , one of the original SPSS developers, as their new CEO ?
text: Did you know that a 1934 novel by the Romanian H. Bonciu shows painter Egon Schiele and his muse in a sadomasochistic ménage à trois with the protagonist?
text: Did you know that hockey goaltender Robbie Moore finished in the top ten in the NHL in shutouts in the 1978–79 season, despite playing in only five games?
text: Did you know that the bacteria Ehrlichia chaffeensis and Ehrlichia ewingii were believed to be the only causes of ehrlichiosis in the United States until Ehrlichia Wisconsin HM543746 was discovered in 2009?
text: Did you know that Wolfgang Sawallisch conducted Helen Donath , Hermann Becht and the Bayerisches Staatsorchester in the first recording of the cantata Media in vita by Herbert Blendinger ?
text: Did you know that puppeteer Timothy M. Rose asked to portray Return of the Jedi 's Admiral Ackbar solely based on the character's looks?
text: Did you know that Major League Baseball player Emmett Seery was so patient during at bats that one newspaper wrote that he was "a good enough waiter to preside at a restaurant"?
text: Did you know that André Watson holds records for refereeing the greatest number of finals in the Rugby World Cup , Currie Cup and Super Rugby ?
text: Did you know that Indonesian band Kerispatih sang compositions by President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono on two albums?
text: Did you know that the National Farm Toy Museum , located in Dyersville, Iowa , has one of the largest cast iron farm toy collections?
text: Did you know that Tsang Kam To represented the Hong Kong football team for the 2009 East Asian Games and 2010 Asian Games ?
text: Did you know that FEMA determines the impact of a storm based on the service at Waffle House ?
text: Did you know that Apple Inc. 's Numbers has been called a page layout and presentation program disguised as a spreadsheet ?
text: Did you know that Indonesian writer Ajip Rosidi first became a magazine editor at the age of 15?
text: Did you know that, named for its "rope-like" stem , Marasmius funalis itself became the basis of another fungus's name, due to a morphological resemblance?
text: Did you know that baseball player Bloody Jake Evans , who once led the National League in outfield assists , injured his arm while throwing the ball and played his last game at the age of 28?
text: Did you know that many children have been injured or died while sweeping up cotton ?
text: Did you know that as a Major League Baseball rookie, Buster Hoover finished second in the league batting statistics even though his team did not complete the season?
text: Did you know that the Cross of Merit of the Minister of Defence of the Czech Republic is the highest award presented by the Czech Minister of Defence ?
text: Did you know that it is claimed that tavern sandwiches were first created in Sioux City, Iowa in 1924, at a restaurant that later became known as Ye Olde Tavern ?
text: Did you know that the art photographers Anna and Bernhard Blume created Kitchen Frenzy and Pure Reason ?
text: Did you know that the developers of Myth III: The Wolf Age turned their Fear & Loathing into Vengeance for the modding community ?
text: Did you know that Elli Hatschek , her husband Paul , and his daughter, Krista Lavíčková , were all executed by the Nazis within seven months of each other?
text: Did you know that some dark and eerie scenes in the film Cinta Pertama ( First Love ) reflect the director's previous experience in horror films?
text: Did you know that the world auction record for cars was set last month by a 1957 Ferrari 250 Testa Rossa at $16.4 million ?
text: Did you know that Eros Djarot 's biopic on Cut Nyak Dhien has been interpreted as attributing Indonesia's independence to her guerrilla campaign?
text: Did you know that in 1945 the British government denied that it supported Abd al-Rahman al-Mahdi becoming king of Sudan ?
text: Did you know that before Tom Oberheim started Oberheim Electronics , he was the first ARP synthesizer dealer on the US West Coast, and sold an ARP synthesizer to Frank Zappa ?
text: Did you know that the original Melakarta scheme in Carnatic music , still in use today, has no scientific or mathematical rules?
text: Did you know that after joining the Boise State football team as a walk-on , Ryan Winterswyk appeared on the cover of Sports Illustrated and was named to the school's All-Decade team?
text: Did you know that the Battle of Clervaux , part of the Battle of the Bulge , has been compared to the Alamo ?
text: Did you know that Alfred Baker , who scored England's first goal in international football , was an auctioneer by profession?
text: Did you know that Friedrich Hofmeister Musikverlag was the first publisher of Gustav Mahler's Second Symphony ?
text: Did you know that the 2011–12 Vanderbilt Commodores men's basketball team returns all five starters from last season , including a Nigerian who did not play high school basketball and a Swede who is the son of a former NBA player ?
text: Did you know that the investigation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is the first ever formal investigation to be opened by the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court ?
text: Did you know that the London International Basketball Invitational was the first sporting tournament to take place within London's Olympic Park ?
text: Did you know that Buster Warenski made a replica, containing over 32 ounces of gold, of a dagger found in Tutankhamun 's tomb?
text: Did you know that in 1768, Duke Ernest Gottlob of Mecklenburg received an inoculation against smallpox alongside the future King William IV of the United Kingdom ?
text: Did you know that R&B singer Glenn Fredly credits Michael Jackson for inspiring him to do humanitarian work?
text: Did you know that Bach 's cantata Herr Jesu Christ, du höchstes Gut, BWV 113 , is based on a penitential chorale, matching the prescribed reading, the parable of the Pharisee and the Tax Collector ?
text: Did you know that Charles Davis Lucas , the first person to be awarded the Victoria Cross , is buried in the churchyard of St Lawrence's Church in Mereworth , Kent ?
text: Did you know that Portia Iverson's Strange Son documents how an autistic Indian boy and his mother traveled from India to California to help Iverson's son communicate?
text: Did you know that Reel Moments is a competition in which Glamour readers submit short stories to be produced as short films by celebrity volunteer female directors?
text: Did you know that the new Ministry of Development and Social Inclusion in Peru aims to improve the quality of life of the poor?
text: Did you know that the Austrian ALEA Ensemble performed string quartets of Iván Erőd and Herbert Blendinger , and piano trios of these composers, Graham Waterhouse and their founder Gerhard Präsent ?
text: Did you know that when children's book illustrator Clare Turlay Newberry purchased a $500 ocelot for a live drawing model, The New York Times headline read "Still A Lot For Ocelot"?
text: Did you know that a clone of Desktop Dungeons was released for the iPhone before the developers had even finished the game?
text: Did you know that the original script written by Oliver Stone for Conan the Barbarian featured 10,000 mutants and was called a "total drug fever dream" by the film's director, John Milius ?
text: Did you know that Lake Rawa Pening in Indonesia may dry up within the next ten years?
text: Did you know that the Spanish conquest of Guatemala was a prolonged conflict against the Maya that lasted nearly two hundred years?
text: Did you know that at an estimated 4 metres (13 ft), Cratochelone is the largest of the three extinct protostegid sea turtles found in Australia?
text: Did you know that in 2012 Six Flags Magic Mountain plans to open Lex Luthor: Drop of Doom , the world's tallest vertical drop ride ?
text: Did you know that the Battle of Tripoli in 1825 was the result of the Sardinian consul's failure to provide Yusuf Karamanli , the ruler of Tripoli, with tribute?
text: Did you know that the extrasolar planet HD 85512 b is one of the best candidates for habitability ever discovered?
text: Did you know that in 1884, Major League Baseball pitcher Billy Taylor had a win–loss record of 25–4 before leaving his team in July?
text: Did you know that although St Lawrence's Church in Morecambe , Lancashire , is considered by Nikolaus Pevsner to be Paley and Austin 's best church in the town, it is now redundant ?
text: Did you know that the short story " Langit Makin Mendung " was banned in Indonesia partly because a character wore glasses?
text: Did you know that by winning in the 2011 PBA Governors' Cup Finals , the Petron Blaze Boosters prevented the Talk 'N Text Tropang Texters from winning the first Grand Slam in the Philippine Basketball Association since 1996 ?
text: Did you know that the New York Court of Appeals denied the Cayuga people residing in Canada $500,000 in back annuities in 1885?
text: Did you know that the Soviet Union tried to reform workers' wages between 1956 and 1962?
text: Did you know that American football player Joe Iacone gained 3,983 rushing yards in three years and set PSAC rushing and scoring records that remained unbroken for decades?
text: Did you know that Solomon was accidentally castrated as an infant ?
text: Did you know that the Indonesian literary group Lekra was accused of having foreknowledge of the attempted coup d'état in 1965 ?
text: Did you know that the Thomas Hynes House , home to Nobu Matsuhisa 's restaurant in Aspen, Colorado , is considered to epitomize the city's early miners' cottages?
text: Did you know that Lesotho–Soviet relations suffered a setback after the January 1986 overthrow of Basotho Prime Minister Leabua Jonathan by Justin Lekhanya ?
text: Did you know that Orator Shafer 's 50 outfield assists in 1879 established a Major League Baseball record that has stood for over 130 years?
text: Did you know that in 1992 the future Peace in Africa destroyed the Terminator ?
text: Did you know that the trolleybus system serving Dayton, Ohio , in operation since 1933, is the second-oldest such system in the Western Hemisphere?
text: Did you know that evidence collected by Brazilian scientists indicates that there may be salty water flowing underneath the Amazon and into the Atlantic Ocean?
text: Did you know that while working on his 1897 painting of eleven Fox Terriers, The Totteridge XI , artist Arthur Wardle was repeatedly told to make the dogs appear closer to the breed standard ?
text: Did you know that Argentine president Juan Perón expelled the terrorist organization Montoneros from the Plaza de Mayo during the 1974 celebrations of the International Workers' Day ?
text: Did you know that Dairi farms produce coffee, corn, and fish?
text: Did you know that Norman Rockwell 's The Problem We All Live With could not be displayed in a public area of the White House because of the racial slur painted behind Ruby Bridges ?
text: Did you know that Ptolemy 's Tetrabiblos , a 2nd-century astrology book, is still considered a basic text in Western astrology ?
text: Did you know that twice- capped Guyana international footballer Clydie Roberts is a cousin of England international Jermain Defoe ?
text: Did you know that the early 20th-century John Martin's Book was called the "most entertaining magazine" aimed at young children in the United States?
text: Did you know that a Muslim "pope" translated the Quran after being tried for blasphemy?
text: Did you know that The Longford Trust 's inaugural Longford Lecture was given by Cherie Blair in 2002?
text: Did you know that GrubHub Food Delivery & Pickup advertises its food delivery services as free, but has been sued for allegedly charging a customer an extra dollar?
text: Did you know that Robert Crawford , scorer of the first goal in international football , was sentenced to 12 months imprisonment with hard labour for causing a servant to be flogged to death?
text: Did you know that Ragusan diplomat Paladin Gundulić performed services for Eric of Pomerania , Ferdinand I of Naples and the Duchy of Saint Sava ?
text: Did you know that Yale University alumnus Ryan Lavarnway employs the "tools of ignorance" as a rookie for the Boston Red Sox ?
text: Did you know that the upcoming game Borderlands 2 allows players to throw their empty guns at enemies to injure them?
text: Did you know that the pollen of Texas wild rice becomes non-functional within one hour after it is released?
text: Did you know that before founding the humanitarian fashion label OmniPeace , Mary Fanaro considered selling chocolate to help end poverty in Africa?
text: Did you know that members of a club earn a special platinum prize for visiting 394 places in the US?
text: Did you know that it takes more muscles to smile than it does to frown ?
text: Did you know that John Millson went from being mayor of Windsor, Ontario , to president of its raceway?
text: Did you know that five National Basketball Association (NBA) teams own and operate their NBA Development League affiliates in the upcoming 2011–12 NBA Development League season ?
text: Did you know that the arch bridge on International Street in Canada's Wonderland is actually a structure hiding the computer system that controls lights and fountains?
text: Did you know that Mary P. Sinclair and her family were shunned and harassed for years after she spoke out against the nuclear power plant proposed for Dow Chemical Company in Midland, Michigan ?
text: Did you know that phantom rides were often filmed by a cameraman tied to the front of a speeding train?
text: Did you knowthat QRpedia lets museum visitors quickly see Wikipedia articles about exhibits, on their mobile phones, in their own language?
text: Did you know that among those killed in the 1740 Batavia massacre were 500 prisoners and hospital patients?
text: Did you know that the 1924 Australian silent film Fisher's Ghost was not shown in Sydney because it was deemed "too gruesome"?
text: Did you know that Banksia plagiocarpa was undescribed for 112 years after it was first collected?
text: Did you know that Sir Geoffrey Francis Archer 's young lions almost caught General Edmund Allenby 's pet stork?
text: Did you know that John E. Carroll may have been the first baseball player to be nicknamed "Scrappy"?
text: Did you know that South Africa 's Choice on Termination of Pregnancy Act was described by the Guttmacher Institute as "one of the most liberal abortion laws in the world"?
text: Did you know that the amount of personal information collected from kids on the Bomb Pops website, as of 1999, was used as an example of why children's privacy laws were needed?
text: Did you know that the production of the 2009 album Love's Harmony took place on four continents?
text: Did you know that Richard Bacon had a lengthy career in fishing, as well as serving in both World Wars?
text: Did you know that professional baseball player Thomas Jefferson Sullivan had two nicknames – "Sleeper" and "Old Iron Hands"?
text: Did you know that the first coal-mine pit in India was established at Narayankuri in Raniganj in 1777?
text: Did you know that Sister Agnes Mary Mansour left the Sisters of Mercy after three decades of service rather than make a statement against abortion ?
text: Did you know that some Home and Away viewers complained about character Miles Copeland eating too much food on-screen?
text: Did you know that the Canberra Roller Derby League has referees called Fair-as Bueller, Sin Bin Laden and Major Dyck?
text: Did you know that Hashim Abdul Halim served West Bengal as the Speaker of the House for 29 years before being replaced by Biman Banerjee in 2011?
text: Did you know that when she sang " Circle the Drain " in a 2011 concert, Katy Perry was dressed in a catsuit and the stage was decorated with meat?
text: Did you know that the extinct griffenfly genus Bohemiatupus inhabited peat-mires ?
text: Did you know that the first episode of the 2011 British-American television series Strike Back: Project Dawn gave the network Cinemax its best ratings since 2005?
text: Did you know that there was a widespread belief in 19th-century German psychiatry that all forms of mental illness were simple variations of a single unitary psychosis ?
text: Did you know that the bus service Coastliner 700 between Brighton and Southsea on the south coast of England, has been running for more than 35 years?
text: Did you know that approximately 100,000 psychedelic Psilocybe cyanescens mushrooms were once found growing on a racetrack ?
text: Did you know that Balgownie, the residence of Wellington businessman John Duthie , is believed to have been the first in the region to have had electricity?
text: Did you know that Michelle Hurd , who played Detective Monique Jeffries on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit , was frustrated by the lack of material for her character and departed from the show?
text: Did you know that Fred Dunlap , who was once the highest paid player in professional baseball , died penniless at the age of 43?
text: Did you know that, in 1972, lesbian feminist Dolores Alexander opened "Mother Courage", the first feminist restaurant in the United States?
text: Did you know that 2,274 tonnes of sand was transported onto the Horse Guards Parade ground for the VISA FIVB Beach Volleyball International ?
text: Did you know that current New York Giants linebacker Jacquian Williams has been a teammate of Jason Pierre-Paul in junior college , college and now with the Giants?
text: Did you know that Edvard Grieg composed only one song cycle , '' Haugtussa '' for soprano and piano?
text: Did you know that the Caplan Collection at The Children's Museum of Indianapolis is made up of 32,000 pieces of folk art and toys from 120 countries?
text: Did you know that his first fight against Gray Maynard was "a turning point" in Frankie Edgar 's career?
text: Did you know that professor emeritus Gerhard Tötemeyer dropped out of school because he spoke neither English nor Afrikaans , the official languages in South-West Africa ?
text: Did you know that buds of Tennessee yellow-eyed grass are forced open by the bee Lasioglossum zephyrum , seeking first access to the flowers' pollen?
text: Did you know that both the Tarnogród Confederation and the Silent Sejm were engineered by Russian Tsar Peter the Great to strengthen Russia's influence in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth ?
text: Did you know that while serving in the Nixon administration , Barry Locke also worked as a boxing manager?
text: Did you know that the 2008 album Kamar Gelap features both pop and waltz styles?
text: Did you know that the Illuminate Light & Laser Spectacular at Dreamworld features a segment that recreates Aurora Australis ?
text: Did you know that people in Berlin raised over a million gold marks for charity in World War I by hammering nails into a wooden statue of Hindenburg 12 metres (42 feet) high?
text: Did you know that the Old Church of Helsinki was intended to be a temporary building that could serve the parish until consecration of the Helsinki Cathedral ?
text: Did you know that Pizza Hut 's success in the People's Republic of China inspired the Norwegian pizza chain Peppes Pizza to open in Beijing ?
text: Did you know that Operation Eagle is an Egyptian military campaign aimed at confronting Islamic insurgents and criminal gangs in the Sinai Peninsula ?
text: Did you know that Indonesian prostitutes are sometimes marketed via Facebook ?
text: Did you know that Greg Bear 's 2008 science fiction novel City at the End of Time pays homage to William Hope Hodgson 's 1912 novel, The Night Land ?
text: Did you know that the native wisteria of eastern Australia is a food source for pencilled blue and narrow-banded awl caterpillars?
text: Did you know that wheelchair-tennis player David Hall was inducted into the Sport Australia Hall of Fame in 2010?
text: Did you know that the purportedly haunted King House is now home to feral cats?
text: Did you know that the entrance to the Schoenhofen Pyramid Mausoleum is modeled after the gateways at Egypt's Karnak Temple Complex ?
text: Did you know that Lucifer died in 2011?
text: Did you know that the will of James Kidd sparked the Ghost Trial of the Century ?
text: Did you know that, for Norma Eberhardt , 1958 was the year to be seen with Dracula and Live Fast, Die Young ?
text: Did you know that Jeruk Purut Cemetery is supposedly haunted by a headless pastor who is followed by a large black dog?
text: Did you know that in nine days in August 1944 , the 6th Airborne Division liberated 400 square miles (1,000 km 2 ) of France and captured over 1,000 German prisoners?
text: Did you know that baseball player Nino Bongiovanni appeared in the World Series two years after leading the Pacific Coast League in hits?
text: Did you know that River is the first film to deal with the 2008 Akihabara massacre incident?
text: Did you know that during his 43 years with the New York City Opera , tenor buffo Jack Harrold appeared in more than 100 productions?
text: Did you know that Henri Ford performed brain surgery with CNN correspondent Sanjay Gupta on a victim of the 2010 Haiti earthquake aboard the USS Carl Vinson ?
text: Did you know that the ancient murals at St Mary's Church in West Chiltington include a wounded Christ standing on a wheel—a warning against breaking the Sabbath ?
text: Did you know that British brigadier Aubertin Mallaby was killed 66 years ago today in the Battle of Surabaya while flying a white flag?
text: Did you know that the squirrel glider and yellow-bellied glider feed on the sap of the pink bloodwood directly from an incision in the trunk?
text: Did you know that Mad Dog O'Malley teamed with Lucifer to take down his former partner?
text: Did you know that John Hurt received three award nominations for The Elephant Man , winning one of them?
text: Did you know that professional baseball player Bill Bagwell led three different leagues in batting average ?
text: Did you know that the producer of the Bad Lip Reading viral videos first encountered the technique of lip reading when his mother lost her hearing?
text: Did you know that by early polls, the opposition Serbian Progressive Party had higher ratings than the next three most popular parties combined in the upcoming elections in Serbia ?
text: Did you know that St Eugrad's Church, Llaneugrad , Wales, contains an Art Nouveau memorial to one of the officers who died in the wreck of the Royal Charter in 1859?
text: Did you know that Jesse Baker , who was born in a log cabin, became the first person from Pierce County, Washington , to play in Major League Baseball ?
text: Did you know that an aria of "heart-stopping intensity" in Bach's solo cantata for alto Gott soll allein mein Herze haben, BWV 169 , has been compared to "Erbarme dich" from his St Matthew Passion ?
text: Did you know that Lawrence James Baker 's son married the sister of his architect, and the married couple lived in a house within the grounds of Haydon Hall designed by the bride's brother?
text: Did you know that Tennessee Volunteers basketball coach Ray Mears recruited Mike Edwards without even having seen him play competitively?
text: Did you know that professional baseball pitcher Oscar Graham , who won 276 games in his career, worked as a rabbit hunter during the winter?
text: Did you know that microalgae is used widely in aquaculture and is now cultured itself in hatcheries ?
text: Did you know that at least 17 tropical cyclones in the East Pacific have existed during the off-season ?
text: Did you know that Ian Bankier became Celtic F.C. 's 15th chairman in the club's 123-year history?
text: Did you know that the lead ship of the Reina Victoria Eugenia class was to be named after King Alfonso XIII 's English wife ?
text: Did you know that Nia Dinata , director of controversial films on homosexuality and polygamy, started a children's film festival in 2009?
text: Did you know that former couple Acha Septriasa and Irwansyah united for their last Love Story under the supervision of Irwansyah's future wife and direction of Hanny Saputra ?
text: Did you know that the first complete translation of the Bible into Cornish was published in 2011?
text: Did you know that watching Tom Parker play helped former Kentucky Wildcats basketball standout Jack Givens decide to attend Kentucky?
text: Did you know that the works of Jagadguru Rambhadracharya include more than 90 titles, including published books and unpublished manuscripts?
text: Did you know that the early Christian Martyrion of Saints Carpus and Papylus, which is part of the Church of Saint Menas complex in Istanbul , currently houses two shops, an iron workshop and a car wash?
text: Did you know that baseball player Paddy Siglin once got punched in the face by an umpire ?
text: Did you know that the Tayloe family of Richmond County, Virginia , including John Tayloe I , his son, John Tayloe II , and grandson, John Tayloe III , exemplified gentry entrepreneurship ?
text: Did you know that in 2009 the Toronto Star called Winnipeg's Manitoba Hydro Place , which uses 60% less energy than a typical large office tower, "the most important building in Canada"?
text: Did you know that Dira Sugandi was awarded the Indonesian Young Jazz Talent Award for her duet with Jason Mraz ?
text: Did you know that the 2005 Alabama Crimson Tide football team had all ten of its victories vacated by the NCAA , resulting in an official record of zero wins and two losses for the season?
text: Did you know that the Japanese anime film Magic Tree House is based on the American children's book series of the same name ?
text: Did you know that Ratih Hardjono connected her wedding with corruption, collusion, and nepotism?
text: Did you know that sea sponge aquaculture has the potential to generate novel anti-inflammatory and anti-viral drugs?
text: Did you know that Michael Schneider conducted an oratorio by Stradella , performed by students and teachers of the Frankfurt University of Music at Eberbach Abbey for the Rheingau Musik Festival ?
text: Did you know that the 1936 Marquette Golden Avalanche football team finished their season with a loss in the inaugural Cotton Bowl Classic ?
text: Did you know that Adam Hiorth , Oluf Nicolai Roll , and Ole Gjerdrum were among the founders, in 1845, of a spinning mill that later developed into the largest textile company in Norway?
text: Did you know that Montana State University educator and artist Frances Senska trained several internationally known ceramic artists although she herself had just two academic quarters of training in ceramics?
text: Did you know that female viewers of the film Kimi ni Todoke on its opening weekend outnumbered male viewers by a ratio of more than seven to one?
text: Did you know that if roaming cages were used in offshore aquaculture , juvenile tuna starting out from Mexico could mature and be ready to market by the time they got to Japan?
text: Did you know that Frank A. Mason was Harvard University 's first full-time football coach?
text: Did you know that Lexicon Branding created the brand names Pentium , BlackBerry , PowerBook , Swiffer , OnStar , Subaru Outback and Forester , Toyota Scion , Dasani , and Embassy Suites Hotels ?
text: Did you know that Catherine Sandoval is the first Hispanic member of the California Public Utilities Commission ?
text: Did you know that St Paul's Church , in Witherslack , Cumbria , was built in 1668–69 as a result of a bequest made by John Barwick , dean of St Paul's Cathedral ?
text: Did you know that Sandra Dewi gave an "arousing" performance in Quickie Express , but has refused to do "vulgar" photo shoots?
text: Did you know that Major League Baseball player Harry Hoch was nicknamed "Schoolmaster" because he attended law school in the offseason?
text: Did you know that when the Communist Party of Canada relaunched its Yiddish newspaper in 1940, they chose the neutral name Canadian Jewish Weekly in order to avoid a government ban?
text: Did you know that EastEnders characters Anthony and brother Tyler were compared to EastEnders duo Phil and Grant Mitchell ?
text: Did you know that the 1906 Pensacola hurricane ruined 300,000 bales of cotton?
text: Did you know that future U.S. Attorney David H. Mason was left with only twenty-five cents after opening his first law office?
text: Did you know that a Russian sect believes that Vladimir Putin is the reincarnation of Saint Paul ?
text: Did you know that T Peter Brody invented the thin-film transistor active matrix display, the predominant flat panel display technology in use today?
text: Did you know that the North American mushroom species Tylopilus tabacinus has an odor that has been described variously as indistinct, fruity, fishy, or pungent?
text: Did you know that during a 1963 presidential visit to Brazzaville , the Guinean president Sékou Touré called for the overthrow of the Congolese government?
text: Did you know that Darren Brooks is the only basketball player in Missouri Valley Conference history to be named both its Player of the Year and Defensive Player of the Year in consecutive seasons?
text: Did you know that the eponymous bird in Paul McCartney 's song " Bluebird " has been interpreted as a metaphor for love?
text: Did you know that the 2011 Lufeng city riot occurred in a town promoted as a model of harmoniousness?
text: Did you know that the Angel Orensanz Center is housed in a Gothic Revival synagogue building built in 1849?
text: Did you know that after the February 2011 Christchurch earthquake , dean Peter Beck was described as a "figurehead of the city "?
text: Did you know that the plans for a popular front between communists and socialists in Poland collapsed after the launching of the newspaper Oblicze Dnia in 1936?
text: Did you know that Grant Enfinger will compete in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series in 2012 for a team owned by an Argentine businessman?
text: Did you know that Lakes Mall in Lauderdale Lakes, Florida , home to the first Office Depot and Sports Authority stores, was otherwise completely vacant in August 1990?
text: Did you know that a reviewer for John Grisham 's new novel The Litigators praised it for avoiding clichés such as somebody being murdered for "stumbling too close to the truth"?
text: Did you know that Tristan Wade has had three World Series of Poker final table finishes in 2011?
text: Did you know that the alternative rock band Unified Theory is named after Albert Einstein 's final hypothesis unified field theory ?
text: Did you know that American Sociological Association 's annual award in the sociology of education is named after Willard Waller ?
text: Did you know that the Kenai Peninsula Orchestra premiered the work "An Alaskan Symphony," which was written specifically for them by composer Adrienne Albert ?
text: Did you know that in 1919, Babe Ruth set a Major League Baseball record with 29 home runs , the last hit off pitcher Rip Jordan ?
text: Did you know that the upcoming release Joe Danger: The Movie is a video game that parodies various Hollywood film scenes?
text: Did you know that the dress worn by Ellen Terry in John Singer Sargent 's painting of her portrayal of Lady Macbeth is decorated with 1,000 iridescent green beetle wings?
text: Did you know that PlayStation Network game Joe Danger was made entirely by a team of just four people?
text: Did you know that New York State Assemblyman Louis DeSalvio co-authored a bill that allowed Castle Clinton to become a national monument , thus thwarting Robert Moses ' plan to demolish it?
text: Did you know that baseball player Buck Thrasher led two different minor leagues in hits before making it to the majors?
text: Did you know that the Marinens Flyvebaatfabrikk M.F.4 floatplane, introduced in 1918 , was the Royal Norwegian Navy Air Service 's first purpose-built trainer aircraft ?
text: Did you know that despite posting 32 tackles for the 1994 Michigan Wolverines football team , Kerwin Waldroup did not earn a varsity letter ?
text: Did you know that Bing Slamet started a trend of using actors' names in the titles of films?
text: Did you know that former Cleveland Browns safety Michael Jameson was the final member of the Browns' 2001 NFL Draft class to be on the roster?
text: Did you know that Venezuelan singer-songwriter Franco De Vita received nominations for the Latin Grammy Awards for his album En Primera Fila and the song " Tan Sólo Tú "?
text: Did you know that Argo Tea is a chain of cafés focused on the world's most popular beverage after water ?
text: Did you know that minor league baseball pitcher Tom Drohan threw a no-hitter in 1912 and made his major league debut less than a year later?
text: Did you know that although the Umpqua Mariposa lily is rare, up to 800,000 grow on Ace Williams Mountain in Oregon ?
text: Did you know that in July 1946, the 6th Airborne Division placed a cordon around Tel Aviv and searched every building looking for those responsible for the King David Hotel bombing ?
text: Did you know that Atomatrix , who will skate for Team USA at the Roller Derby World Cup , has competed at the international level in inline and ice speed skating ?
text: Did you know that Mexican singer-songwriter Espinoza Paz did not want to release his album Canciones Que Duelen but was persuaded by his record label to do so?
text: Did you know that the redfruit desertparsley is a wild carrot found only on the Blue Mountains of Oregon ?
text: Did you know that in his last professional baseball season, Harry Suter set the Pacific Coast League single-game strikeout record?
text: Did you know that players in the upcoming first person video game Warco will shoot camera footage, not bullets?
text: Did you know that in 2004 Dewi Sandra was selected as one of the sexiest women in the world by FHM ?
text: Did you know that the Montecito Inn was built by Fatty Arbuckle and Charlie Chaplin and their friends in 1928 and was the inspiration for the 1936 Rodgers and Hart song, " There's a Small Hotel "?
text: Did you know that SS Mantola sailed for less than a year before being sunk in 1917 while carrying around 600,000 ounces of silver?
text: Did you know that Prince Royce 's debut album peaked at number one 58 weeks after its release?
text: Did you know that Pat Dillard set the Major League Baseball single-game record for putouts by a third baseman ?
text: Did you know that St George's Church, Heaviley has been described as "by far the grandest church of Stockport "?
text: Did you know that Chick Brandom was a Major League Baseball pitcher for three seasons, even though he had a birth defect that made it painful for him to pitch?
text: Did you know that the greatest hits album Desde un principio: From the Beginning by Marc Anthony was the best-selling Latin album of 2000?
text: Did you know that the Maintenance of Religious Harmony Act of Singapore allows restrictions to be placed on religious leaders who promote political causes under the guise of religious activity?
text: Did you know that the wedding of the French pop singers of the seventies Sheila and Ringo was attended by 15,000 people and "resembled a royal wedding"?
text: Did you know that the Church of St. George of Samatya in Istanbul may have been given to the Armenian community because of the intercession of a favorite of Sultan Ibrahim ?
text: Did you know that soon after being ingested by the gregarious jellyfish , the larvae of the developing twelve-tentacled parasitic anemone will eat the jellyfish's gonads?
text: Did you know that Antonio Mohedano painted the main hall of the Archbishop's Palace in Seville ?
text: Did you know that when first launched, the Official Subscription Plays Chart tracked more than 3.2 million digital plays per week in the United Kingdom , across 340,000 unique songs?
text: Did you know that stock car drivers who set a track record at Darlington Raceway in qualifying for the Southern 500 would be rewarded with a white blazer ?
text: Did you know that James Smith led an armed rebellion by colonists against British rule in North America in 1765, ten years before the Battles of Lexington and Concord ?
text: Did you know that actor Michel Lonsdale considers the part of a vice-consul in India Song to be his "most favorite role"?
text: Did you know that baseball player Ed Conwell struck out in his only major league at bat ?
text: Did you know that Major League Baseball umpire Paul Sentell collapsed on the field during a game and died a few days later?
text: Did you know that Captain Thomas Fortescue Kennedy was first-lieutenant of HMS Temeraire at Trafalgar in 1805, and her last commander at Sheerness in 1838?
text: Did you know that Bach finished the opening chorus of his cantata Wer sich selbst erhöhet, der soll erniedriget werden, BWV 47 , with a repeat of the ritornello , adding the complete text of Luke 14:11 ?
text: Did you know that poet Antonio Machado was born at the Palacio de las Dueñas in Seville ?
text: Did you know that triathletes Chrissie Wellington and Emma Snowsill are among the World and Olympic champions who have been coached by Brett Sutton ?
text: Did you know that despite leaving school at age 14, Thomas Kirkman became one of 19th-century England's leading mathematicians and helped found combinatorial design theory?
text: Did you know that Max Adler had no idea his one-episode jock character Dave Karofsky on Glee would become the "nuanced" role of a closeted gay ex-bully and bearded prom king?
text: Did you know that Welsh lock Huw Richards , a former sheep shearing champion, was the first player to be sent off in a Rugby World Cup tournament?
text: Did you know that the 1906 Florida Keys hurricane killed 135 of the Florida East Coast Railway 's workers?
text: Did you know that St Edern's Church, Bodedern , Wales, is dedicated to one of the knights of King Arthur ?
text: Did you know that Uncle Tom once led a professional baseball league in stolen bases ?
text: Did you know that John Clapp was the inaugural manager of baseball's New York Gothams, which became the modern-day San Francisco Giants ?
text: Did you know that Irma Lozada was the first female police officer to die in the line of duty in New York ?
text: Did you know that in " Love Me, I'm a Liberal ", U.S. singer-songwriter Phil Ochs mocked the difference between what liberals say and what they do?
text: Did you know that Alicia Aberley is a Paralympic swimmer who has held multiple world records and works for Amway ?
text: Did you know that the Sands of Samar , the last remaining sand dunes in Israel's Arava region, are being threatened by sand mining ?
text: Did you know that An Anglo-American Alliance: A Serio-Comic Romance and Forecast of the Future , published in 1906, has been described as the first lesbian science fiction novel?
text: Did you know that King Nicholas I of Montenegro supported the insurgents in the Albanian Revolt of 1911 ?
text: Did you know that Fred Donovan was manager of the first professional baseball team that included future Hall of Famer Ray Schalk ?
text: Did you know that Karet Bivak , Jakarta's second-largest cemetery, holds more than 48,000 graves in a space of 16.2 hectares (40 acres)?
text: Did you know that after assuming his post on the Arizona Territorial Supreme Court, Judge DeForest Porter was surprised to learn that area temperatures reached 114 °F (46 °C)?
text: Did you know that the effort put forth by the subject of Miró 's 1937 Naked woman climbing a staircase and her heavy limbs are thought to reflect the tragedy of the Spanish Civil War ?
text: Did you know that baseball player Andy Cusick was described by his teammates as a "good batsman", even though he batted .193 with no home runs in his major league career?
text: Did you know that the depopulated Palestinian Arab village of Al-Hamma had a station on the Jezreel Valley railway , linking the Hejaz Railway to Haifa ?
text: Did you know that John T. Alsap , operator of the first saloon in the Arizona Territory town of Prescott , was appointed the territory's first treasurer?
text: Did you know that physicists running the OPERA experiment detected neutrino particles apparently moving faster than light ?
text: Did you know that during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War , Israel's Galilee Squadron was menaced by Syrian trainer aircraft ?
text: Did you know that Jacques Borlée , the father and coach of Olympic medalist Olivia and twin athletes Jonathan and Kevin Borlée , won a silver medal at the 1983 European Athletics Indoor Championships ?
text: Did you know that completion of the Zrinski Bridge marked the end of 40-year long construction of Budapest – Zagreb – Rijeka motorway?
text: Did you know that after hearing a sermon by George Whitefield , a member of Ditchling Chapel said he would "tear the church to pieces" and founded his own church, the Bethel Chapel ?
text: Did you know that, as a U.S. Justice Department lawyer, James A. Fowler argued before the Supreme Court in cases about water and vinegar?
text: Did you know that the 2009 film Tenshi no Koi was based on a Japanese cell phone novel ?
text: Did you know that Hanna Bergas was one of three teachers who, at Dovercourt , England, met thousands of children fleeing Nazi Germany without their parents on the Kindertransports ?
text: Did you know that the African Confederation of Free Trade Unions was founded in 1958 on the basis of the French Charter of Amiens ?
text: Did you know that V. V. S. Laxman 's 281 is the highest individual score by a batsman in an India – Australia Test match ?
text: Did you know that the entire population of Angel Island mice on the island of Estanque in the Gulf of California may have been killed by a single domestic cat in a period of just two years?
text: Did you know that Heamasi Sekona of Tonga won a bronze medal in the light heavyweight class of boxing in the 2011 Commonwealth Youth Games without winning a single bout?
text: Did you know that Ahmad Dhani once found Once to be the lead singer of Dewa 19 ?
text: Did you know that the geosocial networking app Blendr expands on its gay-oriented predecessor Grindr to allow all people to connect with others nearby with common interests?
text: Did you know that baseball pitcher George Hodson had six 20-win seasons in the minor leagues?
text: Did you know that Lord Carnarvon named the 1993 European filly champion after one of his wife's favourite recipes?
text: Did you know that, in 1980, U.S. presidential candidate John Anderson wrote in the San Francisco Sentinel that, if elected, he would end federal government discrimination based on sexual orientation?
text: Did you know that Daniel Abibi , Congolese permanent representative to the U.N. during the 1990s, was amongst the first Central Africans to obtain a doctorate in mathematics?
text: Did you know that Supremacy MMA is the first mixed martial arts video game to have female fighters?
text: Did you know that two-time US Open women's wheelchair tennis champion Daniela Di Toro became paraplegic when a wall fell on her while she was competing at a school swimming carnival?
text: Did you know that Pino Orioli helped D. H. Lawrence circumvent the censorship of Lady Chatterley's Lover by having it printed in Italy by workers who did not know any English?
text: Did you know that the upcoming video game Transformers: Fall of Cybertron will not be based on a movie, unlike the 2010 title, Transformers: Dark of the Moon ?
text: Did you know that the extinct Cretaceous wasp family Plumalexiidae is known from only the two Plumalexius type specimens found in New Jersey amber ?
text: Did you know that painter Velino Herrera was ostracized by Pueblo elders for depicting sacred Native American ceremonies?
text: Did you know that Om mani padme hum is engraved in the Lantsa , Tibetan , Uyghur , 'Phags-pa , Tangut and Chinese scripts on a 1348 stele , and in the Tibetan, Jurchen , Chinese, and Mongolian scripts on a 1413 stele ?
text: Did you know that immunologist and AIDS advocate Robert Frascino considered himself privileged after being infected with HIV ?
text: Did you know that after securing its first-ever bowl victory in the 1955 Gator Bowl , Vanderbilt did not win its second until the 2008 Music City Bowl ?
text: Did you know that Miró 's The Caress of a Bird uses a turtle shell to show that the sculpture represents a woman?
text: Did you know that American engineer Edward J. Wasp received the Elmer A. Sperry Award in 1981 for his work developing long distance slurry pipelines ?
text: Did you know that on his first day filming " Pot of Gold ", Glee newcomer and The Glee Project winner Damian McGinty was shoved into a locker 25 times?
text: Did you know that Vic Flowers is considered as the unofficial leader of the Barmy Army ?
text: Did you know that political novice Julie Hardaker beat the experienced incumbent Bob Simcock in 2010's contest for the mayoralty of Hamilton , New Zealand?
text: Did you know that publisher Meridian4 compared the video game Wasteland Angel to honey badgers and even used a video of badgers to promote the game?
text: Did you know that poorly treated wastewater from raceways used in aquaculture can result in outbreaks of red tide ?
text: Did you know that a white audience gave the black power sign and Little Richard is said to have "openly embraced androgyny" in Let the Good Times Roll ?
text: Did you know that the 893 Ardabil earthquake is a 'fake earthquake', created due to a misreading of the original Armenian reports for the 893 Dvin earthquake ?
text: Did you know that MercyMe 's song " Finally Home " was written after lead singer Bart Millard heard the group's guitarists improvising on an acoustic guitar riff?
text: Did you know that studio executive Mo Rothman persuaded Charlie Chaplin to return to the United States in 1972, which restored Chaplin's public reputation and popularity?
text: Did you know that a new Chinese unmanned aerial vehicle could be used for relaying targeting information for ballistic and cruise missiles to destroy enemy ships?
text: Did you know that the Goethe–Schiller Monument in Syracuse , dedicated 100 years ago today, was the last of 13 US monuments honoring Friedrich von Schiller , the German "poet of freedom"?
text: Did you know that bees and wasps can be trained to detect explosives, illegal drugs, cancer, and pregnancy?
text: Did you know that Max Bell went from making $35 per week at a Calgary newspaper during the Great Depression to owning Canada's largest newspaper syndicate in 1965?
text: Did you know that the Turnhalle building in Windhoek lent its name to a conference , an alliance , and two political parties?
text: Did you know that "king of the paparazzi" Felice Quinto was shot with an arrow in the course of his duty?
text: Did you know that the extinct wasps Dryinus grimaldii and Dryinus rasnitsyni are distinguishable by the modified claws on their front legs?
text: Did you know that a Danish vagabond named Eiler Larsen became famous as "The Greeter" of Laguna Beach, California ?
text: Did you know that the city of Coimbatore in India was constructed by a 9th century Irula chieftain named Covan ?
text: Did you know that Man With A Mission is a Japanese alternative band whose members wear wolf masks on stage?
text: Did you know that Dominica , Barbados , Solomon Islands , and Saint Kitts and Nevis were among ten nations that only won one bronze medal in the 2011 Commonwealth Youth Games ?
text: Did you know that when J J Cahill Memorial High School was built, the first students carried their books and furniture there by themselves?
text: Did you know that poet Teofil Lenartowicz described heaven as looking like a Polish village?
text: Did you know that upon his retirement in 1998, Peter Joslin was among Britain's longest-serving police officers, having served for 44 years?
text: Did you know that the Presidential Council for Minority Rights , a Singaporean body that ensures laws do not discriminate against racial or religious minorities, has not issued an adverse report since its creation?
text: Did you know that Russian poet Stepan Shevyryov was a founder of the "poetry of thought" movement?
text: Did you know that coral aquaculture may be becoming an effective tool for restoring coral reefs , which have been declining around the world?
text: Did you know that Carl Rettenmeyer found hundreds of mite species that live on army ants, including one that acts as an extension to the foot whilst sucking blood?
text: Did you know that on 24 September , pro-Gaddafi forces launched a raid on the oasis town of Ghadames , held by the National Transitional Council and home to a UNESCO World Heritage Site ?
text: Did you know that Il sogno di Scipione , an opera by Luca Antonio Predieri , was first performed in 1735 to celebrate the birthday of Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor ?
text: Did you know that the Aidanfield subdivision in Christchurch was developed over the last decade to raise funds for a Catholic order ?
text: Did you know that Titiek Puspa 's stage name was given to her by President Sukarno ?
text: Did you know that the tubers of the Potato Orchid taste of beetroot?
text: Did you know that baritone Konrad Jarnot recorded lieder by Richard Strauss , including Four Last Songs ?
text: Did you know that Maurice Fernandes captained the West Indies cricket team to their maiden Test victory?
text: Did you know that the video game Iron Grip: Marauders changed from an isometric to a perspective camera during open beta ?
text: Did you know that the reaction of the public to a 26-foot-tall statue of Marilyn Monroe has been criticized as "juvenile"?
text: Did you know that A Letter to Momo is the first Japanese anime film to be showcased at the Warsaw International Film Festival ?
text: Did you know that Prussian statesman Georg von Vincke , known as one of the great orators of contemporary German politics, fought a duel with Otto von Bismarck ?
text: Did you know that the only fossil of the extinct moth Baltimartyria sat on a paleoentomologist ' s desk for a number of years before being described in 2011?
text: Did you know that despite being with five different teams during the 2004 NFL season , cornerback Mike Echols did not appear in any games?
text: Did you know that Kasper Twardowski 's 1617 erotica, banned by the Bishop of Kraków , was rejected by the poet himself as immoral?
text: Did you know that former BBC Newsround reporter Lucy Mathen is now an ophthalmologist , and has launched a volunteer group aimed at eradicating cataract blindness in India?
text: Did you know that the German war film Der Stern von Afrika portrayed the combat career of Luftwaffe fighter pilot Hans-Joachim Marseille ?
text: Did you know that an ongoing outbreak of listeriosis associated with cantaloupes is now one of the three worst U.S. outbreaks of foodborne illness in the past 40 years, as measured in number of deaths?
text: Did you know that Ifeany Otounye of the Turks and Caicos Islands set a new national record for long jump in the 2011 Commonwealth Youth Games ?
text: Did you know that the "intellectual poet" Chairil Anwar enjoyed stealing and womanizing?
text: Did you know that following their win in the 1980 Garden State Bowl , the Houston Cougars did not win another bowl game until their victory in the 2008 Armed Forces Bowl ?
text: Did you know that the sans-serif typeface Neutraface is the subject of a YouTube parody video of Lady Gaga 's song " Poker Face "?
text: Did you know that Faroese folk hero Nólsoyar Páll had to illegally sell 2,600 knitted sweaters to try to open direct trade with his country?
text: Did you know that the newspaper vending machine was invented by George Thiemeyer Hemmeter in 1947?
text: Did you know that Bert V. Royal , who wrote the high school comedy film Easy A , did not attend high school?
text: Did you know that Dick Cogan , a former Major League Baseball player, organized the Hudson River League and was a player-manager for one of its teams?
text: Did you know that the world's highest webcam is capable of streaming live HD video of the summit of Mount Everest?
text: Did you know that the vaccine MVA-B has been found to create a resistance to HIV in 90% of the Phase I testers?
text: Did you know that the SS Robert E. Peary was built and launched in only 4 days, 15 hours and 29 minutes, faster than any other Liberty ship ?
text: Did you know that the brown-tinted and shaky camerawork of Under the Tree was considered "sometimes near-nauseating"?
text: Did you know that professional wrestler Frank Stalletto once claimed to be a lookalike for country music star Billy Ray Cyrus ?
text: Did you know that the Augusta Victoria broke a speed record on her maiden voyage across the Atlantic?
text: Did you know that in 1933, a mostly Jewish boarding school escaped Nazi Germany and re-opened as Bunce Court School in Kent , England, ultimately saving the lives of hundreds of children and several teachers?
text: Did you know that Bernice Lake , the chief architect of Anguilla 's constitution, was the first Eastern Caribbean woman to be appointed Queen's Counsel ?
text: Did you know that common law rules of natural justice do not require public authorities to give reasons for their decisions?
text: Did you know that the Cleveland Rosenblums , owned by department store owner Max Rosenblum, won the first championship of the newly formed American Basketball League in 1926?
text: Did you know that Jean-Baptiste Cousin de Grainville 's 1805 novel Le Dernier Homme ( The Last Man ) was the first work of modern speculative fiction to describe the end of the world?
text: Did you know that even though stab wounds occur four times more often than gunshot wounds , there is a lower mortality rate ?
text: Did you know that the 1981 Garden State Bowl was the first bowl game Wisconsin participated in that was not the Rose Bowl Game ?
text: Did you know that the majority of blue spiny starfish reproduce sexually in winter, but asexually in the summer?
text: Did you know that Brian Eisner led the University of Michigan men's tennis team to 18 Big Ten Conference championships in 30 years as the head coach?
text: Did you know that mules were used to help transport the 7,200 tiles in the Miró Wall from Spain to Germany?
text: Did you know that Arizona Territorial Chief Justice Edmund Francis Dunne was made a count by Pope Leo XIII ?
text: Did you know that the mintbush Prostanthera stenophylla grows in sandstone pagodas?
text: Did you know that Finland's Lasse Virén won the gold medal and set a world record in the 10,000 metres at the 1972 Summer Olympics , despite falling onto the track about halfway through the race?
text: Did you know that the North geomagnetic pole is not the same as the magnetic North Pole , and that a compass points at neither?
text: Did you know that Bill Lange led the North Carolina Tar Heels men's basketball program to its first ever NCAA Tournament appearance in 1941 ?
text: Did you know that Bach included stanzas from four funeral hymns in his cantata Christus, der ist mein Leben, BWV 95 (Christ, he is my life)?
text: Did you know that Somerset all-rounder Craig Meschede ' s first wicket in first-class cricket was that of Sachin Tendulkar ?
text: Did you know that David M. Friedman's book A Mind of Its Own: A Cultural History of the Penis was described as "embarrassingly europhallocentric"?
text: Did you know that in August 1990 FC Bayern Munich lost in the first round of the cup at amateur side FV 09 Weinheim ?
text: Did you know that French Napoleonic General François-Xavier Donzelot showed his appreciation for the return of his library by the British by reserving a seat at his table for any captured British officer?
text: Did you know that Tropical Storm Greta was described as a "bomb that did not explode"?
text: Did you know that most of the provisions of Alabama HB 56 , considered the toughest anti- illegal immigration law in the United States, recently went into effect after surviving a legal challenge?
text: Did you know that fairyflies include the smallest known insects, smaller than a single-celled Paramecium ?
text: Did you know that Victor Pascall of Trinidad was considered the best left-arm spinner in West Indies cricket during his career?
text: Did you know that it has been said that the opening chorus of Bach's cantata Was Gott tut, das ist wohlgetan, BWV 99 , "would still work perfectly well if the vocal parts were entirely removed"?
text: Did you know that due to the sexually explicit content of Saman , Ayu Utami ' s debut novel, her mother refused to read it to her father?
text: Did you know that Nnamdi Azikiwe was concerned about a possible "Pakistan" emerging in Nigeria ?
text: Did you know that Thomas Edison hoped to make furniture, refrigerators, and pianos using the concrete he developed but it was instead used to make the Yankee Stadium ?
text: Did you know that the Tamil film Dakshayagnam was the first talkie based on the story of Daksha ?
text: Did you know that Leonard Reiffel helped Enrico Fermi build a cyclotron , studied launching a missile at the Moon , and won a Peabody Award for his radio show?
text: Did you know that the Alaska Veterans Memorial honors all the main branches of the United States Armed Forces, as well as the Merchant Marine and the Alaska Territorial Guard?
text: Did you know that Ralph Eleaser Whiteside Earl was known as the "court painter" to United States President Andrew Jackson ?
text: Did you know that the star IRAS 17163-3907 , the closest yellow hypergiant ever found, is said to resemble a fried egg ?
text: Did you know that the Polish poem " Murzynek Bambo " has been criticised for its portrayal of black people?
text: Did you know that Cecil Newton, Sr. attended two NFL training camps without making the team, but both of his sons have played in the NFL?
text: Did you know that the Australian contribution to the Battle of Normandy in 1944 included ten Royal Australian Air Force squadrons and hundreds of personnel posted to Royal Air Force units and Royal Navy warships?
text: Did you know that the first letter in its name stands for "open," but the openness of the ODB++ CAD -to- CAM data exchange format is disputed?
text: Did you know that educator Anna Essinger , ordered to fly the swastika on Hitler's birthday, planned a day-long outing for her school , leaving the flag to fly over an empty building?
text: Did you know that the design of the Dronningegården residential complex in Copenhagen was shaped by the shortage of materials during World War II?
text: Did you know that Bhaskaracharya Tripathi , a Sanskrit poet, won the Sahitya Akademi Award for Sanskrit in 2003 for his poetry work Nirjharini ?
text: Did you know that the Martin Ryerson Tomb is one of three mausoleums designed by famous architect Louis H. Sullivan ?
text: Did you know that the Striped Honeyeater 's primary food source is insects, not honey or nectar?
text: Did you know that Pink Floyd , Rod Stewart , and Maria Callas have all performed in Verona's Bra ?
text: Did you know that although he is of European descent, Richard Nunns is regarded as the foremost authority on Māori musical instruments ?
text: Did you know that the Bergmann Hotel , an historic building in Juneau, Alaska , was built in 1913 by Marie E. Bergmann as a home for local miners?
text: Did you know that twice-married Indonesian singer Dewi Persik announced earlier this year that she had officially become a virgin again following a pilgrimage to Mecca ?
text: Did you know that J. Wesley Gephart gave up his law practice with a governor to run a railroad and two blast furnaces ?
text: Did you know that the entire global population of the Owens pupfish was once contained in two buckets?
text: Did you know that the male Pahrump killifish turns blue during spawning ?
text: Did you know that Redjuice added cat ears to Guilty Crown ?
text: Did you know that MercyMe 's song " So Long Self " broke the record for most first-week adds on the Christian AC radio format?
text: Did you know that despite witnessing the event from the bench , Arizona Territorial Chief Justice John Titus declined to bring charges against a prosecutor who tried to kill a criminal defendant in open court?
text: Did you know that the plant Spigelia genuflexa bends down to bury its own seeds ?
text: Did you know that more than 50 of John Mennie 's drawings of his life as a prisoner of war were donated to the Imperial War Museum ?
text: Did you know that the Convention for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage does not allow traditions that violate international human rights?
text: Did you know that the extinct planthopper Emiliana was described from a single 47 million -year-old wing?
text: Did you know that a quarter of Symonds Street Cemetery , one of New Zealand's oldest cemeteries, was destroyed by the construction of the Auckland Southern Motorway ?
text: Did you know that the Tempera , built in 2002, was the first oil tanker designed to break ice by going astern ?
text: Did you know that Jake Stenzel has the 21st-highest batting average in Major League Baseball history?
text: Did you know that the Sint Servaasbrug in Maastricht has been called the oldest bridge in the Netherlands , and was built in the 13th century to replace a Roman bridge that gave its name to the city?
text: Did you know that HealthGrades proprietary ratings of U.S. healthcare providers are free to view, but providers pay licensing fees to publicize their own favorable ratings?
text: Did you know that finds unearthed at the Israelite Tower in Jerusalem 's Jewish Quarter attest to the Babylonian sack of the city in 586 BCE ?
text: Did you know that for the last 186 years the rulers of Russia succeeded each other in the bald – hairy sequence?
text: Did you know that the Jipe tilapia is endemic to Lake Jipe , whose main water sources descend from Mount Kilimanjaro ?
text: Did you know that E. W. Middlemast wrote a letter recommending Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan for a job?
text: Did you know that the Armed Boats Squadron Dubrovnik provided a resupply route to the city of Dubrovnik during its 1991–1992 siege ?
text: Did you know that Democrat Harry D. Boivin was elected Speaker of the Oregon House of Representatives at the age of 33, becoming the youngest person ever to hold that office?
text: Did you know that golden frogs are often mistaken for bronzed frogs ?
text: Did you know that the function of the Gorgon and panther reliefs (Gorgon pictured) on the pediment of the Temple of Artemis in Corfu is believed to be apotropaic ?
text: Did you know that, after going bankrupt as Receiver General of Finances for Paris, Pierre Perrault developed the theory of the hydrologic cycle ?
text: Did you know that Haydn's oratorio The Creation is structured in three parts, the first two about the creation as narrated in Genesis , the third about Adam and Eve in Paradise ?
text: Did you know that Brian Jamieson received several citations for reconstructing The Big Red One ?
text: Did you know that the blushing tricholoma fungus formed a fairy ring in Germany which was 80 m (260 ft) across and contained an estimated 10,000 mushrooms?
text: Did you know that in his early life, David Hoberman couldn't walk on cracks, and had to touch poles ?
text: Did you know that Cox & Barnard of Hove , England, made stained glass windows for a Canadian church from shards of glass collected by an army chaplain from war-damaged churches across Europe?
text: Did you know that the Indonesian romance Layar Terkembang has chapters with no dialogue?
text: Did you know that the Pōmare Dynasty ruled the Kingdom of Tahiti from 1788 to 1880?
text: Did you know that the extinct sweat bee Halictus? savenyei was the first fossil bee from Canada to be described?
text: Did you know that in 1907, President Theodore Roosevelt became honorary president of the American School Hygiene Association , a Progressive Era organization dedicated to school children's health ?
text: Did you know that Qatar's Nassir Abdulaziz Al-Nasser was elected to preside over the 66th UN General Assembly ?
text: Did you know that in 2009 Entertainment Weekly listed X as one of 20 "black sci-fi icons"?
text: Did you know that the Portland Youth Philharmonic , the oldest youth orchestra in the United States, has had only five conductors since its establishment in 1924?
text: Did you know that Historic Masters is a vinyl record label which continues to issue rare 78 rpm opera discs on a regular basis?
text: Did you know that the iPlant Collaborative developed a DNA Subway?
text: Did you know that Robert V. Bruce won the Pulitzer Prize for History in 1988?
text: Did you know that as many as 80,000 benthic animals were found living on a single stem in a bed of the kelp species Laminaria hyperborea ?
text: Did you know that Mei-Ann Chen was the first woman to win the Malko Competition, the "world's most prestigious prize for young conductors "?
text: Did you know that Russell Howarth of the Minstermen had a trial with the Toffeemen in 2002?
text: Did you know that U2 's song " Exit " was used in the defence of Robert John Bardo at his trial for the murder of Rebecca Schaeffer ?
text: Did you know that doctor and author James Le Fanu has associated Darwinian evolution with materialism ?
text: Did you know that the handpainted Changzhou comb was a desired object among Chinese royalty during the Southern and Northern Dynasties over 1500 years ago?
text: Did you know that the flesh of Tricholoma argyraceum has a floury and rancid taste?
text: Did you know that Codex Ravianus , Toletanus , Theodulphianus , Legionensis , Sangallensis 63 , Sangallensis 907 , and minuscule 918 contain the spurious biblical text Comma Johanneum ?
text: Did you know that the compilation album Puros Trankazos features a song about not killing someone lately?
text: Did you know that the term eternal life is not explicitly defined in the New Testament ?
text: Did you know that before John Collee became a screenwriter, he practised medicine in places including Gabon, Madagascar, Sri Lanka, and the Solomon Islands?
text: Did you know that Eighty Five East Ridge is a major aseismic ridge in the Bay of Bengal that may have formed over a short-lived hotspot ?
text: Did you know that there were only seven copies of Miró's lithograph series that was printed in Barcelona in 1944?
text: Did you know that, at the age of fourteen, Elizabeth Edmondson was told that she had broken a world record while swimming at Beatty Park ?
text: Did you know that after a nervous breakdown Miró started art classes, where he met and painted his friend Vincent in a style that resembled Van Gogh 's?
text: Did you know that John Palocaren 's students included spiritual teacher Eknath Easwaran , bishop George Alappatt , and EMS Namboodiripad , head of the world's first freely elected communist government?
text: Did you know the following the federal recognition of the Seminole Tribe of Florida in 1957, some traditionalist Florida Seminoles formed the separate Miccosukee Tribe of Indians of Florida ?
text: Did you know that Liu Huang A-tao was the first former Taiwanese comfort woman to sue the Japanese government for compensation and an apology?
text: Did you know that the Great Church of Antioch was still standing after the earthquake of 526 AD , but was destroyed seven days later by the resulting fire?
text: Did you know that the scoring in Bach's cantata Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland, BWV 62 , based on Luther's chorale for Advent , is said to be simple because Advent was a "season of abstinence"?
text: Did you know that although the Cornell–Princeton lacrosse rivalry spans 73 games and dates back to 1922, the teams did not meet in the post season until the 2009 NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse Championship ?
text: Did you know that the Rajaji Hall in Chennai , India , was constructed to commemorate a British victory over Tipu Sultan in the Fourth Anglo-Mysore War ?
text: Did you know that Paralympian Daniel Fitzgibbon was named Sailor of the Year with a Disability in 2008, 2009 and 2011?
text: Did you know that The Who 's " Mary Anne with the Shaky Hand " has been interpreted as a song about masturbation ?
text: Did you know that many German communists fleeing Nazi persecution who initially found refuge in Moscow's Hotel Lux were killed in Josef Stalin 's purges ?
text: Did you know that Bulbophyllum nocturnum , first described in 2011, is the only orchid species known to flower at night?
text: Did you know that Grand Parade won the 1919 Epsom Derby despite 33 to 1 odds and a treacherous track?
text: Did you know that both the number and magnitude of foreshocks and aftershocks of the 1969 Yangjiang earthquake were unusually small, considering the size of the mainshock?
text: Did you know that near the Poplar River , a locomotive , briefly used for logging , lay abandoned for 20 years before being sold for scrap?
text: Did you know that Reinhard Febel composed an opera on Caspar Hauser , Sekunden und Jahre des Caspar Hauser , which premiered in 1992 at the Opernhaus Dortmund ?
text: Did you know that skippers , lycaenids and honeybees visit the flowers of Dampiera purpurea ?
text: Did you know that smallmouth bass , introduced into Crescent Lake , have spread to every major lake in the upper Poplar River watershed of Minnesota ?
text: Did you know that the Miller's Tower at Formakin House is dated " 1694 DL ", with DL standing for "damned lie", as it was built in the 1900s?
text: Did you know that trying to escape Hurricane Katrina , award-winning writer Jesmyn Ward and her family got stranded in a field full of tractors?
text: Did you know that Winter: Five Windows on the Season by Adam Gopnik was the 50th Massey Lecture and occurred on the 75th anniversary of the CBC ?
text: Did you know that the Pioneer Youth League of British Guiana was banned by the British colonial authorities in December 1953 ?
text: Did you know that Jacque LaPrarie , Eric Hochberg , Tom Tarver , Mike Stephans , and Chas Dodd all led the Rutgers Scarlet Knights football team in passing yards?
text: Did you know that Rollin White was an American gunsmith who invented a revolver with a bored-through cylinder which allowed the use of metallic cartridges?
text: Did you know that the Belgian Landrace , a breed of domestic pig , is known for its musculature and high quality of pork?
text: Did you know that the deaths of two residents of the Mathias Sharp House in southwestern Indiana sparked a sensational 1870s murder trial?
text: Did you know that Russian scientist Mikhail Golant , a sapper during World War II , pioneered the Soviet approach to design of backward-wave tubes ?
text: Did you know that Starry Starry Night was described as a "healthy example" of a China-Taiwan film collaboration?
text: Did you know that the proposed Redlands Passenger Rail system would connect the University of Redlands with San Bernardino, California ?
text: Did you know that Thelephora palmata is among the stinkiest fungi in the forest?
text: Did you know that an English translation of the Hindi hymn " Jaya Ho " has been included in the North American hymnals Voices United and The United Methodist Hymnal ?
text: Did you know that at least two of the four Scott Viking 1 gliders built were impressed into Royal Air Force service during World War Two ?
text: Did you know that " Cherish " became Madonna 's sixteenth top-five single, a record in the Billboard Hot 100 history?
text: Did you know that Ba'athists in Yemen carried out clandestine political activity until 1990?
text: Did you know that the ravenberry and boreal sagewort are eaten by hoary marmots ?
text: Did you know that Constantinos A. Patrides , the author of Milton and the Christian Tradition , earned a medal for heroism for his boyhood service with the Greek Resistance against the German Occupation ?
text: Did you know that Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts has been praised for an initiative to reduce health care spending, but public anger ensued when the compensation for its departed CEO was reported?
text: Did you know that Sir Edward Ford donated 2,200 of his own books to the library of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians ?
text: Did you know that during the Second World War , what became the Battle of Britain House in Ruislip was used for the training of American agents for sabotage missions carried out in occupied France?
text: Did you know that They Say I'm a Monkey! used leeches feeding to symbolize the rape of a child?
text: Did you know that fossilized microorganisms in the Barberton Greenstone Belt have been dated to 3.5 billion years ago?
text: Did you know that piano students of Karl-Heinz Kämmerling at the Mozarteum and the Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover won more than 100 prizes at piano competitions?
text: Did you know that Rabbi Mordechai Shlomo Friedman was engaged when he was 10 years old?
text: Did you know that research on split-brain patients led to identifying the left brain interpreter as a system that rationalizes and generalizes new information that the brain receives?
text: Did you know that the 21er Haus , located in Vienna , was originally constructed as the Austrian pavilion for Expo 58 in Brussels ?
text: Did you know that both of American singer Romeo Santos ' first two singles, " You " and " Promise ", reached the top of the Billboard Hot Latin Songs chart?
text: Did you know that both the Justice Party and the Indian National Congress lent their support to the 1921 Buckingham and Carnatic Mills Strike ?
text: Did you know that Arab-Israeli Olympic hopeful Jowan Qupty and Jewish-Israeli Olympian Nimrod Shapira Bar-Or were high school roommates and best friends?
text: Did you know that nobleman and diplomat Michał Radziwiłł Rudy was described as a psychopath by his own cousin, politician Krzysztof Radziwiłł ?
text: Did you know that after members of the cast of Ghost of Jeruk Purut were diagnosed as being possessed, the crew was told to prepare an offering of cigars, eggs, and palm sugar?
text: Did you know that Auckland 's Grafton Volcano was only identified last year, having been buried by a neighbouring volcano soon after it was created?
text: Did you know that the first Chinese player in the NBA was a Maverick ?
text: Did you know that a Sinclair ZX81 inspired Eric van der Kleij , CEO of Tech City , to go into technology?
text: Did you know that Christen Pram is regarded as the first Norwegian novelist ?
text: Did you know that it has been suggested that John Thornton Augustine Washington would have succeeded his great uncle George Washington as "king" if the United States had been a monarchy ?
text: Did you know that the Michigan–Michigan State ice hockey rivalry includes The Big Chill at the Big House , the highest attended ice hockey game ever?
text: Did you know that the law firm Steven J. Baum P.C. closed three weeks after the publication of embarrassing photos of its 2010 Halloween party ridiculing foreclosed homeowners?
text: Did you know that Yoennis Céspedes was described by Baseball Prospectus as "arguably the best all-around [baseball] player to come out of Cuba in a generation"?
text: Did you know that hindgut fermenters such as horses extract more nutrition out of smaller quantities of feed than do ruminants such as cattle ?
text: Did you know that the "wedding" of the Miami Maniac , the mascot of the Miami Hurricanes baseball team, was televised nationally on ESPN in a ceremony attended by Bud Man , Grimace and McGruff the Crime Dog ?
text: Did you know that Sha'ab was one of several villages in Galilee which rebelled against the Ottomans in 1573 CE (981 H)?
text: Did you know that John Jenkinson rescued a woman from a burning house in The Octagon, Dunedin , New Zealand, whilst 13 others died?
text: Did you know that during a decade of the interbellum , Poland and Germany suffered from a customs war ?
text: Did you know that P. Oxy. 654 and P. Oxy. 655 are two of only three Greek manuscripts of the Gospel of Thomas ?
text: Did you know that members of the colonial tunicate Pyrosoma atlanticum may glow in response to each other?
text: Did you know that 1932 Olympic racewalking champion Tommy Green was unable to walk for the first five years of his life because he was afflicted with rickets ?
text: Did you know that the extinct Canadian redwood Metasequoia foxii was described from over 10,000 fossils?
text: Did you know that Captain Edward Sneyd Clay lost his ship when his pilot and master mistook a burning lime kiln for a signal light ?
text: Did you know that the Bangong suture in Tibet was formed by the closure of the former Bangong Ocean?
text: Did you know that the Tory Member of Parliament Henry Thynne taught French and Italian to the poet Elizabeth Singer ?
text: Did you know that baseball player Fred Fussell was nicknamed "Moonlight Ace" after he pitched a no-hitter ?
text: Did you know that the People's Library was formed when an abandoned cardboard box full of books was discovered in Zuccotti Park , New York?
text: Did you know that Allen Shenstone was the only Canadian among the 400 undergraduates who entered Princeton University in 1910?
text: Did you know that Armijn Pane wrote more idealistic works after the Japanese occupation of Indonesia ?
text: Did you know that Werner Hartenstein was the U-boat commander responsible for the Laconia incident ?
text: Did you know that Hall of Famer George Kelly was nearly suspended by Major League Baseball for playing basketball with Jimmy O'Connell ?
text: Did you know that Bruce Springsteen 's song " Point Blank " is one of several songs on The River that deal with the disappointments of working-class family life?
text: Did you know that Toward the Unknown featured storylines involving both test pilots and brainwashing ?
text: Did you know that, largely due to hunting for traditional medicine , fewer than 250 Delacour's langurs are believed to remain in the wild?
text: Did you know that Jacqueline Moss guided tours of Joseph Hirshhorn 's sculpture garden in Greenwich, Connecticut, before he had the art moved to his museum in Washington ?
text: Did you know that Barbados won its first Pan American medals during the 1963 Pan American Games , held in São Paulo , Brazil?
text: Did you know that Azwar Abubakar was acting governor of Aceh in the aftermath of the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami ?
text: Did you know that Bach's cantata Was Gott tut, das ist wohlgetan, BWV 98 , begins with the same stanza as the earlier chorale cantata , BWV 99 , but continues differently and even seems to lack the regular closing chorale?
text: Did you know that Corporal Punishment went professional in 1993?
text: Did you know that the Tupolev ANT-41 torpedo bomber was designed to be flown either with conventional landing gear or as a floatplane ?
text: Did you know that the Pied Monarch of north Queensland binds its nest with spiderwebs and decorates it with lichen?
text: Did you know that Spec Harkness led the Northwestern League in wins during his first professional baseball season?
text: Did you know that Australian dual swimming Paralympic gold medallist Sam Bramham once told the media that his leg had been "chomped off by a kangaroo "?
text: Did you know that species in the fossil ant genus Myrmeciites are named for Hercules , Goliath , and a river ?
text: Did you know that when a DC-7 crashed into a pine forest in France in 1959, rescue workers were hindered by a lack of roads in the area?
text: Did you know that Unthink and Nextdoor each attempt to challenge Facebook by providing an online social network with greater privacy?
text: Did you know that Australian Paralympic medalists Karen Farrell and Cameron de Burgh , both seriously injured in motor vehicle accidents, were sponsored by the NSW Motor Accidents Authority ?
text: Did you know that Djan Faridz withdrew his bid for Governor of Jakarta after being selected as Minister of Public Housing?
text: Did you know that the plot of Sophocles ' lost play Tereus incorporates rape, mutilation and infanticide ?
text: Did you know that Brazil defeated Timor-Leste 76–0 in futsal in 2006, the current world record?
text: Did you know that archaeological excavations in Frightful Cave , in Coahuila , Mexico , recovered over 950 fibre sandals and the remains of an aged woman?
text: Did you know that Jessica Gallagher , the first Australian woman to win a medal at the Winter Paralympics , has also set national records in discus, long jump, and shot put?
text: Did you know that Djenar Maesa Ayu was involved with 1 Woman, 14 Men on her 38th birthday?
text: Did you know that before his early death, Russian writer Lev Lunts proposed the name and wrote the manifesto for the famous Serapion Brothers literary group?
text: Did you know that Tom Fitzgerald has the most wins among Columbus Crew head coaches , with 70?
text: Did you know that the nest of the Yellow-faced Honeyeater is so flimsy, eggs and nestlings sometimes fall through the bottom?
text: Did you know that dual Australian Paralympic powerlifting silver medallist Darren Gardiner is known as "The Bear" because of the roaring noise he makes in his pre-competition warmup?
text: Did you know that before it moved into the Old House of Keys , the Isle of Man 's lower house of parliament met in a pub ?
text: Did you know that Kevin McIntosh was named the Australian Paralympic Committee Coach of the Year three times?
text: Did you know that the Tian Shan region is a key place to study mountain formation far from continental and tectonic plate boundaries?
text: Did you know that Leederville Oval was built on part of a series of wetlands north of Perth , Western Australia ?
text: Did you know that during controlled burns of wooded areas, the Japanese climbing fern can inadvertently become a fuel ladder that brings flames into the canopy ?
text: Did you know that Israeli sport shooter Sergy Rikhter was denied a 2011 ISSF World Cup silver medal because he was late?
text: Did you know that St Edwen's Church, Llanedwen , is one of the few churches in Wales to be lit only by candles?
text: Did you know that the armored cruiser Admiral Makarov was one of the ships that represented the Russian Empire at the coronation of Nicholas I of Montenegro in August 1910 ?
text: Did you know that the interlocking at the Harris Switch Tower in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania , still simulates train movements using timetables from the early 1940s?
text: Did you know that less than six weeks after winning the 2011 National Rugby League premiership , the Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles sacked their head coach, Des Hasler ?
text: Did you know that Punta Brava , Cuba , has been the site of a number of notable deaths, including those of Antonio Maceo Grajales (1896) and Quentin Bandera (1906)?
text: Did you know that the Radlock Trainer was built by members of the Hull Experimental Gliding Club in their workshop?
text: Did you know that the 1962–63 Loyola Ramblers men's basketball team won the NCAA Division I Tournament in Jerry Lyne 's first season as an assistant coach?
text: Did you know that according to legend, Saint Boniface chased away a Germanic god named Stuffo from the Hülfensberg in Thuringia , Germany ?
text: Did you know that Paralympian Cobi Crispin was the Australia women's national wheelchair basketball team 's top scorer in all but the last two matches of the 2011 U25 Women's World Championship of Basketball?
text: Did you know that Peter Percival collaborated with Arumuka Navalar , a Hindu revivalist, to translate the Bible into Tamil ?
text: Did you know that the rove beetle Diochus electrus is the first definite member of the subfamily Staphylininae from the fossil record?
text: Did you know that foliage from the Australian rainforest tree Grevillea baileyana was used in the floral arrangements handed to medal winners at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney?
text: Did you know that the University of Central Florida 's women's soccer team has had a winning record in 27 of the 30 seasons the team has played?
text: Did you know that Nag Hammadi Codex II is the only complete manuscript of the Gospel of Thomas ?
text: Did you know that Australian rules football is sometimes referred to as "aerial ping-pong"?
text: Did you know that St Michael and All Angels' Church in Felton, Northumberland , has a window cut from a single stone that features eight petal flower patterning with geometrical tracery ?
text: Did you know that tectonic subsidence , the sinking of the Earth's crust, can be caused by extension, cooling, or loading?
text: Did you know that Israeli Olympian Delila Hatuel trains both Jewish and Arab children in fencing?
text: Did you know that Solonei da Silva was a garbage collector in Brazil in 2009, but went on to win the gold medal in the marathon at the 2011 Pan American Games ?
text: Did you know that to escape burning at the 1393 Bal des Ardents Charles VI of France huddled under the gown of the Duchesse de Berry , while a lord leaped into a wine vat?
text: Did you know that Mary Tyler Moore made her feature film debut in X-15 , which was also the first film to be directed by Richard Donner ?
text: Did you know that the University of Central Florida 's men's soccer team won their first match by a score of 8–0?
text: Did you know that the disastrous Air Battle of Heligoland Bight in 1939 led to the development of the fast-acting computerized Mark XIV bomb sight ?
text: Did you know that one year after suffering a near career-ending injury, Bill Stumpf batted .405 in the Northwestern League , higher than any other player in the league with at least 50 at bats?
text: Did you know that although the founders of Retraction Watch initially wondered if there would be enough retractions from scientific journals to run the blog, they covered over 200 such retractions within their first year?
text: Did you know that teenage prodigy Conrad Tao starred on the TV series From the Top three times: as pianist, violinist, and composer?
text: Did you know that the students of Chester College helped to build its chapel between 1844 and 1847?
text: Did you know that former basketball guard Stefon Jackson , who played for the UTEP Miners , is Conference USA 's all-time scoring leader with 2,456 points?
text: Did you know that the plot of the Battlestar Galactica episode " Sacrifice " was influenced by Dog Day Afternoon ?
text: Did you know that the mistletoe species Amyema congener of eastern Australia can grow on non-native peach , plum and pear trees?
text: Did you know that Kobe Bryant once claimed that Rashad Phillips was the "best player" never selected in an NBA Draft ?
text: Did you know that University of Toledo basketball player Bill Walker was the first official NCAA season assists leader in 1950–51?
text: Did you know that the extinct maple section Torada is only known from the three Eocene species A. stonebergae , A. toradense , and A. washingtonense ?
text: Did you know that Boston mayor Thomas Menino called Clover Food Lab 's soy bacon sandwich the "best BLT in Boston"?
text: Did you know that Fig Island includes one of the largest and most complex Late Archaic shell rings in North America, and one of the best preserved circular shell rings?
text: Did you know that the Fringe episode " And Those We've Left Behind " marked the first time actors and real-life husband and wife Stephen Root and Romy Rosemont had worked together on a creative project?
text: Did you know that the Hyde Park – Kenwood Historic District in Chicago includes the home of President Barack Obama ?
text: Did you know that in 2009, Davon House of the New Mexico State Aggies scored touchdowns on both a fumble recovery and an interception return?
text: Did you know that the composition by Graham Waterhouse Der Handschuh ( The Glove ) for cello and speaking voice , after Schiller's ballad Der Handschuh , is designed for one performer?
text: Did you know that the U.S. Forest Service warns hikers in Montana 's Beartooth Mountains not to follow the many cairns on the way to Froze-to-Death Mountain because they are useless for routefinding?
text: Did you know that the waffle-iron filter from electronics is used on industrial microwave heaters because product can be continuously fed through the inside of the filter?
text: Did you know that musicologist Erich Katz , a German Jewish refugee who was briefly in Dachau , had a long friendship with Carl Orff , despite rumors about Orff's relationship with the Nazis?
text: Did you know that in 1983 Brian Reid was the first rider to average over 100 miles per hour (160 km/h) during the Southern 100 motorcycle races on the Isle of Man ?
text: Did you know that MercyMe 's independent album The Worship Project sold over 60,000 copies and helped them gain a contract with INO Records ?
text: Did you know that the extinct planthopper Ordralfabetix is named for a character from The Adventures of Asterix ?
text: Did you know that the TV ad " Second Generation " features young basketball players recreating Michael Jordan 's most famous moves from memory?
text: Did you know that in some joint custody arrangements, children reside in one house and the parents move in and out from separate residences?
text: Did you know that Thomas Eyles 's service in the invasion of France brought his promotion to post-captain , despite the expedition's ultimate failure?
text: Did you know that production of kits of the Robertson B1-RD , a homebuilt ultralight aircraft , was stopped by their manufacturer due to concerns about product liability ?
text: Did you know that Yale history professor John Morton Blum , besides editing the Morgenthau Plan and teaching George W. Bush and John Kerry , appeared in Woody Allen 's film Zelig ?
text: Did you know that Hawaiian chief Boki accused Queen Kaʻahumanu of scheming to place her adoptive son, David Kamehameha , on the Hawaiian throne ?
text: Did you know that when Manasse ǃNoreseb , chief of the Red Nation in Namibia , was to be reburied at his home settlement of Hoachanas , the remains did not contain a skull?
text: Did you know that future California Court of Appeal Justice Christopher Cottle attended UC Berkeley for one day before transferring to Stanford , where he was a pre-medical student and captain of the football team ?
text: Did you know that Nag Hammadi Codex XIII is the only surviving copy of the Trimorphic Protennoia , an early Christian Gnostic text ?
text: Did you know that Welsh goalkeeper Tony Millington was "a one-man entertainment" who would take sweets, pies or chewing gum from supporters and celebrate his team's goals by performing handstands ?
text: Did you know that Huaihai Road , one of the most famous shopping streets in Shanghai , was formerly named after the French general Joseph Joffre ?
text: Did you know that judge Beth Grimes dismissed lawsuits against Keanu Reeves and Ari Emanuel , ordered Jon Voight to pay attorney fees, and was appointed by Arnold Schwarzenegger to a California Court of Appeal ?
text: Did you know that the 1980s " Gang of Four " consisted of Democratic critics of the Vietnam War who advocated Congressional funding for the Nicaraguan Contras ?
text: Did you know that non-ferrous metals are used because of their desirable properties such as low weight or resistance to corrosion?
text: Did you know that although his high school basketball career was nearly ended by an accident with piranhas , Kit Mueller is second in Princeton basketball history in points and assists ?
text: Did you know that with The Half Brother , Lars Saabye Christensen became the first novelist to win the Norwegian Booksellers' Prize twice?
text: Did you know that the Pulangi IV Hydroelectric Power Plant provides Mindanao 's electrical grid with 23% of its hydropower ?
text: Did you know that Koi to Senkyo to Chocolate is a Japanese visual novel video game that was the No. 1 best-selling PC game in Japan in October 2010 ?
text: Did you know that Julianne Adams was recruited as a wheelchair basketball player while still in a hospital bed following the accident that severed her spine?
text: Did you know that the largest political faction in the Frankfurt Parliament was called the Casino ?
text: Did you know that NASCAR " road course ringer " Chris Cook was the youngest chief instructor ever hired by the Bob Bondurant School of High Performance Driving ?
text: Did you know that two of the members of Japanese idol group HKT48 are in elementary school?
text: Did you know that James McCormack was the first Director of Military Applications of the United States Atomic Energy Commission ?
text: Did you know that the Blacktail triplefin blenny 's species name, bahasa , refers to the official language of Indonesia ?
text: Did you know that Stanford University played rugby instead of American football from 1906 to 1917 and had as its first coach a man who had never before played or coached the sport?
text: Did you know that professional baseball player Chuck Rose was a league-leader in both hits and pitching wins ?
text: Did you know that the Obedient Wives Club is the publisher of a book called Islamic Sex, Fighting Against Jews To Return Islamic Sex To The World ?
text: Did you know that the Long-tailed Ground Roller , a species of bird endemic to Madagascar , digs a tunnel in the sand as an entrance to its underground nest?
text: Did you know that the cross in front of the Presidential Palace in Warsaw became a focus of a major controversy in 2010, regarding the relations between church and state in Poland?
text: Did you know that a flying scene in the music video for Eminem 's song " Not Afraid " has been compared to The Matrix ?
text: Did you know that the director of For the Moment described lead actor Russell Crowe as a man who "likes to be a maverick"?
text: Did you know that T 3 was a process for extracting oil from oil shale in Morocco ?
text: Did you know that the 1953 crash of a Vickers Viking in Belfast killed 27 people?
text: Did you know that Mohammad Natsir wrote that Indonesia's treatment of Islam in the 1970s was similar to how one would treat "a cat with ring-worms"?
text: Did you know that professional wrestlers Mark Shrader and Corporal Punishment established the first permanent wrestling school in Maryland ?
text: Did you know that Bubba Monroe , son of Memphis wrestler Sputnik Monroe , was featured in Texas regional and independent promotions during the 1990s?
text: Did you know that uplift data and tsunami wave heights indicate that the 1703 Genroku earthquake was probably caused by the rupture of three separate segments of the Eurasian – Philippine Sea Plate boundary?
text: Did you know that D. J. Smith was the first player at Appalachian State University to have more than 500 tackles in a career since NFL Pro Bowler Dexter Coakley ?
text: Did you know that the church Michaelion was a model for hundreds of other churches in Eastern Christianity ?
text: Did you know that the ancient Roman dancer Galeria Copiola reached the age of 104?
text: Did you know that a media conspiracy calling itself the Order of the Occult Hand has infiltrated The Boston Globe , the Los Angeles Times , and The Washington Times ?
text: Did you know that Hal Foster 's first book was a children's book , and his second was a seminal text in postmodernism ?
text: Did you know that Dorothy Mayhall was the first director of the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum ?
text: Did you know that during the Siege of Portsmouth , Southsea Castle was captured from a drunken commander?
text: Did you know that Paralympic shooting medallist Ashley Adams is a cattle grazier who owns a 64,000-acre (26,000 ha) station near Blackall, Queensland ?
text: Did you know that the video game Chivalry: Medieval Warfare is a successor to Age of Chivalry , but while the latter was in Source , the new game will be Unreal ?
text: Did you know that John Stewart , a regular tenor with the New York City Opera and then the Frankfurt Opera , recorded the part of Oronte in Handel 's Alcina opposite Cristina Deutekom in Carnegie Hall in 1974?
text: Did you know that Australia's first Winter Paralympics medallist, Michael Milton , gave one of the gold medals he earned at the 1992 Winter Paralympics to his coach, Steve Graham ?
text: Did you know that Behind the Mosquito Net received six Citra Awards ?
text: Did you know that the Lawson Adit , a tunnel on UC Berkeley's campus, was intentionally dug through the Hayward Fault ?
text: Did you know that the 5.6 magnitude earthquake which struck the U.S. state of Oklahoma on November 5, 2011, was the most powerful recorded in state history?
text: Did you know that there have been only 22 marine isotope stages in the last million years?
text: Did you know that professional baseball player Simmy Murch worked at a roller skating rink during the winter?
text: Did you know that the melody of the closing chorale in Bach's cantata Was soll ich aus dir machen, Ephraim, BWV 89 , is doubled by the horn, two oboes and the first violin?
text: Did you know that in 1959, a Douglas Dakota flew into a Spanish mountain and killed 32 people?
text: Did you know that pilot fatigue was a likely factor in the crash of Lufthansa Flight 502 in 1959?
text: Did you know that Timothy E. Quill admitted in The New England Journal of Medicine to helping a patient commit suicide and later went on to be a party in the U.S. Supreme Court case Vacco v. Quill ?
text: Did you know that the string sections on MercyMe 's 2006 album Coming Up to Breathe were recorded at Abbey Road Studios by the London Session Orchestra ?
text: Did you know that men's basketball rivals Princeton and Penn won the Ivy League regular season all but two years between 1963 and 2007?
text: Did you know that Czechoslovakian Olympic water polo player Kurt Epstein survived two Nazi concentration camps ?
text: Did you know that the cap of the mushroom Lactarius rupestris is not cracked enough for section Edules ?
text: Did you know that baseball player Rube DeGroff led two different leagues in home runs and was a teammate of Franklin D. Roosevelt ?
text: Did you know that Dutch singer Henk Pleket performed for around thirty years in the group De Havenzangers , singing songs of sailors and the 1990 FIFA World Cup ?
text: Did you know that the Wings song " Beware My Love " includes melodies based on a descending tetrachord ?
text: Did you know that singer Ayu Ting Ting became popular in 2011 with a song released four years earlier?
text: Did you know that in 1935, baseball player Snipe Hansen was traded from the Philadelphia Phillies to the Washington Senators , on to the St. Louis Browns where he faced Washington, and then back to the Senators?
text: Did you know that 49% of German military losses happened in the last 10 months of the Second World War in Europe ?
text: Did you know that Frank L. Roberts served in the Oregon Legislative Assembly with his daughter and two of his wives?
text: Did you know that crime novelist P. D. James listed the 2007 series Help Me Anthea, I'm Infested as one of the most embarrassing television programmes the BBC has ever produced?
text: Did you know that Natalia Tułasiewicz , a Polish teacher, was one of only two lay women beatified among the 108 Martyrs of World War II ?
text: Did you know that Wales international footballer Alexander Jones was killed in a shooting accident on board a train?
text: Did you know that as of 2009 the High Court of Singapore 's judgment in the Taw Cheng Kong case was the only decision where a statutory provision had been struck down as unconstitutional ?
text: Did you know that Larry Jacobus ' 13-year professional baseball career ended when he lost his right eye in a car accident?
text: Did you know that grapes from Aussenkehr , Namibia , can be harvested up to five weeks earlier than other locations in Southern Africa ?
text: Did you know that the 1976 play The Vietnamization of New Jersey has been noted for its parallels to the United States' involvement in Iraq ?
text: Did you know that the ancient Roman dancer Galeria Copiola reached the age of 104?
text: Did you know that Australian blues musician Phil Manning is a member of Chain and co-wrote their top 20 hit " Black and Blue " from 1971?
text: Did you know that racing driver and world champion bobsledder " Suicide Freddie " was an "internationally known Australian playboy" under surveillance by the FBI?
text: Did you know that the tsunami caused by the 1746 Lima-Callao earthquake destroyed the port of Callao , killing most of its 5,000–6,000 inhabitants, and drove two warships nearly a mile inland over the ruins?
text: Did you know that at 48 metres (157 ft) high, the Cape Wickham Lighthouse is the tallest lighthouse in Australia ?
text: Did you know that Jewish athlete Lilli Henoch , winner of ten German track and field championships, was murdered with her mother by the Nazis during the Holocaust ?
text: Did you know that the 1992 film Afterburn was inspired by a 60 Minutes report about an F-16 fighter aircraft 's crash ?
text: Did you know that Lynne Carter was the first female impersonator to perform at Carnegie Hall ?
text: Did you know that the depopulated Palestinian Arab village of Al Jalama was known in the Crusader period as Gelenna ?
text: Did you know that Australian 2000 Paralympic bronze medalist Casey Redford was a Victorian Institute of Sport scholarship holder?
text: Did you know that LiSA was one of the two vocalists for a fictional band in an anime ?
text: Did you know that excavation at the Ashworth Archaeological Site in Indiana was halted because of the owner's religious beliefs?
text: Did you know that the rigging of the International Ultralight Banchee could be assembled in 35 minutes?
text: Did you know that Pharmasset Inc. 's stock return in the first three fiscal quarters of 2011 was 278 percent?
text: Did you know that Olympic discus thrower Jules Noël was drinking champagne during the 1932 Games in Los Angeles despite the prohibition and might have won the gold medal if the officials had been paying attention?
text: Did you know that Mencius once said that the Chinese egoist philosopher Yang Zhu , founder of Yangism , believed that even if "plucking one hair might benefit the whole world", he would still refuse to do so?
text: Did you know that Paralympic triple gold medalist Evan O'Hanlon was named as a finalist in Cleo magazine 's 2008 Bachelor of the Year contest?
text: Did you know that in his song " Cadillac Ranch ", Bruce Springsteen uses the Cadillac Ranch sculpture as a metaphor for the inevitability of death?
text: Did you know that the reputedly impeccable moral character of Celestyn Czaplic , marshal of the Sejm of 1766 in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth , became the subject of a proverb ?
text: Did you know that Ralph Edwards was Ralph Edwards ' guest on the 1957 Christmas Day edition of This Is Your Life ?
text: Did you know that Dost Mohammad Khan , founder of the Bhopal State in India, was an Afghan ?
text: Did you know that while on the winter death march out of Auschwitz in January 1945, Dario Gabbai claimed he survived the cold by visualising Athens in the sunshine?
text: Did you know that the first stanza of the hymn Nun bitten wir den Heiligen Geist , asking the Holy Spirit for the right faith most of all, is documented in German in the 13th century, and the later three relate to faith, love and hope ?
text: Did you know that Green Bay Packers running back Alex Green attended the same community college as future teammate Aaron Rodgers ?
text: Did you know that the fuel tank of the Brock Avion is built into the ultralight aircraft 's pilot's seat?
text: Did you know that Nicholas Christofilos designed the Astron fusion power machine while selling elevators?
text: Did you know that Jean Alfred Fraissinet , who was credited with eight aerial victories during World War I , was elected to the National Assembly of France in 1958?
text: Did you know that corals that live on the Tasmanian Seamounts are among the longest-living organisms on Earth?
text: Did you know that a 1926 voyage to Java inspired Czech poet Konstantin Biebl for the remainder of his life?
text: Did you know that the most expensive sculptures ever sold include modern works such as Picasso 's Tete de femme , Modigliani 's Tête , and Giacometti 's Grande tête mince , and ancient statues like Artemis and the Stag ?
text: Did you know that in 1924, baseball player Shags Horan led the International League in batting average before joining the New York Yankees in mid-season?
text: Did you know that a stillborn, deformed piglet's resemblance to George Spencer led to him becoming the first white man executed in Connecticut ?
text: Did you know that Hurricane Cindy of 1959 subdued a drought in the Carolinas , bringing more than 9 inches (230 mm) of rain in some areas?
text: Did you know that Guiding Eyes for the Blind teams senior citizens with elementary school students and also uses prison inmates in rearing the puppies it later trains as guide dogs to the blind?
text: Did you know that Wilhelm Marckwald went from directing theatre in Germany and film in Spain to working as a boilerman and gardener in England?
text: Did you know that the Airborne Avenger could be purchased for home assembly or ready to fly?
text: Did you know that baseball player Tom Raftery set a South Atlantic League record by stealing 80 bases in a season?
text: Did you know that the Spanish colonial capital of Santiago de los Caballeros de Guatemala was founded three times in different locations?
text: Did you know that former Everton and Wales international footballer Charlie Parry fell on hard times and was the beneficiary of three testimonial matches ?
text: Did you know that Bruce Springsteen 's 1978 song " The Promised Land " was named in homage to Chuck Berry 's song " Promised Land "?
text: Did you know that Elio Fox 's first World Series of Poker finish that earned him prize money was a victory in the 2011 Europe main event?
text: Did you know that baseball player Jud Daley once had the second-most hits in the Southern Association , behind only Shoeless Joe Jackson ?
text: Did you know that a version of the name of Andrew Barton , a Scottish sea captain considered a "fearless freebooter ", is carved into a rock within Embleton Bay ?
text: Did you know that its ability to solve wind drift calculations made the Course Setting Bomb Sight the "most important bombsight" of World War I ?
text: Did you know that before his death in 2011, Tadeusz Sawicz was believed to have been the last surviving Polish pilot to have fought in the Battle of Britain ?
text: Did you know that on Christmas Day 1914, aircraft from the British seaplane carrier HMS Empress participated in the Cuxhaven Raid on hangars housing Zeppelin airships?
text: Did you know that bandleader Mitch Miller studied at a music school named for David Hochstein , a promising young American violinist killed in World War I ?
text: Did you know that in August 1944, eighty Germans were taken prisoner by a British sergeant of the 2nd Parachute Brigade ?
text: Did you know that chemist Charles Phelps Smyth received the Medal of Freedom for covert intelligence work he did in Europe during World War II , when he was 50 years old?
text: Did you know that five teams celebrated the opening of the 2011–12 Big Ten Conference men's basketball season with Midnight Madness celebrations?
text: Did you know that the AHRLAC is intended to be a less expensive manned alternative to reconnaissance drones ?
text: Did you know that in the 2000 battle of Pweto , Rwandan troops forced Congolese government forces to flee to Zambia ?
text: Did you know that Gujarati poet Niranjan Bhagat won the 1999 Sahitya Akademi Award for Gujarati for his critic Gujarati Sahiyta-Purvardha Uttarardha ?
text: Did you know that the extinct buthid scorpion Uintascorpio was first placed in the family Vaejovidae ?
text: Did you know that Hans Spialek , after studying music while a Russian prisoner of war during World War I, orchestrated 147 American musicals?
text: Did you know that training in Togakure-ryū , an original style of Ninjutsu , is similar to that for judo and aikido ?
text: Did you know that the hit-and-run death of a two-year-old girl has led to a possible "Good Samaritan" law in Guangdong province, China?
text: Did you know that tenor William Brown , who performed for presidents Kennedy and Johnson, created the role of Lieutenant Jean l'Aiglon in Hugo Weisgall's Nine Rivers from Jordan ?
text: Did you know that box-top software licenses are non-enforceable in the United States if other contract terms have been agreed to?
text: Did you know that professional wrestler Bob Starr was called to work for World Championship Wrestling but hung up because an ear injury prevented him from knowing who had called?
text: Did you know that Google keeps giant dessert items on its lawn?
text: Did you know that in 1964, California Governor Pat Brown appointed Richard M. Sims, Jr. to the Court of Appeal , and in 1982, Governor Jerry Brown , Pat's son, appointed Sims's son to the Court of Appeal?
text: Did you know that the opening chorus of Bach's cantata Schmücke dich, o liebe Seele, BWV 180 , has been regarded as "perfectly tailored to the idea of the soul dressing itself up in all its wedding finery"?
text: Did you know that the manga AKB49: Renai Kinshi Jourei features real-life members of the Japanese idol group AKB48 ?
text: Did you know that some of the artifacts at Pocahontas Mounds , an archaeological site from the Plaquemine Mississippian culture in Hinds County, Mississippi , were recovered by schoolchildren?
text: Did you know that Garin Nugroho 's family was worried that he could be killed for his reinterpretation of "the wounds of history" in Puisi Tak Terkuburkan ?
text: Did you know that the neo-romantic literary cabaret Zielony Balonik from Kraków was rumoured to be a place of "orgies, nude dancing and all manner of dissipation"?
text: Did you know that Iztok Puc is the only handball player to have represented three different countries at the Summer Olympics : Yugoslavia , Croatia and Slovenia ?
text: Did you know that the first time a circuit court weighed in on the scope of DMCA §1202, which prohibits the removal of Copyright Management Information (CMI), was in the Murphy v. Millennium Radio Group LLC case?
text: Did you know that the Yakovlev AIR-7 , a record-setting prototype high performance light aircraft, suffered a structural failure while being demonstrated before senior officers of the Soviet Air Forces ?
text: Did you know that Donald W. Thomas ' research on the ecophysiology of bat hibernation contributed to the understanding of white nose syndrome ?
text: Did you know that Wings ' drummer Joe English sang his only lead vocal for the band on " Must Do Something About It "?
text: Did you know that Bud Weiser was a Major League Baseball player?
text: Did you know that the headstones of New Jewish Cemetery in Kraków were used to pave the courtyard of commandant Amon Göth 's house in Kraków-Płaszów concentration camp ?
text: Did you know that Tzaganosuchus fossils were first discovered during a joint paleontological expedition by the Soviet Union and Mongolia ?
text: Did you know that art historian Bruno Adler taught at the Bauhaus before becoming a refugee and writing British propaganda in German for BBC Radio?
text: Did you know that Thich Nhat Hanh , who has been described as the second most famous Buddhist after the Dalai Lama, founded a sangha in San Diego County ?
text: Did you know that norteño band Duelo launched a radio station to promote their album Solamente Tú ?
text: Did you know that those who believe in toilet gods hold that they can be appeased by praying, eating or offering rice, clearing one's throat, or biting the toilet?
text: Did you know that oil shale deposits in Israel may cover approximately 15% of the country's territory, but only a small part of them are mineable for energy use?
text: Did you know that the street children in the Indonesian film Leaf on a Pillow were given an education after production finished?
text: Did you know that the British destroyer HMS Harvester sank one German submarine by ramming on 3 March 1943 whilst escorting Convoy HX 228 , but was sunk by another submarine the following day?
text: Did you know that KRSA , a radio station in Petersburg, Alaska , was sold in December 2010 for the sum of $1.00?
text: Did you know that a nude picture of 1996 Summer Paralympics gold medallist Gerry Hewson and his pregnant wife was published by Time Out New York ?
text: Did you know that Baker's Hole , near Dartford , Kent , England, contains a site at which Neanderthals made blades?
text: Did you know that Henry DeWolf Smyth was the sole member of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission to vote against revoking J. Robert Oppenheimer 's security clearance ?
text: Did you know that the British seaplane carrier HMS Ark Royal is the only aircraft carrier to ever have been fitted with a sail ?
text: Did you know that Matthew Hayden 's 380 is the second highest score by a batsman in Test cricket ?
text: Did you know that Hugo Rogers gave no speeches in his campaign for Manhattan Borough President , instead leaving them to supporters and allies?
text: Did you know that Paul McCartney originally intended to use his song " Little Lamb Dragonfly " in the animated film Rupert and the Frog Song ?
text: Did you know that divers from the Hampshire and Wight Trust for Maritime Archaeology discovered the Mesolithic settlement of Bouldnor Cliff with the help of a lobster ?
text: Did you know that in Bowers v. Baystate Technologies the U.S. Federal Circuit ruled that copyright law does not preempt a " shrinkwrap license " disallowing reverse engineering ?
text: Did you know that Jack Rothfuss contracted dysentery during his first season in Major League Baseball and spent the rest of his career in the minor leagues?
text: Did you know that Embleton Tower , built after a Scottish raid, contains a belfry whose ring of bells was cast at the Whitechapel Bell Foundry ?
text: Did you know that all employment for Morphsuits spandex bodysuits is outsourced except for three positions?
text: Did you know that in the four years before her appointment to California's Third District Court of Appeal , Elena Duarte had served as a judge of both the Los Angeles County and Sacramento County Superior Courts ?
text: Did you know that the costumes for Under the Protection of Ka'Bah , Indonesia's submission to this year's Oscars , were reported to cost as much as an entire horror movie?
text: Did you know that the 2003 historical Chinese TV series Towards the Republic has been subject to significant censorship , and compared to River Elegy , a TV series that influenced the Tiananmen movement of 1989?
text: Did you know that Lucas Hoge has been nominated for the Inspirational Country Music awards New Artist of the Year 2011?
text: Did you know that a Canadian engineering consultant firm won an award for the innovative design of the Antamina Tailings Dam in Peru ?
text: Did you know that Marciano Norman had been in the cavalry, and went on to head Indonesia's intelligence agency?
text: Did you know that in United States v. ASCAP , the Second Circuit ruled that music downloads do not constitute "public performances"?
text: Did you know that Fatty Finn was the first Australian-created and produced weekly comic book ?
text: Did you know that only two competitors have carried the flag for Great Britain at the Olympic Games on more than one occasion?
text: Did you know that in a concert "Hommage à Liszt" at Munich's Gasteig , pianist Valentina Babor played chamber music by Franz Liszt and Graham Waterhouse scored for piano solo up to piano and string quartet?
text: Did you know that Jerzy Bielecki escaped from the Auschwitz concentration camp with a girl he fell in love with, dressed in a stolen SS uniform?
text: Did you know that the 9th-century Branimir Inscription is the oldest surviving example of the ethnonym of the Croats ?
text: Did you know that Mason Bennett made his professional football debut aged just 15 years and 99 days?
text: Did you know that for Indonesian singer Gombloh , Half-Crazy was followed by Crazier ?
text: Did you know that the Hilda mega-bonebed is Canada 's largest dinosaur bonebed, preserving thousands of the horned dinosaur Centrosaurus apertus across an area of 2.3 square kilometers (0.9 sq mi)?
text: Did you know that George Flett was a farmer, gold prospector, trader and politician before becoming a missionary?
text: Did you know that a field study conducted in Beaconsfield Upper found that the Australian buttercup had flowered 78 days earlier in 2006 than it had in 1983?
text: Did you know that Mexican singer Alejandra Guzmán was joined by Moderatto to record a live album ?
text: Did you know that after relinquishing control of the Nixon Library to the U.S. National Archives , the Richard Nixon Foundation objected to plans for an exhibit on the Watergate scandal ?
text: Did you know that the first offices of The Jakarta Post , which has been described as "Indonesia's leading English-language daily", were in a laundry room?
text: Did you know that Captain Nathaniel G. S. Hart , a brother-in-law of Henry Clay and Senator James Brown of Louisiana , was killed in the River Raisin Massacre ?
text: Did you know that the British seaplane carrier HMS Anne was converted from the captured German freighter SS Aenne Rickmers during the First World War ?
text: Did you know that during her active career, Hungarian handball player Beáta Siti obtained victories in the EHF Cup , the EHF Cup Winners' Cup and the EHF Champions League ?
text: Did you know that Christ's Indian paintbrush is one of Idaho's rarest plants?
text: Did you know that Keith Chatto was the first Australian comic book artist to illustrate a full-length episode of The Phantom ?
text: Did you know that in 1994 the world's oldest Classic was won by "the world's naughtiest horse "?
text: Did you know that French 1960s pop star Hervé Vilard was born in 1946 in a taxi which was transferring his mother to the hospital to deliver?
text: Did you know that both the Roman Emperor Trajan and his successor were caught in the devastating 115 Antioch earthquake ?
text: Did you know that in each episode of the musical documentary series The Dewarists , musicians visit a different place in India, and record a song in a genre which reflects the local culture?
text: Did you know that St Cuthbert's Church in Elsdon, Northumberland , England, had horse skulls in its bell turret ?
text: Did you know that Jurellana tithonia , dating from the Jurassic , is the earliest known porcelain crab ?
text: Did you know that "Tank" Collins was forced by his mother to play basketball to get over the death of his father and went on to become the American South Conference Men's Basketball Player of the Year ?
text: Did you know that Dennis Hopper won four awards for his role in Blue Velvet , while co-star Isabella Rossellini only won one?
text: Did you know that baseball player Dutch Schliebner replaced a future Hall of Fame member on the St. Louis Browns ?
text: Did you know that the Church of St Michael , built on a Roman camp site in Alnham , England, contains Saxon quoins in the nave ?
text: Did you know that the adventures of the crew of a floatplane from HMS Raven II , after they were forced to make an emergency landing on 21 April 1917 in the Maldives , inspired Rudyard Kipling 's story "A Flight of Fact"?
text: Did you know that All-Star roller derby skater Ronnie Robinson was the son of Sugar Ray Robinson ?
text: Did you know that a solo viola part in Bach's cantata Wo soll ich fliehen hin, BWV 5 has been described as "the cleansing motions of some prototype baroque washing machine"?
text: Did you know that cartoon producer Hal Geer successfully campaigned for Bugs Bunny to have his own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame ?
text: Did you know that Bill Smith , who wrote a book considered the "bible" of fell running , died recently, apparently from tumbling into a peat bog while running across a fell?
text: Did you know that after the two endangered varieties of the Maguire daisy were combined into the one species due to genetic indistinction, it was no longer considered endangered?
text: Did you know that the music a person hears in childhood may affect that person's musical cognition as an adult ?
text: Did you know that in 1907, professional baseball pitcher John Halla threw a no-hitter and won a career-high 24 games?
text: Did you know that the Hotel Arctic in Murmansk , Russia, is the tallest building above the Arctic Circle ?
text: Did you know that TiVo Inc. v. EchoStar Corp. created a new test to determine whether an adjudged infringer can be held in contempt for continued infringement?
text: Did you know that David Lynch has been awarded two Césars , two Bodils , and a Palme d'Or , yet no Oscars ?
text: Did you know that equestrian Toni Leviste was the first Southeast Asian to compete in the Show Jumping World Cup ?
text: Did you know that the sound of the song " Here with Me " by MercyMe has been compared to the sound of alternative rock band Coldplay ?
text: Did you know that new information can be mistakenly incorporated into a previous memory through the misinformation effect ?
text: Did you know that baseball pitcher Walt Smallwood led two minor leagues in losses before he joined the New York Yankees ?
text: Did you know that the Syrian opposition group the Arab Revolutionary Labour Party was founded in 1966 as a Marxist splinter-group of the Ba'ath Party ?
text: Did you know that the song " Día de Suerte " by Mexican singer-songwriter Alejandra Guzmán is the theme song for the telenovela Una Familia Con Suerte ?
text: Did you know that Wayne Guppy and Rex Kirton , the current and previous Mayors of Upper Hutt in New Zealand, have served their community for over a third of a century?
text: Did you know that Oracle Corporation v. SAP AG had the highest amount of damages ever awarded in a copyright infringement case?
text: Did you know that Red Snapp was considered the "king of the minor leagues "?
text: Did you know that global precedence is the tendency to see the forest, and not the trees ?
text: Did you know that the log-Cauchy distribution has been proposed as a model for the progression of HIV in individuals?
text: Did you know that Finners Quinlan had his professional baseball career cut short when he lost an eye and a leg while fighting in World War I ?
text: Did you know that Young Thor is one of the first Western-developed digitally distributed video games to be released on the PlayStation Network in Japan?
text: Did you know that independent filmmaker Michael Roemer paid just $5,000 to acquire the rights to use Motown hits for his 1964 film Nothing But a Man ?
text: Did you know that during the British aircraft carrier Argus ' s 1920 Spring Cruise with the Atlantic Fleet , three of her aircraft were blown over the side of the carrier?
text: Did you know that despite winning the 2011 ARCA Racing Series championship by 340 points, Ty Dillon lost the series' rookie of the year title by two points?
text: Did you know that Paul Koechlin , winner of the first automobile race ever, the 1895 Paris–Bordeaux–Paris race, was a second cousin to Maurice Koechlin , the structural engineer of the Eiffel Tower ?
text: Did you know that CCM singer Matthew West co-wrote half of the tracks on the Casting Crowns 's album Come to the Well ?
text: Did you know that physician Robert Martensen has attracted attention for his criticism of end-of-life care in the United States ?
text: Did you know that the British aircraft carrier HMS Perseus was fitted with temporary stands in June 1953 for VIPs and the press during Elizabeth II 's Coronation Fleet Review in Spithead ?
text: Did you know that baseball player Tom Tennant led three different minor leagues in hits before appearing at the major leagues ?
text: Did you know that in 1965, Tropical Storm Debbie broke the daily rainfall record in Mobile, Alabama , despite dissipating offshore?
text: Did you know that 12 half eagle gold coins were sent from Confederate North Carolina through enemy lines to Philadelphia to be tested by the 1862 United States Assay Commission , and were found to be correct?
text: Did you know that the Russian battleship Poltava was the only one of her class to survive the Russo-Japanese War ?
text: Did you know that Clyde Goodwin started his professional baseball career at the age of 16?
text: Did you know that the 856 Damghan earthquake , which killed an estimated 200,000 people in the Persian province of Qumis, also badly disrupted the region's water supplies?
text: Did you know that hexagonal water , a configuration of water that supposedly stops aging , is a marketing scam ?
text: Did you know that Richard Nixon chose the Wilson desk as his Oval Office desk because he believed it was used by Woodrow Wilson , but it was actually used by Henry Wilson , Vice President under Ulysses S. Grant ?
text: Did you know that Paul McCartney 's song " Call Me Back Again " has been interpreted as his response to calls for a Beatles ' reunion during the 1970s?
text: Did you know that in 1924, Francis Alfred Broad MP led a delegation of the birth control movement which included H. G. Wells , Dora Russell and Frances Huxley?
text: Did you know that the cargo ship MS Ravnaas , owned by Arnt J. Mørland 's company, was sunk by Japanese aircraft east of the Samar Island about the same time as the attack on Pearl Harbor ?
text: Did you know that according to opinion polls, Gregor Virant's Civic List and Positive Slovenia , two newly formed political parties, already rank among top three for the upcoming Slovenian parliamentary election ?
text: Did you know that baseball player Dave Barbee twice led the Pacific Coast League in home runs ?
text: Did you know that, after the 2003 invasion of Iraq , the Bassetki statue , which is more than 4,200 years old, was found in a cesspool ?
text: Did you know that the United Nations Population Fund has designated today as the Day of Seven Billion ?
text: Did you know that Fowler's Ghost was first seen on the London Metropolitan Railway in 1861, nearly exploded and was never seen again after 1895?
text: Did you know that the unusual way that John C. Colt disposed of his murder victim's corpse may have influenced Edgar Allen Poe 's story " The Oblong Box "?
text: Did you know that the body of the first person buried at Ute Cemetery in Aspen, Colorado , was later exhumed to be reburied in Texas?
text: Did you know that Harry Powers said that watching his victims die was more fun than a brothel?
text: Did you know that Ghost Frogs roam the streams of South Africa?
text: Did you know that Tyler Lockett , the only player in Kansas State Wildcats football history to return a kickoff for a touchdown in consecutive games, was a high school state champion in football and basketball ?
text: Did you know that Black Loch in East Ayrshire, which has outflows draining in two directions, is connected to Loch o' th' Lowes and Creoch Loch by a manmade ditch?
text: Did you know that the optometry and dental schools of the defunct North Pacific College are still operating 65 years after the college closed?
text: Did you know that the extinct maple Acer dettermani is only known from the flank of a volcano ?
text: Did you know that the Andrzej Fidyk 's documentary Defilada about North Korea , despite its anti- totalitarian message, was initially praised both by communist Poland's censors and in North Korea itself?
text: Did you know that in 1984, Thomas Suluk gained election to the Canadian House of Commons by just 247 votes?
text: Did you know that in the 1950s Congregation Beth Israel of Asheville, North Carolina, shortened and moved its Shabbat service two hours earlier, so members could open their stores following prayers?
text: Did you know that the film Vana Mohini included an elephant among the credits?
text: Did you know that current Denver Nuggets basketball player Julyan Stone holds both the University of Texas-El Paso and Conference USA record for most assists in a career with 714?
text: Did you know that the flowers of the Sydney blue gum are eaten by the grey-headed flying fox ?
text: Did you know that during the Aboakyer festival of Winneba in Ghana , warrior groups compete to be the first to capture a live bushbuck from a game reserve ?
text: Did you know that Mike Pegues scored 2,030 points during his college career between 1996 and 2000, setting a Delaware Fightin' Blue Hens men's basketball record that still stands?
text: Did you know that the Wyoming State Legislature has a Nicholas in the House and a Nicholas in the Senate?
text: Did you know that playwright Jerzy Szaniawski , a member of the Polish Academy of Literature who married at age 76, was starved and physically abused by his wife, 20 years his junior, until his death in 1970?
text: Did you know that the first words of the first AFN broadcast from Allied-occupied Germany in July 1945 so enraged General Patton that he demanded that the responsible person be court-martialed ?
text: Did you know that when the Dalai Lama visited Taiwan in 1997, he was treated as a Republic of China national without household registration ?
text: Did you know that Frank Langella is the only person to win the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play more than once?
text: Did you know that Texas Governor Hardin Richard Runnels signed a bill into law allowing a free Negro to return to slavery by selecting a new master?
text: Did you know that the Triple Alliance of 1788 , formed on the verge of the French Revolution , almost led to a war which would have pitted Great Britain and Prussia against Russia?
text: Did you know that the deputy mayor of Safed was indicted for selling paintings from the museum that Emanuel Romano founded for his father, the sculptor Enrico Glicenstein ?
text: Did you know that when wood carver Patrociño Barela premiered at the Museum of Modern Art , he was the "discovery of the year"?
text: Did you know that Acer castorrivularis is one of five extinct maples from the Eocene Beaver Creek flora in Montana?
text: Did you know that diplomat Barry Steers served as Canada 's first Commissioner to Bermuda from 1976 to 1979?
text: Did you know that the high-pressure metamorphic rock whiteschist may be formed from both basaltic and granitic rocks by metasomatism ?
text: Did you know that the death of Jeannie Saffin has been cited as an example of spontaneous human combustion , due to witness reports that flames were coming from her mouth and she was roaring like a dragon?
text: Did you know that among Amir Hamzah 's works are poems that are both explicitly religious and have an erotic element present?
text: Did you know that Kansas State 's all-time leading wide receiver Kevin Lockett completed his only two National Football League pass attempts for touchdowns ?
text: Did you know that a complete set of the treatises of Japanese playwright Zeami Motokiyo was not published until almost 500 years after his death?
text: Did you know that Charles Howard McIlwain won a Pulitzer Prize for his analysis of the American Revolution as a disagreement over interpretation of the constitution of the United Kingdom ?
text: Did you know that prospector John Brackett Allen‎ did not strike it rich until he turned to pies ?
text: Did you know that when goalkeeper Sam Gillam replaced Alf Pugh for Wales against Scotland on 15 April 1889, he became the first substitute in international football ?
text: Did you know that Oregon politician Shawn Lindsay proposed a law in response to the acquittal of Casey Anthony in Florida?
text: Did you know that the Thoroughbred racehorse George Frederick was named after the future King George V , and won the 1874 Derby Stakes on the young prince's birthday?
text: Did you know that Indonesian actress Titi Sjuman agreed to make her film debut only after being cajoled by her brother and sister-in-law (the film's director)?
text: Did you know that larval buckeyes eat bluehearts ?
text: Did you know that the Triassic archosaur Poposaurus walked on two legs like some dinosaurs, but was more closely related to crocodiles?
text: Did you know that a Turkic language was spoken in the Avar Khaganate and an inscription on a golden bowl preserves a fragment of it?
text: Did you know that Rachel Feinstein , whose latest art work is inspired by The Snow Queen , is half of what the New York Times called the American art world's "power couple"?
text: Did you know that the current speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Nunavut , Hunter Tootoo , is the last remaining member of the Legislative Assembly elected in Nunavut's first election in 1999?
text: Did you know that debris from the failed Russian Meridian 5 satellite launch landed on a house on Cosmonaut Street?
text: Did you know that a dance at the Ritz Ballroom scheduled for May 22 , 1955, featuring Fats Domino was cancelled by the Bridgeport Police Department , citing worries about rioting over rock and roll music?
text: Did you know that Indonesian judge Soeprapto was aided in his escape from Pekalongan during Operatie Product by a man whom he had just sentenced to death?
text: Did you know that the Eocene maple Acer clarnoense is not found in the Clarno Formation even though the species was named after it?
text: Did you know that Alabama 's first superintendent of public education, Confederate brigadier general and college professor William F. Perry , had little or no formal education?
text: Did you know that The X-Files Mythology, Volume 1 was well-received, despite its lack of liver-eating elastic monsters?
text: Did you know that Polish magazine Miasto Kobiet organizes Szafobranie, a recurring event in which people give and get clothes without exchanging money?
text: Did you know that weeping lovegrass is used for funeral rituals in Lesotho , and sometimes hybridizes with Lehmann's lovegrass ?
text: Did you know that two New Zealand Members of Parliament , David Buick and Alfred Hindmarsh , died in the 1918 influenza epidemic ?
text: Did you know that the unorganized territory of Mont-Albert in Quebec, Canada, is a home to the only remaining herd of migratory woodland caribou south of the Saint Lawrence River ?
text: Did you know that Katrina Kaif considers the item number Sheila ki jawani to be one of her raunchiest ever?
text: Did you know that Florida state legislator C. A. Roberts was named to the first Board of Union County Commissioners at the age of 18?
text: Did you know that the murder of Sadia Sheikh has been called Belgium's first honour killing trial?
text: Did you know that Russian-born pianist Alexander Zakin performed with violinist Isaac Stern for 37 years and played the piano at the White House under Presidents Eisenhower , Kennedy and Johnson ?
text: Did you know that the term sex and/or gender diverse is beginning to be used in Australia to replace transgender ?
text: Did you know that upon being asked whether he would like to join the Canadian Senate by Warren Allmand in 1977, Inuit politician Willie Adams responded, "What's the Senate?"?
text: Did you know that although no deaths occurred, the United States Weather Bureau was criticized for its inadequate warnings in advance of Hurricane Debra ?
text: Did you know that a reviewer described the film Khalifah as a "veiled warning" to Indonesians about wearing the niqab ?
text: Did you know that although the Dungarvan Town Council of County Waterford , Ireland, was formed in 1855, records indicate that a local authority existed in the town as early as the 15th century?
text: Did you know that during the 1984–1985 famine in Ethiopia , the Relief Society of Tigray organized a mass exodus of Tigrayan villagers to camps in Sudan ?
text: Did you know that the Rebbe of Ruzhin lived like a king, with a palatial home, many servants, a carriage drawn by four white horses, stylish clothing, and solid-gold boots studded with diamonds?
text: Did you know that although it ended peacefully, the Rotem Crisis of 1960 was later seen as a "trial run" for events leading to the 1967 Six-Day War ?
text: Did you know that Swampy, the lead character in the game Where's My Water? , is the first original character created by Disney for a mobile video game ?
text: Did you know that the Church of St Thomas the Martyr , and the adjoining Monnow Bridge , were both damaged by fire in the Battle of Monmouth in 1233?
text: Did you know that American painter and lithographer Bolton Brown was the first person to climb Mount Clarence King ?
text: Did you know that the European windstorm Friedhelm was colloquially called Hurricane Bawbag , from a Scots word for a scrotum ?
text: Did you know that in 1924 a rifle range was built in the basement of the parish hall at the Church of St. Barnabas in Irvington, New York ?
text: Did you know that a documentary film by Ucu Agustin led to a prostitution district in Tulungagung, East Java , being shut down?
text: Did you know that copyright infringement not involving profit was not a criminal offense in the United States between the 1994 U.S. v. LaMacchia ruling and the 1997 passage by Congress of the NET Act ?
text: Did you know that the growth of thickspike wheatgrass in an area can inhibit the spread of weeds including Russian and diffuse knapweed ?
text: Did you know that Deep Throat was inspired by Deep Throat ?
text: Did you know that merchant Solomon Warner was obsessed with building a perpetual motion machine ?
text: Did you know that the British destroyer HMS Imogen was accidentally sunk by the light cruiser Glasgow during the night of 16 July 1940?
text: Did you know that the 1932 Jalisco earthquake was the first of three earthquakes of magnitude 7 or greater to strike western Mexico in June that year?
text: Did you know that as minister of justice Sahardjo suggested rescinding Indonesia 's civil and commercial codes ?
text: Did you know that during the Prohibition era in the United States , Marsoui in Quebec, Canada, was a favorite hideout for smugglers fleeing the Royal Canadian Mounted Police ?
text: Did you know that Frederick B. Karl served in the Florida House of Representatives , Florida Senate and Florida Supreme Court ?
text: Did you know that Muddy Waters switched from semi-acoustic guitar to electric guitar for his album At Newport 1960 ?
text: Did you know that President Sukarno slighted Chief Justice Wirjono Prodjodikoro by inviting Ruslan Abdulgani for breakfast when Abdulgani was supposed to be before the Supreme Court of Indonesia ?
text: Did you know that the Los Angeles Lakers recently signed Malcolm Thomas , whose father goes by the same name and also played college basketball ?
text: Did you know that millions of chickens have viewed life through rose-colored glasses ?
text: Did you know that the Kupol Gold Mine north of the Arctic Circle is only accessible in winter via an ice road , which can only be built when temperatures are below −25 °C (−13 °F)?
text: Did you know that Maya Angelou 's sixth and final autobiography A Song Flung Up to Heaven is framed by the assassinations of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr. ?
text: Did you know that Indonesian Minister of Justice Moeljatno attempted to ensure Prosecutor General Soeprapto 's subservience to him by passing a law?
text: Did you know that the Lancaster City Museum houses a Roman tombstone with a dramatic depiction of a Roman soldier with a decapitated opponent at his feet?
text: Did you know that Graves 's grave is unknown, but his memorial is not?
text: Did you know that holiday mail seeking a Christmas postmark continued to be sent to Christmas, Arizona , two decades after the town's post office had closed?
text: Did you know that Georges Bizet dedicated his song "Rêve de la bien-aimée" ("Dream of the beloved") to the Belgian coloratura soprano Léontine de Maësen ?
text: Did you know that Yorkshire fog occurs on the Cornish coast between Polruan and Polperro ?
text: Did you know that Plante and Sherman 's Faith and Health states that highly religious people have a 29% higher odds of survival than less religious people?
text: Did you know that the early Oligocene maple , Acer ashwilli , is known from only eight places in Oregon?
text: Did you know that Cliff at Christmas was the only album released during Cliff Richard 's second period with music label EMI , to whom he'd previously been signed for over forty years?
text: Did you know that Gemiler Island , off the coast of Turkey, may have been the location of Saint Nicholas ' original tomb?
text: Did you know that sculptor Alexander Finta , who worked for 20th Century Fox , studied with Auguste Rodin ?
text: Did you know that the 1989 Ungava earthquake was the first earthquake in eastern North America known to be associated with ground rupture ?
text: Did you know that a 1640 Act of the Parliament of Scotland abolished the observation of Christmas in Scotland ?
text: Did you know that one critic thought Hulk Hogan 's acting in Santa with Muscles made " Arnold Schwarzenegger seem like Laurence Olivier "?
text: Did you know that the opening chorus of Bach's Christmas cantata Ich freue mich in dir, BWV 133 , is thought to persuasively express "the essence, the exuberance and the sheer exhilaration of Christmas"?
text: Did you know that artist Letterio Calapai was taken as a boy to the Fogg Art Museum and the Boston Museum of Fine Arts which now own examples of his work?
text: Did you know that salad spinners use centrifugal force to remove excess water?
text: Did you know that, contrary to a popular urban legend, Coca-Cola did not create the modern Santa suit ?
text: Did you know that when high school junior Jabari Parker held an open practice, Mike Krzyzewski , Bruce Weber , Thad Matta , Bill Self , Roy Williams and Tom Izzo all attended?
text: Did you know that during the Dunkirk evacuation on June 1, 1940, the British destroyer HMS Ivanhoe was hit by a German bomb that killed 26 men and knocked out two of her three boiler rooms ?
text: Did you know that when the Thoroughbred racehorse Pinza won the 1953 Derby Stakes , it gave 25 times Champion Jockey , Gordon Richards , his first win after 27 previous starts in the race?
text: Did you know that when sick, galaxy coral can be fed brine shrimps incorporating specific antibiotics ?
text: Did you know that West Virginia House Delegate Dr. Margaret Anne Staggers considered retiring from emergency medicine following an attack by an elderly patient?
text: Did you know that Jan Sandström composed the Motorbike Concerto , and a setting of Es ist ein Ros entsprungen for two choirs a cappella : one in four parts, singing Praetorius , and the other in eight parts?
text: Did you know that baseball pitcher Brad Boxberger was named to the Arizona Fall League 's 2011 Top Prospects Team?
text: Did you know that prior to its passage of the Human Rights Act 2003 , Nunavut was the only Canadian jurisdiction without protections against discrimination for its gay, lesbian and bisexual residents?
text: Did you know that the New York Yankees traded for Allie Reynolds on the advice of Joe DiMaggio ?
text: Did you know that the lesser long-tongued bat can extend its tongue for up to 50% of its own body length – even when its jaws are closed?
text: Did you know that Kyra Markham , whose images were used as propaganda against the Nazis, briefly had Frank Lloyd Wright as a father-in-law?
text: Did you know that "hardly a single aspect of life" lacks deep consideration in Bandura 's 1997 book Self-Efficacy , "one of the most significant books of the last 50 years," according to reviewers?
text: Did you know that Nemo Gaines is the only graduate of the United States Naval Academy to play in Major League Baseball ?
text: Did you know that in 2002 the Norwegian Poodle Topscore Contradiction was the first foreign dog to win Best in Show at the Crufts dog show in the UK?
text: Did you know that Emmaus United Methodist Church has helped survivors of the 2004 Gatumba massacre in Burundi resettle in Albany, New York ?
text: Did you know that Egor the Animator , an early computer animation program released on February 6 , 1996, by Sausage Software , was the first commercial software Java applet ?
text: Did you know that the lecture notes of Marcel Riesz were dubbed by physicist David Hestenes "the midwife of the rebirth" of Clifford algebras ?
text: Did you know that members of the Moldavian Kogălniceanu family contributed to the abolition of serfdom (1749), the abolition of slavery (1855), and several land reforms ?
text: Did you know that the seeds of poverty grass can remain in the soil for decades before they germinate ?
text: Did you know that according to New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists , the killing of Gadzhimurat Kamalov , founder of the newspaper Chernovik in Dagestan , Russia, is "a lethal blow to press freedom "?
text: Did you know that when George Harrison 's song " Awaiting on You All " was originally released on his All Things Must Pass album, lyrics critical of the Pope were omitted from the lyric sheet?
text: Did you know that the Mayan archaeological site Baking Pot covered a 9-square-kilometre (3.5 sq mi) area?
text: Did you know that 2011 Ohio Mr. Basketball Trey Burke has won both an Ohio High School Athletic Association State championship and an Amateur Athletic Union national championship?
text: Did you know that over 110 species of vascular plants have been discovered on the small Eastern Isles , of the Isles of Scilly , UK?
text: Did you know that Compugen ' s first computer system, the "Bioccelerator," could analyze DNA sequences at speeds up to 1,000 times faster than other computers of its time?
text: Did you know that Helmut Damerius spent 18 years of his life in a gulag and banishment to Kazakhstan , and was finally released on condition that he never talk or write about it?
text: Did you know that Italian Renaissance artist Girolamo Mocetto was long thought to have been born a generation before he actually was?
text: Did you know that Polish actor and singer-songwriter Andrzej Bogucki and his wife were awarded the title Righteous among the Nations for helping Polish Jewish pianist Władysław Szpilman escape the Warsaw Ghetto ?
text: Did you know that the life cycle of the no-brand crow may pass through several generations in a year?
text: Did you know that over a 26-year span the Illinois Central Railroad 's Land O'Corn used self-propelled cars, steam and finally diesel locomotives ?
text: Did you know that the Westminster Psalter contains what may be the earliest representation of Saint Christopher in English art, from about 1250?
text: Did you know that Danish marathon champion Henning Larsen took up pigeon racing after his retirement from athletics?
text: Did you know that the Silverdale Hoard , discovered in Lancashire in September 2011, contains over 200 items of Viking treasure and has revealed the existence of a previously unknown Viking king?
text: Did you know that the U.S. Patent Office 1836 fire occurred in the same building that housed the local fire department?
text: Did you know that in 1907, statues of the Twelve Apostles helped English sculptor Harry Hems pay his income tax?
text: Did you know that the Mountaineer was the first passenger train Amtrak operated over the Norfolk and Western Railway ?
text: Did you know that the head of the Indonesian Communist Party addressed Wongsonegoro so softly that other people had to "be his microphone"?
text: Did you know that the 2007 Morocco–Spain diplomatic conflict arose after the announcement of the impending visit of the King of Spain to the Spanish autonomous cities Ceuta and Melilla ?
text: Did you know that a band or singer can only qualify for the UK Indie Breakers Chart if they have never had a Top 20 hit on the UK's mainstream charts before?
text: Did you know that in 1884 Frederick Stanley Arnot determined that the Zambezi , the largest river flowing into the Indian Ocean from Africa, rose near Kalene Hill ?
text: Did you know that some 3000 to 5000 people were killed in Haiti in 1804 in an ethnic cleansing that targeted white people ?
text: Did you know that what Matthew Morrison calls " the most spectacular [marriage] proposal I've ever seen " is scheduled to occur on Glee in January 2012?
text: Did you know that Wilopo , in office only 26 days, is the shortest-serving Foreign Minister of Indonesia to date?
text: Did you know that Arthur Duncan was a small Backscratcher in Chicago ?
text: Did you know that Gholhak Garden , a British diplomatic compound in northern Tehran , has been at the centre of diplomatic controversy between Britain and Iran ?
text: Did you know that The Naval and Military Magazine warned that people might not like the cut of Sir Henry Heathcote 's jib ?
text: Did you know that a Russian state prosecutor proposes to put a commented translation of the Bhagavad Gita on the same list of banned materials as Hitler 's Mein Kampf ?
text: Did you know that the version of Rossetti ' s Lady Lilith in The Met was said to be mostly painted by Henry Treffry Dunn ?
text: Did you know that Papa Celestin's Golden Wedding featured Papa Celestin 's final recording session before his death?
text: Did you know that in the United Kingdom the George Marshall Trophy is awarded annually to an individual or organisation that has made a significant contribution towards helping visually impaired people?
text: Did you know that the OPEN Act is a proposed alternative to SOPA that would not require American ISPs to block access to suspect Web sites?
text: Did you know that Captain Joseph Spear married two women named Grace Grant?
text: Did you know that Ania Bien ' s 1986 photographic installation on the Hotel Polen in Amsterdam , which was destroyed in a fire that killed 33 people , included images alluding to the Holocaust ?
text: Did you know that the extinct Eocene maple Acer republicense is known from only one fossil seed?
text: Did you know that brothers Frank and John Rolleston were both simultaneously elected to the New Zealand Parliament in 1922 and defeated in 1928 ?
text: Did you know that the seeds of Bigelow's sedge can remain viable for two centuries?
text: Did you know that Swedish hip hop artist Roffe Ruff has kept his identity secret to make listeners concentrate more on his music than his personality?
text: Did you know that although Verle A. Pope was nicknamed "The Lion of St. Johns" for his oratory skills, he didn't start speaking until age seven?
text: Did you know that the writs for the next New Zealand general election must be issued no later than 24 December 2014?
text: Did you know that the mustache that Frenchy Bordagaray grew in 1936 is likely to have been the only mustache worn in Major League Baseball between 1914 and 1972?
text: Did you know that the British destroyer HMS Havelock and her sister Hesperus attacked the wreck of U-246 on 30 April 1945 thinking that it was another German submarine which had been spotted earlier that day?
text: Did you know that Euripides ' lost play Andromeda may have contained the first ever depiction of a man falling in love with a woman onstage?
text: Did you know that Jack Nicholson and Lou Adler bought the historic Newberry House so they would have a place in Aspen, Colorado , to watch televised Lakers games together?
text: Did you know that Karl Marx 's theory of historical trajectory attempted to prove the long-term unsustainability of capitalism ?
text: Did you know that although William Jennings Bryan delivered the Cross of Gold speech at the 1896 Democratic National Convention , he was not even a delegate when the convention started?
text: Did you know that Theodore M. Stuart , an end and halfback for the "Point-a-Minute" football teams at the University of Michigan in 1904 and 1905, was also the university's tennis champion?
text: Did you know that the Murasaki Shikibu Diary Emaki contains an illustration of the regent extorting poems from two ladies?
text: Did you know that the king of the Mataram Sultanate during the First Java War used the reconstruction of a terrace as an excuse for not providing soldiers?
text: Did you know that architect Peter Beaven founded New Zealand's first heritage lobby group?
text: Did you know that the application Read It Later obtained venture capital investments totaling $2.5 million in 2011?
text: Did you know that the U.S. House of Representatives has had a Princeton University alumnus in its membership in every year since it was established in 1789?
text: Did you know that despite its name, the long-stolon sedge does not form stolons ?
text: Did you know that The Wall Street Journal called the scandal involving Olympus Corporation "one of the biggest and longest-running loss-hiding arrangements in Japanese corporate history"?
text: Did you know that although St Silas' Church in Blackburn , Lancashire , was designed in 1878, building did not start until 1894, and the tower was not completed until 1914?
text: Did you know that mezzo-soprano Martina Koppelstetter has recorded Lieder by Rudi Spring for BR, Bavarian Radio ?
text: Did you know that cyanobacteria can be washed up on the shore in a green scum, which may contain an acute neurotoxin known as the Very Fast Death Factor , which leads to fast death by paralysis?
text: Did you know that a spree killer from Ontario , saved from the death penalty by reason of insanity , later received a "hero's funeral"?
text: Did you know that a small volume 2 of The Young Men's Magazine written by a teenaged Charlotte Brontë sold for £690,850?
text: Did you know that the seeds of six-weeks grama grass are eaten by desert kangaroo rats ?
text: Did you know that Gavin Bryars 's Doctor Ox's Experiment is the third opera to be based on Jules Verne 's science fiction novella " Dr. Ox's Experiment "?
text: Did you know that mathematician Mikhail Kadets became interested in the theory of normed spaces after reading the Ukrainian edition of the French treatise by the Pole Stefan Banach ?
text: Did you know that one of the highest-ranking generals in China was injured in battle nine times?
text: Did you know that a trademark dispute between piano makers Steinway & Sons and Grotrian-Steinweg resulted in establishing the legal concept of " initial interest confusion "?
text: Did you know that the vulnerable buttercup Ranunculus allenii was first collected from Mount Albert in the Gaspé Peninsula in 1881?
text: Did you know that the music video for the Tanglish song " Why This Kolaveri Di " had more than 10 million YouTube hits in the two weeks after its posting?
text: Did you know that Perry Dorrestein 's first start for the Michigan Wolverines football team was in a Michigan–Notre Dame football rivalry game?
text: Did you know that Nikolaus Pevsner described All Saints' Church, Hertford , as "completely alien" in Hertfordshire ?
text: Did you know that the galaxy Markarian 501 produces very high energy gamma rays ?
text: Did you know that after directing several episodes of Glee , Alfonso Gomez-Rejon directed large choreographed musical television advertisements for Chevrolet and T-Mobile ?
text: Did you know that The Relaxation Response describes two steps as essential: a passive attitude and a mental device to keep the mind from wandering?
text: Did you know that Gustav Sobottka, Jr. was imprisoned by the Nazis at age 18 and by Stalin 's secret police at age 23?
text: Did you know that the opening of San Francisco 's Tiffany Building included a roast pig and a lion dance for good luck?
text: Did you know that the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies pioneered the usage of video testimonies to record eyewitness accounts of major historical events and inspired video testimony projects documenting other atrocities?
text: Did you know that Jean-Claude Bajeux was Haiti 's culture minister under President Jean-Bertrand Aristide but later turned against him?
text: Did you know that the extinct, Miocene age, maple Acer browni ranged from southern Oregon to the north shore of the Haida Gwaii ?
text: Did you know that tight end Martell Webb was a 2006 USA Today All-USA second team selection along with fellow Michigan matriculant Ryan Mallett ?
text: Did you know that the ancient Greek drama Lysistrata by Aristophanes has been adapted as a Broadway musical titled Lysistrata Jones about a basketball team and its cheerleaders?
text: Did you know that in Wildwood by The Decemberists ' Colin Meloy and Carson Ellis , "bespectacled, bike-riding, vinyl -­browsing, Kurosawa -­referencing" Portland kids save a baby kidnapped by a murder of crows?
text: Did you know that the dance performed during the Kundum Festival of the Ahanta people of Ghana originated from dwarfs?
text: Did you know that the communist newspaper Deutsche Zentral Zeitung ran volumes of show trial transcripts, but never the consequences, and ceased publication after most of the staff were also arrested?
text: Did you know that Euripides ' posthumously produced lost play Alcmaeon in Corinth was part of a trilogy that won first prize at the Dionysia in Athens?
text: Did you know that decisional balance sheets are used to help people with addictive behaviours decide to make changes in their lives?
text: Did you know that the spiny lobster Jasus caveorum lives only on one of the Foundation Seamounts in the southern Pacific Ocean ?
text: Did you know that comedian Graham Norton won his first comedy award after standing in as a guest presenter on The Jack Docherty Show while Docherty was on holiday?
text: Did you know that after suffering from polio as a youth, Maria Farida Indrati went on to become the first female justice of the Constitutional Court of Indonesia ?
text: Did you know that a month after its launch, the Facebook game CastleVille had amassed 26.6 million players?
text: Did you know that, in 1987, German ice hockey executive Heinz Weifenbach negotiated a deal in which his club, the ECD Iserlohn , would advertise Muammar Gaddafi 's Green Book ?
text: Did you know that former Indonesian Minister of the Interior Hazairin released his own currency?
text: Did you know that in 1963, a whole farm—including machinery, staff and a pedigree herd of Hereford cattle —travelled by train from Tetbury railway station to Stranraer in advance of the Beeching Axe ?
text: Did you know that blackfellows hemp is associated with turpentine ?
text: Did you know that according to The People's Book of Records , the record for the number of times a person has been licked on the buttocks by a dog in two minutes is 145?
text: Did you know that the British destroyer HMS Hurricane rescued 451 survivors from the passenger-cargo liner SS City of Nagpur and landed them at Greenock , Scotland , on 1 May 1941?
text: Did you know that the aerial photograph of Palembang taken in 1984 revealed the ancient canal network that is now Srivijaya archaeological park ?
text: Did you know that Max Gresham , the 18-year-old 2011 NASCAR East Series champion, started racing at the age of 8?
text: Did you know that the perennial herb Frasera caroliniensis can take up to thirty years to flower?
text: Did you know that " Red Lipstick " was reminiscent of songs featured on Rihanna's fourth studio album Rated R (2009), with specific comparisons to "G4L" and " Wait Your Turn "?
text: Did you know that the ideology of Ba'athism was developed mostly in Syria by Zaki al-Arsuzi , Salah al-Din al-Bitar and Michel Aflaq , who is considered the founder of Ba'athist thought, as a way to unite the Arab world into one nation?
text: Did you know that Jerry Blackwell 's Southern Championship Wrestling was the last "territorial" wrestling promotion in the U.S. state of Georgia ?
text: Did you know that Bill Bellamy , who was awarded the Military Cross for gallantry as a tank commander in 1944, raised £30,000 by trekking across Cuba in 2005, at the age of 81?
text: Did you know that Israeli businessman Dan Gertler bought the Kolwezi tailings project for $20 million and two months later sold half of it for $175 million ?
text: Did you know that Ruislip High School is the fictional "Rudge Park Comprehensive" from the E4 television series The Inbetweeners ?
text: Did you know that poet W. H. Auden said of the letters of Vincent van Gogh "there is scarcely one ... which I ... do not find fascinating"?
text: Did you know that Polish model and fashion designer Joanna Horodyńska has presented a TV program while lying in a foam-filled bath tub, and posed three times for Playboy ?
text: Did you know that the prairie goldenrod can flourish during drought conditions where native plants and grasses have died out?
text: Did you know that Koji Mitsui was unsuccessfully posted to Major League Baseball twice in one offseason?
text: Did you know that Kenneth Stewart Cole , an organizer of the Biophysical Society 's first meeting, said that the meeting had "the ulterior motive of finding out if there was such a thing as biophysics "?
text: Did you know that Lost in Paradise is considered Vietnam 's first gay film?
text: Did you know that the 1842 Cap-Haïtien earthquake badly damaged the Sans-Souci Palace built by Henri Christophe ?
text: Did you know that the 2013 United States federal budget may impose a 23% cut on the defense budget due to the Budget Control Act of 2011 , according to Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta ?
text: Did you know that Canadian mystery writer Eric Wilson based the formula for his Tom and Liz Austen books on the preferences of his eighth-grade students?
text: Did you know that the Experiment was a boat powered by horses running on a treadmill and propelled by a then-novel type of screw propeller ?
text: Did you know that Dolphin D. Overton became a flying ace in just four days during the Korean War , the fastest in history for a jet fighter pilot?
text: Did you know that stores on Malkhei Yisrael Street , the Haredi urban shopping district in north Jerusalem, pay the same or even higher rents than stores in Israel's major malls?
text: Did you know that Michigan Wolverines American football linebacker Kenny Demens had 11 tackles in the 2007 Michigan High School Athletic Association championship game?
text: Did you know that livestock eating white locoweed develop a neurological syndrome known as locoism?
text: Did you know that according to one critic, Rihanna appeared to be "channelling" Swedish singer-songwriter and rapper Neneh Cherry on " Cockiness (Love It) " in a "pseudo-melodic" impersonation?
text: Did you know that the song " Cosas del Amor " has been performed by several female singers including Vikki Carr , Ana Gabriel , Milly Quezada , Jenni Rivera , Olga Tañón and Yuri ?
text: Did you know that Adolphe Braun , whose photos were published worldwide and shown in prominent museums, first took up photography to aid in designing floral patterns for textiles?
text: Did you know that the failed 2010 Brown–Kaufman amendment aimed to break up the largest U.S. banks based on Alan Greenspan ' s idea that "If they're too big to fail , they're too big"?
text: Did you know that Besar Mertokusumo has been called the first Indonesian advocate?
text: Did you know that Paleodictyon nodosum made use of a new source of energy not dependent on the Sun?
text: Did you know that Ryan Van Bergen was ranked among the top-20 high school football players nationally as both a tight end and defensive end ?
text: Did you know that Soepomo , Indonesia's first Minister of Justice, criticized Dutch colonialism in his thesis on the agrarian system of Surakarta ?
text: Did you know that Count Grog 's Southern Championship Wrestling once promoted a benefit show in Louisburg, North Carolina , from which all the proceeds went to a seriously injured wrestler?
text: Did you know that the ideas of 17th-century Polish reformer Stanisław Dunin-Karwicki have been both praised as the harbinger of later reforms, and criticized for not going far enough?
text: Did you know that architects Fisher & Fisher , the sibling partnership of Arthur and William Ellsworth Fisher , designed the oil company town of Parco, Wyoming , in a unified Spanish colonial style to foster community?
text: Did you know that the coastline from Steeple Point to Marsland Mouth , in north Cornwall , was one of the last British breeding sites of the Large Blue butterfly, which was declared nationally extinct in 1979?
text: Did you know that Thomas Crawford captured Dumbarton Castle with ropes and scaling ladders under cover of darkness?
text: Did you know that future Minister of Justice Abdoel Gaffar Pringgodigdo reported losing much of his archive when the Dutch seized Yogyakarta ?
text: Did you know that in December 2011, the Home Affordable Refinance Program was expanded so many U.S. homeowners can refinance their mortgage even if their home value is underwater ?
text: Did you know that Michigan Wolverines American football cornerback J. T. Floyd made his first two interceptions against Notre Dame , but in different seasons?
text: Did you know that some music critics hear echoes of work by Diana Ross and Leslie Gore in Selena ' s song "Missing My Baby", which was featured on Entre a Mi Mundo ?
text: Did you know that Indonesian legal scholar Notonagoro , who married into royalty, placed the needs of individual citizens last in his hierarchy of government priorities?
text: Did you know that Chief Wahoo McDaniel came out of retirement in 1996 to wrestle Death & Destruction in a tag team match?
text: Did you know that, while still a schoolboy, Rhys Morgan led an effort to raise awareness of the risks of the alternative medicine product Miracle Mineral Supplement ?
text: Did you know that Traveler's Rest near Lolo, Montana , is the only place along the Lewis and Clark Trail where physical evidence of the Lewis and Clark Expedition has been found?
text: Did you know that Sancti Spiritu , the first European settlement in modern Argentina , was destroyed by natives two years later?
text: Did you know that Yad Sarah , the largest national volunteer organization in Israel, has over 6,000 volunteers – including its founder, Uri Lupolianski , former mayor of Jerusalem?
text: Did you know that the cliffs and offshore rocks from Godrevy Head to St Agnes are host to the largest colony of breeding Black-legged Kittiwakes in Cornwall , UK?
text: Did you know that Jeff Wright , a county drain commissioner in Michigan, has also served as an FBI informant?
text: Did you know that The Who 's 1971 song " Bargain " and 1981 song " Don't Let Go the Coat " were both inspired by Indian mystic Meher Baba ?
text: Did you know that before Brighton ' s Montpelier suburb developed, three people lived on the hilly site – including an eccentric corporal who lived in a cave and fired celebratory pistols on military anniversaries?
text: Did you know that after giving seven days of speeches before 500 Hindu scholars, Jagadguru Kripalu Maharaj was named fifth Jagadguru (world teacher) at the age of 34?
text: Did you know that female baseball player Mary Rountree earned a medical degree by studying in the off-season?
text: Did you know that Three Sisters , a musical by Oscar Hammerstein II and Jerome Kern , played for only two months in London in 1934, and didn't debut in America until 2011?
text: Did you know that 30-to-120-centimetre (12 to 47 in) tall hairy pagodas can be found throughout eastern North America?
text: Did you know that Kazimierz Karwowski holds the record for being elected to the most Sejms of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth ?
text: Did you know that the leaves of the beard-heath Leucopogon amplexicaulis surround the stem?
text: Did you know that the Glee episode " Hold On to Sixteen " featured covers of songs by Michael Jackson , Janet Jackson , and The Jackson 5 ?
text: Did you know that the sea whip , a colonial soft coral , produces chemicals which prevent algae , barnacles and bryozoans from growing on it?
text: Did you know that the mixed-breed dog Tich was awarded the animal's Victoria Cross for devotion to duty with the King's Royal Rifle Corps during the Second World War?
text: Did you know that the Left Column theater troupe left Germany on the eve of Nazism only to lose many members to the Stalinist purges ?
text: Did you know that Wroniec , a dark fairy tale by Jacek Dukaj , was a taboo -breaking take on martial law in Poland , which was in effect from 13 December 1981?
text: Did you know that Bat-El Gatterer , Israeli women's taekwondo champion, is a religiously observant Jew who was born in the West Bank ?
text: Did you know that during Royce White 's two-and-a-half-year hiatus from competitive basketball , he spent time on his music career and learned how to play the piano ?
text: Did you know that in November 1921, the schooner Cymric collided with a tram in Dublin ?
text: Did you know that Boston Celtics center Bill Russell won 11 NBA championships during his 13-year playing career, including two titles as player-coach ?
text: Did you know that jewel beetle larvae live in galls on the stems of the Australian shrub Daviesia corymbosa ?
text: Did you know that the Frank Kameny House in Washington, D.C., was listed on the National Register of Historic Places for its significance in the gay rights activism of its namesake ?
text: Did you know that Juan Martínez de Recalde was second-in-command of the Spanish Armada ?
text: Did you know that Pro Wrestling Illustrated has called manager Count Grog the "least employee friendly boss around" due to his frequently double-crossing his own wrestlers?
text: Did you know that the Grammy Award -winning album Bachata Rosa by Juan Luis Guerra brought bachata music into the mainstream in the Dominican Republic?
text: Did you know that seven of the twenty-nine times when Duke and Michigan played one another in men's basketball , both teams were ranked in the top ten in the AP Poll ?
text: Did you know that the Scottish National Portrait Gallery , opened in 1889, is the oldest purpose-built museum of portraits in the world?
text: Did you know that 1992 U.S. vice presidential candidate James Stockdale replied, "Who am I? Why am I here?" in response to a question from debate moderator Hal Bruno of ABC News ?
text: Did you know that Mt. Shasta Brewing Company ' s slogan, "Try Legal Weed", was initially refused by the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau ?
text: Did you know that singer Madonna appeared only as an animated fairy in the music video for her song " Dear Jessie "?
text: Did you know that efforts by George Tchobanoglous have contributed to UV disinfection of wastewater being accepted as a technology for water reuse ?
text: Did you know that Dutch Antillean sprinter Churandy Martina would have won silver at the 2008 Summer Olympics if he had not been disqualified?
text: Did you know that William Hamlin was the first engraver for the state of Rhode Island?
text: Did you know that several pelagic gooseneck barnacles were once found attached to an American crocodile ?
text: Did you know that the rights to freedom of speech , assembly and association are guaranteed by Article 14 of the Singapore Constitution only to Singapore citizens ?
text: Did you know that Donald Norman rewrote his 1988 book The Design of Everyday Things after some industrial designers felt affronted by an earlier draft?
text: Did you know that the Tonhalle , a concert hall in Zurich praised for its acoustics, was inaugurated by Johannes Brahms conducting in 1895?
text: Did you know that the U. S. Department of Veterans Affairs annually receives $1.7 billion of research and development funding for the Veterans Health Administration Office of Research and Development ?
text: Did you know that the mother of Korean American composer Donald Sur was a picture bride ?
text: Did you know that the Harrington Hump has been built for railway stations in the United Kingdom for mobility-impaired access, since platform heights are not standardised and refurbishment is very expensive?
text: Did you know that the Rihanna song " Where Have You Been " contains compositional elements of Geoff Mack 's " I've Been Everywhere "?
text: Did you know that the Jacksonville headquarters of the Atlantic National Bank was the tallest building in Florida when it was completed in 1909?
text: Did you know that the seeds of Petrophile pulchella can be found germinating in bushland up to 700 days after bushfire ?
text: Did you know that the Four Square Laundry in Belfast was a front company for a British Army intelligence unit?
text: Did you know that South Africa were coached by former New Zealand international Paul Matete at the 2000 Rugby League World Cup ?
text: Did you know that Wyoming's Secretary of State Max Maxfield won an award for 'Outstanding Achievement in Web Development' from WebAwards in 2009?
text: Did you know that Tadeusz Wrona , who safely landed LOT Flight 16 from New York to Warsaw after the landing gear failed to deploy, was awarded one of Poland's most prestigious awards ?
text: Did you know that the Supreme Court of South Ossetia annulled the 2011 presidential election and barred its winner from running again?
text: Did you know that although award-winning Indonesian director Hanung Bramantyo is "intrigued" with the left , his most successful films have been to the right ?
text: Did you know that Marco Melandri became the 2002 250cc World Champion after a 0.007 second win over Fonsi Nieto at Phillip Island ?
text: Did you know that the role of football coach Shannon Beiste was created for actress and 15-time world arm wrestling champion Dot-Marie Jones after she ran into Glee co-creator Brad Falchuk while shopping?
text: Did you know that the 2000 concert recorded for Ravi Shankar 's live album Full Circle: Carnegie Hall 2000 occurred 62 years after his first performance at Carnegie Hall ?
text: Did you know that the 1971 Łódź strikes were the only industrial action in pre-1980 Communist Poland that ended with workers' success?
text: Did you know that a junior officer on the USS Ancon refused King George VI entry to the ship's intelligence centre because no-one told him the King "was a Bigot "?
text: Did you know that between 1887 and 1888 Alexandre Delcommune explored 12,000 kilometres ( 7,500 mi ) of water routes in the Congo Basin ?
text: Did you know that a 2004 glitch in TriTech emergency-response software rendered Austin, Texas dispatchers unable to locate their patrol cars on the street?
text: Did you know that the British destroyer HMS Basilisk evacuated a total of 695 men on 31 May 1940 from Dunkirk before she was sunk by German aircraft the next day?
text: Did you know that ablastin, a rat antibody, prevents the parasite Trypanosoma lewisi from reproducing, yet keeps it in adult form?
text: Did you know that Hall of Fame pitcher Jack Chesbro received his nickname "Happy Jack" while working in a psychiatric facility?
text: Did you know that Papon appeared on music documentary TV series The Dewarists with Rabbi Shergill and recorded a song "Khule Da Rabb"?
text: Did you know that the newly discovered Puhinui Craters form the only cluster of three small maars in the Auckland volcanic field ?
text: Did you know that numerous Polish formations fought in Russia from the First World War , through the Russian Revolution of 1917 up to the Polish–Soviet War ?
text: Did you know that Alexis Bachelot , who led the first Catholic mission to Hawaii, was suspected of being a covert agent of the French government by some Hawaiian chiefs?
text: Did you know that the scene showing a dead woman with her lips sewn shut, in the music video for the song " Oh Father ", was inspired by singer Madonna 's memory of her mother's funeral?
text: Did you know that after earning the Navy Cross and getting wounded in combat, Lieutenant Kurt Chew-Een Lee took a Jeep and returned to the battle arena with his arm in a sling?
text: Did you know that Jermain Street in Albany has the largest contiguous group of Lustron houses in New York state?
text: Did you know that eating seeds of the asparagus flower sacahuista can cause a chukar partridge to have diarrhea?
text: Did you know that Tonya Butler , while playing for the University of West Alabama under head coach Randy Pippin , became the first female to score a field goal in a NCAA college football game?
text: Did you know that the electoral system for the 1883 elections in Egypt was said to have been based on the design of a pyramid ?
text: Did you know that the just-world hypothesis is a cognitive bias that has negative social effects but positive mental health effects?
text: Did you know that the prolific composer and Westminster Cathedral conductor Colin Mawby said, "I cannot write choral music unless I work with choirs ... I have to write for particular people"?
text: Did you know that when Mitch McGary committed to be a member of the 2012–13 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team their recruiting class jumped from below 25th to 5th?
text: Did you know that The Who songs " Getting in Tune ," " Going Mobile " and " Love Ain't for Keeping " were all originally conceived for Pete Townshend 's abandoned Lifehouse project?
text: Did you know that the first words of the first radio broadcast in Swedish history, transmitted from Boden Fortress Radio Bunker , were the profanity "jävlar anamma"?
text: Did you know that the song " Another Nail in My Heart " has a "McCartneyesque" melody and peaked at No. 17 on the UK Singles Chart ?
text: Did you know that the COEX Aquarium in Gangnam district, Seoul, is one of South Korea's largest aquariums with over 40,000 creatures from over 650 species on display?
text: Did you know that Heinrich Wiegand refused an appointment as State Secretary for the Colonies to remain head of the Norddeutscher Lloyd ?
text: Did you know that Sevmorput is the only nuclear-powered cargo ship currently in service?
text: Did you know that the dark-scaled knight is in danger of extinction in the Netherlands?
text: Did you know that 94 known Category 4 hurricanes have occurred in the Pacific Ocean since 1900?
text: Did you know that the 10,000 year old Pesse canoe , the world's oldest known boat , was found in a Dutch peat bog ?
text: Did you know that the 2011–12 Harvard Crimson men's basketball team was the first Harvard men's basketball team ever ranked in the AP Poll , leaving only seven schools that have never been ranked in it?
text: Did you know that the 1975 Kinnaur earthquake was a result of west–east extension within the NW Himalayas?
text: Did you know that The Who sang about a tattoo of "a lady in the nude"?
text: Did you know that Ed Walker , who reenlisted in the U.S. Army specifically to go to Alaska , was the last surviving member of Castner's Cutthroats ?
text: Did you know that in certain rural areas of Denmark such as Fanø , Læsø , and in parts of Western Jutland local musical traditions dating back to the late 18th century were maintained well into the 20th century?
text: Did you know that in 1972, foggy conditions meant rescue crews at O'Hare International Airport were unaware a second aircraft had been involved in a crash until 28 minutes after the accident?
text: Did you know that the granite gilia can grow in lava -based soils?
text: Did you know that the builder of Chirton Hall received a gift from the Countess of Northumberland of materials from the demolished Warkworth Castle to build it?
text: Did you know that Hieronim Ossoliński , a 16th-century Polish politician who helped to unite Poland and Lithuania , also wanted to establish a Protestant national church ?
text: Did you know that Paris Mountain was named for the Indian trader Richard Pearis ?
text: Did you know that East German politician Gustav Sobottka lost both of his sons; one died in a Communist prison and one shortly after liberation from a Nazi concentration camp ?
text: Did you know that the Gazi Race , named in honor of Gazi Mustafa Kemal , the founder of the Turkish Republic , was won by racehorses owned by succeeding presidents İsmet İnönü and Celâl Bayar ?
text: Did you know that during the 1960s, some women opted to circumvent restaurant restrictions on women's clothing by wearing palazzo trousers or culottes as evening wear?
text: Did you know that Florence Violet McKenzie , Australia's first female electrical engineer , taught Morse code to thousands of sailors free of charge?
text: Did you know that Elmer Stricklett is considered to have been the first baseball pitcher to master the spitball ?
text: Did you know that an airliner version of the supersonic B-58 bomber was expected to carry 52 passengers at over Mach 2 ?
text: Did you know that a study conducted by the BBC series Son of God concluded that the skin of Jesus Christ would have been "olive-coloured" and "swarthy"?
text: Did you know that controversial American entomologist Alexandre Arsène Girault once described a new species of wasp from the planet Jupiter ?
text: Did you know that West Alabama football head coach Will Hall won the Harlon Hill Trophy in 2003 as the top player in NCAA Division II college football ?
text: Did you know that the "unassuming" villain of The X-Files episode " 2Shy " has been compared to those from the earlier episodes " Squeeze " and " Irresistible "?
text: Did you know that American composer William Arms Fisher was called "a worthy pupil and disciple of Antonín Dvořák " in the February 1927 issue of The Crisis ?
text: Did you know that in 1938, the Soviet Union secret police executed 40 teenagers and adults in pursuit of an alleged Hitler Youth Conspiracy , which was later found baseless?
text: Did you know that the roots of the bean flower alpine sweetvetch are edible and taste like young carrots?
text: Did you know that Indian cricketer Ibrahim Khaleel recently set a record for the number of wicket-keeper dismissals in a first-class match, taking 14 of his team's 20 wickets ?
text: Did you know that the progressive feminist magazine On The Issues has also published articles about animal rights ?
text: Did you know that Section 20A of South Africa's Sexual Offences Act , which prohibited all sexual acts between men at a party, defined "party" as "any occasion where more than two persons are present"?
text: Did you know that William Hazlitt was an influential Irish Unitarian minister who defended American prisoners of war from abuse at the hands of their British captors?
text: Did you know that the Arab governor of Safed offered money to persuade rabbi Joseph Saragossi not to leave the town?
text: Did you know that Dick Attlesey set two world records in the 110-meter hurdles in 1950 and was the gold medalist in this event at the first Pan American Games ?
text: Did you know that one pair of tickets for Children in Need Rocks Manchester was auctioned by BBC Radio Jersey for £2010?
text: Did you know that, in 1986, Charles Liteky renounced his Medal of Honor before embarking on the Veterans Fast for Life , to protest against the U.S. policies in Central America ?
text: Did you know that point guard Craig Lathen helped his high school set a record for 100- point performances and helped his college score 120, a school single-game record?
text: Did you know that according to ancient rhetorician Athenaeus , in Sophocles ' satyr play Amphiaraus , a character "dances the letters" of words he is unable to read?
text: Did you know that the 1693 Sicily earthquake caused about 60,000 deaths and prompted an architectural revival described as "the culmination and final flowering of Baroque art in Europe"?
text: Did you know that although the Michigan–Michigan State basketball rivalry has had 167 games, the two teams have never played while both were ranked in the top 10?
text: Did you know that when you can see a person speaking, sometimes you hear something different than what is being said because the brain cannot tell whether it is seeing or hearing speech?
text: Did you know that Lance Dunbar led the North Texas Mean Green football team in rushing yards in 2009 and 2010?
text: Did you know that Bart Millard intended the music to the song " Word of God Speak " to mirror its overall lyrical theme?
text: Did you know that the red sheep of the Maasai have been studied for their potential to save farmers hundreds of millions of dollars?
text: Did you know that four judges were chosen in the 2011 election for the International Court of Justice , but the UN General Assembly and Security Council deadlocked on the fifth?
text: Did you know that engineer and inventor William Mason worked for Remington , Colt , and Winchester in the 19th century and patented 125 inventions?
text: Did you know that TAT Technologies Ltd. was established in 1969 in response to a French arms embargo that principally affected Israel ?
text: Did you know that the black velvet bolete is not the false one ?
text: Did you know that Vice President Garret Hobart not only advised President William McKinley , but also invested part of his salary for him?
text: Did you know that Rabbi Nachum Dov Brayer became the Rebbe of the Boyan Hasidic dynasty more than 13 years after the death of the previous Rebbe?
text: Did you know that " Talk That Talk " is the third musical collaboration between Rihanna and Jay-Z ?
text: Did you know that Denis Law , the all-time top goalscorer for the Scotland national football team , played for the Italian League against the Scottish League XI ?
text: Did you know that ultrahigh energy gamma-rays can be detected by MAGIC ?
text: Did you know that Confederate brigadier general Alfred E. Jackson was pardoned by President Andrew Johnson because of his kindness toward Johnson's family during the Civil War ?
text: Did you know that Melville Lyons of the New Zealand National Party unsuccessfully contested by-elections in 1935 , 1939 and 1943 ?
text: Did you know that adolescents with Excessive Internet video Game Play (EIGP) addiction have high reward dependence scores?
text: Did you know that the bicolor lespedeza and Chinese bushclover are invasive species that can suppress growth of native plants in some areas of the United States?
text: Did you know that Peaches Golding , the first black High Sheriff of Bristol , England, is the daughter of Charlie Brady Hauser , who was arrested for refusing to move to the back of a bus in North Carolina ?
text: Did you know that Yehuda Tzadka started learning at Porat Yosef Yeshiva after his bar mitzvah , and remained there for nearly 70 years?
text: Did you know that baseball historian John Thorn has credited Doc Adams with inventing the concept of the shortstop position?
text: Did you know that Chrisye faced accusations of plagiarism due to similarities between the title song of his album Hip Hip Hura and " Footloose "?
text: Did you know that Rajinikanth was given the "Superstar" title through the film Bairavi ?
text: Did you know that the U.S. Navy's Sparoair sounding rocket could be launched by any aircraft capable of launching the Sparrow air-to-air missile?
text: Did you know that the Great Fire of Pittsburgh in 1845 destroyed a third of the city, including a bank that was thought to be fireproof?
text: Did you know that Navajo cradleboards are made with a Ponderosa pine frame with buckskin laces?
text: Did you know that Red Moor in Cornwall , UK, was likely to have been named for the loose tin -bearing gravels found and mined in the area?
text: Did you know that Timmy Hill won the 2011 NASCAR Nationwide Series Rookie of the Year award, despite being too young to compete at the start of the season?
text: Did you know that the Glee episode " Extraordinary Merry Christmas " shares its title with an original song performed in the episode?
text: Did you know that Roger Craig holds the record for largest one-day winnings on the regular version of Jeopardy! and is thought to have won the largest single Daily Double prize in the show's history?
text: Did you know that the use of īhām in Persian poetry means that a text may have a surface meaning different from the one actually intended?
text: Did you know that Swami Nirmalananda was a direct disciple of Sri Ramakrishna Paramhansa ?
text: Did you know that Hans Krieger , an award-winning German essayist , influential in papers such as Die Zeit , wrote the text for a Christmas cantata by Graham Waterhouse that premieres today?
text: Did you know that while normally associated with rockets and jet engines , shock diamonds can also be produced by artillery , volcanoes , and quasars ?
text: Did you know that an anime music video was produced for the song "Perfect Day" on Supercell 's album Today Is A Beautiful Day ?
text: Did you know that 49 people died and 135 were injured in the 1979 Warsaw gas explosion ?
text: Did you know that Eng Foong Ho v. AG held that the Singapore Constitution was not breached when a Chinese temple was compulsorily acquired and an Indian mission and a Christian church nearby were not?
text: Did you know that the extinct Eocene maple species Acer rousei is a possible ancestor to the vine maple ?
text: Did you know that after HMS Porcupine was nearly split in two by a torpedo, the halves were nicknamed HMS Pork and HMS Pine ?
text: Did you know that a critic's calling The Clash a "garage band" that ought to be "returned to the garage ... with the motor still running" prompted the band to write the song " Garageland "?
text: Did you know that the false toadflax has an orange drupe ?
text: Did you know that when Jimmy Iovine asked will.i.am who he wanted to collaborate with on " T.H.E. (The Hardest Ever) ", will mentioned Mick Jagger because he felt it would never happen?
text: Did you know that One of Our Thursdays Is Missing , called "the funniest book you will see this year", has references to works by Charles Dickens and Samuel Pepys ?
text: Did you know that Peter Harburn was named in the Great Britain football squad for the 1956 Olympic Games , for which, as a professional, he was ineligible?
text: Did you know that anarchists from the Whiteaker neighborhood of Eugene, Oregon , played a key role in organizing black bloc tactics during the 1999 Seattle World Trade Organization Conference ?
text: Did you know that 211 hectares (520 acres) of woodland near Peterborough , UK, has recorded 462 species of plants?
text: Did you know that a 2007 analysis of tsunami deposits from the Sendai and Ishinomaki plains gave a 99% chance in 30 years of a great tsunami striking the coast that was devastated in 2011 ?
text: Did you know that the late Miocene whale Joumocetus shimizui is the third oldest Cetotheriid known?
text: Did you know that Maria Teresa de Filippis , the first female driver in Formula One , finished in a career best of last place despite being told by five-time world champion Juan Manuel Fangio that she was "too fast"?
text: Did you know that the acoustics at Tarrytown Music Hall in Westchester County, New York , are so good that the Canadian Brass did not need amplification for a 2009 concert?
text: Did you know that Josh Romanski 's mother was diagnosed with breast cancer the same day he was drafted by the Milwaukee Brewers baseball team?
text: Did you know that the stone fireplace that Mary Jane Colter designed for the Bright Angel Lodge incorporates the rock strata of the Grand Canyon in correct order?
text: Did you know that Polish fashion blogger Glamourina participated in the Warsaw Fashion Weekend?
text: Did you know that, in supporting peace negotiations to end the Vietnam War and opposing a U.S. withdrawal, AFL–CIO President George Meany stated that "in Vietnam the AFL–CIO is neither hawk nor dove nor chicken"?
text: Did you know that Prostoma jenningsi , a ribbon worm found in a recreational fishing pond in Lancashire , England, is the county's only endemic species?
text: Did you know that upon the death of Chief Rabbi Sholom Rivkin of St. Louis, Missouri , in October 2011, the institution of Chief Rabbi of a city in the United States came to an end?
text: Did you know that the extinct Eocene maples Acer hillsi and Acer stewarti are distinguished by how inflated the nut is?
text: Did you know that the Bishop of Ilagan described the 4th district special election of 2003 as the most fraudulent in the history of the Philippines ' Isabela province ?
text: Did you know that Martell Bailey stole the basketball from his brother, David , and made a layup with 13 seconds left to put his team ahead in the 2002 Horizon League Men's Basketball Tournament championship game?
text: Did you know that the earnings from Isha Life 's Chennai Wellness Centre are channeled into supporting education in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu ?
text: Did you know that in the first phase of the defunct drug rehabilitation program Straight, Incorporated , teenage clients were led around by their belt loops?
text: Did you know that otium , a Latin term, has a variety of meanings including leisure time in which a person can enjoy eating, playing, resting, contemplation and academic endeavors?
text: Did you know that Charles Richards , the designer of the Colt Peacemaker , later became chair of Mechanical Engineering at Yale University ?
text: Did you know that the Antarctic Peninsula has experienced subduction for over 200 million years?
text: Did you know that Australian Paralympic medalist Elizabeth Wright published a paper about her prosthesis ?
text: Did you know that Ruth von Mayenburg was born into an aristocratic German family, became a spy for the Soviet Union during World War II, and in the 1960s, wrote the first history of Hotel Lux ?
text: Did you know that " Pulling Mussels (From the Shell) ", described as one of Squeeze 's catchiest songs, is based on a band member's experiences at a holiday camp?
text: Did you know that in 506 BCE , Chu general Shen Yin Shu , wounded battling against Wu general Sun Tzu , author of The Art of War , asked an officer to kill him and bring his head home?
text: Did you know that the key inspiration for Palestinian-American performance poet Remi Kanazi was seeing Def Poetry Jam on Broadway ?
text: Did you know that during the Battle of Moon Sound on 17 October 1917, the Russian armoured cruiser Bayan was hit by a shell from the dreadnought SMS König , starting a fire that was not extinguished until the next day?
text: Did you know that South Africa were coached by former New Zealand international Paul Matete at the 2000 Rugby League World Cup ?
text: Did you know that the Native Labour (Settlement of Disputes) Act, 1953 banned native Africans from taking strike action ?
text: Did you know that Dude Harlino 's given name is derived from his birthdate, 2 December ?
text: Did you know that the 1936 movie Speed was the first film in which James Stewart had a major starring role?
text: Did you know that the periwinkle plant from which indigenous Carib in Dominica made tea to treat diabetes also provides ingredients for modern pharmacology ?
text: Did you know that Russell J. Rickford moved into his parents' garage to write a biography of Betty Shabazz ?
text: Did you know that the Christchurch suburb of Brooklands will effectively be wiped off the map?
text: Did you know that, according to activist Nichita Smochină , Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin promised self-determination to the Romanians of Transnistria , provided they "drown the hell out of the Romanian king"?
text: Did you know that Australian Paralympians Karni Liddell , Branka Pupovac and Hamish MacDonald were all photographed for a nude calendar?
text: Did you know that, according to Ho v. Taflove , ideas are not subject to protection under the copyright law of the United States ?
text: Did you know that Samoilă Mârza took the only photographs of the Great National Assembly at Alba Iulia that proclaimed the Union of Transylvania with Romania on this day in 1918?
text: Did you know that You Are the Apple of My Eye is the directorial debut of Taiwanese author Giddens Ko, who also wrote the story on which this film is based?
text: Did you know that Sam Nujoma , first president of the Republic of Namibia , spoke at the funeral of Michael Hishikushitja ?
text: Did you know that a year after the Romanian Volunteer Corps was being forced out of Kiev , some of its troops were reluctantly holding the Trans-Siberian Railway for the Whites ?
text: Did you know that Jeff Koons ' giant Banality sculptures feature Michael Jackson , Odie , Saint John the Baptist , The Pink Panther , and a porn star ?
text: Did you know that, when Bukovina was united with Romania, the Democratic Union Party was the only local group to campaign for the abolition of regional autonomy?
text: Did you know that Mark Antony aided Herod the Great 's siege of Jerusalem ?
text: Did you know that Rodion Markovits became "the best-known Transylvanian writer" with his account of World War I captivity and survival in the Russian Far East ?
text: Did you know that although Glen Rice, Jr. scored 20 points six times during the 2010–11 college basketball season , he also scored 0 points three times?
text: Did you know that Gherman Pântea , who facilitated Bessarabia's union with Romania in 1918, protected Odessan Jews targeted by Romanian troops during the 1941 Massacre ?
text: Did you know that a cardboard box in Kurt and Sid , about Sid Vicious trying to convince Kurt Cobain not to kill himself, was said to have more empathy than the script?
text: Did you know that HMS Blanche was the first British destroyer sunk by the Germans during the Second World War ?
text: Did you know that Nicolae Fleva , who helped prepare Romania's independence in 1877, allegedly sold his loyalty to the Central Powers in 1915?
text: Did you know that Lee Patterson portrayed newspaper editor Joe Riley as a member of the original cast of the American soap opera One Life to Live ?
text: Did you know that the 1949 MacRobertson Miller Aviation DC-3 crash was, at the time, the worst civil aviation accident in Western Australia and the third-worst in Australia?
text: Did you know that the Cathedral of the Unity of the People in Alba Iulia was built to commemorate the Union of Transylvania with Romania , in the city where the union was proclaimed?
text: Did you know that Australian wheelchair racer Angie Ballard was named the Female Athlete of the Games for the 1999 Australia Junior Wheelchair Nationals?
text: Did you know that Australian Paralympic medalist Marayke Jonkers won Cosmopolitan 's "fun fearless female award" in 2007?
text: Did you know that publisher and collector George Arthur Plimpton is the namesake of " one of the world's most famous mathematical artifacts "?
text: Did you know that the Austro-Hungarian scout cruiser Helgoland was ceded to Italy on 19 September 1920 as part of the peace settlements that ended World War I ?
text: Did you know that CNN Radio news anchor Stan Case was also a licensed attorney in the U.S. state of Georgia ?
text: Did you know that in 1998, Paul McCartney rearranged Wings ' 1976 songs " She's My Baby " and " Warm and Beautiful " for string quartet for concerts in memory of his late wife Linda ?